Show GREIT 6 lat adier iii aarm last east titer tightly bound alth ft lib kept rope special I 1 f chronicle berrice I 1 NEW boric june 23 gene maca dier champion long distance swimmer of st louis fora for a second time yesterday swam across east river thi tibebe time he was bound with rope from hia his ankles to hia his shoulders ilia feet were tied together and hie his hands av were ere fastened tightly at his sides in each band be he carried a two pound dumb bell either of which would have sunk an ordinary swimmer the distance covered was equal to ab abut iut twice the width of the river at grand it t lie left the navy yard and landed land edat at pier no 7 east river three quarters of an hoar hour later when macali r accompanied by steve brodie and and several several sporting men arrived at the boat bouse bonse at the foot ot of washington street brooklyn they fondd a crowd of about two thousand people assembled brodie put on hie bils rubber suit and manadier Ma Ala cadier prepared for bis his swim he lie wore light oil tights and a leather strap aromnd his shoulders when these bad had been adjusted a piece of new half bal rope about sixty feet long was bound around bis body loly at a distance of about an inch apart until his big sho shoulders uMers reached ilia arms and bands hands wre firmly bound at his sides and dumb bils b ils fag ened to bis his hands ile I 1 ie was then carried to oneff one of therow the row boats boate and Jam damped in the arty party rowed out to a point opposite cob 0 ob dock followed by a fl flutilla tilla of g small mall crafts when the desired point had been reached brodie dropped over the bow of the boat and macasier Ma cadier cadler was thrown over the side ids il lie ile landed on bis his face but turned on bis his back and struck oat out for the other side swimming by drawing his bin feet and knees up to whig bis waist and then kicking straight out backward his ilia stroke was a powerful one and at times the swimmer threw his shoulders sh out of the water the swimmer was completely surrounded by the boated boats and some bys in an old skiff inthey in attempts attempt sto to ret get near ran over and nearly neatly succeeded in drowning him manadier Ma cadier was not injured however and swam sturdily on the tide as ebbing and he was carried down the river in tying the rope no allowance had been made for shrinkage by water and w when hen manadier Ma cadier was taken out it was found that hie his limbs and arms were badly cut he ile made the distance about a mile in forty six minutes |