The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27
HORSE PLANNED LONG SWIM.
HEADED Rack TO STANFORD
WHEN RESCUERS BUTTED IN.

Aqua Pura Nsstook the Fast River for Q
Kindred Element and started rOF The
GonnectscHt Farm -Jvrusteti OF Tin
suspicious TugbOat, 10 IIIs UndOlng.
An old black skate mot the lnny kind
whose Ri aren't ove~rburdened with ballast
In the shape Of flesh and who Ia suffering
with heaves and asthma wouldn't rouse
any enthusiasm N a seaGoing engine unless
you knew that his name was Aqua Pure,
out Of Hydrogen H., by Oxygen, and a
grandson OF the old original Hydrogen,
winner OF many aquatic events.
That's why Cap'n Waohsnreutsr Of the
Stamford boat Shadyaide lost IN 500 pound
piece Of live freight on the ganGplank
alongside the New Haven line pier. foot
OF Buring Slip. yesterday afternoon and
stood q chance Of having to chase 1t all the
way back to Stamford until the tug X. W.
Johnsing butted In with a halter and picked
up the four legged article. while q crowd
OF rubbernecks on the promenade Of the
Brooklyn Bridge cheered.
When the 'Shadyside left her Stamford
pier yesterday morning she had O herd Of
fifteen ordinary horses and Aqua Pura tied
In box stalls just aft the bow. The horses,
a. far as the Shadyside's purser could
learn, have been summarizing on a Con-
necticut farm along the Sound and were
consigned to q New York contractor. The
boat was scarcely under Roadway when
Aqua Pura broke his halter, reversed his
engines and stuck his head out Of Q port
hole. The deck hands found him sniting
the Sound breexcs 80 gleefully that they
didn't have the heart to yank him back
into the dark stall. As the boat passed
the farm where he had summered he whin-
MED longingly TO a bunch Of his friends.
who gave him horse laughs from shore.
Aqua Pura then INC there decictsd on q
plan Of action which he didn't communicate
to his fellow passengers. when the Shady
side reached the pier the deckhands didn't
take the trouble to separate Aqua Pura from
the portfolio until the other horses were
ashore. Then he was led gently onto the
g~angplank. There wasn't more than four
feet Of space between the side OF the steam
ship and the pier, and what little Openwork
there was seemed obstruoted by q network
OF hawsers.
The son Of Hydrogen II. and Oxygen
had his ~forefeet on the pier when he re-
membered his plan. He jumped over
backward. landed on the hawsers with his
feet in the air and hen slid of into the
water on his head. In a jify, he righted
himself, shook the water out Of his ears I'M
started in a bee line for Stamford.
Cap'n Waohenreuter was quickly on the
Job, and had all the deckhands and dock
laborers in the neighborhood lined up along
the pier with ropes. Aqua Pura merely
wabbled his tail playfully at his would-be
rescuers and put on full speed ahead. A
half dozen tugs, realizing the salvage that
would attach to pulling a thoroughbred
out OF the water, gave chase. Aqua Pura
had passed the Brooklyn Bridge, encour-
aged by cries from the promenade, before
he was headed by the tugs.
Oep'n Mike Redman hove 'longside lrst,
with the r.. w. Johneing. Aqua Pura
somehow got the idea that the r. W. john
sing was bound for Stamford and that he
would accordingly have ompany When
Cap'n Redman pulled q big apple OUT Of
his pocket and offered il to the swimmer
Aqua Pura then felt sure he was in the
hands Of his friends and lifted up his head TO
take il. In al instant the tugboat men
had battered him and got a strong grip on
his tail. Aqua Pura Felt 70 h~eartbroken
over the tugs act Of false friendship that he
offered no resistance TO being pulled board.
On the way hack TO the pier the deck
hands offered the game old seadog hookers
OF various stimulating drinks, but they
couldn't have opened his jaws with an 4
dock the witnesses Of Aqua Pura's aquatic
feat crowded around, expecting 70 see
tears OF thAnkfulness yelling from his
eyes. Instead OF tears they found a soOrn-
full look which, II translated into words,
would have said:
Il wish some people would mind their
own blaineHa"