The next letter is from MR. EDWARD H. WHITE:

While on his way to work, Tuesday, March -13, 1888, Mr. White saw from the Brooklyn Bridge "men walking about the ice. . , .

"Without a thought of the danger, I made my way to the foot of Beekman Street and going out to the end of a pier, I clambered down and started out. After about fifteen or twenty feet of rather hummocky ice, the rest was as even as a floor, and it was an easy matter to walk. I went across almost to Brooklyn, Martin's Stores, and then for the first time in my excitement remembering my job, I turned back and safely reached New York again. . . .

"What actually happened was this: A large floe of ice had come down the Hudson River on the ebb tide and had reached the tip of Manhattan just when the flood tide started. The stronger current being into the East River, the floe was swept into it and jammed with the loose ice in the river just below the Brooklyn Bridge-the narrowest part of the river.

"Tugs were set to work to break it up and about an hour after I crossed, the jam was ended. There were some very narrow escapes on the part of some who lingered too long."