Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — Monon President Fishing in The Kankakee at Water Valley. [ARTICLE]

Monon President Fishing in The Kankakee at Water Valley.

A special car is sidetracked on the Monon at Water Valley, entirely deserted except for the shining presence of a chef, a waiter and a porter. - How long it will remain there depends upon the fishing in the Kankakee riter, on which stream the president or subordinate officials of the road are steaming up and down, catching pickerel, bass and crappies. Saturday they landed from their luxurious launch and Informed the natives and campers that they had captured 72 goodsized fish in a day’s trip. Whereupon the chef, the waiter and the porter prepared and served dinner. ‘The time of our lives,” Fairfax Harrison, the president, is reported as saying. “There isn’t a better river for sport in the country. I don’t know when we will leave.”