The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-22
From the Atlantic City Review
PAUL BOYTON.
A HUMAN NAUTILUS.
great Aquatic Performance--His
only Open Letter.
AMERICAN EXCHANGE,
449 Strand, Charing Cross,

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appreciate honest efforts, and your kindly
endeavors towards fair play and justice. 1
must unhesitatingly address you almost the
first words / have written since my arrival
on this side of the Atlantic. With your
permission will give the public, through
the Recie,o, truthful account of my ad-
ventures since my departure, deslning 10
controvert certain false reports that have
been spread broadcast. | left New \ ork
on the steamship Queen, of the national
line, on the 10th day of October, fully de-
termined to carry out my programme OF
leaving the vessel when she was day run
from the American coast, fully equipped
in Merriman life saving suit, and fully
provided in every possible manner for
weeks voyage. Why ] failed in accom-
plshng that purpose, the statements OF
the captain and prominent gentlemen
among the passengers, already published,
will satisfy even the most skeptica. 1t is
scarcely necessary for me to add that If
was not willing, | was certainly very
well looked after passenger during the rest
of that voyage. The conversion wrought
in the minds of my retainers, and which
ultimately led to permission to make the
attempt, was due TO no small amount of
logical demonstion on my part. and often
think that it was with something akin to a
sigh of relief that they witnessed my be-
inc lowered into tbe deem on that stormy
night of October Goth. | desire to say,
however, in justice to Captain Bragg and
that | eynrr,cnced nj their hands liberal,
kind and centlemonlv treatment and am
glad to add my testimony in this respect to
that of thousands. the safety of whose
lives are yearly committed to their kespinr
in The stormy nilcrimoce across the ives
err ocean.
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'h'''i"hh Adv hNi d. hh'
am not gong INTO any detail OF my
trip from the steamship to the Cillis OF
ireland. IL was, indeed, all and more than
the New York Heulds Cork correspond
ent painted ia wlid. lark, night. Ii
was IL seven nours struggle through ter
riole storm. IN an enormous sea, along a
rugged, iron-o0und last whose clifts tower
from loo 10 5oo 1eet hlgh the very air
density OF roam ana spray a DARKNESS
IKE that oil death, which might ne almost
ielt, broken only by the viva ana olinuing
lightning flashes, which IRON time TO time
III the black lace OF The ellis, anu revealed
amidst the widest terrors OF tue wave
those sui more awful ones OF the Jagged
rocks, whilst The continuous laundering
roar OF the breakers spoke in unlnistakable
tones OF death and eternity. ! am not
much given to religion at the best OF hmes,
Dut on this special occasion, IN tne WORDS
or poor Artemus, diu pray lew. a.
nave since seen me PRAYER IN me STORM,
rs played at the Adelphl, nut iailed to trace
the resemblance.
1clt what was before me ana spared
neither nerve nor muscle. And mere lei
me say, mat nothlng OF human ingenuity
ever made or constructed to hoal, surf
boat, wnale-Doat, or llte-boat, could posi-
by survive IN the sea which hundreds OF
times tossed me from what seemed the bot
tom OF valley to the summit OF noun
tam, as light as leather and as buoyan
as cork. Inc story mat ! was seaslck fo
ihc llrst iimc IN my lie Is correct enough
but had secrecy time TO think OF. They
speak. OF lille long remembrance, but, i
there is such thing as carrying remem
brance into the world tocome, shall neve
De az loss ior an adventure 10 rciate
should reach the promised shoie Wher
there snail DC no more drowning ant
wherc lie saving business snail DC at CHS
count ,
landed at last under great 9liiiculty.
was not altogether as tlie Her"m man sen
the Deach IN senseiess STATE, (therc wa
no M peach Neilher nid i; as Inc Lo 10,
Dally wees graphlcaliy reiates' sieer my
sell INTO harDor' (therc was no harpor'
inr oduo,,n,ro - foyorobIo 600 i,to
cleft in the rocks like an india rubber ball
and doffing nv .'suit of safety" fired sic
nails. which failed q response, owing TO til
storm and the ipky blackness of the carl,
morning. | was compelled to grope m
way as best might to the nearest huma
habitatiop where. if as another worthy serb
puts it. 81 was mistaken for dignitary O
another world" it is scarcely to be won
dered at. The idea of a man half clad i
sea weed and drjppinr india rubber. strar
ped and belted, armed and accoutered wit
paddle, ak, knife, luggage and signals. il
struments of navigation and provision.
presenting himself at the door of lionel
coast guard station on the southwest cliff
of Ireland at half-past four o'clock of
dark and stormy morning, with the stor
that he had swan from an ocean steamt
at sea on the previous night, can better [
imagined than described by me- 1t was onl
aftea perusal of the continuous account
of shipwreck and accident on the coas
for MANY DAYS following that tcrrib
HlRuty tudl 1 Iullt ItuilLCu tuC CAttut uu
force of the gale. The Wreck Register e,
hibits sixty-five shipping disasters, with
loss of over a hundred lives. CONNER
would be superllous.
IRELAND RECEIVES HIM
Nv roooh;n, Tho s.,vor,d ronounod S,u
,orean and snhsooron, ;anrno,, " Sar,
throuab n xa,;otv of Wild ' oomic., " and I q,
traordinarv adventures hat i, would raj
,ho aonims ~ Caria,an Nv tho ,'a, o eI'
I.ever IN JescrihoMevarY,vh ora on psm
in, nersoct ova,;on ~ non,,;ra o,,o.a',,
and enthusiasm of Which / have never go,
naralleled have since become matters
local history. 7 never experienced n mo,
genial mr. warm hearted welcome in mo iif
found rho neonle ouick m comnrohan -,
taon ~ onnrap;a,o ddmonstra,irn - o ~, - -
,hns;a s,;anx,an, ~ ,ho ronnroro, w u" ,.o
,he LIVING ;deaI of bosni,ai;,v ;,saif S"' '"
NJ. soionrn ana nuh,;c ra1ont;on n cor
and y;sit to nnIJ Ill ,nhoro p hoa - u O