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Show HUDSON RIVER IS TIGHTLY ICE BOUND ! NEW YORK. Feb. 28.-For the first time in many years the Hudson river is so tightly Ice bound that powerful tugs are unable to force their way up to Rockland lake, where are located the great icehouses ice-houses which supply this city. All other measures falling the company owning the storehouses has a large gang of men engaged in the stupendous task of cutting a channel through the ice from off Hastings which now marks the head of navigation, to Rockland lake, a distance dis-tance of over ten miles. The channel Is being made 100 feet, through ice which is wo feet and more thick. Tugs ateam up and down the channel night and day to keep it from freezing over agaln; Two hundred men are at work and It is expected that the channel will be cut to Rockland lake at the end of the week. The men are aided In their work by a tug designed for ice breaking. |