Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-17
CATHERINE |. WARD
Webster School Teacher Met Sad
 Death al Newark.

0OOkc. StTtet, lOT SUlnc liulC past o teacher in the Webster school, was drown~d Saturday night in the Pas saic river, Newark, N. J. Miss Ward was a member of a party including w. H. K. Davey, his son, H. H. Da- vey, Karl Pankopf, his wife, Mrs Elm ma Pankopf, MT and Mrs J. 1T. Burke and others. During the cruise the gasolene ran short and w. H. R. Da- vey pulled the launch close to a barge near the Congress street docks and stepped of to get some gasolene While he was away the oil box of a lantern dropped onto the floor of the boat and started blaze. Burke jumped onto the nearby barge and succeeded in getting his wife and three children belonging tC the Pankopfs to safety with him. In the excitement Miss Ward and MI and Mrs Pankopf jumped overheard Young Davey, an expert swimmer went after them and In the struggle which ensued Miss Ward clung to Dayey so tenaciously he was over- powered and the four persons were drowned.
 The police authorities telephoned the sad news to Waterbury and later added that Miss Wards body had been recovered. Undertaken P. s Bergin was requested to go to Pas saic and bring the body to Waterbury but when he reached there he found that somebody had blundered, the body taken from the water being that of Mrs Pankopf, not Miss Wards MT Bergin notified the family of the situation and this morning William Nolan, brother-in-law of the dead girl, left for the scene of the drown ing.
 Miss Ward was born on Hill street about 35 years ago. Her father, the late Patrick Ward, was for many years an employe of the Scovill Man ufacturing Go, and was we'll and ia vorably known. She is survived by her mother, Mrs Bridget Ward, and three sisters, Mrs William Nolan anu Miss Mary Ward of this city, and Mrs Margaret Hurley of Bridgeport. She was a graduate of the Convent ol Notre Dame, and was appointed 2 teacher at the Hendricken school ir 1894, where she remained until the Webster school was opened, when she was transferred to that district and held that position ever since teaching steadily with the exception of about one year, when she was granted a leave of absence. During that period she tried life in con vent with view to becoming nun but it appears that she preferred tC remain in the world, for she resumed her position in the school and con tinued to impart a portion of what she knew to those under her charge
 Miss Ward left here for Asbury Park, N. J., on August 6. Shr stopped at the same hotel and att from the same table with Mir and Mir: Edward B. Kelley of Fuller street and their daughters, the Misses Julis and Anna Kelley, one teacher d the Croft and the other at the Walsl schools. Miss Anna Bergiu of the Hendricken school, the Missea Kee nan, Guilfoile and others, all teach CTS in the public schools of this city
 The party had planned to return home last Thursday or Friday, but | day or two before Miss Ward wrote tC a relative, Mrs Joseph Conley O Belleville, telling her that she wal at Asbury park and might possibl! call to see her before going home On the following day registered letter was delivered to Miss Ware from Mrs Conley, warning her no to think of leaving New Jersey with 83ut calling upon her. She also flxeC the date and told her she woult meet her at the railroad station. Sh, didn't know whether to accept thu invitation or come home with thu others, but her friends thought i would round out her vacation yer! nicely to call upon Mrs conley anC advised her to make a trip to Belle vile. She came to the railroad sta tion with the Waterbury party anC bade them goodbye. She wisheI Miss Kelley, who was her classmati s the convent, to stop over and ac company her to Belleville, but ar engagements to this effect were no mauGs anu Aut ntAI uGdHu bl tue btt here was that she had been drowned in the Passaic river,
 IL was a very sad affair. The lit tie party at Belleville was gotten ul specially in honor of Miss Ward anI naturally her friends there feel tn, situation keenly. Ii would be i'm possible to give anything like an idet of the grief of the girls mother an, sisters. Her mother was not ap prised of the fact that the body ha, not been recovered until this morn ing and when she heard this he cup of sorrow was filled to overflow ing. She was well liked in tn school and was a very prominen member of St Thomas's church. Fa ther Crowley. pastor of the church and Professor Madigan of the Web ster school. speak highly of tn dead girl and are doing all in thei power to console her bereaved fam fly.
 Contractor Kelley, who saw Nils Ii. Ward a good deal with the rest O the girls at Asbury park. says shl was of a very retiring disposition and yet pleasant and cheerful witl those whom she knew intimately.