The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-07
FLIGHT
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g..u pHp busy boalmen and their wives
nal u m.uItea rrli Yesterday from their
,... .f rolnline, hanging ncnf-lacs curs
,... nuI hauling aboard casks ~ wator-
, o...Irnt PREPARATION for cleansing
.r,...a they gathered around the John
l.tr. 200 tons. rnu'n Elisher Leonard
tn'n leonardo boat was the centre 81
A. traction, because shc " tho first canal
boat that will u''ompt to go from here 10
p.r,.1 unIor her own gasolene power or
it., Her skipper hopes TO got under
an. ,l-uirht ar tomorrow.
sF0r fourteen years the John +. Dean
Ina tcrn mor,ly ono ~ tho three mule power
,aral uuat, In the feet u fifty owned Ivy
William Warwick tho canal boat insurance
nan " Buffalo, but during the last week
b,r owner has had n Laokawanna auto
,,,lI, engine installed on the after deck.
The engine, according to Skipper Leonard.
will turn 'he thirty inch screw $50 times n
minute without half trying.
Mules can cover only about ten miles
during the whole fOrepart watch OF elk
hours.' said Capt. Leonard yesterday.
Now, believe me or not. this boat IL going
70 swasA along hereafter at three miles
an hour
sOnlcss," commented Jim Snee, the
bost's chauffeur, them farmer fellers
IN State with the tin stars on their coats
cit out speed re g'lations. They're sore on
automobiles up there, IN you on see yer
self that this here craft amt no different
now from a racin' red devil, 'cept that she's
painted " hite an has 'em skinned fer size.
And our racer has this advantage over the
chue.chug carts, too, that what dust they
ia on the water is mud an can't git into a
feller's eyes. No big green goggles needed,
YOU see-onless," he added thoughtfully,
'the wind gifts too strong when we git hittn'
up a four mile clip
The popular answer to requests for in
formation about the fleet yesterday was,
Il guess We en- get started 'thout no press
committees help"
Some Of you chaps" graciously ex-
plainei the skipper Of the Bertha Gooken
that don't know a boa from a plate OF
beans come Town here this time last year
when We was startin' out. Then when we
give up to you pleasant you up an says in
your papers that our cabins wasn't no big
ger N a Harlem fiat, an such like guff. 30
we amt t'hum to-day, sonny-on yer way!'
Old Cap'n Hanks of the lilly Schhtz,
however, was more communicative.
They amt no races OF the canal now
lamented Cap'n Hanks. who is a sportsman
at heart, like they was in the old passenger
packet days, long bout 'fifty-three. Boats
carried from forty to fifty ~people-nothin'
else-and would skim out from Albany to
Buffalo in less n six days. That was goin'
1t some, eh7 Six horses drawed EN- along
at a dead gallop. a rider on the wheel horse,
go Z speak. lashin' EN- on fer twelve miles,
when they was changed fer fresh horses.
sEven tn meules that drawed the freight
boats was goers in them days. / had one
named Rub 'er Heels that could show 'er
tail to lots Of thoroughbreds on the Speed
way to-day. Fact Is that leaving. out her
ears an tail Tod Sloan hisself couldn't tell
her from a amin boss. She was a iul
by Gazelle Umpleby, and, In a manner OF
speakin', by every boat driver that ever
tried to curry 'er un~announced. She indeed
was quite some goer!
THE shippers Of them days was men!
There was oil Cap'n Jason, for instance,
miral. He'd git 80 het up over a race,
leanin' out over the bow an shoutin' that
near every day he fell overheard from
excitement.
lash 'em upl' he yells T. mo n day as
we drawed down the stretch T. Albany,
AN if you beat IAN here he leans
out too fer an goes over) that jackson
suit Of clothes in Aibany' Which he done,
Mother time l was steerin' between
tn L0ckport rocks bout dusk.
Hard a-port!'' yells Cap'n Jason OF a
sudden from the bow; I thought he meant
an We skinned twenty feet Of new plankin'
on on the rocks.
"'Damn it, he yells, don't you know /
mean starb'd when | say port?'
They don't grow men like Cap'n Jason
now
Cap'n Leonard, the only other skipper who
would talk, said that freight rates are not
80 good now as they were in the early days.
Then the boatm on got as high as "a cents a
bushel for carry ing wheat and other grain
from Buffalo to New York, while now they
are doing well if they get 4 cents. A State
toll of from 3 TO I cents had to be paid by
the boatmen for eGch bushel carried, now
ever, at that time.
Cap'n Leonard. like all the boatmen,
idoiAes Grover Cleveland, because it was
during Cleveland's campaign for Governor
that the canal toll was abolished by popu-
lar vote, and Cleveland's election, the boat
men say, helped to defeat the tax. During
the campaign Skipper Leonard's boat
foated a banner with Cleveland and a
Free Canal painted in red letters OF 1t,
the only political banner on the canal.
The boats are late in the starting this
year, the shippers say, because the cargoes
OF coal nave been held up by the anthracite
miners squabbles. They have also been
held back because of a depression in the
canal carving business due to the trouble
between the captains branch and the
mates branch of the Freight Carriers
lhion on the big ~freighters of the Great
Lakes, The mates nave been ordered
out because the captains branch refuses
to acknowledge that the mates are as i'm
fortant as the captains. Lake freights
are being tied up as a result of the differ
ence Of opinion as to social equality and
The canal boatmen are suffering in con-
sequence.
STUDENTS AT ELLIS ISLAND.
Glass In Politics at Princeton to Visit Immi.
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