The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27
BIG EXCURSION BOAT
FOR THE PARK
GREAT GASOLINE MOTOR YES
Sell TO MAKE TRIPS ON
ST. MARY'S LAKE.

Whitefish, April 26.-(special.)-A
large excursion boat on St. Mary's
lake. in Glacier national park will be
doing business there his season. The
boat a built by a Seattle firm and
was shipped to the lake in knock
down form and mechanics will soon
be on he ground to put it together.
The new vessel is to be the. very lat
est word in boat-making. 1t is to be
electric lighted, elegantly upholstered
and the gasoline motors will have
power sufficient to drive it across the.
l4-mile lake in IS minutes. There will
be two cabins for passengers, both
below deck. The boat is to be SIS feet
long, Ia feet beam, will draw six feet
of water and will have a capacity of
100 passengers.
Captain Louis Meyer, who has seen
Is years of service IN ocean waters
and six years on inland waters and
carries a United States marine license,
will be in charge of the boat.
Besides this big boat there will be
two 30-foot gasoline launches and 20
rowboats on st. Mary's lake this sea-
son.
John Clark of Midvale, a graduate
of Carlisle and talented along different
lines in spite of the fact hat he is deaf
and dumb, was in this city yesteday,
exhibiting samples of his handiWork al
carving, in the shape of briar pipes.
The work is high class and finds a
ready market. Among his late crea-
tons is a model of the new hotel in
Glacier park, which, when it caught
the eye of Mr.. Noble, the Great North
ern general passenger agent, brought
the maker 5000 cash.
A northwest gale, blowing down
Whitefish lake Friday afternoon. start
ed a sheet of ice two miles long go
ing down the lake which completely
demolished the log boom for the
Somers Lumber company containing
10000 0 million feet of logs, n all
the lighthouses along the shore. Quick
work on the part of Superintendent
karoW in stringing a double boom
across the mouth of the Whitefian
river prevented the greater part of the
logs from running down stream. The
logs are nov scattered all along the
south shore, but they will not be very
hard to collect unless a wind comes
up from the south and blows them
to h other end of the lake.
The ToWnsite company has COM
menced work of clearing up several
streets in the five-acre tracts which
will enable the people of that part to
get better access to town.
A. L. Thompson, who has been the
clerk in the Great Northern store dur-
ing the past four years, left Tuesday
morning for Glasgow, where he has
been offered the W~ell-earned position
as storekeeper. After Mr.. Thompson
gets settled down over there he will
send for his family.
Master Mechanic Callahan has been
taking a week off and is at Superior,
Wis, packing up his household goods
and family for shipment to this city,
which he will make his home.
The new 5000 class engines are said
to be dandies and have become very
popular with the engineers because
they are not as clumsy as the Mallet
engines. They have great tractive
power and are able to handle a full
tonnage train without any trouble
whatever, and when they get the cars
rolling can mak almost passenger
time.
Machinist Oliver Phelps, who came
within an ace of loosing his life in a
railroad wreck a week ago, was able
to attend to his work at the round
house again last night. Mr.. Phelps
had been sent out on the road to make.
some repairs to an engine and when
1t was coming in to the r~oundhouse it
jumped the track, ditching several
cars which it was pulling. Phelps
was in one. of the cars and was buried
in the Wreckage, out in some miracu-
o manner received only a few
scratches and bruises.
Conductor A. e. Logan is back on
his run on the mail train again, after
sojourning for several months in
southern California.