The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-04
BRED HEAD" IS A
 .CORKING CRUISER
Poperty of Miss Franklin. It Was De-
 signed and Built Here.
TRIAL TRIP YESTERDAY

At the builders trial trip yesterday
 afternoon the "Red Head," the new cruiser recently launched at the yards
 of the Bridgeport Motor Company showed herself to come up in every lAway to the specifications required by her purchaser, Irene Franklin, the 1 widely known vaudeville singer and
 whose song "Red Head' has been
 sung the world over. The trial was from the can buoy off the Bridgeport light house to the red spar marking 1.-the channel at Black Rock Harbor [ For the benefit of the party on board ] the trial was continued to the bar al ! the Bridgeport Yacht club, where the party of newspaper men who were to I see that Irene was getting the square | thing, were entertained by Secretary HI. H. Brautigan of the Bridgeport Motor Works.
 { The craft is something new in the
 motor boat line. The actress had 1 wanted for some time to acquire a comfortable cruising vessel and at her | fast appearance in this city, through her husband, Bert Greene, placed the order with the local builders. A [ price was set and the Motor Works l were to turn out the best they could i within the limits of expense agreed
 upon. Shortly afterwards Miss Frank lin, as she is known on the stage, went to Europe where she is now playing. I Word that the boat was completed i was sent her a fortnight ago and she ]. immediately wired for a complete set of photographs of the craft. They were sent on and she has expressed herself as perfectly satisfied with the loca! product. Through a mere chance the name of Bridgeport will be seen wherever the theatrical papers pub
 fish accounts of Miss Franklin as the
 pictures of the boat all have in the
 back ground the word Bridgeport
 from the sign in the Motor Works s yard.
 Red Head'' is 31 feet over all, ft. 6 inches beam and is of the modified trunk cabin variety. The hull is or cedar while the rest of the boat is oak Inside the cabin, which extends from the prow to within feet of the stern, are three rooms, a sleeping cabin with four regulation ports, and accomnlo- dations for three, a toilet, and the af- ter cabin in which is the cooking stove, ice chest pantry, and sink. This room is used at the same time for the dining room. Here also is the engine, a two cylinder, two cycle motor de- yeloping IA horsepower. The motor is controlled directly from the wheel. The engine at the trial yesterday ran with perfect ease, never skipping or pounding, and driving the cfaIt lO miles an hour.
 Control of the boat is with the reg ulation wheel stearing as all large ves- seIs do, in the opposite way to that which the boat turns On small sector the speed of the boat is con trolled and at the, right of the pilot is the clutch. The boat can easily be. manipulated by one man as was dem onstrated at the yacht club when one of the crew took it in and out among the anchored boats there, backing and starting at ease and bringing the ves- se1 to dock.
 The interior furnishings are in red and are artistically set off by the nat ural oak f1nishings. A gas plant has lighted Out in the cockpit under the canvas canopy are comfortable wick CT chairs The cockpit is provided with tight floor and is self bai1ing, littue scuppers allowing the water in