The sun., 1918-08-23

Inlet. which always Is q tricky passage
| The motor boat and the canoes lost
one another. Some OF the canoes had
no paddles, as their owners had not
expected they would be needed. They
drifted helplessly. the waves slapped
them broadside and capsized part OF the
| fleet and the boys and girls fioated out
through the inlet toward the ocean.
Along came the third string OF canoes
seventeen OF them-pulled by the
motor boat Nonesuch. driven by ita
| owner. John Rogan OF the Brooklyn
Citizen. Rogan and his canoes were
headed straigiA for the point and all
was we'll with them. But from the
moonlit waters came cries OF distress
| and an overturned canoe to which a girl
| and young man were clinging swept
past. Rogan. who has won medals for
swimming. dived overheard. He got the
couple into his motor boat. A moment
later he went over again and pulled in
two more. He had eight persons in the
Nonesuch at the start. Now there were
twelve and the boat was overloaded.
One Of Rogan's passengers, Miss
Christine Shaw of 152 Prospect Park
West, decided that she could help most
by swimming ashore and giving the
alarm. She Is a Junior in the Brooklyn
Manual Training High School and holds
Public School Athletic League medal
for swimming. Her father. Sewell Shaw.
New York business man. and her sis
ter, BESSIE T. Shaw. were with her on
! the Nonesuch.
Miss shayv's Alarm Saves Lives.
The news given by Miss Shaw set the
| life guards busy. They had heard only
| one or two canoes had been swamped
and that everybody was safe. Much OF
the rescuing that followed was due to
| Miss Shaw's plucky swim. Included In
| the rescued were her father and sister.
Miss Ruth Bergstrom OF 80 Park
place and several friends swan from
one capsized canoe TO another. only to
have it turn over too They held on to
| 1t for four hours and were picked up.
Howard Wolfe. who was captain of
| the Erasmus Hail High School swim
ming team last year and who lives at
| 2021 Avenue S. was conoeing with Miss
Beatrice Heinig OF 1861 East Fourteenth
street, Brooklyn. Wolfe took so many
! swamped canoeists aboard that his own
craft was upset. Miss Heinig. who wore
! a set Of summer furs in addition 10 her
street clothing, threw of the furs under
| water. pulled of her shoes and her outer
| skirt and struck out with Wolfe. SWIM
| ming around the canoe.
Wolfe heard woman he thinks was
Mrs. Corley cry, Where is my hus-
band? He must have drowned" The
boy righted one Of the canoes and got
| Miss Heinig and other women aboard.
but as the canoe was overloaded he
beat OF with a paddle several men who
] tried to climb in.
The motor boat Veruna managed to
cast anchor of Rockaway Point and
none OF her passengers was harmed.
French Aviator a Rescuer.
! Charles b. Scully, who is with the
Vitagraph company and Is also captain
of the United States Volunteer Life Saw
ing Station at Oriental Point, had pre-
coded the canoeing party to Rockaway
Point with a dory and crew OF six. They
drove the dory into the midst of the
capsized canoes.
The first man they reached. strugglin
in the water. was Lieut.. Joseph (Cha-
| teau joel Stehlin. the noted French
| aviator. who Is living at Sheepshead
Bay. Stehlin had jumped from his
canoe to save others and had guided
several men and women to comparative
| safety, but was exhausted when Capt
Scully happened along. BY this time
the dory had ten persons aboard and
| one man was hanging over the stern
The crew, sitting In water up to theii
waists. pulled for two hours before
reaching Rockaway Point
Ensign Fitzgerald, who was last seer
| fighting the waves and whose friends
believe ne was drowned. grew up from
an office boy on the Herald. His father
died when he was small and his mothe
| supported herself and the boy by teach
ing music. He attended Erasmus Hal
High School. The Herald sent him L
! It's Brooklyn office to learn reporting
He made good and was returned to th'
| main office as assistant real estate ed
itor. He enlisted soon after Americs
entered the war, won promotion to En-
signs rank and has been studying nav
| igation with the expectation of beinl
sent to Annapolis for a special cours'
| this autumn.