The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-23
QUINNIpIAC CANOE CLUB.


Canoeing has taken quite a holt
| among Meriden lovers of that sport
says the Meriden Record, and there will
be quite fleet" of the little vessels or
Hanover lake this summer, from pres
ent Indications
A number Of enthusiasts who were
interested in the sport last year and
who took weekly trips down the Quin-
nipiac river to the sound have organ
lied the Quinnipiac Canoe club. Some
Of the members are: Roy Parker, Hal
Brainard, Holly Immich, George Rock
well, Norman Brainard, Russell Will
son Winslow.
There are number Of men interested
in the sport. and from the fascinating
tales told by survivors Of trips down the
Quinnipiac. the sport Is of the finest,
and the canoe ought to be a popular in
stitution with Meriden lovers Of outdoor
pastimes.
The season, one member said Tuesday
night. will open about April l. Then
the Quinnipiac club fleet will take a
cruise, probably down the Connecticut
river to Long Island Sound.
A number of Meriden people made
trips down the Quinnipiac river to New
Haven in a canoe last summer. There
are but five carries" where a person
must put his boat on his back. The
first Is around the dam at the South
Meriden Cutlery, at the Mix shop in
Yalesville, Wallaces and Community
lake in Wallingford. and once below
North Haven. In all the carrying dis
lance is less than a quarter of mile.
One of the men who made the trip
last summer says canoeing to the Sound
is the only real kind of sport.
"You get up at five in the morning."
said he, put on your bathing suit. trot
down to Hanover and 60 aboard ship.
If you're an expert cancer you'll make
sure you get the bow In front, and the
stern in back of you. Your citizens
clothes you'll pack in some corner that
you don't occupy yourself.
"Then you're off for day of rare
sport. For several hundred yards you
begin to feel like two year old heifer
At sharp turn in the river your stern
wants to go around first and in trying
to keep the bow first, your neck inter-
feres with an overhanging tree. In try
ing to bend under you are overturned.
"The f1ume from the Mix Shop In
Yalesville to Community is great. The
water goes like mile a minute, and
you must keep pace. Your canoe goes
shooting off into the lake into nice clear
water, and unless you know the chan
nell on to the mud flats. Floundering
in the mud for half an hour you again
get into clear water. At the dam you
carry the boat few yards, and again
proceed.
but those are the experiences of
most Of the inexperienced ones. I was
one on my first trip. A person who
knows how to handle canoe can make
the trip without any accidents. He
should know how to swim and paddle a
canoe. If he enjoys outdoor sport he'll
be canoe enthusiast always. The riv- |
or is a very beautiful one, and 1t is
worth much to any person to take the ,
rip.
1.-THE trip to the Sound from Meriden |
N the Quinnipiac river is about forty |
niles, and can be covered in about ten
hours. Some Of those who went down.
continued on along the shore to where
heir families were stopping
Nobody has yet made the trip from
New Haven to Meriden without mis-
zap. Last summer a party of yale STU
Tents came up, intending to go through
0 the Pennington river, and then down
he Connecticut river to the New Lon
on boat races, Instead of following
he rivers course at Yalesville, they
ried to come up the fume from the
hop Half way up the force of the wa
err became too strong, and their bows
,ent around and they were overturned
hey lost their clothing, rold watch
nd other valuables. They did not con-
inue the trip.
1.-The canoes we use, most of them,
re twelve and one-half feet long and
lade Of canvas"
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