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Show HER OPEN SUNSHADE A BUOY Young Woman's Presence of Mind In, Emergency Saved Life of Drowning Boy. Among many who figured la accidents acci-dents upon the water on a recent Sunday Sun-day none of those saved "considers himself so fortunate as twelve-year-old Paul Qelsenger who fell Into the Harlem Har-lem river at One Hundred and Thirty-first street As the boy plunged into the water his cries and the splash of the body were heard by two young women crossing tho Third avenue bridge. With rare presenco of mind one of the young women threw nor parasol to tho boy. Tho, latter, unablo to swim, grasped at tho sunshade, and It 'supported him llko a buoy. Ho was kept afloat until sovcrnl men rescued res-cued him by throwing a ropo to htm. Tho young woman who deprived herself ot her parasol, thereby assisting assist-ing in savins tho boy's life, could not be found by those who witnessed the accident. Instead sho hurried away. New York Telogram. |