Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — A Boy Life Saver. [ARTICLE]

A Boy Life Saver.

Tennis F. McCarthy, a sixteen-year-old Brookline lad, performed an act the other day which not oirly displayed courage but a rare presence of mind in saving the life of a two-year-old child of Joseph Cariere, says the Boston Herat . Young McCarthy was at work repairing the roof of his father’s barn off Boylston street, which abuts on the village brook. A platform leads from Mr. McCarthy’s house to the top of the barn. The child walked along this platform to the roof, and before he was noticed fell into the brook, a distance of about twenty feet. The water was about three feet deep, and the current was quite strong. The child’s cries attracted McCarthy’s attention, and, realizing the situation, he jumped from the building to the Boston aud Albany llailroad track. In order to save the child’s life he had to act promptly, for the arch, where the brook enters the tunnel, was only 100 yards away. McCarthv ran down the track and reached the culvert just in time to jump into the brook and grasp the little one, who was being carried along to certain death. By this time a large crowd had collected, and every one was loud in the praise of McCarthy’s courage and presence of mind.