New-York tribune., 1919-01-10
10000 Unable
TOCrOss From
Staten Island
5000 Reach Manhat-
tan After the City Ferry
boats Stop at 6 A. M.

Forty thousand workers on Staten
Island were marooned yesterday by
the harbor strike. The borough was
completely cut off from the rest of the
city and thirty thousand commuters
telephoned their Offices in Manhattan
that they couldn't get off the island.
No Municipal line ferryboats ran after
. O'Clock yesterday morning and by s
O'Clock the big ferryhouse at St. George
was jammed to the doors. Then began
the mad rush to get to Manhattan, but
only about five thousand were success
full
With the Staten Island Ferry cut off,
thousands filled the trolley cars and
started for Port Richmond, where
there was faint hope OF getting into
Bayonne, N. j., by way of the Bergen
Point Ferry. In this way they could
take streetcars in Jersey to the Sum
NIT Avenue station of the Hudson
tubes. But the one boat ferry between
Port Richmond and Bayonne was on
strike, too, and the ride from St.
George to Port Richmond of forty five
minutes was for naught.
Bay Ridge Ferry Running
S-a,c of them trolleyed still further
to Mariners Harbor, where ferry
leaves for Elizabetllport. but the boat
is so small it could only take few at
time. The greatest exodus from the
island was by way of the Bay Ridge
ferry between Staten Island and Fifty
sixth Street. BROOKLYN, and many got
to Manhattan this way.
Indignation meetings were held in
the ferry house at st. George. They
said the only way to prevent a future
occurrence Of the same nature was
to establish a subway system from the
island to Manhattan. Louis A. Dreyfus,
president of the Staten Island Civic
League, was called on the telephone
to have his organization adopt resolu-
tons demanding such a system. The
project has been talked of in Staten
Island for some time.
After representatives. of the striking
municipal ferry employees met John e.
Delaney, Commissioner OF Plants and
Structures, and rejected his proposal
for settlement so far as it concerned
city employees, he announced to the
restless crowds in Staten Island that
he would see that the boats were
manned by the Police Department of
New York, both in the engine room and
on the decks.
Scores Use launches
Although the municipal employees
agreed to stand by the union, they said
they would not prevent the operation
of ferryboat to carry milk ard sup
Fises TO the public institutions on
Staten Island.
Scores Of launches and rowboats we're
nsed By Staten Islanders to cross the
kIll van kuil into Bayonne. In some
cases they paid dollar or two. Others
vent On small boats from other points
along the shore, while a few went all
the way to Tottenville where they
crossed the Arthur Kills into Perth
4Anlboy.
Many large Staten Island business
firms, particularly the food dealers
which make trips to Manhattan every
Thursday for their Sunday supplies,
were unable to go yesterday, and it
VAS reported that some OF them had
already boosted their prices because
o. the probability of scant supply.
Cargoes fer ships loading along the
Staten Island shores could not be taken
across the river and will hamper the
sailing of ships. There are six shius
loading at the American Dock sTermi-
nal seven at Brady's docks and five at
Martins docks. Slap eton. Three Jap
Yaese ships are loading at the Pouch
Terminal Company's docks at Clifton.