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FOREST AND STREAM 
[March 12, 1910. 
voyage of 4,000 miles under her own power. 
This, according to the Yachting World, is by 
far the longest voyage made by a boat of this 
type. She is 93 fet long, 16 feet beam and is 
fitted with motors of the Kromhout type. 
The Navy Department has awarded a con¬ 
tract for seven 12-horsepower Marine engines 
and complete boat equipment to the Atlantic 
Company, of Amesbury, Mass. There were 
seven bidders for this contract, and two of these 
were lower than the Atlantic Company’s price. 
Col. John Jacob Astor has ordered a duplicate 
of the 45-foot open sea-going runabout exhibited 
by the Gas Engine & Power Company at the re¬ 
cent show. This boat is 6 feet 6 inches beam 
and fitted with a six-cylinder, 6o-horsepower 
Speedway motor, which will drive it 20 miles 
an hour. It is to be ready for delivery before 
May 25. 
Thirty two new members were admitted to 
the Motor Boat Club of Buffalo at its recent 
meeting. 
A marine railway is to be built by the Bangor 
Y. C. before the season opens, which will be of 
great benefit to owners of motor boats. The 
railway will be at the side of the club house. 
Three boats are building for the Bermuda 
race. One is from designs by A. Cary Smith & 
Ferris for Vice-Commodore Samuel Cochran, of 
the Bensonhurst Y". C., at Lawleys. Another is for 
J. H. Henderson, of Washington, building at 
Stamford, and a third is building on Staten 
Island. 
Motor boat owners can obtain from the De¬ 
partment of Commerce and Labor the new rules 
to govern their boats this year. The law re¬ 
quires that two copies of the rules be on board 
all power craft for which the placard form is 
not required. 
Canoeing. 
Canoeing Down the Connecticut. 
After considering the various locations for 
a canoe trip within reasonable access to New 
York city to cover a period of two weeks, we 
decided upon the Connecticut River, from 
White River Junction to Long Island Sound. 
Of course, transportation was the first prob¬ 
lem we had to consider. If the outfit was 
shipped to the starting place via freight, it 
might be delayed or sidetracked in some way 
or other, and we would perhaps find ourselves 
up in Vermont ready to begin the canoe trip 
with a sugar barrel or a couple of soap boxes. 
Then to send the duffle and canoe by express 
would cost four times first rate, and this money 
we thought could be better invested in farm 
products along the line of our travels. Very 
luckily a friend was located who worked for 
the railroad company we would have to ship 
over, and on his promise that our goods would 
be safely carried and delivered on time, we de¬ 
cided to ship via freight. 
The duffle was carefully packed in a light¬ 
weight wooden case of the veneer style, with a 
quantity of straw and paper to act as a shock 
arrester. Ponchos were used to line the case. 
The canoe went without burlap, covering or 
crating of any kind to protect it, and perhaps 
received better attention because of its frail ap¬ 
pearance, for it did not get a scratch. Two 
weeks’ time was allowed for the outfit to reach 
the starting point, and then it only arrived there 
the day before we started. 
Our own journey to the starting point was 
over the New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railway, leaving Grand Central. Station at 
9:15 a. m. on a Saturday, and arriving at White 
River Junction, Vt., about five o’clock in the 
afternoon of the same day, during a drizzling 
rain, just in time to get our outfit before the 
freight house was closed. The railroad fare 
was $5.70—one way, of course, as the return was 
made from a different point—and the freight 
charge on the canoe and duffle came to $2.45. 
From here it was but a few minutes’ walk to 
the stores, where stock provisions were pur¬ 
chased for the first day or two. After passing 
the railroad tracks on the north side of the 
freight house, we saw the White River, where 
a very good place to launch and pack our 
caaoe was found near the steel bridge. By 
following the current of the river for half a 
mile or so, the Connecticut River was reached, 
and after passing under the large wooden bridge 
which crossed at this point, we knew we were 
on the right course. 
At first the river appeared very shallow, and 
little rifts loomed up now and then, but navi¬ 
gable water was always found by guiding the 
canoe into the apex of the V formed by the 
rocks. The current was running at a speed of 
three or four miles an hour. Sometimes the 
TIIE RAPIDS BELOW WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. 
POWER HOUSE AND DAM AT SOUTH VERNON, VT. 
river banks drew together, forming a small 
gorge and then a little taste was given of the 
treat in store for us later on. 
Owing to the late start, we did not have time 
before dark to go much further than a small 
island about two miles down the river opposite 
West Lebanon, N. H., where the first camp was 
pitched. Just across the river on the eastern 
shore, perhaps an eighth of a mile back, was a 
farmhouse where we purchased fresh eggs at 
New York Produce Exchange prices, for this 
farmer received his commercial paper daily, 
besides several weeklies. He believes in scien¬ 
tific farming, and with a scheme of irrigation 
by tapping a small lake on a hill, he told us 
he expected to convert his entire farm into 
strawberry patches and specialize in that article. 
Milk was bought here at five cents a quart. 
A farmer’s boy, who announced himself as 
Samuel Clayton Woods, of West Lebanan, N. 
H., accompanied us back to camp. When asked 
whether he had ever gone in bathing, a shadow 
of perplexity came over his sunburnt face, and 
he asked: ‘‘Do you mean boating?” But after 
explaining to him, he said he went “ducking ’ 
in the swimming hole. 
We were somewhat tired after the day of 
travel over a dusty railroad, and none the better 
for a light train lunch, but the waters of the 
Connecticut looked very inviting, and soon we 
were in. Supper that night received due atten¬ 
tion, after which we sat in front of the tent, 
listening to the chirp of the crickets and the 
splashing water of a short rift just below us, 
until the moon rose above the mountains, and 
then we turned in to sleep the sleep of the 
contented. 
The next morning after breaking our fast 
with berries, eggs, fresh bread and milk, camp 
was broken and the trip resumed with feverish 
eagerness. About a ten-mile paddle brought us 
into fast water and excitement. The river re¬ 
semble a gorge with a lot of giant slabs 
thrown into it, and these seemed to have landed 
on end, with the jagged edges sticking up above 
the water. By keeping toward the right-hand 
side, this water was reasonably safe for a mile 
or two until we came upon the falls.- They 
could be heard some distance before reaching 
them. It was doubtful whether or not these 
falls could be successfully run, but after sending 
down a log, all questions of doubt immediately 
disappeared, and preparations were made at 
once for a carry. 
By working down on the right bank, we got 
within a dozen yards of the first drop, and made 
the carry over some rough rocks, which 
brought us to a sandy beach. A new start was 
made, and by following a channel near the west¬ 
ern side, we were led past the lower falls. _ It 
was now about noon and a pleasant landing 
place was located half a mile below, where 
lunch was eaten in full view of the falls. 
A very satisfactory arrangement of meals is 
to serve a good substantial breakfast and sup¬ 
per, and a light lunch at noon, which can be 
prepared after breakfast by the cook, and stored 
in the food bag while the camp is being broken. 
It is well to lay up an hour or so during the 
heat of the day and rest under the shade of 
some tree, but care should be taken not to de¬ 
velop this habit to excess, or you will find your 
evening camps but a few miles apart. 
In passing a grove of pine trees we were 
startled by a cracking sound, and looking in 
the direction from whence it came, we saw a 
giant tree fall. This being Sunday, we saw 
many people fishing. The select places seemed 
to be just below the small rapids, of which there 
were many. 
The river now spread out and became .very 
shallow in places, so that we had to get out 
once in a while to lead the canoe. The current 
was not so swift, and our progress was some¬ 
what hindered, but leading the canoe supplied 
an agreeable change on a hot day. About six 
miles north of Charleston on the eastern shore 
we located a very good campsite on a plateau 
about eight feet above the water. A mile or so 
back through the woods we found a farmhouse. 
They directed us to a spring “just a short dis¬ 
tance away.” They probably use a different 
scale of measurement than the public schools 
teach, for we had a jaunt of a half mile or so. 
A. C. A. No. 5660, 
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