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From: Chris Hendrickson <>
Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Standard Union July 9, 1929 – Deat hs
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 19:03:59 -0400
Brooklyn Standard Union July 9, 1929 – Deaths
FLATBUSH BOY OF 9 DROWNED AT MONTICELLO
Arthur KAHANER Perishes in Mountain Pool - Two Other Victims Identified
Monticello, N.Y. July 9 – Arthur KAHANER, nine-year-old son of Mr. And
Mrs. John KAHANER, of 1601 Avenue H, Brooklyn, was drowned to-day in a
rocky pond near this village.
The boy’s parents were in the mountains with him. His aunt, Miss Anna
KAHANER, had remained in the city. Arthur was staying with his mother
at a hotel owned by his uncle, J. KAHANER. His father had gone over to
Pine Plains to visit a brother.
At ten this morning the boy went wading in Dougherty’s Pond, near the
hotel. Not far from shore he stepped off a rocky ledge into ten feet of
water. He shouted for help, but no one nearby could swim, and he soon
disappeared.
Arthur’s cousin, Max, eleven, was in difficulty in the water at the same
time. He was saved by Abe KOTNEY, fifteen years old, a neighbor.
Mrs. KAHANER refused to leave the pond while local people dragged it for
her son’s body.
Positive identification was made early to-day, of the bodies of the two
boys who were drowned yesterday afternoon in Mill Basin, near Gerrittsen
Beach and just outside the limits of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities
Camp Whitney.
They were Albert WHITING, 13, of 1750 East Thirteenth street, and his
little pal, Charles O’BRIEN, 11, of 1214 Kings highway. The two
youngsters were in no way connected with the camp.
FUNERAL TO-MORROW FOR GEORGE WHITE
Funeral services will be held at 8 P.M. to-morrow for George H. K.
WHITE, one of the oldest Masons in Brooklyn, who died yesterday in his
eighty-seventh year at his home, 606 Halsey street.
Mr. WHITE was for sixty-five years a member of Hill Grave Lodge, 540 F.
& A.M. He was a retired chief inspector in the grain department of the
New York Produce Exchange having been employed there for forty years.
He is survived by two nephews. Interment Thursday will be private.
Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Chris Hendrickson
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