The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-18
MAMMOTH BOAT
 COMBINE FORMED
CAPITALIZATION S1O,OOO,OOO
Evidences Increased Popularity
 of Power Boating

The modern tendency in business to combine and Standardize has invaded the power boat and engine industry and there has recently been incor- porated in Maine the National Boat and Engine Company taking over concerns throughout the country rep aresenting about ninety per cent of the output of manufactured boats
 The broad scope of this new enter prise is shown by the representative concerns which have already become a part of the new company and by the men who are back of the new cor poration. A partial list of the com- panies absorbed follows:
 Racine Boat Manufacturing Com pany, Muskegon, Michigan.
 Truscott Boat Manufacturing Co1n- pany. St. Joseph, Michigan. Pope Boat Co. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
 Pierce Motor Boat Company, Ra- cine, Wisconsin.
 Shell Lake Boat Company, Shell Lake. Wisconsin.
 Western Boat and Engine Works, Michigan City. Indiana.
 West Mystic Manufacturing Com pany, West Mystic, Connecticut.
 Inland Lakes Boat Company, Lake Geneva. WiScOnSln.
 Conservatism and stability as we'll as experience in the management of the business is indicated by the fol- lowing list of officers and directors of the company, among the latter be- ing men of prominence and high standing in public life and in the field of finance.
 Waiter J. Reynolds President
 J. NJ. Truscott, Vice-President.
 John O. Ross, Secretary.
 Among the directors are the follow ing:
 Walter J. Reynolds, President, Ra- cine Boat Manufacturing Co.,, Mus kegon. Michigan.
 I. M. Truscott, President. Truscott Boat Manufacturing O., St. Joseph,
 Henry, $. Beardsley, President, Beardsley and Co.,. New York, N. Y.
 John 70. Ross. Governor, Michigan.
 c. R. Carpenter, Cashier. Commercial and Savings Bank, Racine, Wiscon-
 J.. H. Smith. Cashier. Lumberman's Bank. Shell Lake. Wisconsin.
 A M. Probst. Director of National
 Dr. Frank R. Warren Capitalist, Michigan City, Ind.
 Allen R. Thompson, Secretary and Treasurer, West Mystic Manufactcr- ing Co.,, West Mystic, Connecticut.
 P F. Pope. President, Pope Boat Works Fond du Lac. Wis.
 President Reynolds makes the fol- lowing statement:
 The National Boat and Engine Company is engaged fin four lines of nufacturing-pleasure craft of ev- cry description and of every type from canoes to the largest yachts: com mercial vessels, marine gas engines and steam engines and Government vessels
 Pleasure boating has reached a bass where it has now become a rec reation of the very best kind for men of moderate means, or, in other words for the great average public as we'll as for the man Of wealth This Tact mas very rapidly increased the scope and proportions of the pleasure boat industry.
 An immense investment of capital is represented in the plants and equipment. large and small. through out the country. The new phase of the pleasure boat industry, which has nut 1t upon such a broad manufac- :ng and business basis. has come about largely through the perfection of ma rine gas engines.
 When these were at first invented and put upon the market, they were like, al! other new things, crude and unreliable. But every month since gas engines were first built has shown q decided improvement. until they will soon be-. if they are not already so.