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terest in yachting all along the Atlantic coast 
and particularly in Philadelphia. 
Hotel men are already assured of an invasion 
of thousands of followers of boating, and a tri¬ 
angular race of 108 miles to be held in con¬ 
junction with the welcoming of the returning 
survivors of the Philadelphia-Havana deep sea 
regatta will be widely advertised as one of the 
big summer attractions of the resort. 
The Atlantic City committee to co-operate 
with the Philadelphia yachtsmen comprises Com¬ 
modore Edwin A. Parker, James Lippincott, 
Walter E. Edge, Harry B. Cook, William A. 
Maupay, Isaac Bacharach, Charles D. White,. T. 
S. Bowes, T. S. Crane and C. E. Adams. 
Bergen Point Y. C. 
These officers have been elected by members 
of the Bergen Point Y. C.: Commodore, T. J. 
Parker; Vice-Commodore, W. E. Wadman; 
Rear-Commodore, T. R. Parker; Secretary- 
Treasurer, William R. Wilde. Plans were dis¬ 
cussed at the annual meeting and it will be a 
busy one for the members. The Joe Elsworth 
challenge cup, the Popham cup and cups offered 
by F. K. Lord are to be raced for. The course 
for the Popham cup is round Staten Island. 
Motor 'Boating. 
Motor Boat Show. 
The Motor Boat Show, held in Madison 
Square Garden this year, was the most success¬ 
ful in the history of the National Association 
of Engine and Boat Builders under whose aus¬ 
pices it was held. The attendance was large 
every one of the eight days that it was open to 
the public and the exhibitors were delighted be¬ 
cause everyone reported that lots of business had 
been transacted. The visitors to the show this 
year were not there out of curiosity. Of course 
there were many who wanted to look at the 
boats, to see what a marine engine was like, 
and to be able to carry away some of the tons 
of literature that the exhibitors gave, but there 
were many who went to examine the boats and 
engines intelligently and to see what new acces¬ 
sories had been put on the market to improve 
the outfit of a boat. These showed that they 
thoroughly understood the workings of the 
marine motor and those in charge of the ex¬ 
hibits had to be well informed in order to ex¬ 
plain their wares. 
The show this year showed many things. The 
models of the boats have been generally im¬ 
proved. They are sane, sound and staunch and 
experience is helping the builders wonderfully. 
The marine motor is improved. It has been de¬ 
veloped to a wonderful state of efficiency. It is 
lighter and yet stronger than engines of former 
years because the makers have found out where 
strength is required and where they can decrease 
weight without hurting the motor. There has 
been a great improvement made in ignition sys¬ 
tems which have always been a weakness with 
the marine motor, and in every other way great 
improvement has been shown. 
There were in all fifty-four boats on the main 
floor of the Garden. These ranged in size from 
the 12-foot open launch to the big cruising craft 
Elco de Luxe, 54 feet long, and in price they 
ranged from about $100 to $11,500. In this way 
the show was an educator and possibly the edu¬ 
cation began with the small boat suited to the 
man of very moderate means. Those concerns 
who can turn out a safe craft which a young 
man can purchase who is perhaps just starting 
out to make a career for himself, and who is 
not overburdened with this world’s wealth, are 
doing more for motor boating than those who 
are building handsome costly crafts. The young 
man who can buy a power dory for $300, $400 or 
even more money will learn a great deal in that 
craft, and later as he prospers he will want a 
more elaborate boat, and then will go to the 
builder who turns out such boats as his purse 
can afford. 
The Atlantic Company of Amesbury, Mass., 
had a very attractive exhibit consisting of five 
of these so-called dories. They are not strictly 
dories, because they are not lap-straked and 
have well rounded bilges, but they are improve¬ 
ments on the dory model and have proved so 
able that they are used on all the cutters in the 
Revenue service. These boats are smooth plank¬ 
ed, finished in white above the waterline with 
dull rubbed varnished oak topsides. The higher 
priced boats are finished in mahogany. In the 
exhibit there was a 25-foot speed boat with a 
30 horsepower motor, a 25-foot clipper dory with 
10 horsepower motor and 25 20 and 18-footers 
equipped with 8, 4 and 3 horsepower motors, re¬ 
spectively. The 30-footer costs $1,250 and the 
smallest of the lot only $200. 
The exhibits of the Elco Bayonne and the 
Gas Engine and Power Company were described 
last week, and the handsome boats shown by 
these two concerns were big features at the 
show. The Elco de Luxe gives more for the 
money than a big motor car. A limousine car 
will cost $10,000; the yacht costs a little more, 
but it can go anywhere. It has accommodations 
for two to sleep on board and can carry eight 
or ten persons comfortable for day outings and 
provide for them. A car cannot do this. The 
cruising craft of the Gas Engine Company will 
sleep four persons and its cost is only $6,000, so 
this is even better as far as accommodations are 
concerned. _ The cruising craft built by the Elco- 
Bayonne for the Standard Company costs $5,000 
and has accommodations for four persons to 
live on board. 
The Detroit Boat Company had an exhibit of 
nine boats varying in size from a 35-foot cruiser 
to a 14-foot dinghy. The larger boats in this 
exhibit attracted much attention on account o| 
the bright colors they were painted. They were 
stanch, able boats, though, and had plenty of 
good accommodations on board. 
The W. H. Mullin Company showed several 
pressed steel boats of which they make a spe¬ 
cialty. The Truscott Company showed a 35-foot 
cruiser well appointed, a small family boat and 
a mahogany runabout. The Toppan Boat Com¬ 
pany showed some excellent dories well finished 
and equipped. The Reliance Motor Company 
had the well-known racer Gunfire II. and a small 
speed boat named Silver Heels 16 feet long. Fay 
& Bowen had a 25-foot cruiser and a 21-foot 
launch. The Racine Boat Company showed four 
boats, two of the cabin cruiser type, a speed 
runabout and a lapstraked rowboat. 
One of the attractions at the show was the 
exhibit of Welin, Davit and Lane & De Groot 
Co., which showed radical innovations in metal 
hull constructions for motor boats and launches. 
In the boats shown, although the plating is 
strengthened by ribs of wood, metal is riveted 
to metal throughout the building of the hulls 
which, the builders assert, will eliminate the 
faults so often existent in metal hulls reinforced 
with wooden frames or ribs where rivets pass 
through plating, then through wood.. One was 
a runabout launch 25 feet over-all with extreme 
beam of 4 feet 6 inches. The other, a boat of 
the raised deck, combination fast small cruiser 
type, 36 feet over-all and 7 feet 6 inches beam, 
equipped with 35-40 six-cylinder engine and cap¬ 
able of fourteen miles an hour. 
The hulls of the new boats are made of the 
highest grade of Parsons manganese bronze stif¬ 
fened by oak frames. It is in the fact that rivets 
do not pass through the frame that yachtsmen 
and motor boat enthusiasts are expected to be 
especially interested. The new method, it is 
claimed, obviates all danger of leaks, so common 
where rivets pass through plating into wooden 
ribs. Danger of splitting the ribs is avoided. Vari¬ 
ance of expansion in wood and metal, strains 
and the effect of water on the wood are factors 
which have operated against absolute tightness 
in metal hulls reinforced with wood. In the new 
construction steamboat, oak frames, which have 
been worked into the hulls after the latter have 
been fashioned and riveted, are fastened to the 
bronze plating by means of U-shaped clips, the 
clips being riveted to the hull . with rivets of 
bronze. Stringers and clamps in long lengths 
are fitted in the same manner, forming a strong 
but light hull. The value of bronze in hulls is 
recognized for its non-corrosive and non-fouling 
properties. In the case of the boats on show 
the plating was worked in fairly wide strakes 
or strips, double riveted with rivets of bronze, 
twenty rivets to the foot with felt between the 
laps to insure absolute tightness. 
The same company also exhibits at the show 
models of the Welin davit for launching life¬ 
boats at sea, a device which has met with much 
favor in the last four years, and a brand new 
life belt constructed of a light tropical wood in¬ 
stead of cork. Small life rafts, also of the light 
wood, specially designed for Use on motor boats, 
also are shown. 
All the best known of the marine motors in¬ 
cluding the Standard, Craig, Murray & Tregur- 
tha, Eagle, Ferro, Jencink, Twentieth Century, 
Sterling, Atlantic Royal, Palmer, Wolverine, 
Clifton, Gray, Lackawanna, Speedway and others 
too numerous to mention, were displayed, and 
in the balcony were accessories such as propel¬ 
lers, lubricators, valves, ignition devices, com¬ 
mutators, switches, spark plugs, lighting systems, 
castings, decorated wood panels, spray hoods, 
oils and varnishes, so that the lover of motor 
boating had a week of pleasure looking over all 
of these attractions and selecting not only his 
boat, but the motor and everything that was to 
go to make the outfit complete. 
The exhibitors were delighted with the busi¬ 
ness done and with the outlook generally for 
motor boating. Several of the leaders in the in¬ 
dustry and officers of the association gave their 
views on the industry and on motor boating 
generally. 
John J. Amory, president of the National As¬ 
sociation, said: 
“What the motor car has done for the pleas¬ 
ure seeker ashore, the cruising motor boat will 
do for those afloat. People are learning the 
facility with which the gasolene engine can be 
run and are finding out that a boat propelled 
by one is easily handled and inexpensive to run. 
Cruising boats in particular are showing their 
advantages, for therein one has a movable sum¬ 
mer home where one can live with comfort, even 
luxury, and have available, if desired, the ever- 
changing scene that lake and river, bay or sound 
afford. The care is less, the labor lighter and 
the expense infinitely reduced as compared with 
cottage life. This year it is particularly observ¬ 
able that the demand is increasing toward the 
larger, more comfortable cruiser, and this type 
of boat is rapidly replacing the small steam 
yacht, as having the advantage of greater ac¬ 
commodations, greater speed and avoiding the 
necessity of carrying large crews. 
“In every city and town where there is a 
water front, motor boat clubs have been and are 
now being formed, providing those essential 
features of anchorages and a depot for supplies, 
besides a meeting place for boating parties, thus 
making available through membership a home 
at small cost where boats may be cared for dur¬ 
ing the owner’s absence. This feature solves the 
problem of those who are not so fortunate as 
to have water front privileges of their own. If 
I mistake not, in the near future there will be 
thousands of motor boats instead of hundreds 
as now. Assured of reliability, assured of eco¬ 
nomy and the knowledge that a station serving 
the purpose of a garage is available, there is 
seemingly no reason why the motor boat owners 
should not rival the automobilists in number.” 
Henry R. Sutphen, vice-president of the asso¬ 
ciation, said: 
“It has taken some years to educate the public 
to the fact that the motor boat is safe, efficient 
and reliable. It is remarkable how few acci¬ 
dents occur considering the large number of 
those vessels in use, the number being estimated 
at 250,000. With the new form of legislation 
now pending it is believed that the risks will be 
further reduced, making the sport one of the 
safest known. The industry in small engines 
and boats has grown to enormous proportions 
made possible by putting this class of work on 
a strictly manufacturing basis. The two-cycle 
type of engines, the most popular on account of 
its low cost and light weight, is. manufactured 
up to ten or fifteen horsepower in large quan¬ 
tities, it being nothing unusual for a manufac- 
