FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 20, 1907. 
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dryness and is very light. She is being built 
by Mr. Martin for his own use. The other 
launch is one designed by an amateur, Mr. A. 
H. Davis, for Mr. Arthur C. Smith, of the Chel¬ 
sea Y. C. She will be a very roomy boat, so 
much so that her freeboard and underbody are 
rather marred by the attempt to gain a large 
cabin. She should prove, however, very service¬ 
able. A 25 horsepower Ideal engine will be in¬ 
stalled. She is 40ft. length over all, 9ft. in breadth 
and will have full headroom. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
135 horsepower. Standard is 60ft. long and has 
300 horsepower. 
It will be recalled that two years ago Mr. 
Rainey installed in his steam yacht Anona. the 
first wireless telegraph outfit to be used in a 
private vacht. 
Mr. Rainey will enter his hydroplane in all 
available races this season, and will carry her 
on the davits of his steam yacht Mirage, which 
he has just purchased from Mr. Vanderbilt. 
yet there it is, unmistakable proof that it does 
come from somewhere. 
One would suppose all dust would blow away, 
yet it accumulates on deck. 
Tt must come from the constant wear and 
chafe of the many ropes, sails and men moving 
about. 
Dust at Sea. 
Mr. Paul J. Rainey has just placed an order 
with the Hydroplane Company, of New York 
city, for a hydroplane racer of the most modern 
type. 
The motor will be 8-cylinder, 40 horsepower, 
and is to be constructed by the G. H. Curtiss 
Manufacturing Company, of Hammondsport, 
New York. - 
This remarkable power plant will be put in a 
hull of very light but strong construction. 
Judging from the 21 miles speed already at¬ 
tained by their 8 horsepower boat it is safe to 
say that the Hydroplane Company will give Mr. 
Rainey considerably over 30 miles an hour with 
the boat just ordered. 
It may be remarked that the highest speed so 
far attained by any American built speed boat 
is less than 30 miles an hour. Neither Dixie 
nor Standard' have ever done the mile in less 
than two minutes. Dixie is 40ft. long and has 
Two men riding opposite me in a New \ork 
subway train were very much surprised to see 
the accumulation of dust that had settled on the 
white-washed walls of the underground brick 
and cement tube through which the trains run. 
“How do yon account for it?” one man asked 
the other. “Surely dust from the street cannot 
find its way in here fifty feet or SO' under the 
ground. It must be particles of the steel rails 
worn off by the wheels,” his friend remarked. 
I did not care what it was, as it carried me 
back in memory to my former life at sea. _ A 
landsman may not realize that when sweeping 
down time comes, as it does every dog watch 
when the day’s work is done, that a good-sized 
dust pan full of dust is taken up nearly every 
night off a ship’s deck. Where does that dust 
come from? It cannot come from the land, for 
land is hundreds of miles beyond the horizon; 
it cannot blow aboard off the tops of the waves, 
Mr. Cable, who formerly owned the motor 
boat Dorothy, having sold her this winter to Mr. 
E. M. Crawford, is now building himself a neat 
little 20ft. by 10ft. houseboat. 
The design resembles Hostess, Mr. C. D. 
Mower’s houseboat, the same appearance being 
preserved. She was gotten out at Mr. Cable’s 
piano factory in sections, shipped up to the 
Western Launch Co. and there he is putting her 
together. 
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The Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend 
Bay have adopted the same amendments to rac¬ 
ing rules as the Long Island Sound Association 
except that Class S shall be strictly amateur 
crew, and that in the case of syndicate-owned 
boat one particular man is to be specified as tilt- 
owner and must not enter another boat in the 
same race. 
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Mr. Bird S. Coder’s catboat, E. I. Bedford, 
will appear as a yawl this summer if the plans 
prepared by Mr. John R. Brophy are approved. 
