The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-25
LOST COUPLE IN
 WOODS RESCUED AS END IS NEAR
Boston Lawyer and Wife Found Exhausted in Hut After Wandering 4 Days.

Woods after being 73 hours without rood, Joseph A. Dennison. prominent Boston lawyer, and his wife, last night were restored to their friends, ex- hausted by privations apd hunger.
 Nearly four days after their disap- pearance in the woods from the Bal sams hotel here, they were found by two men in an abandoned hut, at clearing known as Swift Diamond Farm, ten miles in an airline from where they had gone into the forest for an afternoon stroll:
 For their recovery s1, 900 had been offered by D. B. Coal1le, brother or Mrs. Dennisop, and $500 by T. G. Washburn, friend Several hundred friends came from Boston to aid in the search, among them Mayor Curley and many other prominent men,
 The wild character jof thes country they crossed after becoming lost in the woods may be judged from the fact that a roundabout journey of g miles was necessary to bring them back to theshotel
 Two Nights In Woods. ~
 Mr. and Mrs. Dennison spent two nights in the woods, walking almost constantly to keep warm, before xeAching> the abandoned house. They passed over the high, deeply forested ridge which separates the watershed of the Connecticut river from that of fkEpAndroscoggin, and found the shel- teripg roof that saved them beside 6fH9a{nN that helps swell the latter river.
 The country through which they passed issthe toughest, in this extreme 0y rough section of Northern New England That they are alive today 1s due in a large degree to MT. Den- mison's judgment in stickingT an old HoSgfng road, into which their steps book them after they lost the trail they had entered at the hotel clearing.
 The discovery of the couple in the abandoned house was but an introduc- tory chapter in the story of their de- livery. They were found about two 1kclock Saturday afternoon and though their rescuers did their utmost to get st1e news, out to civilization, they were r1nable to .reach a telephone until yes- 4rday. y
 To get MT. sand Mrs Dennison out Q the nearest highway, it was neces- taRry to sendaa blackboard in to them tWelv5 miles over ''tote'' road that 1iaA not beenttraveded by a team in fhree yeara
 HowsTheyeWere Found
 .s me- .DennAsous were found by Earl iGould, aged twenty three, a painter, g1neer, both of Colebroo4k, N H. Both isre experienced woodsunenA and had J hunted over the section in which the search was conducted They had a theory that MT. and Mrs. Dennison had gone into the deep woods to the iportteast and sshaped their course ac- lcordfng1y.
 MT. and Mrs.- Dennison last night told the story of their wanderings to a newspaper1naR-
 On leaving the hotel Wednesday, they eaid. they struck into the woods for a stroll. It was their purpose Ito follow tho Cave Trail and return before dusk. Hotel guests frequent '1y, travel this trail without a guide
 MT. and Mrs Dennison had stro19ed tor some time along the trai1 before they noticed that the blazing on the fTtree5 was becomingindtstinct and dif- dcu1t to follow.
 This did not at first disturb them 4 n they supposed by keeping on they would pick up the markings and in- | Dure their return to the hotel before s--8AA>A0AAs 4i6ACAOICs they to walk until dusk, when they had reached an Ssd and bush-grown road. This they followed until dark. They kept theirs spirits up by thinking that, If guides from the hotel did not find them, they surely could make their < way back to the Notch in the uorn- Ing.
 M Walked to Keep Warm " As precaution against the chill BDthe night they continued to walk back and forth in the old road. When hay came they resumed- their route along the old road.
 The road now ran beside a stream, which seemed am additional index to z Dafety. By proceeding down stream They hoped to como to a. Junction with larger stream. where help might be
 They walked all day Thursday from lawn to dark Their progress was < Blow. for the way was rough. Hunger Nas gnawfng at them. and their feet < were blistered. Mrs. Dennison,s low lid shoes were not adapted to such r0ugh going and she suffered more W lhan her husband.
 The second night was passed as was. ' Inc first. and at dawn on Friday the 0f v ~@Ag hAA0f SAA 0OWA tIi0 0IQ lOS TO6Q ivas resumed at a, slow pace. They how realized that they faced a fight Tor life. Mrs. Dennfson's strength was nrne when their energies seemed MT. Dennison had no matches with him and. therefore, could not. build a nre
 Thursday the weather was mild. put Friday there were showers, which nrenShed and chilled the couple. At lest. on Friday. forty-eight hours af- ter they had left the hotel, and at a st1me when theri energies /seemed tnearly spent. they came upon a clear Ing in which stood an abandoned house. built of rough boards.
 Entering the house they found that. z the good Samarftans of the woods A had lebt bedding and matches Mir. Dennison. lighted fire in rusty range. then made up bed.
 When Saturday morning cams," they said, i've had little inclination to leave the bed. There was no food in the hut, but we kound jar and got water from the stream.
 Refreshed by this, we debated ways of escape staravation, It was fnnos- Bible to tell the points of the compass k W0 clung to the belief that the < ptream was our true guide te help"
 MT. Dennison had resolved to leave 44 4{r ffA fx,f f1.<, ', 1~