The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
SOUGHT FRIENDS
 AND FOUND DEATH
Helen Stacks Body Discovered Floating in the Bay Near
 BeIvedere.
She Hired Boat to Row From Tfburon and Was Never Again
 Seen Alive.

When the 1:10 boat from San Francisco arrived at the Tiburon slip yesterday aft ernoon 1t carried among its passengers a young, happy girl, who, full of pleas urable anticipations, had gone over to make one of jolly party of picnickers. Ere the boat started on it's return to the city this same happy girl had become a bit of derelict humanity drifting hither and thither on the waters of the bay, an inanimate plaything for the sport of each eddy, that, circling around it with g. rip pie of cruel laughter, went Whirling on its way.
 As Pamby de Sale, the owner of the San Francisco boat house at Tiburon, was sitting on his float yesterday he was approached by a young lady whom he recognized as Helen Stack, the 20-year-old daughter of J. T. Stack, formerly mana ger of the G. w. Clark Paper Company. Miss Stack informed De Sale that she wished to hire a boat with accommoda- tons Tor four people, as she was going with whom she intended to picnic. De Sale furnished the boat, and after watch ing Miss Stack depart returned to his work, paying no more attention to the boat or its occupant, as he knew Miss Stack and was aware that she could not only manage pair of oars like an eX- as well.
 About three-quarters of an hour after ward chancing to look over toward Bel vedere Point, De Sale saw the boat float ing around without any person in it, and thinking that it had been moored on the Belvedere shore and had broken loose he called William Fishbone, a neighboring Doatman, and the two started over to- gether to get It.
 Upon arriving alongside the boat they found it empty and with one oar missing. Looking around to see if they could dis cover the oar they saw the body of Miss Stack floating face downward on the boat and about firr-- yards from the miss ing oar, which was between the body and the boat
 They at once took the body out of the water, and hastening to the shore tIted by every known means to resuscitate it, extinct
 Coroner Eden of San Rafael was tele- phoned to, and coming down on the next traln he notified the girls parents, who live at the corner of Durant and Bowditch to San Rafael to await their arrival.
 when picked up the boat and body were both about 300 yards off Belvedere th, roint; A curious circumstance was that tnougn Miss Stack was very well known In Belvedere and Tiburon, her family having once resided at the former place, no one could be found with whom she had engaged to go rowing or picnicking, nor could any one be found who even expected to receive call from her. Even her family did not know she was on the IndiSH county Shore until nouleu or her death, as when she left home they sup posed she was merely bent on shopping tour in the city.
 When the boat was found 1t was in perfect order, right side up, and there was not drop of water in its bottom.
 SAN RAFAEL, April 23-J. T.. Stack, father of Miss Helena Stack, who was drowned this afternoon in the bay near Ilburon, came up from that point on the late train this evening. He was ac- companied by Joseph O'Connor, principal Of the Horace Mann Grammar School, and MT. McGovern. The whole party at once went to the Morgue, where the re- mains of the dead girl lay. The ap- pearance of the distracted father was touching in the extreme. His hands trembled, his face was banched and pale and his lips quivered, and as he stood by the bier the tears poured from his eyes while he uttered broken expressions of endearment.
 Speaking for the grief-striken father, Principal O'Connor inquired when the remains could be taken away and was informed that this could probably be done tomorrow morning as soon as a jury could be impaneled and an inquest held. The party then returned to the broad-gauge depot, but learning that the last train had departed they decided to remain here for the inquest.