MOTOR BOUT FOR NIAGARA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 18 April 1910, Page 3

MOTOR BOUT FOR NIAGARA.

An ■exhibit in a reccnt motor-boat show in New York was a craft shown by the Detroit Boat Company, whica (says the .correspondent of the "D'iilv Telegraph") will be sent down the rapids at Niagara next June wiu two New Yorkers, Messrs Rose •'•"I Warford, as a crew. Ibis boat has 150 watertight compartments, and can ,bo punctured 125 tunes, and still float. Special teet clamps and handrests have been built, which enab.e the men to retain -their scats. Fifteen minutes after the lines are ea-.. off the occupants of the boat w;.l roach Lewistou, about seven miles bplow the Falls, or two more lives will be added to the list of those who have attempted to gd from the «ase of the falls through th c rapids and the famous -whirlpool. In the past logs have been thrown in the rapids, and, after entering the whirlpool, have spun round and round at a tenilio speed until they stood on end and suddenly shot downward, not to appear again on the surface. It is commonly .thought that there is a subterranean passage jfnto Lake Ontario, as none of these logs have cv °r been seen after their disappearance.