Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-06-10
LIFE SAVING
MEMS ADVICE.
Issue Circular Letter on How to
Prevent Accident and Save
Drowning People.
DON'T ROCK THE BOAT.

The following summer bulletin
issued by the L. s. Volunteer Life
Saving Corps has been sent to the
EVENING..NEWS. 1t contains some
valuable advice and instructions for
those along the water. The bulletin
is as follows:
MIR. EDITOR:
There are SO many lives, about
loo, lost every year by drowning in
the United States that might be saved
by.a knowledge of how to act in cases
of emei gency, that we are constrained
to request you to publish our summer
bulletin of advice to all persons who
may be attracted to disport them
selves upon the waters the comm &
summer in any way.
A large proportion of the lives lost
every year are of children who have
never been given any conception ol
the dangers on the waters. either in
bathing or boating. We have been
long and persistently urging upon
parents and school boards the duty
and necessity of education in this dir
ection, and OF teaching the young how
to swim and how to act when boating.
AS a result many lives have been
saved the past year by children. Let
us kindly impress upon your readers
these rules:
First--Do not so out in any pleasure
boat of small or large dimensions
without being assured that there are
life-saving buoys or cushion aboard
sufficient to float all on board in case
of an upset or collision, OIL festooned
with life-sav!ng ropes.
Second-With Il party, be sure you
are all properly and satisfactorily
seated before you leave the shore,
particularly so with girls on board.
Let no one attempt to exchange seats
in mid-stream, or to put "a foot on the
edge or guuwale Of the boat to change
seats, or to rock the boat for fun'
This, by rollicking young people, has
upturned many a boat and lost very
many lives every year. Where the
waters become rough from u sudden
squall or passing steamers never rise
in the boat, but settle down as -close
to the bottom rs possible, and keep
cool until the rocking..danger is past.
If overturned, u woman's skirts. il
held out by her extended arms, while
She uses her feet as if climbing a
stairs, will often hold her up while a
boat may pull out from the shore and
save her. a non-Swimmer. by drawing
his arms up to his sides and pufhing
down with widely extended hands,
while stair-climbing, or treading
water with his feet, may hold himself
up several minutes, often when a
single minute means his life, OF
throwing out the arms dog fashion,
forward overland and pulling, as il
reaching fol- something, that NAV
bring him help, may at least keep him
aloat till help comes.
Third-In ~rescuing drowning per-
sons, seize them by the hair or the
collar, back of the neck; do not lei
them throw their arms around YOU
neck or arms. If manageable, az
not strike them, but let them dtoE
under a moment until quiet, then tow
them into the shore. Ii unconscious
do not wait a moment for u doctor o.
an ambulance. but begin at once
first, get the tongue out and hold j
by a handkerchief.or towel to let thu
water out; get a buoy, box or barre
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under the stomach, or hold them Owe
your knee, head down, and Jolt I'LL
water out. then turn them over side 7
side four or five times, then on tn
back. and With a pump movement
keep their arms agoing from pit I