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Media Monday: Arctic Conditions on the Hudson (1934)

1/24/2022

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Screenshot of the Tarrytown Lighthouse (a.k.a. Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse) surrounded by ice. British Pathe, 1934.
Today's Media Monday post is all about extremely cold wintry conditions on the Hudson River in 1934, featuring footage of the Tarrytown (a.k.a. Sleepy Hollow) Lighthouse! This short film from British Pathe/Reuters features aerial footage of New York City and the Lower Hudson. The cold snap was deadly, as outlined below.
On February 9, 1934, the New York Times reported on the record-breaking subzero temperatures, writing "At Tarrytown, powerful government tugs pounded at the ice that had formed in the harbor. They were trying to open a lane for lighters on which several hundred automobiles from the plants of the Chevrolet and Pontiac companies had been loaded for transport to New York. The Cars were destined for shipment to Europe. The ice in the harbor was more than fourteen inches thick and the tugs were unable to smash their way through."

On February 10th, the Times published an article entitled, "Mercury 14.3 Below Zero on New York's Coldest Day: Six Dead and Hundreds Treated for Frostbitten Ears and Noses - 8-10 Below Due Here Today." 

Hundreds of school children needed to be treated for frostbite, six people died in their homes or on the streets due to the cold weather, and dozens of people suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to heat their vehicles in closed garages (none died). Snow removal efforts were halted due to the extreme cold, fire hydrants froze, and evictions were postponed.

In maritime news, the Times reported, "The Coast Guard ice breaker AB-24 found the ice in the Great South Bay too strong even for her sharp prow. Hempstead Harbor also was icebound, causing some concern to industries there dependent on water carriers for supplies. The Bronx and Passaic Rivers were frozen solid and in the later fifty small craft were in danger of being crushed by the ice. In the Poconos and in New Jersey the finest supplies of ice in years were reported but - it was too cold for men to cut it." 

By February 11, 1934 the temperatures rose to more seasonal just-below-freezing, but 1934 remained one of the coldest winters on record for New York City.

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Media Monday: Ice Cutter on the Hudson (1934)

1/10/2022

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Movie still of the USCG cutter "Manhattan" (built 1918 or 1921), British Pathe, 1934.
The winter of 1934 was a particularly bad one for New York and most of the Northeast. We'll be learning more about the record-breaking temperatures in subsequent posts, but check out this footage of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Manhattan" breaking ice up the Hudson River in 1934. 
There have been several U.S. Coast Guard vessels named "Manhattan," the first of which was built in 1873. It's not clear if the replacement "Manhattan" was built in 1918 or 1921, but that is likely the vessel shown in this film. The second "Manhattan" was decommissioned and sold in 1947, her ultimate fate unknown. The SS "Manhattan" was another famous ice breaker. Originally built as an oil tanker, she was the first commercial vessel to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage in 1969.

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Tugboats in Winter

2/4/2017

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Cornell Steamboat Company tug Hercules attempting to keep a channel open in the Hudson in a severe winter, ca. 1906.
Tugboats are, and long have been, the workhorses of the Hudson River moving needed cargoes up and down the river in large quantities more cheaply than by other means.  Today the tugs move bulk cargo like fuel oil, cement, crushed rock, and scrap metal.  In earlier times the cargoes were somewhat different, but tugs have been needed going back well into the 19th century.  Since demand for many products is year round, the tugs must work all year including during the winter when ice can freeze the river entirely. 

​Since about the 1940s, the U.S. Coast Guard has kept a channel open on the Hudson during winters of heavy ice.  However, before that time, heavier commercial tugs from companies like Cornell were used as icebreakers in their home areas.  As the accompanying photo shows, in severe winters in the early 20th century, even the best icebreaker tugs were not able to keep a channel open in the Hudson.
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Winters Past on the Hudson

12/22/2016

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Aerial view of the Coast Guard icebreaker Comanche towing the former nightboat Berkshire south down the Hudson in January 1941 for use as a barracks by the U.S. Army. HRMM archive.
As the ice began to encroach on the Hudson River each year, many activities – fishing, shipping goods, passenger service – ceased. But unlike today, the coming of ice did not mean an end to all activity. For the Hudson River, winter was just another season of work and play.
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When it came to transportation on the river in the winter, the boats often remained in the water as long as possible.   In the days of wooden boats, some of the heavier boats’ hulls were reinforced with iron to enable them to break through the ice. Ferry services continued as long as they were able to break through the ice with their heavy iron or steel hulls. Larger tugboats pulled barges as long as their iron or steel hulls could navigate through the ice.  Commercial vessels like tugs and barges were not removed from the creeks or river in the winter, but spent the season frozen in along the shores. In the 20th century, with the formation of the Coast Guard, their steel  vessels patrolled the Hudson, breaking ice and looking out for boats that needed help. 
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View from the deck of a Coast Guard icebreaker of three small boats stuck in the ice in the Hudson, c. 1940s. HRMM archive.
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A Coast Guard vessel breaking ice in the ship channel in the early 1940s. HRMM archive.
As the Hudson gradually froze over completely and the ice thickened up, it was time for ice harvesting. Begun in the early 19th century on Rockland Lake to service New York City, the demand for ice soon outstripped the capacity of local freshwater lakes in New York and New Jersey to provide enough ice. Areas on the Hudson beginning around Kingston became the perfect place to harvest natural ice. Well above the salt line (south of Poughkeepise), and located where the river widens with easy shore access, Kingston became prime ice harvesting territory featuring enormous white and yellow wooden ice houses up and down the shores of the Hudson and the Rondout Creek. Over time ice harvesting expanded further north to Albany and beyond.
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The ice had to be eight to twelve inches thick for optimal harvesting. Employing seasonal workers like fishermen, tug boat men, farmers, brick yard and quarry workers, and anyone else willing to brave the weather for some wintertime income, ice harvesting was an enormous business. Blocks of ice weighing upwards of 300 pounds were packed floor to ceiling in enormous ice houses and packed with marsh hay, or other insulators to keep the ice frozen until summer, when it would be loaded onto barges and headed south for New York City and locations as far away as the Caribbean and India. 
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Small scale ice harvesting on the Rondout Creek ca. 1900. There was at least one large ice house on the Rondout. HRMM archive.
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A young man looks on as men harvest ice on upper Rondout Creek. HRMM archive.
To cut ice, the area in front of the ice house was marked off into a grid by an ice plow very much like a farmer’s plow which was pulled by a horse.  Then men with large saws cut through the ice along the grid lines.  After that the large cakes of ice were floated along a channel of open water into shore guided by men using long pike poles.   On reaching shore the ice cakes were loaded onto a conveyor built powered by a steam engine and moved up into the ice house.  In the ice house men with pike poles guided the ice cakes along into chutes to fill the ice houses rooms.  In spring and summer the ice houses were gradually unloaded as the ice was shipped out.
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The use of natural ice declined with the onset of both electric refrigeration and the use of electricity to create artificial ice, which was deemed to be purer and cleaner. Ice harvesting for personal use did continue on many of the Hudson River estates and in rural areas. In the 1930s some people were using gasoline-powered mechanized ice harvesting equipment, but horse-drawn and human-powered equipment was the norm for nearly one hundred years.
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Ice skating behind Kingston High School, ca. 1950. HRMM archive.
The onset of winter also offered recreational opportunities. Ice skating was a longtime popular pastime for young people, but ice yachting or boating was a Hudson River staple for decades. First popularized around the Civil War, ice boating fell out of favor until a revival around the turn of the last century.  The sport was primarily practiced by wealthy sportsmen who loved the speed involved.
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The enormous wooden stern steerer ice boats would be taken apart and stored in barns and outbuildings all year, just waiting for the winter ice to be thick enough for the ice boating season. Ice boats are extremely fast due to the lack of friction on their metal-capped wooden runners. Powered by the wind, the largest ice boats can top out at over 100 miles per hour. They were once the fastest vehicles on earth. Old stern steerers still exist today along the Hudson and when the ice gets thick enough on Tivoli Bay or Orange Lake or, best of all, the Hudson, you’ll find enthusiasts braving the icy cold winds for an exhilarating ride. 
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A 19th century lithograph of stern steerer iceboats on the Hudson River. HRMM archive.
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Modern style iceboats on Orange Lake, ca. 1950s. HRMM archive.
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