The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-31
IN A MOTORBOAT
~ JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ.

Mr. George horpe inventor and mechanical engineer
lived In the city, but part OF each summer was
Mr.. Thorpe young man with hobbies All in
motorboat that would run thirty miles hour. He
couldn't satisfactorily Explain to anybody why such
burden OF anxiety should be placed on the on
q motorboat but he built and equipped until sure ne
had struck II at last.
AS the speed of horse is in his legs speed of
any OF boat Is in the machinery which propels it.
The last and newest boat only had the latest inn
provenents but the starting and stopping gear
used for the first time any body of water
The boat was tried out on the bay. fash of light
ming could overtake her. but had to hike right along to
it. Eureka" was general verdict the residents
and transients Of Shutdown The fear of Japanese
fleet reaching that placid bay rolled off their shoulders
and they slept
On a certain July day. after the stingaree made
Of her wonderful runs ne was brought the
dock and made fast. while her went about some
other business Some might climb aboard for in
specton but the newly invented would not start for
them.
On that afternoon Miss Dorothy Benson and
Miss Mollie White left the summer motel for
The young ladies wandered down the shore. 1t was
incidental and not premeditated. Fate always works
that way. The motorboat couldn't get away and after
while the wanderers stood looking down upon her and
softly exclaming
Mollte, did you ever!'
isn't it a darling"
1T surely u.s."
It's That new boat they talking much about
and I'm going aboard a look She have
been left here for people to look at.
In another minute both girls were aboard and rum
masng about. Their praise was OF the highest but
after they had Gained down bit Miss Dorothy said
Mollie, last year at Lake Placid ran motorboat all
p s myself "a dozen zen times and know can run this
get opposite the hotel will handkerchiefs
and d. eooee We viii be the herones of the hour
Gracious. but for me-" the reply. Mother
would go into fits at the idea of it,"
Il didn't know you were coward"
Come on ashore. The may back any
minute!"
III he does will introduce you as The Afraid
oil me alter Go on. then I'm going to have ride.
And then Miss Dorothy began hunting about for the
starting switch Her finding it blunder blum
defs nave brought about some of the happiest mar
riages The Stingaree had been berthed her 10Y
sose the fasts were cast off, there three
from the girl left behind, and that motorboat
out TO ny The helm had been left dashed port 1t
was We'll me young lady who had run boat on Lake
Placid was helpless this occasion She yelled
police and fire departments. but there gallant
response. The circus performance had opened
With the helm dashed as II was, the boat began to
move in a wide circle The circle took in the hotel
number Of sail and row boats and several craft which
were after oysters and clans The bareheaded Miss
Dorothy was generally mistaken for bareheaded In
ventor and mechanical engineer 1t was only when she
began to scream that folks and looked And they
she followed All oar OF a row boat and
upset the rover in hannes; she smashed the bow of
clammer and left the owner mutterng by thunder"
She down and upset the eide A-Wee' sail boat
just its occupant making love to its other
pant and cupid had To turn his attention to swimming
and yelling
Lake Placid wasn't in it. but Miss Dorothy was and
she could Of it. She yelled; she her
hands; she entreaed She looked for the switch to
shut of the power but 1t could not be found
Look out Look out. She's running away"
Two motorboats tried to overhaul the Stingaree. but
it the OF the hare and the turtle Boats cut
and shouted in stenorian Miss Dorothy
to put her helm sta br d-to put 1t to porto p it
old but she only wept the more one captain
more venturesome than the rest trned to board her
craft in the good old pratca she came along,
but fell short by two feet and to the bottom of the
bay and didn't up again until time pay
BY the time the flyer had made three grand circles
No drowned for good but lots OF folks gasping for
breath and praying or swearing The excitement had
spread for mile inland Rates the hotel not
raised but mine host stood his veranda and pointed
long the bay and exclaimed:
hara nh pher ladip and Won
find scenery TO compare with this at my prces!H
Then MIR. Frank Thorpe arrived He had come back
from dinner give the Stingaree another spin. He
found her spinning, it was, There was no need 10
took command of boat. out alone the salty
blue ard placed his craft in position to be down
planks shIvered and he Ieaped for
motorboat and caught It, His first act to don his
cap to the fearful crew and next to the
power
|. ing the arrival
| "You see, you don't know how the stin-'
"You did it on purpose, You had no right to leave it
there"
but didn't tell you o take her out"
But you might have known that if girls came
across boat they would want to take ride.
But where is the other?'
'She a coward and didn't dare come"
Il see Well there's no harm done,
seadied her trembling lip TITS nothing to be made a
circus Of is it, Five hundred people have been looking
And hvs hundred people win call YOU a heroine"
true gentleman would leave b-boat where girl
girl
Such little things always be arranged This was
arranged. Herones get mad but they 1t
like other people They also go riding in moorboats
with the builder and captain the helm. They also
acknowledge acts OF gallantry and after while that
Lake Placid and Shutdown Bay are two different
propositions.
\ Chance For MIR. Taft.
1t Ia notorious that the Republican party of the
Solid South is composed OF Federal otceholders and
their handful Of adherents; that they manage the
party by offices and for offices: that they try
win elections win converts, but that victory
for tho Republican party in the Southern States
would be fatal to their plans and the last thing they
wish. In that condition II Is not remarkable that
OF the South Is in the Democratic party and
that the young men OF the South show tendency
to join party Of political hangers-on which
not want them. II any doubts that have cor
rectly stated the conditions OF Southern Repub-
licanim let him talk with intelligent Southerners
recall the steam-roer machine OF Mr.. Hitchcock
or better yet let him read the record of Repnb
lcan State Convention in the Solid South the last
fve years and how many Of the delegates hold