The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-18
800 MILES IN CANOES
One OF Party of Three Spent Yester.
day in Cairo at the
Halliday.

From the great border mountains
between North Carolina and Tennes
see, almost TO the Father OF Waters
| Is the distance party OF young stu
dents from Columbian university, al
Washington. d C.. has accomplished
in cedar canoes
The party left Bridgeport, Tenn.
June IS. and the original intention
was to come 70 Cairo In the canoes
and row from here TO the Worlds fair
over the great Father of Waters but
they got to Paducah, KY. and decided
that they would complete the trip by
Messrs r. w. Imbrie. Fl. c. Hengst.
Ter and O. H. Gates and the first
named was the only one that came to
Cairo He abandoned his canoe at
Paducah and came here on. the rail
road Mr. Hengstler went TO ST.
Louis from Paducah and Mr., Gates
returned 10 his home
In conversation with a Bulletin re-
porter yesterday Mr. Imbrie express
ed himself as being. greatly pleased
with the trip of $50 miles, which is
the second longest ever made under
similar circumstances, and he said
that the treatment and hospitality ex-
tended them during; the entire trip
was all that could: be asked with. one
exception The young: fellows, were
near Sheffield on. the Tennessee. river
when they. were caught in a. heavy
rain storm and they chung close to.
the shore fearing trouble. from wind.
While rowing along they: unfortunate.
ly ran. into the fishing lines. of. some
toughs' who were.'in" a, drunken: condi-
ton and who began shooting at them
with reyolyers: The young fellows
rowed to Observation-Disclosures drunk:
en- fishermen 10 flight: =, -. ..-...' .
The party started. at bridgeport
Tenn, almost ;oong the Moth Carolina
line and at the. headwaters ;of the
French Broad river They. had two
canoes. the, KID! eighteen feet long
and weighing .eighty'fiye. pounds, and
the "Papoose;' fourteen feet. long and
Weighing. fifty: pounds; They rowed
down<the French Broad"to' where that
stream 'empties. into. the. Tennessee,
a few miles above Knoxville, stopping
long enough ito explore the Holston
and Clinch rivers short distance,
making a total of five streams tray'
eysed on the trip. They drifted the, en-
tire length of the Tennessee river,
the state of Tennessee$ twice.
Alabama and Kentucky: e$each. and.
touching Mississippi: -.
They travelled on an average OF thir-
iy.hye miles day, but made as much |
as forty-hve. miles I'M a'.single" day.
They camped ont at night and carried |
tents. utensils. etc, in waterproof |
bags, the entire outfit weighing about
500 pounds.
One dangerous experience the party |
rad was when thee pushed through
he suck in the Tennessee river
lbout twenty miles below Chaita'
looga At this point the river runs
several miles through "a canon, the
walls on each side being OF stone and
making a sheer descent OF many feet.
rhe current runs at the rate of from
en- to eighteen miles an hour and at
ONE points. the stream Is no more
han a hundred feet wide.
In speaking of one place on the
tennessee river Mussel Shoals. Mr.
mbrie smilingly remarked that II
vas the first time in his life that he
yer had special train. Al this
oint the government has lock con
tructed and the canoes and their
wners were carried around the oh
truction to the current. a distance OF
bout twenty miles on a train. The
onductor- in charge of the train ap-
cared TO have nothing special to do
nd re readily agreed to carry the
arty around the lock.
The young gentlemen are members
T the Columbian Canoe club amt
now Of brit one other trim made
hich outdocs theirs. this being made
1880 from the Alleghenys to the
ulf of Mexico. The young gentlemen
aveled a distance of SEA miles and
ieir arms and faces are badly tan :
ID. hut other than their appearance ,
lev are none the worse for the trip 0
Mr.. Imbrie's reason for coming to
afro was that some clothing and sup
les had been shipped 10 him here $
ON Washington. u. e. lie will prob a
is leave for St Louis today.
Twas Ever Thus. :