The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-10

pleasant resort. both on account of its
nearness to the city its beautiful
scenery and its wholesome surround
ings. Along the shore there are sew
eral yacht and boating club houses;
amongst others little above the head
of Dorval Island the Royal st. Law
renee Yacht Club, which for several
years held the trophy Of the seawan-
haka Yacht Club for small yachts.
Lachlne.
After issuing from the lake we pass
the town of Lachine nine miles from
Montreal. This place is associated
with the name of La Sale, who, about
the year 1870. obtained a grant OF land
from the seminary OF Montreal and
here formed a settlement. giving to It
the name of Lachine. Il was La Sale
who during his wanderings to the head
of the Illinois first pitched upon Chi
cago as trading post.
Here the famous Lachine Canal
commences; II was built to overcome
the descent of the river i'm the Lachine
Rapids. Even as we pass along, we
can see the enclosed waters of the
canal bearing upon their bosom the
huge form OF the up-going steamer.
Across fiom Lachine on the south
bank is the Indian village, Caughn-
awaga. The name means Praying
Indian"
Just below Cauchnawaga, we pass
under the magnificent iron bridge of
the Canadina Pacific railway, a beau
tiful structure built on the cantilever
principle.
Passing under the bridge the steam
er glides into the mid stream that
moves with the calm majesty of ire
sistible power and speed indicative of
the coming rapids, which now appear
in full view. And now we are enter
ing the fercest, the most celebrated,
the most difficult of navigation, as
well as the last of the Great St Law
renee rapids the Lachine A uni
versal stiffness reigns among the pas
sengers on deck as they look forward
to the glittering sheet of foaming
breakers ahead Human speech can
find no tongue in such a scene, but
awe and the overpowering sense of the
mighty forces in raging activity
around. inspires the thrilling stiffness
OF a mingled fear and pleasure in ev-
cry soul-fear of the awful possibi-
ity Ot some miscarriage i'm our de-
scent, pleasure in the triumphant ex-
hibition of the flash and cloml of the
cascade, of the earthquake and foam
fire OF the cataract" In we plunge
among the breakers and the headlong
current bears us towards the shelving
and insiduous rocks, sometimes hid
den, sometimes disclosed to view, with
the dark suggestion of others couched
unseen beneath the water Deity we
pass them by within a few yards of
their treacherous edges, through foam,
through billows, through hurling eddy
and swirling whirlpool, through clouds
of spray crowned with the irridescence
of hundred rainbows. A moment
more and we have completed the de.
scent, and ride in tranquility on the
placid bosom OF the river below, with
a sense of relief born of the contem-
plated danger past. But the cool and
clear eye of the pilot is equal to the
perilous work, and 1t is a notable fact
that no accident of any consequence
has ever happened, nor has a single
life been lost in the course Of many
years of steamboat navigation of
these wonderful rapids.
Many prefer the wildness and beau
ty OF the Long Sault to the pitch of
the Lachlne Rapids but each has its
own beauties and individual attrac-
tions.
Passing the beautifully wooded
shores of Nuns Island we see the IA
nous Victoria Jubilee bridge-a mag
nihcent structure which was built to
replace the old Victoria Tubular