The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-17
GALLANT RESCUE.
Hoboken Oarsmen Saved
Eight People From
Drowning Yes
terday.
BOATS CREW PICKED UP IN THE BAY
Two Women Whose Companions
Threw Them Into the Water
Snatched From Death.

Members of the Atlantic Boat Club of
H%oboken, in a ~ten-oared barge. distin-
guished themselves yesterday afternoon
by saving six people from a watery
grave in New York Bay.
The crew had gone down to Staten
Island and were returning when in lower
New York Bay they came across an
overturned catboat, with six exhausted
boys hanging to the keel. There had
been eight clinging to the boa before
the Atlantics came along, but two of
the boys, becoming exhausted, had drop
ped off and drowned. The others were
fast giving out when the barge came in
sight and took the fainting, ~despairing
boys from their perilous position.
The water was extremely rough and
the barge had great difficulty in getting
alongside of the capsized boat. The oars
men succeeded, however. in doing so, and
slowly each of the half drowned boys
were transferred from the bottom of the
overturned catboat to the barge. The
barge was already overcrowded and the
added weight increased the danger of
swamping. The oarsmen removed their
sweaters and rowing jerseys and wrap
ped them about the shivering bodies of
the rescued.
The Atlantics rowed home stripped to
the waist, in true racing style. TIL
~roughness of the water made it necessary
to keep going all the time, and this, with
the overloaded boat, made the strain
upon the men a very heavy one. No
sooner had the barge reached the float
in front of the Atlantics' ~boathouse in
Hoboken than it was swamped, and all
hands had to scramble for the float. The
oarsmen treated the rescued boys in the
very kindest way. They were provided
with dry clothing, warm drinks and a
rub down, after which they returned to
their homes in South Brooklyn. The
names of the rescued are Peter McDer-
mott, Maurice Hadiken, John Mauer.
Hugh Haley, and John Hickey. They
range from u to IS years in age. 1t APP
pears they were asked to go out in the
catboat by two older boys, who We're the
ones droWned. These boys are known
only as John and Frank" John and
Frank claimed to know how to sail the
boat and persuaded the other boys to
go with them. 1t soon became evident
that John and Frank knew nothing
whatever of sailing, and the party was
not out long before the boat went over.
The men who made the gallant rescue
were:-A Heyne, G. Van Sande, Wall
ter w. Wiederman. A. Durselin, w. Bes-
ton, M. Volks, A. Sthurmann, G.. Norman,
E. Holzhen, A. Undeutsch, NJ. J.. Huber
and G.. Miners.
While the Atlantics were performing
this act of bravery in New York Bay
their fellow oarsmen, the Valencias of
Hoboken were making an equally gal
liant rescue OF two drowning women up
the Hudson. The Bloomfield Boat Club
or Harlem had a regatta yesterday af-
~ternoon, and the senior four cared crew
of the Valencias were invited to compete
Ihe crew went When the race was
about to be called and the valencias
were getting their boat away from the
noaf, a rowboa was noticed in the mid
die OF the river with two men and two
women in it. The men were drunk and
were rocking the boat in reckless style
to the great terror of their female COM
panions. Suddenly the boat went over,
pinioning the women under it. The men
came up all right, and without attempt
ing TO help the women swan for shore.
The sight of the overturnfng and the peri
fous plight of the two women limos Gre
ated a panic among the spectators crowd
ed on the Bloomingdales' Club House,
but excitement was soon lost in BREATH
next.
Arno Schmidt and Harry Norwood, two
OF the Valencia crew, attired as they were
IN rowing suits, jumped from their she'll
ana swan quickly to the overturned boat.
When they reached it the women We're
nowhere to be seen, but Schmidt and Hor-
wood dived under the boat and brought
them out. They were unconscious.
Schmidt and Norwood took the women
ashore. where physicians worked over
them for two hours before restoring them.
Tne rescuers had no time to change their
suits, out getting into their shell again.
wet and tired as they were, rowed the
race and won it against the crews of the
Waverly, Hudson, Claremont and Bloom
1ngdale Boat Clubs. The prize was a sill
yer cup for the race and the thanks Of
the saved women and the applause of the
crowd for their valuable rescue.