Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-03
MOTOR BOATS
TO COMPETE
PIG WATER EVENT PLANNED ON
WORTH LAKE
In Addition to Race, Big Pyrotechnic
Display Is Being Arranged to
Carry Out Venice
Idea
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epeciel to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.--The fourth an
nual motor boat carnival and races on
Lake Worth, Palm Beach, Fla, March
next promise to eclipse all previous
tournaments and displays given by the
Palm Beach Power Boat association, as
the entries for the races on Lake Worth
which are scheduled for the third week
in March will be greater in number and
superior in quality to those that particle
pated in the past three southern re-
gattas
In addition to the motor boat races the
officers and committee, which number
among them II. M. Flagler, w. X. Van
derbilt, jr., Fred Sterry, II. e. Bemis,
w. Gou.,. Brokaw, Capt. Hugh l.. Will
loughby, II. l.. Bowden and others, is
a sufficient guarantee that the fourth
annual Palm Beach carnival will be a
noteworthy event both from social and
aquatic standpoint.
10 round out the week the management
will carry the carnival of Venice idea,
in which Paine's fireworks is a great
feature, to higher plane of attractive
ness than even was the case last winter.
when beautiful Lake Worth was illum-
mated from one side to the other with
the most dazzling display of pyprotech.
MICS ever seen in the south. The decision
by the fireworks committee to increase
the display and illuminate the gardens
and grounds of the Royal Poinciana
meets with the approval of the general
committee that will have charge of the
weeks doings.
The fastest boats in the world will be
at Palm Beach and it is safe to say that
the existing records will receive shak-
ing up, as former Commodore Edward
]. Schroeder of the Motor Boat club of
America will enter the fast flying Dixie,
which defeated all comerS in the British
races last summer Commodore Schroe-
der is especially anxious to complete his
ownership of the splendid Sir Thomas
Dewar shield which the London baronet
and former member OF parliament pre-
sclted to the Palm Beach Power Boat
association and which must be won twice
by the same boat. AS Commodore
Schroeder won it last winter he will
make every effort to make his title clear
to the foreign trophy in March. Other
boats with great records will be seen in
competition against the Dixie and some
of them no doubt will give the latter q
hard battle
Alfred Reeves has been in Paris and
London recently informing owners of for
eign boats about the Palm Beach tourna-
ment and it is to be hoped that some
of the foreign crack boats will be seen
in competition against the American
built article this winter in Florida. Ne
gotlauOnS are III progress With lHe OWN
er of the automobile and motor boat
combination which recently was driven
up Broadway and took it's initial plunge
into the Hudson at Fort Washington
park, and it is quite possible that the
amphibious thing in motor craft will be
seen skimming through the Palm Beach
grounds and over the lake.
The program of events will be similar
to that which gave so great satisfaction
last January 20 to February l, when
races were scheduled meeting the ap-
proval of most motor boat owners, and
ranging from the smallest to the largest
and most powerful boat The entry
blank will be ready in about ten days
and can be obtained from Theodore d.
Wells, 80 Broadway, chairman of the
regatta committee, or from w. j. Nor
gan, Breton hall, Eighty-ffth street and
broadway, New York.