New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-18
INTEREST In BOATING
MANY SALES At SHOW
Self-Starting DeUice NoUet Feat
are of Exhibition.

enjoy their vacations and spare hours the water
next summer judging from the attendance ana tne
amount Of business transacted AT the MoCO[ 0oa'
Show in Madison Square Garden yesterday II was
the third day Of the exhibition, but the crowd was
quite as big both afternoon and evening as on inc
previous days The big amphitheatre. tsstefuhy
decorated with bunting and the flags OF all ma
lions, looked like huge shipyaro, Win lh5 O"0'0
all ready for launching.
Prince Seyed son Of the Sultan OF Arabia pur-
chased through agent yesterday 2o-1oot speeo
launch, equipped with B-horsepowerr three-cyHn-
der engine. 1t will be shipped TO Rangoon. India
within the next ten days. the prince INTENDS 10
enter IT In the races there this season He was
attracted to boat of the same type at the Bombay
regatta last year.
Another order was placed yesterday for fifty open
launches sixteen feet long, to be sent at once 10
Brazil and the Argentine Republic zo-iooC
steel launch similar to the one purchased oy tho
Arabian prince will DO sent this month to Cephas
Whitney, an American resident OF Georgetown
British Guiana Mr.. whitney purchased AZ 'he
show yesterday 12-horsepCwer, thTee-cyIfnoer nlo
tor which will be fitted in the boat, and IL Is MS
intention to interest the government OF Briush
Guiana in eQuipping its revenue and customs O'd''
with motors.
Additional interest was centred In the luxurious
ss-foot electric launch shown by the Elco WORKS
from the fact that ten of these boats were puE-
chased by a representative Of the Alaska iuAOh
Exposition be held at Seattle. opening june L
These boats viii 1fty-fve miles without re-
charging and carry thirty-1ve passengers Inc
launches will be used for pleasure service on Lake
Washington during the exposition.
Miller Freeman Of Seattle. visitor at the sho"
said ths. the motor boat industry has developed
nlarveously on the Pacific Coast during the lasI
three years. This has been particularly marked IN
commercial lines. Moro than forty thousand nSi-
ermeu are engaged in the salmon hsherleS' ana II
Is now unusual 70 find fishing boat thsI Is ho|
eoupped with a motor. Nr. Freeman says that IN
terest in pleasure motor boats Is Just beginning
and he predicts that a large number VIII De seen
this GUNNER in Seattle and adjacent places
A self-starting device which is adaptable Tor au-
tonnobile engines as well marine motors Is one
of the most interesting and novel features OF
the show as it does away with the abor4ous cralk-
ing. This starter may be applied 70 any explosive
uulti-cylinder motor without neoessitatins any
changes in the regular valves or valve system
neither are any extra cams cam shafts neceS-
sary. It not interfere with the regular cyclo
OF operation which takes place in gasolene en-
gine The weight OF the starter is less than thirty
pounds competa. is made in three partisan
explosion reducing valve. storage tank similar to
a whistlng outfit, and system Of magnetically
controlled valves for distributing the stored press
ure 20 the proper cylinders at the proper time The
storage tank is quickly pumped up. by the force OF
the explosion In the cylinder. to pressure Of l5O
200 pounds. It has screwed-down valves which
special soft seat washers. and will hold the
pressure indefinitely when closed The company
claims to tested storage tank closed IN this
way and says that II has held pressure for months
q time. The tank is tested to 800 pounds a
square inch. and Is perfectly safe. 1t Is small in
sze the design of the starter is such that large
air volumes and large pressure are not required
The reducing valve is similar to the valves used
whistle outfits. It ceases to act when the press
ure In the tank reaches 200 pounds. and is provided
with fanges for cooling tho stored gas.
The feature OF the device is the electric control
Of the distributing valves. These valves sit
uated on g tube connecting with the air tank,
ming the heads of the cylinders. Hand op-
Grated shut-ofr valves. all connected TO rod
mechanism entirely out of operation when not re-
CURED
Each valve acrIatsd by ordinary electro
magnetic. The current operating is procured
from the ordinary ignition source but 1t must be
direct >current. 4 direct wound dynamo or mag
neto may be used. well dry cells storage
battery. The contact for the current is made in
the ordinary timer. and it is made for each valve
at exactly instant when the explosion pressure
would take place in the cylinder which that
valve is attached The storage tank pressure Is
thus admitted TO the cylinder and takes the place
Of the explosion of gas It is exhausted through
the regular exhaust valves in the regular way. 1t
does not interfere with the gas cycle in any par
ticular. In each magnetic valve there is auto
matte compression release which acts only when
the starter Is in operation and releases the COM
preston stroke only.
The starter can therefore be run when the stor-
age tank is at low pressure. is necessary
force the pstons up against full compression
pressure. One lever controls a switch. which
valves into operation and also opens communion
ton between the pressure tank and each of the
magnetic valves If the time is at a point of con
tact for any cylinder the motor will start the in
slant this lever is pulled over. If is not at a
point of contact all that needed is TO shift the
ordinary timing lever until such point OF contact is
reached. The stored pressure will then admitted
to the proper cylinder. After a few turns under
the tank pressure The motor will begin to pick I'D
its under gssolene. and the starter circuit can
be out or operation
Mayor Brand Whitlock. OF Toledo popularity
known the boy Mayor" was a visitor at the
show yesterday. in company with ]. ]. Mooney
president. of the Board of Public Safety OF Toledo
Mayor Whitlock and Mr.. Mooney are members OF
the Toledo Yacht Club, and they made a careful
inspection of the boats exhibition as It is their
intention to purchase semi-speed launches for use
this
Lincoln Beachey, the well known aeronaut. Of
Toledo, another visitor He has Just returned
from Mexico, where he made 8 number of flights
in his airshp In Mexico City and other places.
MI Beachey made a careful inspection of the
motors. he intends to purchase the best light
motor for aeronautic work that he find,
IN the big dirigible which he intends to enter in
the New York TO Albany contest during the FIud-
son-Fuon centennial celebration in this city next
September
Among other visitors Hiram Percy Maxim
the inventor Of the noiseless gun: Charles F. Muir
G. converse Colonel Littel, OF Governors Island.
and E T. Birdsan.
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