New-York tribune., 1886-04-25
SUNDAY EDITION.
APRIL IS, 1886.
CANOEING ON DRY LAND,
AN EXHI ITION BY THE NEw-YORK CLUBS.

FLAGS, TROPHIES, PESSANTs, PATENT RIGS AID
PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWN TO THE PCBLIC.
After canoeing on the water, perhaps the most
delightful recreation is canoeing dry land. Those
whose aversion to water-in quantty-or whose lack
OF early adv anages kept them from becoming patIci
pants in the first type of the sport enjoyed all the
delight of the second at the Harvard Rooms, No 720
Sixth ave yesterday. Short cruises the elevated
railroads brought them to the Harvard Rooms where
the canoe clubs of the metropolis had on exhibition
everything that the most vivo canoeing imagination
ever conceived. Every variety of craft, from the
married mans down to the primaedisl, pf otO-
plasmio dug to be for the trouble OF going
The said dugout showed where the tooth of time had
taken many bites out of ii. In fact, 1t looked -
though it had just been dugout Of remote part
of the Adirondacks, where 1t had LAID buried sinoe
canoeing first began. The married mans canoe o1
the other hand represented the height OF the sciencA
1t was a trim craft. built Of hard wood, with double
metallic centre-boards. yswl rig turkey red sails.
elaborate steering gear. and general air of having
moved in the first canoeing society On the red fore
sail was the white seahorse the emblem of the Knick
erbockor Club. an animal much iercer than any Of
those with which Professor Gleason ever waited
around the sawdust ring.
The great beauty of the married mans how
ever "a the indicates that he take his wife
along with him. She sits on turkey-red cushion IN
the bow looking back at her lord and captain, who
faces forward and steers The only possible drawback
Is that in iibng his foresa careless husband might
be likely to carry away all his wife's back hair.
Among the single canoes many pleasure craft,
and others designed for heavy weather. One of the
former had transverse stripes around 1t and looked as
though il had just escaped from Sing Sing. Still
another all OF birch bark put together with that
criminal waste and superabundance OF material that
characterizes the aboriginal mechanic. In another
corner cruising canoe, fully rigged and loaded.
A parody canoeing manhood sat upon the gunwsie,
hand clenchng the main sheet. the other grasp
ing the tiller 1t easy to from the expression
of its face that where In It's waxwOrk soul IL telt
the straning SAIL the lifting keel the lite of tho
awakening sea, its notion" if not its mysteree"
Beside the many types OF canoes and
all appliances, there great display OF
sverware, trophies and challenge cups. medals and
prizes. Banners Innumerabe were hung out on tho
outer wall. Til hundreds OF them Under tho
dot ensign which is the signal OF tho New York Clad
and OF Mr. vaux. its bright and shining lght, were
OF the snake had nearly a. many followers Tho
crescent and OF the Springfield Club were danger
ousy tho wild buffalo OF the Buffalo canoeists rhe
water OF the Newbrg mon, and the alligator 0l tue
metesooe sealorse of the Knckerbockcr Club proudly
reared head. At the other end OF tho rooms were
great display OF photographs canoe camps. uises,
meets, club houses and all the incidents OF canoeing life
Muscular csnocists straDng In the races rep )sng In
the shade. stripped for the fray with the mutt tnous camp
fire and amid the alrements or watering Taces we're
faithfully represented In the evening tue same views
were thrown OIL screen by the magic lantern, ana mo
songs and chOrsss OF these Jolly sa0rmen and woods
soOthed stirred the musc-l0vine sonl while mo
Imagination all unnecessary complete the joy of the
dry land can0est.