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we have reached our "farthest east," twenty-seven days 
from New Rochelle. 
July 22— Bar Harbor. A beautiful day. Captain, mate, 
cabin boy off to climb Green Mountain, some 1,500 and 
odd feet high. We went up by the Gorge path, an 
artificial stairway built by some enterprising inhabi- 
tants from the rocks of a mountain brook running 
through, or rather down, a most beautiful glen or 
gorge. It was a difficult and laborious climb, but well 
worth the effort. It took a little over two hours to 
make the ascent, and we were rewarded with a most 
magnificent view over all the surrounding maze of land 
and water. . , 
"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drmk, 
neither beer. 
The rapidity of the climb told severely on the wmd 
of the husky but ponderous mate, while the cabin boy 
never turned a hair. The old man, somewhat used up, 
was still game. All hands dry and almost famished, so 
we lost no time in taking the home trail by way of the 
long and dusty track, called the road, and reached 
Escape, well tired out by 2 o'clock. 
July 23.— Bar Harbor. A threatening niornmg. Put 
in our time usefully by taking the closet apart and in- 
serting a washer, making a very creditable plumbing 
job. Mr. Colson arrived on the steamer from Port- 
land at 2 P. M., to take the place of mate Struthers, 
whose vacation is about to expire. 
Welcomed the new mate with due honors m spite 
ot the fact that he brought with him a heavy down- 
pour of rain and a bank of fog. 
About I P. M., the fleet of the Eastern Y. C. came 
into the harbor and anchored in the fog. They are 
The National Motor Boat and 
Sportsman's Show. 
Announcement has been made that Rear-Admiral 
Joseph H. Coghlan, U. S. N., at present in command of 
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acting as the personal repre- 
sentative of Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy, will 
officially open the annual National Motor Boat and 
Sportsman's Show at Madison Square Garden, New 
York, on February 21. The building of power-driven 
boats is fast taking a place beside the automobile, and 
as such is receiving recognition from everyone interested 
in safe and fast navigation. 
Admiral Coghlan will be accompanied by his staff, and 
his presence insures a big attendance of yachtsmen, who 
are coming from all over the country to review the latest 
products of American and foreign manufacturers. Secre- 
tary Gambel, of the Motorboat Association, has received 
acceptances from the commodores of yacht clubs as far 
west as St. Paul. Other navy and army officers who 
have accepted invitations to officiate at the opening are 
Rear-Admiral George W. Melville; Naval Constructors 
W. J. Baxter and G. J. Nutting; Captain W. Brownson, 
Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and General Fred. 
Dent Grant. 
The addition of a representative motorboat exhibit to 
the Sportsman's Show, which is always a success, makes 
this years affair of two weeks one of general interest to 
all sportsmen. In the big amphitheatre the motorboats 
will be shown on the largest indoor lagoon ever used. It 
will contain more than half a million gallons of water. 
A VISTA OF BAR HARBOR. 
a particularly fine looking lot of yachts. We were much 
interested in the troubles of two sloops which got 
foul of each other while anchoring. 
3 P. M. — Weather growing worse and worse. 
6 P. M.— A heavy roll coming in from seaward, and 
mate Colson in the throes of seasickness. Voted him 
a Jonah, and our sympathy withheld. Steak and onions 
for dinner, enjoyed by the veterans, but not appreciated 
by the new mate. Tucked him tenderly into his bunk, 
where he kept murmuring: "Who the h said I was 
3. s3.ilor?" 
Midnight.— Escape still rolling and pitching; the 
fog around us like a blanket; no lights; no stars 
The new man groaning dismally in his sleep, the rest 
slumbering peacefully, and the old man wondering how 
long it is to last. , ,^ ^ , r 1 
July 24, Sunday.— Thick as mud. Mate Colson feel- 
ing a little better, the roll having greatly diminished. 
Mate Struthers left us on the i P. M. steamer with 
regret on both sides. Nothing to do but read, curse 
the weather, and listen to the phonograph. 
July 25.— Still thick as mud, and no signs of clear- 
ing. Idle all day. . ■ ^u- i r 
July 26.— Still at Bar Harhor, enveloped m thick fog. 
Made an attempt to get to South West Harbor about 
II o'clock, but off Schooner Head the fog became so 
dense that we ran back to anchorage. 
July 27.— Still fog bound. Tried again to get to 
South West Harbor, but failed. 
July 28 —Thicker than ever. Tried again. 
July 29.— Still foggy and blowing quite hard trom 
the S W. About 2 P. M., it cleared up a little, and \ve 
hurriedly got under way under double-reefed mainsail, 
reefed mizzen and No. 2 jib. Made a good run until 
near North East Harbor, when the wind died out and 
we shook out the reefs. Soon after this,, a heavy squall 
from the N.W. struck us and, after lugging sail awhile, 
we took in mainsaif altogether and made South West 
Harbor under mizzen and jib. We came near to break- 
ing all records to-day, as the phonograph and its music 
broke from its moorings and all our best tunes went 
smash. Anchored at 5:30 P. M. 
[to be conclud ed. J 
Knickerbocker One-Design Power BoATS.-The New 
York Kerosene Oil Engine Company, of College Point 
N. Y., adj^xent to the Knickerbocker Y. C., has under 
construction for members of the Kmckerbocker Y^ C. 
several 21ft. original one-design class boats to be pro- 
oelled by new 3^/^ horsepower gasolene engines, which 
are incewise manufactured by the New York Kerosene 
^il Engine Company. 
and will be twelve laps to the mile on the mside. In the 
center will be an island, reached by rustic bridges from 
the mainland at each end. The exhibits of Canada, 
Maine and other States, the interesting contests on the 
lake, the fly-casting, and all sorts of similar contests 
which have always been popular at the bportsmens 
Show, will be promoted on a larger scale than ever 
before. , , . ^ c :„ 
Not alone will everything from this country. X)t m- 
terest to sportsmen be shown at the National Motor- 
boat and Sportsman's Show, which opens at Madison 
square Garden, New York, on the eve of NA^ashington s 
birthday, but from foreign countries as well. Applica- 
tions for space have been received from Pretoria 
South Africa, which will send an exhibit of antlers and 
skulls E A. Grunwaldt, Executive Commissioner ior 
Russia at the St. Louis fair, takes the entire exhibit 
from that city to the garden show. . 
Followers of Izaak Walton will be interested to 
learn that this year the New Brunswick Fisk Com- 
mission will send from Nova Scotia an exhibit of live 
game trout. More space than ever before has been 
taken by the State of Mame exhibit, while the fore- 
cast of what will be shown by Virginia, the Adiron- 
dack section of New York and other States insures the 
^^Eve°rv^fepfe°rntative manufacturer of motorboats in 
America and Europe will show his finest products for 
IQO^ There will be everything m power-driven craft 
from the diminutive yacht tender, which goes, at six 
miles an hour, to the trim autoboats, with their ponder- 
ous engines that drive them through the water at thirty 
miles an hour. - 
Exhibitors at the Motor Boat and Sportsmaa's Show. 
The Standard Motor Construction Co., of^iSo Whiton 
street, Jersey City, N. J., will have on exhibition a 100 
horsepower 6-cylinder, also 12, 18 and 25 regular Stand- 
ard engines, and a special 25 horsepower auto-marme en- 
gine In the lagoon they will have a high speed auto 
vacht tender. A small direct-connected electric light 
plant operated by one of their engines will be shown 
One of the most interesting features of their exhibit will 
be the various cups and other prizes won by the -famous 
autoboat Standard. .,, 
The Electric Launch Company, of Bayonne N. J., will 
show a 30ft. standard design electric launch, equipped 
^vith their new light weight storage batteries, giving a 
cruising radius of 75 miles on one charging.. This boat 
will have i=;o small electric lamps for illumination, , and 
will be used on the miniature lake for denion|tration 
On a 36ft, platform they will show a ^ft. autoboat with 
a 30 horsepower engine of French design, three-cylinder, 
four-cycle; total weight of boat and engine will-be under 
1,650 pounds. The Electric Launch Company built the 
auto yacht tender exhibited by the Standard Motor Con- 
struction Company, also the 40ft. launch in the Panhard 
& Levassor exhibit. This boat is double planked, the en- 
tire thickness being but one-fourth of an inch, and over 
17,000 copper fastenings were employed. _ The hull has 
eight coats of paint, the last being of aluminum. 
C. L. Altemus & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., will have m 
their exhibit, in addition to their high tension secondary 
distributors and primary timers equipped as working 
models with special Splitdorf coils, the Breeze car- 
buretors and a full line of Grant-Ferris engines, a_ 30 
horsepower four-cycle, four-cylinder high speed engine, 
with a removable rectangular brass water-jacket, an 18 
horsepower four-cylinder, four-cycle of regular design, 
and a single cylinder four horsepower two-cycle. 
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. will, as usual, make an ex- 
tended display of their goods, so far as possible in actual 
use, such as tents, cooking outfits, pack harnesses, and 
other methods of transportation. Among the large Ime 
of canoes will be an innovation in the shape of a power 
canoe of fine appearance and good speed. It will be pro- 
vided with tight sponsons to prevent any possibility of 
upsetting, making it absolutely safe. They have over 
100 linear feet of space, and are trying to get together 
the most comprehensive exhibit of everything necessary 
for outdoor life that has ever been shown here or else- 
where. 
Herz & Co., 167 Elm street. New York, will have a 
full exhibit of spark plugs^ and such material as they 
manufacture, and a full and complete line of imported 
carburetors, spark coils and marine gasolene engine ac- 
cessories. The only goods this house handles are either 
manufactured in their new quarters or of foreign manu- 
facture. 
The Isham Company, Norwich, Conn., will confine 
their exhibit to engines solely, and will show a 10 horse- 
power double cylinder four-cycle Isham gasolene engine 
and a 3^4 horsepower single and 7 horsepower double 
cylinder two-cycle Thames engine. This latter_ is an en- 
tirely new design, engine, and has for an especial feature 
a modification of the Scotch yoke instead of the usual 
connecting rod construction. 
The Mehlbach Saddle Company, 106 Chambers street. 
New York, will show a full line of saddles and equestrian 
outfits, as well as novelties in quick safety girths, rubber 
horseshoes, etc. They are manufacturers of the well- 
known Whitman saddles, in general use by officers of 
the United States Army. 
Warren H. Jeffers, 373 Canal street. New York, will 
have on exhibition a three and five horsepower stationary 
Backus gas or gasolene engine and probably one marin^ 
gasolene engine. These will all be of the four-cycle 
type, and are manufactured by the Backus Water Motor 
Company. 
The Victor Metals Company, 29 Broadway, New York, 
propose to show their new Victor non-corrosive silver 
metal, made up into hardware and yacht goods generally. 
Claim is made that salt water has no effect- on it what- 
ever, and that it is the only cast bronze that can be 
forged. 
Armour & Co., through their New York agency, 175 
Duane street, will have as their exhibit a booth in the 
xorm of a mammoth pound jar of beef extract. Two 
demonstrators will serve beef tea, tomato bouillon and 
asparox. Flags will be used extensively for decoration. 
The various Canadian transportation lines, Canadian 
Pacific, Intercolonial and Grand Trunk Railways will • 
show as usual a full line of pictures of game, fish and 
sporting scenes. The Grand Trunk in particular will 
have an interesting exhibit in an assortment of paddles 
on which fish of various kinds are mounted. 
Charles E. Miller, loi Reade street. New York, will v 
show his usual line of sporting goods, camping utensils, 
necessities and luxuries, and in addition will have a full 
line of power boat accessories, lubricators, spark coils, 
plugs, carburetors, vaporizers, etc. 
Wm. H. Brodie Co., 45 Vesey street, New York, 
will have in their exhibit their Perfection reversing - 
gear whi»h has given excellent satisfaction the past 
year. - 
Panhard & Levassor, 230 West 13th street, _ New 
York, are showing 24 horsepower marine four cylinder, 
vertical, four-cycle engine, the approximate weight of 
which is 500 pounds; also, 60 horsepower engine in a 
40ft. autoboat. Their exhibit will be on the island in 
the lagoon. 
Mianus Motor Works, Mianus, Conn., will show, 
single and double cylinder two-cycle engines, also 
double cylinder four-cycle. 
August Mietz, 138 Mott street. New York, will have 
the only kerosene engines on exhibit, sYz horsepower 
single and 7 and 10 horsepower double cylinder marine 
and 3 horsepower stationary direct, connected to an 
electric light generator. 
Eagle Bicycle Company, Torrington, Conn., will 
show an 8 horsepower four-cycle engine of new design, 
a 2 horsepower regular and 3^ horsepower special 
two-cycle marine engine. 
Mackay Engineering Company, 149 Broadway, New 
York, agents for the Walruth engine, two-cycle, will 
show a two-cylinder engine direct connected to an 
Akron dynamo, showing incandescent and arc light- 
ing, also charging storage batteries. 
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company will use 
the exhibit they had at the St. Louis fair, which was 
awarded first prize. It will consist of a J4 inch to th^ 
foot scale reproduction of their steamer. City 6| 
Kingston. An artistic model of the Lachine rapids 
and a collection of fine oil paintings is also to be; 
showij. 
Adirondack Guides' Association will have, as usual, 
an extensive exhibit, cabins and general camping 
outfit. 
H. W. Hubbard Company, Middletown, Conn., will 
show various sizes of the Hubbard engine, both last 
vear's and 1905 models. 
Richardson Engineering Company, Hartford, Conn., 
will have on exhibition a section of a yacht, showing 
ohe of their direct connected electric light outfits, in^ 
candescent and arc searchlights, standard launch a'ti4 
