New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
severl Bathers
Are Drowned;
Dive Is Fatal
Life Guards Save Scores
Of Others at Beaches
In Metropolitan Area
40 They Are Overcome
Boy Goes Over Depth
Youth Gives Up His life.
Preserver' TO Aid i'm
the Rescue of Women

Seven bathers were drowned yester-
tsy at beaches in the metropolitan dis
s..ct. But for the skill Of the life
yards the death list would have been
1ldeh larger, as scores Of exhausted
swimmers were helped to shore during
se day. An eighth man died from in
aries received while diving.
Two of the drownings were st Rock
way Beach. William Coffy, nineteen
cars old, whose home was in parl;
svenue, between Ninety-third and
Sinety-fourth Streets, Manhattan, be-
came exhausted and drowned while
winning off Beach Eighty-ffth Street.
William Mcnamara. ten-ycar-old
3oy, Of 1856 Beach Street, Rockaway,
.sepped into hole while padding
bout near shore in Jamaica Bay. He
disappeared before other bathers could
-cspond to his cries. His body was re-
;overed.
At Coney Tsalnd, which experienced
.he largest days business Of the sea
son, Phillip Gallagher, ffty-nine years
If age, Of 81 Ross Street, Brooklyn,
rent swimming with his brother in
nv, William Linderminger. off Jones
Walk. Missing Gallagher, Linder-
.inger decided he had gone ashore, but
!, ilen he looked for him there he was
4nable to find him, and reported his
cars to life guards. Soon afterward
rey found Gallagher's body floating a
4cw yards off shore.
Gave ""Life Preserver"
While Frank Kennel, eighteen years
Id, Of West Orange, who could not
swim, was hanging on life rope in
the surf at Seabright and padding
sy;th an inner-tube- to help him keep
float, this afternoon, two women
called for help out beyond the lines in
teep water.
Two chums of Kennels, Peter Oster-
man and his brother-in-law, Anthony
Barnett, both of West Orange, who are
swimmers. we're attracted by the cries
Of the women, who were caught in q
whirlpool, probably caused by the
severe undertow.
Tho two swimmers went to the
women's rescue. At the same time
Kennel tossed his inner-tube life pre-
server TO them. The men helped then
in, making good use Of Kennels i'm
provised life ring.
Then, without giving a thought tt
Kennel, who they thought had returned
20 the beach and dressed in his bath
house, the two friends went to theil
that Kennels clothes were still hang
ing his bathhouse they searched fol
him. Half an hour later his body wai
washed ashore.
Saw Friend Disappear
Frederick Altman, nineteen years o.
age, Of 692 Knickerbocker Avenue
Brooklyn, was drowned at Berger
Beach. He had gone there with hi'
friend, Gordon Robertson, of 416 vii
son Avenue, Brooklyn. They hired {
from shore before going overheard
Robertson said afterward that he go
q cramp, rowed to shore and dressed
Then he went to the waters edge tt
look for his friend. AS he watched HI
saw him sink without making an out
cry Altman did not como to the sur
face again and other swimmers in tn;
vicinity were unable to find his body.
More than thousand canoeists ant
swimmers were within radius of 20(
yards Of the spot where Charles NJ
Saur, aged twenty two, of 1880 Col'
Street, Williamsburg, Pa, was drowned
at Edgewater Camp, City Island. Sau
arrived at the camp at 10 o'clock il
the morning, intending to spend hi
two weeks vacation with his friend
Carl A. Krum, Of 240 East Eighty
ninth Street.
At noon they swan to motor boa
and dived from the deck. Saur did no
come up. Krum dived repeatedly ant
SO did number of others whose al
he sought, but it was not until hal
an hour later that the body was fount
by David G. Madigan. Dr.. Levine, o