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1,500 MILES IN AN ADIRONDACK BOAT. 



PART XVIH.— CONCLUSION. 



D EL 4i&f R i E £ N v D BARITAN CANAL. October 25, Saturday. 

 —With daylight ray landlady's confidence sepmed to have 

 been restored, but from her appearance, and the fact that two 

 barns near by had been burned during the niaht, I judged that 

 here had not been a specially peaceful slumber. Having- break- 

 fasted I and written up my lop. 1 started off at 9 with a strong bead 

 wind trom the west. My hostess did not relinquish her pet idea., 

 that I was a genuine tramp of some kind, following me to the boat, 

 as though to make sure that I purloined nothing, but otherwise 

 she was a kind and hospitable soul. The river flows .iust beyond 

 the canal here, much smaller than at New Brunswick, and on its 

 smooth surface several wild ducks were disponing themselves. 



Instead of appropriating any of the old ladv's effects, I had left 

 accidentally my companionable Buckeye in her house; hut I had 

 not proceeded more than two miles, just getting warmed up tomv 

 work, when there came tearing along the road near the canal her 

 young son in a wagon, holding aloft my beloved lantern which 

 had lighted up my course on so many dark nights, shining on 

 miles of strange waters, and bv wbicbl had whiled away munv 

 a stormy evening by reading. The boy expressed surprise at find- 

 ing me so much advanced in such a short i imc; not by any means 

 the first who had been struck by (he speed of the little Adiron- 

 dacker. Having pulled for 3 miles, I reached the next lock, and 

 era showing my clearance papers was promptly admitted, this 

 being followed by a 1)4 mile level, the canal rising to the west- 

 ward. Desirous of crossing the Stale of New Jersey 1o the Dela- 

 ware River to-day, I pulled hard and steadily until evening. 



At the next lock 1 went up with two canalboats, there being 

 sufficient room. This level is 2% miles in length, and from iis 

 terminal lock I shot out on a ten miler. Half a, mile from the end 

 of this comes Griggstown, a small village 1GW miles from the 

 morning's starting point, which T passed at 1:30. The locks, which 

 are very large and fine, with vigilant attendants, detaiued me 

 about 45 minutes in all. I had passed the town of Bound Bro.,',- 

 6^ miles from New Brunswick, and had reached Millstone 3 

 miles further, when I asked a fine looking farmer who was 

 driving a team across the bridge over the canal, what place it was. 

 He at once replied "Bound Brook," but after a vigorous remon- 

 strance from me said very deliberately, feeling his way along 

 Wall! ef ye rea-a-a-ly doan'tknow, whv it's-it's- .Millstone." This 

 amused me. exceedingly, and although the old fellow's ideas weie 

 narrow, he was evidently sharp enough to profit from (apparent) v> 

 past experiences. 



At Griggstown I found a nice old lady occupying a house near 

 the canal, who offered to get me up a meal, saying "I'll try and 

 git up a dinner," and she succeeded tolerably well Sb far as traan- 

 tity goes. The Baritan River follows the canal closely to Bound 

 Brook, then branching off, though it is still not far from Griggs- 

 town. The country all along is a fine farming ground, and very 

 picturesque. The canal is well planned, large, deep and in good 

 order, with apparently plenty of traffic, from the number of boats 

 met. Resides the canalboats, a large freighting sf earner passed 

 me. The wind became very strong in the course of the morning, 

 and either blew against or partly across my course, retarding me 

 a great deal. After reaching the next lock, there came a 4 mile 

 level. This passed, a 14 mile stretch began, which ends a t Tren- 

 ton. 



I settled down to hard work, and the miles slipped away rapidly, 

 though falling leaves hindered the boat not a little. The' surroun- 

 ding region became very pretty indeed, and more hilly, there 

 being not far off some high ranges with lovely pastoral va lie vs 

 between. About sunset, while running through a considerable 

 extent of woodland, the cold bracing air had such an effect, on my 

 spirits that I relieved them by singing, and T .have dim recollec- 

 tions of having acted rather boisterously, which behavior quite 

 electrified the trood people along the banks. Some small villages 

 lined the canal in the afternoon. Rocky Hill and Kingston, near 

 Princeton Junction, where the Pennsylvania R. R. has a branch 

 crossing the canal on a higli bridge above a gully through which 

 the canal runs. 



While rowing through some thick woods, no sound breaking 

 the silence except the dip and splash of my oars, 1 was suddenly 

 alarmed by hearing immediately behind me a loud and deep 

 whistle, and looking around in haste f buheld the bow of a huge 

 steamer looming up in the darkness. Quickly turning my boat 

 to the side of the canal, the vessel forged ahead, having slowed 

 up at the sight of my lamp, and I could distinctly hear the bells in 

 her engine room, "Go ahead;" directly after a gruff voice, twenty 

 feet overhead, from the wheel bouse, shouted out "Whv don t you 



away, was bearing directly down upon me when my attention was 

 first called to if, thus Scoring anorner narrow escape. 



In the early afternoon I met some Pennsylvania canalboats, 

 plump, well painted, and comfortable, looking, a remarkable con- 

 trast to those heretofore seen up North. Greeting the first, one 

 with three cheers in honor of the great, canal, the sentiment met 

 with a hearty response from the captain, who assured me that 

 "Them was his ffelin's, precisely." After the escapade with the 

 Bteam-Tl was thankful to have bad my lamp again, that, alone 

 saving me from destruction; the pilot otherwise not being able to 

 see my little boat in his pathway. Once again, therefore, my 

 faithful Buckeye saved me from destruction. The country road 

 bridges over the canal are generally of the swing patt ern, but I 

 can, by a close squeeze, pa..js under them when closed. Tne neavy 

 railroad bridge near Trenton, however, was too low down to admit 

 of this and after a parley of ten minutes with two stupid l-eepers 

 they thought it advisable to swing it for me. The lock at Trenton 

 is the fmes r , being operated by steam, though all are 210ft. long. 



I reached the city at 8:30. having runlS 1 ^ miles since dinner, and 

 35 miles during the day. Leaving the boat in care of an obliging 

 engineer at the lock, I went to lookup a man named Jimmy Lind- 

 ley, a character to haul her to the river next day. Having secured 

 him I repaired to a neat little hotel, the Trenton House, whose 

 proprietor is an agreeable old man with quite a history. The 

 locks on the canal are not opened on Sunday, and there are five 

 more between Trenton and the outlet at Bordontown, a distance 

 of 5 miles. The 14 mile level is the summit of the canal, the water 

 falling to east and west from it to the Baritan and Delawate 

 Rivers respectively. 



Delaware River, Oct. so, StMwtoy.-Lindley was to have met me 

 at 8, but 8:30 arrived before him. We drove % of a mile to the 

 lock, and then, loading the boat in, drove one mile to the river. 

 As I sat, as usual, amidships, the populace looked at us with con- 

 siderable astonishment. Bradley was perched on the bow wniie 

 driving, aud he encountered on the way many familiar acquain- 

 tances who took the opportunity of chaffing him to their heart's 

 content. In fact it seemed that everybody in town had a word for 

 Lindley. The latter generally replied with much feeling, "This 

 boat's come all the way from Canady, I'd have you understand." 

 Intercepting a milkman, t seized the opportunity to fill my cau. 

 Once at theDelaware, a crowd of willing hands helped us off With 

 the boat, it soon being launched; and bidding goodbye to a mixed 

 assemblage standing on the steamboat pier, 1 pulled the first 

 stroke at 9:30 aud glided out on the. Delaware River with, a swell- 

 ing heart to think that this was the last stage of my voyage. 



The day was cold and cloudless but perfectly calm, not, a ripple 

 disturbing tne glassy surface of the river, whose tide, was ria afling 

 upstream. In 0 miles came Bordentown, 2 or Smiles below was 

 the little village of Florence; then Bristol on the Pennsylvania 

 side, in Bucks County, and just beyond on the Jersey shore Bur- 

 lington and Beverly. There, were a few wild ducks on the water, 

 and some t ying about, but several boats were continually after 

 them, and the poor little paddlers had not much chance either of 

 feeding or enjoying a quiet Sabbath. A short distance below 

 r lorence I ran on a sand bar, the channel being hard to follow; 

 but owing to the light draft of my boat I was able to make a short 

 cut or two. 



As far as Bristol the water was clear andlimpid, but beyond that 

 town ! became muddier and not so clean, tin's altered condition 



bends and long serpentine courses of the river were beautiful, 

 even though the country was flat and uninteresting. Being such 

 a peaceful day, I enjoyed the row very much, my boat exciting 

 general admiration as well as surprise and comment among the 

 yachtmen whom I met. 



Pulling along quietlynnt.il 1:15 P. M., I dined in the middle of 

 the river two miles above the outlet of Eaneocas Creek, and after 

 eating I sat still, drinking in the quiet beauty of the view and 

 taking mv ease for a time. The tide had been with me to this 



building on the steamboat landing, I went to a boardi ng house kept 

 by a Miss Seckels, visiting the Episcopal Church and also walking 

 about and admiring the pretty place. My appearance being the 

 opposite of my pretensions, they evidently took me at first for a 

 tramp, and at one time 1 thought that I should have to apply at 

 lacony, across the river, for lodgings. Against the tide, it, would 

 . CPn inipossiole for me. to make Germantown, up the Schuyl- 

 kill River, before midnight, and so I tarried here instead. " 



There were several people at the table, and we soon became 

 acquainted. After supper, while playing a few hymns on the 

 piano, a young man with a black mustache, and similar in appear- 

 ance to the one I had seen two weeks before in St. Johns, New 

 Brunswick, asked the name of a certain piece, which happened, 

 singularity enough, to be the same Rubenstein's "Mclodvin F.' 5 

 He seemed to like it, making the very comments on it that his 

 predecessor had, finally remarking that he would get a copy him- 

 self.. On my requesting s< me music of him in return, he said that 

 he. did not play the piano much, but was an organist in the town. 

 This was quite startling. He and his mother, who were taking 

 their meals at the boarding house, then invited us all to their 

 home, a handsome residence just opposite. 



He had a fine organ in the house, and when I repeated my re- 

 quest for music be brought out Mendelssohn's "March of the 

 Priests," from Atbalie. By this time I was considerably aroused 

 and asked him and all present whether they had ever known anv 

 one at St. Johns, or had communication thence, but not a soul 

 bad ever heard of the place, and I became consequently the more 

 dumbfounded. 



Another set of curious coincidences occurred, too, which made 

 me think that there was something uncanny about, the place. 

 While conversing in the parlor we fell to talking about accidents, 

 and a lady told me of a man who, not long before, was accidentally 

 shot by his companion in the Canada woods, and had to be brought 

 home a thousand miles on a stretcher. Unaware as to whom she 

 referred, 1 began narrating a story of Captain Clay, who had his 

 eye shot out under much similiar circumstances, beginning, 

 'There is a notorious character in Pennsylvania named Captain 

 Clay." whereupon a shout of laughter followed, and amid the 

 noise of their mirth I was informed that the lady whom I was ad- 

 dressing was that gentleman's wife, and the two young ladies also 

 present were his daughters. 



continued, "They have often spoken to me about two young men 

 who are wild over Indians, bears, woods, etc.. their names being 

 M. and.W. B." Seeing that my chance had presented itself,! 

 quietly informed her who I was. saying in the blandest of tones. 



I am M. B." Another shout of laughter greeted this, and when 

 we had shaken hands all around I felt at home at once. When I 

 informed them of the young organist, of St. Johns, they were 

 greatly amused, but emphatically denied anv acquaintance with 

 him, so this coincidence willprobablv remain forever unexplained. 



Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, Oct. $7. Monday.— The last day 

 °L m r 7 „ crais ? had come; saying farewell to mv friends, I pushed 

 off at 9 A. M., with an ebb tide. Mr. Frazer, the voung man of 

 yesterday's encounter, accompanied me down to the boat, as his 

 St. John double had done. The day was calm and beautiful; I 

 rowed out to midstream and then straight down the river until 

 with a cheer I hailed the chimneys of Philadelphia. • Shaping my 

 course along the Camden front, I thence made a bee line for 

 League Island, only diverging when necessary to dodge a tug or 

 steamer. At one time a sharp lookout was necessary, but my ex- 

 periences here were not nearly so exciting as when passing be- 

 tween New York and Jersey City. 



For the last three miles to the' mouth of the Schuylkill, I kept 

 in company with a large three-masted schooner which was being 

 towed down the river, and had a talk with the Yankee skipper! 

 I rowed close under her stern, and a« she traveled about 5 miles 

 an hour I had no difficulty in staying there, leaving her when 

 the Schuylkill was reached. From Biverton to this point is 10 

 miles, Philadelphia lying midway between. To many of the men 

 on tugs and vessels who asked where I was from I replied, "Mon- 

 treal," whereupon they would stare pretty hard, but most of them 

 apparently did not believe it. 



Having entered the Schuylkill River I was much at home, this 



being „ 



resuming my way I was before long once more in the city at 

 Bairmount Dam, 7y 2 miles from the Delaware. Showing my 

 pass, the lock of the Schuylkill Navigation Co. soon carried me 

 up from tidewater, thankful that it was for the last time. a. row 

 ?lr- m ' 1 ? 8 through the beautiful park brought the mouth of the 

 Wissahickon, and securing the service of three lads we carried 

 the boat up around the dam to the creek above, and a few more 

 strokes brought me to my journey's end, at the boat landing at 

 the foot of Gypsy lane, half a mile from home. My mother and 

 sister happened to be driving by at the time, and I experienced 

 with pleasure the sentiment of the song with which I had been 

 wont to make the wild shores of the lakes echo: 



"All journeys end in welcome to the weary." 

 I arrived at about 4:30, having rowed 26 miles from Biverton, 

 _ The fifth and last stage of my cruise included 281 miles of row- 

 ing and one mile of portage, the delays making a total of one and 

 a quarter days in nine days' traveling, not, including the opposi- 

 tion of wind and wave. The full summary of the cruise was as 



follows: Leaving Albany on Sept. 6, 52 days have been spent alto- 

 gether, and about 1,500 miles, allowing for discrepancies, have 

 been made with the boat. The actual time, deducting all stop- 

 pages excepting those for meals, is 42 days: and dividing the 

 length of the trip by this gives an average of about, 35 miles per 

 day. t*orty miles would have been accomplished, however, had it 

 not been for the extraordinary opposition experienced from head 

 winds, locks and various obstructions. After passing Buffalo the 

 weather was not settled for three consecutive days at any time. 

 All the fair wind, favorable, tides and currents do not by actual 

 Calculation counterbalance these odds by 25 per cent. Without 

 the boat, 1 traveled 400 miles in going to Quebec, returning to 

 Montreal, etc. m B 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



A WAR CANOE CHALLENGE. 



Editor Forest and stream: 



We dislike very much to dispute the claim of our up-river 

 brethren, as to the ownership of the first war canoe in this coun- 

 try, but it is too much; we had ours out on April 9. Now, if the 

 aforesaid brethren will carry out their most 'excellent intention, 

 of bringing their canoe to Philadelphia, next Saturday, we will 



eiviHzed r countr VB ^ WaT cauoe race in this or any otner 

 i T1 V e ?& d Dr ' A S' m is a beauty and in every respect a credit to 

 her builders, too St. Lawrence River Company; in model and 

 finish i they have left nothing to be desired. She is 30ft. in length, 

 53m. beam, and has accomodations for 18 paddlers. The initiatory 

 cruise Of the season was made in the Dragon on April 27, from 

 the Public Boat House, Fairmount Park, to the club house at 

 Cooper's Point, Camden, a distauce of 18 miles. The start was 

 made nt 11;.>0 o'clock, crew numbering 8, commanded by Vice- 

 Corn. Kramer. Stop was made at Red Bank, where a very large 

 and elegant lunch was discussed, and a war jig performed. The 

 paddle was then continued without incident. 



They arrived at the club house at, 4:55 P.M. The Dragon ship 

 will be at the meet if we can bring a sufficiently large crew to 

 man her. 



Many new canoes are now dropping in and we have about as 

 many members as we can convenien tly accommodate, having been 

 obliged to turn away several applicants for membership. 



There is a rumor of a Delaware River Meet to take place about 

 midsummer. Max 



POINTE CLAIRE C. C. FIXTURES.— The Pointe Claire C. C. 

 fleet has had hve first-class racing canoes added to it during the 

 winter, and now numbers eight or ten decked and twice as many 

 open canoes. Three of the additions to the fleet are new boats, 

 ?T ofwbich aie being built by the Ontario Canoe Company. One, 

 Mr. McLane's new racer, is from the moulds of the new Hyla, de- 

 signed by Mr. D. B. Jacques. The other new boats, the Isis and 

 the Izza, are sisters, 16X28, designed by Mr. David A. Poe for 

 himself and Mr. W.S. Kenney; another of the additions is the 

 old Dawn, which as the Una won the Orillia cup last, year, Mr. 

 Unas. Archibald having bought her from Mr. Colin Fraser, of 

 -Toronto. The other is the Mona, ex-Vice-Com. Richards's canoe 

 which has been out of commission since 1S85. but is now the prop- 

 erty ot Mr. M. L. Williams. A handsome silver cup, to be held as 

 a trophy, to be raced J or annually, has been subscribed for, and 

 the Hollowing fixtures for the season of 1890 have been arranged 

 for: May 31, first, trophy race; June 21, second trophy race and 

 club paddling regatta; June 28 to July 1, cruise to Lake of the 

 1 wo Mountains, camp at site Northern Division A. C. A meet, 

 scratch races on July 1; July 5, third trophy race; July 12, fourth' 

 trophy race: July 19, fifth trophy race; July 26 and Aug. 9, North- 

 ern Division A. C. A. meet, camp there. 



REEFING A LEG-O'-MUTTON SAIL - Editor Forest and 

 Stream: It the prererence expressed by Mr. Stevens for leg-o'- 

 niutton sails for canoes should be shared by canoemen generally, 

 they will be interested in bearing of an excellent way of reefing 

 and furling them which I have seen on a Norwegian boat. The 

 Norwegian cast off the out haul which stretched the foot of the 

 sad to the end of boom, and pulled a line that was wound around 

 the foot ot the mast, thus rolling the sail, or part of it, around the 

 spar. 1 he toot of mast was a metal pin stepped in a metal socket. 

 Reefing can be effected in this way during a race without the loss 

 ot headway. The forward sail can be made larger than Mr 

 Stevens proposes by dispensing with a boom to it— not only larger, 

 but handier.-MiRAjncHi. [This method of reefing has been used. 

 to a limited extent in canoes.] 



A NEW RACER.— Mr. W. G. Mackendrick received his new 

 caeing canoe lroui Peterborough yesterday. She is a decked craft, 

 lflft. long, with 301 n. beam and lOj^n. deep amidships. Her floor 

 shows considerable rise, with an easy turn to the bilge and slightly 

 rockered at the stern. The fore and aft lines are very easy, and 

 she should keep up the reputation that previous Macs have won. 

 the deck, of prettily grained curly butternut, is a handsome bit 

 ot canoe builder's art and reflects considerable credit on her 

 builder, Mr. . Wm. English, of Peterborough. Mr. Mac-Kendrick 

 intends taking her to the Montreal and New York canoe meets 

 ^ U1 r< ng m he ^ason. She will fly the colors of the Royal Canadian 

 Y. C— Toronto Empire. 



GALT C O.— A meeting of the Gait C. C. was held on April 21, 

 when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year- 

 Corn . W. J. Milhoan; Rear-Corn., J. H. MacGregor; Sec'y, H. F. . 

 Mackendrick; Treas., Geo. M. Gibbs. Committee, Chas. Turn- 



u *' G -P- R ' Warnock, J. N. MacKendrick. The club has now 

 about oO members on the roll aud about 30 canoe owners. The 

 club bouse is being made double the former size, and the prospects 

 for the coming season are very encouraging. Several new canoes 

 have been ordered, and a grand regatta open to all amateurs is to 

 be held on June 13 in connection with the summer carnival and 

 baud tournament, at which gold and silver medals will be offered 



9/3 1ZCS. 



I ANT HE C. O.-The following officers for 1890 have been 

 elected: Capt., W. J. Stewart; Mat*, B. Fredricks; Purser, B. 

 Hobart; Meas Joseph Stewart. Executive Committee, officers 

 ex-officto, J. McFarlane, W. F. Marvine. Regatta Committee, L. 

 B. Palmer, chairman; R. Hobart, W. J. Stewart. House Commit- 

 tee, W. P. Dodge, chairman; H. S. Farmer, J. Duguid. 



HOLLOW SPARS FOR CANOES.-Mr. J. W. Mansfield, maker 

 ot the paper wrapped spars, has lately reduced tne price on the 

 size used by canoeists, as advertised elsewhere. 



A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP. — Northern Division: G. A. Duggan. 

 Laehme; A. G. Kohl, D. Robertson, Montreal. 



Canvas Canoes and how to Build Them. By Parker B Field 

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 Handhng. ByC.B. Yaux. Price $1. Canoe and Camera. By T. 

 S. Steele. Price 1.50. Four Months in a Sneakhox. By N. H. Bishop. 

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