The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-11
LEVI NJ. BATES DROWNED.
HE WAS ROOFING WITH MS SON IN
ROUERY BAg.
Career or the Head OF the Once Grent Dry
Goods House OF l.. ". bates a. Co.-Ths
BODY Rescued ana Taken on n Ferry
boat mud CARRIED 20 Coiierc PoiuL


Career or the Head OF the Once Great Dry
Goods House OF l.. ". Bates a. Co.-Ths
BODY Rescued ana Taken On n Ferry
boat md Carried 70 Coiicgc Point,
Shortly after 4 O'Clock Yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Lcvi NJ Bates and his son George b. Bates
of New York, started to row from Port Morris
to Bowcry Bay. They wcro out for an after
Moons good time. and the fnc weather and the
smoothncss OF the water had tempted them to
row across.
Whom they worc midway between Rikers
Island and Dowery Bay. Mr.. Bntcs said:
George, let's change seats"
Sniting the 'tion to the word. he drew in his
oars and stood up in tho boat. His son leaned
forward and graspcd the sidos Of tho beat. prs-
rnratory to slipping rast his father. just
then swell strGc the loit. Mr.. Bates tried
to stendy hinself. but his efforts only made the
boat rock moro violently and before he could
sink into his seat hc lost his balance and fell
into the water. His son threw an oar TO him,
but the hendway OF the boat Ind LEFT him be-
hind.
They had started out with only n pair Of oars,
each rowing with single one. Thr Young
man strovc with all his might {, Inidlc to his
tathcr's rescue. but it WAS n work Of time.
Mr.. Bates sank and ros, and sank and rose
again. and was sinking for the third time
when the boat struck him, and his son seized
him by the cont collar.
With one hand he held his fathers head
above the watcr.whilr with the other he waved
his hat to attract attention of the passengers
on the ferrybout Jam,s oi the College Point
ferry. that was passing within several hundred
feet Of thom.
the top OF his voice. The Captain Of tLe ferry
boat Immediately put about and bore down
upon nr tas r r.,'3 at, s,. 49,, a..
the son leaning over. the SHE holding, the M:
the little rowboat every moment.
nta h thy onnE ma was ~, unable :" liz his father
deckhand Jumped down into the rowboat and
he and the son succeeded in :'etting Mr. Bates
on ths s, deck IS Of the; the bigger boa;
Of resuscitating the drowning but his pulse
Whes TIC boaf reached G"ilesc Point they
carried him to Max zehdcns Casino. and sent
q" s m.
IF: Even while their footsteps sounded In tne
ay na hs IN" st Sa h5s so Mr.
SON who told the story that is given above.
He cannot swim. Some Of tho hystandsrs tod tod
tS Corey that he ought to arrest him, but
Kind saying that there was absoutsy 2 no s
picion against tho young man. He refused,
however to allow the body to be removed until
Bates remained ut College Point over night
AT the College Point ferry. ut the foot Of
Capt. Kahn OF tho ferryboat p f. James when
of North Brothers Island. saw small boat
with q man in IT.
He lowered a. boat and rowed ovor to the
rowboat. They found the man holding by the
coat collar another man who was in the water.
They helped him pull this man out. but he was
dead.
:, Last night at Mr.. Bates's house in this city
264 Madison avenue, his eldest son was
Point. A. despatch had been received an
nouncing the fatal accident
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