New-York tribune., 1910-01-15
ST. LOUIS HELD OUT
LINER STORMBOUND.
Ship Battles for Her Berth
AGAINST Battling Gale.

The ST Louis of the American line.
waited stormbound outside the Hook all
afternoon and all night. She was due early
IN the morning, and all forenoon tesswere
Groring for her in the Lower Bay. At
o'clock came the first message from her.
She had anchored near the whistling buoy
at the entrance to the Ambrose Channel.
The officers of the line announced that
they would bring up her up during the
day IL II was human possibility. At
O'Clock second wireless message came
from Captain Jameson: 1--WE are riding
the storm WE'LL From the phrase he used
the agents gathered that the stress of wind
and sea outside was greater than they had
supposed. even from the force of the gale
ashore. An experienced navigator does not
call storm by its given name unless 1t
can show its credentials.
The line had coal barges and a double
force of men at the St Louiss pier all day
ready to fill her bunkers and send her
back at once with the nails According
to her schedule. she should sail to-day She
viii so out tomorrow at 10 o'clock, officials
OF the line say, even if she has to carry back
her cargo without unloading. With fair
weather to-day she will probably reach her
COCK before noon, but even if she was de-
iayed until nightfall it would be possible to
Unload her by sunday morning AS 1t is, the
European mails will be delayed for two
days and the inward mails for three.
The message from the ST. Louis was the
only news of the weather outside that
came in during the afternoon. The wires
to Sandy Hook went down under the press
ure of the gale early in the afternoon. The
Highlands reported forty-mi, gale all
day, with thick snow and the wind still
rising at o'clock. Half dozen tugs
which cruised all morning just off the Hook
looking for storm driven sailing craft
turned and ran for cover at noon, when the
sea was still growing
The Lusitania, day and half late from
fighting through five days of storm, passed
Nantucket Lightship at o'clock. She ex-
pected to arrive off the Hook near mid
night and make her dock to-day
Inside the harbor the weather was very
bad, but the wise ones said that its bark
was worse than its bite. DR.. Doty, health
inspector at Quarantine, telephoned to the
American Line office that II would have to
send him down a tug If he was to board
the st. Louis. With the that was COM
ing up through the Narrows he did not
care to trust himself to the Quarantine
tender. The Sound liners got off safely
except the Metropolitan Lines freight
boat. which abandoned her daily sailing.
Lighters and car floats stayed at home
for the most part. or CROPPED painfully
along the pier heads, believing what they
thought OF the weather The ferryboats
spent more breath in throaty conversation
but all got across somehow without delays
that were counted in more than minutes
all but the municipal line to Staten ISL
and. The Stapletol slip was filled with
floating ice at noon, and 1t was O'Clock
before the jam was broken up enough to
let the big boats in. BY that time there
was a long double line of trucks, wagons
and automobiles waiting In front of the
ferryhouse at Battery Park.