The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-10
MISS PRICE IN THE LAKE.
The Water Was Cool, But So Was She
 and No Harm Was Done,

The Water Was Cool, But So Was She,
 and No Harm Was Done
 Miss Stella Price of Evanston, 1T years old, was blown into Lake Michi- gan yesterday afternoon off the Main street breakwater, from the extreme end of which she had been looking at the large waves as they rolled In, and after desperate struggle, during which she declined assistance, effected her own salvation, being an adept in the art of swimming.
 Although she found herself in fifteen feet of water, this fact did not seem to disconcert herr in the least and she gazed at thes lippery sides of the break water as complaoently as if she were only taking an ordinary summer swim when the thermometer registered 70 de- grees above zero. That she possessed 0 cool head while in this predicament was due wholly to thief act that she had con- fidence in her swimming abilities.
 The same wind that destroyed her equilibrium on the breakwater had made the waves of the lake large and
 
 en structure with the flerceness that a thirty -mile-an-hour gale imparts. For moment the air caught beneath her skirt floated her and kept her well above the surface, but the garment soon became waterlogged, and the waves broke over head and carried | away her cap and dishevelled her hair. The young woman for a moment di- retced her efforts to attempting to scale the smooth sides of the breakwater, but she soon found this an impossibl thing to do, and at the same time awakened to the fact that the cold water was rapidly benumbing her limbs and talk ing away from them their activity.
 Accordingly, she turned about and with long, even strokes, began to swim toward point of land which projected into the lake 250 feet north of the end of the breakwater.
 Captain Mersch of the Evanston po- lice detail was driving in buggy at the foot of Main street and saw the girl as she fell into the water. He ran | rapidly to the end of the pier, but when he had reached the point where she disappeared her form was nowhere to be seen. The big officer was rapidly dl- | vesting himself of his outer clothing | preparatory to diving for the young woman, whom he supposed to be at the | bottom of the lake, when he caught a | glimpse of her head 200 feet to the left. | She was struggling hravely, but 1t was evident that her strength was nearly gone. The bluecoat ran back along the | pier and out on the point of land. He started to wade toward the girl, but was surprised to hear her say: Please do not come after me I can | get out alone.
 | These words had hardly left her lips when her feet, came in contact with the | sandy bottom and she stood upright and walked the remaining distance un- | assisted
 | CVaptain Mersch took her to her home in his buggy and Dr. Moore was called. He found that beyond a severe | drenehing she bore no evidences of her | long swim in the cold water, and last night she was as bright and merry as l ever
 Miss Price is the daughter of Henry Price of 631 Lake street and is sopho- more in the Evanston high school. She was always passionately fond of swim ming and boating and during the sum- ner months spent most of her time 1 in one or, the other of these pastimesJ- | The Chicago Inter-Ocean.