The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-04
Excursion Vessel, Loaded to
Guards Floating Beer Gar
den and Dance Hall.
ONE PASSENGER DEAD
AS RESULT OF DEBAUCH
Decent Women and Children
Are Shocked by Scenes
Aboard and Vow Never to Go
Again; Investigation Has
Been Started.


says. to heart failure brought on by
too much booze and dancing in a hot
cabin. is a result of last sundays de-
bauch aboard the excursion steamer
boat President on it's trip between
this city and Augustine Beach. with
forty barrels of beer and 1900 pas
sengers.
Mrs, Paul Vile and three infant
children living on South Twelfth
Street near Skunk Street, are left be-
hind TO face the world alone because
of that trip. The husband and father.
twenty-eight-year-o insurance
solicitor was the passenger who died.
post mortem examination by DR..
John II. Remig. n coroner's physician,
revealed that the Presidents booze
and dancing parties were what killed
him
Vile was one of party OF three to
make the down-r-iver trip on the
Sunday JOY boat" His companions
were Paul Cottman and Thomas
Clark. who reside in the same vicin-
ity. The three men. after the boat
left the wharf, were joined by women
IN dancing and drinking in one of the
private cabins on the boat. In the
meantime. merriment and booze
reigDed all over the steamer great in
roads being made into the forty bar
rels of booze
just Booze and Dancing.
It was thought that he had been
poisoned, but the examination at the
morgue showed otherwise. Excess
sive drinking and dancing affected his
heart
Coroner Knight has announced
that his office is making a full in
| vestigaton of Nile's death and the
| Incidents that led up to It, In the
meantime the city and Federal legal
/ authorities are endeavoring to shift
/ responsibility foT the Sunday river de-
| bauches.
When the excursion boat pulled out
! from her wharf at Arch Street bound
down the Delaware for Augustine
| Beach, she carried forty half-barrels
OF beer
After the elapse OF eleven hours,
the President returned to the city
with twenty six OF the half barrels
empty and heavy seas running in
various parts of the shia
Taken all in all. however. the Off
GERS OF the vessel considered the trip
q. highly sucee ssful one, for while they
sttll had fourteen barrels of beer to
turn back to the brewers, peace had
been maintained without tho police
"'iP "iANtr dtcliE the route.
Row on Previous Sunday
They pointed to this with pride, for
on the previous Sunday night the po-
lice of Chester had been forced TO
send n flying squad out to the river
front when the President tied up
there on it's homeward bound trip.
! Liquor and pickpockets combined had
precipitated a riot. The upshod OF il
all was that the Chester officials with
drew the landing privilege Of the boat
SO when the President got abreast OF
Chester it simply footed its whistle
and kept on going
Evidently figuring on the effect OF
the advertising accruing from the
riot. those in charge of the boat had
laid in beer enough TO provide thirst
uuenchers' for 1000 persons during
tho trip. But only I 200 showed UP
TO take the trip
1T was apparent that many OF them
were unaware Of the sort of excursion
they were going into. Some of them
came in family parties, bringing chill
dren with them. They found how
ever. just as soon as the vessel had
swung out into n1idstream that it was
hardly Sunday School picnic
AT this point the lid was torn off
and thrown overheard AS soon as
the beer began to run the bunny hug
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