Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — Drunk Under Water. [ARTICLE]

Drunk Under Water.

“I once knew a diver, Tom Brfntley by name, who, though a thoroughly competent man and agt od fellow, was a little too fond of stimulants. On one occasion he went down with a pretty good cargo of spirits aboard, and the men above, not knowing his condition, become seriously alarmed when several hours passed by without their receiving any signals from him or any response to those they made to him. Another diver w'as sent down to look for liim and found him lying on liis back on bottom of the ocean, sixty feet below the surface, fast asleep. ” Philadelphia