The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-02-25

tended joiner work of teak and it
has three decks. 1t has two engines
of one thousand horse power each.
Beside the usual plants, it has a
complete laundry with washing ma
chimes, managers and driers. 1t has
cruising radius of six thousand
miles, so it could cross the Atlantic
with ease and it is said to have cost
the publisher a million, eight hun
dred thousand. Mr. and Mrs Pepper
had the pleasant experience of din
ing. on the yacht, Friday.
While we are on the subject of
Yachts, the "Osiris," furnished a
holiday for the boulevard crowd Sat
urday afternoon. This fine yacht
with it's Persian rugs and its almost
priceless paintings and other costly
ful nishings burned to the waters
edge during the late hours of the
afternoon. The Osiris is owned by
Mrs A Ferguson of Huntington, l..
l. and was anchored not more than
hundred yards from the Royal Palm
Park. 1t was being prepared for
trip in the Keys this week. The oil
filling boat was signaled and was
loading the tanks, when the cry of
"ship afire" rang out and soon after
the chef faced mass of flames in the
galley. 1t is thought that leak in
the pipe leading from the tank let
the gasolene escape into the galley
where it ignited. Mrs Ferguson and
her daughter were on the boat but
were quickly taken on a smaller
boat out into the Bay where they
watched the burning of the yacht.
Attempts were made to scuttle the
boat but the tough wood resisted the
axes and the fire spread so rapidly
that the attempt had to be given up.
! The fact that the tanks we're copper
instead of iron saved a serious ex-
plosion as the tanks melted and let
the gasolene feed the flames instead
of exploding and throwing the burn
ing yacht over the bay and the other
! fine yachts and households near by.
Thousands on Elser's Pier and around
the boulevard ratings watched the
fire for hours and it was as beautiful
a fire as you would often see with
the reflections and the fantastic
shapes the boat. took as the upper
structure fell gradually before the
fire.
While we seem to be on the subject
Of water, we might as well say that
our prediction proved true and the
Gar Jr. II won the Interlake Yacht
Racing Association trophy for ex-
press cruisers in the ten mile race.
The Cigarette was but fifty seconds
behind. Her time was 10 minutes
and 20 seconds nearly minute slower
/ than on the second day of the races
This variation was evidently due to
the fact that the second day the race
was in the bay while the last day, it
was the outside course. The Fisher
$4,000 cup race for open displacement
speed boats was won by the Adieu
owned by Webb Jay of Chicago. Mr.
Webb jays entry now has one leg on
the Fisher Cup as has also H B
Greening's Rainhsk, which won the
races for the trophy at Detroit last
year and which finished second in
Saturdays races, three seconds
behind the Adieu-not a long fare
we'll between them after all.
Coming partly to land, there is
considerable enthusiasm for the Mon
roe county plan to build an auto
tomobile road to Key West. Dade
county would have to build only
about twelve miles of this road and
none of it over the Keys. 1t would
not only be a great sight seeing
route but it would bring new Keys
into direct communication with the
mainland and be a more direct
route to the Island City than the
Overseas without injurinasthat rail
roads business. 1t would be a great
road, if it could be built and it is
beginning to look as if it were
practical as the Keys are near to-
gether over the proposed route and
the water is very shallow between
many of the small Keys. 1t takes a
little faith and a great deal Of vision
but no one is afraid Of the impossible
down this way.
For a fish story, the one Of the
deep sea monster caught by Capt.
Charlie Thompson a few years ago
with its 100 ID. liver and other
proportions according, has been con-
sidered as a good one by those who
did not see the fish. Another
whopper Of fish story is going out
from Miami for we have caught an
other big fish fourteen feet long
and weighing two thousand pounds.