New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-22
FOG LIFTED FOR LINERS
Lets a Big Fleet Come Up the
Bay and Settles Again.
CANAL BOAT CAPTAIN LOS'
Goes Down When His Craft is
Rammed by Ferryboat
Near It's Hoboken Slip.

Tho dense fog that settled over the mar
hor on Friday night cleared away soon az
ter noon yesterday and permitted a fog-
hound feet of steamships TO get away from
their moorings off Sandy Hook.
Two big liners that got as far as the
Ambrose Channel Lightship on Saturday
morning and were held prisoners IN 'he
mist for about thirty-two hours were 'he
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. OF the Ham
burg-American Line. and the French inner
savoie Both vessels took advantage OF
the lift at noon and came up the Narrows
They were released from Quarantine about
o'clock and locked an hour later.
The Anchor liner Caledonia, which en-
countered fog off Nantucket at midnight
Saturday, overhauled her fog-bound rivals
and managed TO land her passengers stimuli
taneously with the Kaiserin. The Savoie
was the first OF the three to dock.
While there were many of the belated sea
travellers who did not fancy the delay off
the Hook. there were plenty who enjoyed
themselves fishing over the side Of the
liners Cod was running well off the Hook
and many good-sized fish were caught
landed eighteen large cod and gave them
to the chief steward, who served Galliot
and his friends a fish breakfast
When the fog cleared in the afternoon
yesterday part OF a sunken canal boat was
seen above the surface at the end of the
Wilson Line pier in HobOken. The boat
was the Lester E, Thamer. which was
rammei by the Lackawanna ferryboat
Bergen at 3 a. m. yesterday and sent 10
the bottom, with her captain on board
The Thamer. which was owned by Will
lam II. Follett. of this city. was tied near
the end Of the Wilson Line pier at 7th
street, Hoboken. alongside the canal boat
Julia O'Connor The Bergen. which sank
the Thamer. left her slip at 2Sd street.
Manhattan. at PAS a. m. and started
through the fog for her berth in Hoboken.
She picked her way slowly through the
mist, but got out Of her course and crashed
into the Thamer. cutting her in two. The
Bergen backed off and waited for about
fifteen minutes, while the deckhands looked
10 see if any one might be floating about
the wreckage. Then she manPuvred until
she got into her slip.
Patrick Joyce. who was asleep in the
canal boats cabin was carried 10 the bot
tom with his charge. The crash awak-
ened George Munger and his wife. who
were on the Julia O'Connor, and both said
that they saw Joyce 20 down with the
Thamer. When the Bergen got into her
slip in Hoboken and reported the accident
a LaCkawanna tug was sent 10 the Wilson
Line pier and searched several hours for
the body OF joyce Divers will be sent
down to-day if the body does not come 10
the surface. According TO the police. Joyce
was the only person on board the Thamer
After permitting the liners to come up
yesterday afternoon the fog renewed its
attack upon the harbor. Unless the wind
shifts II is expected that another fleet of
inbound ships will be held off the Hook
to-day.
The weather yesterday was oppressive.
While the maximum temperature was five
degrees below the summers record Of Sc
on Thursday the heat was felt more gen
orally because Of the abundance of hu-
nudity.
The official thermometer registered its
minimum temperature of 10 degrees at $3.50
a. m, the mercury gradually moving up
10 the maximum of IS at noon. The hui
midity, which almost reached the mark
Of saturation. was tenacious throughout
the day. beginning at S a. NJ. with 81 per
cent. At p m. the Weather Bureau re-
ported an increase of 13 per cent