The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-19
CAUGHT FLOATING SOPRANO.
,tprtIN ~ RED FLANNEL 4
BuJR MYSTERY MIRO.


Drrini, the Cocktail Was TOO SLOWLY
,urni>ach bS the Handsome waiter.
a,,,,,r T. - the : ystery OF Morris Pier
,r. q.r niEat on the Hudson Dawn
d.. ,rs,.ne or getting ready TO break, and
.e.y,rst. Of the winter notilla arc sleeping
a., anchor The sound of sweet music
,,p,- over the waves
Copt Crosby Of the Yacht lIline. safe
d., bi. hunk awakes and listens sleepily.
i, sound, like Down Where the Wurz-
h,rrer Flows nurses the captain, and
cain il sounds like The Sweet Bye and
pys and again there are points about IL
,-,, sound Ike kiss Me Good Night. Little
n,,ing must be dreaming.
.ra-h a shrek and yet another! And
All was silence
That ). about the way IT started. as near
o. can't Crosby can remember. When
ba cot fully awake he was on the dock in
,od uniorclothes. looking at a dark
,t,e,t which was floating down the tide
4, seemed 10 him like piece of drftwood
uotiI he observed that II was singing Then
to noticed two figures on the coal dock
,ppo-itc. also singing
And IN NY dreams sang the floating
object IN clear soprano.
And IN NV dreams" echoed the two
e,,,rc. on he dock, in a rumbling bass.
+ seem 10 hear, sang the loater, little
cu.teralE
Those old church bells, / love so dear
.,or everybody together And mean
While the soprano continued to drift along
on the tide
Tho captain scrambled down a ladder
and dropped heroically into the icy Hud-
son He swan ont and grappled the float
ine object II was as he suspected. He
had his hooks on a woman who. by virtue
of her SIZE and WEAKNESS, was floating on
her back ike a cork The captain ventured
10 lot biz teet down and found bottom at a
depth If about four feet.
Come alo,,s now and get ashore, sang
out the captain testify. A A. NJ. plunge
IN January isn't good for the temper
Good evening Alphonse. said the fioater.
Two cocktails. and make 'en dry.
Following the rules of first aid for the
drowning Capt. Crosby laid hold of her
lv the hair Of the head and took her in
tow
Impudcnt waiter she said "Noyer
saw such poor service. Never patronize
this house again.
The captain got her TO the ladder and
there he stuck. His weight to hers is as
40 TO $50. and besides she was wet So
be affixed her 10 a rope saying
Now hold on if you don't want 10 drown. :
Certainly said the fair unknown
Anything 10 oblige the handsome waiter
Awful bad service.
The captain routed out his crew. They
took half hitch about the heroine and
heaved together and hauled her onto the
dock
And they told me this was such nice
place she murmured. IA she sank into a
sleep which the captain, being ineNperi-
rnoed in such matters. took for the sleep
Of death With only his dripping under
clothes for covering he sped down the wharf
and found Policeman Schultz. The cop
End the captain sped back and looked at
her She was in some sort OF comatose
condition. The crew. doing the best they
.nev how. we're tanning her and pouring
zone suFerfluous liquid from bottle down
cent crime cried Schultz. The
,artam told about the operate interlude
from the coal dock Thither rushed Schultz.
He fou.d two men sitting under bunker.
Ono of nom wept bitterly as he reproached
tie ctner.
Never 20 out with you again. never
he sobhed No gentleman. Let a lady
drown. an she was such nice singer
The cop gathered them in. An amhu-
lance came along and took the fair un-
known to the Fordham Hospital and Capt
Crosby went hack to his cabin and fought
pneumonia
Expert medical attention brought the
woman round long enough for her to say
shat she was Mrs. John f.. kerwick. She
ordered two more cocktails dry. told the
house surgeon fhat as a waiter he was the
worst ever and slumbered again
When her companions we're questioned
the weeper after concentrating his atten-
lion on The subject. said that he had any
old name and a. for the other fellow,
man that would let a lady drown didn't
deserve any name
ifter finding who they were and how
they got There the detectives of the High
Bridge station decided that there was no
rime The beautiful foater will he kept
The hospital until they make sure that she
IN no danger Of pneumonia.