The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-10
MILLIONS ARE LOST
BY HARBOR STRIKE


Continued from Frst rage.
Business trucks used this ferry system
| in large numbers.
The result of the concentrated drive
yesterday was that the congestion of
trucks and wagons became so great that
all Of the streets leading to the lower
! ferry were blockaded. II was a sight
( to remember, as interminable lines OF
motor trucks, coal wagons. wagons
! carrying vegetables. wagons from the
big poultry supply houses. milk wagons
I and half hundred other commercial
vehicles stalled for long hours while
/ their drivers cursed and New York
, went without the supplies urgently
/ needed.
! All OF this may give notion as TO
| how Jersey, with It's thousands OF work.
men and business men dependent upon
! employment In New York were cut OF
| as II by some CONFUSION OF nature. All
/ day long streams OF distressed or angry
! people moved UP and down the shore,
| from one shore city to another vainly
seeking some means OF reaching this
! side OF the river.
Staten Island was hurled back to the
conditions OF 100 yeap ago-rowboat
transportation. Hundreds of persons
managed to get to New York yesterday
/
! by the long and arduous trip made in
Dared small boats.
! There was launch service organized.
! but this could take care OF only a small
percentage Of the traffic. Perhaps $4,000
/ persons who's business necessitated
them coming to Manhattan yesterday
could not make the Journey.
staten Island Is Cut or.
| Staten Island was simply severed as
Il by a giant knife from Manhattan,
, even the municipal ferries the indlspen-
sable links. going out OF business on call
OF the strike leaders There was talk
! last night that Ferries Comml ss.oner
! De'ehanty might appeal 70 the Govern
ment to bring about resumption OF traftic
by these boats, since they are mail car
r!ers but It seemed doubtful that any
| thing could be done.
Immense crowds gathered at st.
ST. Geon,e yesterday morning and bonn
! barded the 200 policemen on duty there
with questions rs to how they could
get across the spread Of waters between
st. George and the Battery. The po-
l!cemen advised the islanders to so back
home and resign themselves to taking
a holiday 4. most OF the time there
was a line containing 5000 persons OF
more that reached from the land end
o. the long vaduc. to the ferry house.
Persons desiring TO go to Bay Ridge on
the one boat operating were permitted
to pass through the police lines, but this
was n slow trick,e indeed. and Battery
passengers had no chance at all.
As the morning went along scores o.
small boats and rowSoats were put into
service by the Staten Islanders. some
Of these operating 20 Bergen Point
| ~ n
for Jersey City and other New Jersey
destinations. and a few attempting the
'ong Journey across the harbor TO the
Battery Hundreds OF employees Of city
departments were kept from work by
the conditions.
The police yacht Patrol made several
trins between the Battery and Staten
Island yesterday, carrying city EN-
plovees only. The Patrol took about l5C
persons on each trip. The little boat
made rather a curious spectacle as abe
raviga led the herhor showing the wei
! come Home" banner on her sides. the
banner tackled Up in greeting to return
Ing troops.
John II. Delaney. Commissioner OF
! Plants and Structures. went 10 st
, George. Staten Island, yesterday after
noon. accompanied by Grover Wnalen
the MAYORS secretary. and pleaded will
the striking ferrvhoat employees to re-
turn TO their work on the municipa
boats. At frst there was no response
Then fifteen deckhands sterned forward
: and said they would 40 back to work.
An improvieed crew Of police fro'
; the marine division. or harb1r squad
and municinal ferry employees VIII
> would not Join the strike made thre
: trips 10 the Battery from Staten ISLAM
last night with the municipal boat Man
haitian. and will make another trip earl
this morning carrying wagons loade
with milk, sore,v needed after Yester
J day milk drought all over the island,
The policemen manPuvred the boa
well. On the last trio up the Manhatta
I brought five big milk wagons, hut
larger number than that will gn down I
| the island on the early morning triI
Passengers we're carried on all the trip
! some of the island bound ones havin
u spert hours IN the ferryhouse at Sou.
= Ferry before the hopes ~ getting HON
y were rewarded. The boat was In nharg
. Of Police Cant. James w. Hallock a
skipper and Patrolman James Ward m
:. Edward Deban served as chief engineer
: battery Park Is damned.
e The result was that at 7 p. NJ Batter
L Park was damned with anxious men, n
r seeking transportation. At least 200
Y surged around the ferryhouse at this
% time. Many stood In groups ser!ous
x discussing the situation. but hundreds
young men to whom the whole situatio
= was lark and an excuse for cutting y
n organized q parade, dashed Wild
70 through the crowd spreading grotesG,
y rumors or organized crap games or u
a sea wall.
10 The only ferry running In the late n
= ternoon which was Of service In an RIO
to reduce congestion was the Gree
is point -Twcntv-third street line. En-
,e ployees Of this line said they were sati
D. fed with nay and hours and would n
n Join the strike.
nj The result Of all this industrially W;
id very serious. Not only were busine
s. concerns, Offices. city departments AT
IN factories in New York city crippled b
Id plants In Staten Island. especially Il
De big shipbuildlng concerns. were knock.
nj out for the day. II the strike persis
As the money loss In these respects will
e. extraord 'narily large. No estimate h,
been made or can yet be made as r
lie CARDS this. but II will run to the million
V. The steamers Highlander and HON
IN Ramsdell, which have carried abo
a. 10000 workmen every morning to Shoe
H. er Island to work for the Standa
Z Shipbuilding Company, failed to get
IT. steam and lay Idle In their slips, al
ks other boats supplying transportation
~ labor busy in Staten Island were III