Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1915 — Lazy Man’s Sport. [ARTICLE]

Lazy Man’s Sport.

“Canoeing is one of the most rest fal things in the world If you go about it right,” said the enthusiast who keeps his craft in a boat bouse on the river side and takes long and frequent trips on the Hudson. “To most persons it seems a real task to paddle up the river with the tide against you, but my friends and I have discovered a lazy man’s way of shirking real work and at the same time getting some exercise. We go out in the canoe and drift about until a line of towed barges comes in sight The®, like little 'hooking a ride,\ we run the bow of our canoe up to the stern of the last barge. You know there is a flat surface of water made by the heavy boats before the wash commences, and as long as you keep your canoe in that the suction of the towed vessels will take you right along. All you have to do is steer. We have been pulled up way past Yonkers many times In this fashion and then have paddled down stream with the tide.”—New Yotk Sun.