The sun., 1905-11-25
EIGHTDUCKEDI IN NORTH RIVER
ITALIAN WOMAN'S ENERGETIC
JOY CAPSIZES ROWBOAT.

Eager WeIcOmers on 34th Street Pier
Would Have Swamped Fraii Craft
Only for POllc anen Delay in Docking
Citta dl NapOli Sets Crowd Wild
A throng Of Italians on the pier at the
foot of West Thirty-fourth street, waiting
yesterday afternoon to greet relatives and
friends coming to this country on the
steamship Citta di Napoli, grew restless
at the delay in warping the ship alongside
The Ctta di Napoli stood stubbornly out
in midstream and, try as they might half
dozen tugs seemed unequal to the task
of bucking the tide and pushing the ships
nose pierward
The Italians on the pier grew excited
and ran to different parts of the pier to get
places OF vantage from which they might
wave welcomes to those they knew aboard
the ship whose decks fairly swarmed with
another impat lent throng.
Finally, James Garty of 4i4 Tenth ave-
nue., an alert boatman. pulled his skiff
alongside and shouted
What the use of waiting? Twenty-Five
cents apiece and I'll take you out 30 you
can speak with your people
In twinkling seven persons had hurdled
themselves into the boat. Six were men
one woman, Philomena Neizzi, 6l years
old. of 545 Ann street. Jersey City. More
would probably have jumped into the boat
but for the action Of Policemen Michael
Rooney and Francis Killevey Of the West
ThTty-seventh street station, on duty
at the pier They saw that the skiff was
already taxed to its fullest CAPACITY and
refused to permit any more to get in: Those
who went out in the boat, in addition to
Mrs. Neizzi and Garty, were Giusepp Pazzi
Of Sls West Thirty-fourth street Costanzo
Auselino of IA Union street, Brooklyn
Michael Meneli of Is A street, Newark
Gcntano Mrrcani of Bridgeport, Conn,
Ferdinand Alfon2o. also of Bridgeport
and Gentano Gimini, of 81 Henderson
street, Jersey City.
When the skff got half way out to the
ship the Italians began to recognize their
relatives and friends on board the Citta di
Napoli. Everything went we'll until the
Neizzi woman spied her niece. she stood
up in the boat waving her arms, and the
little craft carsi2ed
In an instant there was wild panic on
board the ship and on the pier. The officers
on the Citta di Napoli had all they could
do to rest rain some OF the people from
Jumping overheard and going to the rescue
Of their relatives in the water and for
time there was the widest sort of disorder
on the pier.
Rooney and Killevey put out from the
pier in one boat, Frank Dix, boatman.
went in another and Danti Raumiceite Of
$50 West Forty-ninth street rowed out in
third. 1t was with great difficulty that
they gathered in the eight souls struggling
in the water. All hands, however, were
finally got to the pier, where two amhulances,
Summoned from Roosevelt Hospital, and
the reserves of the West Thirty seventh
street station were waiting.
The dreuched Italians were all suffer-
ing considerably from shock and sub
mersion and the Neizzi woman had swal-
lowed so much salt water that she was un-
concsious. All were taken to the hospital
and revived and some hours later allowed
to so home. with the exception Of Costanzo
Ausclino, who had been badly bruised
about the legs and body. He remained
in the hospital.