Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 12

18 _MHE EVENING BTAR, . WASHINGTOXN, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FSEPTEHBER 26, 1978% CANYON EXPLORERS BESET BY DANGERS Storms and Cold Hinder Progress — New Safety Schemes Devised. s, the fourth of a series of srti. G. Birch, leader of the first 0% {6 nave expiored successtully r Canvon, in north; . _one the ~last the Tap of the United BY A. G. BIRCH. i cial to The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance. Colo., September 26.—Our nce with the rapids in the er Canyon made it easy for > why five previous expedi- o this gorge had proved fail- veral lives had been lost. e more cautious. The cam- ras, when not in use, were placed in compartments and the de tight. The rest of the s tied firmly to the floor o overturning would not dump he boats. no more bad rapids the first he canyon. Our whole day's was through riffles where the re bed of the stream was filled for s with sharp rocks. Often these s rose several feet out of the water ere so close together that the s could not be floated between There was nothing to do but t into the water and lift the r these. Each boat weighed 400 pounds, so this' was no matiers worse, these rocky full of deep pools, which, he extreme discoloration of ould not be seen. We would on a slippery rock, perhaps two under the surface, oats, when our feet we would go into our heads. river would widen and r, flowing for half a more over fields of | boulders hes under or out of the would not be a single nav- through these stretches. ade and drag the boats That Good GULF Gasoline GULF No-Nox Motor Fuel Supreme Motor Oil At the Sign of the Orange Disc Displayed by the Following Dealers ; then we would place the n upen a stone-pivot and carry the around until it was pointed d 2gain. Each time this end- d process was gone through it Griffith Service Station BETHESDA, MD. FT. MYER HEIGHTS, VA. « Bladensburg Rd & Neal St. N.W Burrow’s Service Station John Multerer 0. F. Herold Mrs. B. A. Shepherd River Road & Wilson Lane Imirie Bros. Garage GARRETT PARK, MD. E. W. Offutt would advance the boat a dozen or M. W. Simmons HYATTSVILLE, MD. 15 feet. It was slow work, but made less dead weight to lift. There was always one danger, how- ever, that kept up constantly on the alert. Sometimes the upstream end of rha boats would float free unex- , if the current was es- th> craft would swing men at the downstream 2y could flounder out of “and crush them against a of us were hurt this way developed sufficient agility f the Yampa River, down e-cold, = After o i Pty o sies i DISTRICI OF COLUMBIA he frequent hard, cold winds 4 Park Auto Sales Co. 305 Cedar St., Takoma Park, D.C through the ge, our teeth chaiter like castanets. end to end of the canyon— the river bes any banks at re beds of yellowish-white District Line Garage J. J. Fister Garage Co. © 62d & Dix St. N.E. 1741 Johnson St. N.W. Jos. R. Beymer 3939 Canal Rd. N.W. Owens Motor Co. 6323 Georgia Ave. N.W. , even in midstream. nearly blinded— BLADENSBURG, MD. he our eyes most to our course through rapids. Pzace Is Short-lived. It was nearly 4:30 o'clock on this bel day when we finaily reached the the rocky stretch. It ere we could use our speed. As ahead—to the n-xt e river, ebout two miles dis- going remained good. 2 both pairs of ozars in each boat. Driscoll Garage, 201 B St. N.W . M. E. Buckley : Ever-Ready Service Station 2200 Bladensburg Rd. N.E. 0. T. Burrell, 4621 Dean Ave. N.E. Commercial Garage, Inc. Riverside Service Station 7th & Water Sts. S.W. J. H. Randall, 6007 Dix St. N.E. E. B. Rector 5443 Conduit Rd. N.W. J. H. Rieley T. J. Huddleston CABIN JOHN, MD. Mrs. F. B. Hayes CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. A. G. Thiel Edward Johnson Lustine & Nicholson J. W. McNamee Empress Service Station KENSINGTON, MD. W. J. Umstead LENNOX, MD. CHERRYDALE, VA. RN.T Greenwood Garage . 456 New York Ave. N.W. 656 Pennyslvania Ave. S.E. R. Rosenfelt, 4415 Dean Ave. N.E. MT. RAINIER, MD. Commercial Garage, Inc, 3.3, Conard St. N.W, CLARENDON, VA. 303 6th St. N.W i E l\ennedy Washington Ave. & Pershing Dr. NORTH WOODSIDE, MD. : C. P. Atwood, Propr. COLMAR MANOR, MD. Triangle Garage Wardman Park Garage J. A. Sisson Motor Inn Mt 3 - Sand Completes Misery. 218 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., 27th & Calvert Sts. N.W. , Close by was a litle patch of bank— dy, but fairly level and supporting Y R. Wheel a few stunted cedars. We tied the beats Griffith Consumer Co M 3 up here. A fire built to dry our ; & * Wheeler's Auto Service clothing, d the: v _mw' S§§p§.“ e cooked a good : 1200 R St. N.W. 1417 T St. N.W. rdly were we thoroughly dry g our supper than a furious swept upon us. We had no in two minutes we-were just as ever. The downpour continued Tobin’s Service Station Lot 18th & Monroe St. NE. Takoma Park, D. C. POTOMAC, VA. G. C. Angell M .H. Kendrick 1. H. Williamson ROCKVILLE, MD. Reed Bros. Garage SILVER SPRING, MD. Silver Spring Garage CONDUIT RD., MD. Mike Young COTTAGE CITY, MD. W. E. Wilson, 103 Upshur St. F.S. Grooms ALLEXANDRIA, VA, FAIRMONT HEIGHTS, MD. Baker Motor Co., 115 N. Pitt St. U.G: Lee Carter Motor Co., Inc. AST PALLS € HURLH s C. E. Edmondson, 2900 Duke St. B/ d SOUTH WASHINGTON, VA. Temple Garage W. H. Jones King & \,1erch'1nt Sts. J. A.Lee New Southern Garage 1320 D St. N.W. Northwesi Garage Rear 1211 13th St. N.W. ht ‘turned clear and cold, after midnight another of ish canyon hurricanes roared rge. It picked up sand in sheets and poured it down the necks of our sleeping bags, filling our eyes nose and mouth. It “penctrated every bit of food was not eirtight. It went il v i morning a sorry spr‘clvh Mid-City Filling Station 1122 18th St. N.W. D. C. Garage, 1409 17th St. N.W. FALLS CHURCH, VA, Tidewater Supply Co. H. L Hiett Leroy Mazulla ALLENTOWN, Md. Boone's Filling Station 1231 Good Hope Rd. S.E. Robert R. 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