Show Ii LIfE PRESERVER DRIfTS IN SIX YEARS HALf AROUND GLOBE COB fROM SA s. SAX R Oct 24 Drift Drift Drifting in lag ing half around the globe Iobe a life preserver preserver pre pre- server sen-er from front the wreck of the steamer Stanley Dollar which went ashore on i ithe the Japan coast in Au August 1905 was picked up recently on the beach a af at Shetland to toa islands according according a letter a-letter received yesterday r a. bv by Stanley Dollar df of the Dollar Steamship com coun- pany The letter Jetter was written bv by 1 John ohn Ge Gear ear r of oc Cullis-oc whose son is in the employ of tb the Dollar DoUar company and f 8 clipping lipping from m the Shetland Times dated Septen September ber 30 O. O Whether the drifting cork jacket made its way to to the other side of the tu world by currents sweeping sweeping- around the Cape Capo ot of Good Hope or Cape Horn or whether it navigated na the northwest passage is a mystery to s seamen amen Il here bore Although the the- life preserver preserver had been in iu the water water- more than six years it had lied drifted more than miles niiles and the name of the thc steamer was wall said to be clearly elearly decipherable rs as were also the words passed b bv by J J. G. G S. S J F. Cat Cal Time TilDe 1 J 1 T G. G is said said- by customs officers to Te be Inspector James UI Guthrie who passed on the safety appliances appliances ap applIance ap- ap on th th steamer a short time before she left 1 li her last voyage The life life- preserver will be be brought ht here and l kept kept-as as a memento by the tho Dollar DoHar company |