WATER FRONT Directory

Tugboat/Barge Captains

East River ­ From Battery to Pier 39.
[p. 28 Bradley's Reminescences  of New York Harbor]  no date
date handwritten at top 1881-1896 

Piers. 
Old    Battery Park Pier ­ Bedloe's Island Ferry, Excursion steamers for
    Rockaway, etc, land here.
    Barge Office ­ U.S. Shipping Commissioner; Emigrant Free Labor Bureau.
    Ellis Island Ferry.  Bureau of Immigration; United States Press Ship
    News; U.S. Marine Hospital Office.
     Governor's Island Ferry ­ U.S. Express Co.'s branch office; Baltimore
    and Ohio Express.
    Staten Island Ferry ­ Rapid Transit R.R.
    Ferry to 65th street, S. Brooklyn.
3 Quartermaster's Department; general merchandise.
4 General Merchandising.
    Between piers 4 and 5 ­ New York Central and H.R.R. (freight)
5 General Merchandise.  Canal Boat District
6 General Merchandise.  Canal Boat District
7 General Merchandise.  Canal Boat District
8 New York, Lake Erie and Western R.R. (freight)
9 Ocean sailing vessels; line to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.
10 Campania Transatlantic Espanola Steamship Line for Havana (passengers and
    freight). J.M. GEBALLOS & Co., agents 80 Wall Street.
11 Ocean sailing vessels; general merchandise.
12 New York and Haiti Picket Line, Ebel & Co., 35 Old Slip.
13 Dearborn's Line to San Francisco, Cal, south side ­ general merchandise
    vessels.
14 Benner's Line (sailing vessels) for Key West and Tampa; N.A. BENNER & Co,
19 Old Slip.  Other sailing vessels.
15 Wm. P. CLYDE & Co., West India Steamship Line for Santo Domingo, Haiti &
    Turk's Island.  Wall Street Ferry.
16 New York and Cuba Steamship Co; J.E. WARD & Co., agents, 113, Wall
    Street.
17 New York and Cuba Steamship Co; J.E. WARD & Co., agents, 113, Wall
    Street.
18 Merchants' Trans Co. (Canal Line) between New York and Trenton; New York
    and Norwich Propeller Co., freight, Perth Amboy and Elizabethport
    steamer Meta; Merchants' Express Trans. Co. for Newark; Sutton Line,
    (sailing ships) for Lower California.
19 Sutton's Line (sailing ships) for San Francisco, Cal., south side of
    pier.  North side of pier ­ Mallory Steamship Line for Texas, Galveston
    and Key West.
20 Mallory Steamship Line for Texas, Galveston and Key West.
21 Mallory Steamship Line for Texas, Galveston and Key West. Fulton Ferry
22 Harlem Steamboat Line. Fulton Market.
23    Norwalk Freight Line; Boyer's Flushing and College Point Freight Line.
    Oyster Market
24   Hartford and New York Transportation Co, passengers and freight;
    Glen Cove steamers; Northport steamers.
25   Hartford Freight Line, south side; New Haven Steamboat Line, north side.
26   Montauk Steamboat Co.
27   Baltimore and Ohio R.R. (Continental Line), freight.
28   Clyde's Steamship Service, New York, Charleston, Florida and Wilmington
        Lines; W.P. CLYDE & Co., agents, 5 Bowling Green.
29     Clyde's Steamship Service, New York, Charleston, Florida and
       Wilmington Lines; W.P. CLYDE & Co., agents, 5 Bowling Green.
         Ferry to Broadway, Brooklyn, E.D
         Long Island Express ­ receiving station.
         Long Island Railroad Ferry to Long Island City.
32     Long Island Railroad Freight Depot.
34    Clyde's Philadelphia Daily Line.
35    Unoccupied.
36    Central Vermont Railroad ­ Steamers for New London (freight)
37    Ocean sailing vessels; general merchandise.
38    Maine Steamship Line to all points in Maine, New Brunswick and Canada
39     Bridgeport Steamboat Line; passengers and freight.
          Screw Dock; Episcopal Floating Chapel for seamen.
          [Bridgeport is a McAllister company, I believe]
           

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