Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-17
Good Effected by
Endurance Races.

of approaching
torpedo boat speed on the high seas. The
races from Philadelphia to Havana and
from New York to Bermuda have had
full list of entrants during recent sea-
sons. In the twelve-hundred-mie race
from Philadelphia to Havana this year
the power boat Berneyo, owned by S. W.
CRANBERRY, finished first, having made the
trip in six days. five hours and eighteen
minutes. Many wealthy power boat en-
thusiasts are having new vessels built.
and it is expected that the list OF 12.6''
owners in the United States will be ma
terialIy heightened before the opening OF
the 1911 season.
Power boating came into its own last
June at the hands of Congress. Here
tofore the owners have been handicap
ped by being required to conform to the
navigation laws applicable to larger steam
vessels, and this has tended to discour-
age many from owning this sort or craft.
Under the new law special provisions are
made for the navigation Of power boats.
and while the government has been care
full to safeguard the interests OF general
navigation, it has so exempted the power
boats from unnecessary restrictions that
they may be operated cheaper and more
satisfactorily. This law was enacted
through the work of the National Asso-
citation of Power Boat Owners. The AS
ISOLATION has a membership of some 80
clubs, scattered all over the United
States.
1t is said that the best speed ever at
tanned by a power boat was made by the
Ursula, a British vessel which has fig
ured in nearly all the big meetings of
the world. 1t made mile in I minute
and % seconds, a speed of nearly forty
three miles an hour. At such a rate not
only five-day boat would be a posi-
bilty in transatlantic travel. but the
three-day boat would be realized. with
no difficulty in docking at New L rh oh
the evening of arrival. Recently thirty
foot power boat was placed in commits
sion. having a speed of twenty miles an
hour. 1t was built for Robert Deming
of Cleveland. Ohio. 1t is by no means
mere racing shell, but is so broadly
built that two men may stand at either
rail without causing the vessel to heel
more than four inches. The United states
government finds much use for power
vessels for the quartermaster'S depart
ment of the United States Army.
The power boat has proved its unitarian
value in many lines of industry. In the
oyster and
Useful in Oyster fishing trades
and Fishing Trades. found narticu-
larry useful, while i'm some instances it
has served as a whaling vessel. The
Japanese have been quick to realize Its
value in carrying out their poaching en-
terprises, both in Alaskan waters and la
those surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.
The bulk of the pelagic sealing, which
threatens to eXterminate the Alaskan
seal. is conducted in power launches. the
seals being carried in them TO the larger
craft as they are killed.
Religious and humanitarian work also
has made use of the power boat in efforts
to uDlift mankind. On the Yukon river,
i'm Alaska. the power boat Helen Gould,
operated under the auspices of the army
department of the Young Mems Christian
Association, is perhaps the most heartily
welcomed vessel that puts into any town
along the $50 miles of navigable water
in that stream. 1t carries well selected
library. a full equipment of monographs
and records, a complete outfit for stereop-
ticon lectures on educational and moral
subjects, and is otherwise fitted out so as
to make II a floating crusader for upltft
in the dreary regions of Alaska.
ARMY ENCAMP-
MENT.