Show T tame 0 adventurers CLUB e I 1 i k HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES V OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 I 1 A ride with the reaper ELL one way to have an adventure is to go on an automo abile W bile ride with jeannette E lowitt of arverne alverne Ar verne N Y jean bettes driving would thrill you it might even paralyze you like the old patent medicine ads used to say it invigorates the healthy cures the lame and the halt and brings the dying back to life jeannette started out on her adventure without any automobile at all As a matter of fact she even properly equipped I 1 for walking she have any shoes on it was a stifling august day in 1930 even rockaway beach was without the slightest i sign of a breeze jeannette was lying down in her room when suddenly the hot muggy air was torn by the most piercing ago mizing scream she had ever heard and from then on things happened thick and fast jeannette jumped out of bed and ran to the door in front of her house was a crowd of people in the midst of them was mrs levin a summer visitor holding a tiny infant in her arms my baby hes dead she was crying and as jeannette sprang down the steps she heard the frantic white faced mother explaining that while she had left the child alone for a minute it had picked up a bottle of camphorated camph orated oil and drank it jeannette starts trip to hospital the baby lay in the womans comans arm arms s motionless stiff his little eyes bulge and his lips were blue without a word jea jeannette anette grabbed him and started running running toward the doctors office two blocks away she was still barefooted the burning sun made her head throb perspiration drenched her body but she sprinted the whole way and burst into the doctors office her heart pounding madly the doctor was in his back office operating on a mans foot blood soaked cotton was strewn over the operating table and more blood was dripping into a pail that hung beneath the patient 1 I cant stop he said this man has a hemorrhage the trouble at that point the childs mother who had followed closely behind A jeannette c came ame bursting into the office my babal she wailed hes deada hes dead the doctor dropped the needle he was holding snatched the child from Jeann ettes arms and ran into the bathroom r ia M without a wor word jeannette grabbed him and started running E vc opening the hot waar water faucet in the bathtub he held the baby under it A minute passed there was no sign of life jeannette he whispered 13 hes gone golej look hes foaming at the mouth rush him to the hospital take my y car its outside the key is in the ignition my li patient will bleed to death if I 1 leave him jeannette picked up the child again she dashed out into the hall and stumbled over the prostrate body of mrs levin who had fainted she even hold the child while jeannette drove to the hospital how could she manage alone she rushed to the street lost a few precious seconds trying to get the babas stiff outstretched arms through the narrow door with the child on her lap she lost more valuable time trying to find the starter she found the starter at last the motor roared the car started she was off turning the corner and putting on speed racing down th the boulevard toward the hospital at beach eighty fourth street just over 1 the tracks of the long island railroad there was traffic on the streets but jeannette made good time she did that is until she came to the railroad crossing near hammel st station As she was about to cross the gateman blew his whistle at and held up his hand the crossing gate began to lower jeannette screamed J wait let me through but the gates kept right on falling jeannette gripped the steering wheel and stepped on the gas the car shot forward it bumped onto the crossover just under the gates got into the middle of 0 the tracks and stalled the gateman cursed jeannette jammed her foot down on the starter but the car start then for the first time jeannette lost her head they made cars then with two kinds of gear shut shift and suddenly she had forgotten which type this was she sat fumbling with the gear lever while down the tracks a train was rapidly narrowing the distance between it and the car agony of the moment lives with jane the gateman yelled get the h b off these tracks jeannette paid no attention he ran over and screamed in her car I 1 A crowd was gathering frantically jeannette kept trying to start the car her teeth were chattering and she says shell never forget the agony of that moment the gateman had raised the gates halfway half way the crowd was J screaming to her to get out of the car and run then suddenly the motor caught jeannette jerked the shift lever into what she thought was first speed it it was reverse the car shot backward with a force that made the babas hlad head strike the steering wheel it hit with a I 1 resounding thud and it looked like a catastrophe but it was just what the doctor ordered the car shot back olt off the ahe track and at the same time something 1 happened to the child I 1 guess the doctor would have called it regurgitation or some other swell sounding word but in plain english well the baby just chucked up an avalanche of half digested string beans t and potatoes landed in Jeann ettes lap and along with it came the CAM OIL A few minutes later in the hospital jeannette lay on the floor and cried hysterically while doctors worked over the baby with a stomach pump if the doctors even noticed jeannette they give any sign ot of it the baby was the important one jeannette was only the one who saved his life released by western newspaper union |