The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-15
[AEDER[AHDER IS
KILLED IN WILD
JOY RIDE
Into Containing Victim, Four Other
Men and Bunch Of Chorus Girls
Skids on Wet Pavement and
Crashes Into Pole.
Party Returning From Crosse Pointe
Roadhouses When Accident 0c'
curs-Seyeral Seriously injured.
KILLED.
Harry Nederiander, No. 2sSs
East Grand Boulevard.
INJURED,

Harry Nederlander, No. 1859
East Grand Boulevard.
INJURED,
David Nederlander, No. % High.
q. east.
Alan M. Gray, No e45 Jeffer-
son-ave, LEG broken.
Zach c. Barber, No. BOZ Pasa'
dsns-apts., leg and back injured.
Paul Mckinney, No. 125 Euclid
ave. east, head cut.
Blanche Trap, chorus Girl, Nor
GAN house, teeth knocked out
Norma Thomas, chorus girl,
Morgan house, head injured.
Virginia Calvert, chorus Girl,
n charlevoix-apts.
Ruth Tomkins, chorus girl,
Morgan house.
Harry Nederiander, man about
town, was instantly killed, and eight
Dersons, including q quartet OF show
x1rls. were more or less seriously In
5ured 1t $40 o'clock. Tuesday morn
lng, when the Nederlander auto
plunged into telegraph pole at JET
. ferson-ave. and the new Belt Line.
a mad joy-ride through the rain was
Terminated In tragedy. Champagne
bottles were strewn with the wreck
. are and the fiuid mingled with the
rain
The entire party had been to
Orosse Pointe. Mr.. Nederlander was
. local agent for the Haynes Automo-
. bile Co., Indiana concern, and 1t was
one OF this company's machines he
was driving. A tour OF Crosse Potnte
roadhouses had occupied the partys
attention through the night.
Before break Of day. they were re-
turning. They stocked their machine
with much wine to cheer them on
the return trip, opened the machine
Wide, and started for the city. They
came at such a breakneck pace that
! Patrolman Frank Rounds heard them
four blocks away.
At the new Belt Line, directly in
front of the Chalmers Motor Cos.
plant, the big machine skidded. There
Il 4 slight turn in the road there.
Harry Nederlander was at the wheel.
The car left the wet pavement,
Ioaped the curbing and plunged mead
Jon into telegraph pole. The body
0f the car was wrapped around the
. pole and the unfortunate Nederlander
was pinned against 1t. His head was
crushed like an egg shell.
The chassis of the machine con-
tinued on its wild Journey. The naked
frame ran on about 800 feet before
lt came to stop.
Meanwhile the eight passengers OF
the auto lay in confused heap on
the pavement. Champagne flowed
freely over the wet pavement.
Harry Nederlander's brother. David,
was among the passengers. He was
badly cut about the head. Allen M.
Gray, No. 645 Jefferson-ave.. sustain
ed a fractured leg. lack G. Barber.
NO. S07 Pasadena-apts.. had leg and
his back injured. Paul Mckinney, No.
134 Euclid-ave. east. was cut about the
Head.
The female portion Of the party
WAS recruited from the ranks OF the
theatrical companies now In the city.
Blanche Trap, member of The
echo company, now playing in the
Detroit opera house. had several
teeth knocked out
Norma Thomas, another chorus
& kfrl, stopping at the Morgan house,
|Has hurt about the head. Virginia
+. Calvert, Charlevoix-apts., and Ruth
Iomkfns, Morgan house, also chorus
|Rirls from THE Echo" were only
elightly injured.
The latter two did not have to be
taken to hospitals, but the other
members were taken to st. Mary's
s In auto patrols.
Harry and Dave Nederlander are
. brothers and are sons OF Joseph Ned
orlander. Harry, who was unmarried,
F lived with q sister at No. 1858
East Grand Boulevard, and Dave at
No. 80 High-st. east. David Is a
pawnbroker at No. 81 Monroe-aye.
NcKenney, one OF the men injured.
+ IS manager OF the Detroit branch OF
the Brush Runabout Co. Barber, who
- a SON of the late Dr. o. p. Barber, or
Saginaw, Is salesman for the Brush
people. Young Gray-he il only 10
was employed by Nederlander. He
: Ii q recent graduate OF the Central
high school.
The night Waterman of the Chal-
mers Company was the first to come
f 20 the rescue of the party. Coroner
Burgess was called and he ordered
the body of the dead man taken TO
F the Wayne county morgue.
Harry was about 30 years old and
David Is 26.
In st. Mary's hospital II is said that
al the injured persons will probably
recover.
In the salesrooms OF the Nederlander
Auto Sales Co, No. $40 Woodward-ave.,
. 0f which Harry Nederlander was man
+ nxer. the accident was at once attrib-
nfed TO the condition of the chains
on his car.
mr.. Nederlander had intended 70
nave those chains replaced" said ono
cf the employees. but We had been Sc
. busy he had not got around to It,"
Mr.. Nederiander was one of the most
popular Young sportsmen end auto
cn1esmen IN the city. Several years
nro he came TO the front as an ali
ruund amateur athlete. He was al
expert at the boxing game. and played
tackle on the d. A. G. football team
Later. no was secretary of the Metro
oclitan Athletic club, organized by
William Considine, and with which
Ienator James Murtha was identified
Nederlander started In the automo
hIIe business as salesman OF Hupmo
>IIe1 for the Keeler-Hupp Co. Latei
~ was with the Brush Runabout Co.
nd last fsil established the Nederlan
- Auto Sales Co. as state agents fol
<1c Haynes automobile.