The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-06

emily exhausted. AS though in answer to
the remark, he arose and motioning to
the men who stood Immediately about
him walked down the beach toward
little bluff on the top of which a summer
cottage was being built.
"You must help me make a spring
board out of some of this lumber" he
said, hating on the highest point.
He mustn't do it, He mustn't do it,
sirv the Oldest of the life saving crew
said to DIR. Lane. "I1e will be dashed
against the bluff and that will mean in
slant death"
DR. Lane shook his head. There was a
resoluteness in Saunders face which,
fancy. made him know that persuasion
would be useless.
When the spring board was in place, he
walked back some twenty feet, ran rapid
ly up the boa:a. made a mighty leap for
ward and went headforemost into the
seething water below. The next few sec
onds seemed an eternity. Then a man
shouted:
There he is: 1 see him. He is beyond
the break-Water."
And so he was, and swimming steadily
towards the ship.
Yes but he will never reach the
steamer" the old life saver insisted. II
have besn in this business twenty years
and was the first man put at this post
when 1t was established four years ago.
but never have l seen storm like this.
That steamer is only a quarter of a mile
out, but in sea like this he might as
we'll try to swim ten miles"
HE is the strongest swimmer / have
ever seem" said retired naval officer,
who had been from the first one of the
most anxious of the spectators but
where is he now?"
HE is still swimming I replied, indi-
eating the line which was still drawing
out. I was confident of his safety, al
though the mist and spray made it i'm
possible for US to see him.
The women and children had come back
to the bluff and although soaked by mist
and spray, they stood eagerly scanning
the sea. The men climbed up the incom-
pleted building, the piles of lumber. any
place that they might get better view
and catch glimpse of the swimmer or
watch his progress to the steamer. No
one was conscious of the chilling wind and
the heavy, saturating mist. They only
knew that a young hero was out there in
the surging waters daring death in the
hope of saving the life of his fellow Great
ures.
There was a stop in the playing out of
the lines. II hung limp in my hands and
began to drift on the beach. The people
groaned and strained their eyes to pene-
trate the binding mist and spray. Five
Then the line frightened and began to
draw again But not for long. The in
tervals of rest became more frequent while
the spurts Of swimming shortened percep-
tibly. Then after a time he appeared to
have recovered strength. for the line drew
out steadily for considerable period. The
life-saving crew. calculating by the
amount played out, said that he was with
in a hundred yards of the steamer. Sud
denly the line ceased to draw. The time
passed, minutes seemed hours, but there
was no sign. That long swim, they said,
was his final and mighty effort to reach
the steamer. and having failed, he had
sunk exhausted to the bottom.
The women began to weep and men turn
ed away their faces. There was a twitch
at the cord in my hand and It began 10
draw out steadily
'There he isl They see himr shout d
Characteristic was the fellow who the
evening before had declared his intention
! of not recognizing Saunders as his college