Show CAPTAIN BOYTOfl AGAIN Fifteen Hours in Lake Michigan Ice Captain Paul Uoyton the noted swimmer had an experience in Lake Michigan Tuesday that ne thinks he will not forget for some time say the I Chicago Times The captain had grown heavy during the winter and to reduce his flesh had recently been taking little palls out into the lake m bfs rubber suit Tuesday morning at 7 oclock he left Fulerton Avenue for a swim to South Chicago and return and met wtu the most inniung adventure of his lIfe n which he battled ior hours with a great ice floe was carried many miles our into the lake stripped of his navigating navigat-ing instruments and lost for fifteen hours in the cold bleak waste of drifting drift-ing ice hanging clouds and straggling ducks and gulls From 7 oclock in the morning until midnight the captain was without food and the chill ot the icy waters had driven him to the des I perata resort of hard work all that time to keep up a vigorous circulation so that he would not chill and perish in the lake At midnight when he was rescued at the crib tiis vitality was almost al-most gone Stimulants were applied and the daring navigator was put to bed A telephone message ws sent to the police that the captan was saved and by them taken to his little family I a wife an son who were distracted by his long absence and supposed he had perished Captain Boy ton was in bed when a reporter called at his home last evening even-ing He was exhausted the reaction from his desperate excitement the day before having made him weak and SICKWhen I entered the water at 7 oclock the captain said there was afresh a-fresh west wind I swam about two miles intending to clear the trio tor a trip to South Chicago Just about the limit of my run east I began to meat ice I pushed through it for a time and then ran across some Hoes onto which I climbed Meanwhile a heavy sky had shut out all view of the sun and the wind had got the ice together I struggled strug-gled quite a while in what I thought was the western border of the field and then ran into what I thought wrs a pocket I pulled through it and came again to straggling floes I must have fought them until 10 oclock before 1 missed my compass When 11 Joked to get my bearings having noticed thai tne city had faded from view I founo that the band which bound the cum pass to my body had either beau sev tred by a piece ot ice or had becorm unoukcled It was gone The sun way hidJen and there was nothing oy which 1 could get my bearings The water was cold and 1 had been in it so long I began to get drowsy Chills ran through my veins in quick succession and I saw I must either pun out for somewhere or perish I looked about and saw the field of ice was at mv 1eet1 swim feet foremostand then concluded I oat only to pull from the ice to reach Chicago So I started and vigorously too For five hours I worked as I never did before The water was heavy and lifeless 1 had to fight for every inch I made Chicago was still nowhere to be seen and I had no notion of the time of day Then I changed my course about halfway round and pulled hard for awhile The ice gathered shout me again and when night came I was fighting again for my life Ssmetiines I could dodge the drift at others 1 J climbed on the cakes and crossed fcue n When the moon rose I got a flash of a view of it and then saw my mistake I I had crossed the field in the morning when I entered what I thought was t pocket and all the long pull of the day with the ice at my feet had driven m towards Michigan The turn I had taken had sent me south I set about nnd pushed from the moon At 11 oclocK I saw a faint light in the sky and an hour later perceived it was tb furnaces at South Chicago Then I go my bearings and sighted the lights 81 the crib I pulled op there at midni bland bl-and blew my bugle I must have called a halfdozen times before an answe came Then Captain Mackay answered my signal and I thouted Crib ahoy Aye whos thee the captain answered an-swered I must star here tonight Pull round tc the port When I got there they dropped a bi of a rope into which I fixed my foot and then they drew me up They gays me refreshmentsput me to bed and telr phoned my wile that I was safe Captain Cap-tain Mackay says when I left the ice at night it was fully fifteen miles from shore and I think lie is about right because be-cause the swimming would take abou the time used I have swam create distances but that was the first time J ever was lost and tbe battle with th ice and cold was a more thrilling err sode than I care to experience again |