New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-30
III. II. STEERS is DROWNED.
Boot Capsizes While Shipbuilder Is
Fishing-SGIed on the america.
IBT TELEGRAPH TO TIE rR1BuxE.l

Fan River Mass. Sept. Glowing to the cap
sizing OF 4 boat in which he fishing. Henry
NJ Steers. the shpbuilder until a year ago pTeS-
dent of the Eleventh Ward Bank, was drowned
yesterday morning in westport Harbor, near here.
Mr.. Steers was extremely fond Of bass fishing. and
it was while engaged in this sport that he met his
death. Captain Hammond. who accom- panied him
was employed by him to take Of his boats and
was q constant companion his fishing trips
They went out this morning to fish of Stony
Point A heavy running and breaking
fercely over the rocks The boat wss blown of
the ishng ground thrust into the teeth Of the
breakers and upset hurting its two occupants into
fishermen saw them and Walter Manchester one
of their number. into the water ana Hshed
Captain Hammond out unconscious. Mt. SIe1rs'5
Mr.. Steers is supposed to have died from shock,
no water having been found in his body.
Mr.. Steers was born in this city on septemLer
H. ls22. 1T sixteen he became apprentice u
his uncle George Steers then manager for William
II. Brown, and they became partners in Lo50 y
year later he sailed with his uncle in the yacht
America whom she the Cup in British waters
HIS first shipyard was a, the foot Of Eleventh-st.
East River In 1850 he removed IL TO Greenpont
L. ]. From 1866 10 1915 be was building for the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company the steamers
China. Arizona, America, Great ReTu hc, Alaska,
Japan and Golden Rule These We're at that time
the largest wooden steamers ever built in this
country. He retired 81 ISIS, ana In $50 he was
chosen president of the Eleventh Ward Bank Hc
also at that time president OF the Williams
burg Gas Company.
Henry Steers Il shiDbuilder built the yachts
Henrietta for James Gordon Bennett. and the Hops
for Mr. Ives, Of Providence; he reconstructed the
SsSa1s ifeT built Ra Ihe seame S
Rhode Island, and during the Civil War he built
the steam frigate Idaho, which was acknowledged
- naval officers TO have been the best vessel OF
ner class ever built for the government outside
Of their yards. IN lSS2 he was appointed a member
Of the United States Naval Advisory Board, and
while a member OF this body he designed the
United States steamer Dolphin. which built
by John Roach The United States ships Atlanta.
Chicago and Boston were also built while he was
d member Of the beard
George Steers. who designed the yacht America,
was thrown from a carriage IN September, 1896.
IN New-York. He died from his injuries soon
after.
Henry NJ. Steers had been identified with numer-
Gus corporations and ba mixing Institutions In ad
dition to having been a former president OF the
Eleventh. Ward Bank. he director Of the
Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railway
Company; Of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad
Company; OF the Interior Conduit Insulation Com
pany. the New-Yorls and Boston Dyewood COM
pany. the Rubber Goods Manufacturing company
and the state Trust Company. He wes memDer
OF the Union Club the Racquet and TENNIS C!ub,
the New-York Yacht Club, the Engineers Cluo
and the American Museum Of Natural history.
Henry Steers jr.. contracting engineer, OF No
Broadway, is a son OF Mr.. Steers. He was nucn
concerned on learning Of his fathers death.