Show adventurers CLUB CLO HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YO YOURSELF U R k A ride with the reaper r ELL one way to have an adventure is to go on an auto VV mobile ride with jeannette E lowitt of arverna arverne Ar verne WY N Y Jeann ettes driving would thrill you it might even paralyze you like the old patent medicine ads used to say it invigorates es 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 for walking she have any shoes on it was a stifling august day in 1930 even rockaway beach was without the slightest sign of a breeze jeannette was lying down in her room when suddenly the hot muggy air was torn by the most piercing agonizing 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 cryil crying ng 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 il jeannette starts trip to hospital the baby lay in the womans comans arms motions motionless ess stiff his little eyes bulged and his ups lips were blue without a word jeannette 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 buist into the doctors office her heart pounding madly the doctor was in lils bis back office operating on a mans foot blood soaked cotton was strewn over ever the operating table and more blood was dripping into a pall 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 jeannette came bursting into the office my babal she walled wailed hes dead hes deada the doctor dropped the needle he be was holding snatched the child from Jeann ettes arms and ran into the bathroom 1 I without a word jeannette grabbed him and started running opening the hot water faucet in the bathtub he held the baby under it A minute passed there was no sign of life jeannette he be whispered hes gone look hes foaming at the mouth rush bush him to the hospital take my carets ca rIts outside the key is in the ignition my patient will bleed to death it 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 now how could sie she manage al alone one she rushed to the street lost a few precious seconds trying to get the babas stiff outstretched arms through the be narrow door with the child on her lap she lost more valuable time trying to find bud the starter she found the starter at last the motor roared the car started she was wag off turning the corner and putting on speed racing down the boulevard toward the hospital at beach eighty eighth fourth streets street just over 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 station tion As she was about to cross the gateman blew his whistle and held up his hand the crossing gate began to lower jeannette screamed walt let me through but the gates kept right on falling failing jeannette gripp gripped edthe the ste steering efing wheel and stepped on the gas the car shot forward it bumped onto the crossover just under the gates got into the middle of the tracks racks and stal stalled ledl the gateman cursed jeannette jammed her toot foot viciously down on the starter but the car start then for the first time jeannette lost her head they ma decars then with two kinds of gear shifts and suddenly she had forgotten which type this was she sat tumbling 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 off these tracks jeannette paid no MO attention he ran over and screamed in her car A crowd was gathering frantically jeannette kept trying to start the car her teeth were chattering and rho IK says shell never forget the agony of that moment the gateman had bad raised the gates halfway half way the crowd was 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 head strike the steering wheel it hit bit with a resounding thud and it looked like a catastrophe but it was just what the doctor ordered the car shot back off the track and at the sarnia same time something happened to the child I 1 guess the doctor would have called it re gurgi tation or some other swell sounding word but to in plain english Engl ishwell well the baby just chucked up an avalanche of half digested string beans and potatoes landed in Jeann ettes lap and along with it came the CAM PHO OIL A few minutes later in the me hospital jeannette lay on the floor and cried hysterically while doctors worked over the baby with a stomach pump it if the doctors even noticed jeannette they give any sign of it the baby was the important one jeannette was only the one who saved his bis life released by western newspaper union |