Show t DIVING VENUS TRIES TO BATHE IN FOUNTAIN WOMAN CREATES AFTERNOON SENSATION BY ATTEMPT TO SWIM IN MADISON SQUARE New YorkAII the regulars were In Madison Square park when It hap ened > The time wiis five oclock IP I the afternoon nilsty McGurk whir was one of the children who used tr gather around George Francis Train I and who has been looking for anothei such philanthropist ever since war eadlng the day before yesterdays paper I I pa-per Also there were women and I children and a few dogs It was Saturday I I Sat-urday afternoon In Madison Square park Suddenly there was a chorus of screams One could not tell at once I t I I1 viI 0 Come On In the Waters Flnel whether It meant alarm or applause but it aroused curiosity Rusty dropped his paper and gasped The women and children stared and the dogs barked At the same time it was observed that a young woman rather well dressed in a clinging gown among other things and with emphatic emphat-ic blonde hair was scrambling over the picket fence surrounding the fountain foun-tain and was wading out with the evident evi-dent intention of having a shower bath A young man on a bench from which the young woman had arisen lumped to his feet and yelled and following fol-lowing his cue everybody else yelled but the clinging gown went its way until the water had mounted to the corsage By that time Policeman Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald of the traffic squad had been attracted by the clamor and soon he I was tit the edge of the fountain Come out o that he shouted Come on In tho waters fine was tho reply Fitzgerald accepted the invitation but no sooner had he reached the maid when she turned on him Indignantly Indig-nantly and exclaimed Dont you dare touch me Dont you know who I am Im Annette Kellerman the diving Venus I get a million dollars a week for doing this Away But he didnt away He told Annette An-nette he was from Missouri and amid loud acclaim from Rusty and the others oth-ers he haled the moist lady out of tho fountain and took her to Bellevuo hospital hos-pital where after a careful diagnosis It was said that the water hadnt done her a bit of harm and she was put in the psychopathtlc ward |