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FOREST AND STREAM 
[June it, 1910- 
Motor Boats at Beverly. 
The Jubilee Y. C. had races for motor boats 
and small sailing craft on Decoration Day. The 
weather conditions were not good, and owing to 
the backward season the entries were slim. 1 he 
Hon. Francis Norwood cup for motor boats was 
won by J. E. Lemlieux’s launch fitted with a 
motor of eight horsepower. The elapsed and 
corrected times were: 
Motor boats under eight horsepower—J. 
Lemieux. 1.05.35, 1.05.35; A. B. Emerson, I -[ 2 9 - 59 > 
1.08.20; W. A. Mable, 1.22.45, 1.08.45; U H. 
Faulkner, 1.23.30, 1.11.30; G. H. Julien disquali¬ 
fied for cutting the course. 
Motor boats over eight horsepower—J. B. 
Menke, 1.08.28. . ~ 
Class C Sloops—Frank Kenmson, 1.07.27; D. 
W. Taylor, 1.58.50, 1.18.50. 
Dories—F. W. Rosenau, 1.28.53; E. A. Butler, 
1.31-25. _ 
Canoeing . 
An Ozark Canoe Trip. 
Continued from page 906. 
At the Schoolma’m’s whispered suggestion I 
negotiated with him for the result of his morn¬ 
ing’s milking. He compromised, agreed to let 
us have half, or as much as his wife would 
permit him to sell. He also promised to let us 
have some butter, which he did not do because 
his wife would not let him, and some eggs and 
chickens which he did with her permission. An¬ 
other interesting bit of information he imparted 
was that we were within a hundred yards ot 
the spot where the boundary lines of three coun¬ 
ties met—Franklin, Washington and Crawford. 
His most interesting remark was made as he 
was leaving. ‘‘When you-all leave hyar Y 0 ] 1 ^ 
hev some boatin'. Ther’s a place direckly be¬ 
low hyar the tie-rafters calls the Devil’s Race¬ 
track-hit’s a bad place, they say.” Now, Boots 
and the Schoolma’m had tendered themselves 
congratulations on numerous occasions upon 
their successful voyage through the Devil’s Race¬ 
course, while Mrs. Newlywed had joined the ex¬ 
pedition only after being assured that that par¬ 
ticular rapid was above and not below their 
camp. All three were on their feet in an in¬ 
stant, asking questions. The old man did not 
seem to know very much about it, except that 
the tie men had called it dangerous, and that, as 
was the case with the other speedway of the 
evil one, the river parted, and that we should 
keep to the left or north channel. We thanked 
him and then sat around the blazing camp-fire 
and discussed the news. It was suggested that 
our informant did not know what he was talk¬ 
ing about and was simply trying to scare the 
girls, repeating information that he had received 
of the real Devil’s Racecourse, which was above. 
Boots uttered the quieting note when she stated 
that any water passable at all for a tie raft was 
not going to bother her in a canoe. Bully for 
Boots! 
When I arose the next morning, save for a 
slight stir in Siwash’s tent, all was still. I 
routed them out and then, taking a bucket, 
walked over to the residence of our friend of 
the evening before. I missed the right trail by 
the way and walked a mile before I realized 
that I had made a mistake. I retraced my steps 
and tried again and was successful. Mr. Farmer 
was glad to see me, but I do not think Mrs. 
Farmer was. I got a gallon of milk, no butter, 
a dozen eggs and three spring chickens, however, 
and he got the biggest part of a two-dollar bill. 
He seemed real sorry to learn that we were 
leaving. We had rich milk with our oatmeal 
that morning. Some of the milk the girls saved 
for sour milk biscuits. They had trouble doing 
this, as Siwash was putting it away at the rate 
of a pint a minute, but Jim and I finally put 
a quietus on his consumption of the milk supply. 
We finally said our goodbyes to that splendid 
old camp in Campbell Hollow and pushed off. 
The farmer had told us of another cave, a large 
one, a few miles below his farm. This we 
found to be Saltpetre Cave,"well known among 
the boys at the club. A -company of cavalry 
could ride abreast into its enormous opening. 
The roof at the entrance is at least 300 feet 
high. Several fishermen were camping in it at 
the time, so we did not intrude upon them. 
Rapid followed rapid in quick succession that 
morning. Some of them were very bad. There 
was one place where the river divided into three 
channels. This time we went wrong. The one 
we entered soon petered out and became a 
tangle of logs and brush. One log, which ap¬ 
peared to be far enough under the water to 
permit us to pass over, almost brought the 
Peterborough to grief. It struck hard and 
stuck. Quick work on the part of Siwash pre- 
A TYPICAL OZARK SCENE. 
vented it from upsetting. Then I crawled out 
on the log to the canoe. I held it steady, while 
the Schoolma’m crawled out. after which I 
passed all three boats over, without their crews, 
of course. We walked the rest of that cut, 
leading the boats down by their painters. We 
ran a rapid shortly below this, which may have 
been the Devil’s Racecourse referred to by the 
farmer. It was somewhat similar to the other, 
but was entirely clear of rocks and, therefore, 
of no consequence. We had no trouble, but 
after we had passed through it, Siwash got 
into a difficulty. This was at Judd Spring Hol¬ 
low, as we were rounding the bend below 
Roaring Spring. An immense whirlpool had 
formed in this bend, and it was overhung with 
brush. The river above was quiet and there 
was a lack of the usual roar preceding bad 
water, so Siwash was hardly to blame. They 
were in the maelstrom before they knew it. 
The Schoolma’m did some quick work with the 
paddle, and they gained the outer dead water, 
which threw the Peterborough to shore. Hex 
next thought was to warn us, which she did. 
Both Boots and I leaped out just a few feet 
from the swift water, and held the boat back. 
The Newlyweds paddled over to the opposite 
shore and got out. We walked around the 
bend, leading the boats through the shallow 
water near shore. 
We did a great deal of singing en-voyage. 
After the Newlyweds joined us, we were seldom 
quiet. The bride had a “Whoop-de-doodle- 
doodle-do” song which made a hit with the 
other girls, and the slightest excitement would 
cause one of them to shout 1 whoop, where¬ 
upon the others would take up the song. A 
strange fact I noted about our singing. In the 
morning it was hilarious, catchy music to quick 
time; in the afternoon it was home and mother 
stuff; toward evening, “My Old Kentucky 
Home,” “Suwanee River,” and such like. Be¬ 
fore the camp-fire we always sang the old, soft, 
dreamy melodies. Another fact I noted, the 
singing always robbed the rapids of rnost of 
their terrors. With a song on our lips we 
entered them less fearfully and came out of 
them with fewer scars. 
After the trouble at the bend we had a dead- 
water to paddle through, which continued all 
the way to Roaring Spring, which was note¬ 
worthy from the fact that it did not roar while 
we were in the vicinity—perhaps out of con¬ 
sideration for the ladies. At high noon, we 
lunched—afterward loafed. It was fast becom¬ 
ing a habit, this loafing after lunch. This par¬ 
ticular loaf again postponed our arrival at 
Indian Creek, and we gave up our attempt to 
reach that point and made camp at dusk, a 
short distance below the mouth of Brush Creek. 
Bends in the stream above and below made it 
appear like a lake surrounded by high hills. Be¬ 
low us was a small island and between this 
island and the opposite shore was a slough. 
During the evening the fish were jumping in 
this slough, and I was wild to stay over a day 
and get some fishing, but when I mentioned 
this, I was hooted down. We had but one 
loafing day left, and the girls decided this 
should be when we were almost home, so they 
could make themselves presentable the last day 
in. So I sadly turned to my task of making a 
cooking fire. 
The loss of our fire grates was not felt after 
the Owasso’s crew joined the expedition. I hey 
had been using the oven shelf of a gas range for 
a grate at their permanent camp, and this they 
had taken along. Boots and the Schoolma’m 
thought it better than the others; it was cer¬ 
tainly much stronger. 
Conrad Lueke, Jr. 
[to be continued.] 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—Charles W. Price, 228 York 
street, Burlington, N. J., by Henry B. Fort. 
Central Division.—Benjamin F. Key, in Lin¬ 
coln avenue, Edgewood, Pittsburg, Pa., by C. H. 
Smith; Theodore Gyssels, Duquesne Canoe Club, 
Verona, Pa., and C. P. Meyran, 425 Neville 
street, Pittsburg, Pa., both by Chester C. Ed¬ 
munds ; J. Langford Edwards, 512 Rebecca 
avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa., by F. H. Herzsch. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6036, Matthew F. Hooper, 
c/o Wilmington Gas Co., Wilmington, Del.; 
6037, William J. Hunter, 6003 Lansdown avenue, 
West Philadelphia, Pa. 
Centtal Division.—6039, John G. Bunker, 404 
West street, Wilkinsburg, Pa. 
Eastern Division.—6035, F. H. Baldwin, 265 
Milford street, Manchester, N. H.; 6038, Arthur 
L. Miner, 178 Mast, Manchester, N. H. 
