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1 - Florida Cruise [[/marginal entry]]
in [[underlined in red]] Raritan River. [[/underlined in red]] At first nothing but marshy shores and factory buildings - smelters and brickyards. Then pretty wooded shores. About 1½ afterwards arrived at New Brunswick Lock, but can not enter [[underlined in red]] because it is Sunday. [/underlined in red]] Other motor yachts there. This canal is in the hands of [[underlined in red]] Pennsylvania R. R [[/underlined in red]] which tries to kill it as a competitor to the R.R. [[underlined in red]] hence it is operated as badly as possible [[/underlined in red]] and expensive tolls are exacted. [[underlined in red]] Similar to some English Canals bought up by competing Railroads [[/underlined in red]] View of New Brunswick from here is pretty but street parallel to Canal is [[underlined in red]] horribly dirty [[/underlined in red]] and depressingly ramshackle. Abode of [[underlined in red]] Jews, poles, italians and Irishmen. [[/underlined in red]] In all this sordid squalid surroundings I notice some of the jewish or polish 
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women who [[underlined in red]] wear silk or velvet dresses! [[underlined in red]] In the mean time the windows of the houses are as [[underlined in red]] dirty and dusty as the street. [[/underlined in red]] 
I walked in town, hot walk and uninteresting - in fact depressing so came aboard after an hour [[strikethrough]] Cap [[/strikethrough]] We shall have to lay up here till to morrow morning.
Oct 9. [[underlined in red]] Up at five. [[/underlined in red]] Went thru first lock at about 5:30 AM. Two houseboat-yachts Lamado - Providence R.I. (Dr. Frederick Rogers) and Tanguingui Providence (McCoy) went thru canal with us thru whole length. Splendid mild weather. [[underlined in red]] Canal and locks much better than I expected, [[/underlined in red]] pleasant landscape. Here and there vivid red foliage of vines and some trees. Passed few towns - mostly coal barges pulled by six mules. [[underlined in red]] Two days ago a German war-submarine entered Newport News Harbor and left quietly after [[/underlined in red]]

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