New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Corley Draws
100000; Heat
PrOstrates Boy
First Surf Rescue of the
Season Is Recorded as
5000 Go in Bathing !;
Straw Hats Also Appear
All Beaches Thronged
Clear Skies and Sunshine
Drive Crowds From City;
Hoa Dog Men Kept Busy

wsvm weather and bright sunshine
came to New York yesterday and New
Yorkers went to the seashore. The
bright skies and balmy breezes sent
thousands hurrying to the nearby re-
sorts. Coney leland. Long Beach and
Rockaway Beach drew their biggest
crowds Of the season. The weather
nan. the restaurant man and the hot
dog man agreed that it was great day.
About 5000 persons ventured into the
surf at the various beaches and The
seasons first rescue was recorded at
Rockaway Beach. The seasons first
case OF heat prostration was recorded
at Van Cortlands Psrk and the seasons
first straw hats were in evidence at
Coney Island and in the gay throng
parading Fifth Avenue.
The crowds that sought pleasure at
the seashore went early and stayed late
and extra trains were put in operation
on all lines.
Overcome by Heat
Louis z. Stewart, seventeen years
old. OF 244 William Street, was over
come by heat while playing baseball at
Van Cortlandt Park early in the after
noon. He was given first aid treatment
by Patrolman Arnold, of the Kings
bridge station. and went to his home
Two hundred thousand persons went
to Coney Island yesterday. Ninety
4 nine wore straw hats, 5000 carried
overeoats, 2,001 went in bathing. eleven
were reported lost, four were locked
up and 100000 purchased hot dogs. 1t
was the seasons biggest crowd.
The 100000 at first did not seem to
consider the suf particularly inviting,
but toward the middle of the after"
noon the bathers increased in numbers
and lot of them were still at it when
the islands statistician made his final
ehecking-up.
The seasons biggest crowd was pro-
tected during the day by the seasons
biggest detail of plain clothes men, but
the latter did little save be the:- own
placid selves. The crowd was as law
abiding and orderly rs any that ever
visited the island, according to the plain
clothes men.
Straw hats attracted attention at
Brighton Beach until Marie Provost,
formerly one of Mack Sennett's beau
ties and more recently having taken an
art-for-art's sake interest in the films,
appeared in bathing suit of the type
popuIarly associated with all Sennett
girls.
Rockaway Beach attracted 10000 Wis
itors and they found the resort doing
mid-July business. Some ventured into
the surf.
First Rescue OF Season
Samuel Newman, thirty -eight years
old, a painter, of 152 East Twenty
seventh Street, was among the bathers.
He was being carried out by the under
tow when his cry brought Harry Gross,
barber, of 496 Boulevard, Rockaway
Beach, to his rescue. Gross dragged
hil. to safety.
This was the first rescue of the sea-
son at the Rockaways and the eighth
in which Gross has figured in as many
years. He goes in bathing every day in
the year. he says.
Twenty thousand persons went to
Long u Zach yesterday, this being the
seasons biggest crowd.
John Lewis, fifty years old, negro,
of 38 West 18th Street, was rescued
from the East River off Pier yester-
day afternoon by Patrolman Fitzpat-
rick, of the Old Slip station, and Fire
man Amersworth, of Engine Company
29. Lewis was unconscious after his
r---o~s'er end was sent to the Broad
Street Hospital. Fitzpatrick hearing
- for help, ran &c the end
n'e~, discarded his coat and
Owed overheard. Amersworth, who
W .4earu. new a rope to the patrol
man who tied it around the negroes
body. Amersworth then hauled him
ashore.