The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-15
BOAT SNOW

on this side of the line. with from fifty
 70 hundred craft sent by motor boat | clubs of New York City.
 Motor boats attaining these high
 speeds, however. are not Of the most useful type; the craft of eisi1f to fen
 miles an hour speed Ia the more eco- nomical and none faster seems yet to
 pc sought by those who aim to use
 them as medium of commerce.. These craft dot every lake and river and hay of the United States: they carry a
 very large part Of the burden of the
 lighter commercial world acting as messenger boats. pleasure launches and tenders for larger vessels. In some places they serve as light tugs for tow Ing. They cost from s1s0 to ss0 900 The popularizing of the motor boat came about exactly as did that of the bicycle and the automobile. Men of wealth encouraged the building of such craft at a cost far beyond the reach of persons of ordinary means, They bought the expensive products of the earlier stages of development of the industry, enabling the builders to ex- pertinent with new ideas and mafntain- ing the industry until its output could pc brought to lower level of cost. The Vanderbilt family are among the leaders in motor boat sport. George Gould has had several high speed craft puiit. Nowadays practically every wealthy man in the country maintains at some place one or more motor boats Tor suniner use either on Long Island sound or the St. Lawrence River or on the Great Lakes.
 To mention the motor boat clubs of the country would be to catalogue practically every ocean and Great Lakes port, as we'll ap every stream of any considerable size from the Gulf of Mexico to Portland, Me; from San Diego Cal, to Puget Sound: from Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River westward to Duluth, Afinn., with score or more between St. Paul and New Orleans.
 The Daimler gasoline motor installed in a small boat led the way to the ir- wention of motor boats. It was dia- played in 1889 at the Paris Exposition. Then the naptha launch quickly came Into common use. The cheapening of gasoline made possible the development or the motor boat. Smaller steam craft had been too expensive for ordinary use. The wealthy class in ali countries had maintained private yachts, but it was only after the price of gasoline had been reduced to less than twenty cents q gallon, for common use, and the heavy demand came for cheaper gaso- means could afford to acquire and maintain the small craft. now number Ing thousands the country over
 The conquest of the gasoline engine has not been along the smaller type of power boat, for the census figures show that of the s,s27 vessels, of over fiva tons burden registered in this country, s.i5s or SIS per cent are propelled by gasoline. Motor boat devotees are looking forward, as are automobiiists. to the time when denatured alcohol shall have become q staple motive fuel, when 1t is estimated that the expense of propelling the craft will be reduced very considerably.
 The newest idea in pleasure motor boats, is the utilization of the turbine engine, the engine which has enabled the trans-Atlantics 'linerh' to establish their record for across the-ocean runs at a speed approximating twentyplve statutory miles an hour, and doing away with the vibration hitherto al- ways produced by the revolutions of the piston-driven engines.
 Slowly but surely the motor boat idea seems to be encroaching on the sailing yacht for pieasuring. Perhaps the only yacht club in the country which main tains unchanged the sailing fleet of pleasure craft is the New York Yacht Club. Its persistency has been largely the result of the terms imposed on its custodianship of the international cup, to capture which Sir Thomas T1nt0n, of Dublin. has made several gallant trials. wherever watch clubs are maintained, there may be found the auxiliary craft the combination sail and power boat, with full complement of sail rigging, and gasoline enSiie ready at hand for use in calns.
 The time is not yet when yachtsmen will willingly dispense with sail and turn to the gasoline engine. The hurrv- ing life of the average man of wealth, hitherto devotee of the sail yacht. has forced him to adopt the auxiliary type of craft in order that he may be able. if necessary, to furl his sails and "cranlx up his engine'' for speedy run- ming to port when wind fails and bus Iness calls.
 (copyright, 1909. by Frederic, T.,
 Haskin.)
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