Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 3 | Halifax Youth Real Lifesaver

HALIFAX rOUTH REAL LIFESAVER Lad Only 12 Has Three Lives to His Credit HALIFAX. N. 8, Aug. I. Harry McDonald, a 12-year-old lad living at Falrview, on the outskirts of Halt.aa. haa to hla credit three rescues res-cues from drowning, all within the paat three yeara. Hla latest feat was the saving recently re-cently of 1-year-old Teddy Moller, when the amall boy fell through a bole In a Kalrvlew wharf. Toung McDonald bad to dhe over the wharf and swim a distsnre of twenty 'feet emoftsM-jlewJjriujrtfoner boy was going down for the third time and waa unconscious whea reached, but McDonald clutched h'm and then, holding to one of the pl.es. directed the remainder of the aavlng operations. Theae were carried out wjth the aid of a cod line peeeed down from the wharf. Questioned about hla first life aavlng exploit Harry aald: "Aw, It waan't nuthln' at all. The O'Brien kid what lives on Stanley street felt off a raft down by the shlpyarda and I went In and pulled him out." The description of the second eg-plolt, eg-plolt, when he reacued Arthur Math-am. Math-am. waa: "He waa my chum, ao I had to get him back." It waa not until after hla first two rescues that the young life aaver learned to awlm. In the first Instsnce he plunged after the "O'Brien kid" into water over hla head, and managed man-aged somehow to get him back to the raft. In the aecond he went to hla chum's reecue partially supported by a stick. Harry, la described aa a "Regular Boy," even to having the proverbial i"yaller dog" One of Harry'e ist- 'HHonw Is to become s Pen Hcouf.