The sun., 1894-08-21
CAPSIZED IN THE HARBOR.
a BROOKLYN PARTY or MEN Avn
NOMEN GETS 4 DICkINE.

Its Hoat Was the Jes.ie q. a., witch VISA
Picked Gp Sunday by che surtrise
When Drirting Abo-t. and Her oscupsnts
Were Supposed to Have Res- Lost--
David Andrsde Of 129 De Kalb avenue, Brook
lyn, took a party of friends out sailing Sunday
in a boat which carried half again as much sail
a. she was built to carry. The result wass,s
usual. MIR. Andrsde and his party had To do
some swimming. The party consist cd tf
Andrade, Charles Ellis and Theodore Smith cf
315 Sixth street, Miss Della Gress of 100 Fiftts
avenue, Miss Mamie COnlin Of 42o Hoyt stree,t,
and Miss Rose Darcy Of Fourth street, near
Hoyt, all In Brooklyn. The boat MIR. Andreae4
hired was the Jessie q. H., the property Of
George lIymas, who lets out boats at the foot pf.
Forty fifth street, Brooklyn. Tho party startad
at o'clock in the morning. They intended To-
go TO COney Island to catch whales. or sharks er
anything else that came their way. and they hsdt
plenty OF fishing tackle aboard. .'" ..' !.
They got along all right until a mile tho
other side Of Swinburne Island, that Is, foat
or Ave miles from home, when squalf
came up. Andrade, according to tha
story told, tried to tack without looseHS
ing his sheet, and over the boat wers
quicker than 1t takes to tell it There was 'ak
dory tied to tho stern Of the sailboat. and AZ
soon as Andrade and Ellis got their heads above
water they swan for it.. Smith couldn't svirnA
He grabbed the rail Of the upturned boat audis
held on. Miss Gress and Miss Darcy couIds
SWIM too, and they got hold OF the rail with ~
stroke or two. Miss Conlon couldn't swim. ana
the tide WAS carrying her away when smith,
let go his hold of the boat and made a dive
for her; He got her by tho dress. and shn
clutched him by the neck. 80 N
Just what kept them both from drowning isi
not clear In their minds yet, but somehow SMITH
got hold OF the boat again. and Mias ConlofN
drade and Fills had ia the mean time reached
ihe d9ry ana pulled II up alongside the up.
Darcy ss and Ty s., built amSo& s
'hsh E sss"n to Sss taS .a ss
ssa sta ;ssS s. II tIs re.s sea Cot
she Jumped. too; That left the party all but}
Mss dns sr.S. hs1 the SS
,ns fnd sHi hsr so that hat, ass SS
EysTy body lad S been se 30 busy busy keeping sdo4
that the si00D NO, Carrie Potter w2
paTk apd ass he'd sen
put about the moment the accident happenedl
He got his boat down to the overturned ssil%
OF the wabby little dory and advising smith 70
row ashore with the women he had-an upders-i
been mnsuecsssfaI.' The skipper ' Of the Potter
6rGusht his , boat about in Erea, style and tea
on board and was sailing away t to Tlmer @ Park. %
He landed them there leaving the Jessie q.
II. and the dory to drift. The party had dinner
at the park and then went calling on Mr.. Smith.
They telegraphed, in the mean time, to. Boat
man Hymas, telling him about tho accident
and the location of the drifting boat tho '
last time they had seen her. Capt.
Hymas got the telegram late. Before he
got II and started out In another boat 10 cap
ture the drifter, Capt. Hemnle, Ia his fishing
boat the Surprise WITH fishing ya Fty at-nsfdr
came along. From the way tho Jessie g, He laid =,
In the water Capt. Hemme certain that
everybody aboard had been drowned. and he
was equally certain thst there must be somo
bodies In the sails tangled in the rigging. He
and the fishermen got the boat rightcd, There 4
were no bodies. but they found % Tor OF fishing
tackle and several hairpins ThcAe las; COM
WINGED them that, there had been drowniRg.s
Capt. Hemme made fast TO th, boat and lowed
her to Clifton, where he beaChed her. He re-
ported the find to the police. .d
No report had been made OF a rcscue. and. tho :.
belief that whoever had been i'm the boat had
been lost prevailed until yesterday. when Capt.
Hymas appeared and claimed the boat aha ,
showed the telegram. Andrade, who was seee
later, said that wave struck the boat aud
knocked her over Just as she WAS about to tack.
He said the weather was very slually. Smith,
who was also seen, said the same, and both de- >.
clared that they had had all the sailboating they
wanted for whole The women whb
had been in the party were indisposed yesterday.