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Michigan City yet?” We made a nice landing at 
the Goodrich Line pier. Fred and George com¬ 
menced to convalesce very rapidly just as we 
were going into the Chicago River. There 
everything was relative, by that I mean when 
your are in a boat which is pitching, the entire 
muscles of your body and range of vision be¬ 
come so accustomed to it, that even though you 
look at a fixed object, it seems naturally fixed, 
because of the accommodation of the range of 
vision to the motion of the boat, and this is 
where Fred and George fooled themselves, be¬ 
cause when they themselves reached the fixed 
objects on shore, this condition of vision and 
muscles was reversed. This is called “Sea legs.” 
And they could not understand why it was that 
posts would get in their way and the buildings 
would sway from side to side, and, worse and 
more of it, this brought on a fresh attack of 
seasickness. 
Paul was the real pilot, and so we asked him 
to take us down through the Chicago River, be¬ 
cause he knew just how to whistle for draw¬ 
bridges and whether one or two toots of the 
whistle meant to pass to the port or starboard, 
and when we got our boat in the first lock of 
the canal with her nose pointed toward La 
Salle, and we knew there was no possible chance 
of our going astray, then came our parting with 
Paul. You are possibly wondering who is Paul? 
Well, I will tell you who he is. He is one of 
the most congenial, lovable men among men, 
whom I have ever met. He is courageous, 
temperate and truthful; possesses a good head 
for business, as well as sailing, and an appetite 
like a “buzz saw.” Incidentally, he is one of 
the officers of the Racine Boat Mfg. Co., and 
earns his daily bread building pleasures and 
troubles for others. This is Paul McCracken. 
Our seaside George is Mr. George D. Lyford, 
manager of the sporting goods department of 
The Simmons Company, and Fred, who says 
that this was his first sickness since he had the 
measles, immediately after his sister had the 
whooping cough, is Mr. Fred Daehnert, chief 
electrician of the same establishment. This con¬ 
sisted our party, Paul, Fred, George and myself. 
We entered the Illinois and Michigan Canal 
at about 2:00 P. M. on Sunday, not knowing 
just whether it was 5 or 105 miles long, and were 
a little disappointed when we were told by a 
lock tender it was 96 miles in length, and con¬ 
tained sixteen locks with a various range of 
drops from 3 to 15 feet, and I assure you that 
when we went through the one with the 15-foot 
drop, it certainly did seem as if we would never 
reach bottom. It did not take very long to 
find out that in those pretty towns, villages and 
cities along the river through Illinois, that the 
“lid” was not on, Sundays. The only difference 
between Sunday and Monday, as far as the “lid” 
is concerned, is that on Sunday you go into the 
back door instead of the front. 
I am willing to wager my last dollar, that 
lock tenders never had their training in any of 
the modern, mercantile establishments, and I am 
quite sure that the superintendent of the canal, 
himself, could not hold any other job than a 
political one long enough to save enough out of 
his salary to buy a good cigar. His headquarters 
are at Lockport, Ill., which is a very beautiful 
city. He has a very imposing suite of offices, an 
assistant, and a young lady secretary, whom we 
did not see, however. All of this official staff 
to record the passage of about four boats a week. 
In the absence of the young lady, the superin¬ 
tendent finally condescended, on receipt of $15.88, 
to write out our clearance papers, and after using 
several blanks, duly receipted for our money, 
and said they were all right. As a matter of 
fact, they were all wrong and the various old 
lock tenders along the route were not sure 
whether we were “imposters” or genuine; how¬ 
ever, they all knew that such a boat as ours had 
not gone up the canal, and as it could not very 
well have been brought overland, they were tak¬ 
ing no chances in letting us pass—especially when 
they saw the receipt for $15.88. 
What a pity to see that great artificial body 
of water running over rivers and through tun- 
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