The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-07
CAUGHT CHILD ELEVATED
MAN on SIDEWALK SAVES A
THREE.YEAR-OLD LIFE.
Little Louis Lublinger TOPPED Out OF
the Car window. but Walsh Saw Him
Coming and Got Him In His Arms


Coming and Got Him In His Arms
Both in . Heap. but Neither Hurt.
In the pride Of possession OF his first pair
OF trousers, Louis Lublinger, doughty
three year-old, rushed into Second avenue
elevated train at the Eighty-slIth street
station ahead of his mother yesterday
afternoon, clambered up on seat, leaned
far out Of the window, and before he, his
mother or any OF the other passengers
realized what had happened, he had fallen
out and was sailing gracefully to the road
way, twenty-five feet below.
Down there stood Daniel Walsh, brick
layer. of POS East Seventeen street and
Thomas Fitzgerald Of $40 East Seventy
second street. Walsh glanced up at the
train just as Louis took his header Scarcely
realizing what he was doing. he held out his
arms and the child fell into them.
The boys thirty pounds staggered Walsh
and after making an effort to keep his feet
he and his burden fell in heap on the
ground. In this fall little Louis scraped
his head on the cobblestones. but that was
tho only injury that he sustained. An
hour later he was at home playing with
a little tin horse and acting as though moth
ing at all had happened.
The lads mother had no idea that she
would find him alive when she came running
back from the station at Eightieth street.
where she was carried by the train, and
when she did find him sitting up in chair
in drug store, laughing and playing with
his rescuer and a policeman. she promptly
went into Mysteries.
Mrs. Helen Lublinger is the wife OF Jacob
Lublinger. cigarmaker. The couple have
two children, Martin. aged 7, and Louis.
Yesterday afternoon Louis's tiny legs
were encased in trousers for the first time
and he was nightly swelled up over the
evant.
When Mrs Lublinger started downto wn
with the two children Louis strutted on
ahead with his hands in his pockets, and
when the downtown station OF the Second
avenue road at Eighty-sixth street was
reached he declined to be carried up the
stairs.
A train pulled into the station just as
the Lublingers reached the platform and
they Just caught it, Louis rushed into one
of the cars and was up on the seat a.
leaning out Of the window before his mot her
and brother were in the car at all. The
train started with jerk and the last Mrs
Lublinger saw Of her youngest was his heels
passing out Of the window.
Il was crazy them" said Mrs. Lublinger
last night, "for knew he must be killed
couldn't see down into the street and the
guard wouldn't stop the train, 30 had to
ride down to Eightieth street. When l
got there ran down to the street. got on q
surface car and rode back to Eighty-sixth
street, where they told ME my boy had been
taken into the drug store. could hardly
make myself 60 in. for l thought he was
dead. and when saw him sitting up, laugh
ing with the policeman. l thought my eyes
were deceiving me.
A big man in the store said to me, I
caught him on the fly and hope ! said
Thank YOU but l amt sure that did.
because l was crazy for minute. l just
grabbed little Louis in my arms and. drag
ging Martin behind, ran home as fast as
could, and haven't been out since. Mercy,
but l was scared"
Walsh. the man who caught the boy,
was still trying to get over his surprise
last night. He is bricklayer and was out
looking for n job when little Louis fell
into his arms.
Il don't know why I happened to look
up," he said, but / did, and 80 did a man
named Fitzgerald. who was standing next
to me- The train had just started out Of
the station and said to Fitzgerald: That
kid'll be out OF that window in minute
He's out now, said Fitzgerald, and
sure enough he was, and, what's more. sail
ing right down into my arms, l didn't
have any time to think. 1t was all very
sudden. but guess threw out my arms,
took a good brace with my feet and suo-
ceeded in catching him.
HE came into my arms as neat as If he
was baseball, and at first 1t didn't stagger
me at ALL But once l had him safe and
sound the shock kind Of ratified me and
after reeling like drunken man fell with
him and he scraped his forehead bit.
We we're up again in moment and all
right.
Say, the kid never cried but minute
and when I got him in the drug store he
was ready to play with me. Why the
first thing he asked the policeman and
me to look at was his new pants. He'd
forgotten the fall three minutes afterward
and could only think Of them pants
The point where the child fell is between
Eiehty-sixth and Eighty-ffth streets, and
the elevated structure is about twenty-five
feet high there. But for Walsh's skilful
catch the boy would undoubtedly have
been killed by his fall.
TWO OTHER NARROW EscAPEs
Eiehteen-month- old Gustave Kogge yes
terday fell from the second floor of the
apartment house at GIG Washington street,
Hoboken, landing on the shoulders Of a
man who weighs trifle over 200 pounds
The man was coddling the baby in his arms
when the frightened mother reached the
81 rect.
Neither of us is hurt, he told the woman
Fat men occasionally come in handy
Peter Keller. five-year-old boy, whose
parents live at 235 briggs avenue, Will
jiamsburg, fell from a third-story window
last evening, struck an awning over the
ground floor grocery store and rolled off
into a basket of spinach. He didn't get