CHAPTER IX.
Paul now commenced plans for his channel trip. He visited Boulogne,
Calais, Folkestone and Dover and decided on taking a course from
Folkestone to Boulogne. M. L'Onguety, the President of the Boulogne
Humane Society, offered to give him the best French pilot on the
channel and his lugger to steer him across. The steamer Rambler was
also engaged to accommodate the press representatives and invited
guests. The most intense interest prevailed not only in Europe, but in
America. Letters and telegrams came pouring in on Paul to reserve
space for the special correspondents of the most noted newspapers in
the world. Mr. McGarahan, the brilliant and lamented correspondent of
the New York Herald, who was one of the party on the Rambler, wrote
the following account of this memorable trip.
"The start was to be made at 3 o'clock on the morning of April 10th,
1875, from Dover, that hour being set on account of the tide favoring.
In order to be up in time, the newspaper correspondents and friends who
were to accompany the intrepid voyager on the tug, did not go to bed
at all, the hours intervening being spent in the parlors of the Lord
Werden hotel. The morning was cold and raw and when the sound of a
bugle apprised the crowd that the time for starting had arrived, there
was a hustling for warm wraps.
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