The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-05
IN LIFE AND DEATH.
The Two Jersey City Vic
tins of the Lake George
Horror We're Close
Friends.
SADNESS PERVLDES THEIR HOMES
The Circumstances Attending the
Accident-Heroic Attempts
at Rescue.
SADNESS PERVADES THEIR HOMES
The Iodies of Miss Harding and
and Miss Barton Will Be
Brought Home Today.

The sad story of the drowning at Pearl
Point, Lake George, of Miss Henrietta
NJ. Barton of Jersey City aud Miss Edith
H@rding OF Hobokeu. and of seven Others,
related exclusively in this city by I he
JERSEY CITY News, yesterday. made
profound sensation. The story has been
fully confirmed bv later dispatches.
Miss Henrietta Morrison Barton wa S
twenty-five years old and was the
daughter of Washington Elsy Barton, of
No. GAS Palsade avenue. jersey City
Heights. Mr.. Barton is mechanic.
His house, two-story frame cottage ,
stands near the West Hoboken line.
lis front porch commands fiue view
of Hoboken. jersey City. New York. to
the bay and the river.
Mr. Barton aud his family are of course
greatly shocked by Miss Barton's terrible
fate. An aunt of Miss Barton received
me when ] called this morning. She
said that her niece Left home to go to
Lake George with Miss Harding last
Tuesday. Miss Barton was stenographer
and was employed in an office in the
Mutual Life Insurance Company's build
ing, She intended to pass her
vacation at Lake George, aud
left home in anticipation of
very happy times The note to her
mother of her safe arrival and that she
was delighted with Lake George and her
pleasant friends. Miss Barton was of at
tractive face aud manners and was popu
lar on the Heights. 1t is not understood
that she was engaged. Her brother-in-
law, Howard Means, started for Lake
George this morning to bring buck her
body.
MISS HARDISG's PARENTS DISTRACTED.
Miss Edith Harding lived az N ). 1923
Garden street, Hoboken. Her parents
are both living, aud she has grown
sister aud brother She WAS twenty.rour
years old, and was well and favorably
known TO manv young people iu Hobo
ken. especially in Methodist church
circles She attended the First Metho-
dist Church. Miss Harding left home
for Lake George on Tuesday intending to
stay month if she found her stay
pleasant one. Almost immediat ely upon
II r arrival she wrote home of her safe
Journey aud alluded to hop she had
been invited to.
When reporter for The NEWS rang
the bell of the parents home In Hoboken
last evening he was greeted by the moth
tr and grown sister of Miss Edith. The
eyes of both were red from weeping. and
when the reporter announced his mis-
sion they both eagerly asked il any
further news hal been received. L he
only iuIimatiou of the drowning of their
daughter was received through the
columns of the The JERSEY CITY NEWS.
Both the mother, who is a pleasant faced
woman whose hair is streaked heavily
wi b silver threads, and the sister were
struggling heroically to buoy themselves
up with he hope that the list was not
absolutely correct, and that perhaps aft
all Editn had been saved.
But" said the mother tearfully, tit
spen,s so strange that Edith, il she is
still alive, kaowiug our anxiety after
reading the reports of the sinking of a
steamer at Lake George, should not i'm
medately telegraph that shs was safe;
but on the other hand. why have we not
hearl from the folks at the cottage
where nth was boardingi will still
hope"
Her grown son. who had coma ur the
siepS CT the stoop from the street. en-
deavored to cheer his mother with the
IA 10 thoughts, though he said to the
reporter after his mother left:-"Pm
afraid there's little hope"
Miss Harding was at one time school
teacher in No. School, bus subsequently
gave up that vocation and became an ex
pert type writer.