THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL'. PORTLAND, - SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER .6, 1907.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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