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Motor 'Boating . 
Motor Boat Show. 
The Motor Boat Show, under the auspices of 
the National Association of Engine and Boat 
Builders, attracted lots of attention at the Madi¬ 
son Square Garden. It opened on Saturday, 
Feb. 19, and will close to-night. The main floor 
of the amphitheatre was given up to boats and 
marine engines and in the balcony were displays 
of accessories, and the motor boat enthusiast 
spent lots of time looking over the new boats, 
studying the different motors, examining pro¬ 
pellers and many other devices of use on a 
motor boat. 
On the floor there were fifty-four boats rep¬ 
resenting many types from the small open launch 
to the 54-foot cruising craft. There were speedy 
boats suitable for afternoon outings and craft 
well adapted to racing. It was a chance, too, to 
see how western boats compared with those 
turned out by eastern builders, and it was con¬ 
ceded that for finish and handsome appearance 
the East is far ahead of the West, but the West 
can turn out good, staunch craft at prices far 
below those charged by Eastern builders. 
The exhibits of the Elco-Bayonne Gas En¬ 
gine and Power Company, Detroit Boat Com¬ 
pany, Michigan Steel Boat Company, W. H. 
Mullins Company, Truscott Boat Company, At¬ 
lantic Boat Company and the Standard occupied 
pretty much the center of the main floor and 
the boats displayed showed what marked pro¬ 
gress had been made since the motor boat began 
to grow popular. 
Charles L. Seabury, the designer of many 
well-known boats, after looking the show over, 
said: “There is a marked improvement in the 
boats and engines shown. The designers and 
builders realize that it is important to produce 
more substantial, more comfortable and more 
seaworthy boats than have been built in the 
past. The absence of the freak racer is par¬ 
ticularly noticeable. The class of visitors dur¬ 
ing the early days of the show is evidence of 
the increasing popularity of the motor boat, and 
those who are interested want good serviceable 
boats.” 
It is impossible in this issue of Forest and 
Stream to write of all the exhibits^ but a more 
extended account of the show and what was 
seen there will be published next week. On the 
opening day there were a few exhibits of boats 
that attracted much attention. The Gas Engine 
& Power Co. & Chas. L. Seabury & Co., Cons., 
showed a raised deck cruiser 42 feet long, 9 feet 6 
inches beam, 3 feet draft. The hull construction 
is of oak stem, stern and keel, white oak frames 
and cedar planking, all copper fastened and 
riveted throughout. The gasolene tank of 200 
gallons is forward in a separate compartment. 
The main cabin is 13 feet 6 inches long. The 
engine is of the Speedway four-cylinder four¬ 
cycle, 6 inches by 6 inches type, of thirty-two 
to forty horsepower. The joiner work is of 
mahogany. The boat is lighted throughout with 
acetylene gas and she has a searchlight. This 
boat is well worth inspection. For genuine com¬ 
fort in long distance cruising, combined with 
good speed capabilities, she cannot be surpassed. 
Another boat in this same exhibit was a 45- 
foot seagoing runabout. Twenty miles an hour 
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is her every day and easily made speed. Her 
motor is a 6-cylinder, 6 by 6 inches Speedway 
engine of 50 to 60 horsepower. They also show 
a 30-foot runabout of fourteen miles an hour 
speed and a yacht tender of 25 feet, of twelve 
miles speed. There is also a full line of 1910 
model Speedway engines to be seen. 
The Elco-Bayonne exhibit consisted of six 
boats, all handsome, substantial and up to date 
which showed the many improvements of the 
last twelve months. The Elco-De Luxe is a 54- 
foot craft, fitted with a Standard engine of 60 
horsepower. The fittings and furnishings are 
elaborate and the accommodations of spacious 
character. The 40-foot Elco-Standard, designed 
and built by the Elco Company, and fitted with 
a Standard engine of 20 horsepower, is con¬ 
spicuous. She is a model cruising vessel. A 
35-foot Elco-Express, with motor of 60 horse¬ 
power, attracts much attention. Her speed is 
twenty-two miles an hour. The 26-foot Elco- 
Express, of eighteen miles; the 25-foot Elco- 
Electric, battery capacity fifty-five miles on one 
charge, and the 20-foot Elco-Express yacht 
tender, small, yet fast, complete a very hand¬ 
some showing of the best of boats, thoroughly 
equipped. 
A very interesting exhibit was that of the 
Welin Davitt & Lane & De Groot Co., known 
as builders of life boats. A launch and knock¬ 
about were shown. , 
These boats were constructed to demonstrate 
the possibility of building small craft in a way 
to gain in efficiency, lightness, safety and dura¬ 
bility without increasing their cost over the first 
class wooden boat more than about 10 per. cent, 
to 15 per cent. They are built of the highest 
grade Parsons manganese bronze, because of its 
non-corrosive and non-fouling properties, and 
with their plating worked in wide strakes, double 
riveted with the same metal, with felt between 
laps to insure tightness, are stoutly braced and 
held to line and form by oaken ribs, the latter 
secured by patent metal clips, which are them¬ 
selves riveted to the plating, instead of being 
fastened by screws—through the wood—which 
always work loose in time. 
The larger of the two boats is a very roomy 
and classy looking cruiser, equipped with a. 40 
horsepower Holmes 6-cylinder motor. The im¬ 
proved construction was best observed in the 
knockabout which was left unfinished, to facili¬ 
tate inspection. The cruiser has air tight bulk¬ 
heads or compartments like an ocean liner and 
is therefore as unsinkable as she is undentable. 
The company’s superior equipment, which en¬ 
ables it to turn out three or four of its peer¬ 
less lifeboats per day, will in future be utilized 
in the building of this class of motor pleasure 
craft and of lifeboats having the same improved 
construction. 
Big boats of the cruiser type were the feature 
of the Detroit Boat Company’s exhibit. Two 
in particular showed the extremes of motor boat 
building. The Lusitania and the Mauretania 
were representatives of these types. The for¬ 
mer, finished in a bright yellow, is thirty feet 
long; the latter, which is but five feet longer, 
has a blue body and costs four times the price 
of the Lusitania. 
New Orleans Wants Long Race. 
Owners of motor boats of New Orleans are 
planning to have a race to Havana from their 
port at the same time that the race from Phila¬ 
delphia to Havana is held. A member of the 
Southern Club said recently: “This occean 
racing of power boats is no new fancy. It dates 
back to 1905, when the first Marblehead race 
was held. That race was a signal success, and 
since this has 1 become one of the principal 
yachting features of the season, showing a 
larger fleet at the starting line every year. On 
Lake Erie, Lake Superior, in Texas, on the 
upper Mississippi, even so far as Australia the 
good work has spread, always carrying with it 
a development of boats, outfits and crews. We 
yachtsmen of New Orleans have been long in 
coming into the game. It is not for lack of 
boats, for we have a fleet suitable for such work, 
equal, if not superior, to many of the boats 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart & Binnby) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Mason Building, Kilby.Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, 4 Designer,” Boston 
COX STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
15 William Street, - New York 
Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad 
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Naval Architects, Engineers and Yacht Brokers 
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished for Construction, 
Alteration and Repairs. Large list of Yachts for Sale, 
Charter or Exchange; also Commercial Vessels. 
52 BROADWAY Telephone 4673 Broad NEW YORK 
When writing say you saw the ad. in “Forest 
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