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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 19, 1910. 
can be taken advantage of much more effective¬ 
ly by combining the properties and men, than 
by the operations of a large number of sepa¬ 
rate and, to some extent, antagonistic concerns. 
This is a common-sense merger of common 
interests for the good of all concerned, the pub¬ 
lic included. 
“The National Boat and Engine Company 
will own outright all of the properties of the 
companies which have united to form the or¬ 
ganization and will run into the millions. 
“Through the operation of the industry under 
the leadership of the National Boat and Engine 
Company, large sums of money will be saved 
in reducing executive and overhead costs of 
operation, as well as in the specialization of 
designs in the various plants and the combined 
purchasing power. The profits in the business 
through this means of reduction of expenses, 
it can easily be seen, will be very materially in¬ 
creased even though the aggregate business 
handled were no greater than under the indi¬ 
vidual plan. 
“However, it is part of the opportunity of 
this new company to very greatly develop the 
business and increase the demand for boats by 
comprehensive and persistent publicity plans, 
which are already under way. The public will 
be made to realize that which a large part of 
it at present does not understand, and that is 
the opportunity of enjoying all the benefits and 
pleasures of life on water at a cost surprising¬ 
ly small. We anticipate not only through our 
own efforts, but through the natural growth 
in the business itself, a very large increase in 
the output of pleasure craft in the year 1911. 
“We are formulating a plan by which those 
who appreciate the opportunities for increasing 
profits which the operation of the new com¬ 
pany will bring, may secure a share in these 
profits. 
“The company will place upon the market an 
issue of first mortgage gold bonds, paying 6 
per cent, per annum. For these bonds the 
Astor Trust Company of New York is trustee, 
and the bonds will be offered to subscribers by 
the company itself. Accompanying the bonds 
will be a profit-sharing arrangement which 
those who are in a position to subscribe for the 
securities, will recognize as of particular in¬ 
terest. 
“In our plan to make the National Boat and 
Engine Company a national enterprise, in real¬ 
ity as well as in name, we will offer some of 
our securities on a basis which will place them 
within the reach of those who are not in a 
position to make extensive investments. Some 
of our bonds will be issued in denominations 
as low as $50. And I know of no prominent 
corporation in the United States which has ever 
before given to the public the opportunity to 
obtain securities of this class on the same 
basis.” 
Aside from pleasure craft, commercial vessels, 
Government vessels (exclusive of men-o’-war), 
and marine gas engines, the National Boat and 
Engine Company is chartered and plans to 
build aeroplanes just as soon as that industry 
has reached a sound commercial basis. 
Motor Boats in China. 
Consul J. H. Arnold, of Amoy, in the Daily 
Consular and Trade Reports, tells of an experi¬ 
ment of placing a gasolene engine in a native 
Chinese sampan there, the results of which he 
now describes: 
The sampan is a flat-bottom dory boat used 
extensively at ports of China. There are about 
2,000 sampans in use in this district alone. The 
one equipped with a gasolene engine, is of the 
ordinary native type, being 18 feet 9 inches in 
length over all, 5 feet 3 inches in width over all, 
and draws about 15 inches of water. It is 
equipped with a 3k2-horsepower single-cylinder 
Hildreth gasolene engine with reversing gear. 
The boat has seating capacity for seven persons, 
and is the type well adapted to this harbor, 
where there is at times considerable rough 
weather, and where a tide runs out at about 
four miles an hour. At slack tide it makes a 
speed of about seven miles an hour. Often the 
tide is so strong in this harbor as to make it 
impossible for a sampan rowed by the ordinary 
Chinese coolie to make any progress. 
A great advantage in a motor boat of this 
character is that, in the event of any accident to 
the motor, the boat can be rowed by one man. 
It is difficult to secure native labor sufficiently 
experienced to fully understand either a gaso¬ 
lene or kerosene motor. It thus often happens 
that when something goes wrong with it the 
engineer (if a Chinese) is unable to promptly 
locate the difficulty, and if the boat is in the 
harbor it is liable to be carried by the tide and 
thrown onto rocks or collide with some other 
vessel, but with the sampan type a native boat¬ 
man as engineer can at a moment’s notice pro¬ 
pel it with oars. 
The American physician who is making the 
experiment with the boat in question states 
that if he were to equip a second sampan he 
would set the motor a little farther forward, 
make the boat 3 feet longer, and arrange the 
seating capacity for more comfort to the oc¬ 
cupants. He states that the 3L>-horsepower 
single-cylinder motor is capable of operating 
the larger boat seven miles an hour. He recom¬ 
mends the engine for its simplicity and solidity, 
two necessary qualities in China, where native 
labor must be utilized. He says dry cells, de¬ 
teriorate rapidly in this climate, making ignition 
difficult, and recommends a magneto, or, better 
yet, a storage battery and small dynamo. He 
finds a reversing gear quite necessary in this 
harbor, but would recommend a kerosene en¬ 
gine in preference to this gasolene engine, if 
it were possible to secure one equally efficient, 
because the price of gasolene in China is about 
twice that of kerosene. 
If a kerosene engine has been invented with 
the compactness, simplicity and efficiency of 
the better-class gasolene engine, it would fit the 
condition here and find a better market than 
would the ordinary gasolene engine, which is 
somewhat expensive on account of the high 
price of gasolene. 
The gasolene tank is placed well in the bow, 
the engine is about in the center, and the seat¬ 
ing facilities are divided—part being in the bow 
and part in the stern. The rudder is fastened 
to a frame which forms a shoe, protecting the 
propeller. The rudder is considerably heavier 
than necessary. An interesting feature of the 
native sampan is the eyes which are painted one 
on each side of the-bow. It would be difficult 
to find a native boat of any sort in the whole 
of China not equipped with two eyes, without 
which the Chinese say the boat can not see. 
The sampan should be the best type for a 
motor boat in this harbor, as well as in many 
other waterways in China. It can stand more 
rough weather than any other boat of a similar 
size, is capable of being beached or run along¬ 
side jetties with ease, and generally is well 
adapted to native conditions. If the American 
motor manufacturers can equip it with a simply 
constructed, efficient, cheap, motor, preferably 
kerosene, there should be a splendid market in 
China. 
Life Boats in England. 
“Life Boat Saturday” is a day set apart on 
the English waterfronts for the exploitations of 
the life-saving service. It is the third Saturday 
in May, and many of the inland and provincial 
towns observe it with regularity. On May 16, 
1896, it was observed for the first time in Lon¬ 
don, the hall and the gardens of the Imperial 
Institute being turned over for the purpose. 
On that day members of the National Life Boat 
Institution and of the Ambulance Brigades and 
other coast guard institutions, give exhibitions 
of their prowess, and there are processions of 
the guardsmen boys from the training ships 
and by the boys and girls of the orphan asylums 
supported by the Life Boat Institution. 
The proceeds of the various celebrations all 
over the kingdom, which in individual cities 
have often run up to thousands of dollars, are 
devoted as far as possible to making provision 
for men injured, disabled and superannuated in 
the service, and for the widows and orphans of 
those who have died in it. 
Traps hoofing* 
If you want your shoot to be announced hen 
send a notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
Nov. 23.—Columbus (O.) G. C. L. Fisher, Sec’y. 
Dec. 13.—Bergen Beach (N. Y.) G. C. L. H. Schorte- 
meitr, Sec’y. 
1911. 
Jan. 2.—Bergen Beach (N. Y.) G. C. eighth annual 
merchandise handicap. L. H. Schortemeier, Sec’y. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
Nov. 24. —West Forest Park (Md.) G. C. Richard T. 
Collins^ Sec’y. 
Nov. 24.— Grand Island (Neb.) G. C. F. F. Kanert, Sec’y. 
Nov. 24-25.— Sikeston (Mo.) G. C. W. H. Tanner,, See’y. 
Nov. 30-Dec. L—Rising Sun (Md.) G. C. H. L. Worth¬ 
ing t o n, Mgr. 
Dec. 2.— Salem, N. J. —Salem County R. and G. C. 
H. W. Bossier, Sec’y. 
Dec. 8.—Atglen (Pa.) G. C. Lloyd R. Lewis, Sec’y. 
Dec. 8-9.—Clinton (Ont.) G. C. J. E. Cantelon, Sec’y. 
Dec. 16.—Pottsville (Pa.) F. & G. A. F. Coleman, Sec’y. 
Dec. 31.—Wellington, Mass.—Palefaces G. C. H. C. 
Kirkwood, Sec’y. 
1911. 
Jan. 2.— White House, N. J.—Crescent G. C. R. C. 
Stryker, Sec’y. 
Jan. 10-13.—Hamilton (Ont.) G. C. D. A. Wilson, Sec’y. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
The Holland Gun Club, Batavia, N. Y., announces a 
sweepstake shoot for Thanksgiving Day, beginning at 
9 o’clock. 
The Smith Gun Club, Newark, N. J., has arranged to 
hold a shoot on Thanksgiving Day. Sweepstake events 
will be the main feature of the program. 
The Hamilton, Ont., Gun Club registered a tournament 
with the Interstate Association last week. The dates are 
Jan. 10-13. D. A. Wilson is the Secretary. 
r. 
The Ossining, N. Y., Gun Club announces an amateur 
prize shoot for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24. Competition 
will begin at 1:30 P. M. The main event is a 100-target 
handicap, for ten handsome prizes. Sweeps optional. 
Shells are obtainable on the grounds. 
Edward Heffner, of Pottsville, Pa., the baseball umpire, 
defeated Thomas Barry, of Buckleys, at Pottsville, on 
Nov. 12, in a contest at live birds for a purse of $200. 
Heffner scored 7 out of 8 to 4 out of 7 for Barry. The 
latter was victor in a match with Heffner a few days 
previously. A large crowd witnessed the contest. 
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A five-man team telegraph contest, between Lexington, 
Ky., and Columbus, O., on Nov. 12, was won by the 
former, by the total of 469 to 439. A gale of wind cut 
down the scores of the Columbus team materially. The 
last shoot for the Secretary-Ballistite trophy, which has 
been an object of competition for the Columbus shooters 
in some weeks past, will take place on Nov. 23. 
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The trapshooting contest between Yale and Princeton 
took place on Nov. 12, on the grounds of the latter. 
There were five men on a side, and each shot at 50 
targets. The totals were 191 to 182 in favor of Yale. 
High individual score, 43, was made by White, of Prince¬ 
ton. This was Princeton’s fourth team contest for the 
season, of which two were wins, one with Pennsylvania 
and one with Dartmouth. A large crowd witnessed 
the contest. 
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The Jersey City Gun Club’s opening shoot for the 
season of 1910-1911 is fixed to take place on Nov. 29, com¬ 
mencing at 10 o’clock. The program consists of ten 20- 
target events, $1.40 entrance, $2 added; Rose system, 
5, 3, 2 and 1, will govern the division of the moneys. The 
first 100 targets will constitute an optional sweep, $2 
entrance, high guns. The last 100 targets will be a 
handicap for a handsome hand-painted plaque. Take 
Plank Road trolley from Pennsylvania Railroad Ferry, 
Jersey City, or Broad and Market streets, Newark, direct 
to grounds, east of Hackensack River. 
