New-York tribune., 1910-07-13
COTTON BROKER HIRES
BOAT; IS SEEN NO MORE
George H. Reitman Missing
Since Monday from Home
and Business.
EXPERT IN AQUATIC SPORTS
Son Searches Shadows Near
Throg's Neck, While Wife
and Friends Vainly
Scour City.

George H. Reitman. a cotton broker
with offices at No 35 Broadway. has
been strangely missing since Monday
He left his home, at No. 712 East 17Sth
street, ostensibly to go to his sfice, but
went to Throg's Neck. Westchester
rowed out on Long Island Sound and
disappeared.
Messages were telephoned through the
financial district all day yesterday by
friends and acquaintances, who were
trying to get some clew to his where
abouts. Last night a preliminary search
of the inlets near Throgs Neck was
made by Richard Reitman, the missing
mans son. while Mrs. Reitman and her
daughter searched hospitals and institu-
tions and called on people who they
hoped might have seen him.
An empioye OF Lebauer's boathouse,
at Throg's Neck, called a the Reitman
house yesterday afternoon to find out
what had become of the man who had
hired a boat from him on Monday morn
ing. giving 81 deposit for the safe re-
turn of the boat and giving the name of
Reitman. He said Reitman had hired
the boat at $50 Monday morning, but
that neither man nor boat had been
heard from since. This was the first
irtimation to the family that Mr.. Reit-
man had not gone to his place of busi-
ness when he left home Monday morn
ing.
The family had received an early in
quiry from the office that day, but took
ii for granted that Mr.. Reitnan had
arrived there later, as there were no
other telephone calls. When he failed to
come home in the evening the wife and
children became alarmed.
Mrs Reitman -teIephoned her hus-
bands Office yesterday morning, and was
shocked when she heard he had not been
there Monday and had not even tele-
phoned.
This morning young Reitman will
make a thorough search of every inlet
IN the neighborhood of Throg's Neck in
q launch
Expert Swimmer and Oarsman.
Mrs. Reitman. however, does not believe
this search will result in finding her hus-
bands body. She said last nighp that he
is an expert swimmer and oarsman. hav-
ing won several medals in Sweden when
he was a, much younger man for his skill
with the oars
None OF the family could understand
the disappearance of the boat which
Reitman had engaged, nor could they
understand his action in going TO
Throggs Neck and hiring a boat with
out saying anything about his inten-
tions to the family
Miss Sophie Reitman said last night
that it was possible that when her
father found how hot il was Monday. he
suddenly made up his mind to spend
the day on the water The heat had
troubled him very much, and he may
have turned TO the first scheme that
came to his mind for escaping another
gruelltng trip in the subway, and a
hard day in the city.
The missing man is forty-three years
of age. weighs III pounds and is : feet
5 inches tall, is of dark complexion, has
black hair and beard, streaked with
gray, and most of his upper teeth are
false His eyes are brown
When he left his home on Monday
morning he wore Panama hat a brown
coat and trousers. a white negligee shirt.
black tie and tan shoes. On the second
fuger of his left hand he wore gold
ring with q stone.
The police have sent out a general
alarm.