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ON LONG WATER TRIPTwo Adventurous Easterners Are Near This City in a Canal.WILL BE HERE SEPTEMBER 15.(They Are Out io See America—Started From Flushing, New York,May 11.avvPbb o g w ti p i tiTwo adventurous young easterner?. are nearing this city and probably will1 arrive September 15 on what is doubtless the only transcontinental trip of its kind ever undertaken.They are bound from New York for San Francisco in a canoe—not an or-dinary, old-fashioned, paddle-propelled canot, but an up-to-date one driven by a detachable motor.The voyagers on this record-making trip are Harry M. Duncan, aged 26 years, of Flushing, N. Y., and Harold B. Forman, aged 25 years, of Ansonia, Conn. The two are cousins. Duncan is an artist and writer, Forman an employe of a Connecticut manufacturing ■ company, on leave of absence. They are out to see America, and they are doing it as the ordinary tour- c, ist never can, earning their expensesby selling novelties.iThe voyage began at Flushing, N. j F: Y., just above the metropolis, on May j 11, By way of the East and Harlem j S* rivers and the Hudson, thence across New York bay into the Raritan, the canoeists reached New Jersey. The be Delaware and Raritan Canal took them in to Philadelphia. On the Delaware ■ an river and the Delaware and Chesa- j tr peake Canal, they reached Baltimore 4,1 and Anapolis.Here they had to brave the open jye water, again till they arrived at the jte mouth of the Potomac. Up the Poto-;WJ mac they chugged to Washington, then via the Chesapeake and OhioclcsoWish(Continued on page 4.)th
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Jefferson City Democrat Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Tue, Sep 14, 1915
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