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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 13

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THE A 13 once. I stopped eft tha-adca nf a Big Harry Reinhartsen, Expert Diver, oank knit rfMn.i .4 STARTS SOON ON GERMANSDON'THIDE CONEY ISLAND EXTENSION I'ivn hi. II Hi trua tbat but far low rent, aalartl I workers simply could not ejrtut on what they earn. Of course, ih-l owner seta than nnthin nt HATRED OF FRENCH, SAYS TRAVELER Laughs at Perils of the Deep; Tells How He Found O'Rourke's Body 115 Feet Down hla Invesrmant. Yet he le compelled to keeo hla buildln In s-onH r.n.

Construction work nn the extension to the Coney Island boardwalk, from the foot of Ocean Parkway to Coney Island will be expedited. for this, reason, private capital ta not to be had for the conmruction of apartment houses. Therefore th according to the announcement of cliy forced Into building opera-i Boro President Joseph A. Gulder i.Kjiis on a large scaie. leaving tt to Ran Across Old Village of yesterday.

The plans will he ap rr.e tasratnarer in v.n th. mn. count from other sources. ORIENTAL and DOMESTIC Rugs and Carpets Washed, Repaired Stored Efficiently and Economically Diver Reinhartsen Going Down Into Boonton Lake for O'Rourke's Body Brooklyn Man Discusses Con-ditions in Republic-Cry for "War of Liberalism." A Braoklj man. now traveling in has sent the following letter to The Eagle: It is not difficult to fathom the feelings of the German people regarding the chaotic lfltraal tiAtl.lMl Boonton, N.

at Bottom of Lake Parsippanong Is a Philosopher. proved following public hearing before the Board of Eatlmate. The new section of the walk will be similar In type of construction to the present boardwalk. The extension will be continued at a width of 10 feet, and will be built on reinforced concrete piles. It ia planned also to construct at the foot of Ocean However, -there Is ene feature of Leipzig municipal ownership and operation Mayor Hylan would not hesitate to denounce.

A short time aero tha fare on the atreet cars waa rataed ID to IS pennler. range to ssy, this "outrage" did not start a new revolution. The fact Is that the Germans, wh not dozen faet I hit the old bed of the river which had run through the valley. "It was pitch dark- I couldn't a foot. And the whole search I bad to make just by fealing my way.

'I tell you It waa spooky to And tnat old village down there lis fet from the top of tha water. I waa careful, too, not to step in a hole. Wife Doom't Like His Job. "Mrs. Relnhartaen doesn't like my diving a hit.

And then yon paper fellows writing how dangerous It was and everything, she got scared, and when I called her up, Tuaaday night. Mha made me coma home. Didn't want me to go on with th Job. But I went back. I found Rourke.

"It was sort of lucky. I was working along my guy line, and feeling the bottom, and I found when Rourke's boat upset, I got happy riht away. I figured I had n.m. and hettar look around a "It, although I had bean over the bottom all around that spot one or JS D'Ior- Feeling all around 1 made a 26-foot circle, and thera he see him. but my ii A bumPd Into him.

That was aa to it. Up he went." While working with Relnhartaen one diver searching for O'Rourke. co lapsed from the strain and Intense cold. Harry saya at tha 110-foot level the temperature was about 95 Parkway a large plaxa or esplanade, i situation of the country and to guess what would happen if Hlndenburg should give tha word that the French which will permit or easier access to the public desiring to use either the Krirhlnn Reach nr r.r.a,, Leipzlgera figured out that If their Ktreet railways didn't pay expenses at 1 pennies a ride, the fare would liuva tn he rfttaerf lunnlanllv mum oe ariven from German aoll. Not to mention others.

I ot th. section of the walk. It Is estimated lh kA nau. ...11, the deficit otherwise It would have same answer from the miserably- aii iiniiiii UUSL Hp I proximately (1,000,000. 10 oe met ny an increase in taxes.

paid custom official who at the German frontier confiscated Bf JAMES I HOLTON. Braving death far below ilia sur-ftoe of tha aaa. or accomplishing feata of daring in the swirl and aweep of sortie rlver'a current is no rie-wr experience to Big Harry Rein-: hartsen, expert diver, who last Wedneaday recovered the body of Tame O'Rourke from the treacherous waters of Lake Parsippanong, N. J. For the past eight years Reinhart-tn has been identified with nearly every ticklish wrecking or salvage Phone NEVins 1530 3596 cgara I had brought from New York for a friend In Leipalg, becauac I refused to pay 20 gold marka duty and from an all but starving Leipzig letter carrier, who poured out his soul to me In a street car, -Give us a they said, "whom we can trust unA .11 White Canvas Wallcintr that It didn't affect him ao ana diving feat performed ajsont "oiuvi ui along- ino Ai lantlc seat-marri Y-i.

ha. Pumps and Oxfords $10 White Kid Dress Slippers $12.50 gaged in raising foundered vessels. LawMaMiOlBH 1 cold." offered. I had to wear my heaviest winter underwear." When the diver dona hla groteaque diving gear he his or besides his rubber suit and Si.pound helmet of Bteei and gls. his weighted belt, loaded with 78 pounds of lead, and with SO or 40 pounds weights Built-in-arch, snug gripping heel.

-Sii I to 10 AAAA to EEE in irairaiui me sea noor ror this or that, and worked on risky repair Jobs 100 feet and more down, where no light ever penetrates. And the history 0f New Tork's rise like one man against the French, even though we have to fight them with clubs. Indeed, the hatred I have found French ia indescribable. The cry now Is for a One does not reaa it -in the Important German newspapers, or notice it In the public speeches of representative men. But in private conversation that la the slogan among high and low.

They ferret the mil. h. it- ForwHy with Fredtrick Lsr A C. 299 Livingston St. Bet.

Hsnover PI. and Nsvina St. water gateway may almost be read in thn fine. lltltflitneH wt-lnlrlu FINK SHOE Inc. Livingston Next to Keeney't Feet May Be Fitted by X-Ray Without Charge io mem.

Reinhartsen de scribes the sensation of diving: Desert bra Diver's Descent. have grown about Harry's qulizloal Norse blue eyeei and In the set of nis strong jaw, One "comes hv rtlvln" Ppinh3t ou go down and down nnd 1 1 1 1 1 fit 1 nr. rrtnen preparedness. down. Not very fast.

Just alloolna- aen says. It's an instinct, and to be un the surface. Leipzig, which through the water as they lower a. success one has to be "a good mi a i-w montna ago came within an ace of falling into the hands or the Reds, where the miinii-lnai man. His First Dhlng Job.

wy on your lire It's light near the surface, and you're hot and clammy with your heavy flannels and the surface water warmth: it Brows cooler: cold, Light streaks run throuah the buildings and churches still show More than a dozen years ago he made hla first trip sr. a diver, "Just to see what it was like." It was to a depth of 40 feet and Harrv en-Joyed the experience, asking that he ,1 01 anell fire and the bullets of machine guns, and where hundreds of hnm grows darker and then pitch black. In the outlying sections of the city HiiKin. oe given a jon diving regu- larlv. He Vm mn evti-o Dy tne communists, is today one of the busiest and most and then was given a place with the nun a gentia, barely noticeable bump, you reach bottom.

The air Is throbbing In your aara: there's 40 pounds pressure on the pump. ou can see, and you Just sort of creep and poke around with your heaw shoe wti living corps or nis company, a niche V. 1 on earth. I am told the Reds are down and out, absolutely that they dare not raise their iu im iiura ever Bince, witn Increas. inc skill.

neaos in public. The election of Hlndenburg seems to have brought He insists his death-defying feat, might is well be blind for all the mis staie 01 arralra in the City of Leipzig and also In Halle, former ana me recovery of Rourke's body from Lake Parsippanong, which had been caught in a crevice of the lake your eyes ao you down there." The little girls and Harry Jr. were diver has. Workinir in doen wtpr. set those pipes in cement Smart Summer Apparel for Stout Women INDICATING in their subtle suitability and fashion correctness the fulfillment of one's imperative and immediate apparel needs for townwear and vacationing, these groups example; extensive assortments.

Affording limitless possibilities in assembling smart outfits complete. For women wearing sizes 38 to 56. Carried uw rranT in rm t. a nottom 110 feet below the water v. un, jviiiiiarL sen grew philosophical.

uown in oucxet. "It nearly always is pitch dark about 100 feet, the temperature sometimes drops below freezing. It did at that time and the dampness in my air line concealed, froze nnd iiuiuuu 01 Etoisnevism. My friend. Mayor John Hylan.

would be delighted If he could be here with me for a few days so I could show him arnimd in ui. ii you re going to die you're level, is just part of the "Job," nothing particularly hazardous, or out of the ordinnrv. What if ,411 hjiiir mat ail," ne said. "IOOk at thftM fAll.rM 1 32 trips to the lake bottom at this my air stopped. Ice had formed in one of the couplings.

worKing uncicr water. Dirty Job on tho St. PauL "Another dirty Job we had was on the St. Paul. Remember, wnen She turned fiiw anma of municipal ownership and ora- airships.

Why, you can get killed Probably I signaled. 1 don know. Anvwav. When 1 came to. I was lv- riding In an automobile or In a street car.

or Just walking along the iimeeu, mere is very little within the boundaries of the town not owned and fLninl.J 1- wwii nen my time com us it'll while at dock at Pier 60, North Riv of Leipzig, just now the municipality ceme. mill all. Thera la no inn on the float- and had been dracged up by my "No, I have never been frightened or scared. enpsn ihnt'a whv Vinve er: just ronea over, the boat did. Well, we had to go down underneath her and carried nhntno nrnnH ik.

orrylng about It now. Is there?" The greater part of Harry's life many apartment houses because of the house shortage fine Substantial Mtrtlrtum .1 architecture. The city also fli ih Weird Wfl tPrV VrtrM A Hla, t- bottom and set one side on piles, and after winches pulled the boat up straight again. We built a cofferdam up around it so it mlcht ho niimii-ri low the MUrfarc mnA rent of all privately-owned buildings not. however, on thn Konia, A lots of luck.

"Though thpre is really no great danger ever, of course you have got to be a good man to stand it and you have got to know what you are do I lui Hir nnxn anil a rpann aka of construction and i inula lng him with the bright sunshine and out. "Guess I started nt r-m ing an rne time, it you re nervous wic-BiviiiB oxygen, to him It is desperate cold, and yet he likes it. His life work is vou mlrht fas well nuir ritrhr now: the case under the New York rent l.iws. but arbitrarily. An apartment of from four to five large and really beautiful rooms, with bath.

In a gooa neighborhood, rents for 1,000 marks that la, about 120 a month you'll never last. w-orking on one of the company's derricks with the diving crew. I had worked in the shops and as a blacksmith first. Then nna ill. cannot make him admit it.

Must Be Jack of All Trades. "Td be a good diver you've cot to working on a wreck Jobahd I asked SHOE WORKERS TO AMALGA. noy vnapman ir 1 coura go down. He let me. Oh.

that was 14 nr is t-our. MATE. Amalgamation of tha three h. THE wrvice satisfaction that The ago." Eagl Cltlned Ad give ctn't be men- workers' unions in rirr Tailored Long Sleeved Georgette Crepe FROCKS 39 75 urpfl in either. Mill holding his little daughter in his lap, the sunburnt deep waterman continued his tale.

He Ravo a of his work In the search. York into one body was forecast yes be a machinist, carpenter, stone mason, nearly everything, including an electric wolder. Often we go down on salvage Jobs we have to cut holes in ships and other times do carpenter's work building cribbing and all such kinds of terday wnen 100 renresentativ nf uuiiiir ine six aays or the search? What if Johnnie Hoar, another diver, lost his life In a similar search In the same part of the lake 20 years ago? "It's different now," said Harry: "the current wasn't so bad." Relnhartaen was at home and it was the evening following his finding of O'Rourke's body. He was with his wife and three small children. All were happy and laughing and shouting with the gladness of his return to the little cottage at 415 Hoyt West New Brighton, S.

f. Tne children are Harry 8, Mayhelle, 10, and Violet, 6. Violet was In father's lap. Looks SO, In 41. Although he looka hardly 3(1 yyars old, Harry said he was nearly 41.

His name, "Big Harry," is only a nickname, though he is not. a small man, being, perhaps, 6 feet 10 Inches tall, and weighing in the neighborhood of 170 pounds. He has a face and smiles as he talks. His hair is dark brown and his eyes are a shade darker than the awmge blue of the Scandinavian. His' par-nts were Norwegian, h'o aays.

The diver talked about his search and spoke of several Incidents and experiences In his colorful career. He would admit that only once did he have a narrow shave with his life. Let him tell it: "Yes, onca I did have a. narrow escape. It was about eight years Sito.

1 was young on the Job then. We were working at the time laying the Brooklyn-Stntan Island -water-mains across the bay and it who cold weather and the water was like Ice. "I was below and setting one of ihe lengths of pipe: I took an extra long time. Then happened what you might call the greatest danger the ivi vi riuurae oony. He said: shoe workers' unions from New York City, Boston and Lynn.

met at the Hotel McAlpin for a conference. Tound Old YlUago on Lake Bottom. "The time the Leviathan ran Jl -ik il i i) 1 aground a couple of years usro off hue wotklng the bottom of the lake ran -across an old village. (This is the, old village of Boonton, Which, when'lhe Roonton valley was dammed to. create th .1.,,..

St. George, S. and knocked a hole in the New Jersey sewer trunk we had to natch uu the Job. (ioah. RADIO BATTERY SERVICE not nesiect yur rxilo hetterv.

Riifher It frequently do not a I. tow it to aland "aead" for any time. We will call for your battery, rechaxa It and leave a rental battery ALL FOR 75C' We 11- a low pro. lontmt the life of your battery. A.

RAFFER SON IMT Faltfta at. SerTlc TUI la p.m. LAFAVETTE MSI that was some Job! We were busy for months. AVE MARIA m-B EXHIBIT. The Ave Maria Club, Branch ft 7.

of the Catholic Church Extension society will hold Its annual exhibition of linens and church goods ut the home of Miss Emma Wnger 271 60th on Wednesday evening reservoir, was covered over with the lake.) There' was not much mud, and as I worked my wav along the old valley floor I stumbled over an old stone -wall, several old foundations of houses, tree stumps and "It- wasn't in such deep water, but we had to cut awav the broken lArtirtha u-ltl. r. We'were' down beneath 60 feet of water. vou in you see tne nre I II say you could, and see tho sparks fly through thei water, too! it's a great Job, but an awful tough one, long and tedious. 'It takes a long time to cut the Iron, and half the time, although you see the blow torch working, you can't see anything else.

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