The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-15
ASONG CAME OUT or THE SEA.
BEHIND THE SONG WAS SIDNEY
BREWSTER, SWIMMING.

Had On Opera Hat an and Hpd More or
Less Recently Paileh on afFerrybOat
Met the Tug Confidence and Came
AbOard-He's None the WOgte for II.
The good tug Confidence vas rounding
the Battery at o'clock yesterday morning
when Glenn, the cook, heard a strange sound
on the starbo9rd bow. He left the cap
tain's early coffee on the galley stove for a
minute and stuck his head out into the
night.
AvAsu Belay1
Hoorah for BAdanG BAyi
oarolled hsty voice out Of the tossing
waves.
Glenn went to the side and stared keenly
at the deep. He IL a sober, God fearing man
and II was new In his experience 10 hear q
norman Oh the Battery.
And be kissed her
With an awful
Fishing smack
sang the serenader. The Confidence had
Just passed the Brooklyn Annex ferTybOat.
Clam cooked his ears 70 make sure that the
sound did not come from her. II did not.
Glenn ran TO Capt. Allison Brady in the pilot
house. 80
Cook, you've gone crazy said Capt
Brady, leaning out Of the window and
studying the face Of the Watera as they
danced beneath the stars. But TO his ears
arose lusty barytone
Sailing, sailing, over the bounding msinl
He threw over his wheel and made for the
sound. In a moment. under tho boat hghtS.
there bodied an opera hat.
Look out You'll run me down.
howled a voice from the beyond. I'm
smaller than you'll I've got the right OF
wayl'
Capt, Brady slowed down and went ahead
cautiously. In another moment he came
upon Mr. Sidney Brewster, Of Elizabeth
n. j., treading water with cheerful equa-
nimity. The crew Of the. Con hdenoe went
down to the rail and stretched out their
arms for Sidney. He backed away.
MY hat said he. Never let 1t be said
that a Brewster deserted hat in mid
ocean,
Somebody reached out astem and hshed
up the hat with boat hook. Capt. Brady
thought he was dealing with maniac.
But he soon found out his mistake. Mr..
Brewster knew exactly what he was talking
about. As soon as he saw the hat he came
UP 70 the side and submitted TO the in
dignity Of being hauled aboard.
aWho IL in command here's he asked.
I'm the captain said Capt. Brady,
who had put another In charge Of the
wheel.
you might at least have the Manners
said Mr.. Brewster. TO say Glad TO see
you on board, sir Anyway he added
ruminatively, I'm glad 70 see myself on
board He turned TO the man with the
hat. My hat" he said, IF you please
He settled the hat on the back Of his head
and announced that he would now sing that
pleasing ballad Give us Drink, Bar
tender
Before Mr.. Brewster had q chance 10
say how highly he appreciated the bar
tender they had him on the grating in the
engine room. Mr.. Brewster did not see
Why he should be dried. He wasn't wet.
He was the dryest man In New York.
Capt. Brady made for Pier A and turned
Mr.. Brewster over 70 the harbor police.
He was shivering and chattering, and
though he protested that there we're better
places to go, the police insisted on sending
him to the Hudson strset hospital. He
was put 20 bed there and slept OF his chill.
He left the hospital az noon. The police
saw ne told them that he had started from
Central Park in a cab for the Twenty-third
street ferry and remembered be was worried
because he was afraid he couldn't catch
the 1910 boat,
Detectives from Pier were put on the
case and worked out a fine lot Of solutions.
They are quite sure that Mr.. Brewster did
catch the 1910 boat at Twenty-third street
and that he did get as far as jersey City.
They think that he then felt that he had
forgotten something he wanted In New
York. There are lots Of things one needs,
folks Of experience say, before going 70
Elizabeth. n. j., and the more Of them he
has the less he minds going back there.
He tried 20 board a Cortlandt street ferry
boat. they think and landed on the Annex
boat IN the next slip.
A relative said last night at Sidney's
home In Elizabeth that Sidney had got
safely home and was none tho worse for
his swim. Sidney says that he had been
over In Jersey City and was going back 10
STAY with friends In New York, said this
relative. He got on q Pennsylvania ferry
boat bound for Cortlandt street and sat
on the rail at the stern When the boat
ward. The boat didn't stop and nobody
apparently, saw him 60 over. just how
long he was in the alter before the tug
came along he doesn't know, but he thinks
that Il was quite a while
sidney Brewster is one Of fourteen
children Of the late james d. Brewster,
and Ia a Produce Exchange broker and an
athlete. He has figured In a number Of
athletic feats and Is an expert swimmer.
He a an uncle Of Walter Brewster. who
married the daughter OF All Fong Of Homo
lulu and who Is now on a visit at Elizabeth
With bis wife. Sidney Brewster's sporting
friends say that a duolIing In the 10y waters
OF New York Bay would not hurt him, as he
had often swum across Staten Island Sound
a,,d haok AT all seasona OF the year