The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-14
FIREMAN SAVES
BABY IN SEWER
Child Drops Through Man.
hole While Playing in
Tompkins Square.
MOTHER SEES HER FALL
Wagon Company Lowered One
Of Their Number Into
Hole at End Of Rope.

lIOlC AC JL1O VI AtOp(s
IF any one should see by the
papers''-AGoe Henig, trap drummer
out OF work, was sitting in his very
clean fiat at 122 st. Marks place and
holding on his knee the baby that fell
into the sewer-"if any one should
sec by the papers that girl like this
tumbled down ten feet through man
hole and was lost for half an hour
in the tunnel with water as deep as
the top of her dress and was found
seventy-fve feet away by fireman
IN the darkness without d lamp and
the fireman brought her back with no
scratches or anything to her mother
in the park"
And where should the children play
if it cannot be the park" interrupted
Mrs. Henig. reaching over to button
the baby's blue canton flannel bath
robe. "On the sidewalk there Is no
room to play. On the street II is never
safe. But the park is the place OF
safety for tlie children, and what is
10 be our safety place IL holes are left
open so the baby falls in?"
'If any one should see in the papers
what / said" resumed Moe Henig,
"they would say, 'Ah, what made up
story Such newspaper talk. What
car you believer But I know this is
tho happening to our Katy. and If you
go to the park you can see the hole
mo. the cover It is down again. Moe"
said Mrs Henig.
''Well. then. the cover you can see,
and what lucky family. did not
know until | came home and found the
reporters I was at the Union. and felt
In my ears ringing and was almost
blind. We have believed that when
something Is happening there is In the
ears a ringing. and now, you see. it is
true
Katy, the Cause of 1t All.
Meanwhile Katy Henig. to be years
old next Monday, chewed steadily at the
end of a. lead pencil which was split
down the middle and had no lead. She
has blue eyes, dark hair, inclined to
curl UP at the ends. and, one may
Judge, q placid disposition.
Having thus introduced the principal
character, let US cut back 10 Tompkins
square. The hour IL 40 yesterday. The
park, In the heart Of the lower E,as- Side.
the meeting place of real league OF
nations. Twenty kinds OF mothers chat
tering on park benches, nursing babies
sewing, eating apples from the push
carts. Children by the thousand, out OF
school at noon, playing games on the
asphalt walks or straining at the chicken
wire that protects the rounded grass
plots which give the park its green.
Mrs. Henia, coming out OF St. Marks
place, had found seats on Il bench near
the side OF the square fronting avenue
A. With her were her two children, tho
adventurous Katy and Isldore. who is 4,
and their grandmother, Celia Henig Mrs
Heng and her mother gossiped with
neighbors The two children were near
by, and surely safe In the pleasant park
Then Icy Henig shouted something. His
mother turned just in time to SEQ flash
Of something disappearing down a man
hole. The boy lzzy was all right. but
his sister had vanished.
Such shouting and running through
the park and from the streets. Mrs
Henig. screaming out the name OF ner
Katy, jumped up on the bench, clawed
at the wire fence. and would have gone
over but n man pulled her back Two
policemen. Sergeant George Mulholland
and Patrolman William Hill, cleft the
crowd. lunging and fighting their way
TO the manhole. They were for droppinr
fhs. hal hut its. ia
two feet and theirs Is more. A park
iaborer threw himself on tho grass and
peered down. He could see and hear
water running In the big pipe ten feet
below, but no sign OF child. A disuute
arose as 20 whether Mrs Henig's little
girl actually had fallen through tho
manhoie. The mother wildly shouted
that she had seen her do it.
CIsng! CIanG! The Fir. Wagons.
The policemen got out OF the crowd
again and turned In fire alarm. FOR
rope and a ladder seemed TO be needed.
Somebody had already teiephoned Fire
Headquarters and to Hook and Ladder
Company IL. Fifth street, near Avenue
n. that a child had fallen into n sewer
near Avenue G and Eighth street. That
corner IL several blocks from the actnal {
scene The fire company lost precio,,s
minutes going TO tho wrong place and |
trying TO find out which was the Fight
one. When their truck charged into
Tompkina Square they thrust a Iadde-
the manhole. and then. finding I
the aperture too small for man ana 4 !
ladder too, decided to lower ono Of thei,. |
number by rope. All were willing 70 !
go. Fireman Frank Ely was picked be- I
cause he alone was wearing rubber
boots. His pals threw double hitch
around Ely--a loop al The hips. another
under the arms. 50 that no would re- /
coatinusd ssrthPase