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The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19
Breaks Arm Cranking Car.

Mr. f. A. Blanks, the popular sec
retary Of the Columbus Bottling
Works, had the misfortuns late yes
terday afternoon TO break his arm
while making an ffort to crank his
automobile.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19
Will Open Studio.

Mr.. A. N. Jacob has leased a room
opposite the Franklin Academy and
viii open violin studio Monday,
September 20. For terms apply to
Mr.. Jacob. Phone 34S.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19
Buys Pretty Home,

The beautiful Buder residence, To-
Gated on North Highlands, was pur-
chased yesterday by Mrs. Celeste
Shattuck, the home being sold for a
division of the estate.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Mr.. w. M. Wallace, of Vernon,
Ala, has been spending the past sew
eral days here with his son, Mr.. G.
o. Wallace.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Every shade of corduroy, the lat
est ana most stylish material for
skirts and suits, at
Lipsey & Chansky.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Mr., NJ w. Sharp, of Eupora, a
former Columbian, has been visit
ing friends and relatives in Lowndes
county for the past several days.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Mr.. l.. b. Divelbiss and Mr.. Char
les Dudley Divelbiss spent yesterday
in West Point on business.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Ask for aluminium ware tickets
when you buy at our store--they are
valuable.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Mrs A. C. Halbert is visiting
friends in Starkyile.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1915-09-19

Mr.. w. Breland's many friends
regret to learn of his serious illness
the past week.
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| this and reaching shore finally, he was
| later rewarded with both the title Of
medallist and the hand II the woman
| rescued.
william Smith OF New York, at least
one If the William Smiths of this city,
is an employee Of the Department of
Docks and Ferries. James Merhenn,
Thomas i. Killarney and Joseph Arnot
are three small boys who. until a GER
tain September afternoon, when they
became too daring, held that the great
est fun in the world consisted In skip
| ping about on raft in the North River.
While they were enjoying themselves
in this way one of the three youngsters
fell into abe water and another went
after him. and the third tried TO do
what he thought his duty by also jump
ing in. He didn't know whether he
was going to help the rrsst or the second
of his companions, or both; but, at
tempting to do the one thing or the
other, soon the whole trio were locked
| in a tight grasp Of each others arms
and Smith. on duty not far away, heard
cries of fear and sharp shouting for
help. one glance at the river showed
him the boys and he plunged in.
could have managed three small boys
who were drowning in deep water. For
not unnaturally they held to him like
grim death. 1t is quite impossible to re-
| late how he really managed to swim to
the raft and deposit the children there,
much as II they were half drowned pup
| pies. for he couldn't tell 1t himself when
! asked. But somehow he got upon the
/ raft and all four were taken from 1t by
some men who came upon the scene.
Smith was awarded a silver medal.
Another medalist by the name of Erie
Fl. Smith. a machinist's mate in the
navy, received medal for saving a
seaman named Rigo. Both men were
on the L. S. S. Jenkins in Newport har-
Dor. The rescuer was in his bunk and
/ & was half an hour after midnight. when
/ the cry Of man overheard" sounded
through the vessel. Smith jumped from
his bed ran up the ladder. back to the
stern and leaped into the black Atlantic
He could not see the man, who had
ceased to shout now, and It was some
| time before he sensed the straight di-
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Patrick S. Hayes.

In danger had succeeded in joining him
while she was still fighting the tide
The letter of gratitude which she wrote
to Surfman Bailey appears on the rec
ords OF the life saving service
The United States Navy comes in for
a big share of the life saving medals on
each years list and so does the revenue
cutter service. Karl Johanssen Is a
gunner on the cutter Gresham. March
II last he and c. Hansen, coxswain
Max Matson, c. Anderson, j. Kask. c.
Miller. \. Johnson. f. w. Sarnow and
r. NJ A. Holman, seaman. were
awarded silver medals for rescuing the
crew of the British schooner $. 4.
Fownes.
The Gresham, with Capt. F. II. Uber-
roth commanding, had gone several
miles of the Massachusetts coast to
give aid where needed in blizzard that
was racing over the sea at the rate of
sixty miles an hour. The crew OF one
schooner had been rescued during the
frst few hours out, and was being fed
and warmed in the cabin of the Gresh-
am, when, just as she was southeast
OF Monomoy Island, the men aboard
her discovered, perhaps five miles
south Of the island a sinking ship
whose masts were gone. Closer APP
proaCh revealed a Union Jack, al awry.
but sticking fast TO a star wedged in
corner OF the deckhouse.
The cutter and her skilful seamen
went on, cautiously, and when as near
as they dared go in the shoals stopped
within a quarter OF nile Of the
schooner. Karl Johanssen was then
detailed. with the men previously men
toned as also receiving medals. to take
n lfeboat and go to the rescue of any
one who might be alive on the ship.
The storm was increasing with fury
that seemed to demand sacrifice of life
on the part of the rescuers. Again and
again. as the gunner and his men
pulled close, they were tossed back on
the crest Of n wind whipped wave
Even when they were able to get in
close and stick there the danger OF
the big hulk's crushing them was great
1t is not recorded in the communica-
| lions concerned with the matter just
where in the ship the five men rescued
were found by the gunner's crew. when
they had finally fought their way on
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Of the overwhelming bigness and hyp-
motto wickedness OF the great metrop-
oils the harder do | find IL to fix upon
"A date of departure. | have several
cordial Invitations from New York edi-
tors to visit them the first time l hap
pen to be in town-editors who write
personal letters OF sympathy and en-
couragement when they correspond
with me at all; editors who have poor
memories; editors who have uncanny
memories editors who have probably
forgotten they ever knew me at all
yet am afraid TO venture a journey to
New York
Again and again it has been my
duty to attend persons who had just
returned from New York fine upright
highly respected persons, and In some
instances 1t has taken weeks or months
TO bring them back to ordinary health
so devastating was the erect OF the
bad air on their constitutions, Conn
Dental communications vouchsafed me
as medical adviser in these cases have
satisfied my mind that none or the mag
| azne or newspaper writers VINO nave
attempted to paint true picture oi
New York has done it full justice. None
of them has given fitting delineation
of the actual danger OF visitor trying
TO be alive during stay In the city
No doubt the editors with a mistaken
sense of patriotism, tone down any
statements which put the matter TOO
plainly And then again, the native
| New Yorker having acquired an I'M
munity from repeated incubation with
big town toxins, which works upon MS
country bred nerves, may be able 10
withstand the strains of metropolitan
life much better than his relations back
home,
That the relations can't stand It /
| know from personal observation. the
truth OF the matter, as confided to me
| by wrecks who come home from fort
nights visit listless, moneyless and ter
ribly changed, is that New York is the
best place in the world for one blessed
with health and small means To avoid
Last year hit upon n plan which /
thought might answer for my own pur-
poses 1t occurred to me that one
might gradually get in the habit of taxi
ing little trips away from home in the
direction OF the big city, stopping at
some place further and further away
each time till at last the ultimate des-
tination could he reached without such
a sudden change, | imagined that the
nearer to New York one might go, the
more like New York would the life,
the people and the climate be,
So I began by travelling as far as
Syracuse and spending a few days in
that pleasant town. Experiencing no
i'll effects from this trial journey. | next
made Binghamton, on another line, but
more directly on the road to New York.
But Binghamton was so much like home
that | returned very tired and peevish,
began to wonder whether my plan was
worth following any further.
AT that juncture I had pressing in
vitation to visit a powerful man in AL
bany. Albany is just outside New York,
so ] eagerly accepted For this journey,
unfortunately, | took n sleeper on the
Erie. You'd imagine the Erie would be
an ideal place to sleep and so 1t would
only for the porter.
Everything along the line seemed as
moribund as one could desire, excepting
the porter, | never saw such n lively
porter All night long he was as blithe
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Awards Made Through American Life
Saving Service for Heroism liz
Rescuing Drowning Persons

rection to follow. 1t was a summer night
and the water was calm and warm.
Nevertheless, when Smith reached his
man, out about 1876 yards from the ves-
sells side, he realized there would be a
fight to get back to the ship. Rigo had
gone through the mental torture OF ex-
pecting to drown in another moment and
was as helpless as fainting girl.
The crew of the jenkins was thor
oughly aroused now, and as Smith was
seen to be making slow progress with
his burden Thomas J. Glavin also leaped
into the sea. Had he not reached the
pair when he did both would have gone
under and been lost, for Smith was eX-
hausted Glavin, also the recipient of a
life saving medal later, now supported
Rigo and swan with him toward the ship.
Smith, unable to swim any longer,
caught buoy one of his mates on boa I'd
threw toward him and chung to IL until
boat put out from the Jenkins and
picked up the rescuer. his assistant and
the object of the rescue. The last was
unconscious when laid on deck and il
was an hours work before he was re-
suscitated.
On May 2S, 1914. Timothy OConnor
received a silver medal for a rescue
effected the February before. Two little
boys, whose combined ages amounted TO
fifteen years. fell through the ice
O'Connor, a police officer was standing
not far Off talking with two or three
Of his fellows. Suddenly some one
rushed to them crying that two boys
were drowning within sight. and O'Con-
nor wheeled and ran to the pier throw
ing his coat off as he went He tore
on his shoes and threw them back to-
ward his cap as he dropped himself
amid the cracked and broken ice hedg-
ing In the lads
The other policemen soon reached the
spot and were climbing down to help
OConnor when they perceived there
was something the matter with him
lie looked queer, They got to the edge
OF the water just as he was able to
lift up the children and let the men
take them. Then he became uncon-
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~ WILLIAM BRADY, VI. ID.

TOR a number OF years / have been
- planning to take run down to
New York. Everybody runs
down there occasionally. No
matter what ones business may be,
here or there, 1t is considered good form
to spend a few days in the metropolis
each season.
For us folks in the wilderness n jour
ney to New York fills the same void
that a tour of Europe or a sojourn at
Palm Beach fills for the New Yorker
only the former confers a greater dis
tinctlon on the traveller When any
one in our town goes to New York the
paper not only records the fact but
gives brief synopsis of the side trips
the traveller takes, such as Coney
Island Governors Island, Blackwelrs
Island. SC And II perchance the ad-
venturer meets with any noteworthy
characters they too come in for para
graph The ideal item reads like this
"Messrs Grge. Jenkins and FIX. r,
Wells, our popular Main Street clothiers,
hatters and gents furnishers, left on
the SIT Lackawanna train last evening
for visit to New York"
Then a day or two later: "Messrs.
Grge. Jenkins and FIX. f. Wells, the
popular Main Street clothiers, hatters
and gents furnishers, are spending the
week on business and pleasure trip In
New York city"
Finally the paper springs This one
"M.ssrs Grpe Jenkins and FIX f.
Wells the well known Main Street
clothiers hatters and haberdashers
who are buying fall stock in New York
CITY are expected home Sunday eve
ming. While in the metropolis Messrs
Ienkins and Wells are being entertained
most hosnitably nv prominent business
mon NJ that CITY,"
when n doctor goes 10 New York from
This mart of the country he always goes
for post-graduate work. Even II he
spends only n few DAYS there he seizes
the opportunIty TO brush up on com.
narrative anatomy and other subjects
upon which he is liable To be rusty. But
that isn't my reason for desiring to visit
New York
OF course I am more or less inter
ested in the practice of medicine; wher
there Is nothing better to do I follow
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Brave Deeds for Which Medals Have
Been Awarded Thirty-four Men
By Secretary of Treasury

swimmer, manag d to bring the younger
lad to the surface and back to the
wharf, where Mrs. Reeder went to the
aid Of her son and his unconscious bur
den.
The one surfman Of the life saving
service hcnored with a medal during
the past year was Fred c. Bailey, APP
station on the New Jersey coast. He
was in the kitchen getting his dinner
shortly after noon of September 2S.
Through the windows he could see a
placid stretch OF water and not soul
in sight. A few minutes after his last
glance out he heard flying feet coming
along, and he ran through the open
door, there to meet two boys who had
run $50 yards down shore and could
only point behind them and say,
Woman drowning"
Bailey ran to the rescue Long before
he got to the shadows where the bather
had entered the water, he could see r
drifting seward. He glanced at but
did not ask two men who also watched,
why they had stood there making no
eIOTt TO save "a WOlldH uNltE utAplt
their eyes.
He ran on through the shadows and
as he reached deeper and deeper water
commenced to swim like a person with
but one ambition in life. The drowning
woman was probably seventy-five yards
out when he reached and clutched her
He was pretty well exhausted now, after
his race along the beach and the dash
through the waters.
Bailey had caught her as she was
about to be swept under at last. and she
was Hike a dead woman to hold above
the water as he turned and began a
slow journey back to the land.
When the rescued girl regained con-
seriousness she gave her name as Mary
T. Malloy and said that she and one
| of the men on the sands had found the
sea so pleasant they had gone beyond
their depth; that the other man had re-
turned to shore, and that her companion
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~ URING the fiscal year Of 1914
thirty-four medals for life saw
- ing were issued by the Secre-
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board. But that the Britons were al
most frozen, were famished and hardly
conscious enuogh to recognize their
seemingly heaven sent friends is evil
dence that 1t was now a problem to get
them down the sides of their ruined
and dangerous craft and into the life
boat
This boat, with its load OF rescuers
and rescued. had no more than come
to the Gresham again when the Fownes
went down.
That Edward Il. Ray of Brooklyn.
y. Y. married the young woman whom
he rescued and for saving whom he
won medal is a fact and not at all
the set up romance one often hears
Of in connection with resCues from
drowning. Mrs. Ray was Miss Jennie
Crommelin. and she and the man now
her husband were members Of a swim
ming party enjoying themselves in Long
Island Sound.
II was near Mount Sinai harbor and
In the evening Of a hot day in August.
The water was a relief after the heat
Of the day, and everybody there swan
with much enjoyment. Mr.. Ray went
out furthest. Miss Crommelin was lead
ing the others, when, finding herself no
little distance from land. she started
back Mr.. Ray, glancing shoreward.
was just in time to see her throw up
her hands.
She was caught in the undertow.
Ray flashed round now and went toward
her as fast as possible. He had to swim
against the current. and by the time
he did get to her ne was not very fit
Cor the role of rescuer
She had given up hope of being saved.
and as she found Ray at her side now
she grasped him so tightly that both
went under and 1t was some time before
he could break her clutch and still keep
hold Of her and swim. Having done
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I'll / deserted the train on n siding
where II had paused to allow a couple
or handcars to pass by. Had there been
any other passengers | SUPPOSE the
train might have gone all the way into
the station, but as / was the ONLY mas
senger that trip it was hardly worth
While, and l was glad enough to disem-
bark and walk the res, OF the way as il
was.
rms experience discouraged me CON-
slderably. / had intended to make
lonkers my next destination, and from
there on by trolley car slipping into
New York in a quiet, unassuming fash
ION, so as not to stir up too much ex-
element. But that porter discouraged
me.
In New York, they say. You are CON-
uhualy exposed to such maltrsatment
on every side. The din you must en-
dure when you try to sleep in a New
YORK motel makes the noise OF two Erie
porters ana half dozen crossovers at
every way station sound like low music
from across the river on a summer
night. a grinning wielder Of an I'M
hyglenic but Indispensable whiskhroom
| is but faint suggestion of the numer-
Gus drains on your patience and the in
| sistent assaults on your pockatbook
after you land in the great metr, polls.
But alas It has become absolutely
unavoidable for me to go to New York
| Immediately. | arrive at the big caver-
nous station. A squad of red capped
officials usher me through and hustle
me protesting into a taxicab. The thing
| starts off with a great racket and goes
round and round in a dizzy whlrl, the
| Indicator pointing out my undoing with
| vicious accuracy.
| Suddenly the taxi halts. The door
| opens. ! am bounced on by gang OF
gunner, who strip me of every penny
possess, shoot up the taxi, kill the driver
! in cold blood and thrust the chilly nose
of villainous pistol against my temple
Make your peace" they command
And wake up in profuse perspration
Go to New York, is it?
While camping on Canandaigua LAX,
this summer ! was obse ssed with tn,
fancy that now would be a good time t
slip down to New York and get tina
little business matter over with. Tome
up and rejuvenated by the healthfu
camp life | fancied | could negotiate
week or ten days along Broadway AM
side streets without serious injury L
my health.
But as | sat In the boat fishing an
communng upon this thought ther
happened along something fresh iron
New York, gaunt, tired eyed, nervous
timid, thoroughly cowed looking, like
fugitive from justice or a henpecke
husband on a business trip. felt
great pity for the poor fellow l though
to cheer him up,
| Hello, neighbor," remarked "Ho'
do you like the lake,"
give me little old NYawk," he an
swered Rather night OF Broadwa
than a whole season Of this
Well. decided then and there Shout
never visit New York. When ma
could sit there in boat on the bosom c
the finest inland lake in the empir
State and yearn for
And the bass jumping right out OF tn
water around us
Why, the poor an@mic, myopic idiot
No, I'm never going to make this
journey to New York.
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lhlNb tne HsVdl year OF l'lf
thirty-four medals for life saw
- ing were issued by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury through
the medium Of the American Life Saw
ing Service. The list # those who were
thus rewarded for extraordinary hero
ism displayed in rescuing persons from
drowning shows unusual variety.
Always 1t is with interest that one
reads Of unselhshness in children. Rus
sci Potter Reeder, Jr, OF Fort McKin-
ley, Me. awarded a silver medal for
saving a six-year-old boy named George
s. McMullin, showed that, as. the son Of
a Captain OF the Coast Artillery Corps
he had not been reared in an atmosphere
of strictness for nothing. He had learned
that il was duty first and self afterward.
At Great Diamond Island. seat of thy
military reservation Of Fort Mckinley,
every ones leisure hours are spent in
pleasure boats along the shore. Even
the children play in boats.
II you arr not grown up 1t is a lot Of
fun to pretend you are the admiral Of
fleet just starting for the scene of
war and to make considerable fuss in
the commands you give an imaginary
crew. The McMullin lad one August
evening of the past year was doing just
some such thing. And he fell into the
water.
At this point the water was several
times as deep as the too enthusiastic
admiral was tall. Russell Potter Re- der,
II years old and quite above such baby
ish performa noes as the drowning child
had been enjoying, was standing on
deck Of nearby boat watching some
coast artillery maneuvres upshore.
without removing even his shoes the
older boy plunged into water fourteen
feet deep and, although not a good
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KEEPING ABREAST NEW YORK

can laugh. In the morning, bright and
early, he armed himself with a whisk-
broom and stood guard duty beside my
berth.
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and gay as even a New Yorker could
wish. He took up a position just out
side my berth and told the most con-
vulsing stories to another porter and
laughed as only lightly worked porter
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be glued shut. So l had to dress and
give the porter his chance. Although I
was shaved and dressed long before we
got into Albany, that porter never ceased
brushing the cinders from my clothing