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...1840s a rangy, big-boned, imaginative young Vermonter named Apollos Smith operated a boat through the northern canal connecting Lake Champlain with the Hudson River. In the course of a hunting trip Apollos was enchanted by the chill beauty of the Adirondacks and decided to open a sportsmen's lodge on the Saranac River near Loon Lake. He built it himself, with a living room and kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests...
...over the railroad trains they outdistanced along the banks of the Hudson River, ice boats yielded to river ice breakers, and ice yachting waned in the East except at such centres as New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, Lakes Hopatcong and Greenwood, the Mystic Lakes in Massachusetts, Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. In Scandinavian Minnesota,* in Wisconsin and Michigan, ice yachting has flourished. The Northwestern Ice Yachting Association's classifications of ice boats are used nationally and their annual regatta, held last 'week on Lake Pewaukee, just west of Milwaukee, is the nearest thing to national...
...there last week was an International Joint Commission of six appointed by Canada and the U. S. to discuss the feasibility of a passage for deep-sea vessels from Albany to the St. Lawrence River. This passage, first projected in 1902, would follow the Hudson as far as the Champlain Canal, thence through Lake Champlain to the Richelieu River, which would be dredged to the St. Lawrence. Behind this scheme, which would cost some $150,000,000 last week were ranged Albany civic societies and such groups as the New England slate industry. Against it stood railroads and Canadian cities...
...atone for his abrupt leavetaking, Toscanini issued one of his rare press statements, expressed gratitude and affection for his audiences and his orchestra. But he would permit no public demonstration when he sailed for home, probably never to return to the U. S. again. Aboard the S. S. Champlain he locked himself in his cabin with Mrs. Toscanini, admitted a few friends, barred all reporters, all photographers...
Sailors of the French Line were meanwhile staging the strike they patriotically abandoned to permit the Normandie to sail on her record-breaking maiden voyage (TIME, June 10). They walked off the Champlain at Havre last week and for two days most of her 670 passengers were fed and bedded in Havre hotels at French Line expense. Meanwhile the men's leaders wrangled in Paris with Minister of Merchant Marine William Bertrand, saddest man on the Normandie's maiden voyage.* Since employees of the French Line are paid largely by State subsidy, M. Bertrand insisted last week that...