Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04
MOTOR BOAT FOLK
GET INF FORMATION
Experts at Garden Show Are
Kept Busy Telling Visitors
About Exhibits.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Visitors TO
| the Motor Boat Show now running
at Madison Square Garden gather q
whole lot of information regarding
modern power boating. In charge
Of the various booths at this exhibit
ton are. gathered leading experts in
the motor boat and engine industry
and the opportunity to meet and to
talk with them Is q decided privilege.
It is to the motor boat lovers
advantage to be given the opportu-
nifty of inspecting all the different
types of boats and appliances for
motor boats under one roof where
| he can study their relative merits
In a way that is impossible under
the usual buying plan. By visiting
ious motor boats, engines and access
sories, side by side.
Among the interested visitors yes
terday afternoon was Mrs. Elaine
Hale-Phillips, of New York, the we'll
known amateur distance swimmer.
Mrs. Hale-Phillips came especially to
see Commodore c. E. Gaynor. who is
| in charge of the city department of
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| ing Corps, give demonstrations of the
saving corps method of resuscitation.
| She is an ardent motorboat enthu-
| siast and spends her summers at
Belmar, n. j., swimming and motor
| boating.
! Another interested visitor was Miss
| Blanche Walsh, the popular vaude-
vile star, who is playing this week
! at the Palace Theatre. During the
summer Miss Walsh spends consider
| able time cruising in her twenty-six-
! foot Eco runabout.
At the space of George Lawley &
Son, Corp, of Neponset, Mass, a
thirty-flve-foot runabout Is attract
ing many. The huh of this boat is
of the plumb-stem type with an easy
entrance having extreme fiaie to the
forward section while the stern has
slight roll home. 1t is OF the
double-plank construction, inside
planking being of cedar and the out
side finished with mahogany. The
power equipment is located just for
ward of helmsman's cockpit and con-
sists of a x-cylinder 60-horsepower
Loew- Victor motor, equipped with a
Leece- Neville electric starter and
dynamo and together with the stor-
age battery furnish electricity for the
electric lights in engine room and
the running lights. The fittings of
the launch are in keeping with the
looks of the hull and consists Of a
mohair top with side curtains and
comfortable wicker chairs with leath-
err cushions The speed Of the boat
is said to be twenty-one miles per
hour.
A rather unusual fifty-foot day
cruiser, combining high speed, with
unusual comfort, built by the Luders
Marine Construction Company, Of
Stamford. Conn, for Thomas F.
Chesebrough, of Northport, owner of
the well-known racer, "Res+less," is
on exhibition and is creating much
attention by visitors to the Luders
Company's space This is the third
boat of practically the same type
that has heen purchased by the
Chesebrough family from the Luders
concern during the past year.
The program for tomorrow's lee
lures is as follows: At 8 p. m. Mr.. c..
F. Chapman will lecture on Differ
ent Types OF Motorboats." At $3.50 in
the evening Mr.. A. C. Graw will de-
liver a lecture on "a Trip Around
Long Island In a Motorboat," and at
D. m. Mr.. L. F. Hooper. of the New
London Shipbuilding and Engineering
Company. will give a lecture pertain
ing to Fuel Costs"