Show origin of raint lux it red 11 many stories have been told each claiming chiming to give the origin of tho the expression painting it red and to swell the list I 1 will vill tell another I 1 think mine is the right one away back in the fifties racing was the most exciting feature of river life and whenever an opportunity waa as given for the sport every man on it I 1 the boats would prepare for the contest 60 a as ag if their lives depended on the result 0 upon entering a race the f first order of ea tte the captain be paint her red boasi to the firemen then the coal 1 would be heaped on until the furnaces flowed glowed ate suns and arid their crimson lare are coald bo be been seen for milea miles ahead on the tho dark river liver then paint it red 1 wa crew vew to mean simply a glorious good ame me either on water or land with wit it us Ov Ar ermen the pat expression spread wibb antil now yon bee what it ia almost universaL Interview in st louis globe democrat |