Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-18
1T WAS HIS BUSY HOUR
cOney Island Cop, saves Three Lives
and Then Hikes for
supper.

Mounted Policeman Johnny Dreamer OF
the Coney Island cavalry, twlddled his
legs over his bay horse and wondered why
his relief did not show up. Johnny was
ON post at the Ocean parkway and the
Concourse. where he could keep an eve
on the crowds drifting between Brighton
and the West End.
scream came in on the sea wind and
then muffled shouts for help Johnny
made. out indistnetly that a man was
struggling for life away out in the rough
water Then he glanced, at the stretch
of sand between him and the rollers and
gave the bay touch OF spur.
The horse flashed across the roadway
took the stone wall clearly, and stretched
his legs In a long galop through the soft
sand. Johnny pressed him straight into
the water, with people cheering right and
left lie slid off the horse when the water
was belly deep, turned its head toward
the shore. and clipped It lightly on the
rump. The bay shouldered his way TO
the beach and waited with dropped head
for Johnny to come back.
Dreamer struck out for the drowning
man. burdened with his whole outfit,
leather puttees. and all The crowd on
the beach saw him bobbing in the waves
and noticed that he hadn't even thrown
off his cap.
Dreamer got a hand on the mans neck
after what seemed an age, and II was
lucky he wasn't a minute slower. The
man was going down. completely ex-
hausted, when Dreamer caught him, and
an undertow had him by the legs He
was too weak 10 fight his rescuer and
Johnny towed him back to land slowly.
1t was then a few minutes past O'Clock.
The New Brighton theater and other
places were letting out their crowds and
they ran 20 the beach, and some OF them
helped Johnny salvage the man and empty
salt water from him. He was all right
in few minutes and was able to tell
them his name. Felix Heidrick of PISS
First street, Coney Island.
Johnny. dripping and chilled, was about
20 climb on the bay to report at the
Coney Island police station. when young
man. breathless from excitement. tore into
the crowd and caught his arm
There's two kids drowning up the
beach," he shouted IF you don't get
TO EN- now they're goners"'
He lt out on run for the bulkhead
that strikes into the ocean from a point
above where Creamer pulled Heidrick Out
and the policeman followed as fast as he
could. Behind them trai.ed lifegusrds
from Balmers, Captain Tom Reilly, and
his crew, but they couldn't step with
Crcamer handicapped as he was by nj,
soaked uniform.
creamer saw two boys away out, be
yond their depth, who frantically paved
the waves and cried for help. He tool
q header Off the bulkhead and swan
toward them. He realised then how tret
he was. Rescuing Heidrick had used hin
up, hut he set his teeth and plugged on
He managed TO STRIP one boy by the hail
and the other ciung 10 his arm. He triss
20 work his way toward the bulkhead
but he was so tired that he vas afrai,
every instant that the boys would pull
him under
Then the man who led him 70 the sec
Dnd rescue was struck by an idea He Il
chauffeur Henry Dalton OF a2 Halse,
street. Brooklyn. Ills automobile wa
parked near the concourse ana he hat
been repairing a tire wheel When h,
Jaw that creamer was weakening h,