New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-02
ORNAMENTS A RESCUE
FASHION Plate LEAPS IN
WITH CLOTHES ON.
SpJaShes about Bit While Boys
Sdre Teacher and Pupil at
Far Rockqray.

Clad in his nobbest summer togs a young
man sat on the beach at Far RoCkaway yester-
day during the morning bathing hour and
watched hundreds of men. women and children
disporting themselves in the surf. Three blocks
from the shore n centrifugal pump added its
regular chug- TO the noises Of Far Rock
away Sunday. The operation of the pump on
Sunday Is tolerated because by its workings
new land is being added to Far Rockaway at
the expense Of the bottom of the ocean, which
will never miss il.
For distance Of five hundred feet along the
shore the pump has sucked through pipes
enough sand to leave pool that in its deepest
part Is nifty feet deep When the tide is at its
flood there is sheer drop Of about twenty feet
awaiting the unwary bather who ventures out
more than ten feet from the shore Far Rock
away IS famous for its surf but along the sec
ton Of shore which has felt the force Of the
pump there is no surf
The boys call the = ater which beats upon the
shore AZ this point The Whirlpool and they
like 10 dive into the apparently still water and
allow themselves to he drawn by the subtle cur
rent which flows in the direction Of the intake
pipes which feed the pump back on the shore
These pipes enter the water about two hundred
feet from the beach
About 10 o'clock Miss Hilda Hoffman. who
teaches German TO about dozen of the younger
members Of the summer colony. left her apart
ment in tho Ocean House. Central avCnue
WIN AouE OF NET plpllS TOT Ner morning SN llil
With Elizabeth Hipkins Who lives az No. -
Liberty avenue. Brooklyn Miss Hoffman dived
into the pool and swan out toward the intake
pipes. leaving the Younger pupils padding MP 10
their knees in the water near the shore. Miss
Hoffman is strong swimmer and favorite At
Far Rockavay. and the shore VAS lined with
an admiring audience. among its members the
Young man with the nohby summer clothing
Miss Hoffman swan out 70 distance Of about
2 hundred feet. accompanied BY her pupil Ap-
psrentlv nobody gave any attention 70 the chill
dren she had left behind until scream pierced
rhe air Naomi Loucheim thirteen years old
whose parents have 4 cottage in Greerwood
avenue tired of padding around in ten inches
of water. had started 70 go 70 her teacher
Less than three yards from the shore sh" felt
the bottom Of the ocean sink beneath her Some
thing brought her back 20 the surface and she
screamed for help The current carried he-
ard the intake pipes strong strokes took
Miss Hoffman 70 her side 9hsn she had reached
a point about hf.. feet from the shore. with
CRY OF relief the girl threw her arms around her
teachers neck
Hampered by grasp which she seemed pow
erless 70 break Miss Hoffman and her pupil
drifted away from the shore. The crowd on
shore confident ~ ;he teachers swimming shil-
itv made NO move assist her but James
Bishop. thirteen years old. fnalIy decided that
All NaS not FlENt WIN INH Ffluk NNutAu anu
the girl ia the water calling 20 his chum
James Cadrey vho Is the same age he dived
into the pool and struck out 10 their assistance.
Aided by young Caffrey. he was able 10 break
the hold of the little girl around Miss Hofman's
neck Naomi 7yas unconscious when Caffrey
got her back To the shore and Miss Hoffman
needed Young Bishops assistance in swimming
in Elizabeth Hipkins swan to shore unasslSted.
In the mean time the young man in the perfect
clothes had jumped into the water without re-
moving garment and splash"d about, but did
not get near the imperilled girls.
Dr SaIzer Of St Joseph's Hospital. attended
the exhausted girl and her teacher The Caffrey
boy went 20 his home in Greenwood avenue and
James Bishop went TO his mother AT the ocean
House When he appeared on the porch. after
getting into his shore clothes number OF per
sons who were telling his mother how proud
she ought to be to have such a son began to
congratulate him
.'Alv, That wasn't anything" he interrupted.
"Rut what do YOU think Of that guy in. the
nobhy summer suit who jumped into the water.
straw hat and all. when We we're about fifteen
feet from the shore. and made a bluff that he
vas rescuing u.s."
RESCUED FROM LAUNCH.