The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-10

than as regards passenger traffic on fer
ries. Steamships in the Bush Terinina!
and other piers were held up BY the strike,
three big South American freighters
being unable to coal because their Goa
had to be brought by lighters and the
lightermen would not work. This in
terrelation OF labor. Of course, reached
through and touched all the city.
There were more than $4,000 long
shoremen affected, not that the long
shorcmen were striking, but because
there was nothing for them TO do when
other conditions OF labor made ships ard
wharves idle. The coal situation as
concerned Brooklyn was bad to the point
OF being ominous. The coal receiving
station Of the Long Island Railroad ut
the foot OF Sixty-ffth street. Brooklyn,
has not received n float OF coal UP to
the late afternoon and none was ex-
pected The floats arriving daily num-
Der usually about forty to fifty.
At the Bush Terminal docks the num-
Der OF floats OF merchandise received
daily Is from thirty to forty, and very
few came in up TO dark last night. At
the naval feet supply base at the foot
OF Tweity-nlnth street. Brooklyn. Capt.
LuetZe in charge. said there was Sc
rlous shortage Of car hoats and that op-
erstions were badly Handicapped.
An official of the, Eastern District
Terminal Company. which has virtually
the only facilities for transporting
freight direct by water route from the
Brooklyn shores to New Jersey, said
yesterday that his company was relying
, solely on the efforts of the Federal au-
thorities TO clear up the situation--and
that in fact. was the attitude OF all
interests concerned. Unless Washington
stepped IN firmly with a definite plan. II
appeared MS It the strike must continue.
Large Firms Are Sufferers.
Many large Brooklyn concerns, such
/ as the American Sugar Refining Com
pany and the Austin Nichols Company
felt the effects of the strike Eeenly.
These companies do much OF their ship
ping by direct water route running their
railroad spurs straight to their private
docks and unloading directly into ships
The diversion OF shipments to trucks
caused great waste of time and added
expense and caused also much conges-
ton Of traffic on the william sburg and
Manhattan bridges. over which trucks
| had TO pass to start toward New Jersey
| Thereupon, OF course, the tieup in the
North River put its Gripping hand upon
Brooklyn industry, as tho trucks could
| get no further than the North River
ferry houses. Five tugs belonging 10
the Atlantic Towing Company were tied
up In the Atlantic Basin. South Brook
iyn. and the trucks and vehicles that
ordinarily use the Brooklyn ferries at
Atlantic avenue, Hamilton avenue and
, Fulton street were going over the Man
! haitian Fridge. On the bridges. there
| fore, congestion was very bad.
| On the Brooklyn Bridge both vehicles
ard surface cars were required to pro-
coed with extreme slowness. and there
was at least so per cent more veh'cular
| traffic on both the Brooklyn and Man
| haitian bridges than Is common. by
: m'dafternoon conditions on the Brooklyn
| Bridge were so distressing that inspec-
| tors OF the r r. T were arprehensive
| Of a general t!eup OF traff1c. In an ef-
fort to forestall such tieup the r r
T. ordered off the trolley lines In the
| rush hours last evening from IS to so
| per cent. OF the normal number OF cars.
! but the remedy was worse than the
| disease. and the crush Of homegocrs was
worse than has been known In years. 1t
! did not seem to be generally known that
| heavy trucks use the ferries because for
! them that route Is shorter and gives the
| horses q chance TO rest.
No tugboats OF the Long Island Rail
road are operating. and the big car
Aoats. each conveying ten cars at time,
Were idle. All connection betweeH
Queens thorough and the Eastern Dis
t-ct Terminal ceased.
All along the Brooklyn waterfront es-
san:'al harbor boats needed to tow
strings OF car floats and other RESOURCES
OF commerce We're tied W. with no pros
poets 81 resunling activity. The BROOK
Ign waterfront was "a dead a s mack
erei. but no more l!feieas of course than
. Ill, favFr g Of Iar-
sey and Manhattan.
Eleven coal ports in Jersey were struck
dead by the strike. No coal, Il was
stated could be started for New York
yesterday
The milk supply Of tho city was &c
gravely threatened that EFFORTS were be-
Ing made tn bring thpu~ands OF cans
arriving from the Other side Of the river
n Manhattan by means Of the tubes
Thousqn ds Of tons OF perishab'e food
supplies were immured IN Jersey and
Long Island. the truckmen being unable
II reach tho markets IN New York The
re=ut ~ this was rapidly felt n hotels
end hornes and should the strife 'ae'
even forty-e'ght hours the deprivation
might prove 10 be serious.
| One OF the disturbing features OF m,
strike was tho .act that s.ptns opera ed
by the United Shipping Board arrived
o. this port with no means - be un
loaded, FOR example, the strike ma
rooned the Panama Steamship Com
pany's liner Coon. from Cristohal II
the Hudson. she should have locked a
Pier ca about 10 A. NJ. but did no
make her pier until late last night. anC
then under her own steam. she bTough
; forty-ave passengers.
4. 3. May Commander Tugs.
e, In inc late afternoon Byron II. Newton
, Collector OF the Port, notified Capt God
frey Carlcrn. Captain OF the Port tina
II tugs were needed to handle the incoU
ing sh!ps' now anchored in Gravescnl
-, nav or Sandy Hook or OF the Statue o
, Liberty, these necessary tugs must b
: commandeersd under the authority o
;, the United States Government ar,
manned with members OF the Coas
r, Guard.
= Under the shipping rules n tug mus
. be provided for every ten lighters use
= in unloading ships or moving cargo. an
. as number of vessels brought bac
!, from France loaded with explosives ar
=, now anchored In Gravesend Ray. tug
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