The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
14o0 MILE CANOE TRIP.
Interesting Story of Adventurous Cruise
By Former Brattleboro Boy.

A recent issue of the Schenectady Ga
zette contains the following account OF an
adventurous canoe trip taken by three
Young men. one of whom was George
Rice. son of Charles N. Rice of Brattlec
boro and former member OF the class Vi
1907 of the local high school: ,.oo
Having nearly completed trip OF I400
miles in canoes, George Scott. George hlee
and Fred Whiting of White Plains; n. \,
arrived in this city Sunday night. Inc TRIP
included points along the Hudson river,
Lake Champlain, the st. Lawrence river
to Quebec and back by way OF Lake IN
tario to Oswego, and from Phoenix TO 'h's
city by canal. >, ,,,,.. p,o;rs
.uiy I. bearing the flags of the Iarrytown
Yacht club, and the Knickerbocker Canoe :,
club. The largest canoe, the ~. Z; M. r.
is % feet long, and was equipped WIN u, a
two and one-half horsepower motor. ne
other canoes were the Condor and the
"Rutb". and were used for supplies.
Scott the pilot, yesterday atterhoodh III i,
speaking of the trip, said: we had an
kinds Of odds offered that We would not %. 2e
able to make the trip in canoes, put d'o
not take many of the bets: c
"Our first stopping point was CrGto H.
opd from there we came up to NeWDurg
a am Pomohkeepsie. We took the Cham
nlain canal to Whitehall and from there
went into Lake Champlain. AT Ilconde-
rooa we carried one of the canoes TO Lake
George where we attended the power boat
| races. cooroo .nd
then went to Burlington, arriving there
inst in time to attend the regatta ana the
Precautionary celebration. we We're the
anests of the Burlington Yacht club for
several days. a.ouod
1--WE stopped at Quebec, where we stayed
three days. That was out or our UP az
we had planned it, but we wanted to see
the city. We then went across 10 MOI
"From Montreal into Lachine we had
orr troubles. Passing through st. Mary
rapids and the Lachine Rapids We worked
hard for 10 hours to go about six miles.
"When we got to Lachine the Lachlne
Roat club treated us royalty although when
they found that we intended to cross a
part of Lake Ontario, they laughed and
said we would never be able to 90 II.
"At Cornwall big crowd OF old sail,
ors said that we would never get to Wolf
island where we told them We were gong
We reached Wolf Island without any. trou
ble and planted the Tarrytown Yacht
Cjnb flag on the highest point we could
find. We came to Cedar Island where we
met M. Y. Gates of Syracuse and Prof. W
F. Sudds of Gouveneur. Both men sad
that the lake was unsafe W cIoss az .ii'
time of the year.
eve took the chance and went to Cape
Vincent Here we were told that there
was a storm coming in short time, and
we headed for Oswego 65 miles away. we
got into Oswego just six hours. ahead OF
the storm that had been predicted, and
were storm bound for two days.
Everything went smooth after we got
on the canal until we reached Fulton
where we found that we must carry the
boats to Phoenix because of the work that
| is being done on the canal. We had lot
of trouble in getting carrier to take ne
boats over, but lumber dealer was finally
| secured to help us.
"From Phoenix to Syracuse the trip was
without any special incident. We stoppeo
at Syracuse during the state fair, and Their
came to Utica. We left Utica Friday
| night and got here last night"
When questioned as to how the party
lived on the trip, Mr.. Scott said: 1--WE
didn't believe in spending great deal Of
money and so we took camping ,outhts
| with us. We fished great deal, and when
meal time came. we would draw our boats
up to the bank and do our own cooking
at has been great trip, and we have
had the best kind OF time but II we
were to take the trip again we would take
a moro nowerful motor boat"