Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — HE WILL TEMPT HELL GATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HE WILL TEMPT HELL GATE.

Direr Robert Rnssel Hat Invented a Unicycle Catamaran in Which He Will Make a Dangerous Experiment. Sew York World. Robert S. Russell, of No. 108 East Fifty-second street, will next Saturday afternoon attempt a voyage through Hell,Gate on a. unicycle tatamaran, which he has constructed it Mill Rock Cottage. Ninety-second itreet and the East River. When he Srst began work on his novel craft Mill Rock Cottage smiled. There are leveral catamarans of various deligr.s bleaching on the rock of the waters thereabouts, and Mill Rock Cottage has seen enough ambitious lavigators with patent crafts iwamped to become incredulous.

But Mill Rick Cottage-is now convinced, and it will back the Russell unicycle catamaran to its last cent. The catamaran is a two'boat affair “with a bicycle frame fastened amidships. There is a wheel which acts as a propeller. It is furnished with eight zinc paddles. The boa ts are 15 feet long and 10 inches deep. They are 12 inches wide at the top. 8 inches at the bottom and are water-tight. At the stern of each is a rudder, the two working uniformly operated by the handle of the unicycle. The boat is about four feet wide in the middle. Russel has made ten miles an hour on rough water about the entrance to Hell Gate. Russel is professional diver, six feet tall, and weighs 220 pounds. He has Seven medals for bravery, and has saved thirty-eight lives.

LIFE-SAVER RUSSELL’S UNICYCLE CATAMARAN. (The novel craft on which a brave man will try to navigate Hell Gate.)