New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-18
sAILOR LOST In WRECK
MI COULDN'T WAIT FOR
LIFES4VERS.
p,st of Cre5c Sired from Schooner
Ub;cb Pounds to Destruction .
at Long Beach.

-, IN, the lifesaving crews. after the men
s 20 .,rnp for FIVE hours 10 the rigging The
- man nut of on a bit Of the broken deck
"a u,as swept out 10 sea. old lifesavers say
., ,,nless he was picked up by a passing yes
:, be had small chance Of reaching shore alive.
-. mas Madden Pierson. Swedish sailor and
-, ioss gave a sinister cast 20 an event which
=, s,nmer populace Of the resort had come 10
,.,k rpon rather as a lark than tragedy. They
A.ord early in the day that the missing man
h.s come ashore at Far Rockaway and was
alarmed His drift westward with the
:. NJ the currents along the Long Island shore
A. late hour last night no news Of his rescue
bsd reached this city
The hotel guests are inclined 70 accord 20 Mrs
psiHn Rosenheim the credit Of having been the
s-st Of the summer people 10 sight tho wreck
sbs swoke just before daybreak with a vague
telling that something was wrong. and went 10
,ook out of the window. Through the dark and
.bs fying rain she AT last made out a vessel
aose IN upon the breakers. a few hundred feet
:, the west ~ the hotel While she looked a red
ssre burned up on the beach. and then another.
,bs signals Of the coast patrol that he had
sshted the ship. Mrs. Rosenheim awakened her
ashland and they telephoned the news to the
htsl office. just as the dripping patroman hur-
,ss in 10 telephone his station. He had little TO
uu except that the wrecked craft had not re-
snonded 10 his signal and that all her crew
might already have been swept away
The Ifesaying crew seemed To be a long while
oorng though in reality il was not half an
hour. As the gray day broke the watchers could
make out that the schooner had filled and
driven aground, her deck level with the trough
q the sea and buried deep under solid water |
uith every roller. Her masts were standing, /
]
N the wind. Then they made out the crew.
nins men. clinging 10 the jibboom and bowsprit. |
which kept them just out OF the water.
HOTEL WAKES UP.
With the day the great hotel blinked and |
zns to life. Overtipped berboys stole away 10 |
ruuse their favorite patrons Shouts were |
nuEn up from the boardwalk against the front /
q the hotel. doors opened and banged shut |
srsin heavy footwear tramped in the corridors. |
,sxphones jingled. bathtubs We're filled and |
snydsd again in impatience, and the hotel pop /
rston made its way in groups down 10 the |
gLe-sEept boardwalk.
The Hfesaving crew came down the beach /
sovy dragging their little gun in the teeth OF |
he storm. They set IL up the sand some 4
Ehsi to v1ndWard of the wreck. and made ready 1
70 shoe, the line. The seas had torn of the /
schooners deck. and the black stVmps OF her /
.ibs showed in a row level with the trough She /
was about two hundred and fifty yards off shore,
heading almost straight IN upon the beach.
They fred the gun. and the line shot out in /
hgh curve sGerved before the tearing wind 1
and fen short ~ the wreck by thirty yards. 4 I
nurmur ran along the boardwalk where all the /
young people Of the beach had gathered in /
tripping line along the rail. The men in oil
SKINS on the beach bent over the gun again. /
and for a second time sent the line whistling |
ssEsrd. Again il fell short.
They made third attempt and dropped the /
nui between the slappng mainsail and the /
rzsenmast There the line hung. with a hun
efsd feet OF swirling wreckage between il and /
ne Isolated bowsprit where the sailors were. |
lev seconds later the swift currents which Sc; |
westward along the beach sucked IL in. and the /
aesavers hauled II ashore again.
while longer lie summer people watched /
he seas pound tie vessel: then a sailor. the in
most Of the line on the bowsprit. clambered /
eoSn into the smother that washed over the /
oS and pried loose a section OF the broken /
osck Before the men on the spar seemed 10 /
moerstand what he was about he had pushed 1
" on the crest Of a roller and slashed the single
me hy which HIS bit Of wreckage had been held /
me rigging. The little raft jumped and /
nokeo swung toward the beach on the crests |
NE sea and reeled back in the trough Then
~eg saw that il was slowly drifting back tow
~ the schooner's stern, away from the shore. /
n ne men on ths beach could do nothing TO help /
IN. and he was carried out 10 sea before their
"s until he was lost in the flying rain.
SUMMER FOLK GROW INPATIENT.
.hen the sumner folk began TO grow i'm
Nuent II was a long while since the live
~'efs mad Gone anything, and the black forms /
Us rigging looked cramped ard half drowned. /
.NPorant looking cottagers strode up and down /
ooarowelk in tapping mackintoshes and /
-''e' boots. vowing that something must be /
quickly slim young persons leaned /
sls' me storm. clasping their waterproofs /
~ 'he'r Juvenile Tam % Shanters. and declared |
=. really did seem a shame II made little |
-e'ehee when the men I'm oilskins explained /
uere was little immediate danger, that /
sea was going down and the schooner was |
ns soiidly and not likely TO break up for |
''ne hours
r'@nty another crew arrived from the Point |
:, station There was a consultation, and |
= SUIT boat was dragged down from the Long |
~ STATION 70 point still more TO windward |
~ wreck. There was more waiting. and |
,,, coTnpaints. A life preserver was washed |
\. bearing the name Arlington Of Boston"
D. -iSt udings % the schooner's identity
s,,-.ast tine came and went but the line OF
.oners on the boardwalk grew rather than
AZ last, with the slack Of the tide, the
"a, ,he beach stripped off the oilslins and
og neboat down into the surf
,.. 'e' went up she went clear OF her car
n. Then there a puzzled pause as
hr helo her there. waist deep I'm the swirl
nsv On the broken water of great sea
rbs, eo her on 20 another and louder cheer |
ssrv taniDied aboard. one by one. only 20 be
s,eos sA IN The wash OF the next breaker. A
eass,s.- 'Hne they forced her through. and the
q n waited until she was swinging clear
hss.s breakers. nearly hundred yards OUT
-Se the wreck