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Feb. 24, 1912 
handsome cruisers capable of making long 
ocean trips are among its fleet. 
They have comfortable quarters at their 
club house with a safe anchorage. 
The coming season will see many crui.ses to 
the islands, and a number of races will be 
pulled off with handsome cups and other 
prizes for the winners. 
There being forty-eight motor boats in the 
fleet with several others under construction, 
it means that the members are looking for¬ 
ward to great enjoyment on their many out¬ 
ings. . . 
The climate here admits of all year cruising 
to a great extent, so there are but few of the 
boats out of commission at any time. 
E. R. Abbott. 
A Wireless-Operated Boat. 
There was exhibited on the Danube at 
Vienna, says Consul-General Charles Denby, 
Vienna, Austria, during the last week, a boat 
which is controlled by wireless electricity from 
the bank, without any person being on board. 
This boat (a photograph of which is on file 
in the Bureau of Manufacturers) is described 
as being constructed on the system of Wirth, 
Beck & Knauss, of Nuremberg, Germany. _ It 
has attracted many spectators—military, scien¬ 
tific, and the simply curious—who pay a small 
sum for admission to the immediate vicinity of 
the operator on the bank. The boat carries 
a storage gattery which furnishes its motive 
power, the “system” or invention consisting in 
the adaptation of wireless electric waves of 
different length to the control of the motive 
power, steering gear, and other mechanism. 
This system, it is also claimed, will prevent 
disturbance by electric waves elsewhere gen¬ 
erated within the same sphere of influence. 
At a recent exhibition the boat was manifestly 
operated without other control than that ex¬ 
ercised by the manipulator of the wireless 
mechanism on the bank. It moved forward and 
back, turned right and left, described figures, 
was guided to definite points, rang bells, ex¬ 
hibited flags and lights, fired guns, etc., giving 
proof of effective control. The mechanism is, 
however, far from perfect; the speed is not 
great, the responses to the operator’s will are 
hesitating and inexact, and the range is limited 
to a few score yards. The exhibition, in fact, 
was notably only as the beginning of the de¬ 
velopment of a mechanism of possible great 
importance. 
Caiiii©©nimi 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—James W. F. Watson, 210 
Dilwyn street, Burlington, N. J., by Elmer D. 
Baylie; Frederick Von Dohln, 880 Cauldwell 
avenue. New York city, by Eugene C. Kelly. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6339, David J. Boon, M.D., 
4265 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.; 6340, G. 
Ashton Barker, 3018 W. Lehigh avenue, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.; 6341, Edwin H. Parker, 529 West 
135th street. New York city; 6342, G. Fallonsby 
J. Neumann, West 206th street and Bolton Road, 
New York city; 6343, Harold Voorhis, 89 
Shrewsbury avenue. Red Bank, N. J. 
Western Division.—6336, Henry C. Vocke, Jr., 
2308 Chestnut street, Milwaukee, Wis.; 6337, 
Lawrence Gylstrom, 724 Twenty-eighth street, 
Milwaukee, Wis.; 6338, Hugh H. Dyar, Kenil¬ 
worth, Ill. 
MEMBERS TRANSFERRED. 
5996, Charles R. Jones, 238 State street, Hack¬ 
ensack, N. J., from Central Division to Atlantic 
Division. 5760, Walter E. Jordan, 4027 Sheridan 
Road, Chicago, Ill., from Eastern Division to 
Western Division. 
DIXIE, JUNIOR. 
