Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-13

the canal crosses the seneca riVel ""o
Of special interest to us as the river
winds its way for miles through q
green meadow and tile canal has been
raised quite some distance above the
level of the meadow and we semen
to he gliding down the smoothest
nossible road over the green meadows
that extended in places for many
miles on either side of us. We slowed
down the engine of the yacht all we
could so as to fully ENJOY the beauti-
full scene in passing through. Reach
ing the city of Syracuse at q p. m.
wa again lay up near the city hall in
the centre of the city. Had hardly
made all fast for the night when we
received q call from one OF q party
from a gasolene yacht that was laying
at the canal bank a little distance
ahead of us. When he found that we
had been to st. Louis and were on u
way home from there, he told us that
he was the owner of the gasolene
Yacht and had started from Newark,
N. j., about a week before us, in
eending to go to st. Louis, but trouble
with his machinery had delayed him
ON the way up the Hudson river and
we had passed him at Albany. After
getting through the canal to Buffalo
he made q start on Lake Erie, but
when he reached Dunkirk, the first
harbor from Buffalo. some thirty-three
miles on Lake Erie, he had all of
lake sailing that he cared for and he
laid his boat up ct Dunkirk and went
to St. Lonis by rail. 1 think THAT
he certainly used good Judgment by
doing so as his boat was not at all
suitable for such an Undertaking and
there were three ladies in his party
| who were unable to realize the dam
gers of the trip and must have suffered
greatly if they had been caught out
on the lakes in any such seas as we
were compelled to encounter on our
trip. We passed a very quiet night
at Syracuse, and, on August 26, after
seeing all we cared to see of Syracuse,
started homeward again at II a. M,
and. locking mp three locks at SYRIA.
cuse, we entered the long level of the
canal that extends from Syracuse
eastward some fifty nine miles with
out q lock and terminates at the city
of Rome hich we reached at 8 80 p.
m. and laid up for the night along side
Of q coal yard where we took on q
tor of pea coal, the first hard coal that
we had bought on the trip. Upon
asking where this coal came from,
the owner of the yard told me that all
of his coal was loaded on canal boats
at Perth Ambov and after bringing
it nearly 300 miles from Perth Amboy
he charged the same price for it that
we are compelled TO pay for it in
Perth Amboy.
August Give left the city of
Rome at 8:40 o. M. and arrived at the
town of Canajoharie, sixty-eight miles
west of Albany at 6 40 p. m. The day
was warm and pleasant, and, as ON
this part of the canal is located many
thrifty towns and villages, it seemed
as if we were hardly out of one town
before we were into another. Tie
city of Little Falls, which we passed
through today, is eighty miles
from Albany and is built near the fall
of the Mohawk river which furnishes
water power to many industries To-
Gated there. The canal has three
looks to lower the boats down some
thirty feet. The canal has been cut
through a point Of rocks that towor
quite some distance above the level of
the canal and the tow, paths of the
canal in some places rims under tho
over hanging rocks on the north side
OF the cut and is some thirty feet or
more above the Mohawk river and
forms a narrow road between the
river and the canal. Tie river has
found its way between the rocky cliffs
and forms a little lake betwee the
rocks that shone like silver in after
noon suns. High upon the rocks on
both sides Of the river the rocks have
been cut into for two lines of railroads
that have followed up the valley of
the Mohawk. and as we glided down
the canal a heavy freight engine with
its long train Of cars, Numbered along
the rocky path of the railway away
above our heads on our right and TO
the left, the cliffs overhanging the
tow paths forms a fine profile OF an
old mans face standing out in bold
relief in the sunlight. This part Of
the canal is well worth a visit for
those in search of the many beautiful
scenes OF nature. AS the sun was
falling we ran into the town or citv
of Canaj0harie and found a very ouiat