The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16
GIRL SCOOPED UP FROM BAY.
REMARKABLE RESCLE or. ONE
or 4 SAILING PARTY.
ahe Owed, came. ID Lnde scSw and Chung
10 Chains or humping Machinery for an
Hour and A'Haf Trip -Three Of Eight
VINO EndedC arouse In q Boat Drowned.

Hour and AiHah Trip -ThrAe Of Eight
Who EndedC arOu In q Beat Drowned.
A FOSTERING sailing party. four men and
four women. act ont from ~Sheepshead Bay
m Friday night Fo: an aimlsss cruise in
the lower har Fairly yesterday morning
their small craft a ~ foot Uiliary yawl,
struck the splf-lumping mud Acow Olympia,
and capsizing from the blow threw the eight
yoyagers into IN" water. This was two
miles south Of Hoffman Island.
Two Of the women, both declared to be
taking outings with msn not their nus
hands. and one OF the men, were drowned.
-Four others saved themselves by clinRing
~ the overturned launch until picked up
nc the Morgan liner III P,Lso. The other
excIrsionist. Fannie Day. n shopgirl about
Is wears old, saved herself by clinRing for
more than an hour TO the hosting chains
~ the open bottom Of the Olympia, a sur
nrising feat, considering the popular sppre-
citation of a woman's strength, The story
that she told Of her selt-salvstion In some
thing 80 much more thyn remarkable that
II 9 bard to qualify it rightly.
The three Head are described as a Mrs.
Saunders and u tall dark woman wearing
eyeglasses, and s.Jtall lark man. whose
name may be Russell Beeler. The living
are Fannie Dav. her chum Mabel Cooke,
a MAI named Klees, Philip and Walter
podd. The Dodds are said TO be sheet
writer's at the raoetracks. .,,...
Fannie Dav and Mabel Cooke work in
McCreery's in the millinery department.
They live together at 342 st. Nicholas
avenue. The Cooke girl comes from Bos-
ton, where her mothe, lives at 100 Boylston
street. Just where the Dodds come from
IL uncertain. They have been at no pains
10 let any facts about themselves. become
known. In fact, : as soon as they with
Kleee were able TO leave the marine hos
pital at Stsple6on, Staten Island, where
they were taken to r~ecuperate. they de-
parted, rebuning all inquiries a. TO their
destination. Walter Dodd did cay: I'VE
cannot give out any names until we have
Informed the families Of those who are dead
Of the catastrophe" ."'.. Pc
Mabel Cooke il at present in Smiths
Infrmary at Port Richmond and Fannie
pay lie at home.
The wonderful feat Of Fannie Day vas
set arainst a. tawdry a background as
might bs imagined. She herself told the
story at home, when the combined effects
d1 uQuOT Gill NlN, sHONh VI uCI AuN0uOui Oub
trip had somewhat worn on and she wax in
a. condition o fspeak coherently.
'Mab4 and1 were down at Sheepehead
Bay for the races o n Friday afternoon"
said the girl who was lying at he time in
her bed at home. Mabel knows. Waiter
Dodd very well. In fact she's got a crush
on him. The Dodds don't travel in my
class, at that. and l know I IN rank high
in the social scale. Walter Dodd wanted
70 get up a party to go out sailing in the
Sausage. the small. auxiliary boat he owns,
think. 1 didn't mind going along,
Walter got Mabel to form the party.
The two other women I vas int reduced to,
but I forgot their names right, Oh, except
| know they both we're married and their
husbands did not know they were along,
Judging by the way they talked. The two
ether men didn't attract my attention much,
oil her. because | could see hat they were
NOT anxious to have any one breaking in
between them snd'tbe two other ONE
We were sitting around in S~heepshead
Bay after the races and had some stuff to
drink. Then we had dinner in the Sleeps
bead Bay Hotel and there was more stud
10 drink. After dinner we didn't hurry
away and the booge kept coming fast.
All Of lis had rs much as we could handle
and more, too. when it got to be time to
get out on the boat. II isn't big boat at all,
but what part Of it was not crowded with
us was filled up with things to drink. 1t
was a regular liquor party gall right.
AS soon as we got N Board the other
women herded OF by themselves. | tell
you right now ] wasn't at all for the other
people, but mabel being there, | didn't
mind going along with her. | don't re-
member Just what time IL was hat we got
out, but | know that il was pretty late.
The men we're in no condition to run the
boat and, as a matter OF fact, none OF US
cared where we went TO. We got out a
little way when the kicker stopped working.
The Dodds tried 70 fix Il, but il was dark
and they didn't knoS much about II, appar-
entity, beoauselt hey only fused with It With
Nut making it 90.
Then all Of a sudden it began to work
and we started just tipping along at top
speed for a distance. Then the engine
quit and we couldn't make II go any more
The men looked things over and said that
the naphtha lad run out Never mind,
girls, said Walter Dodd. 'thstll be all right,
Wen put up the sail and thstI get Us any
where we want 10 GO
The four Of them tried 10 hoist the sail
but they didn't know any more about that
end Of It than ma king the engine go, because
the sail split all to pieces, and there we were
out in the lower bay drifting around
To tell the truth, we didn't much mind,
as ! remember It, and I can remember
2 whole lot, coneidering," said Miss Day,
smiling.
The mep thought 1t was a great joke
apparently They laughed and said: Might
as veil be hung for a sheep as a lamb. girls,
talking about our staying out all highs
Aud we didn't care whether We were on
all night..or not. just then. The tide tool
w. out somewhere near the Nsvesink light
! think. Anyhow, | thought II was that
Walter Dodd said it wasn't and We haC
= fight over il. He said Ne didn't care wha
light II was, when morning came they'C
Re able 10 fix the engine and we'd get bscl
all right. asked him II he had any NOR
nsphtha in the boat and he told me 10 minC
my own business.
Still and all. we didn't get real sore abou
II. II seemed like n lot Of fun. out Their
tossing around and nothing to worry VA