The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-11

avordupois These were two dozen signal lights,
two pounds OF cheese SIX pounds OF crackers, one
piece OF Bologna sausage, one, axe and one BOWIE
4 knife for sharks, signal nags, rockets, an extra
! suit OF clothes and large double bladed paddle
Stth which TO propel himself The crackers ana
| cheese were no doubt consumed before Boynton
could venture ~ Dis little trip THIS ne at last
was enabled 10 do by TIC permission Of The cap
tain OF me Queen, as the vessea approached the
! irish coast
1t was on the evening OF the tenth day out and it
! blew gale. Without any unnecessary fuss Boyu-
ton drew on his 1nata rubber air tight suit ana In
| hated the air chambers In his air-tight sack he
placed food for three days, compass, oull's-eye
lantern, some books Gust TO begune the time
the water, some signal rockets and United
States dag In his inside pocket he placed a mail
which the passen gers had given him 60 post ne
strapped his oowie-knife and TO his side, and.
grasping his paddle, was lowered into the water.
amid the cheers OF the passengers, at hal-past
nine O'Clock p M. 1t was wild, dark night. He
was close TO the Fastnet rock. with Cape Clear
three miles from him and Baltimore toward which
/ he intended 10 make, was IN direct line, seven
miles away. He lay on MS back padding vlgor-
ousy, and lights OF the vessel lost in
the night. In quarter OF an hour more his spirit
almost quaIled when tossed high on the crest or
wave he could no longer see the coast line or any
lights. The wind blew the rain poured down and
the tide set dead against him. He was drifting
out TO sea, and, to add to the awful loneliness or
his situation and, TO increase the dreadful peril
the gale increased in violence. That night for many
hours no mallboat crossed the Irish Channel and
great destruction was done on the coast And
through these awful hours OF darkness this man
tossing about at the mercy or the waves, some
fifteen miles rom land. The wind was 80 violent
that he nad TO give over padding and with one
hand shade his face tine only part OF his body
exposed) from the cutting blast. Once his paddle
was wrenched away by a heavy sea, but IL for
tunately came into his hand again. For several
seconds a wave would completely submerge him.
then he would shoot TO the crest and take
breath before he again hurled down q
sloping OF water, which seemed 100
feet to the bottom. AS result OF this
tossing ne became seasick, thing winch
never before happened to hun. His indomItable
spirit, however, conquered everything, and about
one O'Clock the wind. began TO blow directly on
shore. HIS paddle piled vigorously, and at
three O'Clock on Wednesday morning ne perceived
he was near breakers, and the rock-bound coast
west OF Skibbereen loomed up before HIM.
His danger now was not less than II was during
the height OF the gale, for as a wave would raise
him almost on a level with the clin tops ne could
discern nothing but threatening wal OF rock.
He made his way along parallel 10 the coast, and
fortunately lighted upon almost the only safe
landing place for miles around. He saw an OPEN
ing IN the cliffs and propelled himself cautiously
TOWARD IT, While hesttatngiy examining the en-
trance sea struck him, carrying him on another
and another followed In quick success
sion, and in an almost senseless state
he was hurled nigh and dry upon
the beach. 1t was then four O'Clock in the morn
ing, and he had been nearly seven hours on the
water, iraverslng distance OF thirty miles. The
apparatus had behaved admirably, and having |
Invested himself OF it ne stood quite dry in his
navy uniform, which he wore beneath. That hav- |
ing been done he let on one OF MS signal rockets
without eject. 1t showed him, however a mar
row path in the rocks UP tins he cambered ana |
got Oh TO a mountain road which brought him to
the ceastguard STATION. He was Hospitality re-
ceived ana discovered that the place he had
landed al was Trelaska Blight, some miles east
and south OF Baltimore. During the morning he
reached Skibbereen and posted the letters in
trusted 10 MN and arrived IN Cork on Wednesday
night, October u, where ne was the hero OF the
hour. me more the populace heard OF the feat
the greater was their wonderment, as IL was
deemed impossible Tor man TO pass unnarmed
through such an experience.
The captain remained among his newly made
friends at Cork Tor while, displaying the value or
his life-saving dress and then Journeyed TO DUB
lin. where the 18Th OF November he made an
other trial for the qualification OF the people OF
that city and vicinity. Dublin paper OF the 18th
says:-.'The exhibition was no less successful a
test OF the perfect efficiency OF the lile-saving
apparatus than gratifying as an ovation on the
part OF the populace to the gallant captain. IL
had been publicly announced that he would
enter the river at Kingsbrldge and SWIM down az
rar as Carlisle Bridge. Accordingly az one
O'Clock the Captain, with his strange looking
rear, drove in a phaeton TO the appointed
starting place, where ne was greeted by
an immense crowd OF expectant spectators. The
hero OF the hour at once repaired TO one OF the
private gardens that slope down to the river OPP
posite the goods stores OF the Great Southern and
western Railway, ana at that point, having
equipped himself in his porpoise.hke attire, ne
shipped into the water The Captain was wary
enough to choose an hour for his exploit when
the tide had Just ebbed ana was gently on the
now lie secured at least two advantages from
THIS precaution. First the slime and nth nom
the sewers were sufficiently diluted with water to
render the ordeal endurabe, and next, the prog
ress was facilitated by boating with the tide. The
point selected for his plunge into the water was u
hidden from the view OF the spectators at the
bridge, and they were, therefore, somewhat sur
prisea and perhaps little disappointed when the
black form rounded the bend JUST beyond, pad
ding toward them feet foremost.
when he neared the multitude be unfured the
l stars and stripes, ana, making use OF his paddle
/ a. a flagstaff. he nolsted and waved alolt the be-
\ loved emblem OF his nationality. There Is not 1t
appears, any "decline or patriotismn. on the part
OF the Yankees, II their fondness ior'displaying
all possible occasions their beautiful Star Spangled
/ Banner can be taken as aprooL IL Is weakness
with them. Every little child in the states carries
proudly his tiny nag on independence Day, and
Il the anniversary would not be considered cele-
brated without naunting IL. SO Captain Boynton,
\ while sporting IN British waters, makes his
i little ensign play no inconsderaDle part in
his performances. Now be raises II with the
stars reversed as q Gag OF distress; again
he assumes perpendicular attitude and waves it
as II In triumph over the watery element; and IL
may be that sometimes, with quite commendabe