Show Ff FIRST ST CO CONCRETE I BOAT BOAP HITS If WATER ATER 1 k OF V 0 MONONGAHELA I Pittsburgh h. h Pa July H. H The H-The The nr first t motor propelled concrete boat was walt launched In the Monongahela river rl late yesterday The vessel eighteen en feet eel long four feet teet wide wid and amid drawing twenty one Inches of water was built by hy W W. M. M Dowse Dowsey a lumberjack l of oC Iron River Mich lIch in 1914 and donated bunted to the naval na reserves j In 1917 It I Is capable of making twelve miles an h hour ur and aIl will start low row on a trip down the thc Ohio up the Mississippi and ami Illinois rivets rivers to Chicago So a as a a i recruiting reci lilting aid Mrs Irs Lillian LUHan Russell Moore acted as sponsor |