Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-08

VIZ YozE. Jan. 9 > Mr.. Louis STEELE.
inst motor in tie Foot Canseryarorv II
Nasic. u fond of bathing. Re toos
b ID Fbu-adav n Est river. Ar- $fief
Eel ns-thodseailv =tossed away IN BAH
house G toe lesEher s4tcilei containing
hi< bathing dress, 3ragred ? roceh lad
der from Pile Of humber near tAe door,
u.oket its tGvver end down Into tie water.
and retired 10 sisrobe. The operation
vas quickly performed. Ir. Ssieffel
rsspp~a.ed in a low necked. short leg
sed. loose bl1e bathing dress He did
not seern 20 nstice the cold. As ne went
down Tia ladder a little stream Of STOW
water and rain from tie roof str1cs
fairly on the nape Of his neck and
splashsd over his shoulders and arms,
quite anobser-ed By him. The tide WIS
not 90 full AZ il should have been, and
the water, where ne stepped into Il from
the ladder, xas only about knee deep;
but. after vadiu0 some thirty feet out,
be was where az could swim Il might
naturally have been expected that n
the moment of his plungIng II, a sort 81
shuddering howl would have been ex-
torted from ham, but there was nothing
81 the sort As he turned kis face shore
t<EI- Dtg~EFCfs - - 81 - NV AAAt-A-A-f7T
that he would have liked 70 howl. for
the grim, determined clencE OF bis lower
Jaw allowed he had found out bEat the
water WAS cold. All aboEt hIgn vas a
field Of broken small lce. that &c had
swept careiexsly sside With his bra Wn :
arms. Before him lay very large piscf
Ot ice. under which he Owed csTElug uE
bevond Il. away out in the stream
IL fH.Haa Tz- n -
the tide WIS setting Cd very strongly
driving the pack ice II toward the shore
He swan out about the length Of long
city block then tbs strength Of the cur
rent vas such that 1t carried him about
that far up stream. while he Owed
-plashed, rolled over on his back and
kicked. tioated. and otherwise conducted
himself after the fashion of an expert
swimmer who really enjoys himself 4
little ting was lust stea ming out from tae
Wards Island dock. directly opposite
these baths, when he vas the f2rtbesi
point frum shore. aud her pIi0s headed
her course toUrd him, apparently
under the impression that drowning
man vas 10 be picked up. but. "a she
came nearer. and the purely voluntary
character Of his performance was tn he
seen. she stopped. gave sort Of little
snort-a kind Of steam oh. mvs-anG
went away M stream. In about five
minutes Mr. stietfel returned 20 the foot
Of the ladder, clambered ap and stood
on the bath-house floor. He did not
shiver, but his flesh was almost as red
"a the she'll of a boiled lobster, and bis
shoulder felt Just AZ hard and deadly
cold to the touch as the shoulder of Az
out door marble statue. He said that
only his skin vas cold, inside he was al
warm and comfortable. Bus be didn't
waste the smallest portion of p second
in getting that wet bathing dress Of and
putting on bis warm, dry clothing
While he was dressing, a Young mar
working IN the factory struiied thr0ugG
To the door. looked out at the floating
ice in the river, then Gazed down At ths
iioor where the vet footprints of Mr
Stieffel wers turning to ice. and 5aio
sl0~ty, with German earnestness oil
conviction: Il good radther sit by d
warm sehtove."
On the way back through the stree
slush TO the avenue, Mr.. Stieffel aaic
that he was not in the habit OF taking
any stimulants after his winter swims
and reiterated his belief that MANY
persons would 90 swimming in white
{ If they could have warm room to dresl
in