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Show A HERO OF THE SHIPYARDS. Triumph of Clear Grit, Cool Judgment and Qulek Action. On Friday last n big holler, weighing weigh-ing sixty-four tons, wns obout to bo lowered Into tho hold of a steamship nt tho New York Shipyards. Tho hundred-ton crnno, so called because It will lift u weight of 100 tons as cosily as n collcgo girl lifts a wooden dumbbell, wns nwinging Its great arms towurd tho monster boiler, eighteen feet In circumference. Perched on tho top of it was a workman work-man a poor Norwegian who senrco-ly senrco-ly speaks English, His back was toward to-ward tho crane, nnd ho never saw It, nor did any ono else until it was within with-in two feet of him. If tho arm of tho giant crano struck him It would crush him as It would an egg shell. Twenty feet below was tho ground strewn with Jngged pieces of Iron, to fall on which was Instant death. Tho workmen below saw his danger and shouted to him. Tho man turned half way round and felt tho crano coming. It was death either way, nnd, paralyzed with fear, ho collapsed. At this critical moment when very ono else bad lost his head, ono man wns thoro who know what to do, and did it. Twenty feet awny when tho Impending doom over tho man wns first seen, In less than two seconds ho cleared tho space nnd stood nmong tho Jagged Iron. "Jump for your Iifo! It's your only chance!" ho cried, and ho braced himself to catch tho falling man, while tho crowd hold Its brcnth. Tho two men camo together with an Ira-pact Ira-pact so great that both wero picked up senseless. It was a caso of clear grit, cool Judgment and prompt nctlon. |