New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-16
GIVES LIFE FOR CHILD
MAX PIPER DROWNS AS
CANOE UPSETS.
Physician s Run an automobile SaUes
Lives of T1cO Others Who We're
IN FrdI Craft.

Max Pfper an advertising agent, son OF Z. s
Piper president of the Brooklyn Board of Trade.
was drowned in oyster Bay, off Bayville, yesteF-
day afternoon His seven-y -year-old daughter.
Helen. and man named Harlow. who could not
swim. were rescued. Harlow guest of the
Pipers. who have a cottage at Bayville. Piper
was an expert swimmer. All three We're thrown
into the water when their canoe capsized
They started out from a point in the Oyster
Bay Canal, near the Shore Road and padded
against a strong tide and head wind. When
they emerged from the canal into the bay Har-
low. who had never been in canoe before, be-
came frightened by the whitecaps. which were
rocking the frau craft. and shifted his position.
He and Piper each weighed more than two nun
dred pounds. and Harlows uneasiness upset the
canoe
The little girl sank Immediately. Harlow came
10 the surfac, ana clung to the overturned boat
Piper dved repeatedly but failed To discover
the body of his daughter. He finally became
exhausted by his efforts and did not rise again
Charles Fowler and Benjamin Abeel. OF Bay
VILE who were some distance of shore in their
motor boat. witnessed the accident and made all
speed to the spot where IL occurred. Harlow
who was almost exhausted. dragged into
the motor boat. Fowler then noticed the little
girls leg proruding from under the capsized
canoe. She had gone down when the craft
turned over. and when she arose came up under
the canoe. There she remained while her father
dived TO his death in his attempts TO find her
Fowler tipped the canoe over. and the little
girl sank again RE dived from the motor boat
and brought her To the surface. AbeeI assisted
them into the boat and headed for the shore
While they. We're making every effort To revive
Harlow and the girl both Of whom were un-
conscious, a telephone message was sent to Dr.
j. s. Hail. of Oyster Bay. four miles away The
physician owns Il 90-horsepower automobile and
seven minutes after he received the MESSAGE he
reached the spot. where efforts were being made
10 resuseitate Harlow and the girl
After working over them for several minutes
the girl revived sufficiently To inform her res
cuers that her father had been in the canoe
with them. This the first inkling that Fowler
and Abeel had that they had not rescued all the
members of the party who We're I'm the capsized
craft After dragging the bay for some time
they brought the body of Piper To the surface
and carried u 10 the cottage which his family
is occupying for the summer Mrs Piper WAS
Frustrated when the body of her husband wa,
brought to her The little girl will recover
Harlow was taken To the Piper home
Dr- Hah while making his run from OYSTER
bayito BayVlne, had narrow escape from death
by p!unging through the open draw of the bridge.
over Bayvile Greek. The bridge is about two
hundred yards long and the draw is exactly i'm
the centre OF the structure. Speeding at IN,
rate OF sixty miles an hour DR. Hail was already
on the bridge before he noticed the peril ;hat
confronted MIN. He able % sion thr
however several yards from the point wher,.
clear water showed. He backed his machine tn
the oyster Bay side Of the creek. secured a row
boat, aGd continued his journey the BayviIIe
side. where Harlow and tho Piper giri .ere
awaiting his arrival