New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-07
DROWNED;
MAN GIVES LIFE
TN SAVING WIFE
Waters Near City Take
Heavy Toll - Aged
Bather Dies.

Charles Shoemaker, skipper Of the
barge Powerful, of the New York Cen
trail Railroad, was swept to death last
night by the flood tide in the Harlem
River. Through his efforts his wife,
Lillian, who had also fallen from the
barge, was saved. Just before the tide
tore his fingers loose from the rope he
had knotted beneath his wife's arms
Shoemaker thought they could not be
saved.
"If we die, Lillian" he said, 1--WE die
together"
The Powerful was moored off 150th
Street in the Harlem River.
With his wife and mother-inlaw.
Mrs. Goldie Hansen, Shoemaker was
sitting on deck. Noticing that his
wife's position near the rOpehouse was
perilous, he shouted a warning to her,
and in rising to seek safer seat she
fell in.
Without even stripping of his heavy
nip boots, Shoemaker plunged after
her. As he supported her he cried to
Mrs. Hansen to fling them a rope. She
did so, and while Shoemaker made it
fast 10 his wife screamed for help.
Dragged down by his boots and know
ing that the marlborough yards shut
of the pier from the street, Shoe
maker had little hope.
Help came as he cried his last words
to his wife. John Colbert, Charles
Osiecke and william Cronan, switchmen
for the PETERBOROUGH answered Mrs.
Hansen's cries. As they began to haul
on the rope Shoemaker was torn loose
by the tide.
William Bolan, another switchman,
jumped into a rowboat and set out af-
ter the rapidly drifting barge skipper.
1t was not until Shoemaker had been
carried past l53d Street that Bolan
pulled alongside and drew him into the
boat.
On board the barge Mrs. Shoemaker
was already safe, though considerably
shaken. Her husband was dead when
an ambulance surgeon arrived.
Several hundred pleasure seekers on
the boardwalk at South Beach, Staten
Island, yesterday afternoon saw one
schoolboy drowned and another rescued
about two hundred yards from the
beach.
John Heating, nineteen years old, of
Manley, seventeen years, of 68 Graham
Street, Jersey City, who had been camp
ing over the Fourth of July, started
out from the beach in a fourteen-foot
canoe. When about two hundred yards
from the beach a swell caught the
canoe sideways and capsized it.
While both boys could swim Manley
was the better of the two, and Graham
became exhausted and sank. Manley
divcd after him, but in vain.
John Wallace, of sos West Broadway,
who was standing on the beach, rushed
into the water and reached Manley just
as he was about TO sink for the third
time.
Wallace brought Manley ashore un-
conscious. DR.. Johnson succeeded in
restoring Manley after working over
him for half an hour.
The body Of Heating was not recov-
cred.
Parents Find Son Drowned.
When the parents of Arthur Posner.
ten years old, of 1873 East Tooth Street,
went TO the East 104th Street police
station at 9 o'clock last night to re-
port their boy missing they we're told
that the boy had been drowned early in
the afternoon. The lad was playing
with a number of others and fell into
the Harlem Mere, in Central Park.
The water is not deep, but when
Patrolman Shutter reached Posner he
was dead.
John Greco, ten years old, of III
West l24th Street, went fishing yes
terday afternoon in the Harlem River
Ship Canal. He became excited at the
first bite" and tOppled over into the
water, and was drowned before aid
could reach him. The boys body was
not recovered for an hour and half.
Aged Bather Dies.
Following his first venture in surf
bathing this season, Andrew Allen.
seventy-eight years old, was stricken
with heart d ease at Asbury Park yes
terday. He was found dead in his
bathhouse by his family, with whom
he had been staying at 3lS Asbury
Avenue.
Mr.. Allen, head OF the Andrew Allen
& Son Brass Foundry, of 1876 Green
witch Street, New York, lived on the
Boulevard, Jersey City. Three sons
and two daughters survive him.
David Hamilton, fourteen years old,
OF ia Perry Street, was drowned
while bathing in Lake Topanemus.
y. j., where he had been sent by a
charitable organization for vacation.
While asleep on the stringpiece at
the foot Of East Seventy-tfth Street
last night an unidentified man about
fifty years old toppled into the river.
Patrolman Waugh pulled him out with
a rope, but he was dead upon the ar
rivaAof an ambulance surgeon.