New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-05
Million Rush to Beaches
From City and $4,000
Sleep Out on Sands;
$4,000 Visit Coney
Thousands Witness
Thrilling Rescue
Baby Dies in Commissions ;
Tailor Stricken at Home
and Fireman in Hotel

Seven persons were drowned and
three died of heat prostration in and
about New York yesterday. It was the
hottest day of the year. The tempera-
ture was 933 at 3 o'clock in the after
noon. The nearest approach to this
figure was 92.7, registered on June o.
There were more than fifty cases OF
heat prostration reported during the
day.
More than a million New Workers
left town over the Fourth. All beaches
reported record crowds, and fifty thou.
sand men, women and children slept on
the sands last night, from Coney Island
to Far Rockaway. Police regulation.
were modified, and beach campers were
protected in their al fresco slumbers.
Uptown New York was a desert las,
night. The big cafes were without
patrons.
More than $4,000 persons visited
Coney Island during the day, and thers
were $4,000 bathers.
Bernard Katz, fur operator, 32ls
Eleventh Avenue, Brooklyn, was
drowned at the foot of Jones's Walk
Coney Island, after diving from boat
His sister, Yetta Katz, who was bath
ing with him, dived until exhausted, as
did Henry Ebert, of 667 Hancock Street
Miss Katz was dragged ashore uncon-
scious, and Ebert recovered mis- friends
body after half an hours work. Efforts
to revive Katz were persisted in for
an hour.
Frank Schwint, twenty-five years old
a clerk, living at 1923 Classon Avenue
Brooklyn, diving from, a boat at the
foot of Thirty-frst Street, was ap-
parently seized with cramps in a tide
swirl and carried away. Hugh Conway,
Of 621 Clark Place, Brooklyn, divee
fifteen times without finding trace
of Schwint, whose body was not recov.
cred. Frederick Schwint, brother o.
the drowned man, became hystcrica
and was removed to Coney Island Hos
pital, where his condition was said last
night to be serious.
Man Saved From Undertow
Max Engleburg, Of 1881 Seventy.
first Street, Brooklyn, bathing at the
foot of West Twenty-ninth Street
brought ashore unconscious by Matt
Ginger, of 1926 West Thirty first
Street, who dived seven times before
he found Engleburg. DR.. Rabiner, OF
the Coney Island Hospital gave Engle.
burg emergency treatment on the
beach until he showed signs of life
and sent him to the hospital where he
is said to be recovering.
Samuel Levin, fifty years old, tailor
Of 81 West Hath Street, died from
heat in his home. Levin was stricken
while at dinner.
ST. Vincent w. higgins, a negro, o.
249 West 143d Street, died last nigh
before physician could be summoned
while at work as a fireman in the
Bristol Hotel, lat West Forty-eightl
Street.
Child Dies in Convulsions
Joseph Dellepret, fifteen months old
of 102 Summit Street, Brooklyn, die:
after a sudden attack Of heat convul
sions. The child had been apparently
we'll few minutes before the seizure.
The body of Lawrence A. O'Brien
twenty-five years old, of 1870 Elizabeth
Avenue, Newark, who was drowned
shortly after o'clock on Sunday eve
ming at Belmar, N. j., was recovered
yesterday morning. O'Brien was for
mer service man, having served will
the 18th Infantry and the 104th Am
munition Train. He is survived by hi
father, mother, three sisters and
brother.
Peter Piscione, sixteen years old, o
"A West Boston Post Road, wa
drowned in Long Island Sound off Ori
enta Point yesterday afternoon. HI
was swimming with his two brother
about 200 feet from shore when h.
was seized with cramp and wen
down. After diving for several min
utes the brothers recovered his body.
John J. Brown, seventeen years old
of ITO West Seventy-third Street, wa
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