The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-22

and was offered every possible facility to
inspect sud examine and In many instances
furnished with most valuable descriptions
and information; all ofwhich 1t Is my inten-
ton to turn to- good account when return
to America. | must confess to the feeling |
that their much vaunted conservative char
acter makes them. too often dreadfully |
slow, and they stick like grim death to their
well defined method of 'going ahead slow
w." do, however, certainly and honestly
think that if in some things they are half
century behind the age, in others they are
immeasurably our superiors. Human life
is not held at go cheap rate here as 1t is
in America, and a mans honest efforts for
the safety and well-being Of his fellow men,
meet, every side and from all classes, just
appreciation and approval and are, in I'M
numbered instances, literally and gener-
ously rewarded. There exists here, more
than one society, the very character of
which, in itself, reflects more credit to the
British Nation than hundreds of the doubt
full triumphs whose history they are but too
prone to thrust, on every possible occasion,
upon the attention of the foreigner and the
strrnger. / shall briefly allude to two:
namely, the Royal Humane society and the
National life-boat institution, both supported
on voluntary public subscriptions. The
former, rs the latter. maintains an organized
and disciplined force, with equipments and
appliances, ready at all times, on the slight
est alarm, and in the most dangerous and
likely places, to proceed to the rescue of
drowning persons. No single deed of brav-
| cry or daring in the sacred cause of hui
mainly ever escapes the watchtul eyes of
these officials. Their annual or semi an
nua reports of rescues, deeds of daring,
recognitions of gallantry and rewards for
heroism, are in themselves historic well
worthy the perusal and consideration OF
every one who loves his fellow man. Those
recognitions and rewards, as may well be
supposed, are a powerful incentive to hu-
manity and standing encouragement to all
classes of men. They in great measure
create a sentiment the very reverse of that
which unfortunately too many able European
writers attribnte with much truth to Amer
lea. l have been among men here, draw
ing remunerative life pensions, the exer'
tons of whose whole lives in the same
cause were not rewarded with a 1.-THE of the
success with which it has pleased God to
distinguish my efforts during a single year
the sands of New Jersey.
FEW PLAIN FACTS.
And speaking of New Jersey when l
look back over my ten years experience
along its shores cannot help feeling and
thinking more than it would be proper to
write or speak. l have no desire to boast
of my deeds, but when think of all had
TO contend with at that other "City by the
Sea-" further down the coast, wearing
bright summer name, but possessed Of
black wintry heart
What is there in the fresh pure breeze
of Gods broad ocean that makes man
inhale meanness? For my own part I've
snuffed as much salt air as the next one,
and yet, somehow, my experience brings
to mind numbers of narrow minded, mis-
cradle wretches, born and bred within a
stones throw of the beach whose inclusive
characteristic it is to be mean, jealous and
envious, members of the seaside commu-
mites, and natives, "to the manor born"
My experience is not limited, and must
say, never met in the smallest out of-the.
way interior village, among people who
live for no world outside their own petty
circle, minute decimal fraction of the in
bred spirit of meanness and jealousy to be
found IN more than one watering place on
the Atlantic coast. But, thank Heaven |!
there are no noble exceptions. My asso-
Citations have likewise thrown me among
men of honor and gentlemen,-generou
whole-souled and public spirited - men
whose friendship and encouragement have
been with me through all my struggles,
and 70 whose interests in my welfare, at
home or abroad, in public or private,
shall always bear grateful testimony.
Enough of this tit has been my lot to
identify myself with the interests of Allan.
tic city during the last two seasons, and in
this connection 1 am publicly grateful fol
! the generous treatment / experienced al
|, the hands of its citizens and visitors, as
likewise the enterprsing and liberal man.
aging directors of the G.. & A. II. II.
cannot say at this writing whether il
may be my lot to go among you again. We
read of a eide which taken at the flood
leads somewhere or another, and in that
connection, must say, that cannot helr
looking on some of my past efforts as mis-
directed-a considerable "change comes
DER the spirit of my dream" but time and
= circumstances will decide all that.
{ THE OBJECT OF THE ADVENTURE.
Some newspaper statements both here
4 and in America, were absurd and ridiculous
: varied and inaccurate. The truth Seems
h never harder to get at than when plain
: simple and straightforward. have Away
, found critics too ready to pelt me with sucl
Y terms as wild" ''crazy," "reckless,
s "fool-hardy," etc., and to such, even tho
a had the ability as writer to reply, my re
y spouse should be silence. Once for all
II desire to place myself on true footing
C To that end will say that left New Yorl
y with the intention of subjecting to the Sc
) verest of all possible practical tests, ant
!. thus bringing forciblv to public attention
G grand invention, to the real merit and util
q ity of which cannot be overestimated.
: was simply doing that which l have dom
a unnumbered times before, unnoticed an
It unheralded, -risking my life in the caus
of science and humanity. The day will
come, be my fate what 1t will, when tn
: merits of MeIriman's life preserving sui
will be publicly acknowledged, and tn
y revolution it is eventually destined to wor
q among the inferior appliances used for lif
a saving will receive the approval of ever
J" friend to humanity, and the sanction of uni
r. versal usage. The number of designation
N conferred upon me since my arrival here
If would furnish sensational headings for
~ first class sensational "Romance of tn
4, Sea- They make me Captain (not c
4 the Horse Marines) but of the Atlanti
~ life guard, ETC. So long as am that, an
70 plain Paul Boyton, shall be truly CRATE
~ full.
, / have never been much of letter
= writer, and never poured one tenth as man
.. words from pen in my life as to-day.
. begin to have an idea that this must
tv about as long as one of Stanley's; how
u ever if am, tor once correspondent, yo
- may simply thank the fact of my confine
y ment to a sick chamber from the effec
os of a severe cold and attribute my tedor
~ paragraphs to an effort to Danish enn,
y while listening TO the busy hum of Ii
>, worlds metropolis around me.
a. a. The moment am permitted shall leay
"a. here for Dover, where it is my intention
!! solve the tunnel problem, and show Il
residents on both sides of the Englis
Channel the possibility of Yankee gettir
IN over without their aid. / am determine
RS to accomplish that which has never bee
N. attempted save TO end in abortive failure
at and with the help OF Providence, a stror
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