Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-03
Some Features Of Summer Life at
Atlantic City.
SAVING A LIFE SAVERS LIFE
A Novel Way ofo Getting Money
From Fair Bathers.
WHEN THE BAND PLAYED
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ATLANTIC CITY. August i. 1901.
There's a veteran life saver down here
who Is fairly Frustrated with humiliation
This man has been a beach guard at va
rlous American coast resorts for more than
twenty years. and in that time he has pull
ed more than a thousand drowning persons
out of the water. Yet things were framed
into such shape the other afternoon that he
had to have his own life saved while in
the water, and that by a woman. Where
fore. while his gratitude to the woman was
and is great, he now patrols the beach in
state of gloom. only flashing into wrath
when his fellow beach guards begin to guy
him.
The bronzed, great limbed man of many
rescues, from the foaming surge stood at
the end of one of the long piers the other
afternoon. watching the performance of a
young actress, who figures near the top Of
the bill in vaudeville performance at one
OF the pier theaters. The young woman
was far beyond the line of safety, even for
good swimmers, and the old time beach
seen so many overconident swimmers be-
come weary with their unnecessary exer-
lions ana sink that he figured the actress
case, out there amid the heavy combers, as
he thought that his Watchfulnes5 was
!ustiliable when the young woman sudden
tired
Shes exhausted!' he muttered In the
nearing OF a number of persons OH the
pier and Jumped over the rail to rescue the
pier and leaped over the rail to rescue the
young woman whose life he thought was
In peril In making the leap, however, the
veterans foot slipped, and his dive was
such a bad one In consequence that he
struck one of the piles a giancing blow
with his head. The blow rendered him un-
conscious, and when he hit the water ne
went down like log
Saved by Woman.
The actress-who is probably the best
swimmer man or woman, at this resort
wasn't exhausted a little bit She had
simply lay back upon the water to float
She saw the great splash made in the wa
ter by the beach guard, and when he fail
ed to come up for a long time she surinised
that he had injured himself. and she went
after him with strokes that carried her
through the water like a pilot fish. She
was on the spot to catch the still ,lncon-
scfouS coast guard by his hair when he
rose to the surface of the boiling surf, and
tuck1ng his huge body over one Of her
shoulders, she struck out for the beach
with MIN as IL he were so much lnconse-
quentiai sea weed. The other guards took
him when the actress got him, still dazed
into the shallow water, and the thousands
OF people on the beach surrounded the nice
looking girl and gave her an ovation such
as Few actresses ever win when they are
before the footlights.
When the old-tme beach guard came to
ana heard what had happened he was as
nang -dog-looking genuine hero as ever
got his arms and legs burned to the color
OF mahogany In the service" of too venture
some bathers
I wouldn't ha' minded it SO much If
some piano-mover or hod-carrier or Multi
gan truck driver had yanked me out" he
is still groaning at intervals as he walks
olsmally up and down the strand "but
after me twenty year of it t be hauled out
like an old shoe by little bit Of a hundred
an -ten-pound Woman-say, amt it enough
TO make fellers teeth chatter?"
When the Band Played.
At band concert on one of the piers tie
other night one Of the numbers was
medley OF national airs winding up with
THE Star Spangled Banner" The band
was fine one, and its rendering of the
national air, with the great and impressive
monotone Of the sea all around was sin
gularly beautiful and uplifting. Yet not a
soul of the great concourse Of people pres
ent on the pier rose to a standing posture
except one That one was a fine-looking
man of sixty or so, with a Grand Army
button in the lapel of his coat He was in
one of the rear seats, but at the first strain
Of the national air he unostentationsly got
to his feet beside his chair and stood with
head slightly bowed until the music had
ceased. Now, not only did not any of the
others fail to assume the perpendicular
position assumed by the peoples of the
most civilized countries when their ma
them poked quiet fun in low-toned con-
versation with each other, at the veteran
who sought his feet while the American
national air was being played
Eaf rnSyff 70 hn old
a hit!' Look at his nobs making a grand
stand play" "All for effect. of coursen'
Now, we're supposed to look real asham-
ed!' These and sundry other remarks In a
similar strain were freely given vent to by
persons, supposedly Americans, who were
in the neighborhood of the old man who
modestly and with honest reverence stood
up while the band rendered the national air
of the country for which he had fought.
This was the sort of chance that the
tourist English dearly loves and never by
any chance permits to get by him. There
happened to be a wandering Enelishnon IN
the pier, close to the writer. and when he
observed the incident he smiled CYNICAL
smile, and naturally enough.
An Eng1isman's Comment.
Ear be it from me-. he drawled. "to
take on the mantle OF the hypercritical
beef-eater who does his ten days in the
states and then returns to the old conn
try to excoriate everything he has seen.
It's too warm for anything like that. and.
besides, such an attitude is never lust. and
is only a characteristic of the beef-eater
one of which, with your kindly permission
1 shall claim not to be. But neyertheless
IL I were to see an equal number of En-.
glishmen sit mute through band perform
ance of God Save the King or perform
ance of the national air even on so trivial
a thing as a jewsnarp, I should look for a
speedy dissolution ofdour system of gov
eminent, and should be casting about. in
preparation for the revolution, to sell the
bit of property that own on the tight
little isle. The patriotism's here in this
country, 1 have no doubt, l have seen it.
and see it every day, reflected chiefly by
the newspapers 0But Just why it is that
four or five thousand men and women ali
apparently Of American birth, or most of
them at any rate, should keep their seats
and talk about their bathing suits and the
folks at their hotels while their national
air is being we'll performed-and it's a ma
tional air Infinitely finer than ours from a
musical standpoint-isi something that I
don't profess to understand, nor have vet
met up with anydAmerican who has been
able to offer any, satisfactory explanation
of it." .3dv II
Marvellous Hair Dryer.
Yesterday morning. when the bathing
hour was about drawing to a close, and
thousands of women in their bathing Dress