Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-08
|GHERUB Is
MOORED AT
ST. LOUIS.
S. B. Greacen and Party Arrive
Safely at End of 1000 Mile
Journey.
The BIG RIVER.
Mr.. GtBacen the Guest Of a Steamboat
Captain for a Cruise Farther Down the
Mighty Stream and He Tells ofHIs Trip
. The Landing Made by the Steamboats,
d
y There are Particularly interesting.

Editor Evening News:
/ We found Chicago to be very warm
and smoky and we were all of one
mind to move ON after staying all
day Monday and it seemed mucl,
more pleasant on the yacht than in
the city.
Tuesday, June olive started again
at 10 n. III. and ran down the Chicago
river for about five miles to the en-
trance to the Illinois and Michigan
canal. The Chicago river is a narrow
and very dirty stream from 200 TO 300
feet wide and crossed by so many
bridges that we did not attempt to
count them but as we had 10 wered
our smoke stack and was in trim for
the canal we went under nearly all of
them. The river was crowded with
many craft of all kinds that kept us
busy to run through them, but we
did not have any trouble to keep clear.
We thought that the river vas very
foul, but when we reached the en-
trance to the canal we found some
thing in the way of filth and smell
that would make tho Chicago river a
crystal stream in comparing 1t with
the canal. Words fail to describe the
canal. After looking up in the canal
we had some tw%enty-nino miles to
run before we reached the town of
Lockport and for about five miles the
canal banks was covered with the
dumpings of Chicago. The water of
the canal was about the color and
consistency of coal tar, but not by
any mean as fragrant. A few miles
ont Of the city of Chicago We could
| SEQ the Immense piles Of stone taken
from the canal that has been cut
through tho rocks TO make the
famous drainage canal of Chic ago.
For about twenty miles the stone
taken from the cut formed hills on
both banks of the drainage canal that
looked like a range of mountains. Ii
| would hardly seem possible that it is
the work of human hands. l do not
think that anyone can fully realize
| what the work must have been until
| they have followed for miles as we
lid these giant hills of stone.
Some thirty seven miles out of Chi
cngo we came to the town OF Joliet,
| where the numerous tall chimneys of
III immense steel works were sending
! out dense clouds of smoke that com
pletely shut out all sight of the
/ country towards which the wind was
carrying it. Fortunately for us tho
wind blew it away from the canal so
it did not bother us much. At Joliet
we locked down into and crossed Tho
Des Plains river and a large portion
Of the filthy canal water went down
the river to our great relief. Locking
down from the Des Plains river at
Joliet into another level of the canal
In slow run Of some even miles,
caused by tho coal we had bought at
Chicago stopping up the boiler 'tubes
80 that we could not get steam enough
to run, made n s tic up for the night
to nm old mill ON tho canal bank
where we were undisturbed during
the night.
"Wednesday, June 22-Started fire
under the yacht boiler at 6 a. M, but
Tt.was hard work to got steam enough
to move and after running slowly for
4 few mile we we're compelled to tic
under some tall trees on the canal
bank and Glenn out the boiler tubes
and it was nearly ii a. IN. before we
could move on again. The county
seemed to improve as We passed on
and we saw many fine farms along
the canal in many places the land lies
lower than the canal and the farmers
had run the canal water in pipes so as
to irrigate the land OF their farms.
The day was clear with o fine breeze
blowing and we enjoyed the sail very
much. During the afternoon VIC saw
approaching as q yacht that looked
familiar and when we passed her we
found 1t to be the Roamer of New
Y FORK, hat we had met last August
Int Plattsburg, Lake Cnamplian.
The Roamer started from New York
last fall and had passed the winter
in Florida and was returning homo
after coming up the Mississippi river
to the Illinois river TO the canal. A
dusk we crossed over a vindnot tina
carried the canal over a rocky gorg'