The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1903, Page 3

i \ SOUND STEAMER He Plunges Off the Joy Liner _ Near Hell Gate in Effort to . Drown Himself, but Rescuers * Get Him. MANY SEE HIM LEAP. —— Decks of the Vessel Crowded When the Young Man Dives Off—Rescue N Comes from Unexpected Source— 4 Gays Water Fascinated Him. While the Joy Lime steamship Larch- mont was passing between North Brother Island and the Long Island shore early to-day on her way ‘Hell Gate a slim young man plunged overboard from the upper deck. ‘Cries of “Man overboard!" drew the Passengers to the rail, and within a few Seconds the coaster was stopped and a lifeboat lowered. The Larchmont carried an unusually large passenger list, and it was found that the missing man was a youns | Russian enameller, Tovek Hesimy, whoj had been working at Providence, R. I. and in conversation with the crew hai golng to return to Ru: is father was a prominent mer- He Gased at the Water. Just before he was seen to disappear from the deck he had béen’ standing beside the wheelbox on the upper deck. He was gazing’ at the water intently and had not maved for twenty minutes. | Although the lifeboat wgs quickly got under way ‘toward the drowning man it was plain to the passengers who crowded the deck that it would not Teach the struggling man in time to gave his life. The tde carried th Larchmont toward Hell Gate, and the eaptain was forced to steam ahead, leaving the fate of the man unknown to the passengers, Right in the wake. of the Larchmount came the Pi , Of the Fall River Nine, and her-tender, and although linos were thrown from both boats the stru; gling man refused to grasp the opp tunity to he rescued, His struggles grew fainter, and he had come up for the last time when suddenly there ap- Deared. help ‘from an unexpected quarter. i Rescuers Got Him. ‘The man had plunged into the Sound Girectly opposite the dock of the Con- Solidated Gas Company at Astoria, La 1 Watching the morning boats were Supt. William M. Moylan and Capt. Patrick Gorman, of the Company's scow. They saw the man‘in the river 100 feet from the shore and put off to the rescue @ a dory. When Hesimy was dragged from the ‘water by Moylan he was inserisible. He Was taken ashore and there resuscitated, To his rescuers the man sald when ho had recovered: “I was fagcinated by the water.-1 had been in this coun- try one year and made very, small progress: I was going to return to Rus- sia. My father wrote nie that he would send me money to No. 21 Lake street, New York, and I meant to take the next steamer for home. Hesimy dented that he had attempted suicide, but passengers say that he Jumped from the steamer rail. Globe-Trotter’s Story. Verno Churchill, the famous globe- trotter, was:a passenger on the Larch- mont ‘and a spectator of the scene, which he sketched for Tne Evening World. é “Nobody noticed the little boat pull- ing out from the Astoria shore,” he said, “Our attention was directed toward the lifeboat and the efforts made from the Constitution and the Pilgrim, both boats being right behind us. If one into} i RESCUER TOVEK BE Lire Baar \ a Whereas, It In dosimble and proper nated between the hours of 7.30 P. M. 26.—Kerolution sdopted by t Followitig the ausdeatian of The World to make the city one great bed of light next Tuesday .njwht as possibly the principal incident of tha week's celebra- thon of the %0th birthday, the Board ot has never felt the thrills of the ‘man overboard’ cry, a great deal has been Toissed."’ The police of the Astoria station ini- terrogated Hesimy at the gas company's offices and ‘came to the conclusion. that he had acted on impulse more than any- thing else and aid not place him under ke street were errest. His friends in Potified of his attempt at suicide, while rescuer, loylan, gurrende! wn bedroom to Hesimy. e tuat it was sixteen mifnutea: Before the was sixteen minu ore t) Lifeboat "wae lowered; that the conster Was nearly a, mile trom the drowning 6 boat was and had started for the rescue.) “™"” SUICIDE IN HOME OF CENTURY. WHEELMEN Frazer, an Employee In Clubho ‘Found Jn Room There Dead from Corbolic Acid, ‘Thomas’. Frasezr, forty-five years nd, committed guicide to-day in a room of the Century Wheelmen's Clubhouses, at No, 44 Amsterdam avenue, where he ‘was employed. Frazer was formerly. a sbartender in the club, but elnce. the Moensé was taken away has done chores \about oe piece, in return for which he was a small pala salary and allowed to ©. gid not appear for hig usual went to his voor? found him tying Ga the bed, Nun teeta 7 Saad ag ala hah Rand oo Ris hand. Pho man, who has ewive {2 New Joi he been unebdle to sup- rt, —e A Shoe First of Ali Id_give_wear, and service. Then it our true and scientific In form, rendering St easy and comfortable It should be ‘ashioned and shaped on the most artistic and~-beaut!! lastly, it should be Manner things ng Drice must be as low ch are all, our’ shosie antes every paige MOR: @ sell the Never again. will Brocabcta apy Aldermen,’ “by! bpléstal jrevolution, has called upon all cttizens to iiuminate their homes and places of business be- tween 7,30 and 10 P. M. The agents and owners of many of the largest bulldings in the city have. signified their purpose to flood their structures with light be- tereen those: hours. < As @ nucleus for the Greater City lgbt on that night City Hall .Rark will be brighter than it was ever before. Prac- tieally every building eurrounding the park, with the exception of the unfin- ished Hall of Reoords, will be iJlumin- ated from curb to eaves, The Stewart Building, the Postal Tele- graph, Home Life, American Tract So- clety, an most .of the emailer ones, with probably the great Park Row Syn- dicate pile, will be glowing with elec- tric Incandescence. All of the newspaper bulldings will also be illuminated, These will all take their cue froin The World. The dome will be lighted promptly at 8 o'clock and. that will bo the ajgnal for the genera! jllumination all over the city, All the hotels and theatre buildings of Broadway will be lighted as they never were before. All the lights in every room facing @ street will be- turned on, transforming the dark streets into bril- Mant avenues of light. Is agent for sev- larger office buildings in the OPERATED ON. EH. HARRIMAN. Railway Magnate’s -Vermiform Appendix Successfully Re- moved ‘by Dr. William T. Bull at the Hotel Netherland, frne yermiform appendix of Edward. H, Harriman, the railroad megnate, was removed -in @ successful operation per- formed to-day by Dr. Willam’T. Bull, assisted by Drs. Janeway, Lyle and Louis R, Morris: The operation was precautionary rather than necessary and the recovery of the patient, it is believed, will be rapid. It was-not upon until early this morning whether or not Mr. Harri- man should undergo an operation. He went to. the hotel Netheriand | last night, accompanted by his wife, and took possessjon of a suit on the fourth floor ip which Miss Mary Harriman, hig eidest daughter, and Misa Catol : and’ Mester: Averell lpgaed . hee ‘Monday ‘evening. The Harriman mansion Bast Fitty-ftth street is a because of the tll- ness ‘with scarlet fever of Miss Cornelia, thé. second |. daughter, and ‘Ro- land.» The little boy dg convalescent. , Ether was admintatered at 9.30o'clook, The operation was concluded ,at 9,20 o'clock, although the actual time taken, by Dr. Bull in making. the incision, re- moving thé’ appendix and caring for the wound was not more than 15: minutes, The appendix was found fo be slightly! inflamed. It was removed with ; culty, There were no com Mr, Hi * be: troubled with’ the pains of appendicitis, Mr. Harriman recovered from the thé "Quarantine ) ts ¢, following bulletin Lyle and ‘Morria: sh, at ALDERMEN CALL ON ALL CITIZENS TO ILLUMINATE WINDOWS TUESDAY NIGHT. Whereas.4the City of New York will celebrate during the coming wee the 250th anniversary of the establishment of local municipal government, and Harriman, had been} to WHOLE CITY ALIGHT « ONBIRTHDAY NIGHT Aldermen Call on Citizens to Heed The World's Suggestion for General iumination. that every resident should particite a this celebration, and that the city should thake this a gala season; Resolved, That every property-owner and house occupant be requested ti have all ‘windows of thelr houses or plates of business and residence lium. and 10 P. M. on Tuesday evening, Ma, Board of Aldermen: yesterday. downtown seciion, sald he would be Glad to illuminate all his buildings ‘It's @ good idea,” sald Mr,. Golding, “and I shall see that the dulldings we Topresent are Ughted up for the oc- castion.”” Some of the buildings to pe lighted up by Mr. Golding are the American Tract Society Bullding, the American Surety Building, the Schermerhorn Bullding, the Electrical Exchange, the White Building and the big office pbuilding at ‘No. 68 William street. “I'll do what I can to ‘hi the Park Row Bullding illuminated, id Agent Stamford. “I haven't the authority to turn on all the lights, but I'll see those who have.!’ The Stewart Buildin; many of the city brightly iNuminated as electric lights can make it. Several of the smaller bulldings in the nelghborhood will be Nghted up. When Edward D. Harris, agent for the Stewart Building was ied if he would fluminate the bulld- he sald: ely, we will be glad. to do It. We will turn on all the outside lights, and make ood a chowing as we can.” H. EB. Titus, agen’ the Postal Bullding, ‘sald he would see about hav- Ing ‘that’ bullding tlluminated. loseph Johnson, jr., President of the Order of “Acorns,” has Sesued a requeat to the 60000 members of the association to flood their homes and pla bust nese with Maht next Tuesday His request follows: To the Order of Acorns: * h anniversary of the. birth of |Now York City. wil be celebrated in | the forthcoming week. You are hereby requested to Join In the plan of Mlu- |minating the houses on the evening of | Tuesday next between & and 9 o'clock. which contains offices, will be as 3 of night A. signal-of the beginning of the illu- | mination. will be flashed from the dome of The World Building at 8 o'clock. "JOSBPH JOHNSON, Jr." FIRE THREATENS HG MAGAZINES, Blaze Starts in Fort Hamilton , Military. Reservation To-Day and Wind Directs the Flames Toward Powder Storehouses. ‘The destructton of a frame barracks within fifty feet of one of the big powder magasines at Fort Hamilton to-day created great excitement in the mili- tary reservation. The direction of the wind alone prevented @ catastrophe, as the powder magazine, filled with am- munition and shells for the big coast defense » wax within fifty feet of the flaming structure. Two milion pounds of powder tn all is stored in the magazines scattered over the res- ervation. s Col. Greno, the new post commandant, realized the danger and took the so! diers from the bucket brigade and set them td work removing the ammunition another part of the post. Many of ithe artillerymen were ovércome by the /Reat and their violent exertions. Liqut. Henry Harrison Bcott, son-in- law of the late Rear-Admiral Sampson, While Ainecting the bucket brigade which ‘fought the fire at the outset was caugat @ gust of flame and badly burned. ‘Lieut. James\H. Burns, of Fire Com- pany No. 142, and his assistant, Eimer ‘Wardell, were overcome by the heat. They were carcied by the ambulance Corps to the military hospital. Lieut. ‘Burns's condition is said to be serious. To add to the excitement, the horses of the Hlevent! fd -Artiliery, st Wore stampoded by the explosion of t as douvenirs by the sol- » The horses dashed wildly over reservation, interfering wilh the burning building, | Be? bY i THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1903,_' PASSENGERS ON THE JOY LINER LARCHMONT WATCHING EFFORTS TO ‘SIMY, WHO HAD JUMPED OVERBOARD NEAR HELL GATE. Sketch Made on Board the Larchmont by Verno Churchit. PRIMA DONNA ENDS HER LIFE She Quarrelled with Her Hus- band, and When He Went to Dinner She Took a Draught of Cyanide of Silver. Charles 11, Bunn, associated with the National Lead Company in the man- agement of its works in Newark, was called to the Coroner's office here to- day to tell more, if possible, of the circumstances surrounding the suicide of his wife, who was Catherine Ger- maine, a comic opera prima donna. Mrs. Bunn died in her apartments in the Barrington apartment-hotel, No. 44% Broadway, from a dose of cyanide of silver, « polson her husband used in his business, Mrs, Bunn was between thirty and thirty-five years old. Her last appear- auce on the stage was with Thomas Q. Seabrooke in “The islé of Champagne’ three years ago. She was married Bunn upon leaving the stage. Bunn madd a statement to Coroner Jackson last night In which he satd that he and his wife had had a quarret yesterday morning. He suid: “She wanted to go to the country with some women friends," sald Mr. Bunn, “and she told me about that this morn- ing 1 didn't want her to go, and I said so. We had a quarrel then, but I went over to the lead company's factory in Newark, thinkIng Uttle of St Gad Been Drinki: He Says. once saw that she was intoxicated. She had drunk two bottles of whiskey. When 1 saw her condition I made up my mind that ashe could not go down with me to the public dining-room of the house. I told her to stay In the apagtment, and then I went down. “When, I came back she was just staggering from a closet where I kept some samples of cyanide of silver. She had @ towél wrapped around her head. over now. It's all taken amy last drink, I am going to say my prayers now.’ she jmmediately “becatne unconscious Her husband called for Dr. Dunckler, of No, 180 West Forty-fourth street, but vhen he arrived she was nearly ‘dead. He called an ambulance from Roosevelt Hospital.’ Mrs, Bunn was dead when the ambulance arrived, and the ambulanc surgeon notified the Coroner. George Bunn, father of Mr. Bunn, ar- rived at the Barringhton to-day to com- fort his son, but the young man had gone to, the Coroner's office. “I was not aware bhat there had bee: Any trouble between, them.” he said. "She wag excitable and likels to do rash things. There was a report at one time that she was married to a man named Charles Barton, but he was not the Bar- ton who was former manager of the Ca- fno, and I know there Was nothing in the rumor.” Would Return to Stage. Other boarders in the Barrington said hat recently Mrs. Bunn had exp: a sire to turn to the stage, but that her husbad objected. Mrs. Bunn was not known as & woman who drank ex- G the wife of she was suing He: Rose- and Sydney Rosenfeld for $2,000 ppimi { , the defendants Dy mail she represented that she had a face and form suitable to interpret the part of a boy King. while, In fact, | the ‘was bullt like a barrel, a. tha h hi mitted that her face was pretty. and 6 was given judgment. — work of the firemen and soldieri ‘The fire started in a two- a pituated on a hill looking vesond Ba: It ‘was caused’ by the feseline atove in thi at hovering be! Appenaleitts, (pecial to The Evening World.) “When I came home this evening I at | ; {stomach ‘rouble, {years have I had a sick headache or| WAVED COOD-BY- DRANK POISON Hurt by Husband’s Chiding, Mrs. Rose Hoffman Swallowed Acid and Gave Him the Bottle as a Souvenir. Waving a good-by kiss to her hus- band, Mrs. Rose Hoffman stood at the socond-story window of her house and drank carbollc acid. She died during the night at St. Catherine's Hospital, Willlamaburg. Mrs. Hoffman and her hurband had quarrelled) She went out dueling the afternoon to visit friends, and when he returned to his home, at No. 8% Flush- \!mg avenue, he found no wife and no supper. He upbralded her when sie returned. | “You'll never have another opportu- nity to scold me,” she said. Hoffman put on his hat and left the house to let the woman's temper cool down, As he reached the sidewalk he turned ana saw his wife at @ window, She kissed ‘her hand to him and placed the potti to her lips. Hoff. Tusneu into Cite house, His wife staggered toward nim, | and handing him the bottle said: | ‘Keep this for a souvenir.” Then she sank to the ground In agony. Hoffman notified the police, and an | ambulance from ‘St, Catherine's Hos- | pital was summoned saw she was beyond al DADY VISITS THE MAYOR, | “Col. Mike” Drops in at City Hall | for a Brief Chat, In a transcendently radiant summer suit, topped off with a Nght soft hat, Col. Michael J. Dady visited the City Hall to-day, He shook hands with a few of the Republican hangers-on and | passed into the Mayor's office. The Mayor received ‘Col, Mike" warmly “Oh, Just been in to see the Mayo said Col. Dady afterward. st, trifling matter. Nothi: The Mayor had cerning the Colonel’ BE INDEPENDENT, It's Easy to Shake Off the Colfee Habit. There ..re many people who make the humilating acknowledgment that they are dependent upon Coffee to “brace them up” every little while. These have never learned the truth about Postum Cereal Coffee, which makes leaving of coffee a simple mat- ter and hvings health and strength in place of coffee ills. A lady of Daven-| port, Ia., who has used Postum Food Coffee fcr five years, {s competent to talk upoa the subject. She says: “I am a school teacher, and during extra work when I thought I needed to be braced up I used to indulge in rich, strong coffee, of which I was| very fond and upon which I thought} I was dependent. | “I began to have serious heart pal- pitation and at times had sharp pains doin, tum and got some to try. I dropped coffee, took up the Postum and it worked such wonders for mie that many of my friends took it up, even able to attend evening socials. And I did not miss my coffee at all. | Now I can truthfully say that I have been repaid fully for the change I made. I have no indications of heart disease, and not once in the past four! billous spell. “My father, 78 years old, is a Pos- tum enthusiast, and feels that his TRENTON, N, J.,.May 20.—Andrew J. Campbell, of aPterson, one of the Boss- chieter mu: qnced to thirty venga” imp 90}, was oper j ated on lor appendicitis at te New derney tate Prison, ane. is now een life an yy my scl ia li good health in a large measure is due to the six cups of good Postum which he enjoys each day, Name furnished by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. <— There is a reason. i ‘causes rheumatic aches. around the heart and more or less | T read about Pos- | ?#! “In a short time I was well again, | RHEUMATISM DUE TO KIDNEYS, Beware of Using Liquid. Kidney Remedies. Alcohol in Them Will Matters Worse. When the kidneys are healthy they Strain the uric acid from the blood; but when unhealthy, the acid is deposited in minute crystals in the muscles and Make The close connection between the kid- neys and rheumatism is never suspected by thousands who trust to liniments ee it is their kidneys alone that need elp. But don't make the mistake of trying to cure rheumatism h alcohol, or with liauid kidney remedies that contain alcohol, It will only make your rheu- matism worse. Take a kidney remedy in tablet form that has no need of alcohol, it r of a set- Dr. Pettin- i perma: y mak- Tae Tablets of blood | 2 your rhe r kidneys healthy Howed to get back ean, nd brick-dust deposits | 4, is- their strength, forming “st in the urine tressing symipe ney disease Men and : ¢ to its gre da thors i will do ghly as Kidney Kently Tab- and again been checked by Kidney-Wort blets; also irritation, catarrh and ul- ‘ation of the bladder, lumbago, pains in the back, dropsy of the limbs, weak- ness and other symptoms of kidney and jucinary trouble. Examine your urine; if it is muddy with reddish sediment, high colored oF scanty, prevent faJling into kidney disease by promptiy using Kid- ‘Wort Tablets. THE FOUNDATION of a well-dressed man is his shoe, of course. 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