Show GARFIELD TO SALTAIR yesterday july 25 three young men of this city accomplished the teat feat of swimming from garfield beach to Sal Salta saltair tair lr they were joseph J cannon george Q morris and ralph cham berlin they left this city on the garfield beach train at 1040 1080 and awalter at the beach the arrival of a boa be which was rowed over from saltair by A J ridges and claude lewis who also accompanied the swimmers on their return took soundings ot of the lake i depths and measured the distance by an towed by the rowboat I 1 pred fred reynolds also accompanied tha abl boatmen on their return and took sev era eral snapshot photos 0 of the party with his camera the measurement of the course act baily followed from the boat landin lan dinic at garfield beach to the first steps on the western extremity of the pavilion at saltair was found f to be feet or a shade over six and seven tenths miles the distance by air line la slightly under six miles but in the ab sence of buoys to mark adl sA direct course the route of actual swimming was 4 longer as given prom from garfield beach t to blaak black rock the greatest depth ot of VI water is five feet and could be waded immediately on leaving black 1 I rock point however the water 1 in seven feet deep a few rods farther it 4 is ten feet and at an eighth of a mila out it is eighteen and one halt half feet J deep then tor for a distance of five and andl two fifths miles the depth is remarkably X even being from seventeen to A eighteen and a halt half feet the greater portion of the way the formation of the bed of the lake is of huge of the same character as those off 0 black rock not the rock itself chow the saltair side of the bay la is ap preached pro ached the lake bottom is sandy aandy continuing this up to the pavilion about three quarters dt 1 mile west of saltair the water be comes shallow a few rods marking 4 change from seventeen feet deep ta to about seven in a short distance it if i ia five and for the remainder of the way to saltair it is from tour four to two and a a halt half feet with the bed of the lake aa remarkable for its ita evenness as it if aw i in the deep portion of the bay the time taken by the swimmers to tam make the distance was six and one half hours they left the at garfield beach at p m and ita was waa just when they set toot foot on th steps at saltair Sal tair the distance could accomplished in much less time by expert swimmers but the lake ake water aw i too heavy for speed and an d while it aldais alda ai dig is the swimmer by its buoyancy i it makes progress very slow besides the 1 boys are not experts but did splendid work for amateurs their was strong from start to finish ans ant they were anything but exhausted when they had finished they swam the en ell tire distance from black rock without resting for five and two fifths mile t the water was very deep and for near ly six miles they were unable to touch bottom at any point there was no ila wager connected with the feat but it was undertaken as something not be fore accomplished and which to believed to be impracticable yo no aup ou effects were felt of the suns ay the men in the boat who had to w wait t tor for the slower progress of the mers mere feeling the heat much more than those in the water who wore caps to lo s protect their heads |