New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-06

her in making researches in the sand and shell
mounds of the Florida coast and rivers
Forty, fifty, sixty or sevcnty-hve thousand dol-
lars is not an exorbitant price for houseboat-
But there is Just as much comfort board many
a boat around New-YOrk that did not cost as
many hundreds.
One New-York woman got a boat built for $3.50,
and annually, as soon as the warm days arrive.
she migrates TO il from her uptown apartment
with great delight The beauty of the summer
cottage on a boat is that the original outlay is
the only one except for current expenses. There
is no way TO get ground rent out Of the owner.
THE PICTURESQUE SIDE
Plenty Of comfortable households have been made
ny building house on an old scOw or canal boat
Such a one fully furnished for housekeeping, was
offered for sale recently for 800 These boats have
of course no motive power. They towed from
place to another. and then lay up In some
quiet harbor. w. A Powers. boiler inspector OF
the Borough of Brooklyn. spends every summer in
such a boat with his family. The boat is anchored
and there wherever the fancy of tho residents
dictates, but always at some point whence MI
Powers gain quick access TO Brooklyn.
NJ. Hubble, authority on boats, said to
Tribune reporter yesterday: For a summer resi-
dence on houseboat without motive power the
first essential is to find anchorage where the
boat will not be swept away. after the fashion OF
the sad tragedy in 'Rudder Grange. a man nat
urally to ind mis- family where he left them
in ne morning when he gets home at night There
is no good anchorage in New-York Bay, because
the traffic is heavy there. The biggest BOATS
of course, are generally ro@Ed about Newporf eur
SON Oyster Bay. and an along the sound smaller
boats are anchored all summer. There are many
along the Shrewsbury also; and a feW up me haI
lem River. Great South Bay and other Long Isl
and BAYS have their share and. in short YOU will
find them wherever the water is not too deep or
the swell heavy enough To carry them away
There are some very fne boats among the Thou
sand Islands every summer. and lots OF ST Louis
business men who can't leave home for any length
es of their town by living IN a comfortable house
boat anchored little way out IN the MISSISSIPPI
The annual aquatic festival al HenIey-on-
Thames has made The world familiar with me
English hOuseboat- The colony of houseboats
there with their bright awnings and roof gardens
the gay dresses of the fashionable women who who
lected around them have furnished abundant
themes for pen pen6 ara os4e 1 a6a pt wif5
houses built on them. They lie Waterlogged, only
moved by polling or t0wboat TINS doesn sur a!
able to move about But between the scow and
the floating palace Which only plutoGT9 t enn
extension il the use of the small motor house
spend the summer much more pleasantly than they
do now. The summer houseboat Is vast i'm
grade. because II can command Infinite change and
r, W Beardsley who is an enthusiast over
houseboating is of the same opinion
RUNNING A HCUsEBOAT.
THE man of the house can take care Of the
ordinary cheap houseboat. with assistant,
said he ION most Of the medium sized boats there
is one man employed a young fellow. usually
colored of some mechanical ability. who combines
the duties of engineer and cook. 1t takes two peO
pIe to run a motive power boat but any woman
who can Iearu TO run an autonopl!e can IeaIn 10
run a gasoiene engine on a houseboat. In France
they have invention not Yet introduced in this
country which the French use as motive power In
their households and launches. 1t Is a sort OF
IKE long tin cans. 1t Is perfectly easy manipu
late, and absolutely safe IEere are plenty OF peo-