New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
UNCOVER AS HULK PASSES
SLOCUJH 1T ERIE BASIN.
Inspectors Watch Outgoing Ercur-
sion .Stean1boats-One More Body.

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tug Hustler was dashed 10 the port side OF the
hulk The tugs Unique and Briggs towed the
wreck from the 'front.' their hawsers stretching
out about q hundred yards.
The anchors raised and the start was
made around the eastern end of the island. Tho
tir derrick Monarch IN tow Of the tug Wallace 3
Flynn followed the hulk The flags the tugs
were halfmasted and when the fotilla passed
Barretto Point, where the Slocup finally sank, and
where so many lost their lives. the flags were
dipped.
The course taken was between North Brother
Island and The Bronx shore. There were about
TWO hundred people on the North Brother Island
Pier as the hulk passed They watched 1t In
siIence The police steamer Patrol, In command
of Captain Dean. and the Dock Department
launch Queens, with Inspector Albertson aboard.
Joined the fotills. taking the lead. TO clear the
way.
The hulk OF the slocum pretty well up in the
water but was listing 70 port Part Of the star
board wheeIhouse was standing, but the port wheel-
house was gone The walking beam and boiler
were IN place. and the chaTred umoers OF the
s'hog frame were visible
Crowds, with heads bowed and uncovered. holding
their hats in their hands, lined both sides OF the
East River rs the wreck was towed, aided In her
passage by the swift ebb tide.
The General Slocum eleven days ago sailed from
the Third-st- recreation pier, with flags flying and
q band playing popular airs The same pier yester-
day vas thronged with at least two thousand per-
sons some drawn there by the news that the
Slocum's hulk was TO pass and others bound on e1-
cursions Among the latter were about hfteen nun
bred members and guests of the Larry Mulligan
Association headed by big Tim and Little Tim"
Sullivan As the blackened hulk was towed slowly
past the pier Patrolman Essig. Of the Union Mar
ket station. on duty on the pier. cried out:
''AI hats of in respect to the death ship!'
or came every hat and while the hulk pass
fng every man. woman and child in that vast
throng stood with bowed head. Many offered silent
prayers for the thousand who lost their lives on the
burned boat
CROWDS BOW THEIR HEADS
Across the river on the recreation pier at South
second-st, Brooklyn. was a still larger crowd
who also stood with uncovered and bowed heads
while the awful hulk passed. On the Williamsburg
Bridge thousands silently watched the death craft
The feelings Of those the East Third-st. pier
Of two kinds. The majority were awed by the
soemnty of the OCCASION but there were many on
the river end of the pier who angrily shook their
fists the remnant of the steamboat. holding II
responsible for the loss Of life.
AT the Market-st recreation pier, also faVorite
embarkng place for river excursions, another big
crowd watched the slocum pass. The upper and
lower decks OF the pier were filled. The people
stood with bowed and uncovered heads. but no
other demonstration was made.
On the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrians on the prem
enade, and the trolley cars. paused as the
tugs and the tide brought the slocum down the
river At the bridge pier in Brooklyn several
thousand members and friends Of the Thomas J.
Butler Association were about 10 embark on a
days outing. These crowded to the port side Of
the steamboat and the two barges which were 10
carry them and the boats looked for a time if
they were in danger OF turning turtle
The Battery. too, filed with sad looking
throng, which watched the feet slowly make its
way through Butterrk Channel. the way 10
the basin. Just as the hulk turning into the
channel her sister boat. the Grand Republic. with
flags flying at half mast and carrying about
thousand persons, cast of from the Battery pier,
bound for Newburg. All the craft in the harbor,
chiefly ferryboats dipped their flags as the fotilla
vent by.
When the slocum reached Robins Dock. at 1870
a. m, Inspector Alhertson placed her in charge of
Captain Murphy, Of the Forty-ffth Precinct. who
put guard Of four policemen over her night and
day. No viii he allowed TO board her, except
persons in authority.
Inspectors Foster and Rode visited the hulk and
made inventory OF all articles found on her
About .. Ferdinand O'Hagan an expert in the
employ Of the Cameron Steamship Company. with
ex-Fire Marshal Freel boarded the vessel M
OHagan made an investigation 10 the capacity
OF the IRE pump and while he unable state
exactly its capacity, he said believed II to be
about a hundred and fifty TWO hundred gallons
a minute. The pump not made by his COM
pany, he said. but the supply valve
INSPECTORS WATCH STEAMBOATS,.
At every pier from which ran an excursion boat
yesterday were United States inspectors on the
overcrowding Of the boats was their special mis-
sion, but they were TO see incidentally in what
condition The boats appeared and how the crews
conducted themselves.
The hot day brought huge throngs. The
Coney Island boats particularly were crowded but
IN no case was il necessary for inspector TO
interfere. What they fo. a viii be put into formal
tion win 5e continued al summer in Connection
win . careful watching OF The fire fighting APP
paEatus ana life saving equipment Of each ex-
great deal o. work 10 do, and the coroner was ex-
VII PROBABLY DC the principal witness to-day Cor
oner o'Gorlnan WIu also testify. if HIS work Will
To become Thoroughly familiar with the facts the
Brother Island. Il viii probably go over the route
H PM, @He E ne Iire Was first discovered.
M cgTIi plepIEa'iGn for set OF indictments for
nesses as testaed before Coroner berry His IN
naesIsgaIloh VIII begin formally Thursday, when
conslaeF TINS case. General Burnett will urge thai
s rSS5.5oS re returned against many persons
SENS unlikely that federal officials and the com
pa ii 5 representatives Will escape.
f1a-oor police VIII remain on North Brother
-s-e-S -of TAO or tlree days in charge of Rounds
t- ~ ooa inspector Albertson spoke in the high
S SSt terms yesterday of the work of Roundsman
= SO. SylIs max ne not only distinguished HIM
ST. 2! SAVING many lives on the DAY Of The dis
sler but had worked increasingly to recover bodies
The unidentified body of woman was found
yesterday IA TIE East River off East Fifty-secon5-
unrecognizable Part Of il was badly burned. II
oIesseo y a plach SIX waist with bead trim
Pin go e0-~ D1S~S'
Coroner oGorman had his poisoned finger lances
yeslefoay al North Brother Island by DR. Horo-
wiz The Doctor said the finger not seriously
poisoned and that II the coroner was careful he
would suffer i'll effects -
Committees representing over one hundred labor
unions and lodges which hold their meetings I'm
Central Hall. no. i47 West Thirty-second-st ves-
terday attended the funeral in the hall of Richard
tserstsnoerger. the proprietor. and his wife Anna
who lost their lives in the Slocum disaster
Bodies identified YESTERDAY &c tbosa =,