New-York tribune., 1911-01-04
FOG CURTAIN LIFTS A BIT
Impatient Craft Scurry in from
Sandy Hook and the Sound.
PRISCILLA % HOURS LATE
Her Faithful Passengers Stick,
with Mrs. Vanderbilt, as Good
Ship Halts at He'll Gate.

The gentle fog with its misty fingers,
still blindfolded the pilots Of the bay and
rivers last night. while droVsy drlzzIs
drunmed monotonously on roof and win
dow pane ashore and ahoat An almost
immediate drop Of 20 or 80 degrees IN tenn
perature was earv predicted in weather
circles. followed by 4 clear, cold dav 20
day
We'll. let her drop" cried the fogbound'
attributing a truly feminine nature TO the
tickle mercury But up 20 a late hour
She remained suspended, her diaphanous
garment Of cloud still enveloping and De
fud41ing all human activity in the metro
politan area.
At II o'clock last night Sandy Hook re-
ported rain, fog. a light sea ana rnoa-
crate breeze from the northwest. Although
IN the early afternoon the fog lifted suih-
cientIv 70 allow the feet OF steamers
stalled Monday night between quarantine
and the Scotland Lightship 70 creep up 10
,ts docks. a fresh. though smaller nee'
came 10 anchor in the same region Wheu
.be fog and dusk made further traflc Dan
garous so last night saw the same scenes
re-enacted
The excessive cold wave which Fore-
cae+ar Scarr had expected would strlke
~. vorl. yesterday will pass 70 the nortn
and south If the city. II is now preclcted'
ard today. though clearer and colder tndh
veetArdsv. will see a much more moderate
,.args Tomorrow. II Is prophesled, VIII
-. ...,,-so,,rad.,-uhsteve that may mean
q, - ~ doesn't rain again II may snow
salt sea going mariners said yesterday
hat the fog which had internittently Velleo
.ba seascape roundabout since SATURDAY
,t,h+ had created worse conditions IN tHe
barbor than had obtained ar any time IN
.ha last twenty wears The worst hlt, now
aver we're not the passengers aboard ule
o-aar srA,nnships held up az The HOOK nor
-, .ba dor1es,icated commuters hurrylng
bon,a nv ferry. but the passengers OF the
.o,4 zbin Priscilla. Of the Fall River Line
,,.bo counted on spending only one night on
-. Sound and had 70 spend two, and
dav 70 boot
Their ir1patience was complicated oy
paucitv Of provisions which rad 70 % aug
r,an+ad while the big sidevheeler Law inert
all Monday the other side OF Hell CATE ~
supplies brought by tugs. third OF her
Messengers were taken of by Launches ana
landed AZ College Point, bur the rest STUCK
Nv the ship and walked into the arms OF
anxious velcomers a. the North River pier
shortly after noon yesterday, more than
twentv-eight hours late
Mrs Elsie French Vanderbilt vas one oI
the faithful Thirty hours before me BOAT
dCoked but only short time before II
should have locked under normal condl-
tions. her chauffeur arrived in her touring
car 10 take her from the pier on the pos
sfrilirv that his mistress might land at any
time the faithful chauffeur waited m me
car on the pier all dav and all night ana
half the next dav until rewarded
Ferry service was delayed all DAY
though hardly 4emoralizsd The stanch
municipal ferryboats plying between soutn
Ferry and ST George staten Island, MAIN
raired crippled schedule, and for a urs
~ the morning we're the only craft on me
20 in the upper bsv. A sister ship, BOUND
from South Ferry 70 39th street, BROOKLYN
disappeared absolutely f1r two hours be-
.,veAn : and 10 o'clock II was a question
for = time whether she would fetch up az
the bottom. ar Sandy Hook or az Coney
Island but she made the right slip az last