New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-16
SAD DAY BY SAD WAV Els
TOO COLD FOR CROWD.
Dog Started for Europe, but Re
turned WOman SdJes Husband.

Weary of the restaurant fare which his master,
Alexander SCrano serves 10 all VINO enter MS
place. at Oceanic avenue and the Bowery. Coney
Island. Romeo a big Newfoundland dog. sought a
change of diet last Wednesday. He attempted to
get meal from the leg OF 4 man who was passing
the restaurant. but the individual objected, and
drew a revolver enforce his objections. Two
shots took effect in Romeos leg but the injury
served only 10 increase the speed of the other
three. The dog raced to the beach. and when last
seen was headed for Liverpool
Since then his master has been mourning the
disappearance Of Romeo and had given him up
as drowned Last night Scrano sitting in the
kitchen experimenting the operations of his en-
ployes when he heard a scratching at the door
Romeo had returned. Although he reticent
derstood that he concluded there we're places
than Coney Island. and gunshOt wound no
for suicide. anyway
Patrolman Downs, Of the Coney Island station
while on post at Surf avenue and Henderson's
Walk yesterday. approached by a who
said that he Herbert Chapple. a jeweller, lv-
ing at No. $40 Fulton street Brooklyn. Chapple
who was seventy-one years old. complained of feel
Ing ILL., and Downs sent him the Coney Island
Reception Hospital. Two physicians sitting at the
entrance elderly man fall on the steps
When they reached him he dead They said
that heart disease had killed him. The body
sent TO the Mcrgue, where Downs identified II
that Of Chapple
woman standing the beach and screaming
attracted the attention OF Fred Curry. life
saver. stationed the foot OF West 3lst street
With her woman's intuition she had that
something wrong with her husband. who
swimming about quarter OF mile from the
shore. Curry into the water and swan as
quickly as possible to the man. They struggled
and it was not until Curry had allowed the man
To become exhausted that he was able TO bring
him back to shore. When revived he said he was
Michael Collins. of No. 2se East 9th street Brooklyn
and that he had been seized with a cramp His
condition so serious that he was sent 10 the
Coney Island Reception Hospital
Three members of Harlem boat club who went
10 Coney Island I'm launch Saturday afternoon
with the intention OF returning early yesterday
morning got into night with three men on the
Bowery and spent the night I'm the police station
Voorhees, suspended sentence. They said that they
were Harold Murphy. Of No. 1892 Clinton avenue
The Bronx Edward Granden OF No us West nth
street and Durand Mersereau. OF No Us West
9th street. The other parties the ARRAY escaped
A cold. southeast wind kept the attendance 20
the lowest figure that IL has been on an otherwise
pleasant Sunday IN years The police had little 10
do. Captain Fennelly, Of the Coney Island station
detailed man to each bathing pavilion IN his pre-
cinct 10 prevent any trouble that might arise from
the fact that proprietors all along the Ike have
doubled. and in some cases trebled the prices OF
bathrooms and suits
There suspicion Of disorder last Sunday
over The increased prices. yesterday the crowd
was so small that the police had no difficulty IN
preserving order. Those who went TO lighthouses
and were confronted by the high rates took the
matter philosophically and said that they thought
II was too cold 10 20 in bathing anyway.
Even the most enthusiastic student OF C'oney
Island attendance figures would be forced 70 admit
that there few persons at the resort yes
terday