New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
YOUTH IN ROWb0A1
 PLUNCES OVER DAM Harold hemenWay Of PiainVI||e, fuTn-
 iSheS Thrilling Spectacle. HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH

Ventures Too Near Falls and Is Pre-
 cipitated Into SwirIing Waters Be- Him Clinging to Tree in Mid-stream. Especial to the Hera1d.)
 Plainville, Jan. 19--An impromptu scenario, which motion picture inn pressarios might designate as Cheat ing the Churning Waters or The Hazards of Harold" had they caught it on the film, was enacted late yes- Hemenway, the eighteen-years- son of MT. and Mrs. Lewis Hemenway of Washington street. appearing in the rincipal role, the Pequabuck riv- CT serving as a locale and the em- ployes of the B. H. Hills factory and the E. T. Garter foundry acting the parts rescuers, river pirates and the inevitable hoi polloi
 Young Hemenway staged the piece without any rehearsals and he is
 
 The Hemenways live a short dis tance from the stream and Harold, who is an enthusiastic oarsman, fre- quently goes on padding expeditions on it's usually placid bosom. Yesterday conditions were a little different, how ever, the heavy rains of the past few days having swollen the river to such an extent that some sections of it were almost turned into rapids.
 Undaunted by the swiftness with which the water pursued it's course, the young man launched his rowboat and started out for a little exercise. He had such success in negotiating the ripples, which were almost fully developed waves, that he grew more daring and started a irritation with the dam, which diverts the water into the factories on the banks of the river. The water was running two feet over the obstruction and Hem- enway ventured so close that his boat was carried over and the craft and it's occupant were precipitated into the sWfrling water twenty-five feet below.
 At the foot of the falas tiee water is eae1p and t',es sn norsensal.s ga med in it's descent produces numerous eddies which fairly seethe with the waters attempting to escape. When Hemen- way and his boat, now separated came to the surface the young man was drawn into the whirlng pools, in which he was buffeted about for sev- eral seconds. He was then hurled into the onrushing current and was rapidly carried with the stream. Frantically waving his arms in an ef- fort to catch the drowning mans pro- verbal straw, as he was borne along. Hemenway finally managed to grasp a branch on a tree which stands in the river more than twenty feet be- low the falls. He clung desperate- ly to the limb and after a few minutes managed to clam Der into the tree, the only thing separating him from death in the angry waters, which clamored for him as their victim. His coat, boots and hat were torn from his body while he was strug- gling against the rapids and weak from his hard battle he presented pitiable spectacle as he wedged him self in the fork of the tree, marooned in the middle of the river. (One minute for change of reel)
 Employes of the Hills factory, who WlLnSSSoU Ills lSHl TOT He, uoSeEteO their benches and machines and hast ened from the building to aid in the rescue. Workmen in the Car ter foundry, the young mans father among them, also hurried to the river. A rope was secured and af- ter several fruitless attempts were made to cast it to his perilous posi- ton, two of the most venturesome in the band of life savers, started to swim towards him, the rope trailing in their wake.
 Cakes of ice, which had broken up in the river, were being hurled over the dam by the maddened waters and when one of the swimmers mar rowly ped being crushed by one of them, they gave up the uneven fight and returned to the shore. A line was finally thrown to the youth and he was lowed to the river bank.
 The glamour usually attending the rescue of the hero was stripped from this episode, however, when the irate parent, who had assisted in saving Harold secured a firm grip on his ear and marched him towards home. l Harold vows that this installment of his "movie' is absolutely the last as we'll as first, and as he was led 1 home he tearfully promised to avoid 1 the stream in future.
 RECEIVER APPOINTED.