The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-06-20
SOME LEAP INTO WATER,
OTHERS STICK TO WRECK
and Gay Party In
duIgIng In Joys Of Beer Lunch
Have Close Call
tBy Associated Rress.)

10y Associated frexsl
New York, June 20--A represen-
tative in congress. a lawyer and
more than three dozen business men
or Harlem We're in peril yesterday
when motor boat in which they
We're bound for Oyster Bay got into
! Flushing Bay by mistake in the fog
| and rain upon the submerged dixie
that extends from College Point to
Flushing
All were rescued. SO were eight
kegs Of beer
The party. including the represent
| tatlye whose identity was not dis
closed, are members OF the Hancock
Social club. which has its head.
quarters at No. 2290 Eighth avenue.
John Mcneil is president. Edward
Otis treasurer and John Caldwell,
Il lawyer secretary.
Had 47 Persons Aboard.
Ii was II a. N. when the party
left West One Hundred and Twenty
ninth street in the fftyfoot motor
boat, The Count, owned and com.
manded by Charles Froelich There
were II aboard. including the crew.
They got through the Harlem canal
all right, but trouble began when
they met fog in The upper East
River Near East Emhurst they
found they were on the wrong
course.
They turned about and plunged,
full tilt, onto the United States gov
eInment dixie, which is awash at
high tide.
The boat ran mp on top of the
spies one OF which tore a hole in
her The heayyIaden craft at once
began 10 fill and there was a panic
Some seized life preseryers and
jumped with them into the water.
Others crawed out on the sub
merged dixie and roasted there,
while the remainder stayed in the
foundered bort which rocked to ana
iro like a see-saw but could not sink
because it was mpaled on the spile
that had pierced it.
Yells for help went mp. George
Suib of Corona. who was near in
his fishing launch. Ann chugged to
the wreck and took off six OF the
party He was on his way 10
Corona. he says, when his passeng-
ers demanded that he go BACK and
roscue at leatt one OF the eight kegs
Of beer
Flung Overheard, He Said.
I'm doing enough in saving YOU"
he retorted Forget the beer.
Thereupon he asserts, be was
thrown overheard. and the six he
had rescued put back in the Ann 10
bg "
then made for Corona Strib swan
around UN Wcked uu By row5oat
when ne got 10 corona the Ann was
her uiar with the empty keg
aboard
Meantime The Counts whistles OF
distress had brought FIVE motor
launches and several rowboats.
Among those who responded were
laura Cuerite and Rose Barnett.
actresses. who have summer home
)n the shore of Flushing Bay. They
sped to the wreck in the launch
lura G.. took aboard ten men and
lowed three others who were in
he water and who chung to the gun
wales of the actress s craft.
Nothing was said to them, the
.ctresses remarked afterward. aaout
.e.euug any beer. the Hancock So
.al club members appearing wen
satisfied 10 be taken off in haste.
D dn't Want Publicity.
Emil Zeeck. Arthur Simpson.
'h5rlcs Hoogland Thomas Duffy.
emil Mccormick and William Kip
,ernaven rescued the men, NC
'ormlcE saved six. All We're taken
O Hunters Hotel. Jackson avenne.S
.fter they had GOT dry they board
ID trolley cars for Manhattan. Al 4
most an refused to give their
lanes.
AS for The Count, she was still
.onndiug on the dixie last night.
-ftn several kegs OF beer unrescued.
At the Hancock Social clubs head
1arters ir was said last night that
.oue of the wreck party was IN.
,obody admitted knowing the name
Il tine representative who had been
board the motor boat