THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL'. PORTLAND, - SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER .6, 1907. 13 RACING LATEST DIVERSION IN PORTLAND WATERS , i. . . .....!.'.,. . . ....... "v." 'T" . X i. MOTOR BOM 4 ifciiiiii4ii i rrrtri . 7" - - w t ' " .. ' in i ; 'v I JUC M.iirr ".i UND3 RACER. 4 ... . , . .. ... i : 'I . t-. cjow c AiJuwoxTn bwtw6 tSbcakeba with msfcooifcSTt i f i " ' ' A4wlW'l ' . " ' ' " mill I .1 iiiar,""'''V",i" "Sr.:s..Jt...jjs. ; . J' via--. 'AAA . . . ' ft f ""fSfr, (MlMEl I i 11 .in .m 'if it Vrara TJIB GKAC&PUL w LA3SK " OVJTBD BYCB. LAPP r t i ,i in yiST "-T..T . uiui iii jSL v it w.4. . 1 ? . 'tBm.W ' mm CHUG, chug, bang:, chug. biff, and you're off, gliding too smoothly to be one of a motorcar party, and yet moving ao fajt that th4 air beats In your ears and rushes up the nostrils, furnishing all the delights that motor-mania calls It's own, excepting the vibration and the mell of the gasoline. Portland has gone motor-boat mad. It's more fun than automobillng; you can go Just as fast without the accom panying unpleasantrles of dust and a trail or dead chickens and threatened damage suits; and then the automobile Is degenerating into a mere necessity it's as much used by the butcher and the baker as It is by th millionaire which Is a bore. But the motor bo.it can never be taken for anything but What It Is the plaything, of wealthy men, usually too small to be of muh . use as a cruising boat, Just a streak In the water. It it Is a streak, however, it Is a treak of lightning. Twenty-three mll?a n hour Is in tho popular parlance, "going some" and there are several boats owned In Portland that hover round that point whenever their own ers take them out and open the throt tle a bit. Can't Break Speed Ordinance. The best thing about It, from th Standpoint of the outsider, is that the Willamette and Columbia offer such a safe coursetng ground for the in dulgence of the speed mania. There are no unpleasant speed ordinances to be broken, everyone can go as fast as his six cylinders will push him along, he can make 800 revolutions a minute with his ehglne If he wants to and there Is no mounted policeman to b gin firing at his tires. He hasn't any tires to fire at. These swltt little boats are most of them made in Portland the hulls of Oregon fir or of Port Orford cedur, ribs of oak and finish of whatever wood Is desired. The engines come from various places. Some are made in Portland, although most are sent either from San Francisco or the east. When a boat-builder gets an order for a fast motorboat he first gets to work and makes a complete model of i the hull, making every line of the boat perfect and Just as it is to appear in the racer Itself. Then the design is scaled off on paper from the drawing moles which are set up every tnree feet of the desired length of the boat and the boat is then built around the moles. The bows are long and slender, the beam is seldom more than one seventh of the length and the sterns are rather broad so as to carry the weight of the engines, and are cut off narply, thus leaving an water Denina and doing away with the dead weight of waye carried by boats with rounded lerns. Perhaps the most perfect motor-boat In Portland, one that combines high speed with unusual comfort is Walter Honeyman's racer, the "Nancy." 'Isn't she a dandy?" breaks out In voluntarily from the Hps of the specta tor as the graceful boat slips out of Ita boathouse moored near the east end of the Morrison street bridge and darts off up river, leaving a wake c,f foam hut nn nnlnM and not a whiff of gasoline. All the best boats have an under water exhaust so that the horrible gas oline fumes are never noticeable and the noise of the explosions is almost en tirely done away with. i, Fine Little Racers. The Honeyman boat Is 40 feet long -with a beam of five feet six inches, six cylinder Sterling engines furnishing a horse-power Of 45-65, and Mr. Honey man says that he has made 22 miles with her and thinks she can do better with her new wheel. She Is a very handsome boat, and one can be as com fortable on her as they could on any yacht, Aft of the engine there la room for half a doen big arm chairs uphol eterod luxuriously and even a large wicker settee. It has a powerful searchlight and Is completely equipped, even to its brass bell over the wheel. The boat cost about $4,000, so It might be classed as some thing of a luxury even In this day of mum-miiuonalres. A smaller though scarcely less perfect noat Is John (.. Alnsworth s Kochester. This boat took all the honors in its class In the races on the Hudson last summer. It la J5 feet long. 4 feet 4 Inrhes In beam, and Is propelled by a four-cylin- aer iwo-evcie Kocnester engine, wnicn makes 1.040 revolutions a minute when Mr. Alnsworth turns the lever. The boat will make 18.2 miles an hour and handles with wonderful ease. The slightest turn of the wheel meets with Instant response from the little boat, which small as It is carries half a dozen passengers comfortably and seats some of them in big wicker arm chairs. John Wolffs racer, the 'Vixen," is conceded to be the fastest boat on the river it makes a good 2J miles an hour. The "Vixen" is 40 feet long, five-foot beam and has a 35-horsepower, four-cylinder. twA-cycle. Smalley engine, which makes 800 revolutions a minute. Mrs. Wolff always steeds th.e boat in races, and Is one of the most expert and en thusiastic motor-boat enthusiasts in the country. The boat was built bv Mr. Wolff In Portland, after his own design. Another racer is the little "Flirt." Fred Llnd's Hieing boat, which will make 20 miles an hour. It is 82 feet long, hns a four-foot six-Inch beam on the water line end has a 20-horsepower, three-cylinder Smalley engine, which next season is to be replaced by a 40-horsepower en gine Mr. Llnd thinks will drive him along at something better than 28 miles an hour. The boat was built by John Wolff, who has made some of the finest of the racers on the coast. - .t III IL, Z -ii i 7 , . f l.?'y 1 -fi , .A rA I All "-to&L h m a .... . 1 1 1 1 ii ii i .. , m m , , i, j TTZTrr irj -3 77 , Z2t:v' frmm mm . W:7 ; " ;;;777 ; j, u B a? xxs m o S? - xs x, fc, -.V .: . -"J.l,-lJ 0 Cninimii , " " " w,.w.. wv ELBCT3SIC LAUNCH OP 3&."L.GLTSfN Mercury Is Speedy. One of the best boats on the river Is W. B. Lacey's "Mercury," which pounds along at 21 miles an hour. It Is 33 fee long, four feet six leich beam and has a 25-12 horsepower engine. The boat is especially remarkable because it leaves no wake at all the linos are said to be about as near perfection as a boat builder ever hopes to reach. The "Mer cury" slips along through thrf water witnout creating scarcely more tnan a ripple. There are a few electric, motor-boats remarkably attractive because apparent ly they slip along through the water with no means of propulsion. The ma chinery Is all located beneath the deck and there Is no sacrifice of room for en gines, . B. .L. Gltsan has an especially handsome boat of this tyDe the "Salt- air." a 30-foot boat with a 10-horsepower engine which win make about nine miles an nour. Klectric motor-boats like elec tric motor cars are not of the speediest. but they are eminently comfortable. The most costly and elaborately fitted boat owned In Portland Is Charles E. Ladd s Lark. This boat Is very larg 46 feet, long and 7 feet beam and has a 45-norseoOwer engine, which pushes the boat along at 12 miles an hour. Tho boat has a very comfortable and rer fectly appointed cabin, and together with rts boathouse cost about 18.000, W. H. and E. von der Werth. who are building motor-boats for Portland and Pacific coast people all the time, use the Teaser, one or their first boats, as their orlvate Pleasure boat. She han-. dies beautifully, is 28 feet t inches long. 4 reet 8 inches beam, has a 13-horse- power engine, and will make 12 miles an nour. The Von der werths have several boats under construction now, includ- f HAPOZ.EOV B6WAJPABTS Showed, at the bajsfle of Austerlltt, he was the greatest leader In the world. Ballard's Snow Liniment has shown the public It is the best liniment in the world. A quick cure for rheumatism, sprains, burns, cuts, etc A. C. Pitts. ftodessa, Louisiana, says: "I use Bal lard's Snow Liniment in my family and find It unexcelled-for sore chest, head ache, corns. In fact for anything that can be reached by a liniment." Sold by all druggists. ing the "23," being built for C. II. Rmid, a 28-foot boat with a 15-horsepower en gine and a speed of 15 miles, and an other for J. M. park, a 33-foot boat with a beam of 6 feet 6 inches and an 18- horsepower engine. It will make about 15 miles an hous. and In manv particu lars will be a counterpart of the Honey man boat. They are also working on an entirely new model for next spring, wnich thev bel eve will capture all prisses In the regatta being planned for tne rose festival week. Speed and Comfort Combined. The Anita; George Henderson's boat, Is one of the type that Is especially de signed to combine speed and comfort. It Is 31 feet by E feet 10 inches, has a 15-horsepower Palmer four-cylinder en gine, and makes 12 miles an hour. Harry Byers" Silver Heels is another racer of the Anita type, and L. Beno has under construction a 35-fOoter built of Port Orford cedar, which he expects will make a good showing In next sea son's races. Of the cruising type of motor-boat is Chester Murphy and Edward Orelle's big boat, the Sophia. This boat is as complete as a steam yacht, and even boosts a brass cannon on Its for'ard deck. Not that they really expect to meet pirates on the Columbia or the Willamette, or even in those troubled waters down Astoria way, hut it's very fine in firing salutes. The Sophia Is S6 feet lonir, with a beam of 7 feet 8 inches and a 15-horsepower engine. She only makes nine miles an hour, but a party could go out on her and live com fortably all summer. There are ar rangements for berths, a very complete buffet, and every other convenience that one could wish for. Motor-boatlsts have troubles all of their own Just as automobllists do, and sometimes the high-speed little engines get tangled up in such a fashion that there's nothing to do but float on down the, river and blow ynur siren for help. Commodore Harry Hell, who is spe cialist in attendance on half the motor boats In town, Is really the salvation of the millionaires when they get up against some new and marvelous twist In their engines. The boatowners toll and sweat and grease themselves up and Anally throw down their tools and tramp off to find Be)l to get a little expert testimony. Trouble Comes at Times. "It's funny how we depend on him," laughed the owner of one of the boats as he went to look up the expert, "but there's not one of us that knows what the trouble is when we get stalled. He will step in and In just about a second and a half everything is running smooth ly. It must be great to be a mechanical genius," and the bank president who knows all about the placing of millions sat by abjectly while the meohanla pounded and tapped on the ailing en gine until he had discovered, it seemed to a layman by intuition, Just what the . trouble was. , But although they can't mend their broken boats, most of the motor-boat owners operate them they declare that Is the chief fun In having one Just as It once was in having an automobile. Walter Honeyman, Roderick McClay ,' and other enthusiasts are at present ' trying to organise a motor-boat club, and they expect the first meeting; will come off in a fortnight or so. There are), over 200 launches owned in Portland and the intention is to get many ot these Into the club and to adoot rules for the guidance and protection of tha members. CLEVER COLLIE CULLS ON DOCTOR Dog Goes Daily to Surgery Remarkable Case of Reds son in a Domestic Fet., From the London Leader. The old problem, "Can dops reason?" is revived by'a remarkable story which comes from Hoi Iowa y. A fine Japanese collie, owned by a gentleman living near Camden road, has earned distinction for Itself by its habit of trotting round dally to a veterinary surgeon to bo doctored. Suffering from painful ulceration in the ears, it was taken to the surgery of Marcus Steven son, the veterinary surgeon, of Camden road, Holloway, for treatment about five weeks ago. Each evening for three or four days "Roy" was taken there by his master. Master of Bis fortunes. Then Roy decided that In future he would not wait for his master to take him to the surgery. One evening, di rectly the door of his home was opened. Roy dashed out alone. In a few minutes ne oounaen. an aione. into Mr. Steven son's surgery, half a mile away. No one was more surprised than I was," said Mr. Stevenson to a Morning Leader representative recently, "to see the dog rush through the doorway, Jump calmly on the operating table and wait for me to attend to him. I expected to see his master follow him Into the surg ery, but no Master Roy had come alone!" No one, least of all a sympathetic vet erlnary surgeon, could resist this mute appeal, and without waiting for further developments, Mr. Stevenson picked up a bottle or curative lotion. "Once, without having to be prompt ed, he turned his head so that I should commence with the rlrht ear." contin ued Mr. Stevenson, "and after the mix ture had eased his right ear he at once hent forward and turned the left for the same treatment." Then, with a gratified bark, the dog raced off home. "I expected his ears had pained him, and his instinct had told him where he could find relief," commented Mr. Stev enson; "but you can Judge my surprise when he came In Just the same fashion, quite unaccompanied, the next evening, promptly Jumped on the operating table as before, waited till he'd received treat ment and then dashed off home again." A Daily Visit. And so ever since the dog has run round to the surgery practically every day and demanded treatment. "It's quite unique. In alt my experience." Said Mr. Stevenson. "I could understand a dog coming of his own accord for a pleasant syrup or some palatable or pleasant doctoring; but the treatment of canker is necessarily painful, and prac tically every dog that Is treated for It has to be carried or dragged Into the place after his first experience of It." While Mr. Stevenson was speaking, a shrill bark and a great canine commo tion at the door announced the unex pected arrival or Roy for one more operation. Directly the door was flung open, the sagacious animal sprang upon the operating table and, looking up into the veterinary surgeon's face, whined eagerly. Mr. Stevenson stroked Roy's head, but Rov whined all the more eagerly and im patiently till his left hand touched the familiar bottle of ear lotion. And then a succession of short, sharp barks plain ly indicated that that was the object of the visit. Raising first his right ear and then his left, the faithful creature sat still as a rock while the mixture was poured Into eacn. and then, tiarklng with de light, he made a bolt for the door. Authors. From The Circle. An author is a person whose chief occupation In life Is the defacement of good white paper. The appellation Is wide-reaching, and may apply to the writer of a soap advertisement or to the creator of a best-seller. Of late years authors have become so numerous that they seem to have liter ally fallen out of the clouds upon a long-suffering people, like rnin-drops upon an already watcr-so:ikei earth. In Indiana those drops rail with such persistence that the state is kept In a condition or literary overflow. Amnnt certain officers of the present time there Is great rivalry as to who can cover the maximum of paper with the minimum of thought. Authors are divided Into two classes: a small class who can write and who let their work speak for them, and a very large class who can't write and are continually picking to pieces the literary elect. A Iiargain. From The Circle. He: Miss Hunt, 1 love you, but now dare not dream of calling you mine. Yesterday I was worth $10,000, but to day, by a turn of fortune's wheel, I have but a few paltry hundreds to call my own. I would not ask you to accept me In my reduced state. Farewell for ever. She (eagerly) Good gracious! -Reduced from $10,000 to $100! What a bargain! Of course I'll take you. You might have" known I couldn't resist WOMEN FIGHT OF 1 UNIONS Considerable Progress in All Directions Reported in British Isles. From the London Daily News. One of the encouraging features of the Trade Union congress was Miss McArthur's reassuring statement, abeut the progress of women's trade unions. Miss McArthur was able to state that the last year had seen considerable progress in several directions. This progress Is Illustrated, and we hope It will be developed, by the prospective publication of a monthly review de voted to the subject, and entrusted to miss jacAnnuri very capable hands. The difficulties in the way of develop ing trade unions among women have been very great, and sometimes they have seemed almost overwhelming. There la the capital difficulty to begin with of marriage. The prospect of marriage Is inevitably a disturbing ele ment. If a woman thinks of her oc cupation as a mere temporary phase, which is to close with .marriage, it Is difficult to get her to make sacrifices tn order to rouna a permanent organ ization. Women's trade unions seemed at one time to have a fatality - for springing up at a period of excitement and then dying away. A trade union U built upon a sense of common interest and a basis of Common sacrifices, and these necessary conditions are not at all easy to provide in a community of women, few, or perhaps, none, of whom regard their career as the career of a lifetime. This Is the reason why women's trade unions have flourished chicly in those industries where mar ried women work. but that system brings its own terrible penalty, as the infant mortality statistics show. There Is. however, reason to hope that the difficulties which have hindered tha growth of women's trade unions are by way of being subdued. There is on aspect in which men can help women to organise, and that la bv iiwrniMilmr their own women relations to become uuiuuiBi. iur unen a man is an, excellent trade Unionist himself, but a very indifferent trade unionist when It is a case of the employment of his daughter. Women's trade unions have had to fight their way to recognition by men", but this, we think;: has now been accomplished. The raising of the . conditions of women's employment le certainly one of the most pressing and Immediate of all social problems. May the new venture prove a powerful Stiia ' ulus. 't - J His Attitude T " From the Youth's Companion. . It was difficult ta hire competent e even lnoompetent help In Edea Canter, and tha commuters In that idjllio spot had learaed'res!iTWUoii..;saj.,!-:-;H;- ' "James," J said Mrs. 1 "CrswtordV ; 'T. haven't aeeot anything of that tnan who. was to mow our lawn. ; Where do you suppose he Is? There.-1 believe that' he now over tnere in mows oranard!". "Is he standing?' Inquired 41 r. Craw - f0"Yes." said his wife, "he"! look In a- to ward our house. - " v . "That can't ba the w, said Vr. Crawford 'Wd be sUUm lh..f down." ,.. V-