Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-18

motorman OF Coney Island car went
into the surf at Brighton Beach the other
afternoon while in possession OF his reCr-
lar day-on jag. and he was drowning in
the most approved fashion. far out beyond
the floats, when an eighteen ear-old
81 ooklyn girl on one of the floats saw
his difficulty and went out after him. Tho
motorman was in n state OF panic from
the rum and the salt water that he had
swallowed and when the girl reached him
he got strangle hold on her neck and
was pulling her TO watery grave with
himself when she remembered atip that
she had received from the brother who had
taught her to swim. She pulled back her
right arm and then planted her right fist
with all of her force-and She had plenty
of it from athletic work-on the point Of
the motormans chin. That put him out
and the girl got neat clutch on his hair
and brought him ashore. where he was
soon brought around.
Girls Swimming Clubs.
Women's swimming clubs being
tablished all around the neighborng
beaches. and the girl swimmers enter the
| competition with the male swimmers and
beat them as often as they are beaten. II
rot oftener. Not so long ago three Hair
to Staten Island without any especial
hother. and next week the same girls are
going to attempt the swim from the Bat
terry to Coney Island.
The swimming girls hsreabou do not
go In for fancy effects To their bath
ing suits. and many OF them eschew tho
movement-h ampering skirt altogether.
wearing boomers only. and those not par
ticularly baggy. As rule. they wear the
skirts required by conventionality down to
the waters edge and then drop them on
the beach before running into the water.
They go barelegged more often than they
wear stockings. and that absurd Atlantic
City custom among the women bathers of
wearing high-heeled patent leather shoes
for surf bathing is unknown among the
swimming women over here.
certain vaudeville actress, who has
long been known the most superb
man swimmer in the theatrical profession.
got away with" n queer wager three weeks
ago the story of which has not Yet been
printed She was down ut Bensonhurst
with a party of theatrical friends. She
| made her appearance the beach In her
bathing dress. and she said TO n we'll
known theatrical manager who was in the
party:
I'm off for Europe-here goes
The manager laughed.
She Swan to Europe.
II will wager you thousand dollars"
| said the vaudeville actress. seriously. that
after stroll into the surf here. three min
utes from now. I shall not again set foot
on American soil until I've visited Europe"
"Oh. let me give you two thousand to
your thousand on that said the manager.
You mean that?" said the actress
"Assuredly," replied the manager, con-
tinuing to laugh.
We'll. adios.' said the actress. and she
raced into the water and swan straight for
white steam yacht that was anchored
about three quarters of "A mile from the
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go abroad in that yacht. and all OF her
clothing and other baggage was already
aboard of the yacht. She reached the yacht,
climbed over the ganGway the anchor was
hauled up, the funnel began to belch smoke
and out of the harbOr the yacht moved.
Ten days later the manager received ca
blegram from the actress. dated London.
follows:
We'll. here I am. 1 shall draw you
for the two thousand
The manager cabled her that she could
collect the two thousand from his London
agent without making any draft. and added
to his cabegram:
Nice long swim. sister. What did you
live outlying fish?"
Newsboy Fakirs.
The police magistrates of New York con-
tinue to have lucid intervals that OCCASION
ally enable them to make common-scnss
rulings.
The other evening. after dark. a bull
voiced imposter. with bunch OF yellow
newspapers under his arm, went ploughing
through the quiet residential streets OF
Harlem, bawling at the top OF his voice:
"wuxtry! Wuxtry pape! Tur Bile acci-
dent! All bout tn four hunnered people
wot lost their lives"
A long suffering. square-jawed liarlemite
who was sitting the steps OF his home,
trying to get breath of air. summoned the
fraud up the steps.
Give me one OF those papers, the mar
lem man said the fraud.
''Fi cents said the swindler OF the COM
monest New York type, when the Harlem
tie had handed him a penny, the ordinary
price of the yellow newspaper.
''AII right-here'S a nickel. said the ftar-
lem man. Now, you to wait a minute,
and the Harlem man got an unbreakable
clutch on the fakir's coat lapel and said 10
him:
Now, just point out to me where it says
anything in this paper about any terrlble
accident in which 40 people lost their
lives
The fraud was pretty ugly over being
held, and tried to break out OF the liar
lemite's grasp. but when he found that tl'tt
couldn't be done he turned the paper over
and showed a miserable little four-llne Item
on one of the inner pages, stating that Il
steamer that had just arrived at Vancouver
had brought advices from emma To the Ell
feet that 400 Cinnamon had lost their lives
in a flood of the Yang -kiang river.
That's about what l thought" said the
Harlem man. Now I'm going to knock
your block on, you dig ioalef. anu hc Pr
ceeded to punch the petty wuXtry Swindler
all over the street.
The fakir had the temerity to swear out a
warrant against the Harlem man. and the
case was tried before Harlem police
magistrate on the following day. The
magistrate listened to both stories, and
when the Harlem man explained how his
reighborhood had been imposed upon tor
years by the '.wuXtry'' thieves the maglS-
trate simply said:
Case 'Smissed.''
The Harlem man has been receiving
scores of congratulatory letters from New
Workers. ever since G. l.. c.
Not Their Sort.
From the New York Times.