| Show r Adventurers Adventurers' Club Six Si Men in a Boat By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter IT ISN'T often olten that heroes get the medals they dese brave but h heres here's res re's one that did did He lie is John John Brooklyn N. N Y and if the reward is IS any criterion or of John must have done done the most heroic act lct of or the century He lie got not just one medal but two And in aM j. a was presented with a gold watch and two life liCe savin Now Ive I've got pot you wondering what a man could do dot to tad e d all that stuff for one act set of heroism Well John just Jutt threw his hll life that's that all He Just lust tossed It out on the waters watery watell d h It Into the laps of the Fates And It was nothing but dumb dump dumpor or maybe an act of 01 Providence that Providence that It came floating bark back back I k It was September 0 1022 The Lamport and aad Holt loft line I a ita slid did picked up an S 0 O S call from the Hamburg American It was C S a. a m m. and a storm was raging In the Bay Day of ot Biscay the Euclid was plowing plO Its way but the S 0 O S was urgent theE was sinking linkIng rapidly rapIdly and and the Euclid was only a few fl hours hours' run skipper ordered the ship about and set the men who nho were c or lowering all available Jacobs Jacob's ladders lodders over the side and Stricken Ship Wallows in the Heavy Seas John Garnish was W a fireman on the I Euclid He tie was It off ort duty and working on the tile Jacobs Jacob's ladders He Ile saw the tho from start to finish and wound up op by getting rl right ht Into the thick The Euclid reached the Harmonia at a a. a m m. m after b fought Its way through a sea lea that had seriously Injured cm OIl the sailors What a sight eight she was Wat says saYI John I I have hav through the World war In the merchant marine marine have have leen torpedoed and sunk have sunk have watched oil tankers burt burst lit Into drop out of the convoy and go to the bottom But the Harmer one ship flip Ill I'll never forget As we approached her she was lying on her ber starboard tide almost In the water The lifeboats on her port side sille were count of the list Of the starboard boats only a few had be been ik tD away awny because of or the heavy sea We saw law dozens of corpses flo boa 1101 Dt water But Dut the storm made it impossible for tor us to lower our oar 01 sr We could only stand stead by and welt walt Craven Crew Seeks Refuge in Life LiCe Boats A lifeboat from tram the Harmonia came toward us and aad that it was tilled Oiled with members of the crew lie He ordered them u It nH- nH Six Men in a Little Boat Reached the Sinking I Liner and rescue women and children Instead the they scrambled and tot tar the ladders until our skipper brought the ship around to the tel rest and their boat was swamped by the heavy sea It was one of those disgraceful things that happen tie often In sea disasters The captain of the Euclid gave order orden fish the stricken panic sailors out of the water and turned to b chief officer I wont won't order my men to take a boat out In tat sea he said but If any of them want to volunteer they en ca ahead John Garnish heard him say that So did another fireman B them volunteered on the spot John Jolin wasn't the only hero on that day dOl nor not the only man to earn and earn and deserve watches deserve watches Ulcer a and a flock hock of medals Three more sailors and the thief Joined with them and they lowered a II boat Into the raging sea Heroic Volunteers Risk Lives in Desperate Rescue V VII The wind and waves buffeted the little boat about like s I six men In her were tossed high In fn th the air on the crest of ever w wIt It seemed little short of miraculous that their cockleshell boat ru am sized and swamped They They fought like fiends against the port pore Atlantic and at length they reached the stricken liner We came close under her stern says saya John and loos wm covered that this was a mistake for the sea tea was wai washing U 4 her well deck We pulled out again and came back In I 1 caught one of her port holes with a boat hook and I a 1111 a grabbed one of the blocks that was wal dangling over the Ide aided 01 davits Passengers now started Jumping from the saloon Many of them missed the boat and landed In the water I W bit got them We started back for lor our ship loaded down pie and I never thought wed we'd be able to make It Half way between the two ships we saw an upturned boat hnat women and a n little girl clinging desperately to the bottom II able sight light but we could do nothing until we had unloaded oar However we reached the Ship safely got all our people about aboard set out to aid the tile upturned boat John Rated a Flock of Medals for This Feat the most terrible part of the whole a 60 n k the oars were already exhausted by their grueling trip to the h but they rowed on until they thel reached the upturned lifeboat After a bitter blUer fight they got there there pulled pulled the ys their boat and brought them safely back to the ship J That brave crew of that little boat dragged them themselves elves aba aboard b rd ll J slid clid with the cheers of the people they had rescue rescued r their ears Other ships began belan appearing on the scene now end and b he t rescue work The Harmonia sank and the captain t the w as J rat was rescued b by the nut hut a n crew cre of the KIngSford Castle been lost In the excitement and panic that reigned aboa the vessel be before rare the E Euclid had reached ld the scene C WIlU e Son Service Ice |
