Evening star., 1907-08-26
MOTOR BOATS VIOLATE Law
CUSTOMS CRUISER MAKES RAID
ON KILL Won KULL.
Finds Many Small Craft Improperly
Equipped, But Lets Offenders
Go With Warnings.

NEW YORK. August 1.-The customs
cruiser Dalzeiline abandoned yesterday the
pursuit OF deep-sea law violators and the
whale fishery and went sleuthns In the
shadows of the XIII Won Kuli. which helps
to make the borough OF Richmond an
island.
The Kill Won Kuil Is a strait through
which all Newark and e large part of upper
New Jersey owning floating things steam.
gasoline or sail to get into the open.
Hundreds of power boats weave their
frothy autographs, with double and single
propelers. from Elizabethport. Newark.
Railway, Bayonne and smaller towns on
tributaries of the XIII Won Ku.l and New
ark bay into the upper bay and thencs
through the Narrows to the fishing grounds
o. the show places on the ocean side of this
city.
Gen. James s. Clarkson. surveyor of
the port; Vice Admiral Matt Coneys and
other talent of the Cruising service. sitting
as board of strategy, decided last week
Mailing from New Jersey ports Vice
Amiral Coneys advocated the simple plan
OF blockading the Kill Won Kull in tho
neighborhood of Port Richmond, opposite
Bayonne.
SixtyThree Held Up.
The result was that sixty-three motor
boats were held up. Nearly 90 per cent
VI tHeSc were not equipped, NOT
equipped at all, or were without dicenses.
Some tried to run the blockade. refusing
to heed the warning blasts of the cruiser
to stop. Most of these were overhauled
and lectured. few got away.
AT one time five boats. summoned by
, whistle and megaphone. were alongside
the DalZeliine, and the protests, eNplana-
tions and remarks. sometimes inspired by
something drawn from the wood. of the
shippers. crews and passengers tangled the
log of Acting Deputy Surveyor Smythe.
who did the literary work of the expedi-
ton, assisted by Col. Lowell Jerome.
Every boat that halted got copy of the
laws and regulations in regard TO power
craft, which some OF the shippers had heard
Of and none had ever read. The substance
Of Admiral Clarkson's talk to the power
boat folk was. Now. as you know the law.
see that you do not violate it,
The experts on the cruiser never had sup
posed that the XIII Won Kull was crowd
ed a gateway to the bay and sea and that
so many Jersey fishing and nautical asso-
Citations were in existance as they ran
across yesterday. Vice Admiral Coneys
said there doubtless was lot OF money In
motor boat manufacturing. Judging from
the fleet he held up and that which he saw
in the distance.
The Galena. a twenty foot power boat Of
Bath Beach. which had been cruising In
Jersey waters didn't have single life pre-
server aboard. She carried seventeen per-
sons. Her owner was told. although he de-
friends and had paid nothing for the trip.
that he must get life preservers.
No Names Shown.
Some Of the boats boarded had no names
and others had the names painted IN tho
same color as that of the boat 50 they were
undecipherable except close by
The Lizzie b. of Elizabethport, n. j. had
no lights. no life preservers ana no license
and her skipper WAS deaf and dumb. HIS
mate promised to report at the custom
house and do anything that might be re-
quired of him. Towing any one of the mo-
tor craft to New York was out of the ques-
tion. as in the absence of the cruiser scores
would have gotten away. All that could be
done to the Lizzie b was TO give her ad-
vice and a copy of the regulations.
The Bay Side of Bayonne grounded in her
effort to elude the cruiser. Her skipper wal
somewhat incoherent. In response to the
question How long is your 1oat?' he said,
Five feet eight inches He thought Vice
Admiral Coneys was talking about height.
A boat called The YaD of Railway fulfilled
the regulations: also she had aboard "A beyy
of handsome young women who persuaded
Col. Jerome and Vice Admiral Coneys TO
pose for their photographs.
Thomas c. Perkins of Port Richmond had
a brand-new swift boat without name.
He said he didn't know anything about the
law in regard to motor boats, but was WILL
ling to do whatever was right He had Sc
lccteu name ana "oulu nave IL pa'iteu az
over the boat II necessary. II was that or
his best girl. Anna Maria. He declined,
although urged to do so. TO tell her sur
name
The Caprice OF this city was naughty.
She is owned by Frank i. Collyer. Her
skipper kept right on and on when the
Dalzelline footed. After a chase Of two
miles the CAPRICE was overhauled. She said
she was not "a passenger craft, but she had
no name on her stern and no life prhserv-
ers. although there were six persons aboard
her.