Senator Metcalf...rescue ..

as fate would have it.......

From his own yacht in the harbor that afternoon .....the Rhode Island Senator, offered help to many who ended up in the water.....

Senate Years of Service: 1924-1937 Party: Republican

pic : Brown University Archives

METCALF, Jesse Houghton.... a Senator from Rhode Island;

born in Providence, R.I., November 16, 1860;

educated in private schools of Providence;