The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-04
RIVAL MOTOR BOATS
COMPETE FOR FAVOR
Little Cruisette, Elco rs Foot
Cruiser and Big Luders
Craft Popular.
CROFT PUTS IN BUSY DAY

just what the popular vote would be
on the craft at the Motor Boat Show in
Madison Square Garden is hard to de-
termine. Many favor the Crulsette be-
cause II Is dainty, pretty and petite.
Others who want larger boat would
vote for the Elco as foot cruiser.
Still others who believe in size with
plenty of room would take the Luders
boat. which Is a big cruising craft. and
so comfortably arranged that IT is al
most like a houseboat, but with all
the characteristics OF a yacht and rea-
sonable price.
T.. II. Croft the popular sales man
ager Of the Winton Company, made his
appearance at the show yesterday and
was busy talking business for the on
gine that last season was placed In the
majority OF the large yachts built In
this country The Winton engine is
attractive looking, artistically designed
and coated with white enamel. which
gives ii very pleasing appearance. 1t
also has shown that II Is reliable and
powerful. and--what is pleasing to the
owner of a cruising yacht-it Is abso-
lutely silent. These engines are made
in various sizes ranging from 200 horse
power down. Tiny copies of the bi5
motors are built for use In launches
These little engines are OF six cylinders
each and develop ~ horsepower. They
look almost small enough to be car
ried as "A charm on a watch chain.
The annual meeting OF the National
Association OF Engine and Boat Manu-
facturers will he held this morning in
the Engineering Societies Building, on
West Thirty-ninth street, and after the
meeting the members will have lunch
con together in the Engineers Club
John ]. Amory OF the Gas Engine and
Power Company is president of this as
sociation. Henry r. Sutphen OF the Elco
Company is vice president and James
Craig is the treasurer. There Is an
executive committee OF fifteen who elect
the officers. and five members OF II are
elected each year. Ten members OF the
association have been nominated for
these five positions, so that there will
be more or less of a contest at the meet
ing. Henry r. Sutphen OF the Elso
Company, c. A. Criqui of the Sterling
Company, p. c. Jones Of the S. NJ. Jones
Company and II. II. Brautigan OF the
Bridgeport Company have been renomi-
mated. The others placed in nomination
are A. F, Dohn OF the Buffalo Gasoline
Motor, T., A. Riotte OF the Standard
Motor Construction Company, f. e
Palmer OF Palmer Bros. w l.. Fay OF
Fay Bowen. e A. Robinson OF he
Regal Gasoline Engine Company and
Il. II, Croft of the Winton Company.
The Gas Engine and Power Company
OF Morris Heights has an exhibit OF
high class boats and the polish on some
OF them would rival the richest plano
found in New York One boat. named
SpeeJacks. has been built for Commo-
dore A. Y. Gowan OF the Cleveland
Yacht Club. II is so feet long and is
what the builders call a stag tour
about" 1t is really an open boat with
a standing roof placed over the steer
ing cockpit and the owners quarters.
This company is showing a new 25
footer called the Speedabout which will
make eighteen miles an hour. II is an
open boat designed for use on either
river lake or open water and costs
$1,000. The engine is In the forwa I'd
part OF the boat. n four cylinder Speed
way, then there is a thwart seat for the
helmsman and aft OF that is a roomy
cockpit. Another boat is the 1915 model
runabout. which will make nineteen
miles an hour and costs $4,000. This is
larger than the Speedabout, but built on
the same lines. The firm also is showing
gasolene engine OF entirely new design
that belongs TO the noiseless and olliess
class and is not OF the extra heavy
type. All the working parts are en-
tirely inclosed and not a drop OF oil can
get out Of the engine and find its way
into the bilges
Vincent Aston was a visitor at the
show yesterday and paid considerable
attention to the Baby Speed Demon H.
and the Cinderella. both OF which are
equipped with Sterling engines. Paul
Daniel the inventor of the Gnome en-
CINE. also was a visitor. He is building
In his shops at Red Bank powerful
motor or special design which Is to be
installed In the big schooner Sea Cali
which Lawley has built for Alexander
Smith Cochran.
Among others at the show were s. B.
Amory from Fond du lac. A. G. Cooper
OF the Riverside Yacht Club, r. d. Bar
rett. John c. Poyen OF the Atlantic Com
pany, Albert Eldredge, Scott j. Mat
thews, r, C, r. Binder John r. Belts,
Jr., of Philadelphia, A. Loring Swazey,
Frank Bovine Jones. Joe Van Blerck.
Henry Darnell of Atlantic City, Wilbur
II. Young Nicholas G. Rost, who has
found his Loew-Victor engines and is
now quite happy Theodore c. Wells,
Capt McClelland of the United States
Life Savers, Charles l.. Seabury, George
F. Lawley, c. g. King, Morris NJ Whit
taker, Fred King of the Lamb Company,
p V, Hoy. owner OF the Pee wee Ho
the boat that put Morrlstown on the
motor boating map l.. Templetown of
Morristown. Pa. Percy c. Jones, f. X
Lord and A, II. Luders.