St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-30
CHEsTNUTTING In JERSEY.
Serious Accident to a Paterson
Girl Who Thought She Could
Climb a Tree,

Serious Accident to a Paterson
Girl Who Thought She Could
Climb a Tree.
New York Sun. :
Mary Amer and Lulu Carr, aged re-
spectiEely eighteen and sixteen years.
of Paterson, N. j.. will long remember
a perilous adventure which occurred
about three miles south of Nyack to-day
while they were chStnutting. The girls
came up to visit some friends in this
neighborho0d Saturday, and. as the
chestnut crop is larger this year than
ever before. they decided to form
small detachment of the large army OF
observation-disclosures who are out IN the
woods daily.
They concluded that the most certain
way for them to find the nuts would be
to leave the well-beater paths and strike
into the woods where it was the widest
and least travelled. They sought the
most unfrequented part of the South
Mountain. trippi. gayly along over
the rocks and through the tangled
brierS. Presently they saw group OF
chestnut trees standing together, their
tops being nearly covered with partly
opened burrs.
"Oh, Mary" shouted Lulu. gleefully,
S'here'S the place to get all the nuts we
want. Hurrah!" and she gave her hat
a fling in the air and laughed merrily.
They found the ground pretty we'll COW
cred with the nuts and soon gathered
some six or seven quarts.
Il am going to climb up in the tree
and thrash it," said Mary Amer.
Don't you do it. Mary: you would
never get down alive. Men are the only
creatures that can climb trees"
''Bosh" responded Mary. Il am as
good as any man, and am going to get
up in that tree"
80, Notwithstanding her companions
circumstances, Miss Amer began her
unusual feat, and for time it seemed
as though she would succeed In accom-
plishing her object. Suddenly, how
ever. when she was little more than
halfway to the top, a small branch on
which she placed her foot broke. With
scream she threw out her arms. eX-
pecting to be dashed to pieces on the
ground and the rocks below. As she
fell she went between two large
branches below her, and caught by her
arms, by which she hung suspended In
the air. She tried to raise herself up,
but she was unable to do so. Poor Lulu
al the foot of the tree was the more
frightened of the two, and she burst into
flood of tears. "Oh, Mary will die"
she said; "she can never get down from
that place."
Help! help!" cried Mary, her voice
getting weaker every moment.
Lulu went almost into Mysteries, and
did not know what to do. While con-
juring up some plan torescue her friend
from her position, Lulu heard the sound
of gun some distance away, and she
gave succession of loud screams. A
moment afterward she heard some one
crushing through the underbruSh, and
soon middle-aged man. a South Nyack
gunner, came in sight. He did not have
To be l0ld the situation, but realized 1t
at a glance. He sprang nimbly up the
tree, and by hard effort succeeded in
lifting thesyoung lady to the top of one
! of the branches, and then assisting her
{ TO the ground. She tainted before she
/ was fairly on the ground, and it took
nearly two hours to fully restore her to
consciousness. The man then accom-
jpanied the ladies to the place where
they were visiting. and they will return
: to their home tomorrow. 1t will be
some time before they will recover from
the shock occasioned by their fright.