Show GENERAL NEWS He Got Them NIAOABA FALLS Ont August 22 William J Kendall of Boston today swamsucces3lully in a cork vest the whirlpool rapids Niagara River The trial was to settle a wager ot 10000 made by Boston parties he to receive 1000 of the stakes There were few spectators of the affair it having been kept quiet Kendall relates the following follow-ing experience When lie reached the spot wnere Captain Webb is supposed to have lost his life the water zeem d to go from under him and nugo waves struck him on the head and shoulders Knocking him unconscious for a few moments He found his swimming swim-ming abilities of no use whatever what-ever and never expected to come out alive Wnen entering the I whirlpool be was so benumbed that he could not use a limb and did not know what he was doing The current took I him ngbt into the main eddy and sucked him down like a flash keeping him under felly fifteen second upon reaching the under current he was shot out of th pool fully fifteen feet from its centre When he reached the surface of the router he bad partly regauud consciousness and knowing there was he no time to spare before would be dashed down the lower rapid be swam to the shore While landing be was so overcome that he again became unconscious and his assistants were fully u half hour occupied occu-pied in reviving him with the aid of stimulants ana by rubbing When asked if he would ever make another trip he said most emphatically No theres not enough money m tne world to induce me to repeat this afternoons experience A child would have the same chance to go through the rapids and come out all right as an expert Shimmer It took him three minutes to go from the railroad bridge to the whirlpool Kendall is 21 years of ape six feet and two inches in height weighs 195 pounos and is well proi or lions He was born in Neir York but I has spent most of his life in Boston The tore Bit consisted of five pieces of cork sixteen inches long four inches wide and to inches thick which were ewn in white canvass similar to a life preservtr |