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Show TWO WEALTHY MEN DROWNED Small Yacht Goes Down as Bad Weather Strikes San Francisco Boy A K LAND. Calif . May 8. The body Of Edward A Chrlstenson. wealthy San Franlsco lumber and shipping I man. was found early today neRr th.0 1 eaptlzed yacht "Quart. ' whose over- j turning during a squall In .San Kran-i Cisco bay Saturday nlg'ht resulted in the drowning of Chrlsteoson's cam- panlons. John A Hanlfy. another) wealthy 5lan Francisco shipping man.j and Captain Peter Anderson. Bodies of Hanlfy and Anderson had life prfSf n.'ers tb-d around them. anl a third life preserver was found near the wreckage. The craft was .iid . have fmir. and It if b.-lb vod Chrlstenson Chrlsten-son used the remaining one, but snl!r famllar with the hay stated that It was hardly possible thai tic could have survived the heavy sea that was running run-ning at the time of the capsizing, at iliir.k Saturday The bodies of Hanlfy and Anderson 1 were in close embrace and were separated sepa-rated with difficulty b two Japam ia fishermen who discovered the over turned ' 'Quart" shortly before noon Sunday. The "Quart." a 21 -foot knockabout was one of several small pleasure boats cruising Saturday off Coot point, San Mateo county, stiff weather weath-er was encountered and several of the lioats mot with mishap, but all were! accounted for ra a tho Quart." Late Saturday night members of tin-1 f'hrlstenson household sought th- aid , of the San Francisco police In h scan h ! that had been undertaken by private) launches an hour earlier. With thei dawn, airplanes wort called into service. serv-ice. Chrlstenson and Hanlfy resided In Burllngame. Both were wealthy and had been prominently identified with the lumber and shipping Industries of the Pacific coast Anderson's horn I was In Sausallto, whero he was em ployed by a boat club. STORY BOOK RISE Hanlfy leaves a widow and Christen -son a widow and five children, the eldest of whom, Edna, is In school lnj New York. Hanlfy wu 60 years old and Chrlstenson i2 Hanlfy came from New York when a boy of 14 and worked his way up from an office boy's place to the directing di-recting post in the Industrial and financial fi-nancial world. Chrlstenson first employment em-ployment waa as a bookkeeper at $&a a month. Ho won a Junior partnership in the shipping firm of Sudden an Chrlstenson In almost story book fashion, fash-ion, by Industry and application DIRECTORS I BANK Both men wen- dlrwctors of the An glo-London Paris National bank, uiu of the largost financial Institutions In the state, and both were director pi the Olympic club. Also, both were enthusiastic en-thusiastic yachtsmen, and Hanif. in ltlo, with the Westward, a specially built boat, raptured the King QeorK-cup QeorK-cup at yacht races Incidental to the Panama-Pacific exposition. By their control of sawmills and shipping Chrlsten-son owned a f loot J of seventeen lumber steamer tho two j men wore said to control half or mort of tho Pacific coast's lumber business |