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I* IllItFOOLHARDY PROJECT.Captain W. C. Oledrive, of Boston, to Walk Across the Atlantic.Cliicago, Dec. 29.—A special to the Times-llerald from New York says: Captain VV. C. Oledrive, of Boston, lias planned to walk across the Atlantic ocean. He will begin his journey July 4 and will be accompanied by Captain W. M. Andrews, famous by reason of his voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat. It is nothing new for Captain Oledrive to promenade the waves. That has been his pleasure and profit these ten years. Captain Andrews, who is to be the companion of the w?a-ter pedestrian, will journey in a brand-new 14-foot small boat and in this merely repeats a feat performed in 1878 and again in 1892. Captain Andrew's is the man who has brought about the whole affair. Here is his own statement:“Incredible as it may seem, next year we are really going to walk and sail down Boston harbor, out onto the ocean and over to Havre, France, through the great bore of the river Seinejand up to Paris, to be there to attend the exposition of 1900 in our new seagoing shoes and the smallest, fastest and best boat that ever crossed the Atlantic ocean, the Phantom ship. Every vessel we speak on the ocean will report. one of us walking and sometimes towing the boat in calm weather.“The seagoing shoes of Mr. Oledrive are the most wonderful part of the whole affair. They are a pair of cedar boxes five feet long wiwh fins on the bottom and sides. They are very light and capable of sustaining 140 pounds, and as Oledrive weighs only 180 pounds they are as good to him as a steamer’s deck.”
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Friday Harbor Islander
Friday Harbor, Washington, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1898
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