The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-07
SAVED BY A HUMAN CHAIN.
a Man in Peril on the Palisades Res
cued by Athletes.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Three stalwart
New York young men, in human chain
swung from the top Of the Palisades at
Clifton Park, Weehawken, n. J., Sunday
afternoon. and rescued from peril Edward
Heights. Grindley, who is about twenty
five years old, was with several friends.
They intended going to New York by way
of the Forty second Street ferry.
What appeared to be short cut path at
tracted the attention of the party After
making an examination of the path one of
the party pronounced it dangerous and said
he would not risk going that way. Grindley
laughed and said the path was perfectly
safe.
''Well, if you think SO we'll play the
game of follow my leader You lead, and
If everything is all right we will be after
you" said one of Grindley's friends.
Crindley had not gone far when he found
that he had made mistake in leaving his
friends. \ projecting rock shut them from
view now, and although Grindley realized
his dange.oYs position he continued to let
himself Gown the precipice, clinging with
his fingers and toes to the small cracks in
the rocks. The surface of the great rocky
wall began to curve inward, and Grindley
gould go no further He was about thirty
feet beneath his friends.
One miss of the foot meant instant death
on the rocks away below. Grindley tried
to climb upward the way he came down.
It was no use. A trembling fit seized him
and his body swayed At one time Grind
ley said afterward, he felt like closing his
eyes and allowing his body to plunge into
space.
Then he called for his friends, who gave
the alarm. A Srowd soon gathered at the
top of the cliff. Everyone was making sug
gestions, but no one was willing to nut
them into execution until three young men
going by on bicycles arrived They asked
what the trouble was One of them shout
ed down to Grindley to work himself along
the rocks. if possible, SO that those above
him could see where he was He did SO.
About twelve feet above Grfndley was a
large ledge. The trio climbed down to the
ledge Then began the daring feat The
strongest lay on his face, his arms clasp
ing the trunk of a tree. From his an
kles another young man swung himself into
space. The third let himself over the Sec
ond's body as though it was a rope and
gTasped his ankles. The bottom mans foot
rested in a small crevice in the rocks, thus
helping to tighten the strain On the first
and second man.
Grindley was short distance away. At
last he grasped the lower man around the
waist. Those on top Of the cliff were horri-
fed at the expression on the faces of
those who formed the chain. The man in
the middle seemed to be getting very
weak Grindley began his journey upward,
and to those who witnessed II seemed as
though it would never end. Now, holding
like a drowning man to the chain Of arms
and legs, and again digging his fingers into
the cracks in the rock, he wormed his way
When he reached the ledge he tainted in
the arms OF a man who was bending over
waiting for him. Then the lower man
worked upward until he could grasp a rope,
which by this time had been procured by
some OF the crowd, and the second man