Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-20
HEADFoRENosT 100 FEET.
The First Suicide From the Washing.
ton Bridge at Harlem.

| From the New York Sun
The daily tide OF broughams dogcarts and
traps had just set in on the new Washington
bridge across the Harlem river Monday aft
| ernoon when q dark man with handsome
features, whose face would be remembered
anywhere for the long silken moustache. was
noticed walking nervously mp and down about
at the center of the great span. He was
| neatly dressed in a black suit, wore q new
| brown derby hat, and carried black silk UNI
breiia. The nervous man was Henry c. Far
rington. an employee Of Benjamin ]. Falk pho
| togrspher, of 949 Broadway. He worked out
side the office, his business being to associate
| with actors, artists and politicians. and to get
their consent TO have their pictures taken.
! man passing in n light wagon saw Earring
| ton step to the railing on the west side of the
| bridge, toss his hat in one direction and his
umbrella in another For an instant Earring
| ton stood looking up at the sky, and before any
! one could have stopped him he climbed upon
| the railing. which is four feet high. He stood
| upright for moment and then plunged head
foremost. At the place where Harrington
jumped the police say the foor of the bridge is
! 1873 feet above high water. The bridge floor is
| known to be 153 feet above the railroad tracks
OF the New York Central railroad. As he
] nearly 1870 feet
] He turned complete somersault then an
other, and just as he struck the water he
turned over third time. He seemed to strike
| face downward and on the left side of his body
| The river is about fifteen feet deep at high
water at the apot where Harrington struck and
| II was at full high water at the time. Police
man Owens peeled off his uniform and plunged
INTO the river. Harrington came to the surface
| lace upward just as the officer began to swim
out TO him and sank again Immediately. His
| face was purple and blood seemed to be oozing
| from the pores of the skin. He rose again aud
sank and came to the surface Just as Owens
reached him. He was still alive, but uncon-
| scious.
Sergeant Donovan and Roundsman Morgan.
VINO we're also guarding the railroad property,
GOT a boat and rowed out Harrington was
breathing his last as they got him into the boat
an operation which was pretty difficult as he
was OF stalwart build and must have weighed
100 pounds. He died just az they got to shore.
There was no money in Farrington's pockets.
he had a Few cards Of his employer and some
other business firms. but there was nothing TO
snow why he had committed suicide. Earring
ton lived with his wife and two children-Amy,
! nearly two years old and Airline. nine months
old-in pretty fat at Hath street and Brad
hurst avenue
harrington was forty-three years old Mon
day: He was born in London. and was "a prac-
ncal photographer when he came to this coun-
,ry ABOUT twenty years ago. Since then he
has lived IN New York and has worked for
photographers Mora. Falk and Dana at differ
ent times. He was expert in the art of per-
shading footlight favorite or a United States
senator to have photograph taken. He has
been known to go so far to have handsome
carriage and team at the stage entrance and
capture prima donna by pure assumption. In
DIS pocket was found after his death, a WE'LL
worn clipping from newspaper, IN which he
was described the best dressed and most
widely known man in this country in the pho
tograph artistic line
This is the first suicide from the Washington
bridge.