Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — A Dangerous Experiment. [ARTICLE]

A Dangerous Experiment.

the steamship Queen, which left New A'ork on the 10th inst., there was as one of the passengers the noted Paul Boynton, pearl-diver, life-saver, and manfish in general. He leaves on a dangerous experiment, which is none other than to make a sea voyage in a life-sa\4ng suit. It is his intention to drop overboard not less than 200 miles from land, either after leaving New A’ork or before reaching Liverpool, when he will be left to the mercy of the waves until he shall meet with a passing vessel. Mr. Boynton is confident that he will come out all right in the matter, and prove the value of the dress. This is a rubber suit of armor of peculiar pattern, containing compartments, which, when inflated, it is claimed, are able to float a man of any weight in safety. The one taken by Boynton will weigh fifteen pounds, and he carries with him in a rubber bag two dozen signal lights, tw« pounds of cheese, six pounds of crackers, one piece of Bologna sausage, one ax and one bowieknife for sharks, signal flags, rockets, an extra suit of clothes, and a large doublebladed paddle with which to propel himself. Mr. Boynton is of fine physique, and weighed about 180 pounds. On the Jersey coast he claims to have saved seventy one lives.