The sun., 1916-01-31
MOTOR BOAT MEN
BEGIN REAL WORK
Face Busy Week at Palace
ShOw-Optimism Prevails
Among Exhibitors:

This IL Gravesend day and South
Shore day at the Motor BOAT Show in
the Grand Central Palace and the flags
of the many clubs which have head
quarters on Grayefend Bay or on the
South Shore of Long Island will be dis
played at the entrance to the show hall
and members of those clubs will attend
the show.
The exhibitors will settle down 20
business to-day. The opening day always
Is spent in greetings and putting the
finishing touches to the exhibits which
are late in reaching the show building.
The attendance on Saturday was large
and among those who attended were
many prominent yachtsmen and business
men from all parts of the country. The
general feeling in the motor boa, indus
/ try is that a big boom has started and
that from now on all the plants will be
worked TO their fullest capacity to keep
up with the orders for boats and motors
Capt. Thomas Fleming Day, who
sailed across the Atlantic first IN the 81
foot yawl Sea Bird and later crossed TO
/ -. Petersburg in the 81 foot motor boat
Detroit will lecture this evening on deep
sea motor boating and will tell of some
/ OF his experiences
+ Manufacturers are ,levotlng much at
tention to the Standardization OF the
trade and many believe that until some
radical changes are made in present
methods the marine engine business will
not assume the proportions 1t should
y. q. kost, the vice pres ident of the
I,oew-Nictor Company of New York has
made a careful study OF conditions and
has expressed his views plainly In an
article which he has written for THE
SrS. II" tells why motors are high
priced, why manufacturers ar not
making the profits they should AMI tells
how thugs may be improved for all.
Mr., Rost writes
"ilcr. aud there a. the Palace a heau-
tful hull - exhibited, priced and offered
for sale without its power plant and in
almost every - cii case the price seems
remarkably reasonable. Across the aisle
IL AN exhibit OF sturdy. powerful marine
motors which YOU Immediately decide are
a very necessary factor in the equipment
uf a motor boat, but probably not any
very great factor in IL selling price.
However. after chatting FOR a few mo-
in"utS with the glib toncued orator who
IL IN charge OF tn. exhibit YOU learn how
horr .hly mistaken You were and what a
sho'k!uE.y great percentage OF the total
cost oi your pleasure boat IL in that
little busch of metal
"If YOU are a manufacturer accus-
toned 10 figuring costs "f raw material,
labor. overhead, insurance depreciation
the AVERAGE huyc,, Won Will probably
close your eyes and attempt 10 mentally
ngure tho reason for tic high cost.
Your drst clue is ,o bc found IN thc
sartllug information tHat the plant turns
uut only 4 few score uf the particular
model in which YOU are interested.
knowing that patterns. jigs and tools
cost lik. fury, you quickly decide tLa,
etrn of thcs" few motors must bear an
.hno 1uilly large charge for wnat is
commonly known as overhead.
'Thcn YOU inuuira as TO low rnarty
models there ar" in that particular
manufacturers llc and YOU are again
surprised to Iclru that ho makes every
thing from a litti" siugl" cylinder 'chus-
gcr to a hi- ciGh, cylinder motor that
would drive a torpedo boat Again witl
the keen perception of "a uti7uractur.r yoi
see the DESTROYING waste nf .fiurt, N,
tremendous. ,Ntlny or tools and machine
equipment tho wastcrll DIVISION Of con
,.utrat"d and spo.i.rl,z.d manufacturing
and eng sjuccriug skill. which * so striS cI
for an other line. uf manufacture.
''bism ssirS from Nour mind FOR ths
: moment the ducs'. ion nf manufacturing
I"u tugu to the selling problem. and her,
again You lind ample explanation %