New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-22
FUTILE ATTEMPT AT RESCUE
BRAVE EFFORTS MADE BY 2. ? PrATT AND =
sIocOvIcH. WELL. KNOWN YOUNG
COLLEGE, MEN


dispatch in The Tribune yesterday chronicied
he death by drowning a. Berkeley Arms on Sunday
~ r. e. spanton. of East Orange Full details OF
the accident however, could not be obtained until
yesterday.
II seems that a most heroic attempt 70 rescue Mr..
Spanton was made by 2. Slocovch. old Yale
football PLAYER Of the class o. %: and Daniel
Englewood. y J. Although both had been IN the
but he was already apparently past succor feat,
IRE Of the accident was the fact that the oathing
master at the beach took no part in the attempted
Berkeley Arms Is little village on, The strip Of
opposite Toms River
NJ b Pat IT. Is q y2qn go LAYER Baldwin, %o
Pine-st.. New-York city. He was AZ work az hts
Ge gEs IL he Fad made on 70 the pSeeedns
day to save another man and then 70 save hts own
frank faced and modest he told the story % the at
tempted rescue with an evident disnclination 10
"slocovich and I are both pretty strong swim.
ners. ne SAID we had oeen N tne wafer SOM
from 4 point a little further up the beach than
the scene Of the drowning Coming back raced.
and II you have ever been 10 a swimming race
you know how much exertion Il takes We were
standing on the leach get;ing our WIND when we
fore but had nor noticed the occasion - y. This
time however we saw a man struggling In the
sis1al ~ disfress He was not more than one
hundred feet from the shore and Immediately
started FOR him, Socovch and I soon reached the
man and seized hold of him We held his head
above water for three four minutes. while we
struggled in the sea puss IN which he had been
caught He was dead weight and evidently water
logged and drowned before reached him.
''Ffually Sl0covicn looked az ne. and We under
stood each other and let the drowned body go,
for our own strength was falling fast We struck
out diagonay for the shore. SlOcoylch heading for
point further south and ! aiming northward
for the spot whore I had come ashore little pre-,
yousy for I knew there current there L
swan slowly. saving my strength as much as posi-
Die but was carried fully quarter ot a mile OF,
shore before I got into water peaceful enough 10
enable me 70 make my way in ] was ndtur-
ally tred out but did not at any time lose
consciousness SOcOvich had a hard time get
ting in for he swan against the current.
He. too was pretty We. used up. but was able 70
walk ashore. 7 don't believe that M. spanton
had a cramp He powerful sW miner. and
had been N the water tor a considerable time, and
| think that which 10 became entangled IN the
sea puss Il simply exhausted his strength No.
didn't really feel at any time that was lost but
NV experience has convinced me that drowning Is
not as has often been declared be, the easiest
OF deaths
Mr. Piatt is a son OF Charles 3. Platt OF the
firm OF Charles Hathaway Co, commercial paper.
az No 26 Pine-st. New-York city. The elder Mr..
Plat is one Of the wealthiest residents OF Enge-
wood. and occupies beautiful home IN the Tenshy
Road Young Mr.. Platt Is a graduate Of Princeton.
and was extremely popular while AZ college He
IS one Of the best golf players on the Fled C!uo
team, at EnglewOod.