The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-12
THE MOTOR BOAT SHOW
Largest Variety of Power Craft Ever Exhibited Will Be Seen Next Week.

Exhibited Will Be Seen Next Week. The possibilities of the motor boat
 for pleasure, sport, and business will
 be illustrated at the coming motor
 boat show in Madison Square Garden
 as has never before been demonstrated 1 in this country The show, which will be national exhibit in every sense 1 of the word, will open on Monday ev-
 ening, February 15, and will remain ] open with the exception of Sunday un- til Tuesday, February 23, under the 1 auspices of the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers. | Particular atter4tion has been paid 1 toward developing types of comfort 1 able family boats capa ble of with | standing considerable rough weather
 and wl2ich may be bought at a price that a few years ago was scarcely dreamed of. These boats will range from $25O up. the cheapest ones being
 of the open type, with small engines, while the more expensive ones will be luXuriOusly equipped cruising boats,
 lighted, and heated if necessary, by electricity, and in some cases fitted
 with electric cooking appliances. One of the interesting boats will be new 25-foot electric launch so simple to
 operate that women can easily man.
 age it.
 The dory type of motor equipped
 boat has grown enormously in popular
 ity recently, and some particularly sea- worthy boats of this class will be seen. The Atlantic Company, of Amesbury, Mass, will show 25-foot dory of 1-2 feet beam, fitted with an eight horse power motor, which will Stand 8 large amount of rough weather, and the TOppan Boat Manufacturing Company will send some 1S-foot dories equipped with two horsepower reversible motors, ar made with a saltwater equipment. The latter concern will bring out for the first time a new 18-foot dory, the motor having two cylinders weighing but 800 pounds, and guaranteed to drive a 20-foot boat at a speed of nine teen miles an hour.
 For more luxurious craft the Elco Works of Bayonne, the Gas Engine and Power Company, and Charles L. Sea- bury Company, of Morris Heights, the American and British Manufacturing Company of Bridgeport; the Racine Boat Company, and the Mullins Com pany. in addition to others, will be rep resented with the handsonest lot of boats ever turned out. Two 45-foot 1 boats, one @ seagoing runabout and the l other @ raised deck cruiser, will be the | most conspicuous in the Gas Engine 1 and Power Conlpany'S exhibit. Two | handsome yacht tenders, one of 25 feet and the other IS feet, will also be 1 shown.
 The Electric Launch Company, of Bayonne, builders of the Elco electric i and gasoline boats, will show a 48-foot l cruising boat of the Elco de Luxe pat tern. equipped with a 60-horsepower Standard engine. The cabin is finished in African mahogany and a dynamo driven by the main engine supplies light for illumination and cooking.
 Among the racing boat exhibits will be the Vim and the Den, a new crea- tion last year, both being built at Bridgeport by the American and Brit ish Manufacturing Company. Vim is owned by George F. Baker, Jr., while J. H. Hoadley, commodore of the Mo- tor Boat Club of America, owns the Den.
 The exhibits of motors will not only be complete but surprisingly interest ing Like the finished boats, they will be seen in all types and at all prices.