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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 9, 1911. 
16.42. The total time for the thirty was ill. 6m. 
and her average speed was 27.27 nautical or 
31.36 statute miles an hour. 
Nameless’ times by laps were 16.24, 1655, 17-54, 
23.30; total, ih. 14m. 43s.; average, 24.09 nautical 
or 27.7 statute miles an hour. 
Viva’s times were 22.18, 1826, 18.30, 18.46; 
total, 1I1. 18m.; average, 23.07 nautical or 27.03 
statute miles an hour. 
This was not very pleasing and more trials 
were ordered. 
SATURDAY, SEPT. 2 . 
Instead of having races the committee ordered 
the boats to run over the course as they got 
ready so to time them as they came out. Vita 
II. was the first to appear. She ran for a little 
and then back fired and took fire. This was 
soon put out, but four times she caught fire be¬ 
fore she could be started and once was almost 
lost. This caused lots of excitement among the 
fleet, and when those on the boat waved for 
help and stood ready to jump, several boats went 
to their assistance. Fina ly she was started and 
went off with a roar. She ran around a short 
course for thirty-two minutes, and as nearly as 
could be figured she made a little less than forty 
statute miles an hour. 
Viva ran around the course, too, and she 
showed about the same speed. Nameless tried, 
but failed oh the second lap. Disturber could 
not be started. All sorts of things happened to 
her and she was finally hauled out for repairs. 
This left things in a very indefinite state. Vita 
II. and Viva had shown that they were improv¬ 
ing, and their engineers said they would do bet¬ 
ter. Vita at her best used only ten cylinders 
and once one engine was dead. 
SUNDAY, SEPT. 3. 
There were more trials on Sunday. Viva 
showed that she could at last run. She went 
twice around the triangle and showed some 
speed. Vita went once around and then stopped 
with more engine trouble. Sand Burr and Name¬ 
less showed their normal speed and Disturber 
II. , after doing well for two rounds and averag¬ 
ing about thirty-seven miles, lost a crank shaft. 
A new one was sent for at once. It was sent 
to Huntington by automobile, the journey being 
made in fifty-five minutes from Long Island City 
and then after some lively hustling the motor 
was repaired. Dixie showed she was all right, 
but still the committee could not select the team, 
and decided to leave it until the next day. 
MONDAY, SEPT. 4. 
Disturber satisfied the committee that she was 
in good shape early in the morning, and about 
noon the announcement was made that the 
American team would be Dixie IV., Disturber 
III. and Viva. 
THE ENGLISH TRIO. 
The British trio arrived at Huntington during 
the week. Maple Leaf III. ran over from Larch- 
mont on Friday and impressed everyone by the 
way she ran. This boat has two 400 horsepower 
motors and has shown fifty-seven miles an hour 
for a short time, but even those who know her 
are not certain that she can keep running for 
thirty miles. 
Pioneer, owned by the Duke of Westminster, 
is the same Pioneer as raced here last year. She 
has a 400 horsepower motor and can make forty- 
five miles an hour. Noel Robbins, who is in 
charge, says she can keep that speed up for a 
long time, and that her engines are running well. 
Tyreless III. is owned by F. Gordon Pratt and 
makes about thirty-eight miles an hour. She is 
a displacement boat and the reliable one of the 
trio. 
Pioneer and Tvreless III. were taken to Hunt¬ 
ington on the lighter Hustler during the storm. 
On Thursday and on Friday they were put in 
the water. They were running about the harbor 
later in the day and on Saturday, and everyone 
who saw them was much impressed by the way 
they moved. 
American Floating Exposition Tour. 
An interesting project has been undertaken 
by a well-known travel bureau of New Eng¬ 
land. according to Daily Consular and Trade 
Reports, which should result in establishing 
closer trade relations with the Latin-American 
countries. It is proposed to charter a steam¬ 
ship and to arrange suitable accommodations 
on one of the main decks of the vessel for 
about 100 commercial exhibits. It is stated that 
the strictest care will be taken by those in 
charge of this expedition to accept only ex¬ 
hibitors of recognized standing, in order to 
insure an absolutely representative display of 
the best products of the United States. 
This commercial-exposition ship, with a 
party of about 300, it is proposed, will leave 
New York early in November next and visit 
the various ports of Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, 
Colombia. Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, 
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and Mexico, 
arriving in San Francisco toward the end of 
January, 1912. The tour will then probably be 
extended to the Orient and the vessel will re¬ 
turn through the Suez and Mediterranean, visit¬ 
ing many important ports. Efforts are to be 
made to make the stay of this exposition ship 
at every port of significance and value for the 
promotion, of the export trade of the United 
States. Banquets will be given to leading 
citizens of the cities visited and a campaign of 
advance publicity is to be inaugurated. 
Similar methods of trade extension have 
been used quite successfully in a number of 
European countries, and this proposed tour, 
which is apparently the first commercial cruise 
expedition from the United States, will be 
watched with great interest. 
International Motor Boat Exhibition. 
The attention of local manufacturers inter¬ 
ested in the trade in boat motors for fishing 
craft and heavy duty has been called to an in¬ 
ternational motor exhibition to be held at 
Copenhagen. Denmark, in 1912, in connection 
with a Scandinavian fisheries congress and ex¬ 
hibition to take place there in July and August, 
by Consul Fuller, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 
E)aily Consular Reports. Although American 
manufacturers have not hitherto been able to 
introduce their kerosene motors for fishing 
boats in this district in competition with the 
Swedish motors specially designed to meet the 
conditions, they may be interested in this op¬ 
portunity to bring their goods to the notice of 
the Scandinavian countries. 
Crescent A. C. Races. 
The Crescent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, will 
close its season Saturday, Sept. 23, with motor- 
boat races to be held on the lower bay, starting 
and finishing off the club house at Bay Ridge. 
Some of the speed boats have been promised by 
their owners and the semi-speed boats, Edith II., 
Vita, Peter Pan IV. and others, will meet to 
settle the question of supremacy. Two races 
for cruising motorboats have also been arranged. 
One will be for yachts over 35 feet and under 
60 feet in length and the other for those under 
35 feet. They must be strictly cruisers and race 
with all their fittings, boats, etc., in p’ace. For 
these two races Vice-Commodore Charles 
Lembcke has offered the prizes. Several boats 
have already been entered for the cruising races. 
A novel race has been arranged for small open 
boats owned by members of the Crescent Athletic 
Club and clubs of the Gravesend Bay Associa¬ 
tion. This will be for open boats under 25 feet 
in length. They will be handicapped on their 
owners’ statement as to their speed, and should 
a boat in the race exceed the speed declared by 
the owner, it will be disqualified. 
Motor Boat Traffic in China. 
The use of Chinese-built motor boats upon 
the inland waterways of China for freight and 
passenger service, described heretofore at 
length with particular reference to their use 
upon the West River, between Hongkong and 
Canton and the upriver cities is spreading in a 
way which demonstrates that this means of 
locomotion is to be characteristic of immense 
territory in China in the next few years, says 
Consul-General Anderson, at Hongkong. 
The operation of the boats on West River 
has been successful and has led to the construc¬ 
tion of boats for service on other rivers in the 
vicinity. The use of such vessels also has ex¬ 
tended to coast traffic, and services of motor 
vessels are now in operation between Hong¬ 
kong and several of the coast cities near at 
hand. 
In the past few Hongkong dockyards have 
turned out motor vessels for use in the island 
of Haitan, connecting the sea with the inland 
by means of the principal river of the island. 
The newest important vessel of this kind to be 
produced in Hongkong is a motor tug for use 
on the Tonkin River in Indo-China, where the 
interference of rapids and of overgrowth on 
the sides of the river with the navigation of 
ordinary vessels has made the use of a special 
type of vessel necessary. Reports indicate a 
boom in the use of motor boats all along the 
Chinese coast and in practically all waters con¬ 
nected with the sea. The increasing use of such 
vessels has been the subject of extended news¬ 
paper comment at Shanghai. Foochow, and 
other Chinese ports, at Haiphong and Saigon 
in Indo-China. Bangkok in Siam, and in some 
portions of the Philippines. In and around 
Hongkong-Canton waters the use of these boats 
is rapidly becoming all but universal. The ship¬ 
ping people have found them reliable, economi¬ 
cal in the consumption of fuel, affording more 
room for passengers and cargo than steam 
vessels of the same size, and cheaper to take 
care of and to man. 
American Motor Boats in Europe. 
Recent efforts to introduce American motor- 
boats and engines at coast ports and resorts in 
northern France failed because of feeble and im¬ 
proper methods. Several manufacturers indi¬ 
cated a mild interest in the opportunity, but the 
interest took the form very largely of a cata¬ 
logue campaign, which, as has been repeatedly 
pointed out, is useless in such a territory, says 
Consul Dunning, at Havre, in the Daily Con¬ 
sular Reports. 
One dealer reports that an American boat 
which he tried proved to be inferior in quality; 
and there is some reason for supposing, upon 
this and considerable similar evidence, that the 
manufacturers underestimated the character of 
the territory. 
The French trade is, generally speaking, a 
high-class business in which but little can be 
done with low-priced or bargain outfits. The 
buyer cannot be attracted by the element of 
DETAILS OF BOATS IN THE TRIAL RACES. 
Boat and Owner. Length. Breadt 
Dixie TV.—Heckscher, Melville & Burnham 39.6 6 11 
Vita II.—J. S. Blackton. 36 
Sand Burr—A. K. & C. D. White. 19.11 5 
Disturber—J. A. Pugh . 31.10 .. 
Nameless II.—Heckscher & Melville. 26 5 6 
Viva—J. S. Blackton. 32 4 8 
Flyaway—W. A. Taylor. 32.8 
Propell- H. P. 
Club. er. Motors. Each. Make. Cylin 
Motor B. C. 
2 
2 
270 
H. M. Crane 
16 
Motor B. C. 
2 
2 
275 
Pierce-Budd 
16 
Seaside Y. C. 
1 
1 
60 
Emerson 
6 
Chicago Y. C. 
2 
2 
130 
Sterling 
16 
Motor B. C. 
2 
2 
125 
Herreshoff 
16 
Motor B. C. 
2 
4 
100 
Emerson 
24 
Pt. Washington 
2 
2 
125 
16 
Builder. Designer. Helmsman. 
S. I. Shipb'ld'g Co. C. H. Crane F. K. Burnham 
Elco Co. Fauber J. S. Blackton 
Appel Appel A. K. White 
Sterling Fauber J. A. Pugh 
Atkin-Wheeler Atkin W. Atkin 
Emerson . Capt. Pierce 
