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Piloting the Coal Queen, from Morgantown, W. Va. downstream (north) to Pittsburgh, took a little doing, what with pushing barges through the locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some...
Eliot covered the mile downstream course in he time of 5:21 against a slight headlined, with the Puritans finishing in 5:23.5. Kirkland's time was 5:30 and Leveret, in fourth place, had a 5:31.5 finish. Dunster's last place both finished in 5:35.5, only three and a half lengths behind the winners...
Bert Haines 150 pound crew coach will start and referee the race and Carroll F. Getchell will be the head finish judge. The weather and wind will determine whether the race will be upstream or downstream...
...neither of them as decisively as Harvard. Navy's two-length win over the Tigers was with a full sprint last weekend, while Harvard needed no sprint to win by the same margin. Navy, however, turned in an astonishing 8:27 time over a mile and three-quarters downstream course in beating Wisconsin on the Severn River the weekend. The record for the Charles River course is 8:48. The Crimson beat M.I.T. in last week's opener...
...Toll. Omaha and Council Bluffs were saved from devastation. Downstream lay other cities girded for the flood. The Missouri's crest would continue to inflict damage on the countryside, where farmers' "private" levees could not withstand it. The Army's Chief of Engineers, Lieut. General Lewis Pick, summarized the toll exacted by the Mighty Muddy as its flood passed down river from Omaha: 27 railroads blocked, 83 main highways broken, 87,000 persons displaced, 50 cities & towns flooded, 2,000,000 farm acres swamped, 153 private levees breached-a total of $200 million damage, which would...