Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Success of Paul Boy ton’s Life-Preserving Dress. [ARTICLE]

Success of Paul Boy ton’s Life-Pre-serving Dress.

Paul Boyton, the American, who has been making a sensation in London by making himself perfectly at fiome for hours in the waters of the Thames, in the 'u-e of his life-preserving suit, has added a real aeb ievement WTlIs“ former successes. On the 10th inst., clothed in his life-pre-serving apparatus, he started from Dover, England, at three o’clock in the morning with the intention of journeying through the water to the coast of France. He went along hopefully, smoking his cigar, and jit the hour of six*o’clock in the evening was five miles distant from Cape Gris-nez, the nearest point of the French shore lying | opposite to tkajt of Britain at South Fore- ! land, having traversed more than fifty miles. The sea was so rough that nearly all on board the steamer were sick and the darkness prevented the steam-tug which i accompanied Boyton going closer to the i shore. The people on the steamer were, I assembled in council, and after due deliberation it was decided to take Mr. Boyton on hoard, which was done. He was not. fatigued, and his clothing, which was worn under the marine dress, was dry. The | temperature of his body was lowered one degree. His pulse was ai eighty. He had been fifteen hours in the water, and had traversed a distance of fifty miles, the pilot having taken a wrong course. The physician stated, as his professional opinion, that Boyton could have remained in the water six hours longer. His failure is attributed to a change of wind and the delay in .starting, whereby he missed favorable tides and was compelled to struggle with the current from ten until one o’clock, making no progress "and barely maintaining his position The piloting was also defective. Tm reporters publish a joint declaration that Boyton’s coming on board was solely due to their remonstrance because of the increasing darkness and roughness of the channel. The Queen and the Lord Mayor telegraphed their congratulations.