The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-09
mrs. RICE PURSUES The TUGS
JH0SE SAW EDGED SHRIEKS d.
VIDE THE SHUDDERING NIGHTS.
She seems TO Thlnk the Moran Towing
Company Has Go u In for the Villa
.Iulla-The Morans Say They Don't loot
iny More Than They Have 10 foot.

enc Seems 10 IHnh tne MORAN IOWInB
company Has Got u In for the villa
Julia THE Morans Say They Don't loot
iny More Than They Have 10 loot.
The first case under the new law pro-
hibiting s%uperluous harbor whistling came
up yesterday before Capt. Henry NJ. Seeley
and Theodore T. Mesereau, local inspectors
Of steam vessels. in the Whitehall Building,
Mrs. Isaac L.. Rice, president OF the Society
for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise
and mother Of the muller movement, was
the complainant. The defendants we're
captains Of two of the Moran Towing
Company's tugs, Capt. Briggs Of the M.
Moran and Capt. Reynolds OF ,Na Eugene
+. Moran. Decision was reserved.
Mrs. Rice came down from Villa Julia
Eighty-ninth street and Riverside Drive
with her husband, the chess and submarine
boat expert, and three of her children.
One OF them, Isaac l., Rice, Jr,, helped Mrs,
Rice with the testimony. telling the board
how on April 10 he and his cousin had
spotted the Eugene F. Moran letting of
some extraneous toots and had kept tab
on it all the way. from the Rice home to
the Ninety-sixth street pier. The Rice
night Waterman was also on hand at the
llFhI luE. IdIJ OI LIZ JOD 10 10 tlttD WIFI
one ear attuned to the doings on the Hudson
under the lee OF the villa Julia,
Capt. Briggs Of the NJ. Moran came first.
Sure, he had vhistled-had to. 1t was the
custom Of the craft, he explained, for a
tug to blow three long and two short when
approaching a soow TO apprise the man on
the scow, who was likely to be on shore
al. the time. Capt. Seeley wanted to know
II i wouldn't be just as easy to send a mar
ashore with re notification.
We don't never know where re can find
the scow man, Capt. Briggs replied. Some
time he's In his cabin asleep. but more
often, like a. not. he's asleep in a saloon,
maybe a thousand feet away. Besides. |
am "a -goin, TO sacrifice the lives OF my men
foolishly. The bow o.. my tug, Is high
up ont'n the water. The scows is loaded
deep down. It's lark and a mar would be
apt to slip and crack his head droppin'
from one TO the other.
We don't blow o~ftener'n We have to-
Iapt Briggs went on, but unless we do
blow from the middle Of the river, sos
. give the scowman time 10 reach his boat
y he's away from IL, we may lose time and
the ebb tide. There's q Government rule
'rst We have to be on the dumping ground
tNp hours after high tide. That applies
~ my case. because we were town out
seows Of dirt for one OF the contracting
cr,npanies.
The charge against Capt. BrtggS was OF
NsIug his whistle 100 much Al SEQ A. NJ.
o. hrrll :, Mrs. Rice explained to the hoard,
al she knew what she was talking about
Not only have I counted and observed
tho amount Of whistlinE that goes on in
i0o river nowadays, but my ~watohmHn,
Stationed on the steps OF M. house, has
counted every whistlcNand trieu 10 trace
them out. He has also noted the frequent
US" i the searchliGht IN my house by
lassHg steamers. Recently one passing
'' hpuse In the middle Of the night threw
- ght 30 intensely upon my windowe
l'-t It wakened every person IN the house,
do not see why they should pick out my
house especially for illumination Yet