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”America's wonder-mermaids.
‘” the treacherous English channel—a
”no but five men and by none of
. uu own 'set in modern times at least?
"ii. The feeling among aquatic ex-
vb ports. as she trains for the great ef-
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WILL U. S. GIRL BE FIRST OF SEX T O CROSS CHANNEL?
Mus Ederle’ 3 Speed Give: Her Great Chance; Men Counted on Endurance Alone; Has Rival tor Honor .
Glimpses of Miss Ed erle; Scene of Effort
3! NORMAN E. BROWN.
L’derie. one of
sw t m
Can Gertrude
feet. that has been accomplished by
her
...Iort on the British 1110 of the chan-
l tut. nel. seems to be that she stands a
”luau who has ever
better chance than any other wom-
essayed the feat
‘_ s: and that she has one asset‘at least
5v.
~ Great Annette
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.‘ . Failed In Sw1m
' Miss Gertrude Ederle, in
mi seeking to swim across the
.01 channel. seeks fame sought
and missed by Annette Keller-
-.‘. man. probably the most famous
"‘1': of mermaids. Miss Kellerman
‘ a“ was forced to leave the water
. boasted—that of speed. This speed
salons is causing many critics to be-
after six hours due to sea. sick-
ness.
Mrs. 1. Von Isacescu, an Ans-
trian woman, had covered half
the distance (estimated) and
had been in the water 10 hours
when she was forced to abandon
the attempt.
Miss Lily Smith. British wom-
an. swam for five hours in a. vain
effort. to achieve the goal.
that no male aspirant ever has
, lieve that she will succeed. I be-
. Ileve she nlli.
That speed was demonstrated
.quite clearly in her final appearance
. . In the U.
, 3: Europe.
S. before sailing for
In this appearance she
swam the. 21-mile course from the
‘ .M Battery. New York harbor, to Sandy
'. a. Hook. in 7 hours and 21 minutes.
~ > ORD EV 11R.
. ..i swnmsm OVER
THIS BEATS THE BEST REC-
SET BY A MALE
THE SAME
COURSE.
She came out of the water ap-
7. ‘~ parenily fresh.
”negotiated the channel
‘ ”attention
fiedepended. in addition to their
Jetty to keep a moderate
have
little
were
They
abil-
for
who
paid
to speed. None
champion speed swimmers.
The. male s“ immers
pace
w hours. on their ability to resist the
':~fscetious ones have
numbing cold of ,-the channel.
said of
The
the
;;channel water that it is just below
1
: lngfihlm with reckless driving.
mination of the
Ithe accused person‘s speed, consid-
_;it of 35 miles an hour in,
freezing at its warmest and one new
or finds it at its warmest.
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TIIE EVENING SENIINEr.
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tight the tide and is bound to be
carried past the narrow shore
stretch on which a. successful land-
ing can be made.
Now lost of those who failed to
negotl the channel were defeated
by the change in the tide overtak-
ing them before the turning point ‘
was reached. Herein lies the ad-
vantage for Miss l'Idorle. With her
speed she should eliminate this
danger.
Many men and women who have
attempted the swim have been un-
able to retain’ their strength through
Hopes to Beat
American Girl
In Channel Swim
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, was?
as she plans to swim it. is 20 miles.
The best time. made to date across
the channel was 16 hours. 35 min-
utes. by Enrique Tiraboscht, the Are
genttne aquatic star. It is estim-
ated that Miss Ederle will clip at
least two hours off this time. if she
completes the swim. After 1‘: or
13 hours in the water one's resist-
ance cbbs more rapidly. Minutes
count. Two hours leave much more
time for the water to chill and
weaken.
Women have attempted the swim
and the sturdlest Olltl remained in
the water ten hours before icing
forced to give up. They were not
speed swimmers. however. Bliss
Ederla is the first speed champion
of national and international fame,
man or woman, to attempt the
swim.
Another element enters into the
swim which makes speed of much
importance. That is the tide
Must. Keep Paco \t'ith Tide.
This ildo flows and ebbs virtually
In accordance with plans made early in her training. Miss Gertrude lidcrlc. American mermaid. I‘VE“
Choose the French shore as the starting point of her swim when she essays to cross the British channel.
She will enter the water at Cape Griznez. near Calais.
Photos show Miss liderle in and out of the water.
scene of her effort. the arrows indicating the. starting point and destination.
.1!" destination will be Dover. England. The course.
Map shows the
at, right angles to the course taken.
To meet this tide. then. the swim-
mer must. swim a. "V” shaped
course. The first half of the jour-
ney is made with the tide and then
the. swimmer must turn tack on
the second leg of the “ "’ with the
tide.
Failure to meet the tidal condi-
tions means failure in the success of
the swim. as the swimmer cannot
NEW SPEEDING '
[AW lN EFFECT
ON WEDNESDAY
“Reasonable Care” to
Supplant Fixed
Limits in Many In-
stances—New Plan
HARTFORD. June 28 (AP).—Al~
lhoush the revised motor vehicle
law. which goes into effect Wednes-
jday, makes it. possible to arrest a
driver for speeding without charg-
no
speed limit, as such. has been fixed.
What: the law provides in this re-
. spect is that "no person shall opern
' ate any motor vehicle upon any pub-
lic‘ highway of the Stateatarate of
speed greater than is reasonable
having regard to width. traffic and
use or the highway. the intersection
of streets and the weather' condi-
‘ tions."
In cases where arrests are made
i (or speeding. the action of the courts
will have to be predicated on a. deter-
reasonableness ‘of
ering all the conditions and circum-
stances existent at the time of the
alleged offense.
It: is pr.ovided however. that “if
_ the Iate of speed of any motor vehi-
, cle operated on any public highway
shall exceed 30 miles an,hour for a.
distance of one-quarter of a mile. or
it such rate of. speed shall exceed 20
miles per hour for a quarter of a.
mile through the thickly-settled por-
tion of any town. city or borough
where the buildings average for such
distance less than 100 feet apart.
luch rate of speed shall be deemed
‘ rims. facie evidence" that the speed-
' or section above quoted has been
violated. . ~ ,
A proposal to include a speed lim-
.“opsn.
' spaces" in a uniform law for all
‘ a
States is under consideration by the
Hoover committee on uniformity of
, laws and regulations. of which Com-
missioner stoeckel of Connecticut is
h. member. ,
EYE IN TONGUE!
ST. LOUIS. June 26.-—Willlam
McPherson probably is the. only
man in the world who reads with
his tongue.
While working in a Missouri
quarry. a dynamite blaSt blinded
him and blow off both his hands.
Six years later he heard of a
blind woman who had been able.
to distinguish raised letters, that
is. Braille type. with her lips.
After patient months of suf-
fering in training his tongue. he
was at last able to learn the al-
phabet with the tip of his tongue.
Now he can read any raised-
letter book.
His favorite work is the Bible.
He is constantly seeking to im-
prove hts education. which was
neglected nutil he was injured.
New Haven Man Kills
Himself in N. Y. Hotel
NEW YORK. ‘June 26 (AP).—
Tlie body of Bernard Abrashkin. 40.
of New Haven, Conn.. was found in a
room of the Hotel Coolidge in Forty.
seventh street early this morning.
A11 elevator operator attracted to the
room by illuminating gas fumes.
found the cracks of the doors and
windows had been stuffed with rags
and a. wall gas fixture turned on. ‘
Police reported Abrsshkin's death
as a. case of suicide. He was It book
salesman.
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Policemen Who Falsify.
(New Haven Journal-Courier.)
The. situation. which has been cre-
ated by the alleged Confession of
three New Britain policemen that
they testified untruthtully in the
Chapman murder trial in accordance
with what they understood was the
wish of State's Attorney Alcorn 'of'
Hartford county. has been promptly
met by him with a demand upon the
police commissioners of that city for
the verbatim account of the confes-
sion. This sh0uld be given him at
once. It is a preposterous statement
t.o.havo made and deserves not only
an immediate reply but the prosecu-
tion~o£ the policemen for perjury.
For some unaccountable reason
the annbuncemeent of the confession
of these men had led some people to
conclude that Mr. Alcorn did actual.
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ly instruct them in (also witness. a.
monstrous conclusion to draw of a
man who. whatever his limitations
such as affect the personality of us
all. ltas never been questioned with
regard to his professional integrity
or personal honor. The public may
be quite sure that Mr. .llcorii will
know how to meet this vicious attack
upon his character as a State pros-
ecuting officer. but inthe meantime
we have here an incident of an
alarming sort. We llil\‘0_ according
to the New Britain newspapers. the
fact to consider that in a trial of a
man for his life, three sworn officers
of the law deliberately testified false-
ly. We need not give the slightest
heed to their statement about seek-
lng to gratify the wishes of the State
in lying. It is the hidden motive. for
their act that concerns society at
large. That must be dug into with
all of the resources of the State. and
punishment meted which fits the
crime. -
We shall await the outcome of this
lnvcsllgation with more than usual.
interest and concern. The entire
structure of society shivers when it
is known that the guardians of the
peace. themselves sworn officers of
the law. are perjurers. and as per-
Jurers wickedly indifferent to the
fate of a. man on trial for his life.
This is an act approximating murder
in itself.
Our Glowing tnhcrsity
Endowments.
Harvard'smnnounccment of gitts
totaling 54.511000 and Yale’s of
gifts nearly reaching $5,000.000 are
evidence that the marked post-war
increase in such grants is not yet
slackening. Harvard's endowment
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Ly last year had rpached $64,500.-
(mv. t‘olumbia‘s 556.500.000 Yale's
HILOOIWOO. 'President Ilarper of
the l'nlversity of Chicago was
laughed at_early in the nineties for
predicting that within a few decades
its endowment would reach 820.-
ti0ti,two . Last year President Bur-
ton of the same institution an-
while its resources
now aggregated ”4.000.000. that
amount ought to be doubled within
ten or fifteen years. The result was
the campaign to obtain 317.500.000
within two years. now successfully
progressing. It will not be long be-
fore several of our universities have
endowments of more than a hun-
dred millions.
Such large-scale giving is neces-
sary to keep the universities abreast
of the demands made on them.
What these demands mean we see
in an increase of enrolment. of 15.-
299 students in eighty-three institu-
tions: or in the report from the
I‘m‘verslty of California. of nearly
40.000 students on its rolls—more
than half as many persons as the
whole States of Nevada numbers.
Without continued generosity en-
dowed institutions would quickly fall
behind the richest state universities '
like Michigan and Illinois. which
now boast of incomes of 812.000.000
to $15,000.000 blennlally. If the
larger seats engrossed a dispropor-
tionate part of the stream there
might be room for objection. But
there are more than 160 American
colleges and universities with en-
dowments exceeding a million. and
many have recetve‘d gifts as gener-
ously proportioned to their require-
ments as those made to Harvard
and Yale.
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They Conquered
British Channel
. Theo of the five men who
have swum the British channel
achieved the feat within the last
two years. Which should be a
source of cheer to the American
mermaid. Gertrude Ederlc. w en
she attempts it. Three of th at.
too. were Americans.
Capt. Matthew Webb. Amer-
ican. was the first man, accord-
ing to available records. to swim
the channel. He performed the
feat in 1875.
Thirty-six years later a British
star. William Burgess. accom-
plished lt-—1911.
'l‘iratt-oschl. the Argentine. and
Charles Talk and Henry Sullivan.
Americans. all conquered the
channel in the summer of 1923.
inability to take or retain nourish-
ment while in the water. This nour-
ishment. usually liquid chocolate or
some other liquid is fed to them
from the tender boat. Miss Edcrio
made the Battery-Sandy Iiook swim
without nourishment.
’l‘he Alllt‘i‘lt‘m] maid has the en-
durance of youth. She is now only
eighteen.
Miss Ederio herself is confident
that. she can swim the alluring and
treacherous sti'ait._b'hc. has the cult-
iidence born of vtcliii'y-victory in
events that have gheii her more
swimming records than any other
woman in the world, victory in the
blue ribbon sporting classic of the
world. the Olympic games.
She has pitted her strength and
(above). Ar-
training at
Lillian Harrison
neutlne swimmer. is
("ape (.‘ribnez. France. for an
tempt. to swim the English channel.
She hopes to accomplish the feat
bt'foro (-‘eitrudo lidcrle. American
aquatic star. who is now preparing
for a similar attempt.
with the men in every angle of the
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