The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-05

By Edward G. Riggs of the New Ha-
 ven Road.) s<
 The result of little f1ier in the steam boat and excursion business under taken by two employees of the Cen tral Vermont Railroad in the summer of 1909 is revealed in a Judgment req gently obtained by the New England Navigation Company in the Supreme Court in New York City and just re- turned unsatisf1ed by Sheriff Julius Hamburger
 Isadore 4. Ganger and Edmund J. Sullivan were the two Central Vermont Railroad employees who decided to follow the example of Chas. W. Morse and embark in the steamboat business with New York Harbor as a field of operations. The Citx of worcester, formerly of the Norwich Line, was then out of commission and seemed to present, the desired opportunity.
 Ganger and Sullivan assumed the trade name of '+The New York Excur- sion Company with offices at 254 South street, and overtures were made to the New England Navigation Com pany, owners of the City of Worces- ter, for permission to charter that vessel. The result was an agreement, made June 1T, 1909, by which the City of Worcester was chartered to them for period of, 66 days. from July to September 6. The railroad men
  of the steamer, the money to be paid weekly in advap~o and a cheek for $1,470 was put. up as a guarantee Of good faith. Ganger and Sullivan as the New York Excursion Company were to pay all the bills and also the wages of the crew with the exception of those of the captain and chief en- gineer.
 The City of Worcester was duly de- livered to -the>@two- -1 Broad d7eE1apIoyee T--1-- 9 he fr>f9t of Pike street in time for Fourth of July excursion. The plan was to run daily trips up the Hudson as far as Poughkepsie, and down New York Harbor on Sundays. As the City Of worcester was one of the largest boats on Long Island Sound, with a passen- ger capacity of 2,2O0 these were to be no small excursions.
 The two railroad employees had hardly got possession of their vessel before they decided to get in on the harvest the steamboat men around New York were planning to reap in connection with the Hudson-F>u1ton celebration coming off that fall. Con- sequently, on July 20 they took an op- ton on the steamer for sixteen days, from September "A to October g, at the same rental.
 B71t apparently the excursion, busi- ness. did not turn out the gold mine that was expected. The money de- manded by the charter was paid with difficulty. The checks of the New York Excursion Company failed of cer- tification at the bank and friends or the great venture came to the rescue with currency for time.
 Meanwhile. bills against the vessel for coal and supplies and wages were bling up. By the first of September 1 there was coal bill amounting to ss. .0o1, the City of New York was de- | manding s90o for the use of the East 1 Twenty-fourth Street Recreation Pier, s1. 525 was owing in wages and there l were smaller bills besides. Some of 1.-the bills were presented to the New England Navigation Company for pay ment, A piano dealer very nearly lost his piano and stoll in the swirl of un- satisfied creditors.
 1 By reason of the peculiarity of the 1 Admiralty law all creditors were al- lowed to sue the vessel herself, regard less of the financial standing of the characters or owners. The Navigation Company, finding the bils piling up which Ganger and Sullivan had con- tracted to pay, resumed possession of the City of Worcester, which was even then pursued by creditors. She