The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-25
BOAT UPSETS, THREE DROWNED
>FiE\ " ~ I'VE or Ten IN
ROUING PARTY.
Launches From Roth sides % the Hudson
Join in the Rescue " orb three small
B"N- aud . YOUNG Nan drowned ln
BaIhIng Nam ResS<lcs ln the ia,


lmhu Yacht club AT the foot OF West
hghtv-sNth str~-t. raw q bag rowboat
turn over lar out m the river IL was
we'll toward the Jersey shorA and Il was
good deal Of question whether he
could get there IN time To do ANY good
Ne ran - whar~ his motor boat, the
1ormarv. was moOr-d Reside tho float.
called To hts son Robert to take the wheel
ana started the engine going.
~ hs drew near the rowboai he "a ~
a Aeg g. floating on down stream and near
~ were the heads Of three men. A boat
which had put on from the New Jersey
shor- was already at work picking up
some others of the men.
Mr. Torrance and his son hauled the
thr~- into the Tormary They wsre
pretty we'll gone with submsrsion and sx-
haustion he clrclsd the overturned boat
thr"" or four times. looking for more men
tn pick up. hut he cEildnt find any. The
men who w"r" living in the bottom OF tho
Tormarv told a. well IA they could that
there were more. hut Mr. Torrance had To
give NJ hop" of finding them.
They said ten had started IN the party
and for time Il locked a. though seven
OF them had been drowned.
The ToTmarV TOOK the three men whom
Mr. Torrance had rescued To the Columbia
Yacht club. and after "A while they came
tn enough to go home BEFORE they went
they said that their names were John
Hutch Of III West End avenue Joseph
Bradshaw Of :?s West SiSty-ssventh
street and Tony Lave of $40 West Sixty
ninth street They were hardly more
than well grown boys
The boat that set out from the Jersey
shore picked up four others The police
didn't learn who the nesCuer was and
the men who were saved didn't take the
trouble to learn. James Bennett. who
lives AZ 3JD West Sixty-ninth street. and
Fred lzzo of 1877 West End avenue were
hAuled to shore IN this boat. and they SAID
that two others whom they didn't know
otherwise than as Andy and Torfsy we're
save I'd also.
The police figure that the three who
we're drowned were Frederick Steinbsrg
of 2Ui West EiRhtieth street. George {.
Kane of III West End avenue and Gantane
BOts OF 3Oo West ixtv-eighth street
They were all about II years old
they got the boat early yesterday after
noon from Carey : boathouse at the foot
OF West Eighty-seventh street They
took keg along With them To keep them
from getting thirsty.
Edward BUCK. a paint dealer living At
lis East l2sth street. was rescued by 1
policemen ~ tn. harbor squad IN Fast |
chester BAY after he had been swept from /
the bottom Of hls overturned catboat and |
wa. exhausted 10y his efforts TO keep anoAi |
Mr. Buck ~ "A insmher ~ the Morris |
Yacht Iiub and had entered has ~ foot |
catbpat for "A hive Inlle race over a tri- |
angular course IN Ia" clubs regatta.
tie was tuning w his craft at | O'Clock |
and was some distance away from other |
boats ~ the cluh when squall upset his |
boat
Ne chung To the bottom for few minutes |
and a. b. tired wa washed of 4 police |
launch u harhor squad n. IN command Of |
SarRt Koran ran over to the overturned |
boat and pulled Buck out Of the water. |
The accident occurred on Rodman's /
Neck and about mile from shore Buck |
was taken 90 the Metropolitan Boat Clubs |
house IN Pelham Ray and his boat was
towed 10 the float II the same club.
On the way back 10 its quarters at the |
foot at Fast l:nth street the police launch |
broke It, wheel and Koran and his com |
panIpn-. Policemen FinniRan and Sheehan !
hodted about for half an hour or 30 until |
they got temporary steering apparatus |
rigg'-i up
Julius S"hlantsr. - years old of s2t /
kEst kishtv-fuurth street was drowned /
while s~ ifnmIng AZ Ostsnd Beach. Far
RockaWay gusens His body was not |
recovered
Frederick klatts brother Henry went |
down To- the foot OF Fast I1Ist street yes
t"rdAy afternoon 70 find out why Fred !
hadn't coin. home There were some
boys along IN" waterfront who told HIM
they'd seen a boy m trouble on shore an
hour hafOr. and that he'd better 90 20
the ilsNander avenue police station 10
md out about ~
Henry found poll Ceman there who
showed him "A pil" IT clothes
They - NV brothers. aaid Henry
m afraid ~. got drowned said the
Policeman That's why ! brought his
clothes her"
Frederick was 10 years old and a good
swimmer He lived at SIS Fast Issth
street. Ih-y hadn't found his b,.dy last
ghi
OTTO Neissmer, 10 years old Of rs West
lhith street went swimming IN the North
River Yesterday afternoon AZ the foot ~
Ninety ghth street lie Owed "a the
etringpieCe Of a pier and disappeared
Boys with him. becoming alarmed when
he didn't com. TO the surfarr again ran
down To- Ninety seventh street and got
some men from the receiving ship Granite
state They found the BODY AZ the river
bottom Tn" hoy was dead The body
was taken home
Peter Brown went M to the Harlem
River AZ birth Al r..at v,.sterday affarnoon |