The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1904, Page 3

THESE PICTURES SHOW JUST HOW HERO REGRET TO PUT ONA LIFE PRESERVER. —_>— Policeman Van Tassel Bemoans Fact that Exhaustion Pre- vented Him Saving More Vic- tims of the Disaster. Practical Experiments Being Mate to Determine Reliabil- ity of Safety Devices on All ~ Vessels in This Harbor. A hero of the General Slocum Afsaster who {s still prostrated by the terrible event of Wednesday is A. R, Van Tas- se1,'the gallant policeman who worked #0 bravely and heroically saving women and children and who was only stopped from his rescue work by exhaustion. Officer Van Tassel is prostrated at his home, No, 426 Fifty-eighth atreet, Brooklyn. Since he was brought home from the scene of the disaster he has been unable to sleep or erase the agon- izing scenes he witnessed from his mind, "I only aa my duty, and I don't think I should say anything about it, said Officer Van Tassel to-day as be lay {1 at his Brooklyn home. Tells of His Rescue Works “I was detailed for duty on the Gen- eral Slocum, and when the fire broke out I thought only of the best way to save the children. “I stood on the outalde of the ral passing the children into the tugs and trying to keep order. Every time I saw. a little face turning {ts oitiful appeal to me I thought of my ayn two chil- FAT PEOPLE NEED LESS CORK THAN LEAN. ‘\ The Law Requires Six Pounds \"* of “Good Cork” in Every Life + Preserver, Enough to Sustain « . Two-Hundred-Pound Man. Practical tests of the quality and nup- porting capacity of life-preservers on Passenger vessels plying in New York waters wore made to-day and will be % Continued wherever the officials of a @teamboat line or owners of vessel ‘will permit the tests to be made. Those Protesting against the tests will be made known in time to the public. The experiments going on are not official, but were prompted by the charge so generally made that the Slocum's life preservers were useless, and the sug- gestion that a general overhauling of ¥ = Mfe-preservers on harbor vessels has become a general demand. It is the Purpose to mzke the tests on every boat carrying passengers In New York waters. Delay in Making Te: Delay was experienced in making than ever to save them.” OMcer Van Tassel is unusually fond of children, and the sight of the little ones perishing, whom he was unable to save, 1s constantly before him. The herole policeman worked at his life-saving on theoutside of the rail, tests aboard certain vessels because of ‘ ii : pare to communtcate with the re- How many people know how to put on a life preserver? The huge belt, composed of blocks of cork incased in canvas, Is put he Hey waa the yey thing that saved wponsible persons authorized to permit | on Just like a man’s vest. There are straps crossed in the back which form} Arter ne had been there for what the tests, but the officials of the Sandy It is very simple, and takes less than fifteen seconds to adjust this big| “ Hook line of flyers afforded every fa- bel HK 2 i . J 8 arm holes, and through these you thrust the arms. seemed ages to him, he felt a terrible city Dae the experiments, ‘These tock | Delt, which means salvation from drowning. If more of the victims of; After adjusting the life preserver, pick up the tape ends of the belt aero) ae eee ed thet peck and fell lace on the steamer Monmouth, which it R fs s Far Ra AN ; oui “ Carries thousands of parsengers aay) We Gen. Slocum disaster had known how to put on life preservers the) which encircles the cork belt and tie them tightly in front, This is as easy] |"t_,thousht. it Pott leh ES Hee es alain, senthe: oe number of dead by drowning would have been greatly diminished. | as tying on a sleeveless Norfolk jacket. that {t was the body of a big fat woman Atlantic Highlands, The tests proved who jumped from the deck that struck ei foie uh "ata pet ga his MEAN VY MORE SUBSCRIPTIONS PARED ANIEC ese eee ‘The same preserver was then houled 2} Feal Ufe-preservers, Three preservers 7 ei 1 cr{O8 board and relieved of it's dead C and I started for the shore. I found ere selected at random and under TO SLO UM RELIEF FUND. that I was too weak to swim, #o I the direction of the second officer were| ¥elsht and strapped to a member of thfown overboard wth weights at-/#¢ crew, a tall muscular man, welsh: Subseriptions for the rellet of the victims of the Gen. Slocum disaster SE eee erty Soetiana tached, The 1 ft sary] ing 170 pounds. He jumped overboar: , Madoedetehiesl td ed ey emint an e law requires that every continue to be received by the Mayor's Relief Committee. Hundreds of children, grabbing at me to save thom. ee MWfe-preserver contal es with the preserver In position and re- panes Se auoar one eaten ie niiX|mained perfectly motiontess in the | letters containing money and checks were:recelved to-day, and it 1s ex- selves, I cailod to them to keep calm 5 ave and I would save them, Then I floated water. He was not only supported by | pected the total received will soon reach $30,000. @ buoyancy of at least twenty-four into North Brother Island with pounds, The Monmouth's life-preserverg|{%@ life Jacket, but the upper part of The Evening World has received $25 from Brill Brothers to be added pobsalned ol ste eveniar than) twenty Gr the antag was) weld out and | co che Test] fond) Robert Brandt Charges There] rrm'heaa to foot" "the ine aeeieaa, Soverine more :inen above the surface of the water. The Cotton Exchange has opened a subscription list for the benefit of Ww Whol le Looti f One couplo that OMcer Van Tassel ‘The Umit of twenty-four pounds sup-|T¢ sulor cavorted in the water, tried) survivors and families of the Slocum victims. as esale Looting 0 ohys De Temembere teallng 30 ener, porting capacity of a lite preserver is |‘? Set his head under, and rolled over ‘The rolief list now amounts to $25,300, nearly $10,000 alone being re-| the Dead in River When ite vos the chia, ee ie tedly, but th rver kept him aleave deve the ae He plunged | celved up to 2 o'clock this afternoon. The late mails brought a check for Slocum Was Burning, foot and the mother setzed his shoul- 7 der, She kept telling the Uttle fellow full welght does not need support. In]™P &94 down perpendicularly, but his | $1,000 from J. Pierpont Morgan. Capt. Breckinridge, who was placed in ' the case of a person who is mostly fat |Netd never once became submerged. | charge of the list by Mayor McClellan, and who besides is secretary of the to be brave and not let go, and they 1 at full were carried safely to land. When the and with little bone there ts often no Teele ane atk: era beat eine wet | Tellef committee, sald to-day that the list would probably reach the $40,000) Robert Brandt, m dentist, of No, 2] exhausted policeman reached tho shore | all sufficient for lve saving purposes, for when a person is In the water his c behinds be ha rates onotied we te supported above the top of the water. | mark by Monday night, if not exceed that figure. Greene avenue, Brooklyn, makes the| he was revived, and insisted at once bulk of th Fy eeviaced by ine | The only way that sailor could Subscriptions received to-day by the | ANONYMOUS, Flushing. 1.00] Open charge to-dey that after the burn-|on returning to the scene of the ule of the person greater than his cow ith that lite preee gaid Mayor's relief fund committee are 1 SAR 1.00 | ing of the Gen. Slocum there was whole-| tragedy. weight, so that in such cases a four-|GFOWR Wi a Seawind follow 100.00 | sale robbery of the dead in the riv! ‘ thi nd officer, ‘would be to tle it ¥.Of the: dead in ithe river) Oy, No Rent from Herole Efforts pound supporting bit of cork would be|the second officer, ) JOHN DOLAN + 8.00) 8. # 20a of Col- % b to his feet and then jump overboard. MAX HTRACHBERG B00 if of men who put out from Col ‘jl Nolinaa adequate. iF; 3.00) NAC) UBRUCE.. 3.00| lege Point and other places on the|, Together with the man who ioe Couldn't Prown Herself. O14 One Less Buoyant. oe R. WADSWORTH 20.00 | Long Island shore In email boats. ee yaaa Oe ak bles eaRe -F . ro wi f | One of the life preservers chosen trom| An old-style preserver was next ex- EREDE! ; Jom] Brandt made this charge while pro- | cit ina boat to rescue the victims, the racks of the Monmouth was new |Perimented with. It was similar to the Hi. A; 2 fom | teating to-day nt the Morgue about 0] een tree ae Tee hen at last ones on the Slocum, but new, and had 7 |B. “ARONS . 5.00] palr of diamond earrings which are ee and contained eight blocks of cork, JOSEPH SCHEID....”. [ON ils HYsAN A he fainted from the injury he had re- sewed in compartments of canvas, To|eVidently received careful attention 88 EDWARD J. SHRIVER. 5.00 | te aS We SHILLER @ CO... 22.00 | missing from the body of Mrs, Mer-| ceiveq, and the next he knew he was this was attached a grate-bar, welgh-|t© Paint. It was atuffed with chopped Mr. and Mra, C15 2108 3:0 | MARC EIDLITZ & SON. Goo] €Aret Zerdes, of No. 439 Koscluska| 1, the hospital at North Brother Island. > " cork and proved to be more buoyant, i JOHN M. HARRINGTON 710] street, Brooklyn, Mrs. Zerdes's body | w, 3 ey Ing thirty-five pounds. When the grate GEORGE CORNING %.00 | Wy? When he regained consciousness he in- | vers . ' PP: i, 5.0) WB. B. HB. AY . M. 8. 6 home yesterday : 4 and life preserver were thrown over-|than the solid cork. Tests as to the GioRGE POPPLEWELL 60) Wow Be Ay ane ae was taken to her late h teraay, | cited: foal being iitakenuahameltn/As | board the cork supported the bar easily, | Strength of the stitching and the can: | THE EBLING BREWING CO., 160.90) Wood De ORS ieee New) and will be buried to-day, The body| his own clothing had been torn Into} von uy* | vas, without which the preserver would, THE STEWL-DRAKE BAK- nts Offer husband, | who went on the ex- z bobbing up and down on the waves, ap | ING Co... eitees 10,00], clerks). A 32.00 ribbons, he was fitted ont with a suit . hing of |have been useless, proved it to be sound. |. Vos yagi 1.0) ANNA STURGES DU $0.00] cursion with her, has not yet becn re- Ja parently without any diminishing ANONYMOUS | of pajamas from the hospital and rowed it's supporting power. Measurements | Taken at random the presumption a8. §, GOODMAN 1.00 P. SCHMIDT... .. + covered, ti chalasabii where he itoundleomelold < aa te Oey ea (ol tnat walet (Or A. HERCREOCES ta oie | Bie BTATE BANK “I know positively," sald Dr. Brandt| clothes of his own relial was casi Mt ‘é 00 | to-day, “that when Mrs, Zerdes went = SAMUEL C, BAUM & CO. 6.00) WILLIAM B. JOYCE 100.00 ‘ where it was allowed to bob up and | Gi R TEs GULDEN. 10.:0/INDEPENDENT ORDER to that plenic she had on a very hand-| | Cried Over Min Children, down for twenty minues, then attached! AriRED L. SIMON & CO. %.00| “SONS OF BENJAM 80.00} some pair of solftiire earrings, They| “OUF little girls didn’t know what had to a weight—the grate bar—and ld pRNEST GORBLITZ, 10.00| WILLIAM H. PRUY! Were of the hanging sort. I took the| happened,” sald Mrs. Van Tassel, “but , WANTS! WANTS! signal service, keeping its CE das ecae erent aco. rae ERB Ht Uta oe 1200] number given me by the morgue om-|When they ran to meet thelr father he in the water than had the solfd cor! BL. c . EH. Ei rs 00 | cra . * just grabbed them in his arms and crled the | ELISA BODE . "10.00] J.B. R. {:05] cials to the Coroner's office in_ the contrivance. The sailor donned the| FREDERICK H. SCHWEG- te RR isaay: 2% 09| Bronx and they turned over a wedding | @# if his heart would break. chopped-cork preserver and was buoyed eR piicseis jg rear Re J. 8. WOLFSON....... 1.0] ring to me; nothing else. They said| “I suppose he was thinking about up out of the water easily. 8 20.00) #ATL.CON PACKING CO. $8.00 | theys wad tnouethen property. those other little girls who would never ‘ From the hurricane deck of the vessel | WILLIAM ALEX. SMITH... 200/ TROQUOIS CLUB (Kings | to Mrs, Zerdes. DCR aY. BelOnS INE | go. hore to thelr fathers and what a third preserver was elected at ran-| Senn RON OF ISRAEL, FOUNEY) scree vsee vee 25.00 bene. ais fortunate man he was to have his little HOWARD CONKLING. 3.09| were stolen from this woman's ears| Florence and dom and tested. This preserver once dia] RISTRICT GRAND LODGE | OTTO SCHMIDT... Esl they would nce be slesinenow: Officer, Wan ‘Tasel enya shat at, 9.50 y the ferry-boat Easton ai NO. a 00) ALFRED T. HOLLY. 00) hay o'clock he was ng to the captain, . OF see oe ens aulidcoork variaty. 7.10, 80ll [PAR GH) Se BERNE ESRB Sas oo [crim SCHLOWED & CO, inn WEEE HappecialaEatiensiyteoe oat sind. took ‘out his waten to nec i and * : ‘ . i ’ © Water saturated the Of its years the preserver was found to] “UNKNOWN 0.00 |S¥MPATHIZER. — Worcester, informed that wheather el Watch und stopped it. It wan Just. 10.2 dequate for Mfe-saving purposes. It}]CLARENCE C. BURKE. 1.90 Baa 00 RPT tC aes ie BU Ene g pean y “husband doesn’t say word I HE WORLD. ie ot_as buoyant as the others, as JOHN CAMPBELL & CO, 100.00 10 eu A ated aad of panes about, his injury,” aald MM ra) Van aes ft sank with the thirty-ve-pound |" PANY %, Atal GaRier Ot Gee ELLE Le nett: rans Lendiabaut nee bevicg beeniable tsvocin Yor the Reception of Advertisements at the | q, ut it was, nevertheless, useful | EDWARD SMITH & CO. jo nen, am told, were 1s rescue wo! lon, . 4 welght, bi tinue hi rk wer. Rogular Advertising Rates, Sane ping a person of large size well! DR. FRANK W. JACKS Koo] teen taking Jewelry from the dead and| “He has sald time and again alnce ho afloat and easily filled the letter of the| (4 SYMPATHIZER’ H 5.0 boats which took them ashare, Tbe: {Pas been here in bed, “If that woman ‘ law's requirements, MR&. ROBERT DU 300.00 | Mf 5.1 ieve there has been wholesale robbing. [NAc of the neck I could’ have saved. MANHATTAN AND BRONX, |“ pe Monmouth Js provided with 2.150] ATLANTIC EXPORT CO. 15,00 | Mt of the dend, and that the matter ought |‘ Yorithed.n spueree hh office in the elty receives | AD j ‘ANDELFO. a fs es « Wort ‘Wants at office rates, exceeded, the officials 9 veined fees Ree 101 GENNERICH ‘& VO A OMA Te HOME COMPAN- wie FIRST AV.—At Nos. 120, 283, 330,|clared. To further gual B. t) 00; M. + M0! OSCAR NOHNWEIL ee 1782. of life, life rafts are strapped to the SOvER Seige, JR. ee TH 100) MONTCLAIR ee raise 18 JECOND AV,—At Nos, 445, 057, 1025) | upper decks, also Ifeboats, A quantity | Cornyn Host 3 peers os | RETALL BUTCHERS’ "AND 1318, 1406, Of fire-fighting apparatus was observed. |°Q'an Haven tigh Schoo x00 | Cha 0] MBAT. ASSOCIATION, .00 | 1.08) THIRD AV,—At Non, 259, 829, 375, dozen fire hose con-| A. KING. i BROOKLN.... Seeeeiart 1 6000 including at least a s¥ R 20] wy See Oe Oey ARG A 2OKs), 1288) chemical fire extinguishers in] H. KATS 10.00 | PLATTDEUTSCH A DIGUTAM HARMAN BLACK. 11 (98,00 AB41, 1300, 1515, 1563, 1712, 1yz1, | Rections. «| if ‘on burning | 8: H. HAFFENBURG! 10.00] FEST VEREEN OF N. ¥ s00,06| NATIONAL) METER = COM: 2110, 2000, 8104, 3400. powder form to be thrown ily | .,.W- M'COMB 10,00 { D. iN. JO0.00 | gpP ANY oe oe ecreenseecscce 100.00 FOURTH AVE.—At. No. 301, Brease, for instance, fire axes easily! WiLLTAM 13, A. JURGENS, ae Che at AND, S18, Db. 8 ae ee dl UME AY.—At Nom, Tab) ius, at hand and fire buckets auinall CHARLES BERGENSTEIN & | (U rt BURG iy cose sdis : Per Teonac es —At Nos, 69, 153, 247, 814,| preservers Easy to Ge 1.00'SAM y 60.00 tto Harms Too! ne ild rl pire At toast twosthirde of the lite-pre-|AIIS. EH FRIGESAON. 0". SMU TENTEE ABREAERLY” DHE: JEFFERSON CLUB GIVES $250.) ore and Then Swam Back EIGHTH AV.—At Nos. 11, 90, 143,| servers are neld in position overhead)“ CORNELL, SM gop aiGharay Nese mesond Cxemes.ase.o0 fam Bac fy eajand 883, 700, 802, 2180, 25e4) by sm, wooden strip a wai x FUCHS & LANG MFG. CO..., niet 5.0)| 4180 Sends Resolntions of Sympa- for Another — His Brother 2856, daily be torn awas, allowing the| ADRIAN ISELIN |... + 100, thy to Bereaved Families. WINTH AV.—At Nos. 182, 52s, cen . | GEORGINE ISELIN. 25,00 740, 850, 004, core Zdth wir Gav’ | preservers tO tut Loin Codes eg EDWARD MOFFATT | ! tolom! Of Ata meeting of the Jefferson club] Was Drowned. gers, ‘The second officer REV. M. MONTAGUE GEER.. —_ 10.00 | YM 1 = hh declared that he could pulldown) W. A. WATSON. 10.00 | SY MPATHIZER, 8] the Sixteenth Assembly District Tam: mouth Glite-preservers on ooard within| JOHN F. HOPP....- st 78 | te Soa 2.0 | many organization, over which Civil are five minutes, with the assistance of 4 |THE SHANLEY CO. + 100.00] C'S. KOSTER COMPANY, \oty| Justice Joseph Hoffnran, the President, | -pnirteen-year-old Otto Harms, of No. How, members of ait S Gould’ pertorme | APPISON B, SCOVILLE §.00| TH LANGFORD... 25.00] presided, the following resolution was] oy2 wast Fourteenth alrect, by pluck that service without delay or trouble. | jogiply ULLMAN « %.00)|FREDK. VIETOR @ AGHELI — saim| Adopted and a check sent to the Blo- | qnq coolness saved his fown life and Ne Tor filustrate the Uitte vi: | BRILL BROS. 35.00] ELIAS DIAMOND Zon] cum relief fund: those of two younger children not re- THINTY-SEVENTI 8 fored by the wooden jotrips che: ores JOUR NAUMER + 3-00] JOSEPH HOROWITZ, £00] “The Jefferson Club of the Eleventh | jated to him. HIS brother, who be- FORTY-SECOND S1.—At No. 257 w,| 3808 8o ea ee ee era. IALPIN, DIAM OE OTETRE GENERAL Ward, having sustained great loss in| came separated from him just before FYORTY-EIGHTH ST.—At No. 208 "| OC PAPEE. Tee Wwithin easier reac: yabecaes 15.00] THIRD ASSEMBLY DIs- the untimely death of some of {ts mem-|the fire started on the Gen. Slocum, PY-DINM St. and Lexington | Sthers are Kept beneath the sea E .. EHLER! 10.0] RICT.. .. $100.00] bers, and participating in the great| was drowned. ‘An inspection and trial, of the | pre-| B a N INE) AGENCY. . 5.00] A. FRED SILVERSTONE. 5.0] shock which has come to the City of] Otto, in telling of his experience, At NOs: 360. servers On the Mort aa heir arrange: CQROLINE TERALSEY 0] EINKUS NATHAN .. 5.00) New York in the appalling divagter | sald: Grrr the Saray equally satisfactory. ‘the | H ‘ARKS . 10.001 G: “” gociETy, “WYCKOFF ‘) which occurred upon the General Slo 1 selzed a lfe-preserver and pulled and Seven third vessel of the fect wee Het ane $ or 13 HEIGHTS CHAPEL, BROOK- cum on the léth day of June, 1904, does| down the wire netting, and half a dozen 145TH S'T.—At_N spected. DUE the. himilar, if not even 100,00] PRE : now, In meeting assembled, extend to|life-preservers fell to the floor, The 146TH 81, aud lerdam ay, Investigatsrgitions, would be. found Woeo| LORWENSTEIN BROS. 1.) B.001 ny pereaved Ite deep and heartfelt (frat ove I picked up come to pleces in AVENUE AAC Nos. 52, 03, 1551, betters fersho being the newest of 10.00] MRS. CHARLES HENRY. COB- | pathy, and to the Mayor of the City |My hands, 1t wan full of straw. The Toh J and Highth st. fleet. 01 CLAREMONT ic : e . xt one also to pleces, It w AMD ERD AM. AV—At Sos, U5, any, | line 1 PDeats aid he would gladly ie Maps P. HALLIDAY. 10.00] able action in appointing @ Rellet Com- |aix life-preservers, and they were all a Y= ‘similar tests to be made on .00| W ARKS, + 8.0} miu rotten, ‘The stuff they were made of Bae taain nati cae tron llecerritenge ctl ute, formate Eee hin] SHARIR, 1g rita hereby sagolved thas the eum, of|torq all apart. LRM OR RM Beat Ne, Bees Miao ‘ametale of the Staten | island 18.00] TRADTMAN. . 2.00) ster, to be used as it deems Mt and| “So I had to jump overboard just as| COLUMBUS AV.—At Nos, 20, 68, 596,| Ferry Company said that they thought) wWintTAM H. FORD. 10.00] BLAMPEY 100,00] proper for the relief of the afflicted. |1 was. A little girl grabbed me by the NOS Vee there would be ne objection {pa alii; Mre_ A. MATHIEBE 1.09] J, P. MORG. 1,000.00] "Be it further resolved that @ COPY | pack of my collar und held on tight \ GRAND ST.—At Nos, 203, 527, lar public inepection being made aboard | Ai BTR 1%] MASTER F ‘Bolof these resolutions be forwarded to.| Tia not try to get rid of her, 1 swam \, HUDSON At No. 345, Any Of ite Tor wal He cee WILLIAM 10.00] ALICE, M. . “$| the families of the deceased members.” |{, "the shore. where one of the nurses LENOX AV, and 129th at, ‘Manager, ‘ M £00] C. V. FORNES & CO. 59,00) = took the ohild from my back, and then Fequired permission could not. be ob- LENOX AV.—At No. 470. rat Yorn om KEOGH... 8.00] EDWARD G. TUFFS, 5.00 Pturned and swam back to where 1 MADISON AV,—At Nos. 1270, 1631, ‘The officials of the ton Steamboat| THOMAS B.RUBH (The Bo SY MPATHIZER 42.00] | Real “home comforts” may be | saw a little girl held up by a life pre- ‘ * 134th | any, at Ene Basin, 180 wills 2 C, SC! erver. wEGMONT AVCOAC Nene fie Ro allow. the public” tests. to” be shine 299.00 Der BOTA BR bito| found by answering the “Boarders | *°ihy grabbed me ‘rst by the heel, 4 Made,” but insisted on. the alt 1¥8 }.C: MRS. HYMAN: i 1,00! Wanted” ade In today’s World| tnen by the hand, Wut I brought her pT 3 Fe du aye Of ailowing such teste. us their die- WALTER R. ADDICKS. 1. 1000 Want, o-oo cers -e | near shore and one of tho nurses threw | WYBSE, BROAD WARAC Rey 696, erekon as Rrudeah ns B 10.00 IBTDOR WORMBER +: spiscerre 100.00 Us 8 Fope” - ™e n eet RESCUED SO FEW dren at home, and struggled harder) The ‘King’ states that one N! fraud, which suc committee of the H POLICEMAN REGRE1S HE WAS UNABLE TO SAVE MORE LIV: OWNERS OF THE SLOCUM = NY DAMES, LIABLE FOR Were Held for Injuries Victims Re- ceived Through Negligence. According to an Admiralty expert, the owners of the General Slocum may be held for all damag George W. D mitralty and President of the Associa’ Law Speciailsts, at No. 2% Brond says that the United States law Iimit- ing to the value of tho vessel the amount of damages which may be re- covered from the owners, does not ap- ply In the case of the General Slocuin. He recites decisions in the Federal Courts In support of his statement. “Any of the persons injured in the Gen, Slocum disaster," said Lawyer Dease, “may recover damages In the Supreme Court of this State if they can convince a jury that their injuries were due to the neglect of the owners properly to equip the vessel. Any of the dependent relatives of persons ‘who lost their lives by reason of the neglect of the owners may recover for loss of rvices or of support The imitation for Mability by the Federal law to the value of the vessel is a benectal provision for the advance- ment of commerce, but It applies only where the Injury ‘or damage has oc- curred through the fault of the officers se, Proctor in Ad- a jaud crew in the management of tho Vessel, or through the known perils of navigation, It was never designed that an owner of a v el could secure ex- emption from injury caused directly by his own neglect,” in support of his statements Lawyer Dease cited the case of the Myers Ex- and Navigation Company, Si 1 Reports, page 240, which is in respects ‘similar to the case In point. One of the excursion barges of the company, loaded with passengers, TRED 10 JUMP OFF ERRY-BOAT Young Man Arrested on Charge of Attempted Suicide Says He Saw Body Floating and De- sired to Rescue It. ‘our years old, George Roder, twenty. of No, 45 Fulton street, Lrovklyn, was arre! tho Hoboken line, and taken to the Church street station to-day on a charge of attempted suicide, 4 on the ferry-boat Bergen, of ferry-boat Roder lifted While on th: the gate at the rear of the boat and walked to the edge of the deck, He was ubout to Jump off when he was cought by Ernest Nietherdt, a custom- houre officer, Roder, who !s much worked up over the Slocum disaster, and who, accord- ing to the police, had been drinking, gaid he saw a body floating in the river and was about to rescue tt ———— An Interesting Wateh. ‘There is an amusing incident con- nected with an early jewelled wate! ol Facio obtained a patent for his jewelled watches in London, After fourteen years he desired an ext of his mnopoly and petitioned ment nckmakers successfully petition, bringing forward a wate : with @ jewel by Ignatius Hug. re, The been discovere ainethyst, in Hug hae nothing to do wi ‘it Was. presumabl n ornament, ‘This sitll preserved by the Clock- makers’ Company, & possibly innoc in deceiving the f Commo} a Countess Lonyay's Jewels, The priva etary of Countess Lenyay, the ex-Crown Prince Stephanle, has been arrested at Antwerp as he was taking steamer for Sun Francisco, on the charge of robb: from the Countess. In his baggage were mu Valuable jewelry, @ quantity of ri silks and” brocades, all stamped wi the Countess’s coat-of-ar and the fuaignia of as many as eleven different orders, all in solid gold and incrusted + Admiralty Expert Cites Decision in Similar Case Where Owners of Boat ~ caught in a gale on the Hi i ae k was wrecked and Were seriously injui $100,000. were h the State courts and " company petitioned to have them trans= | ferred (o the United States Courts. uns) (77 Imitation-of-liability statute, 7) sing the petition Judge B a States Dist ourt, gave an opinion which was if the United States Cit Court of Appeals. The gist of the fon is contained in the two paragral he unseaworthy condition of ote jon barge would be shown by examination her owners knowledge thereof, ‘efrom is not without the privit: , ige of the owners so as to title them to the benefit of the Bimited 4) Livhility act of the United States ‘ “The petitioners cannot be held te be 71 ignorant of what such an examination © 11 ¢ disclosed. The: knowledge’ of might have known and what they were hound to know because of thelr obll- gation to provide a vessel fit forthe employment to which It was put owner of a hip cannot be permitted to. free himself from an obligation of this oharicter by remaining in ignorance of in his power to knaw." The owner of the General Slocum Knickerbocker. Com s well able to pay heavy dam- the panic man wat they nd many sults are expec pany are: President MAtkinson. and ‘Treasurer, Frank @& Shin Bivectors inclade also Robert Ce Lacey, Charles B. Hill capital stock of the company i PRETTY UNCLAMED. BABY AT MORGUE | Infant Corpse of Dressed in Lace ls Among the — Unknown Dead—Rose in Its Dead Hand. There is a dead baby in the Morgw with a blue ribbon about its neck. Ite body is covered with lilies of the val ley and In its cold, dead hand there ts clasped a hig red rose. Women who have passed through the rows of dead have placed flowers om this unknown, unclaimed baby, because © | It is dressed better than jy es in the ordinary walks of life, Its clothes are all white and of Inge, except for the blue ribbon, and its hair ts long and golden. “Its mother of iis beauty, is dead,* too," worn, as she bent over the rough bos and placed the rose in its hand. —={_ ad Censured by Jury. investigating at of Erneat baker, of No, 38 Throop aver killed by a Dy at che Glendale crosa- pes ie Long Island His at It should have # tioned at that crossing. sald ao ing, severely censur Railroad and said FOOD CURES! Certainly! Ask any physician Grape-Nuts "The Road to} ith jewels. The absconding secretary I'D Qieanese youth named Koenloss, and he is agt twenty years of age, bo sash than ieee ancl Put An oF : aes ting eae eet An ‘The