The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-27
ACTORS BODIES RECOVERED
THOSE OF CARDOWNIE AND MISS
 WEISELBAU FOUND.

Men in Row Boats With Grappltne | Irons Find the Victims of the Sad Drowning Accident Four Hours After Night.
 The bodies of J. w. Cardownie and Vivian Weselbaum, the two variety Whitney yesterday afternoon, were found later in the afternoon by men
 grappling for the bodies in rowboats
 There were over hundred people on the bank when the bodies were found. Miss Weiselbaum was taken out of the
 water at 5:25, and just half an hour later the body of her companion was pulled out.
 Four men in two rowboats were out
 shortly after the accident occurred with
 grappling irons and for four hours they
 were unsuccessful in their efforts to
 strike the bodies. The bodies were both
 found by man named Thomas Sears almost directly over the spot where they were supposed to have gone down, about
 thirty feet from the shore. The bodies
 were not decomposed in any way, as they had been under water only four hours. They were placed side by side on the bank and Medical Examiner Jos lin of Mt Carmel was telephoned for. Dr. Joslin arrived in a very few min utes and pronounced death due to accis dental drowning. Dr. Joslin telephoned to Lewis & Maycock of this city and the bodies were taken to their estab- lishment, reaching there about 7:45 O clock
 The accident was one of the most heartrending that has occurred in New Haven for a long time. J. w. Cardow- nie was the leader of the famous danc ing troupe known as the "Cardownie Troupe" and he and the Weiselbaum sisters Vivian and Ethe whose stage name Is Clerise, went out to the lake yesterday morning to enjoy pre-ar ranged yachting trip" The trio hired boat of Boatman Blakeslee and pro- ceeded up the lake. Everything went well until the party were some distance past the suspension bridge, when Car downie proposed changing seats with one of the sisters In doing so he step- ped on the rail of the boat and it imme- diately capsized, throwing all the occu- pants into the water Cardownie made a desperate attempt to save his two companions, as he knew they could not swim.
 After a short struggle he and Vivian CleriSe went down almost in each oth- CTS arms. Ethel had gone down twice and was rescued by a junior In the Shef- field Scientific school Howard M. Brown of Comstock's Bridge, Conn, who was padding near the scene of the accident in a canoe. As soon as he saw the boat turn over he made for the scene, and if he had been minute later probably another fatality would have occurred, as Miss Ethel was almost exhausted when help arrived. The student pulled the young woman to the shore and after advising her to go to the house of Miss Bertha Quinton near by quietly put back to the boathouse.
 Cardownie had just paid a visit to his old friend, David Mather, employed at the Country club. and the two were to have played bagppipes at Polls Won derland tonight.
 Ethel Weiselbaum was given the best of care at the Quinton home. Dry cloth- ing and food were given her and every thing that could make her comfortable |
 
 hours and then came to the city, having nearly recovered from the terrible shock
 The mother of the Clerise sisters and the dead woman's husband came up from New York yesterday afternoon and were nearly prostrated at the terri ole news.
 J. w. Cardownie was one of the best ] known Scottish dancers in the country. | He was born in Scotland, his father be- | ng Spaniard by the name of Cardow- nie and his mother Scotch woman. | His father, who was circus perform sr, died when Cardownie was a small | ooy and he was brought up as a Scotch | nan, becoming a public singer at an carly age. When he came to this coun- | try to go on the state he changed his | name to the Scottish "Cardownie," and | vas known as such throughout the | states. His act was a Scotch dance, in | which he was very popular.
 The Clerise sisters whose real name S Weiselbaum, formed a musical team if considerable theatrical importance. Youth, personal attractiveness and mu ical accomplishment conspired to make hem attractive to managers and public md their engagements were on the ,ooks of the best vaudeville and com- ination houses in the east