The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-13
WRECKAGE BY WIND
Gale of Fifty Miles Lashes the
City--Schooner Eclipse
Sinks.
LESS BREEZE FOR TO-DAY
The Ladies With the Seasons New
Large Hats Have Their
Troubles.

Yesterday and Saturday combined
IN their meteorological aspects the
winds of March, the showers of April,
and the flowers Of May saturday
the wind reached velocity of fifty
miles an hour at It's highest, lestcr-
day thlrty-siX made tho record Tor the
day, The average was thirty. Even
that was pretty brisk and the sea-
sons new-stye straw hats for he la.
dies, which make them look Ike
nothing II not a square igger under
full sail, had to be abandoned and
return made to winters smaller and
stouter headgcar when the time came
for the Sunday afternoon stroll.
The weather sharps promise better
conditions for to-day. Fair and
warmer and less wind is their slo-
gan, This does not bar tho POSSIBLE
lty Of a shower or two. Such local
disturbances are hard 20 foresce when
they come one minute and IRE gone
the next,
The wind yesterday broke the me-
mortal window in Center hurch,
erected in memory OF the late Charles
u, Merslck, blew down several big
limbs of trees and shattered many
signs i continued until sundown.
Schooner Sinks.
Just as she sailed into the harbor
and anchored off Fort Hale, Saturday
afternoon the two mastcd schooner
Eclipse, hailiug from Northport, y. l.,
loaded with loo tons of coal, founder
ed, giving her captain and crew Of
two men hardly time to get into the
small boat and save themselves from
going down with the vessel The
Eclipse lies in the channel directly In
/ the path of vessels passing mp and
down the harbor. her masts ,ticklng
above water
She was from Perth Amboy,
a. j., for East liaddam, Conn
Fourteen Saved,
+ Fourteen men in four rowhoats had
4 a narrow escape from drowning IN the
/ hatbor Saturday morning during the
squat that blew across there and but
I for the assistance given them ly a
power boat that was beating it from
outside would undoubtedly have gone
/ down. The men were out fishing near
/ the breakwatcr when the gale broke
and tried frantlcally for an hour or
more TO get to shore alone The wind
blowing from the northwest made
their efforts futile ana signals Of dis
tress were thrown out to the shoe.
The signals were seen hy Thomas
4 Butter at Lighthouse Point md he
i tclephoncd in to police headquarters
tho state the men were IN, llcadl iar-
tors In turn telephoncd Captain Dove
Mt the New Haven Towing company
and. he sent a tug out to rescue.
IN the meantime, however, the
power boat coming in went TO Tho as
slstanee of the men and had them
well in toward the east shore
Soy Fishers Caught.
one of tho most heroic deeds that
{
sound In this vicinity, was Enacted
Saturday afternoon, whom Fred shy.
der. of ~ Morris street, together Will
his brother. Herman SNYDER, md q
friend, John Spells, also " this city
rescued four young boys and twf
companions who were fishing IN small
rowboats about four miles off shore
land we're caught in the saualL
snyder, who was also fishing ahou
three miles off the Sayin Rock shore
In his ai-foot sharpe, the Minnie
IS., /" when tho storm came UP, geeinf
the peril Of the smaller boats, ven
to their assistance and took all aboarf
even though tho mon who were Will
him were balling their rapidly Allinl
boat in order to keep It from sink
ing.