Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1913 — Rowing Down the Mississippi. [ARTICLE]

Rowing Down the Mississippi.

Andrew Kdehn, who finished eleven years of service in the United States navy last April with the . grade of quartermaster, first' class, started June 15 to row the entire length of the Mississippi river, entirely unaccompanied, for the purpose of establishing a record for the distance. The start was made at the head of Lake Itasca, Minnesota, where the great river rises, and the 41ttle boat used by the former navy oarsman is named Itasca. boat is of galvanized steel, with a tfood cockpit cover, ten feet long and forty-two inches beam., A wooden the bottom serves as a bunk, And is provided with a regulation navy mattresß and' two blankets. Stanchions are placed so that they can be ueed either to carry an awning or to support a small tent which buttons over the cockpit coaming, making the Interior rainproof.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.