New Mexico State Record

RED SWEATER SAVED LIVES
New York Youths Probably Will Never Again Go on Outing Without Such a Garment.

New York. One red sweater saved two young men from drowning in the Atlantic ocean two miles out from Rockaway Point.

Frederick Swanson, twenty years old, of 3510 Farragut road, and John Dill, twenty-four years old, of 1110 Patterson street, Brooklyn, left Sheepshead bay at two o'clock in a canoe fitted with a sail. A stiff breeze caught them after they had gotten well under way, and as the seas rose higher the frail craft was overturned. The young men battled their way back to the overturned canoe and clung to it. Then they had an idea. They swam to where the red sweater belonging to Swanson was floating on the water, placed it on the end of a paddle and took turns at waving the glistening garment in the air while holding to the tiny boat.

Several times, the youths said, they believed they had attracted the attention of persons passing in larger boats, but it was not until two hours later that a motor launch occupied by Charles Heuthwohl, insurance broker, of 659 Macon street, Brooklyn, and Harry E. Heisted of 758 East Seventeenth street, Brooklyn, both members of the Sheepshead Bay Yacht club, saw them and went to their assistance. The two young men were placed on board the small boat.