The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-19
DAY RECORD BREAKER
DOWN AT THE ISLAND
$4,000 Invade Resort: One
Drowned. Several Hurt: Baby
Born i'm BathhOuSe.

II the sun beamed yesterday at Coney
Island. 40 also did every holder OF n
concession, from hot dog stand to BATH
house, especially the latter, for OF the
$4,000 who left hot asphalt for cooler
sands at least 10000 went swimming
Three hundred and fifty thousand is a
record, 90.
II was an eventful day too. the kind
OF a day the great resort loves. n
other records melted away in the neat
Fifty times Coney Island Hospital am
bulance surgeons were called to plaster
IN bare feet cut by broken pop bottles
strewn on the beach and the police
matrons were busy all day caring Tor
and consoling ISL lost children.
Perhaps the most interesting event OF
tho day, though, was when Mrs. Helen
Smith, 90, of $40 West Sixteenth street
hastened from the surf to a bath house
and n few moments later DR.. Mensch an
nounced that It was a ine. healthy boy.
There was one drowning. Janus
Weiner. II, of 625 East Thirteenth
street, Manhattan, got too Tar from a
party OF friends and was caught by the
undertow. Despite efforts TO reach hun
he sank. His body was recovered by
John Bertz Of 72s Prospect place. Brook
Ign.
Even in rescues, II was a red letter
day. The first came early, when Joseph
Fanchon and Harold Rohrig. life
guards, saved Joseph Swift and John
Parsons.
Shortly afterward. at almost the
same place. Louis Morris, ~. OF 10
West Twenty-eighth street, was pulled
out, as also was Walter Kremmer. 20.
of 36s Pacific street, Brooklyn.
There were two automobile accidents
also, and In one OF them CONDUCTOR
Robert Remy. OF a Sea Gate trolley,
nearly lost his life because he stepped
from the running board to assist
women to alight.
As his car stopped before the West
End depot and Remy's foot touched tho
ground an automobile driven by Alfred
Strauss of 70 Hadden Terrace. Newark.
struck him. seriously injuring his right
leg. After Or. Salzman had treated
Remy Motorman George Schweickert OF
1929 Fifth avenue. Brooklyn. arrested
Strauss.
The other accIdent was not serious.
Lauenano Rios. 20. OF Al Sands street
Brooklyn, was struck by a car driven by
Thomas Ford Of zee Carroll street,
| Brooklyn, In Surf avenue before a crowd
waiting at tne IulNcI usbo'' - ~
treated him and he went home.
Perhaps the queerest accident OF the
day tied UP the Norton Point trolley line
for "A half hour while workmen took
apart a switch and eXtricated eight
year-old Arthur Leavy's foot from a
frog in which IT was caught. Arthur
lives at 1853 Seventy-sixth street
Brooklyn. -.
Another child. Joseph Armowitz. 4
who lives In Prospect place.. Brook
llyn. had a narrower escape. Frank
Burns, ~, h lives at the foot OF
Stratton Walk. Coney Island. found him
~unconscious from loss of blood from a
deep cut In the sole OF his foot and
got him TO the Coney Island police sta
ton Just In time.
John Doyle. 22, a r. r. T. machinis,
| living at SCI West Fifty-sixth street
Manhattan, had his hand crushed under
a car OF the new Sea Beach line whef
a Jack slipped and a to wait twenty
minutes until bremen raised the car
he lost two fingers on his right hand.
II was a big day too at Staten Island
South and Midland beaches were liter
ally thronged and the bathhouse tariff
went soaring from early in the mornsnt
until. during the hottest part OF the AT
~ternoon, II reached the high spot 81
Some houses brought as much "A!
lisa and there was much doubling up
some thrifty proprietors even made pa
irons dress in patches of three.