Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1918 — It Isn’t Foolproof. [ARTICLE]

It Isn’t Foolproof.

Crowds who had, gathered to witness an intercollegiate boat race on the Housatonic river in Connecticut recently also saw a young man and woman drowned by the overturning of a canoe which had ventured into the wash of a fast motorboat The canoe is an invention of our first families —the American Indians. It is absolutely unrivaled for traversing inland waterways, where shallow water may be met or portages required. For lack of such a native contrivance many large rivers in South America remain unexplored to this day. Portaging a waterlogged “dugout” weighing 1,000 pounds or more is apt to discourage any party not having a Roosevelt at its head. Yes, the canoe is the first great American invention. But it can never be made foolproof.—Rochester TimesUnion.