The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-01
LIFE SAVERS LIVES SAVED
TWO ~ HIDGET SLOOP car
SIZED N TINE SOI Nd.
One Youth LAY Denumbed and the Other
Had s~um Himself Out when Police
Launch on Patrol Got Them and
Rtxhted TneIr Little Boat ~ Well.


IN. waters whore the East River ends
and Long Island Sound begins felt cold
10 tho two young men who straddlsd
caIsizsd sloop oi Old Ferry Point yester-
day noon They had been ia the water
Just half an hour and Il wasn't joke any
longer
Ed. isn't there anybody in sight''
asked tho younger Of the two He was
William Feathorson of CT Eagle avenue,
TIE Bronx
"Thcre's not a rowboat.- said his COM
panion. Edward Sto!z o, s7o East ieoth
street See hero. Bill. We can't suck
I'm going 20 swim Tor the point. Come on.
Bill. you can swim
No, / can't-not now said the be-
numbed Festlsrson and sank nat on the
up,urned bottom Of the sloop. Stolz
thought he had COMO unconscious and
shook him
Come, Bill come on lie shouted.
but Bill didn't answer
Stoiz took ono more glance around. lie
saw nothing but smooth SOS and brilliant
sky Then he slid OF the boats bottom
and began Justify TO propel himself shore
ward The shore was q mile away For
perhaps third Of a mile Stolz swan
vigorously Then he began to weaken.
and hs had Just time 20 turn on his back
and fioat before his muscles failed him.
Away IN the distance tho worn out swim
mer heard sort Of chugging that grow
louder every minute He managed 20
half lift his head and saw u launch ap-
preaching II was police launch
and in 1t WAS Lieut.. john +. Dryer. who
has charge OF the nareor squad in East
..r \ t..t.t h.A sastr o
his men With him. He was on his regular
patrol through the upper reaches " tho
taS' River.
Stolr waved his hand and some one in
just spotted the cnpsized sloop with "a
man atop her Now at the sight II this
other man in the water the launch
ve.red and came toward him.
Lieut.. DWyer hauled StolZ aboard and
set a Coupl. ~ HIS men at resusCitatiOn
S'ulz didn't need that lie WIS simply
PLAYED out. not half drowned. The
launch cat through the water ~ the Gap
sized sloop
Feathe7son rolled into the water few
minutes before II got there He had
gone down unca when Lieut.. Dryer
leaned over the side and hauled him aboard
the launch. 4 little r-suscitation was in
order here. Roth boys came around all
righ; in a quarter 81 al hour. They
-.-,n"d astori-he when Lieut. DIVER
started 90 rescue iheir boat
The -loop " a. not more than twenty i've
te~' long The launch fuHsed around her
singing her main-l IN gask cts 30 that
v hen "a. was righted she wouldD Z blow
oN or again Then "A line VAS made fast
20 The peak ~ the mast and another "a
the mast amidships The launch braced
he- side against the sloops bottom; all
handS hove IN unison on the ropes and
the lit'le sluop came right. With no moro
tamag- done than the paint scraped on
the police laInChs st1rboard eide
"A the launch we'd smoothly over
90 ClhsOn's Point the ~ o Young men ex-
planned 20 Lieut. DWyeT that they we're
IN" official life saving corps at Riggs
Eea h. a BrOux Watering place reached
ultimately by the Westchester az enue
cars
They had gone for sail IN the little
-loop .g.sn she 70 nAmeless, and A.
they were not As coed sailors AZ swim
mNrs u gust Of wind had CApstzed their
boat 10th would have hsen lost. they
agreed, II Lieut. Dwyer hadn't been on
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