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P Yr EF j w J w FL r u 4 V i- i uc v 4 tel 41 4 r Jias lately atey been invented pat pat- daM dand 1 and manufactured b Jn by a naval orb of- of hai tid b boat at so o no novel nol l and comprising la eo o many possibilities that ger eri coming upon her hor for or tho me ne e would suppose he ho h had ad at last K earth arth a craft of ot which Jules might ha have dream dreamed d. d It hall aJl vessel C veritably amphibious tally ij afloat and and ashore td i and constructed In such a Br as to to permit of landing Mading on a mf beach In m heavy y surf sui or or of or pro- pro Heal out ont to esa CM in tho fact tact of h so 50 o large that regular surf boats Brt e roughly handled b by them and patentee of the won- won lUtle Ittle boat Is la Rear Hear Admiral John Johni i retired who is devoting de his Know sow now to tho the Introduction Of or f what yes ves will create creato a a. revolution In ll U bo boat t enterprises of the Atlan- Atlan oard rd Tho The rear admiral thinks potion DUnn will be equally useful In leg IDI In Industry along along- shore and in etI es or speed contests out beyond ken kers at summer resorts whore of the countr country aro ever on th the for novelties s in sport sport- For Jong long K journe Journeys up and down th tho whole trying shooting and fishing par par- would bo be simply Imply admirable he find nd when one examines his craft juch uch more than likely to believe E t Wood t which is called the a fat Yankee abbreviation for amII am- am Kl J II built of woo wed and is twenty twenty- Bet t over all aU with seven feet teet beam boam r feet depth and a n. draught raught ex- ex mSt about forty Inches Within her wiled led a a gasoline engine with two cylinders four tour cycle ccle twelve at revolutions and fifteen r at 1200 revolutions resolutions per er EL Tw w fj o bladed J eighteen l ht en Ma da etel a pitch of or SI- SI I fr in her bel description things are arc meaning m-meaning you would be bo liable such uch relative dimensions in a 11 OIL anywhere But bore here all eli cea cease o abruptly The Tho rettea Hotes a class distinctively alone liu hu not thus far tar even a sister Bp her company aho ahe rests resL solely sorely wn keel Mp difficult to begin a a. description Peculiarities as s It would be bo to ord picture of the first hammer- hammer Hark k Tho The hull huH of ot the boat i is Hike ko Ike a n. thick concha cigar or a 0 pe Ie e. e She Is decked over with the Bb t of a 11 sort ort of or large Jarge cockpit ti combing aroun around It it the tho aper- aper ar t no o 0 constructed as to admit bel being almost wholly closed in in merely room roon for tho helmsman's shoulders rising above o It IL Wheels two might p come across a n oe ue e wooden craft In our pleas pleas- nu wo we 0 arc are meandering our ow minds on midsummer shores human numan dream ever cr ye yet pictured borne x rne rat craft fitted with witt two large ono o each side upon g boat propels herself hersel on on dr dry hese ese se drivers as ns tho they might be bo ro SIvo feet teet In diameter andt and t wry tY spoke on the In In Ine e rim are aro buckets similar to ordinary paddle wheels while are aro o nearly a foot loot wide that y skim over th the wind sand with withe ce e c noie nelu Is coupled up with these l Is Py b by means of or reducing gears t Bp speed speet d have havo a ratio of 16 t t t tow w speed of or 48 to I 1 gIving Ing rt power j that Is astonishing A would consider ld r herself Jtb only this this' means of ah Is 15 also supplied i wit a pro- pro may n bo be utilized In In t Ithe e paddle w wheels ces or merely ft tt it t is la the tho after part of or the tho surprises the vision for lor foru or of 01 the tho u vowel vessel 1 consists consIst of 01 a n giant seared to th the sternpost Ost very cry much udel J Is nuns huh on a Q normal boat of Lad and It i Is III In this toll taiLor or appendix 1 the J ability to run j heavy surf without danger dans This Lie Lie-Is ns ten n feet lon long lone or almost half hair Mf tho the croft Itself and amI eight hl j JC and i Is hollow to serve nerve ne aa is n a 1 water r. The rhe purpose of r r the ic tall automatically on on JO is n-ls n Ii to hold tho stern de depp p In ter hen he a landing In Jn bad r giving the propeller a a Ip and eliminating the r 1 or ot broaching r n Surf i isho ho have h watched the maneu maneu- P the tire life sating a ln crews ere in their et cc ai along iA Bhore will vill recall that the tho U high in the tho stern UP a n long Ions K weep cep which he dips the U e ter r for or a n good grip when- when Thresher k eWh ls unde-r unde the b bOafo ats at's a landing through h an tm ny Jurt Tills This Is caused by the theof of the stern of the life life- ich i thrown hl high h In tho the air U by n breaker while the bows bowlS are re eed Into into the holl om Ihl the Instant In heavy heavy- broken n crous js broaching may oc- oc ary l turf rf boat bont but hut not In t of or the water held ke PI the stern tl far down In rAM Permits tile the cx ln to expo ex- ex po K r Instead pf of f th the wild willI rae rac- t e at such mohe mo J PO e he t t on OTt emerging from t tir j 4 tOh bM lai land d d runs on a am an i nt Its 1 Jower edge so ISO tho tha th on n the tho beach Is a U 1 tricycle a an 8 It were nero of the A la lB CAPSis CAPS CAPS- fth Water lie Is II sIX HI lx and ono half halfon to iet Ie and on land Kind and hl the tanks anka hold fifteen tem pal gal nl- nl lI or to for tOl a run of ot hours Below Bolow the fit i. i only for the tl put pose of ot ti lon Vis C i I entirely h exposed so so far concerned on rnea the enill en en- ill 11 the beIng In full view hort sha Bhe J III p. p sheli wRit in n ts deck dec tp shed Bhe tho the thor ratus e i r apparatus of a O of which are handled of i I 1 p a n course cours from the cockpit b by means ot of ofa a 1 wheel which Is IR located Just under trie forward combing so that a man mm standing upright will have hare his hla head and shoulders shoulders ders above tho the latter and th the wheel Just below his shoulders On land the Is turned In tho the same manner through th the tho agency of a n small wheel on tho lower lowered ed edge c of 01 the long Jong tall Many persons persona will undoubtedly look upon upon upon up up- on till tho croft craft with a n humorous humoro eye CC as most of us regard any innovation Inno until It has been thoroughly tried d out So haps with the Amphibians Tho The vistas which they open up In tho the form of pleasure pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure excursions excursion lont alone are arc almost without end For Instance who In all nU this thin country country coun coun- oun- oun try has actually traveled around th the coast following the tho beaches beacheR In rotation No one of course for tor It is Impossible or before the advent of Rear A Admiral Howells Howell's invention Suppose a man started to ride or drive taking inking his departure from Montauk Point When ho ha camo came to th tho vcr very first Inlet his excursion would be arrested and ho would bo out of business for tho the Long Island Inlets are deep and swift But suppose e ehe he were driving an Amphibian along alons shore When hen lie e reached the Inlet In Instead Instead instead in- in stead of pulling up he would give she his steed steed all all the lie rein she sho wanted and roll rollright rollright rl right ht into the tho current curren to emerge on theother tho the other r Ido In a few moments without disorder dis dig order continuing on In his rejoicing on his Journey journe Having Havins negotiated all the Inlets that sheet of water that divides Coney Island from Sandy Hook would loom large but two hours at the thc outside would see sec him across the salty waste aste and hurrying away down the Jersey beach bench at ten miles an hour or more or Great for tor Coast Trips And what is to prevent his extending his trip to Florida or following the tho coast oven cn to to-tho to the Mexican border and beyond His boat would be safe sale practically In any surf Burt especially In mak making ng a 11 land landing Ins to I continue his explorations while In entering enter enter- enter I In ing the water th the boat drawing nothing forward and buoyancy In I that part of her would have ha no difficulty I In forcing her wa way from beach to beach Such a trip would have havo all the fascination fascination tion of an original voyage of discovery and the man who first succeeds will be actually the first circumnavigator of his country country- Equipped with Amphibians what is to prevent tho the fisherman going out to sea from the very beach Itself where his Am Am- phi has rested all alJ night perfectly safe without any moorings out or shore fasts to get adrift At the tho end of the tho day he can make a landing at an any point of the beach that he sees fit tit and run his boat with Its cargo right up to the fish market and discharge his freight as easily as a fruit steamer unloading bananas ban at Pier I 1 Rear Admiral Howell points out th the conspicuous merits of his Ms Invention like liken horseman Indicating the tho hocks and withers and or whatever arc th tho likely parts of his thoroughbred I often otten used to think no ho e said one ds da day last week that it was pretty hard luc luck for the fishermen to be compelled to run for tho Inlet after his days day's work was done or because the sea was making and bad weather ther coming cominS on I thought about It It a great grent deal and how there thore were vere no small lI boats on the whole coast that dared to keep tho the sea when hen It It camp came on to blow fresh from the tho They all nil had to pass tho the Inlet be before foro the bar began beJan to break brenk and I noticed that sometimes they didn't make mt the Inlet at all and that those fellows fellow had rolled up on the beach boach at t tho next high water And so I gradually thought out the Amphibians as I think thin they ou ought ht to be bo called Us ils a sort Ort of generic name the tho In Individual Individual In- In dl name of this particular one ono be beIng being being be- be ing the as you ou notice Problem to Solve The problem I had to work out was to tom tom m mount a surf boat bont on wheels that carry her along a 11 hard beach bench under the tho I same power that propelled her in the jw water and it took a heap of thinking belore be be- be before before fore lore 1 I stopped The Tho Is Just such a craft croft and arid I as the inventor would like to see sec the tho boats taken up and constructed by motor boat people both for business and for pleasure Certainly there ought to be p. p great demand deman for them because they will rea really II open up In a manner peculiarly safe the whole holo ocean littoral to Small email craft More than that the they will render accessible those beaches that now by their isolated position are wholly cut cutoff ore oft from mankind They will develop the coast and help to build up those portions of It that are arc now too remote even for lor forthe tho the present day ay development schemes But where whore I would best like to see sec them installed would be bo In tho the life lICe saying eav- eav Ing service Thoy They have c line fine surf boats In Inthe Inthe Inthe the service now nov now yet how hard It is Is' Is to keep them before the tho sea when running for tor tho the beach In heavy surf The Tho tall tail of my boat though prevents pre her stern from lifting 1 in the air and t the e propeller grips the water with Its full fun power Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides that I can use the thc two paddle paddlewheels paddlewheels wheels Independently of each other and turn tum the tho boat around like a Within r reason ason too there Is no limit to their size until the they get et too big for themselves cs and unwieldy I 1 have been trying to get a tryout In Inthe Inthe inthe the life saving service lien and have havo at last succeeded as next June my boat will wilt be besent besent besent sent to Boston and examined by the ex experimental ex- ex board looking to Its adoption I wouldn't fear to send the tho through any surf I ever saw on the tho coast She simply cant can't do co anything else but be behave behave behle be- be have hl proper properly for tor the weight of ot the tho tail talt lacking surplus buoyancy reaches down Into solid water and keeps the tho boat be before before bo- bo fore tho the sea sen Broaching is Impossible under these conditions conditions- That's all there Is to o It PAUL EVE STEVENSON |