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Show NEW INVENTION SAVES LIFE OF SAILOR RYAN At the height of a severe storm at sea. Michael Ryan, a sailor on the Philadelphia, which arrived yesterday, yester-day, was swept overboard by a wave and was roscued against gTeat odds. It was the flnst real test of a new constrlvance for securing and quickly releasing life-preservers. Charles S. Lenz, the Inventor, Is master-at-arms on tho steamer. He quickly loosened a life-preserver from the lashing ho had invented and threw it within fifteen fif-teen feet of Ryan. When the steamer was brought to a Btop, Ryan has holding hold-ing onto the preserver fully one-half mile away. |