Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-06
SOCIETY GIRL s EXPLOIT
Miss Elizabeth Camps Daring Trip Tn a Naphtha Launch.
RAN INTO GALE ON LAKE ONTARIO

Young Heiress Pi1oted Her Own
 Craft For Eight Hundred Miles
 From Alexandria Bay to Norwich,
 Conn. Boat Nearly svamped In
 Going Through Big He'll Gate.
 Miss Elizabeth N. Camp of Norwich has increased her popularity in east ern Connecticut and added to her ath- letic reputation by piloting her speedy launch Wizard from the Thousand is- lands to Norwich, a distance of 800 miles, says the New York Herald.
 A young society woman of twenty years, educated by excellent private in. structors and with proud family rec ord, Miss Camp is, as her friends ex press it, an Ion the level girl.'
 Miss Camp spent the summer at Alexandria Bay and there saw the launch Wizard get all the racing hon ors Having mastered all features of steering and running launch, Miss Camp determined to buy the Wizard and take the launch to her home. Ac- companied by Mrs. c. N. Cook, Captain Estes and Edwin Campbell, IT,, the former owner of the Wizard, all ol Alexandria Bay, and Alfred Lillibddge of Norwich, Miss Camp started on the trip few weeks ago.
 While on Lake Ontario and far from a port the Wizard ran into gale. Cap tain Estes seamanshjp, combined with that of Miss Camp and the work of the whole party in bail1ng the water out of the nearly swamped craft, carried the Wizard through the Erie canal.
 Captain Estes left the craft at AL bany, and Miss Camp assumed full re- sponsibility for the remainder of the trip. Going down the Hudson river, Miss Camp decided to take the Wizard around New York city and through Hell Gate instead of by the less dan gerous Little Hell Gate route. Dodging through New York harbor, with Miss Camp at the wheel the Wizard poked her nose into Hell Gate, encountering a head tide and heavy sea. It required several attempts to make the passage, the launch being nearly swamped.
 The trip in Long Island sound to New London was made in heavy blow. Miss Camp had only small chart to guide her, but she piloted the Wizard through successfully. The party spent one night in the open cabin. From New London up the Thames river to Norwich the Wizard had a quick run. Including the stops and the delays caused by bad weather, the Wiz ard made the trip from Alexandria Bay in thirteen days. Sixty gallons of gasoline were used.
 The Wizard is thirty five feet long, but has only four foot beam. She draws two and one-half feet of water, is equipped with fourteen horse power engine of four cylinders and goes eight cen miles an hour.
 Tn speaking of her trip from the Thousand islands Miss Camp said, ssWe came near meeting disaster sev- eral times, especially in. Hell Gate, but good fortune attended us.'
 MT. Campbell and Mrs. Cook say MissaCamp handled the boat most skill fully and never for a moment lost her nerve.
 Miss Camp is one of the best automo- bile drivers in Connecticut She has made several long tours. Miss Camp is the granddaughter of the late Timothy Blackstone, a millionaire manufacture CT. She is the only daughter of MT. and Mrs. F. S. Camp of Norwich. Her fa- ther is secretary of the Ponemah Mills corporation, one of the largest cotton manufacturing plants in the country. Miss Camps brother, Walter T. Camp, is paymaster in the United States navy, and 1t was in the launches he formerly owned on the Thames river that she got her experience.