The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-12
LAKE BUYS NUTMEG
PARK AS AER0DROME
Former Pleasure Ground Will Also be Used
to Exploit Air Driven Motor Boat Run
ming In Shallow Water on
Film of Air

Park. 1t is one Of the finest and best
made racing tracks in the country,
with a large grandstand, with the
ground floor we'll furnished and weN
lighted for manufacturing.
There is two story barn 40 by
$50 feet, easily convertible into fac
tory use, nearly 100 out buildings suit
able or convertible into hangers for
housing aeroplanes or for other pur-
poses.
Being in easy access of a thickly
populated territory the property is
we'll adapted for general exhibition
purposes or a fair ground, for which
I have already been solicited.
The track being we'll banked on
the turns affords unusual speed for
autos wind wagons, motor cycles as
we'll as horse racing, etc. The
grounds are also ample for demon
strating aircraft to purchasers or for
the training of aviators, with inner
and outer courses for flying meets.
81 have adhered strictly to the
policy of waiting for practical re-
suits, through actual tests before
lie. After two years of extensive ex-
perimenting with my air and water
vehicles, 1 have concluded to first
commence the manufacture of the
motor boat for the coming season, for
q number of reasons. First because
gine for the particular and critical
requirements of an airship, in which
human life Is put at stake, when so
much depends upon the engine.
again from q practical CONNER
cial point I consider my motor boats
the most promising for immediate
success, as an enormous demand is
already waiting for even a good mo-
tor boat. 1 have produced in actual
performance the staunchest, 1ightest
draft, most economically driven and
fastest boat that ever foated, given
and power. I can make boats to run
over water from three inches in
depth. Thus the long sought shoal
water boat has come at last. 1t came
with a surprise even to me In the
first trial, and 1t has surprised and
enthused every beholder who has
Happened to catch me out in trials
81 also believe it is the coming
commercial necessity that will revo-
lutionize- marine travel. and traffic
throughout the world. Reducing time
to the minimum, saving millions of
dollars over the present requirements
in deepening of inlets, channels, har-
borS, canals and waterways, and in
the building Of deep docks, dry docks,
etc., I can reduce the first tonnage
cost and cut operating and running
l. ~
strongest and cheapest construction of
any boat ever made of wood or metal
ct am fitting up for the manufac-
ture of metal hulls as the question
of good quality wood in lengths has
become a serious one. The superior
fty of metal is well known but the
difficulty has been in forming and
holding metal in proper shapes and
the expense thus incurred. This I
can greatly curtail and simply. For
the present I shall manufacture the
smallest class of boats in which there
is an enormous and increasing trade,
here and ih foreign countries, where
ever there is sufficient water for boat
ing, with coming demand for light
er drafts boats than has heretofore
been available. Therefore with my
light draft boat I expect large busi-
ness end having ample facilities for
manufa cturing I shall enlarge the
plant from time to time.
Broadly speaking my boat is a
motor boat but it moves or glides
practically on air over the water and
I use air as a medium Of propul-
sion. I term it an 'aeroboat' Skim
ming over the water at a. phenomenal
speed in such a craft, I have found
from my own experiences, is a most
exhilarating and blood tingling pleas
ure, and an invigorating sport"