The evening world., 1903-05-20
He PIunges OFF the Joy Liner
Near He'll Gate In Effort to
Drown Himself, but Rescuers
Get Him.
MANY SEE HIM LEAP.
Decks Of the Vessel Crowded When
the Young Man Dives oH-Reseue
Y Comes from Unexpected Source
y Says Water Fascinated Him.

While the Joy Line steamship Larch.
mont was passing between North
Brother Island and the Long Island
shore early to-day on her way into
He'll Cato q slim young man plunged
overheard from the upper deck.
Cries OF Man overheard" drew the
passengers to the rail. and within a few
seconds the coaster was stopped n 4
lifeooat lowered.
The Larchmont carried an unusually
large passenger list. inc 1t was found
that the missing a was a young
Russian enameller. Tovek Heslmy, who
had been working at Providence. r.. l..
and in conversation with the crew had
said he vas going to return to Russia.
where his father was a prominent mer-
chant.
He Gazed ut the Water.
Just before he was seen 10 disappear
from the deck he had been standing
beside the wheelbox on the upper deck.
he was gazing at the water intently
and had o moved for twenty nut
Although the lifeboat was quickly got
under way toward the drowning man
It was plain to the passengers who
crowded the deck that 1t would moi
reach the struggling man in time to
save his life. The tide carried the
Larchmont toward He'll Gate, and the
captain was forced to steam ahead.
leaving the fate of h man unknown
to the passengers.
Right in the wake of the Larchmount
came the Pilgrim, >of the Fall River
hne, and her tender, and although limos
were. thrown from both boats the strus-
Cling man refused to grasp the oppor-
tunity to be rescued. His struggles
grew fainter. and he had come I'D for
the last time when suddenly there APP
peared help from an unexpected
quarter. y ~
R%escuers Got Him.
Tue man had plunged into the Sound
directly opposite the dock Of the Con-
sohdated Gas Company at Astoria, l..
]. Watching h morning boats were
supt. william M. Moylan and Capt.
Patrick German. Of the Company's
scow. They saw the man in the river
100 feet from the shore and put or 10
the rescue q q dory. pc
When Hesimy was dragged from the
water BY Moylan he was ~insenstble. He
was ashore and there resusc!ta ted.
To his rescuerS the man said when
no had recovered: II was fascinated
by the water / had been in this coun-
try one year and made very, small
progress; I was going to return to Rus
sia. Ny father wrote me that he would
send me money to No. p Lake street,
New York. and I meant to AXE the
next steamer for home"
Hesimy denied that he had attempted
suicide. but passengers say that he
jumped from the steamer rail.
GIobe-Trotter's story.
Verno Churchill. the famous globe
~trotter. was "A passenger on the Larch-
mont and a spectator OF the scene,
which he sketched for The Evening
World. 80
Nobody noticed the little boat pull
ing out from the Astoria Shore" he
said. Our attention was directed
toward the lifeboat and the efforts made
from the Constitution and the Pilgrim.
both boats being right behind us. II one
has never felt the thrills OF the man
overheard cry. a great deal has been
missed"
The police OF the Astoria station in
terrogated Hesimy at the gas company's
offices and came to the conclusion that
he had acted on impulse more than any
thing else and did moi place him under |
arrest. His friends In Lake street were |
notified of his attempt at suicide, while |
the rescuer, Moylan. surrendered his
bedroom to Hesimy.
Passengers on the Larchmont report |
that 1t was sixteen minutes before the |
.feboat was lowered; that the coaster
was nearly q. mile from the drowning
man before the boat was cut away
and had started for the rescue.