The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-09
BATTERY BECOMES REAL PASTURE AS
 CATTLESHIP SINKS
Policemen Improvise Corral to Herd Cows in New York
 Waterfront Park.

New York, Dec. s.-The first corral ever seen in Battery Park was impro- vised early last evening by Policemen Timnins and Fitzpatrick with benches placed end to end, backs inward, forming a circle about forty feet in diameter. In this metropolitan graz ing field thirteen steers, calves and sheep contentedly. browsed on the grass that has still some hint of the green of summer,
 The cattle and sheep were cast aways from the wreck of the two Battery, several hundred feet east of the Aquarium, just after sunset in a mist by the Eastern Steamship com pany's steamship North Star, bound out for Portland. The North Star was only slightly damaged and proceeded.
 When the barge Ell Paso, in tow of the tug Francis Rickert, left the Eric freight yard in Jersey City in the af- ternoon she had aboard 126 cattle meaning steers), 138 calves and 252 sheep, all alive, but destined to early death in an abbatofr on the East river. When the cattle and sheep arrived off Pier 1, North river, and headed into the swirl of currents at the Battery the North Star was just astern of the cattle craft and the sun had been down ten minutes. Then minutes later the barge was also doszn and nearly
 
 the abbatoir by Browning.
 Walls and Bellows for Help
 When the stem of the North Star slipped through the starboard wood en wall of the barge Fl Paso>tne wI1is- tie of the towing tug Rickert walled for help The b1eating of the fright ened sheep and the believing of the cattle helped the vapor of the Rickert to- summon succor.
 Acting Capt. Halleck. of the police boat Patrol heard the united distress Signals and headed the Patrol toward the barge He took off the only hu- mans aboard, Wi1fred Miller, Martin O'Grady and John Miller, who called themselves the Fl Paso's crew. They were not even wet, as the barge had just begun to sink.
 The skipper of the Rickert did what he set out to do, getting the barge so close to the Battery wall that she grounded, with her upper deck, on which were most of the cattle, only a foot under water.
 The rent made by the prov of the North Star let a large number of cat t1e and sheep flow into the bay. Most of the cattle were young and many be sold mutton. Many were killed or drowned in the rush, but more than a hundred swam towards the Battery wall Capt. Lyon of the fireboat-W Will liam L. Strong, moored at the Battery, was notified by his pilot F1ahive, by a screaming whistle that something was going on in his hborhood, and he turned out all hands, Fire1nen Ca fiIl, WheIan, Walsh, Kelly, Reisher and Engineer Sheehan.
 Ftrenen to the Rescue
 Every fireman got a. heaving line and all jumped almost s4m mdltaneousIy off the Battery wall and went for the zR struggling in the bay. The instinct of the nautical fireman. Capt. Lyon said, was Ito save life, no matter what kind, and that is why there was 8 magnificent mixup twenty feet or more off the Battery wall between sheep and calves and steers of tender age. all unwilling to be saved and not knowing the way to safety. Most of the dremen were hauled into cold water more than waist deep before they persuaded the calves and sheep that it was the right thing to swim with their rescuers.
 Naturally, while the firemen were reScuing one or two reach of the fright ened animals, many more succumbed and drifted lifeless on the rocks be- low the Battery wall. Some of the firemen had to battle vigorously with the young steers to get them landed They were hauled up on the wall and wight of them, three sheep and five cattle, were herded in the shed ons the fireboat pier to await claimants While the acrobatic firemen were tussling with the bovine and mutton castaways the policemen on the Bat tery wall, assisted by civilian talent, were lassoing sheep and suspected lambs.
 Some Go With Commuters
 Tt was then that the park bench corral was constructed. But all the lambs did not get into the corral At least one man was seen going aboard a Staten Island ferryboat leading lamb. Later reports from Staten Isl- and said that twenty commuters lead boat at St. George.
 This lent credence to the assertion of one of the policemen who had taken part in the rescue that more than half of the sheep or lambs that he had noted originally disappeared Many carcasses of cattle and sheep drifted into slips near the Battery last night.
 The creatures fin the corral were still grazing at midnight and the fire men were feeding those in fhe shed on the pier. The Merrit-Chapman steamer Hustler and wrecking tug were aIon gside the barge irvine 10 keep her from being overwhelmed by the rising tide It was said that all of the cattle on the upper deck would be saved -Na