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iiiuuolAi hcfUMVIbhR 26, 1963
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Taxi On Water Sains Favor of IMIew York Commuters
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REPLACING TRAIN - This is a hydrolfoil York suburbanites. This photo was taken dur
in the photo above. It is the boat that is swift- ing one of the boat's recent runs. (UPI)
ly replacing the commuter train for many New
By FRED T. FERGUSON
United Press International
NEW YORK, (UPI)-On July
IS, a strange little water craft
was making its first taxi run
when the president of the new
commuter service slipped from
the deck and fell into the East
river.
The hydrofoil alabatross was
off with a splash!
"What a story I had for the
boys in the office," said one of
the commuters then. And what
a story since.
The Alabatross, which her de
velopers call "The Model T of
the industry," has kept a better
schedule than many a commuter
train.
Each of two firms the one
with the boat in service, the
other with a slightly larger one
making demonstrations hopes
to have 35 Hydrofoils on runs
to and from the New York
World's Fair next year.
Both firms are counting on
fair runs to provide development
and expansion of revenues to
establish what amounts to water
rapid transit. They plan com
muter runs before and after the
daily trips to the fair to cover
operating costs.
Describe Boat
What is a Hydrofoil?
Essentially, it is a boat with
a somewhat conventional hull
and winglike foils on struts that
raise the hull out of the water
when the boat gets up speed.
This eliminates some water re
sistance and permits relatively
high speeds.
Hydrofoils have been said to
"Fly in the Water," but the man
who started the water commuter
service here prefers to compare
his boats with buses.
Ira Dowd, president of Ameri
can Hydrofoil lines, said they
are more like buses because
their present passenger load is
similar and the foils still meet
iriction more like wheels on
ground than aircraft wings aloft.
During the Alabatross's first
commuter run, Dowd was argu
ing from the deck with a Coast
Guard cutter's skipper about
keeping the Alabatross' schedule
and making a report later on the
rescue of film maker Samuel
Goldwyn, his wife, and invest
ment banker Robert Lehman.
He slipped and was thoroughly
drenched.
The Hydrofoil already was
late, having stopped to take
aboard the Goldwyns and Leh
man from Lehman's disabled
cabin cruiser in Long Island
sound. Said Goldwyn, "I've
made pictures with less excite
ment in them."
Executives Commute
The executives, who were the
initial commuters on the 21-mile
run from Port Washington, held
$200, 60-day commuter tickets
thrice the comparable train fare.
But they were far from dis
turbed at the additional 35-min-
ute delay tacked on the first
50-minute run. It was an excit
ing start.
"Now," said Dowd, who makes
the commuter himself, "they use
the electric shavers or just read
their papers, talk golf and drink
coffee."
Since . the first saga of the
Alabatross, she has been late
once, when debris fouled her
foils and she had to proceed
like a boat in water. Otlierwise
unlike commuter trains which
cannot run ahead of schedule
because of their numerous stops
the Alabatross has cut an av
erage of four minutes off her
schedule each way. Her best
time was 40 minutes and she
even has beat her schedule in
45 MPH winds.
The trip from Port Washing
ton by train is several minutes
faster to mid-Manhattan, but
several minutes slower when a
subway ride to Wall Street is
added in.
In the Alabatross' favor, Dowd
said, was that her time sched
ule included the time required
for passengers to debark while
train unloading was not counted
in railroad timetables.
Disadvantages Told
But there are these disadvant
ages to the Alabatross: She can
not operate at sea. She only has
a 25-mile range. Her top speed
is only 36 mph. She is limited
to 22 passengers.
Dowd said some of these dis-
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FA Nil
advantages result from avoid
ance in her design of unsolved
problems in Hydrofoil develop
ment and an attempt to build
what he claims now is "The
Model T of the Industry." He
said the limitations make for
advantages in other ways.
The Alabatross' diminutive
size enables her owners to cart
her around on a tractor-trailer
and to dock her at Yacht clubs
to pick up passengers.
Her relatively low speed limits
strain on her foil system and
permits the craft to run for an
hour on 5Mi gallons of diesel oil.
Simple Control
These somewhat primitive
foils further permit a control
system Dowd described as "for
ward, reverse and steering
that's all there is to it."
What about winter operation
in ice? Said Dowd, "We'll run,
but we may have to set down
on the water and be a little late
just like the trains."
Dowd's competitor. North
American Hydrofoils, is concen
trating on demonstration of its
34-passenger boat, the Enter
prise, on runs from Westchester
and North Jersey. Dowd has
five more Alabatross-type craft
in production with one to be
demonstrated in Boston Bay and
another between Potomac River
points and Washington sometime
in October. His firm plans to
start building another five this
month.
"Look out there at the East
River," said Dowd. "Where are
you going to get a million-doUar-a-mile
freeway that wide?
"We feel that within five years
we'll see 1,000 of this size boat
in the New York area. You
couldn't park 1,000 buses here,
but the Hydrofoils can find space
to deliver passengers, then go
back for more."
in the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The big news?
The treaty was ratified.
AS EXPECTED.
TME vote:
A HO Senators FDR
19 Senators AGAINST.
Nobody ducked. Everybody
stood up and was counted. The
only absentee was Senator Engle
of California, who is in the hos
pital after critical brain sur
gery. It was announced that if
he had been physically able to
be present he would have voted
for the treaty.
IOW did they all vote?
" Less space is required to
tell who voted NO there were
only 19 of them. Of the 19.
eleven were Democrats Byrd of
Virginia, Byrd ot West Virginia,
kaslland of Mississippi. Lausche
of Ohio, Long of Louisiana, Mc
Clcllan of Arkansas, Robertson
of Virginia, Russell of Georgia,
Mcnms of Mississippi, Talmadge
of Georgia, Thurmond of South
Carolina.
The Republicans voting NO
were Bennett of Utah, Curtis of
Nebraska, Goldwater of Arizona,
Jordan of Idaho, Mechem of
New Mexico, Simpson of Wyo
ming, Smith of Maine and Tower
of Texas.
Geographically, the West and
the South tended to vote against
the treaty. The East tended to
vote for it.
TN THE final showdown, 24 Re
A publicans joined 55 Demo
crats in voting FOR the treaty
The Big Surprise ( in fact,
about the only surprise) was
provided by Senator Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine. She said
in a statement that her "trou
bled vote" was one of the most
difficult decisions she had ever
faced in her 23 years in con
gress. She added: "The jeopardy
the treaty imposes on our na
tional security is a more com
pelling argument against the
treaty than the political and
psychological disadvantages that
would stem from rejection of
it."
OO-
She voted NO.
She goes along with Kipling,
who said in his The Truce of
the Bear:
"Make ye no truce with
Adam-zad
"The bear that walks like a
man."
SENATOR GOLDWATER vot
ed against the treaty, as he
said he would when his amend
ment calling on Russia to GET
OUT OF CUBA first was re
jected.
On the strength of the vote In
the Senate, it is obvious that the
Goldwater amendment never
had a chance. Sentiment
throughout the country is clear
ly favorable to giving the treaty
a try and it is also rather ob
vious by this time that Russia
never would have agreed to the
treaty if it had included the
Goldwater amendment.
AND-
-1 x Sooner or later, one sup-;
poses, a test will have to be 1
i.adc of Russia's peaceful in-1
ten lions. It is possibly true that
thi'i isn't the time to make the
trst.
would have been wonderful
if Russia had voluntarily accept
ed the Goldwater amendment.
As long as there is a communist
build-up in Cuba, we will be sus
picious of Russia's intentions.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
largest rubber-tired land-going
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