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ki i ea Bt t* ..!.if o? \ SUBURBIA Life on a Ferryboat: Routine Is Essence Piloting a Ferry May Be Unexciting, But The Ride Is a Pleasant 'Extra' for Commuters By JOHN COAB A LTHOUGH the Lackawanna r\ railroad carries passengers from Buffalo, Oswego and Utica to New York, the tracks end. at Hoboken, a scant three-quarters of a mile as the sea gull flies, from their destination, Manhattan. In the intervening distance flows the Hudson river, ucitunneled and unbridged so far as the lackawanna is concerned, forcing the railroad to drop its passengers ^and freight, so to speak, right at the water's edge almost within swimming distance of the city. The Lackawanna is not alone in this category. Also in the same bracket are the Jersey Central. Baltimore & Ohio and Erie railroads. This condition does not strike most travelers as particularly unusual. They simply board one of the ferries located at the stations' piers and for the next few minutes inhale the harbor breezes before plunging into the skyscraper canyons of the city. And rather thaei being a handicap, the ferries are an enjoyable "extra"' for thousands of commuters who get a water voyage included in the price of their monthly commutation ticket. Passengers who ride the ferries get a first hand view of the world's largest and busiest port in action. They see- all types of craft; chunky tugboats puffing their way busily about the harbor, sleek pleasure ya-chts, huge oceangoing liners, Navy cruisers and battleships, ugly, efficient freighters. It's a pleasant interlude after breakfast and just before plunging into the day's chores. The ferries which pick their way through this maze of harbor traffic day in, day out, fair weather or foul, have become as much a part of the m-etropolitan scene as Grant's Tomb, the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State building. And as an institution, if one way use that term, the ferry is at least a century and a half older than any of the aforementioned landmarks. The Hoboken Ferry, oldest on the Hudson, was started in 1775 hy a Cornelius Harring. Early ferriea were rowboats or two masted canal boats, called perrangers, which carried passengers, animals and produce across the river according to an elaborate rate schedule. It wasn't until the early 1800's that the first steam ferry waa put into operation, and it was not until 1881 that the first steel-hulled ferry, the Lackawanna, was placed in service. Today the Hoboken Ferry, owned and operated by the Lackawanna railroad, owns nine boats, of which seven run Mondays through Fridays. Like most ferries they are not particularly beautiful craft and look like nothing so much as oversized match boxes scooting about the harbor. Their purpose is a functional one, not aesthetic. They do their job efficiently, without glamour or fanfare. An average day for a Lackawanna ferry consists of making 18 round trips, during the day- Jight hours, between Hoboken" and New Tork. It takes a lit- Although the ferryman's life tle over five minutes for the isn't fraught with the dangers AUGUST <strong>24</strong>, r950 Christopher street boat to make its run, S to 12 minutes for the Barclay street boat And the cause of inclement weather. The ferries are operated by the Marine Division of the Lackawanna with offices directly adjacent to the ferry slips. Superintendent of the Division m Captain F. H, Cog-an who has spent a good part of his life on the water and who holds a Master's license for all types of craff from ferries, to tugs, to ocean-going liners. Much of his professional life has been spent with the tugboat fleet and perhaps as a consequence of this he expresses no great enthusiasm about piloting a ferry. His fleet of nine boats has a carrying capacity of from 1200 to 1500 passengers each end are operated by a crew of eight: a captain, a wheelsman, an engineer, a fireman and oiler, two deckhands and a porter. Some of the men who captain the ferries are almost literally bore into the profession, others take up the profession after experience on more adventurous type of craft. Oldest captain in the Marine Division's employ, from point of service, ia Captain William Cole of East Orange, who has been either working on or steering the beats since 1907. He more or less came by hLs profession through Inheritance. Both his grandfather and father were ferrymen in the New York harbor. For 53 years Cole has been sailing from one side of the harbor to the other. When people ask him if he ever tires of beating the same track year in and year out across the Hudson he sighs and says, "Yes, very." When he retires he thinks he will have had enough of water and boats and has turned down an invitation from, a friend to take a motorboat cruiae down the Inland Wa- - terway to Florida. The life of a ferry boat pilot is a comparatively quiet one. There are few mishaps, other than an occasional bruised bow, although once in a while some passenger may take it into his head to jump into the harbor. Life topside, however, is primarily clean, quiet, relatively unexciting. Below decks it's a different story. All of the Lackawanna's vessels, with the exception of one, are coal burners. Although life for the crew down below isn't exciting either, it's a warm one. Temperatures in the engine room hover almost constantly between 110 and 120 degrees even though blowers give a certain amount of air conditioning. la this humid atmosphere the engineer, oiler, and fireman spend their working hours fueling and pampering the 1,400 horsepower engines which propel the ferries. While the captain and wheelsman can enjoy the breezes and view from their pilot house, the crew below decks spend their hours completely cut off from the outside world except for the clanging bells which tell them to increase, decrease, stop or reverse the throbbing engines. and excitement which bis oceangoing brothers encounter, there there is excitement upon occasion. Captain Roy O. Wanvigr of New City, New York, can recall that three passengers have jumped overboard during his 32 years of service. The first customer to jump overboard had been having a disagreement with a fellow passenger. Upon being threatened with bodily harm he thought discretion the better part of valor and promptly jumped over the rail. The other two riders who took to the water were intent upon staying there permanently, but quick rescue work thwarted their intentions. Captain Wanvigr before becoming: a ferry captain acted as quartermaster and mate on ocean vessels, got his master's license while serving on a Standard Oil tanker. He likes his present job; doesn't get tired, he aaya, of going from one side of the river to the other all day long, and thinks he is a bit better off than some of his seafaring friends because he can get home to his family every night. Life on the ferries is routine, but according to Captain Herman Ahrens "when the weather is nice, time just fliee by and you don't mind it a. bit." He's been. steering- the boats since 1927 and when he retires he would like to spend his time cruising around the upper reache* of the Hudson in a power boat. As a rule the public causes the captain and the crew little trouble except for the over anxious commuter who attempts to tell tea skipper how to operate his boat. This unusually amiable relationship may seem a bit odd, particularly in view of the fact that tha •boats carry millions of passengers each year. But then, where else can the commuter get a eea voyage included in the price of a. commutation ticket. Even though ferries are slow by modern standards, many, no doubt, take pleasure in the thought that they don't at least have to speed through fume-filled tunnels on their way to work each day. A ferry starts on its trip across the harbor. A Piece. of Your Mind By KARL PLATZEK Psychologist LL of us deviate from tb* A so-called normal in some ways. We are taller or shorter than the average, "we weigh more or less, we have greater or leaser formal education. We feel more deeply or more shallowly, have anxiety about things or less. We have more physical energy or we tire more readily; we are more liberal in our views or more conservative. Within these wide area* of differences, however, we manage to keep up with life pretty well. A* problems arise, we may face them with, enthusiasm or with distaste and dread, but we face them. We may solve them easily or with difficulty, yet we solve them. The job we have to do may get done right away or later on, but sooner or later we do it This is a practical concept of adjustment to life. None of us has made a perfect adjustment to nil life, as the idea of adjustment L* commonly misunderstood. Indeed. it would be a very dull individual who did not have within him hia dissatisfactions, his rebellions, hi* hopes and ambitions, and his unsolved problems. But within that very wide area, from 85 to 90 per cent of us lead fairly useful lives, achieve some measure of success, feel reasonably happy, bring up pretty good children, and have our own. social group within which we are accepted. Wouldn't it be a duU world if all of us did conform, to the average? If we all thought pretty much alike, acted alike, had the same taste in food and tobacco, reacted in the same way, and voted for the same candidate, much of the zest would be gone from life. Yet in many waya, we are accepting just that idea. In our schools, for example, we have gons overboard on the idea that simple age is the great criterion. Regardless of stage of physical or mental ability, it ia accepted that a child miwt be five years old to be admitted to kindergarten, fourteen years old to be graduated from grammar school, and eighteen years old before he is mature enough to leave high echool. Parents who protest that their children are old enough to enter school be-fore five years of age are solemnly warned of the dire consequences that would eneu» should he be exposed to school influences at an earlier age. Tht perils of skipping a grade even though tha child is bored and restive at the slowness of hia work are taken as equivalent to an attack of smallpox. There is no evidence whatsoever that children come out of school under this system of forced conformance to an age average any better adjusted or better equipped to faca life than did those of an earlier generation, who started school when they were four year;* old and moat frequently were out of high school by the time they wer« sixteen. It is long past time that we stopped letting the statistical concept of normality and adjustment worry us. As individuals, w« and our children can differ very widely from our neighbors in attitudes and behavior, and still b» as normal ae normal should be. Fort Nonsense One of many interesting buildings and sites to be seen in Morriatown is Fort Nonsense, located on Western avenue, on a hill ba^ hind the courthouse. The fort wai so named because it waa appar* ently built for no other purpos* •than to keep the soldiers of thf continental Army occupied during the winter. The old earthwork* have been reconstructed. Pag* 3
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