Nov. 19, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Motor Boatmen Combine. 
Several of the western boat and engine 
manufacturers have recently incorporated the 
National Boat and Engine Company, which 
takes in several of the large western concerns 
and one eastern company. A partial list of the 
companies absorbed is as follows: 
Racine Boat Manufacturing Company, Mus¬ 
kegon, Michigan. 
Truscott Boat Manufacturing Company, St. 
Joseph, Michigan. 
Pope Boat Company, Fond du Lac, Wiscon¬ 
sin. 
Pierce Motor Boat Company, Racine, Wis¬ 
consin. 
Shell Lake Boat Company, Shell Lake, Wis¬ 
consin. 
Western Boat and Engine Works, Michigan 
City, Indiana. 
West Mystic Manufacturing Company, West 
Mystic, Connecticut. 
Inland Lakes Boat Company, Lake Geneva, 
Wisconsin. 
The officers are: 
Walter Reynolds, President. 
J. M. Truscott, Vice-President. 
John Q. Ross, Secretary. 
Among the directors are the following: 
Walter J. Reynolds, president, Racine Boat 
Manufacturing Company, Muskegon, Mich. 
J. M. Truscott, president, Truscott Boat 
Manufacturing Company, St. Joseph, Mich. 
Henry S. Beardsley, president, Beardsley and 
Company, New York, N. Y. 
John Q. Ross, Lieutenant-Governor, Michi¬ 
gan. 
C. R. Carpenter, cashier, Commercial and 
Savings Bank, Racine, Wis. 
J. H. Smith, cashier, Lumberman’s Bank, 
Shell Lake, Wis. 
A. M. Probst, director of National Reserve 
Bank, New York, N. Y. 
Dr. Frank R. Warren, capitalist, Michigan 
City, Ind. 
Allen R. Thompson, secretary and treasurer, 
West. Mystic Manufacturing Company, West 
Mystic, Conn. 
P. E. Pope, president, Pope Boat Works, 
Fond du Lac, Wis. 
President Reynolds makes the following state¬ 
ment: 
“The National Boat and Engine Company is 
engaged in four lines of manufacturing—pleas¬ 
ure craft of every description and of every type 
from canoes to the largest yachts; commercial 
vessels, marine gas engines and steam engines 
and Government vessels. 
“Pleasure boating has reached a basis where 
it has now become a recreation of the very best 
kind for men of moderate means, or, in other 
words, for the great average public, as well 
as for the man of wealth. This fact has very 
rapidly increased the scope and proportions of 
the pleasure boat industry. 
“An immense investment of capital is repre¬ 
sented in the plants and equipment, large and 
small, throughout the country. The new phase 
of the pleasure boat industry, which has put it 
upon such a broad manufacturing and business 
basis, has come about largely through the per¬ 
fection of' marine gas engines. 
“When these were at first invented and put 
upon the market, they were like all other new 
things, crude and unreliable. But every month 
since gas engines were first built has shown 
a decided improvement, until they will soon be, 
if they are not already so, the most important 
means of motive power known. 
“There could be no better evidence of the im¬ 
portance of the gas engine than the fact that a 
large German company is now equipping an 
ocean liner with gas engines instead of with 
steam boilers. A large number of the smaller 
types of war vessels are now propelled by these 
engines instead of by steam. The United States 
Government is a large purchaser of gas engines 
and is now contemplating the substitution of 
these motors for steam engines in many new 
vessels in its various branches of service. 
“Until a few years ago, the principal motive 
power for pleasure craft was the steam engine. 
On account of the space taken by boilers, steam 
plants could not be installed in small boats. 
I he smoke and dust from the steam engine was 
also a serious inconvenience. 
“The gas engine has rapidly driven steam en¬ 
gines out of pleasure craft. Big steam yachts 
have had their boilers taken out and gas motors 
put in their place. An entirely new fleet of 
pleasure craft has been created, these being 
propelled by gas motors instead of by steam 
engines. In fact, as far as I can learn, the big 
steam yacht is a thing of the past. Few, if 
any, of them are being planned or constructed 
in this country. In their place yachtsmen are 
rapidly securing smaller, trimmer, faster pleas¬ 
ure vessels driven by powerful and efficient gas 
motors. 
"I he gas motor has made private yachts avail¬ 
able to an immense number of men who did 
not have sufficient means to own steam yachts. 
These smaller yachts, equipped with gas motors, 
provide all the sleeping and cruising accommo¬ 
dations of the old steam yachts. The first cost 
is very much less and the expense of their 
operation is far below the cost of operation of 
any steam yacht that was ever built. 
“The perfection of the gas engine has created 
types of boats which were impossible before 
gas engines were known. These are all classes 
of launches and speed boats of every size and 
description. Ibis revolution, in the pleasure 
boat industry is bringing about a rapidly in¬ 
creasing demand for pleasure craft of all s’orts; 
and it is to meet this demand in an adequate 
way, that the men who comprise the National 
Boat and Engine Company have united their 
interests. 
“This new organization is not formed .for the 
purpose of throttling competition or raising 
prices. On the contrary, we will, by the special¬ 
ization of designs, the concentration of purchas¬ 
ing power, and the reduction of overhead and 
executive expenses, be able to offer the public 
a better product than ever before and at a lower 
price. 
“But of even more importance to the public 
is the fact that with such an organization as 
that which we have brought about, we expect 
to be able to give our patrons a personal serv¬ 
ice far superior to anything that could ever 
have been attempted before by any manufac¬ 
turer of pleasure craft. We have leased large 
showrooms in all the important cities where 
the public may conveniently be shown our en¬ 
tire line of boats and engines, as well as a com¬ 
plete line of accessories. In New York city, 
our showroom is at Twenty-seventh street and 
Madison avenue, directly opposite Madison 
Square Garden, with a frontage of 100 feet on 
Madison avenue and 60 feet on Twenty-seventh 
street. The floor space, including the lower 
floor, which will be used for a supplementary 
showroom and storage, is 12,000 square feet. 
“In Chicago we have secured a prominent lo¬ 
cation on Michigan avenue, in what is known as 
Automobile Row. The entire floor space here 
is almost equal to that of our New York show¬ 
room. We anticipate making our own show¬ 
rooms in different cities of almost equal interest 
to the public as are the general boat and en¬ 
gine exhibitions which are given every year. 
“Another important undertaking of the new 
company, which will provide particularly fav¬ 
orable conveniences to yachtsmen, will be the 
establishment of supply stations at all points 
where boats gather. At these places our pat¬ 
rons will be served promptly by our agents and 
mechanics, and be abl.e to receive supplies and 
have repairs made with a promptness which is 
now impossible. 
“We propose to educate the patrons of the 
National Boat and Engine Company to know 
that our interest in them does not cease with 
their purchase of one of our boats, and that 
they are never very far from one of our many 
avenues of co-operation and assistance. 
“The National Boat and Engine Company 
should not be regarded in any sense as a pro¬ 
motion enterprise, nor as a trust in the usual 
interpretation of that word. It is an actual 
voluntary union of boat and engine manufac¬ 
turers, who have very clearly realized that the 
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