The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-14
EAST SIDE BOY LOSES LIFE AT
 BERKSHIRE POND
Drowned Hans Hole" Claims Another Victim in
 David,Louis, Aged 4.
FALLS INTO WATER
 REACHING FOR TOY
Two Hundred Frantic Moth CTS, Fearing Child is
 Theirs, Make Clamor.


 Four years old David J. Louis, son of MT. and Mrs. John D. Louis, Jr.'. of 1,374 Kossuth street, was drowned in six feet of water near the Berkshire dam at 10 o'clock this morning. The efforts of Dr. J. H. Beaqdry. Jr,, of the Emergency corps, Police Cap tain John H. Began and Motorcycle Policemen Beardsworth and Higgins to resuscitate the dying child were fruit less and after an hours endeavor the task was given up as hopeless ana the Emergency hospital physician pro- nounced the boy dead. The body was removed to Cullinan & Mullins morgue to await the finding of Medical Ex- aminer s. M. Garlick, who was then notified of the drowning accident The police were notified of the accf- dent at 10 o'clock and the ambulance and police patrol were son the scene shortly after. The lack of g. lungmotor was the cause of criticism on the part of spectators.
 David performed his daily chores for his mother this morning and left the house at g o'clock. He said he would return about II o'clock. Later he met four years old Eddie Cofey, son of John J. Coffey of 34 Autumn street, foreman at the Frank Miller Lumber Co. Both boys are under the school age. They have been in the practice of playing along the banks of Berk- shire pond and this morning they brought with them toy sailboat, the property of the Coffey child, and with which they were playing near the dam on the south side of the Berkshire bridge. The craft got beyond the reach of the two children and David reached for it with a long stick. The dam is covered with thick slime and the youngster slid off the wooden planking and was soon lost to view.
 The Csoffey boy screamed Justify and attracted the attention of Harry Cox ana Martin Conlon of New Haven, in the employ o9 the Gonlon Roof Con. sructfon Co. engaged in roofing the plant of the Housatonic Rubber Works on Rnow1ton street. Cox and .Conlon were on their way to Peters saloon. at the western approach to the bridge when little Eddie Coffey ran scream ing to them and informed them of the accident. Both men ran to the Berk- shire Mills where Con1on telephoned for the ambulance while Cox procured the body of the victim from the murky waters of Berkshire pond.
 A pitiful scene was presented upon the arrival of Mrs. John Louis, mother of the drowned child, her only son AL, though a one year old sister survives, e'poor little Davie, as his mother called him, was the apple of the pa rents eye He was a lovable child and. never gave cause to be reprimanded by his parents.
 At the scene of the drowning, she screamed in her attempt to reach her
 dying child and was restrained son;y through the efforts of Capt. Began And here another feature touched the hearts of the spectators. Capt. John Began, usually a stern and stout hearted officer, was on the verge of breaking into tears at the sight pre- sented.z A spectator remarked that it was a hopless case but the police cap tain turned and with tears in his eyes, remarked that he would work all day, and as long as there was a spark of life in the body of little Davie. After an hour of vain endeavor pr. Beaudry declared life extinct. More than 200 frantic mothers crowded the bridge in an effort to identify the victim, fear ing that it might be one of their own loved ones When the Emergency ann bulanee started for Cullinan & Null nns'I morgue not dry eye was visible in the vast crowd.
 The father of the drowned boy is employed in the machine room of the Singer Manufacturing Go. and he was later notified of the death of his only son.
 of many drowning accidents and at one time the spot north of the bridge bore the name of 'The Drowned Mans Hole." Many a skating party has been broken up by the loss of life of one or more of the party and several drown ing accidents similar to the one of this morning have occurred off the fatal dam The director of public works was at one time asked by residents of the neighborhood to erect large wire fence about the premises but this has not yet been done.