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Show RIDES FAST; PANTS AFIRE. Life Saver Loses Trousers When Moto Cycle Goes Wrong Under Him. New York. Tho most recent victim of the twentieth-century speed crazo Is Arthur Hulso of tho Lone Hill Beach llfo saving station. Ho was confident a motor cycle could be used to advantage In patrollng tho beach for wrecks. IIo Is lying faco downward down-ward In thojiospltal ward of the llfo saving station; Ills scorched trousers, nro 1 1 tho hands of a seamstress who Is putting an asbestos sent In them, and his motor cyclo, fire-raked and water-soaked, Is In tho fihop for repairs. re-pairs. Tho stretch of beach which ho hoped to cover Is bolng patrolled by other men until ho can sit up In comfort. com-fort. Hulse Is progressive. Ho could not bco tho necessity for llfo Bavera plodding plod-ding up nnd down tho beach on foot when motor cycles nro on tho market and thore Is a hard beach at overy low tide. Ho purchased a machine, learned to ride It on the mainland, and tho other day tested It on tho ocean front The speed gear got out of order, and tho machine ran nwny with Its ownor. To make the situation worse, tho Journals Jour-nals went dry nnd a hot box Ignited the gasoline. There wns a flnro-up that set fire to the scat of tho machine. ma-chine. Tho blazo spread to Hulso, and soon bis coattalls and trousers wore leaving a trail of wmoko behind them. Hulso know If ho stnyort on tho machine ma-chine he would bo roasted allvo. If ho Jumped on" ho probably would bo killed. Then tho bay loomed up. The llfo saver sent his mnchlno nnd him self right Into the wnter, and tho temperature or Hie man dropped 02 degrees de-grees In three seconds. |
