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 A simple yet nearly tragic incident at Sea Cliff, Long Island, on the 10th of October last demonstrated most emphatically the practicability of an a1rship with pontoons-a hydroaero- plane-as life saving apparatus, writes Roy l.. McCardell in the New York World
 Walter Strohbach, aged twenty three, chauffeur of Flatbush, has the distinction of being the first person rescued from watery grave by means of hydroaeroplane. The greater dis tinction of being the first hydroaero- plane operator to save drowning man comes to Charles Wald, aged thirty, enthusiastic aviator.
 Strohbach was upset from a row. boat during bad weather in Hampstead harbor, and Wald, mile away, con- ducting experiments in a thirty-five mile an hour gale, swooped down in his hydroaeroplane upon the exhaust ed and sinking man and saved him.
 Since this repeated demonstrations prove conclusively that the hydroaero- plane not alone can be used to rescue men overheard, but is available also to save imperiled persons from doom ed ships on lee shores in the widest weather.
 For Coast Guard Service.
 The matter of the efficacy of hy- droaeroplanes as coast guard life sav- ing appliances has been brought to the attention of the United States gov ernment and the Volunteer Life Sav- ing Service, and efforts are being made to put hydroaeroplanes into practical life saving service along with the life boat, the lifeline and mortar and the brooches buoy
 Let Wald, the aviator, tell the story, for went out to his hangar at Sea him.
 The hangar is a wide, low shed by the waterside, with rolling doors that open the front to permit the wide winged hydroaeroplane it's entrance and its exit
 But Wald? We'll, Wald is. a boy of thirty. That is, he has a mans years upon him, but his every action and all his enthusiasm are boyish.
 Consider smooth faced little fel- low, sallowed by the sun; his height five feet five; his weight 130; small hands, small feet, sinewy and alert; a quick but quiet way. the confident air of the mechanic who knows-that's Wald. the aviator, first man to save a life from flying machine.
 "Strohbach?" he said in response to my first question. Well, he was a chauffeur holidaying out here, and he went out into the bay in rowboat in . rising gale and got capsized. x Saw Man In Danger.
 s..INwas just showing my machine out qt the hangar" said Wald, taking me to the waterside and pointing out over the Sound, "and had taken the water when Isheard the cries of people along shore who had seen the accident; these and the drumming of feet down the plank causeway told me something out of the ordinary was taking place out on the water.
 "A glance down the cove and out upon the rougher water of the bay showed me an overturned rowboat with man clinging to it, while hundred yards away and being carried further out by the strong ebb tide jaw. bobbing up between the white caps, the head and splashing arms of man who was giving every evidence by the awkward energy of his actions that he was an inexperienced swim mer
 II threw the motor over and the propellers began to hum. Another half minute and the machine was moving, gaining speed at every turn. The pom toons hit the whitecaps at the mouth of the cove and the old water bird skipped like hard flung flat stone from wave to wave. She looks like she is pumping the bumps when she does that. but she rides like feather bed in twice the gale this was" ;, Made Two Miles in Hurry H When I first sighted the overturn- ed boat" he went on, "it was about two miles away. The spray from where the pontoon bows struck the water stung my face and showered over the planes, but with a hop, skip and jump, and riding like rocking chair. the old fiier hit the high spots or the bay, and before you could have counted hundred I was within fifty feet of the struggling Strohbach, now almost all in and going under
 T could see his friend, who was still clinging to the capsized rowboat, was in no danger, and that motor boats were being started up along shore to get to him, so kept my eye on the weakening man in the water, and shouted to him to hold up
 "Then shut off the motor. and turn ed the rudder so that we scraped the right pontoon within eight inches of him. As soon as I had stopped the engine stepped down on the frame that holds the aeroplane to the. pon-