New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-07
boy SAVED FROM RIVER
As CROWD LOOKS ON
Boat Club Steward Dives to the
Bottom of Hudson and Takes
Lad Ashore.
TRAFFIC OFFICER BROWNS
Usual Sunday Death Toll in
Nearby Waters - Woman
Jumps Overheard from
a Barge.


were almost as frequent yesterday as
they have been on any Sunday during the
summer. A boat club steward known
for hts daring rescues went into the
Hudson River and literally pulled from
the bottom a six-year-old boy. who had
crowded against the rails Of a steamboat
near by cheered him as he came up with
his burden.
The captain Of q barge lying off East
nth street said woman jumped in the
river and disappeared. Near College
Point a traffic policeman sank and was
not seen again. At Atlantic Highlands
man fell from fishing boat and was
drowned. The body Of a girl drowned
Thursday was picked up off Rockaway
Beach, and sixyearold boy was found
drowned In a sunken boat at Newark.
The body Of an elevator runner was
found floating in the Harlem River, and
| a body of an unidentified man was
picked up in the Lower Bay. An elderly
woman dropped dead in a public bath
house.
Henry Manley was the boat club stew
ard. He is attached to the Hudson Boat
Club, az 12Sth street. and already had
seven rescues to his credit He was in
side the clubhouse while a group Of chill
! dren. among them six-year-old John
Larson. of No. 462 West 131st street,
was standing on the clubhouse float
watching the Adirondack go into her
pier. As they crowded to the edge of
the floating platform Larson .tumbled
overheard The children and the pas
sengers on the Adirondack screamed.
and Manley. hearing the yells, dashed
cut of the clubhouse and into the water
Ten Feet Below Surface.
Manley found the boy on the river bot
tom. ten feet below the surface. Manley
brought him up and swan with him to
the float and then began 10 roll the little
fellow over a barrel Small boys had
run home to tell his mother. and she
came running down, screaming at the
brought the boy around Mrs. Larson
took him home
Captain George Shaw, of the barge
Henry Steers, lying off East nth street,
| reported TO Patrolman Cavanaugh. of the
East 61th street station, last night that
a woman had jumped off the stringpece
by the side of his barge. The patrolman
found on the pier a pair of kid shoes,
black and white check skirt and black
belt. Captain Shaw said he was sitting
! in the bow of his barge and jumped in
after the woman, but the tide was
strong and he was unable TO reach her
before she sank. The harbor police were
notified and began graphing for the
body
A number of traffic policemen held an
outing at WitzeIs Point View Grove,
near College Point. Alexander Hoag,
thirty-two years old, married, and
member Of Traffic Squad c, swan out
further than the others, ard it is
thought that the swift current got the
best of him. for he was not seen again
His home is at No. 81 Ninth avenue,
Astoria.
Patrick Flannery, Of Brooklyn, forty
years old and a fireman at Robin Dry
dock and Repair Company, went out
with eleven other men from Erie Basin
on Saturday night in the launch Avoca.
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning. when
| they were halfway between Atlantic
Highlands and Sandy Hook. Flannery
fell overheard. Captain Peterson stopped
the Avoca and dived in. 1t took him
fifteen minutes TO find Fiannery. and
when they brought him on board he was
still alive He lived half an hour, but
never regained consciousness. A bruise
on the forehead led the Coroner to call
| in doctors. but they decided that the
man struck the gunwale as he fell in.
/ Drowned Girls Body Found.
| The body Of a girl thought to be that
! Of thirteen-y ear-old Fannie FISHERMAN,
of No. 22S East 18th street. who was
while attempting TO save girl friend
was found off Rockaway Beach by
fishermen. The body was clad in a blue
bathing suit such as the little Wester-
man girl wore.
The body Of six-year-old Frank Kuzis,
Of No. Is Glover street, Newark, who
had been missing all night, was found in
half sunken canal boat off Polk street,
Newark, by a man walking along the
towpath The boat has long been aban
doned, and little boys swim in the hal
low water in one end Of it. 1t is thought
tha. Kuzis fell into the deep water.
Another body recovered was that Of
James Reilly. twenty eight years old, an
elevator runner, Of No, go Broadway,
W no lived at No 900 West 149th street.
The body. which was found in the Har-
lem River. was identified by the dead
mans wife. who said her husband had
gone in swimming at 154th street.
The body recovered in the Erie Basin
bv the harbor police was that Of man
about sixty years old. FIVE feet seven
inches I'm height and weighing 145
rounds. He had a gray beard and hair
md wore a dark mixed suit and blue
cotton underwear. and in his pocket were
pair Of eyeglasses and a pocketbook.
There we're no marks OF violence.
Mrs Sarah Shulnik. aged sixty-five.
and residing with her married son, at
No. 30 Rivington street, dropped dead
i'm the public bathhouse at 9Th street and
the East River. She had been in the
water less than half an hour when she
was taken with a chill. Hastily dress
ing herself she was about to go home
when she collapsed from heart failure.