Show his life for duty t 1 last jast ot of roll tle oe told the of j old captain oakl lag and tho the holboke dam a story known lo 10 every dyer direr S it it seems there as a leak in this eam am and the water was ru jibing through with so strong a suction that it seem t ed certain death for a direr diver to go 50 near K enough to top the leak yet it wae was extremely important that the leak be topped stopped iu la fact the saving of the r dam depended on it so capt conkling who was in charge ot of the job induced one of his to go down and reluctantly the man put on an hta his nult ault but Insl Insi steu on having an extra rope and abd a very strong one tied around his waist that for asked conkling to help get my body out it if the life line breaks cald tho the diver go on and do your work replied conkling Conkli nr who had little use for sentiment it happened exactly as the diver reared ho no was drawn into the suc tion ot of the hole bole and when they tried j to pull him cp up both hose and life line parted and tho man was drowned but managed to rescue bla his body with the heavy line just as he lie had bad planned then conkling called for another diver but not a man responded they said they that kind of tools fools all right said the captain in ba hia businesslike way then go down myself and top stop that hole and ha he called the men vien to drose dross him at this time capt conkling was 75 jears old and had retired long since from active diving but he was as strong as a boree horse still and no man had ever questioned bis his courage in vain 1 they tried to dissuade him III 1 stop that hole bole said he be and I 1 dont want my rny extra rope either he kept his word ho ile went down and ho he stopped the tha hole bole but it waa was with his dead body ane an oday o day somewhere in tho the holyoke dam lie the bonca bones of brave old capt in cased eased in a full drees dress helmet hose and life line burled buried in that mass of masonry no man ever dared go down after his body from cleveland moffetts careers of danger md pad daring tho the century company |