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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 4, 1905. 
The Motorboat and Sports- 
man^s Show, 
_ The Motorboat and Sportsman's Show has been run- 
ning for a week as we go to press. The attend- 
ance has been phenomenal, and hardly one who has been 
there but has repeated his visit or vowed that he would 
before the second week is over. It is well worth seeing. 
The large lagoon proves a very attractive feature, as we 
predicted last week. Its fleet of boats, ranging from the 
small runabout launch to the high speed yacht tender and 
autoboat, is wonderful. To see one of these fast boats 
race up and down the lake first at lightning speed ahead, 
then stop almost instantly and run backwards, always 
under perfect control, turning sharp corners, is amazing. 
The arranging of such a vast exhibition has been fraught 
with more or less apprehension on the part of the man- 
agement, but not a thing has yet occurred to even sug- 
gest that the 1905 Motorboat and Sportsman's Show is 
anything that it ought not be. It was feared at one time 
that_ the sportman's end would be slighted, but the ex- 
tensive exhibits of camping and outdoor goods, fishing 
rods, game birds and animals, canoes and general sport- 
ing goods, proves that the fears of the doubters were 
groundless. The Intercolonial, Grand Trunk and 
Canadian Pacific Railway and the Richelieu and Ontario 
Navigation Company's exhibits take up the entire eastern 
end of the promenade floor. These exhibits are a part of 
those shown at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and 
are more extensive than they ever were before. 
Among the Exhibitors. 
The Gas Engine & Power Company and Chas. L. Sea- 
bury & Co., Consol., have as showy an exhibit as any one 
at the Garden. The high speed launch tender in the water 
is a particularly able looking craft, commodious and com- 
fortable. The mahogany launch in their space is a marvel 
of beauty in lines, finish and appointment, and has been 
sold as a tender to Com. F. G. Bowne's flagship Delaware, 
N. Y. Y. C. The six cylinder engine with oval brass water 
jackets is probably one that gets more attention than 
any other at the Show. It runs with no rattle, vibration 
or noise, and makes an excellent appearance. They report 
several sales, more than they ever recorded at any pre- 
vious exhibitions, the efifect of such showing usually re- 
sulting in the placing of orders with them at the works 
following the shows, rather than during the time of their 
exhibit. 
Panhard & Levassor show the 40ft. high speed boat 
built for them by the Electric Launch Company, and 
described recently in these columns. She is a modern 
up-to-date two-man boat, but is arranged so that the 
engine operator may also act as steersman if desired, an 
auxiliary steering apparatus being placed just abaft the 
engine on the port side. The engine is a 60 horsepower 
Panhard four cylinder auto-marine type. The rudder, 
placed ahead of a two-bladed reversible propeller, is of 
the balanced type. The object of this location is to re- 
duce strain from the race of water, and to enable the boat 
to turn more quickly and steer easily. The shaft is 
inclosed in a brass protecting sleeve. She has not been 
thoroughly tested out yet, but fully 28 miles is expected 
of her when thoroughly "tuned up," a speed greater than 
any boat of her length has ever attained. They also 
show a 24 horsepower four-cylinder engine of the same 
make, and an assortment of power boat accessories made 
by them or imported. 
Abercrombie & Fitch Company have more space than 
any other exhibitor — 72 feet — on the main promenade, 
and space for their canoes, etc., on the island. They have 
a miscellaneous collection of everything necessary or 
convenient pertaining to outdoor life, prospecting, hunt- 
ing, fishing, boating, canoeing, etc. Their Touradif rods 
and Talbot reels have taken many prizes in fly-casting 
tournaments. Something new in flies is their Pennell-eyed 
flies snelled. A very complete and light rod repair kit is 
shown for the first time. To even the veteran angler 
their exhibit of flies is a revelation. In outing shoes and 
boots their line is complete. Lightness and wet-proof 
features are the two essentials they insist upon. Silk 
tents, guaranteed waterproof, and an entirely new alu- 
minum cooking outfit will be appreciated by those 
forced to make portages. Sheet steel stoves, folding 
chairs, cots, and shelves are shown. An especial pack- 
saddle is shown on a full model mule equipped with 
alforjas and pack-sheet with diamond hitch thrown. 
Prospectors' picks, miners' wash-pans, linen mountain 
climbing ropes, skis, snowshoes, traps, etc., are but a few 
of the multitude of articles shown. Winchester rifles fill 
a rack and a full line of Colt's revolvers is to be seen. 
A most complete line of English hunting, boating and 
surveying compasses needs special mention. Four models 
of canoes are shown, each for a particular purpose, in- 
cluding the famous Caughnawana model, canvas-covered, 
weighing but 45 pounds. The novelty of the show is a 
power canoe,_ equipped with a 2 horsepower two-stroke 
gasolene engine. This canoe has air sponsons, and is 
absolutely non-capsizable and non-sinkable. 
John Wanamaker, New York, has two exhibits, one on 
the promenade, where he shows a full line of canoes made 
by the Fraser Hollow Spar & Boat Company, Greenport, 
L, L, formerly the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Com- 
pany, Whitestone. A i6ft. special canoe is shown weigh- 
ing 46 pounds. It is finished in medium brown, a neutral 
tint, the ideal boat for trout fishing. Their B grade is 
better adapted for salt-water use, being a little heavier. 
Mention must be made of the superior filling and finish 
of the canvas with which these canoes are covered. The 
filling is applied and carefully smoothed off, after which 
two cases of enamel are applied, color to suit the pur- 
chaser. On the island in the lagoon they show a full line 
of Pierce launches and engines. A 21ft. compromise 
stern launch, being neither torpedo round nor square, 
has a 5 horsepower two-stroke Truscott engine in the 
center, with the after part of the cockpit partitioned. An 
i8ft. similar boat has a 3 horsepower engine for power 
equipment This boat is on the lagoon. Two launches 
of an entirely new type, equipped with four-stroke en- 
gines, are shown. Their sterns have something the ap- 
pearance of beaver tails ; they are of light draft and espe- 
cially designed for fishing and hunting. The 21ft. launch 
has 8-12 horsepower engine and the 25ft. a 16-24 horse- 
power. 
gj^Iaibitioii of motgrboats a.n^ iriQtors shown by 
The Lozier Motor Company has attracted manifold in- 
terest of visitors at the Garden. This, no doubt, is due 
to the fact that the name "Lozier" was so long associated 
with the manufacture of Cleveland bicycles, and latterly 
with the power boat and marine engine industry. A hand- 
some 31ft. semi-racer with a 25 horsepower four cylinder 
four-stroke motor of the latest type is exhibited in the 
lake, and demonstrations of the working of the motor are 
made at the request of anyone interested. In the booth 
is shown a 21ft. torpedo stern launch of standard make, 
one of several hundred which this company has built on 
the same lines. Among the features that mav attract 
most attention is the silent and odorless under-water ex- 
haust with which all Lozier powerboats are provided ; and 
the fact that these boats are absolutely safe, it being im- 
possible for any gasolene to gain admittance to the cock- 
pit proper, as the copper gasolene tank is located in a 
water-tight compartment under the forward deck, and 
the gasolene conducted from the tank to the vaporizer by 
means of a seamless brass pipe attached to the outside of 
hull. The motor exhibit consists of three different types 
of motors known as A, B and C. A sample 3 horsepower 
type C motor is set up with shaft attached, the wheel re- 
volving in a tank of water. This type of engine pos- 
sesses many new and novel features, and those who have 
a knowledge of marine engines are surprised to see a two- 
stroke engine having the same speed control as one of 
the four-stroke type. A 40 horsepower four cylinder four- 
stroke marme engine of conservative weight is shown, and 
a close inspection of the same by those who are compe- 
tent to judge first-class machine work will demonstrate 
that only the highest class of work is put upon these 
engines. 
The Williams- Whittelsey Company show three espe- 
cially fine built boats. The 30ft. boat in the booth is a 
handsome yacht tender or runabout of fine lines and good 
model. She has a raking stem and double transom stern. 
Engine, as in all three boats, is installed forward under 
cover. Planking is of specially selected Spanish cedar 
with African mahogany trimmings. The log from which 
this mahogany was cut sold in London for over $16,000. 
This is the best finished and most expensive 30- footer 
ever built. The figure in the wood is exceedingly hand- 
some. In the water they have a 35ft. runabout autoboat, 
smgle-planked in Spanish cedar, trimmed with quartered 
oak. Boat has rear transom and a combination of side 
seats and wicker chairs. A 20ft. Spanish cedar yacht 
tender with mahogany trim is also afloat, equipped with 
an 18 horsepower engine; estimated speed 12 miles at 
800 revolutions per minute. The new patented Whittelsey 
double frame construction is shown in contrast with 
double planking. Enough is said of this new departure in 
hull construction when one learns that the well-known 
Standard, after three years hard service, is still in first- 
class condition, owing to this system, which was first tried 
on Standard. This concern is strictly a boat designing and 
building one. They have no connection with any gaso- 
lene engine builders, and are prepared to install any en- 
gine selected, with absolutely no preferences. 
Bird, Jones & Kenyon, Utica, N. Y., are giving a won- 
derfully impressive demonstration of Duxback clothing. 
A dummy fitted with hat, coat and trousers is placed in a 
tank and a sprinkler directly over the shoulders, where 
the liability of wetting through is the greatest, discharges 
some fifty gallons of water per hour. After seven hours 
the outer surface is but slightly dampened, and the under 
surface is absolutely dry. Sulphur matches in the pocket 
can be readily lighted after this test. This clothing is not 
high priced, is within the reach of the amateur as well as 
professional sportsman. The fisherman or yachtsman 
could use Duxback to much better advantage than oiled 
clothing, and in case of accidentally falling into the water, 
would be no more impeded than with his usual habili- 
ments. These goods will never heat when rolled up, are 
moth proof, and will be serviceable until worn out. The 
coat weighs less than three pounds, is soft and pliable, 
and of a neutral tint that will not reflect or radiate the 
heat of the sun. The texture of the goods is sufficiently 
open for ventilation, and permits of the evaporation of 
bodily exhalations, something impossible with rubber- 
filled fabrics. Porosity is not sufficient to allow cold air 
and wind in winter to chill the wearer. A suit complete 
consists of double-lined coat, reinforced trousers and ven- 
tilated hat. For ladies' wear the suit would consist of 
hat, coat with half-fitted back, and five-gored unlined 
skirt provided with necessary pockets. The same gar- 
ments are also made in corduroy lined with Duxback. 
These are all reversible, so that the corduroy can be 
shown in town and Duxback worn when it rains. Dux- 
back is now a standard article of manufacture, and each 
garment is sold with a rain-proof guarantee. 
The Anglers' Company, Hartford, Conn., were unfor- 
tunate in having the greater part of their exhibit delayed 
in transit until the latter part of the week. Their "Dia- 
mond" metal-whipped rods are a revelation to the fisher- 
men who have never before seen them. They are light, 
strong, sensitive and extremely flexible. Solid cork grip. 
Oriental opal bitt and tip guards and aluminum end caps 
and mountings make them exceedingly handsome and 
durable. They show light fly, bait and Adirondack troll- 
ing rods in various weights, made from bamboo, dagama 
and other woods. Their "Service" fly-books, combining 
soak box and fly-book is an entirely new and practical 
book. The lines, tackle cases and other specialties, to- 
gether with their rods, makes an attractive and popular 
exhibit. 
Newbury & Dunham, of the Western Launch Yard, 
Williarnsbridge, N. Y., representing the Western Launch 
& Engine Company, of Michigan City, Mich-, and the 
Globe Iron Works Company, Menominee, Wis., have a 20 
horsepower high speed four-stroke engine of four cylin- 
ders, weighing approximately 400 pounds; also a four 
cylinder 12 horsepower four-gtroke heavy service engine. 
These two engines are made by the latter firm under the 
name of the "White." The Western engines are all of the 
two-stroke type, and are shown as follows: 21ft. launch, 
3 horsepower single cylinder; 22^2^., 6 horsepower 
double, and 2Sft. 7 horsepower singlg. A 14 horsepower 
double cylinder engine completes their exhibit, with the 
exception of the Tige, which is the first passenger vessel 
gasolene-propelled to ever ply on Sport Lake. 
Srnith & Mabley, Inc., 513 Seventh avenue. New 
York, have on the lagoon a 30ft. yacht tender, single- 
planked with mahogany, and 30 horsepower Simplex en- 
gine, The forwsrfi copkpit ppntains steerini operat- 
ing apparatus, while the engine and passenger space is iia 
an after cockpit. This latter is divided by a glass parti- 
tion which can be lowered in good weather. A removable 
and collapsible spray, rain and sun hood is provided on 
brass framework. A rear transom and removable side 
seats are provided with red carpet and plush hair-filled 
cushions. Chairs can be used if desired by removing 
the side seats. Mr. C. K. G. Billings, New York Y. C, 
will use her as tender to Surf. No brass railings are 
necessary to correct any imperfections in shear lines. In- 
stallation is in every respect the very safest possible. 
Duplicates of the engines in the Vingt-et-Un II. and 
Challenger are shown; also the numerous cups and tro- 
phies won by these two craft. 
John V. Rice, Jr., & Co., Bordentown, N. J., show 
several modern two-stroke engines, a lo horsepower 
double cylinder and single cylinder 1% and 4 horsepower. 
These engines are of the high speed piston intake type; 
one of the engines shown the builders claim to have run 
3,200 revolutions per minute, with a crank case compres- 
sion of 15 pounds at moderate speed. Ignition is by jump 
spark with Splitdorf coil and their own timer. Engines 
will run in either direction. They also show a 4 horse- 
power single cylinder four-stroke engine of good 
appearance. 
. G. W. Cole Company, 141 Broadway, New York, have 
as an object-lesson a hatchet and gun barrel, both smeared 
with "3-in-One" immersed in a tank of water. Neither 
shows the least effect of the action of the water on the 
bright surfaces of the metal. It does prevent rusting, for 
if it will prevent it for six days, there is no reason why it 
should not for six weeks. Hand rails and bright work 
around yachts and boats, after polishing, could be pro- 
tected from the action of salt water if it were used 
occasionally. 
Douglas Manufacturing Company, 96 : Church street. 
New York, are giving demonstrations of "New-Skin," 
patching up for all who apply, cuts, scratches and barks, 
absolutely gratis, and are glad to have people meet with 
minor casualties for the purpose of alleviating their slight 
discomfort and furnishing them with "New-Skin." For 
the fisherman, sportsman and gas engine operator to be 
without a supply of "New-Skin is hardly excusable. 
The Standard Motor Construction Company, of Jersey 
City, N. J., has on exhibition at the Garden an autoboat 
yacht tender of a very stable design, maintaining the lines 
of a high speed boat. One of their motors in a boat 
similar to this has been sold for a tender to the President's 
yacht, Sylph. They exhibit an excellent photograph of 
the motorboat Gregory, which is now on its way across 
the ocean, having stopped at Bermuda. Their small ice 
machine and direct-connected electric light plant for yacht 
lighting, and a 12, 18 and 25 horsepower engine of slow 
speed type ; also a 100 horsepower motor of the six cylin- 
der reversible type are also shown to advantage. 
Small Power Gasolene Engines. — We are pleased to 
note that some of our well-known engine builders are 
catering to the sportsmen's wants, and are placing on the 
market motors of from ^ to i horsepower, designed espe- 
cially for rowboat launches. They are prepared to furnish 
outfit with gasolene engine installed or will sell engine 
and all accessories necessary for installing at a reason- 
able price. Some have the gasolene tank in the base, so 
that no tank in the bow of the boat is necessary, and all 
are designed for ordinary pleasure and fishing boats. 
Some men already possess their own boats, and realize 
fully what a convenience it would be to have installed 
therein a small and compact motor' capable of driving a 
boat from 5^2 to 6j4 miles an hour, the speed, of course, 
depending almost wholly upon the lines of the boat. _ To 
avoid excessive wear in these high speed little engines, 
it is necessary that many of the wearing parts should be 
of hard bronze or steel case-hardened ; the engine must be 
correctly designed, and in fitting the rings and assembling, 
painstaking care must be taken — even greater than in the 
larger sizes, for while an ill-fitting piston ring will only 
lessen the power of a large engine, it would be quite apt 
to prevent one of these small engines from running at all. 
Hence exceptional care must be taken in their manufac- 
ture in order that the engine may prove efficient and give 
satisfaction to the owner or user. There is no question 
but that these small motors are here to stay, one firm we 
know of having sold over 1,200 last season, and the de- 
mand for them is constantly increasing. In the past, igni- 
tion troubles have been the principal drawback to the 
succesful operation of the baby engine, due to high speed 
and the consequent rapid deterioration of dry batteries. 
But now compact magnetos and dynamos, specially de- 
signed, can be procured, thus eliminating to a large ex- 
tent the annoyance of weak and worn-out batteries. Not 
only are these little motors being sought after by sports- 
men, but, installed in a boat of proper dimensions, one 
can have an ideal family launch for a comparatively small 
outlay of money. 
1^ 1^ 
Thistle and Atlantic Entered in Ocean Race. — 
Commander Hebbinghaus, naval attache of the German 
Embassy at Washington, has received two more entries 
for the ocean race for the Kaiser's Cup. The two boats 
entered are Atlantic, owned by Mr. Wilson Marshall, and 
Thistle, owned by Mr. Robert E. Tod. Thistle is a two- 
masted steel schooner isoft. over all, iioft. waterline, 
28ft. breadth and 14ft. draft. She was designed by Mr. 
Henry C. Winteringham and built at Shooters' Island, 
S. I., by the Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Company, 
in 1901. Atlantic was designed by Messrs. Gardner & 
Cox, and built at Shooters' Island by the same firm that 
constructed Thistle in 1903. She is of steel and is rigged 
as a three-masted schooner. Atlantic is i8sft. over all, 
135ft. waterline, 29.3ft. breadth and 15ft. draft. The 
committee in charge of the race have decided that all 
vessels will have to handle their sails by hand, and that 
the engines cannot be used for that purpose. This is a 
fair and just provision, and should attract more entries 
from men who own sailing yachts. 
4^ 4^ 
Huguenot Y. G. Meeting.^ — At the annual meeting of 
the Huguenot Y. C, held on February 18, the following 
officers were elected: Com., L. C. Ketchum; Vice-rCom., 
G. G. Bell; Rear-Corn., H. A. Woodward; Treas., J. {f, 
Riggs f 560*7, Reune Martin, 
