Cleaves: Ice Phenomena at Prince's Bay 31 



On January 6 the region in the vicinity of Prince's Bay was 

 visited, in company with Dr. Arthur Hollick, and at his sug- 

 gestion photographs were taken by me from which lantern slides 

 have been made, to illustrate certain features of interest which 

 were observed. 



The entire surface of the bay was frozen over and many 

 people were out on the ice, some skating, one on a motorcycle^ 

 and one on a bicycle^ (pl. 3, f. i). Can buoy No. 5, which 

 marks the steamship channel, was just within the outer area of 

 consolidated drift ice, and two adventurous boys* walked out and 

 perched upon the buoy at our suggestion, in order to lend a touch 

 of human interest to the picture. 



By selecting the point of view pictures could be obtained which 

 might easily be imagined to represent arctic conditions. Two 

 such were taken, showing the edge of the piled up drift ice, in 

 the vicinity of the S. S. White Dental Works. One of these 

 pictures is shown in plate 2, f. 2, 



Apparently there were other explorers on the same date more 

 venturesome than we were inclined to be, if we may accept the 

 verity of the following note in the Richmond County Advance of 

 Friday, January 11: 



Raritan Bay Not Safe for Skaters 



Angelo Carlo and Eugene Glavin skated across Raritan Bay to Keyport 

 on Sunday. They started from the Mount Loretto dock and covered the 

 distance in 50 minutes. On the return trip Carlo fell through the ice and 

 was rescued by his companion with the aid of a hockey stick. Numerous 

 spots in the bay are said to be unsafe for skaters. 



Incidentally it is interesting to note that a flock of three canvas- 

 back ducks, Marila vallisneria (Wils.), were observed in one of 

 the open patches of water close to this edge of the ice. There 

 is no previous record, so far as I am aware, of the canvasback 

 having been seen in Staten Island waters, and this adds another 

 species to our list of transient bird visitors. 



2 Alfred Austin of Pleasant Plains. 



3 Everett Polhemus of Prince's Bay. 



* Daniel McCarthy and Joseph Monohan of Mount Loretto, 



