The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1904, Page 11

oper eT G w{WORLDS w : OME MAGAZINE. w <n ET BuUrtUrng OF The First Recorded Steamboat Accident was the Blowing Up of the Aetna in 1824 off Gibbet Island—Twenty-four Years Ago the Sea- wanhaka Burned and Forty-three hives Were ne bost—This Disaster Near Same Spot as the Gen. Slocum—Over One Hundred and Fifty hives Were bost in the Destruction by Fire \ of the North German bloyd Docks and \ Steamers at Hoboken, HE General Slocum disaster Is but | ferryboat accidents have occurred, but the most recent, and perhaps the | the Hon's share of the New York har- culmination, of many marine | bor casualties, -which have plunged @ tugedies which during the past century | Whole city into mourning, have chosen &ave been enacted in New York Harbor, | ‘he Passengers of excursion and ocean ‘This harbor, one of the most beautiful, | *amers for their victims, most commodious and most uniqu ie Bayens on the marine map, has bee: heen Asti Explosion. from time to time the scene of somo ot |. i eee first recorded catas- the most appalling accitents in the an- phes in New York Harbor was that nals of nautica! disasters of the steamship Aetna on May 15, 1824, Although the two rivers, the upper|mmscn ae ne om her way trom Wesh- and lower bays and the mouth of the| item, N. J. to New York, carrying ound ‘are fairly alive with every va- 'y-four passengers: Bhe steamed dp riety of river craft, plying to and fro|‘he bay And had just passed Gibbet with bewildering speed and in seeming |2/and (now Liberty Island) where pi- wonfusion, few of the serious mig- rates and other nautical malefactors Zaps, strangely enough, oecur to thesa| Were usually hanged,when a terrifla boats. Ferryboats, iugs, lighters, sail plosion occurred, The filmsy boilers had boats of all sorts, ba! dredgers “given way," rendering the interior of ‘and @ host of other den! s of the the vessel a mass of smashed iron plates watery highways meet a rule with | and splintered timbers. Some of the no misadventure. Now and then a tug /Passengers were in the cabin, but most and a barge collide, or two ferryboats| Were on deck. Fire and clouds of Veal} bump clumsily into each other, but lives caping steam followed at once after the | fare seldom lost. A very few wholesale | explosion. Several passengers were) | | IRST construct of stiff pasteboard, your wand (which was on the table), the three telescopic cylindrical point the wand in a direction away boxes shown in Fig, 1. ‘The boxes from you, looking earnestlf in that 4 and “B” have flat tops, (tection. Cry ont ‘Let there be a rose! ‘as a round| ‘The rose that was attached to the marked but the largest box, ‘‘C,' | fome, After completing the boxes fix |rubber cord will appear, The secret of mal rtificial flowers | ts sudden appearance !s very simple. 7 BOGRUEE OF AE When you came before the audience you carried the rose under your left arm-plt, holding it there by a slight pressure of your arm. The rose was released in the instant when the eyes woright to the fiat top of the box marked “'B." ‘The bouquet must be of a size which will allow the largest box, | to cover it entirely without inconvenience. of the audience were turm Another trick, which we will call the you, and being held ae Srey oes “putonhole trick," 18 prepared in the/ o¢ the stretched rubber, sprang instant. {tollowing manner: Procure an artificial | iy into inc Now for the real trick. Point to the little box, statin to the loose end of the thread toh, to contains the magic flower pi ei 5 gubber oord elastic enough to stretcl will instantly grow Into the most lovely Foubie ita length, f necessary. flowers when treated by your wonderful Insert the loose end of the rubber!) ox through the left buttonhole of the)" ai0) ‘biace the largest box, and the invisible box .“B' over the little box “A” In the position shown in Fig, 2 of the illustration. —~ "Eaving Inserted the free end’ of the rubber cord through the buttonhole and u thro: the eyel aes it over en dae ar your ali behina |: Now remove the box “C' and there is the Gati, where you must fasten the|® !0vely bouquet growing right out of end securely to one of the right-hand | the small box, jbuttons of the walstband of the! This ts the explanation: Grasp the rcusere. box “C" firmly between,the thumb and , You Appear before thé audience car-| forefinger, pressing tho pasteboard just *“rving the Mttle box “Ain one hana] 8rd enough to- prevent tho inner box and tho largest box "Cin. the oujer.[."2" with the flowers srom slipping out. tne, box!'B,t with the bouauelseahd courne, When you cover the tte ing upon its, top, te hidden ythhin. the | Pram of ate none tne lateeae Nor box from sUpping out of “Cc” b; tug in the pasteboard' aides of * Oe tower box ‘awe 2 the lt fee Mh:""m plain, view. of the specta: TAe LenINng ‘oro Sarr 13° 184FO killed at once by the shock and by fall- ing timbers, Others were burned or scalded to death, while sfill others | jumped overbaord and were drowned. Boats from the nearby quarantine sta- tion and a passing steamboat hurried to the rescue and carried the survivors ashore. Twelve lives were lost, and many more among the passengers and crew wére badly injured. The next great harbor tragedy was the wreck of the British ship Bristol which was driven ashore just inside Sandy Hook In a gale on November 21, 1836, ‘he Bristol arrived off Bandy Hook at 9 P. M. on Nov, .20, 1836. She could not pick up a pilot at that hour, 0 stood off shore waiting for daylight. About 4A. M. the tide and heavy seas carried her past the Hook and she stuck, half @ mile off shore. The seas swept across the vessel, carrying away such of her crew and passen; were not fortunate enough to selze the riggins. For seven hours the sea continued too rought to allow boats to put off from shore to the rescue, and one by one the exhausted survivors fell from thelr posts in the shrouds into tho water. The ship meanwhile was stead- ily breaking up. When she had first struck the Bristol had careened, flood- Ingthe steerage and drowning twenty women and children in thelr berths. The total loss of life was sixty-four. ‘To.mdd to the horrors of the wreck, the ‘beach speedily became crowded with thieves, who plundered baggage as it was washed ashore, rifled the clothing of the drowned, and even robbed one or two Mving men, who had managed ¢o swim to land. On Aug. 23 of the same year the ferry-boat General Jackson, crossing from Brooklyn to Manhattan, was run down and sunk in midstream by the steambont Boston. The Jackson sank within three minutes after the collision. Most of her passengers either leaped aboard the Boston or were picked up by the latter's boats, Seven were drowned. Lexington’s Fate. A harbor holocaust which old men still recall with a shudder, occurred on the early evening of Jan. 13, 1840, when the steamship Lexington, which that afternoon had left her New York dock for Stonington, took fire and burned to the water's edge. Of 154 persons on board 180 were drowned or burned to death. The Lexington had scarcely gotten fairly underway on her trip to Stoning- ton when one of the crew discovered that some bales of cotton and the cas- ings around the smoestack were ablaze. A atrong north wind fanned the fire, which soon passed all possibility of Jcontiol. ‘The wildest panic ensued, An effort was made to run the blazing yes- sel ashore, but the tiller ropes were burned through; and the smoke and fire drove back the sailors sent to repair loleoieiaielte! them. ‘The unmanageable fire-ship thus drove on under full steam, a flaming derelict, at the meroy of the ever-in- creasing gale. The pasgengers were herded on the orward deck, a wall of fire cutting them off from: the after part of the vesnel, A mad rush was madé6 for the three small boats and the lifeboat. These boats wers torn from their davits by the panic Stricken pasengers and launched with out any knowledge of correct methods. The Lexington was still under rapid headway, and aa a result the high waves promptly swamped all four boa As the boats had been lowered, pass- mgers had leaped aboard them or had thrust women nd children into them. In the swamping of the boats everyone of thelr occupants was drowned. The @ngine, soon after this, gave out and the Lexington bathed from bow to stern in a swirling inferno of flame, drifted helpless before the wind. Trunks, boxes, bales, spara—every- thing that would float—were hurled into the sea, and passengers and crew leaped overboard to seek safety on these im- promptu xafts. The waves washed these desperate refugees of a forlorn hope from their frail craft Ifke so many files. Shrieks, prayers, strangled cries and groans filled the vessel and the sur- rounding sea, The waters were so bit- terly cold that many who plunged into them for safety were either killed at once from the shock or too benumbed to swim, The blaze of the ‘wreck was plainly visible from shore, but rescue arrived too late. Of the 154 persons who had left port on the Lexington that af- ternoon only four were saved—the sec- ond mate, the pilot, a fireman and one passenger, The pagsenger was a Capt. Manchester, of Norwich. He and Pilot McKenna managed to throw a bale of cotton overboard and swim to it, On this bale they floated for fifteen hours until picked up by @ boat. Ferryboat Tragedy. The next great disaster in New York harbor occurred within a stone's throw of the Battery on July 30, 1871, In sight of thousands of New Yorkers who were idling away the hot hours in the shade of Battery Park. The Staten Ivland ferryboat Westfeld, Iaden with home- bound commuters, had just swung out, of her Whitehall slip when an ex a a Oe OS the decks from view. A succession of shrieks followed, and when the pall of steam cleared away, the big ferryboat waa lying helpless, shattered, wreked; the waters on every hand strewn with great splintera and struggling men. On the ripped-up decks lay scores of dead bodies, The waves reddened with blood of torn, mangled corpnes. fore the ruined hulk could settle in the waves she was surrounded by dozens of tugs and rowboats, Brave men flung off coats and shoes and leaped and dived from the sea wall to the rescue. Crazed passengers were taken off the wrecked ferryboat and the captains of the resucing boats did what they could to stem the tide of panic. New York City in those days was confined mainly to what is now the downtown district, Hence practically the whole city had turned out in a few minutes to ald in the task, of life-saving. Adjacent bulld- ings were converted into tmpromptu hospitals and the dead were laid re- verently op the grass of Battery Park. The total number ‘Was eighty-two. Seawanhaka Wreck. years as ‘‘wreck month,” Several grave, railroad accidents occurred; and on the night of June 11 the steamers Narra- gansett and Stonington, plying between New York City and Stonington, Conn., collided a few miles north of Hell Gate. The Narragansett's boilers burat, eet- ting the ship afire, The usual reign of panto ensued and fifty of the Narra- gansett’s passengers and crew were Killed, Just seventeen days later (June 28, 1880) the famous Seawanhaka disaster took place at almost the very same years later, to be the scerie of the Gen. Slocum catastrophe, The Seawanhaka was a steamer whose route lay to and from New York and several towns on the northern shore of Long Island. Late on the afternoon of June 2% she was well filled with Ni Yorkers bound for their summer hamei on Long Island, as well as with many commuters returning from thelr duy's work in the city. Off College Point the cry of “Fire!” raised. Almost in- stantly the Seawanhaka was observed to be ablaze from several points, The captain, with great presence of mind, changed his vesscl's course, heading her plosion occurred which deafened the crowd of lojterers in the little park, The Westfleld's boilers had blown up Dense clouds of steam, through which flying timbers and dismembered human bodies could be dimly discerned, blotted for the tract known to the river folk ee Meadows." There he ran her_ayr haying first sent uw) distress signa which drew to the re: spot that was destined, twenty-four | 29° cue all the up-river craft. The bebaved with unusual jome of them fight- lack of wlebileleltelntnteleldeleleteinletelet vt The Greatest Steamboat Disasters in and Around New York Harbor. hleliieelbisieleie nie ee feleleleleieeicielebinielebinivieleleieieleiefeicieteleioioleiol eleletelebe ieee bilenieteb orient The Burriiag O June of 1890 was remambered for ing, it is aatd, for possession of the Hfe- iv, gin\/TQunding ue the binge rer pre and im other ways throwing oft mths. scant veneer of civilization In ft that supreme moment of deadly peril. Scores leaped overboard. Others in! ed the flame and smoke and were suffocated or burned to death. victims met wanhaka edge. Forty-three 4 members of the crew Hoboken Fire—150 Killed. Lesser mishaps to steamshipd, ferry- | boats, tugs, &c., in New York won| followed during the next few years, inking of the ritish in the lower bay ae were Mat in es Allsa-Bourgogne eas linion. | ‘The tater’ vessel was fated Deoohie, twu years later, the theatre of One of the most awful ocean tragedies dn the world's brat On June 80, jowever, anther holocaust, fain in broad daylight and in sight of two cities, aeEe led the civ- ilized world, and afforded a spectacle which for pyrotecnic splendor and awe- 8 beauty Is unrivalled on this hem- ere. On the afternoon of June #0 ne huge North German Lioyd liners at their Hoboken pliers, opposite of the quartette was the Saale. Next came the Bremen; the third of the four was the mighty Kalser Wilhelm der Grosse, and to the extreme north the Main. ‘Just above the last named ves- sel were the 'Thingvalla Ine's, plers. ‘At a@ little after four o'clock an em- ployee on the southermost dock say pufk of smoke near the middie. of the jer. He ran to investigate und foun hat a cotton bale was burning, Before he could turn in an alarm the fire, fanned by a brisk south wind, spread TER. | Mrs. Nagg and Mr, -— By ROY (Copyrighted 190 by the Press Publishing Co.; ‘New York: World.) L. MCARDELL. |Not That She Would Be Jealous! Oh, No! She Is Above Anything Like That. But You Know How Men Are—Even Those Who Have the Best of Wives. And It Is Just as Well Not To Be Too Confiding. HO was that woman ,you “W bowed to, Mr. Nagg; who was that woman in the car- ria, neal. Wilkinson's sister-in-law, you y? Where did you meet her? Who In- troduced you to her; why didn't you introduce me to her? “She didn't stop her carriage, you "| see harm in any one or anything. y? “ot course she didn't. She didn't @are to} I would have told her what I think. of her. Besides, I don't beileve {t 1s Gol, Winkinson's sister-in-law! 1 know Col, Wilkinson has artificial limbs. At least he pretends lie has, but he is such o deceitful wretch how can tell if he's not imposing on us? “perhaps he had his legs amputated to ald him in his nefarious schemus, 1 have heard of such things. [ read the papers—I kuow. what is going un, Ah! Mr. Nagg, you are simply a tool in the hands of a lot of designing people. You belleve everything that is told you, but if I even venture a remons: told that suspicioug-looking women are the sisters-in-law of Col, Wilkinson, who has nelther legs nor the first prin- ciples of a gentleman! “How do I know? Am I blind? Can't I see what is going on? “And yet you are unjust In accusing ou do. Oh, I know you dida’s ey agything against him, but it was fee peculiar emphasis you’ box "Ci? and eer inviatbte |" *f. POX) iaia on the words when you sald that Bh de i gro pees ee Fa et need heer fa Col, Wilkinson as y man of irreproachable reputation, and you have no right, Mr, Nagg, to bring| his name into this matter in the way| you do, “Perhaps you are misleading me. She may not é Col, Wilkinson's sister-ip- law at all, That may be merely a sub- terfuge on your part. For I am Inno- cent of thé wicked ways of the world! and am only too unsuspecting, I never “But I tell you, and I tell you right here, that {f that woman 1s Col Wilkin- son's sister-in-law! Well, I won't say what T think! “You know a lot of people your wife doesn't know, Mr, Nagg. And yet 1 introduce you to every one of my ac- quaintance, ‘There isn't a soul that comes to our msuse to sea me whom you do not know. And yet you know scores and hundredi—yes, thousands of people whom I have never met. “You deny it? Well, have I ever met your Uncle John in Australia and his twin boys who were born there? “No! It is trie that your uncle moved to Australia when you were only a child, but the principal of the thing ts the sare, I have neyer met them and you cannot deny that, "You discharged a typewriter git! from your office before I had a chance things he made up out of his own head, because he {s so bright and imaginative, unless you gave him more spending | money! “And here to-day a strange woman bows to you from a carriage and drives | away and I am supposed to be satis- fied with the bare statement that she ts Col, Wilkinson's sister-in-law, and t you only met her once. If I carried on like that, If I grinned and smirked at strangers like you do, how soon you would find fault! “But, no! I am wrong, You are not ed enough in me to care what filled with Co), Wilkinson's brother-in-laws, grand- fathers! “That 19 right! Laugh at me, Mr. Nagg! Break my heart by your flirta- tlons right before my eyes and then mock me with cruel laughter. “Tam mistaken, you say? Yes, now, having mooked me, attack my veracity! Say I am spiteful, say I am malicious, say I do not tell the truth! Say every- thing that is cruel and unkind, becaus) I am cnly your wife, Mr. Nagg, only your wife who devotes her whole life to doing nothing but make yoy happy! “On, I know you are eunning! You cover up your tracks well! You are too foxy to let me get any proot, but here, to ‘see Her, You do a thousand under- ms to be & gentle- | hand and suspicious things and never let on to me except in the barest do- tails, "You qbject to having my sbrother Willle down at ‘the offide becauye. the ‘Poor boy threatened to cell pag a jot of Ph baba right on this very street, before my » you bowed to a woman in a carriage, and then had the effrontery mo it was Col, Wilkinson's a son, you say? t “Oh, yes, by that time you will have the conspiracy all fixed nicely. But I will show her I am a womai. of tact, a lady of good. breeding; I will slam | the door In her face and tell her what |I think of her and Col, Wilkinson and her husband, too. “Some day you will meet your de- serts, Mr. Nagg! Some day you will pay up for the terrible things you do! “Ah, and to think I always trusted you so and that you should carry on like this! “You are silent! You look dazed You cannot’answer! No, do not say 9 word! I will not listen! I will not hear you! You can’t deny a word of r BUSINESS NOTICES. TOLD BY THE CAPTAIN, “Having used It in my family with wonderful results, I want to urge all in need of it to take Father John's Medicine for a tonic and body build er."—Capt. W. 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