The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-09
LADY JANE TAKES A SWIM.
ADVENTURES OF MR.. HoGANS MARE
IN AND NEAR TIE EAST RIVER.


Jumped Overheard and Swan Till Day
break-Derrick Broke Under Her, Roscu-
ing Party Lost Her, but Sho Was Game.
This 10 q story OF the adventures OF Lady
Jane. we'll bred mare belonging to John Il.
Hogan. q plumber living at 11S East 105th
street Her adventures began at 1890 O'Clock
on Thursday night and, as she may die OF
pneumonia, may be said to be not yet COM
pleted.
Mr.. Hogan and his brother Joseph who is a
doctor. drove Lady Jane down Forty-second
street on Thursday night and stopped In front
OF the Eye and Ear Hospital. A small boy
standing nearby was persuaded to hold the
mare. An automobile delivery wagon came
along presently and Lady Jane stood on her
hind legs and paved the air. The boy stood
this about ten seconds. Then he loosed his
hold and the mare headed down the street.
lodging the automobile which had backed up
under her nose. She crossed Second avenue
went through the tunnel between Second and
First avenues and crossed First avenue.
banged the carriage against an electric light
pole and turning on to the river front. gave
leap that landed her In the river twenty-five
feet from shore.
John Brown. Louis Baker and William Nc
Bride with three other men were rushing the
growler on the string piece. They ran to stop
Lady Jane, but couldn't touch her. She struck
her head against the bowsprt OF little
schooner. cutting trihing cash. and then went
under the water with splash that wet the
schooners deck. When she came up she turned
to swim ashore. and finding no landing strug-
ged along down stream while the men ashore
scurried around for a boat. Mcbride stopped
long enough to swim to the mare and cut her
loose from the wagon which he tied to the pier.
1t was later recovered.
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Policemen Ecker and Conovan. had secured a
boat and the three started out to look for the
mare. They sighted her a dozen rods down
stream swimming with the tide. and after
throwing rope around her. towed her against
the tide to the foot OF Forty-second street.
where there is small derrick. which was
called into requisition. The mare had been.
lifted half out OF water whom something broke.
She fell back and the roWboat upset. The marc
swan away and 1t was ten or fifteen minutes
before the chase was begun again. 1t was so
dark that Lady Jane was we'll nigh invisible.
and it was long time before she was sighted
again. and when she was seen mare and boat
dritted helplessly. till of Thirty-sixth street
Lady Jane suddenly disappeared.
she's sunkl" pulled Donovan.
I'm afraid So" groaned Hogan. and after q
half hearted and futile search. the three pulled
for Forty second street. loosing pound every
block. The policemen reported at the East
Fifty-flrst street station and Hogan went
home.
Lady Jane however. hadn't sunk at ali. She
drifted down stream just OF the heads OF piers
looking for a place to land. Once In while
she snorted. or whinnied. 1t was Just after
midnight when she escaped from Hogan and
the policeman. At 4:3O o'clock yesterday
morning Waterman John Kennedy. ON the
pier at the foot OF East Twenty fifth street,
heard a snort and a whinny out on the river
and saw horses head on the surface. He got
boat and rope. rowed alongside the boast
and got u rope around the body. 1t was the
Lady Jane, and Kennedy declares and sWears
she thanked him with a look Of her eyes.
He toved her to a raft in the slip below his pier
and there moored her with the rope so that she
couldn't get away nor her head get under
water She was SO tired that she could hardly
move then.
Kennedy hunted up Policeman Kessslmark.
who took look at the mare and then tele-
phoned to tho Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals. The two men were not
strong enough to help the animal on the raft.
and it was not until o'clock. when Engineer
Sheshan got up steam in the stone hoist boiler.
that further aid was obtainable. and she was
hoisted out with the big derrick. DR.. A. f.
Hunt. veterinary OF the shutz stables on
Twenty-h fifth street. superintended the Job.
When it was done he pronounced Lady James
heart weak and her stomach and lungs full OF
water. but pun ped her out and administered
restoratives. and in an hour she could walk.
She was hoisted to the pier and led to the
stables whore later in the morning her owner
found her. He rewarded the mon who had
saved his mare. She was blue ribbon winner
he said and was as valuable as she was game.