The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-17
REMARKABLE SWIMMING FEAT.
New L,ondon Champion Covers A Miles with Hands and Feet Tied.
rFrorn he New York Tribune. }


 Henry EIionsky of New London, ct. made a new worlds record Sunday by swimming from the Battery to within half a mile of Coney Island with hand cuffs on his wrists and his ankles bound together with two strands of haf-inch rope
 The nearest approach to this feat, except other attempts by Elionsky, is said to, have been that of Miss Kath- crime Wallace of Philadelphia, who was credited with having made eome- thing less than mile under similar conditions.
 The actual distance traversed by Elionsky was If miles, as he time and again zigzagged across the channel in order to take advantage Of the shift ing tide currents. At the finish he was as strong. apparently, as at the start and easily could have completed his undertaking but for the advice of his brother, Morris Elionsky, and Captain Joseph Pa1sgraf of the power schooner Idle Hour, who thought further stay in the water would be dangerous on ac- count of the darkness.
 The start was made from the barge landing, the Battery, at 12:56 p. m. and the swimmer left the water at 6-30 D. m, making the elapsed time 5 hours and 34 minutes. The distance between the two points in as nearly straight line as can be followed is 13 miles.
 During the GnLITe time EllOnSHy LOOK no food, water nor stinnul ants, and did not change his method of swimming. which was exactly that of a dolphin plunging through the water. generally with his head completely buried Ear Iy in the effort his eyes began to give him trouble, and after a short time he could scarcely see at all Thereafter he was guided by calls from a small boat that kept close to him.
 Turn over and take a resi- he was advised.
 -'I'l drown if I do.' was the cheerful reply, and he kept up the steady plunging during the entire trip.
 The handcuffs were of steel, or reg ulation pattern, with one link between them They were locked on by Deputy Sheriff John E. von Mugge of New York, who held the key and aecompa- nied the swimmer to see that they were not tempered with. The ropes were tied by a sailor at the barge of flee. and so tightly were they fastened that when it came time to take them off it was with difficulty that they were removed
 EIionsky passed Governors Island at 1;27 o'clock he reached the NarrowS- at 5 o'clock, and he went by the forts just as the evening gun was fired. When he was taken aboard the schoon- er he was practically at his destina- tion's end and going strongly.
 For a part Of the way sunday EliOn- sky was accompanied in the water by Paul O. Frommhold of the American Life Saving Society, who lives at AS East Seventy-ninth street, Manhat- tan, but Frommhold found the water 100 cold for his liking and returned to the schooner.
 The fear that a passing boat might cripple the swimmer, who was invisi- ble at any distance, caused his advis- =rz to have him giveNdp the attempt 70 reach Coney. Bound hand and foot as he was, it was thought that his life would be endangered by contact with es1y kind of craft or driftwood, but not until Captain PaIsgraf shouted to kssn would he consent to come to the boat