The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28
new DU POINT BOAT
TO RACE WITH BEST
Fastest Motor Craft Are to
Have Speedy Rival to
Beat This Year.
APPEL Is THE DESIGNER

col. Coleman du pont viii To- active
in motor boat racing this year. AMI
with 4 new boat built from designs by
Adolph APPEL will race against the two
Blackton boats. Baby Speed Demon H.
and Baby Reliance V. the new Ankle
Deep ~ building for Count Man
kovski. Commodore James y rusn's
Disturber Ill. the new Peter Pan o.
James Simpson. "A new boat building
BY Chris Siniph and a few Others that
have not yet got beyond IN" talked
about stage. These. however. are sufii-
Gent TO make the season IN tho sp cd
boat class an active one. Col. du Font
iared the Tech j. three years ago,
which did some sensational work.
That WAS an APPEL boat. and the new
one Is expected to he much faster aud
much more reliable. 1t will he a by
druplane. entirely new, ON the APPEL
patent wave collecting type aai ID is
TO bs driven ny a 2IO horSe-powa " :
cylinder sterling motor with a PROPELLER
shaft geared to the engine. II is re-
ported that APPEL has guaranteed a
speed of ffty miles an hour and he is
to receiN a premium for every quarter
Of a mile by which the boat exceeds
that speed.
The ono design class Of the Motor
Eoat C1uh of America is growing. II
started with orders for three boats and
promises OF several more. and last week
two OF those U'ho had promised to build
placed definite orders with Morris VI
whitaker. Who has designed tho boats.
which are to cost 500? and to exceed
twenty miles an hour. These ooats arc
10 he driven by l~toew-Nictor motors.
1t is confidently expected that there
will he a dozen starters in the FRS
race. which probao bly, will be under the
auspices of the Columbia Yacht club,
as that club generally opens the motor
boat racing season.
The Chicago Motor Hod o
opened Yesterday u tn a fine lot Of eN-
hibitors from the East and the West
Among the Eastern men who have sent
boats or engines to- Chicago are the flco
Company, the Gas Engine and Powei
Company. the I.swley Corporation and
erc New London ship and Engine COM
pany. Among other exhibitors are the
Winton Company. the Locw-Ntctoi
COMPANY. the STERLING Company. tn,
Buffalo Company, the Van Blerct
Motor Company. tho Milwaukee lachj
aud Boat Company, the Matthews ON
pany and several other concerns vel
known In the West. Nick Rost of tn
Loew-Nictor Company put IN plenty q
hard work to make the Western mel
turn out for this exhibition, and Will
East for the New York snow he induce,
several of the big concerns from thii
section to send boats 20 Chicago.
\ guide to the Chicago show. pub
Esh.d last week. omitted the name o
the Lrew-Nictor Company. That con
corn. in addition 20 having tie usual linz
OF engines. mas on exhibition a Hsn'
N-bottom boat and the ~t.nchantress
which was shown IN New York by tn
Esington firm OF shipbuildcrs. At thu
New York SHOW there was some MI
friction between some ot the Westerl
advertisers and the publishers OF
trade journal. and as the Western me
withdrew their Advertising. the put
Fishers have retaliated and there is tall
of some lively times between the par
tics Interested.
\ broker who KEEPS tab oil the nun
Der of yachts building eaca seaso
said yesterday tina there are seventy
eight fair sized yachts now IN cours
OF construction in the shipyards an
IN addition to these there arr man
morc smaller craft. Among the sever
ty-eiglf are the auxiliary Sea Cal .fc
Alexander Smith Cochran. three steam
a-s nf l>0 feet length or large al
Ave auxiliaries Of about 40 feet Length
Tao Others are motor craft OF goo
dimensions ard which are 20 mat
comfortable cruising craft for this sun
mer's sport.
Albert r. E.ldredge, who has bee
Eastern sales manager Of the Whit
Company, has resigned hat positit
and has become manager of tho Jag
GIN Company of Taunton. Mas. VI
Eldredgr has had long experience
the motor boat industry. In 1886
began with the Gas E.ngin" 4 Pow
Company az Morris Heights. Sever
Years later he organized the Mite
Point ~Shipvard At Rye, and after SCI
ing that business he became Abe NJ
York representative of the Atlantic Cor
pany of Am"sbury, Mass. Later hc re
resented the Lamb Engln. Compal
and last year joined Tho Winton force
The lager engine was taken over