April 17, 1909] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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45-FUOT CRUISING BOAT BUILT FOR DAVIO MAHONEY. 
Work at Norris Heights. 
One of the busiest yacht building yards in 
this section is that of the Gas Engine & Power 
Company, at Morris Heights. Many new 
vessels ranging in size from small open 
launches to good cruisers are being finished 
there as fast as possible, and this work is a 
sure sign that confidence has taken the place 
of misgivings on the part of yachtsmen. Yacht¬ 
ing always feels a business depression very 
quickly, and the fact that builders are busy is 
a sure sign that business is’ generally im¬ 
proving. 
Five yachts are being built at the lower end 
of the big yards. One of these is a twin screw 
vessel for W. J. Green of Utica from designs 
by William Gardner. This vessel which is 75 
feet long, is well on toward completion, and is 
to be named Verdi. 
Alongside Verdi is the triple-screw gasolene 
yacht for Julius Fleischmann. 'J'his yacht is 
III feet in length and is to be named Whirl¬ 
wind. This yacht is from designs by Charles L. 
Seabury, and will be one of the most attractive 
of the new craft, as special attention has been 
paid to her construction and her interior 
arrangement. She is to be quite fast. 
Little Sovereign, for M. C. D. Borden, is 
next in the row. This yacht is 133 feet long, 
and Mr, Seabury, her designer, has guaranteed 
a speed of 30 miles an hour. This yacht will be 
similar to Vitesse, Niagara IV., Vixen and 
others that have been turned out by this firm 
of builders, and they have all done well in the 
work for which they have been specially de¬ 
signed. It is possible that before the end of 
the season Little Sovereign will meet in a race 
the new craft being built on the other side for 
Peter W. Rouss. 
The next boat on the stocks is the twin-screw 
gasolene yacht, 98 feet long, for a New Yorker, 
who will use her on the Maine coast, where he 
has a summer home. The guaranteed speed of 
this yacht is 18 miles an hour. 
Then there is the twin-screw gasolene vessel 
for the State Department of Public Works, 
which is 80 feet long, and which will be 
equipped with two Speedway motors. 
At the north end of the yard is the 140-foot 
steel steam yacht Machigonne, built for former 
Governor W. L.. Douglass, of Massachusetts. 
This yacht is almost ready for delivery and will 
be one of the first of the new fleet in com¬ 
mission. 
Alongside Machigonne is the twin-screw 
power boat for Commodore J. Adolph Mollen- 
hauer, of the Penataquit Corinthian Y. C. 
This boat has been designed by Henry J. Gie- 
low, and is tO be fitted with two Speedway 
motors of 80 horsepower each, and her speed 
will be not less than 14 miles an hour. 
The raised deck cruiser of 65 feet for 
Clarence Morgan of Burlington, Vt., is almost 
completed. She has a six-cylinder Speedway 
motor. The 66-foot twin-screw boat for a New 
Yorker, for use on the Great South Bay, is 
nearing completion, and she will be ready for 
delivery before her contract time. 
David Mahoney is now the owner of the 45- 
foot teakwood cruising motor boat which the 
company had on exhibition at the Motor Boat 
Show in Madison Square Garden. George H. 
Walker’s 45-foot teakwood boat, which was 
also on exhibition, has had several trials and 
made 20,5 miles an hour. This boat is to be 
used at Kennebunkport, Me. 
'I'he motor boat. 38 feet long, for Sydney A. 
Smith, of Huntington, L. L, is being finished, 
as is the 36-foot raised deck cruiser for C. S. 
Stilwell, of Sag Harbor, L. 1 . A raised deck 
cruiser for Harry Metz, of City Island, is be¬ 
ing built, and will be completed in time for the 
opening of the season. 
W. Carruthers. of Montreal, has purchased 
the motor boat Hornet, built of teakwood and 
38 feet 3 inches over all. Her engine is a six- 
cylinder Speedway. Henry J. Webster, of New 
York, has purchased a 25-foot cruising launch. 
The motor boat Ethel, 39 feet 4 inches long, 
built for a New Yorker, has been shipped to 
Canada. She has a Speedway motor. Twenty- 
eight miles an hour was the guarantee, but in 
her trials she made 30 miles. 
A Speedway six-cylinder motor of 60 horse¬ 
power has been shipped to Lawley & Sons, 
South Boston, for a cruising boat building at 
that yard. Four Speedway motors ranging 
from 16 to 65 horsepower have been sent to 
Portland. Ore., for boats that are building for 
Pacific Coast service. 
Reuben Hoyt, of New York, has placed an 
order for a runabout of 25 feet. The gasolene 
launch for George McKesson Brown as tender 
for his schooner yacht Monimia, and a similar 
boat for the schooner Vencedor are well along. 
The Speedway launch for Joseph Miller, for use 
on Lake Mahopac, is nearly finished. 
A Seabury triple expansion engine, water- 
tube boiler, etc., for the new passenger steam¬ 
er Llyak, being built at Portland, Ore., for the 
Kitsap Transportation Company, has been 
shipped. This is a duplicate of the machinery 
plant that waR furnished for the steamer Kit¬ 
sap two years ago. A Seabury watertube 
boiler having 1,200 square feet of heating sur¬ 
face is being built for the steamer Julia B., of 
Astoria. Oregon. 
The steam yacht Lyndonia, C. H. K. Gurtis; 
the steam yacht Vitesse, Gen. Brayton Ives, and 
the steam yacht Vixen, John D. Archold, are 
being overhauled and will be ready for com¬ 
mission at an early date. Two six-cylinder 
Speedway engines of about 60 horse power 
each are being built for the yacht Nancy Ann, 
owned by W. L, Moody, of Galveston, Texas. 
J. R. De Lamar’s fast yacht Speedway is 
having her hull remodeled. An 8-horsepower 
motor has been shipped to Buenos Ayres for a 
boat building there. 
J'he motor boat as tender for John East¬ 
wood's sloop is completed. A four-cylinder, 
16-horsepower Speedway motor has been 
shipjied to S. R. Graham, of Seattle, Wash. 
Work has been finished on the 55-foot hunting 
cabin launch Southwinds for Colonel George 
B. Shenley, and the yacht is ready for commis¬ 
sion. The 21-foot launch Rainbow, for serx'ice 
at Sylvan Falls, N. Y., has been shipped to 
George C. Campbell. 
Steamer Viking Launched 
The new steam yacht Viking, built for 
George F. Baker, of the New York Y. C.. was 
successfully launched from the yards of the 
Pusey & Jones Company at Wilmington on 
Wednesday, April 7. This yacht has been built 
from designs by Theodore D. Wells, and is 
similar to Celt owned by J. Rogers Maxwell. 
The principal dimensions of Viking are 178 
feet over all, 140 feet on the waterline, 22 feet 
beam and 8 feet 6 inches draft. She is to be 
fitted with triple expansion engines of the four- 
cylinder type and of about 1,000 horsepower. 
Steam will be generated in two watertube 
boilers. The yacht will be finished early in the 
season and will be used by Mr. Baker cruising 
along the coast. 
Hudson-Fulton Celebration. 
Prei’.\rations for the motor boat, rowing, 
sailing and canoe regattas to be given under 
the auspices of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Commission at New York, Yonkers and New¬ 
burgh are now well under way. Captain Jacob 
W. Miller, chairman of the Aquatic Sports 
Committee, which will handle the regattas, has 
received assurances from almost one hundred 
yachting, rowing and canoe clubs that they will 
not only enter but will give every possible as¬ 
sistance. The events at New York will include 
motor boat races, pulling races between the 
crews of various foreign and United States war 
vessels and canoe races. Yonkers will have 
the high-power motor boats like Dixie IL, and 
the rowing events between rowing association 
crews, while at Newburgh there will be motor 
boat races and races for sailing boats under 
30 feet in length. 
To facilitate the preparations for and the 
running of the races. Capt. Miller has ap¬ 
pointed several committees of aides, as follows: 
General Committee—Hon. Nathan A. War¬ 
ren, Mayor of Yonkers; W. J. McKay, New¬ 
burgh: members of Aquatic Sports Committee, 
and the following aides—Wm. Butler Duncan, 
Jr., N. Y. Y. C.; Charles B. Tower, Larch- 
mont Y. C.: Lieut Commander W. J. Terhune, 
U. S. N.: James Pilkington, New York. 
New York Committee of Aides—Wm. Butler 
Duncan, Jr.; Lieut. Commander Terhune; 
Naval Constructor George C. Westervelt, U. 
S. N.; I,lent. Commander Claude S. Cochran, 
U. S. R. C. S.; Benjamin A. Kciley, Crescent 
C,; Morton G. Bogue, Columbia University; 
Charles B. Tower, Larchmont Y. C.; Commo¬ 
dore George J. Vestner. Colonia Y. C.; Capt. 
Edmund McClure Peters, N. M. N. J.; Com¬ 
mander A. E. Kalbach, N. M. N. Y.; Pay¬ 
master -A.. R Pardington, N. M. N. Y. 
Yonkers Committee-—Honorary Chairman, 
Mayor Nathan A. Warren; Aides—Halsey G. 
Jackson, President Palisade Boat Club; Robert 
Jackson. Palisade Boat Club: Walter Belling, 
James Pilkington and Ford Fortmcycr. 
Newburgh Committee—Honorary Chairman. 
W. J. McKay: Aide.s—N. W. Collyer, New¬ 
burgh Canoe & Boating Association: George 
F. Shaw: James S. Taylor; Frank W. Tomp¬ 
kins; Joseph R. Ellicott, President Hudson 
River Y. R. A.; Harry .A. Jackson, N. Y. A. C. 
The tentative schedule for races and prizes ai 
New York arc as follows: 
1. Pulling races, between crews of foreign 
war vessels. 
2. Pulling races, between crews of American 
war vessels. 
3. Open pulling race, between crews (one 
crew from each force, ship and unit) of frireign 
war vessels, American war vessels,. Naval 
Militia of each State, Revenue Cutter Service, 
reserve ships and such other naval branches 
of American or foreign official service as may 
be selected. 
4. Interstate pulling races, between Naval 
