The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19
Falls From New York Pier When About to Start for South Ameri-
 can Trip.
SON OF THE LATE
 LYNDE HARRISON
Graduated from Yale Law School and Had at One Time Wide Popularity
 in This City.

While waiting for tug to take him to the vessel in which he had engaged passage for a pleasure trip Paul w.. Harrison of this city, son of the late Judge Lynde Harrison, tumbled into the East river from the foot of Fulton street in New York yesterday and was drowned. Though he was pulled out of the water alive and his heart pulsat- ed for three hours under the ninistra- ton of ambulance surgeons from St.. Gregorys hospital he was too far gone to respond to treatment.
 In a wallet which Harrison carried the police found his passage ticket on the barkentine Curacao for Cayenne. which is anchored in the lower bay. He had paid $10O for it, and his trunk had been taken aboard the boat. He had been walking along the string piece of the pier Finally he stumbled and plunged headlong into the river. Several men went In after him but he went down three times before they reached him.
 News of the death was received in this city by Lewis & Maycock from a relative of the deceased, who will go to New York to-day to take charge of the body. Interment will be in Grove street cemetery probably on Friday. Judge Zacher of Branford, executor of the will of Judge Harrison, was also notified last evening and the arrange ments for the funeral are in his charge
 MT. Harrison was well known in New Haven being 8 graduate of the class of 1896 of the Yale law school and a member of the Connecticut bar He was one of the brightest, most popular and most promising of his class. and after completing his course and passing his bar examinations with high honors. he entered the office of his father. at that time in partnership with Judge zacher, under the firm name of Harri- son & zacher.
 While located in New Haven Mr. Harrison was prominently connected with many of the leading social organ izations of the city, being one of the first members of the naval reserves. He was one of large party of militia from Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York who went on the cruise of the warship Cincinnati to Gardner's is- land in 1S96 when the boat went aground on an unchartered shoal short distance down the coast. and bumped along over it for a mile or more before she finally cleared safely and without much damage.
 After practising law here for some time Mir. Harrison drifted out of the profession, His health failed him and he went to New York and other places as desires dictated. He married A New Haven young woman, Miss Vera sco- field, an. employe- of one of the local de- pertinent stores. She survives him having made her home in this city for a portion of the time since her mar riage,
 MT Plant, the founder of the great system of coastwise railway and steam ship lines, was relative of the young man, and when the millionaire magnate died his youthful relative received a good legacy He had also an annuity left by his father when the latter died about a year ago, and this provided amply for his needs and for those of his wife.
 Among the surviving relatives is brother William Harrison, a New York lawyer, well known in New Ha- ven.
 Mir Harrison is also survived by sister, Mrs. Edmund Trowbridge of New York, and half-sister, Miss Katherine Harrison, who is now trav- cling abroad with her mother, former ly Miss Harriet White of Waterbury,