The San Francisco call., 1906-07-29

If there is a way to foresee these q
not yet been discovered, for all the /
care in the world seems futile when
nature lays the snare. A party of boys |
old enough to take care of themselves. |
for example, were swimming in the
comparatively safe waters of Stanford !
Lake at Palo Alto They had been
in" for a long time and were just
coming ashore to dress. when it was
noticed that Johnnie Nichols was no.
where to be seen. He had been with
the rest of the boys only moment be-
fore. But either a cramp had over
takn him or he had struck a sudden
hole and had .nk. All that was left
was his pile of clothing on shore to tell
the sad story Of his death. The lake
was the last place in the world where
such death could have been antici-
pated.
Again. it does not seem to require
even deep water to cause the casualty
any more than it requires a cannon
cracker" to do the fireworks fatality.
For instance, Frank Sweet a 16-year-
old boy, tumbled into a pit left by the
/ dredgers in Alarysville and ended what
( was otherwise a promising life. In
/ Santa Cruz. the infant son of Manuel
/ Machado crawled a little distance away
/ from the house and was found drowned
/ in a small barrel. BrockwelL a carpen-
ter in one of the Sacramento Valley
/ towns, slipped while working one
of the fumes. fell into the shallow wa
ter of the fiume and ended his days
/ thus helplessly. George ]. Reynolds, a
/ farmer at CoVina, was out in the sun,
working a little too much for his ad
vanced years, the latter being well on
into the sixties. when he tainted and
was drowned in a ditch not more than
600 yards from his home.
In the outskirts of Sacramento
young man who had been out of the
high school only a week was bathing
in the river when one of the whirl-
pools which are numerous in that vi
cinity caught him and put an unhappy
quietus upon all his aspirations and
prospects
over in Manila occur the same fateful
incidents. A private of Uncle Sam is rid
ing safely enough upon one of the Gov
eminent launches. There is momentary
/ crowding. a lurch of the vessel, and
i young Lonsdale is no more. At VAL
lejo, whence the navy vessels fit out
for Manila. former Supervisor of San
Francisco slipped from the landing and
/ was drowned. And out at the San
/ Francisco beach, where the crowds
! come and go at all times of the day
I and night, and where, if anywhere in
the world. man should have chance
to be called back before the waters rob
him of his life, one r4mtl Heinz was sit
ting upon rock fishing. He ventured
a little far. His foot slipped upon the
wet surface. And down he went into
the surf. There was no one but a 12-
year-old boy in sight to attempt his
rescue, and the boy could do nothing.
Even the expert seamen are the wa
1 ter's victims. too, one of them, Michael
Grady, falling from boom on ayacht
among the many yachts stationed at
Tiburon and sinking despite the dozen
vessels round about which might have
saved him.
And the rich. The summer of 1906
has been no better TO them than to the
poor. IT took away early in the past
month a nephew of the Vanderbilts
and one of the choicest scions of the
rich mems families of old New York,
and before the season was out spread
Its pail to five or six others besides
Hamilton Twombly TwombIy had all
the accouterments of safety. the swim
ming suits which are a delight and
envy to those who cannot afford them,
the boats on shore with which to row
out to deep water, the life ropes, or
whatever else boys might wish TO add
TO the fascination of water sports but
ne. Nentuleu TOO Tar, MS strength
pfayed out and he was no better off
than the humble Manuel GARLIC who
sank in the muddy waters at the
Needles
Occasionally the summer has yielded
its heroes-not many OF them this year,
but such as there have been have been
worthy of their names The football
player Sam Stowe, who almost lost his
t)ife In the Willamette, was trying TO
rescue fellow workman when the
river just missed claiming him for it's
victim. In one of the towns of the
East an eleven-year- girl at the