New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-26
RECORD CR0WD At SHOW
BOATS IN HIGH F4VOR.


The national motor boat show I'm Madison
Square Garden drew record breaking crowd
yesterday. The majority had come 10 buy to
all appearances, as all over the Garden blue
prints and designs of boats We're in use while
many sales were reported. The show closes
tonight at II o'clock, and great preparations
have been made to take care Of a large at
tendance 1t was clearly demonstrated yes
terday that the motors have an interest for the
average visitor apart from the boats, and much
can be learned by careful study Of the Nari-
Gus types
Several of the small two-cycle motors have
new devices for vaporizing. one in particular
has an arrangement in the bypass, which does
away with either carburetor or, vaporizer, AS
the entering gas falls directly upon the hot
cylinder walls it is possible to either alec
hoI or kerosene instead of the more common
fuel. gasolene. Another exhibitor has 2-horse-
power motor. with all the fixtures mounted
upon a base SO that it can be quickly removed
from the boat by simply christening the
coupling This outfit weighs about eighty
pounds. ana is especially useful for a canoe or
light skif.
one OF the best known makers Of the medium
weight medium speed type motor has this year
brought out heavy Iow-speed motor. designed
especially for commercial work. and is exhibit
ing q double cylinder 12-horsepower, which
should be able to stand hard service The repu-
tation Of the makers is so good that many Of
the new type have been sold without demonstra-
ton.
The bane of the motor boat user in shall
low rivers or lakes is the presence Of weeds,
which quickly clog up the propeller and ne
cessitate cleaning before any progress can be
made. one company In the south gallery is eN-
hibiting q propeller which Is SO designed as 90
throw off the weeds and make It possible 10 run
in waters heretofore only suitable for canoes.
This device has been thoroughly tried out and
the makers report enormous sales Of wheels.
as well as their regular types. OF which they
have several and which used by many ~
the engine makers as part OF their regular
equipment
as n recreation for winter afternoons and even
iugs, and company exhibiting in the western
end OF the Garden makes speciality OF SUP
plying patterns and such material as the anna
teUr builder may require. Some builders buy
the frames already bent SO fhat they only have
10 put them in place aut continue the work
from this point Other owners wish TO have tho
plauks all cut out IN shape ready 10 put on, and
the company supply these II desired. I'm
by the owner and also furnish a complete sys-
TEN Of instructions. The regular stock models
Of which they furnish the material and patterns.
are thoroughly up to dat" In every way, and
some OF their boats built 10y amateurs have
turned out well
Another company I'm the gallery is exhibiting
marine night signals, consisting OF flashes of
different coIors which might prove useful to
motor boat owner for signalling to the shore
I'm case Of accident. These signals have been
adopted by most OF the large steamship com
panies and are attracting a great deal of attcu-
tion from the motor boat fraternity.
Mechanical fabrication is being more extern
sively adopted many OF the larger marine
motors being fitted with this system. The
marine motor does not have as high rate of
revolution as it's brother I'm the automobile
but stll the problem Of lublcGtion H. a difficult
one, and the old hit-aud-m miss systems are grad
ually disappearing. Besides the mechanical lu-
bricatOrs shown upon the motors. several
makers of this device exhibiting in the gal
lery, and many sales TO individual owners have
been reported.
Traffic conditions in and around New York
Of some OF the exhibitors. and one company did
not get its exhibit into position until late on
Saturday afternoon. 1t shows one boat a lap
streak tender finished in natural wood and
equipped with a small two cycle motor
Considerable interest was aroused among ex-
hibitors yesterday by a local inventor. who Wis
TIED the Garden with a model designed to de-
monstrate new form Of propelle~. The iuven-
ton dccompshes the same result as that of
out mechanically 10 drive a boat Just the same
as a duck swims. A webbed foot is located
on either side Of the model, and is actuated nv
a crank mechanism operated a shaft across
the hull.
Among the sales reported yesterday was
4o-foot cruiser TO Whitney Lyon Of the I,arch-
mont Yacht Club. This boat has a low cabin
and roOmy, and the 32-horsepower motor with
which 1t is equipped is expected to give a speed
Of twelve miles hour