People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — A LONG TRIP. [ARTICLE]

A LONG TRIP.

Novel Journey Planned by an Indiana Man In a Launch. Algernon S. Orr of Michigan City, Ind., has constructed a steam launch, on which he will embark from Chicago on a long trip. If Mr. Orr’s initial trip is successful, he will undertake, with the aid of a companion, to encircle the globe. The little launch will steam out of Chicago within the next few days, following the course of the drainage canal to the Mississippi river and out through the delta into the gulf of Mexioo. Mr. Orr will hold his compass on Florida, following the coast, and steam northward, stopping at all the points of interest, but ultimately reaching New York. His trip will be continued np the Hudson, where -he will find his way to the great lakes, following the chain around, through Lake Ontario, the Niagara river into Lake Erie, f:>->uy Lake Erie through the St. Clair : «era: 1 Lake St. Clair into Lake Huron, .iiroi the straits into Lake Michigan a;,d southward to Chicago, the place of starting.