984 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 18, 1910. 
once and copies can be obtained by applying to 
the Department of Commerce and Labor. 
In this act the words motor boat include every 
vessel propelled by machinery and not more than 
65 feet in length, except tugboats propelled by 
steam. The length is measured from end to end 
over deck excluding sheer. 
Motor boats are divided into three divisions: 
Class 1, less than 26 feet in length; Class 2, 26 
feet or over and less than 40 feet in length ; 
Class 3, 40 feet or over and not more than 65 
feet in length. 
LIGHTS. 
Section 3 says that every motor boat in all 
weathers from sunset to sunrise shall carry the 
following lights, and during such time no other 
lights shall be exhibited. Motor boats of Class 
1 shall carry a white light aft to show all around 
the horizon and a combined lantern in the fore 
part of the vessel and lower than the white light 
aft, showing green to starboard and red to port 
so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead 
to two points abaft the beam on their respective 
sides. 
Every motor boat of Classes 2 and 3 is to 
carry a bright'white light in the fore part of 
the vessel to show an unbroken light over an 
arc of the horizon of twenty points of the com¬ 
pass. The lens of this light is to be not less 
than nineteen square inches on Class H and not 
less than thirty-one inches on Class 3. Each 
yacht is also to carry a white light aft to show 
all around the horizon and a green light on the 
starboard side and a red light on the port side. 
The glasses for yachts of Class 2 are to be not 
less than sixteen square inches and for Class 3 
not less than twenty-five square inches. 
After July 1, 1911, all glasses on yachts of 
Classes 2 and 3 are to be fresnel or fluted, fitted 
with inboard screens. 
WHISTLE. 
Every motor boat is to be provided with a 
whistle capable of producing a blast of two sec¬ 
onds or more in duration. 
FOG HORN. 
Every boat of Classes 2 and 3 is to carry an 
efficient fog horn. 
BELL. 
Every boat of Classes 2 and 3 is to have a 
bell which shall not be less than eight inches 
across the mouth on boats of Class 3. 
LIFE PRESERVERS. 
Every boat shall carry life preservers or life 
belts or buoyant cushions or ring buoys or other 
device to be prescribed by the Secretary of 
Commerce and Labor sufficient to sustain afloat 
every person on board and so placed as to be 
readily accessible. On those boats carrying pas¬ 
sengers for hire there must be a life preserver 
for each passenger. 
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS. 
Every motor boat and every vessel propelled 
by machinery other than steam more than 65 
feet in length shall carry ready for use the 
means of promptly and effectually extinguishing 
burning gasolene. 
The fine for not complying with this law is 
not to exceed $100. 
Two Cup Defenders. 
The Atkin-Wheeler Company, at Halsite, L. 
I., have finished one launch which is to enter the 
eliminating trials to be held for the purpose of 
selecting representatives to meet the British 
challengers for the British international trophy 
and are at work on another. The first is owned 
by Thomas T. Chesbrough, of Northport, and is 
named Restless. She has been tried and made 
thirty-five statute miles an hour. She is 39 feet 
long, 6 feet beam and 2 feet 6 inches draft. The 
hull is very lightly, but strongly constructed, be¬ 
ing' planked with red cedar and framed with elm 
and spruce well trussed. It weighs with shafts, 
propellers, struts, rudder and tanks 1,200 pounds. 
Restless has two 8-cylinder V-type motors de¬ 
signed by William S. Herreshoff. They weigh 
with reverse gear, oil pumps, magnetos 500 
pounds each- and develop each 140 horsepower, 
turning up 1,200 revolutions a minute. They 
CAROLINE. 
drive twin screws. The entire weight of the 
launch with motors, gasolene and crew on board 
averages eleven pounds per horsepower. 
The other launch is for Commodore August 
Heckscher, of the Huntington Y. C. This will 
have quadruple screws and be driven by four 
140 horsepower motors similar to those in Rest¬ 
less. It is expected this yacht will make 45 
miles an hour. The weight of hull, motors, 
equipment and crew will be eight pounds per 
horsepower. 
Sunlight Goes Well. 
The 40-foot launch built for William Hoag, 
of New York, has been tried on Boston Harbor 
and developed a speed of more than twenty-nine 
miles an hour. This launch, which has been 
named Sunlight, was built by Lawley from de¬ 
signs by Clinton H. Crane and is to be used 
as a fast ferry by her owner. She is built of 
mahogany and has a 185 horsepower motor. The 
motor and tanks occupy the forward section and 
aft there is a cockpit in which chairs are used 
for seats. There is some talk of Sunlight being 
entered in the elimination trials. 
LOANTAKA. 
Canoeing. 
The Rancocas Cruise. 
The Atlantic Division of the A. C. A. had a 
very successful cruise down the Rancocas Creek 
over Memorial Day. 
On Saturday, May 28, thirty-nine canoeists 
arrived at Brown’s Mills in the Pines, N. J. 
Some were on hand early in the morning and a 
feto did not show up until after dark, but they 
all got there with their duffle and boats. The 
evening, which was ideal, was spent on the lake, 
floating around, singing songs and watching the 
comet. About half the party camped on the 
island and below the dam, while the balance put 
up at the hotel and cottages. The next morning 
after stocking up at Hargrove’s store, the fol¬ 
lowing. started off: “Mac” Blumner and Billy 
Logan (Red Dragon) led off at 8 o’clock; after 
them came Horn and Thompson (Yawpewi), 
Coleman and Janke (Red Dragon), Conrad and 
Mcllvaine (Beverly), the Ayres brothers (Yaw¬ 
pewi), Wilt (Red Dragon), Evans and wife 
(Red Dragon), Blumner, Jr., and Willis (Red 
Dragon), Scott and Evans (Red Dragon), Lip- 
pincott and wife (Lakanoo), the Randall broth¬ 
ers (Ankokas), who had come up from Mt. 
Holly that morning; Broomhead, wife and boy 
(Keystone), Fort and Mooney (Lakanoo), 
Southard and Morton (Yawpewi), Landes, 
Betts and Richards (Delaware), Doak and 
Bryan (Delaware), Woolson and Davis (Dela¬ 
ware), Johnson and wife (Red Dragon), Hand 
and Miss Price (Red Dragon), Chairman J. A. 
Edgar and wife (Red Dragon) and Purser Wil¬ 
son (Red Dragon). 
For the first few miles the cruise was through 
the thickets, around sharp bends, over logs and 
under trees and winding around in all directions. 
In a couple of hours the lagoons were reached 
and at 10:30 New Lisbon dam hove in sight 
where the first carry was made. Pemberton was 
reached at 12130, and after carrying around the 
dam everybody hunted up the duffle bags for 
lunch. At 1 :i5 a fresh start was made and 
Birmingham dam carried around at 2:15. An 
hour and a half later a carry was made at Smith- 
ville dam, and Mt. Holly dam was reached 
shortly after 5 o’clock. Along the creek the 
line was strung out, at some times probably a 
mile or more, but as the dams were reached, the 
first ones would wait for the last, which also 
gave good opportunity to snap a number of pic¬ 
tures. Trouble was experienced getting through 
Mt. Holly, as the water was extremely low and 
it was 7 o’clock before half the bffnch had their 
canoes stored in McEwan’s lumber yard and 
were at the Arcade Hotel ready for supper. 
The other half had continued on to the spring 
below the town where they camped for the 
night. 
Mr. and Mrs. Rockhill and Mr. and Mrs. 
Dunham, who were also making the trip, were 
met at Mt. Holly. They left early the next 
morning while the rest of the crowd started off 
at 8:45. Carl McEwan made the rest of the 
trip in the purser’s boat, while the Randalls dis¬ 
continued at this place. At 9 :45 the spring was 
reached and the whole party again united. The 
creek now commenced to widen out. All the 
dams and obstructions had been passed so the 
canoes kept closer together. At 10:15 Centerton 
was reached where a rest and several pictures 
were taken, and at this point Buckins, Pillinger, 
Davies and Metzger (Keystone) joined the 
crowd. 
During the balance of the trip on the creek 
the canoes kept together solidly with the ones 
containing ladies in the front. At noon Bridge- 
boro was passed and a half hour later Delanco 
was reached. Here the six Wilmington men 
left the cruise to go home via the railroad which 
was convenient to ship the boats. A Yawpewi 
vawl was anchored close at hand with Brooker, 
Wallace, Hisler, Thomas, Reeder, and Cox on 
board. Later on they continued down after the 
bunch and evidently took some of the cruisers 
home. In addition to the crowd on the boat E. 
Baylie, H. Baylie, Troxall and Crawford in two 
Yawpewi canoes joined the paddlers. A shower 
