The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-19
SOME WATERSIDE LIFE SAVING
CROWD THOUGHT 1T WAS ALL Up
WITH .ARMORER BARRY

When a Scow Slammed Against the Sea
wall over His Head and Teddy's--
Both Got Out Aliye-Radhey In His
Best Clothes Saves Statue OF Liberty
Teddy Regenstruck, 9 years old, was one
Of number of little chaps who we're having
fun yesterday morning sliding down the
side Of sand pile near the waters edge
at the foot of East Twenty-fourth street.
In getting up after roll he tripped on the
strngpiece and went overheard.
Arthur Barry, able seaman and armorer
aboard the Naval Reserve ship Granite
State, who was at breakfast aboard the old
frigate moored to the recreation pier at
Twenty-fourth street. went through an
open port after Teddy. He had to swim
around the stern Of a sand scow and down
narrow stretch between 1t and the sea
wall and he soon had the boy. Policeman
John Neville lowered a rope to Barry.
Barry grabbed it and was about to be
dra gged up when he let 60 and dropped
ba ok into the water.
An incoming ferry boat had raised swell
and he would have been caught II he hadnt
dropped.
the wall. with Barry and the boy out Of
eight. 1t seemed as If the scow would never
swing back. Men kicked at 1t and tried
with the strength Of their legs to push the
bulky craft away.
The men on the Granite State Skinned
down the anchor chains. dropped into
big sea skiff, rowed to the free end Of the
scow and showed the nose Of the skiff like
wedge into what little space there was
widened and the sea skif was worked
further in toward where Barry had last been
seen. Then with a sudden and generous
lnrch, the scow swung out and Barry's
mead bobbed up above the surface. He
still grasped the unconscious boy.
The men in the boat yanked them IN In q
forced the scow in again. The skin was
staunch. and, though her sides cracked
and groaned she blocked the road. Little
time was lost in getting Barry and Teddy
quickly and the boy had begun to show
signs OF life under first aid treatment when
an ambulance arrived. The surgeon soon
had the boy in fairly good shape. Teddys
distracted father, tailor, living at 1871
At $50 o'clock. yesterday morning Eta
Kuryan, an eighteen -year-o old Jewish girl.
built on a Ia rye plan and living at II Market
street, fell off the enc, OF the recreation
yier at the foot Of that street. Frank
Radley, a redheaded Irishman. about half
$3.50
forty feet out.
Then his troubles began. Miss Kuryan
was struggling violently He managed to
grip her from behind and he pinned her
arms to her sides. Then, swimming on his
back, he made slowly toward the end OF
the pier. Policeman Charles Anderson
threw out large ring shaped life buoy.
RIDLEY succeeded in getting the buoy under
tire girls arms and with him pushing and
Policemen Anderson and Sheehan pulling,
she was soon on the pier.
She went to Gouverneur Hospital. Rad
lev didn't 60 home and change his clothes.
principally because he had no other clothes.
He is boatman by profession and has
pulled many persons out Of the river He
summed himself on the side Of the pier and
smoked his clay pipe while his clothes
dried
: Radlev.' saws to meself, we've saved
the Statue Of Liberty was what Radley
had TO say about the rescue.
Policeman Frederick j. Eggers of the
Union Market station went into the river
after Miss Jennie Schecket who had fallen
IN. He caught her and the rescuer and the
rescued we're hauled to the pier by dozen
wiling hands Miss Schecket was none
the worse, The cops uniform was spoiled.