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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 14, 1906. 
THE 
ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
Nearly 1500 in use. 250 pounds of steam. Handsome catalogue free. 
WORKS: RED BANK. New Jersey. 
Cable Address: Bruniva, New York. Telephone Address: 599 Cortlandt. 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY WATER TUBE BOILER COMPANY, 39 and 41 Cortlandt Street. New York. 
Mullins Pressed Steel Boats Can’t SinR 
Easier to Row—Absolutely Safe 
Made of pressed steel, with air chambers in each end like a life boat. 
Can’t leak—crack—dry out or sink—last a lifetime. Every 
boat guaranteed. The ideal boat for families—summer 
resorts—parks—boat liveries, etc. Strong—safe— 
speedy. Write to-day for our large catalog of row 
boats, motor boats, bunting and fishing boats 
The W. H. Mullins Co., 126 Franklin St., Salem, 0 . 
3 H.P.,will devolop 4 H.P. $44 Engine only 
6 H.P. twin cylinder. $141.50. Engine only 
^DETROIT MOTOR 
New Model, 1906 
Convert Your Row Boat into a Speed Launch. 
Do you know you can take any ordinary old rowboat and 
convert it into a power launch at an outlay that is trifling 
with a Detroit Auto-Marine Motor? Not a mere plaything, 
but an accurately constructed Engine that will propel a 16ft. 
boat 7 miles per hour. A motor so simple anyone 
can install it, and operate it, yet built with the same 
care as a high-priced engine. We build complete 
from foundry to you—no guess-work—no slip-shod 
methods. We are not merely assembling parts made in 
various factories; every piece of material is tested on a 
testing machine, and every motor goes to the user with¬ 
out excuses, under positive guarantee of the maker. 
The DETROIT AUTO-MARINE MOTOR, New Model,1906 
3 H. P., will develop 4 H. P., - $ 44.00, Engine Only. 
6 H. P., Twin Cylinder, - - 141.50, Engine Only. 
For Stationary Power purposes we equip these engines with the Auto Adjustable Governor at an addition of 
$5.00, making one of the most satisfactory gasoline engines for power purposes built. 
Write for catalog describing Auto-Marine Motors, 1 to 20 H. P., and Auto-Adjustable Governor. 
DETROIT AUTO-MARINE COMPANY 
49 East Congress Street. DETROIT, MICH. 
F. G. Hall, Manager, 95 Liberty Street, New York. The Bourse, Philadelphia. 
The only Builders of Auto-Marine Engines in the world. 
IF YOU ARE BUILDING A NEW BOAT, 
and want the greatest possible speed, as well as comfort and 
pleasure, or if you have a boat which has not developed the 
pace you expected, buy a new 1906 model 
CUSHMAN ENGINE. 
It never disappoints. It always makes good. Simplest and most 
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cast in one piece. The Cushman Motor holds many speed 
records. Single and double cylinders, 2 to 20 H. P. Send for 
illustrated descriptive booklet of this remarkable engine. 
2 H. P., 75 pounds. 
CUSHMAN MOTOR COMPANY. 
Lincoln, Neb. 
HENRY J. GIELOW § 
Engineer, Naval Architect jg 
and Broker % 
50 Broadway, - - New York jg 
Telephone 4673 Broad 
Canoe and Boat Building. 
A Complete Manual for Amateurs. Containing; plain 
and comprehensive directions for the construction of 
canoes, rowing and sailing boats and hunting craft. By 
W. P. Stephens. Cloth. Seventh and enlarged edition. 1 
264 pages. Numerous illustrations, and fifty plates in 
envelope. Price, $2. 
The Whale Robbed of Her Young. 
“What's in a name?” writes a correspondent 
at Scituate. “I read in yesterday’s' Journal of 
the bark Essex having been struck by a floating 
object supposed to have been a whale, that the 
bark shivered as if she had struck a rock, part 
of her stern was carried away and the vessel 
sprung a leak, etc. She was not so unfortunate 
as her namesake, the ship Essex of Nantucket, 
Captain Pollard, in 1820. The latter vessel suc¬ 
ceeded in capturing a young whale. Shortly after 
a whale of the largest class (probably the dam 
of the one they had just taken) struck the ship, 
knocking part of the false keel off just abreast of 
the main channels. The animal then remained 
alongside endeavoring to clasp the ship within 
her jaws, but could not accomplish it. She then 
turned, went round the stern and came, up on 
the other side, and went away ahead about a 
quarter of a mile. Then, suddenly turning, she 
came at the ship with tremendous velocity, head 
on. 
“The vessel was going at the rate of five knots, 
but such was the force with which she struck the 
ship (which was under the cat-head) that the 
vessel had sternway at the rate of three or four 
knots. The consequence was that the sea rushed 
into the cabin windows, every man on deck was 
knocked down, and, worse than all, the bows 
were completely stove in. In a few minutes the 
vessel filled and went on her beam ends. The 
masts were cut away and the vessel righted. The 
upper deck was scuttled and provisions were ob¬ 
tained, when she was abandoned in mid-ocean.” — 
Boston Journal. 
When I was a young steamboatman on the 
raging Mississippi, running from St. Louis in the 
Keokuk trade, the good steamer Di Vernon, with 
Captain Matson commanding, was one of the fin¬ 
est and largest side-wheelers in the river. The 
mate at that time was “Old Hughey,” a large, 
broad-shouldered, fat Irishman, who had the 
reputation of being the terror of the rousta¬ 
bouts, for when he opened his broad mouth 
they had to “get up and dust around.” One day 
while the steamer lay “tied up” at the levee land¬ 
ing, some of the men were at work in the hold, 
and Hughey just then needed more help on deck; 
so striding to the forward hatch he looked down j 
and bellowed out: 
“Hello, down thar.” 
“Aye, aye, sir,” answered the men from below. 
“How many of yees is thar down thar?” 
“Three of us, sir.” 
“Well, the half of yees come up here.” 
Dorsal Fin. 
SPAR. COATING 
A perfect finish for all woodwork, spars and iron¬ 
work exposed to excessive changes in weather and 
temperature. 
MANUFACTURED BY 
EDWARD SMITH (EL COMPANY, 
Varnish Makers and Color Grinders 
59 Market Street, 45 Broadway 
Chicago, Ill. New York. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
