The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-22
YOUNG GRISCOM LOST AT SEA.
NO ONE SAW HIM GO OVERHEARD
FROM the MINNETONKA.
Friends or Young Philadelphia Think
That Failure in American COlleges
. Unsettled Ills Mlnd-Read TOlSturS
"ResurrectiOn" Much on Fatal voyage.

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Andrew NJ. Griscom Of Philadelphia,
whose disappearance was reported 10 the
police Of this city more than a month ago,
NsIi or jumped overheard from the steamer
Ainnetonka OF the Atlantic Transport line
hist Sunday when she was about 900 miles
Crom Sandy Hook on her trip from London
10 this pOrt. His body was not recovered.
Young Griscom was % years old. He
was the son OF william Griscom, a wealthy
Philadelphian and nephew Of Clement A.
GrIscom. formerly Of the international
Navigation Company. lie vanished on
Feb ). and a few days afterward his father
asked the police of this city and his home
town m look for him He was last seen at
the Office Of the Reading Hardware Com
panv al no Reade street this city, where
be turned up apparently III and without an
overcoat and asked for money enough to
get to Philadelphia His father is a stock
holder in the concern and as soon as he
could be reached by telegraph the money
vas given 10 the young man.
An employee Of the company was sent
% the Cortlandt street ferry with him, but
after the railroad ticket was bought Girls
com changed his mind and said he would
not 20 home. He boarded a West street
oarand the man with him lost track Of him.
Before leaving he declined to 60 back
10 the store to get enough money to buy an
overccat saying he did not need the gar
nent although the weather was very severe.
On Feb 20 his family announced that
he had sailed for Europe for rest and recrea-
ton. About the same time a German
Foverneas named Elsie Hanson, who had
been employed by his fathers family,
took passage for the other side. IL was
emphatically denied by the young mans
relatives that they had gone together or
that they intended to meet on the other
aide. II was said that she sailed for Ham
burg and he for England.
His father and his two sisters received
word that he was coming home on the
Minneto nka, and they we're at the pier TO
meet him when the boat got in yesterday
morning The death Of the young man
was telegra phed from Quarantine and Pier
Superintendent Jones broke the news 10 the
father The party left the pier in tears.
According TO Capt. Layland Of the Mime
tonka, young GIiscom went overheard at
about o'clock in the afternoon. There
was a brisk breeze blowing, and most Of
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lee Of the deck Griscom, who had kept
TO himself since he boarded the ship at
London. and who seemed to be in a morose
and unhappy frame Of mind, went to the
weather side.
The first that was known Of any one being
lost from the liner was when two ships boys
ran up and told one Of the officers that there
was a man overheard. They said they
had seen him from the wea Their side near
the stern At first they they thought it was
a bundle Of rags. Then they saw pair
Of hands and arms. II looked to them
- though the man had hold Of the rope
Of the patent log which records the speed
Of the steamer.
Word was sent TO the bridge and the ship
was stopped as soon az possible. A life
boat was lowered and Third Officer Jenny
con with a crew Of four put back TO search
for the man. They circled about for an
hour without finding any trace OF him
and the voyage was resumed At that
time il was not known who the missing
nan was and his identity was not learned
pnti the passenger list was checked up.
NO one had seen young Griscom go over
board He spent most Of his time on the
ship reading. One Of the books which
h. took from the ships library was Toll
stol's Resurrection
Capt. Layand said yesterday that he
doubted the story that the drowning man
had gotten hold Of the log line.
If he did get hold Of il, said he, 'he
must have been pulled under Immediately
and drowned or else cut TO pieces by the
patent log.
As far as know he gave no evidence
that he contemplated taking his life. Al
though he KEEP. to himself n great deal he
did not appear TO me to be melancholy.
He seemed like one who was naturally re-
eerypd in manner and did not easily make
frionda The Univ
the port side when he went over was that
the wind was so strong that 1t was IN
pleasant there
Several Of the passengers declared that
Griscom had acted queerly from the moment
he boarded the boat and that his chief rec
reation seemed to be the reading Of morbid
f~ion II was aid that he was aCcompan-
Ted 10 The pier in London by a NJ presentA-
tive OF a prominent American banking
house which has a branch IN the English
metropolis, His baggage, which consisted
Of one valise filed with new clothes, was
cent 10 the ONCE OF the steamship COM
Tany. He left no letter as far as could be
hamed.
The dead man bad been a student at
Princeton University until a year ago,
when he entered Cornell He al D studied /
o. the University Of Pennsylvania. He had !
spent much Of his time abroad
PHILADELPHIA March 2l.-Young Girls |
CONS mother II at the Montgomery Inn, !
u va NldWIs WutTe lllt fanny - lhllks /
She has not vet been notified Of his death. |
She has been prepared for the shock by |
telegram telling her that the boy Is very III, |
disappointment In his ambition TO make |
Q -uccess az the American colleges is said |
hy his friends TO have unbalanced the young |
mans mind. That disappointment 10 love |
Tor the governess, Elsie Henson, caused bis I
death h denied by family and friends,
IN college the boys chief handicap ID |
s0ld 10 have been a too thorough German /
education. He spoke German by prefer /
eroe and when he did talk English il was
with German accent and idioms His read |
ing had been confined largely TO German /
authors and his ha bits Of thought and OF life |
bad been formed In German schools.
He was born In Berlin, and not until his /
parents returned here did he take up an |
American college course. His brother, /
William, went to Princeton, whore he re-
NAMED Andrew went to Cornell for a |
While, took a summer course at the Uni |
Iersity Of Pennsylvania and after the
Christ mas holidays. spent a few weeks |
al Princeton with his brother. He failed /
In every place. He ran away to Europe |
through homesickness to get back TO the
atmosphere he knew
The parents Of Andrew are known "a the
German Grscoms, because they spent /
most Of their lives at their lodge in Germany. 1