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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1908
Page
8
The article details several La Crosse boats including the Nancy owned by E. C. Higbee, a 65-foot cabin craft with a 40 horsepower Sut ton engine, 400 RPM, and 8 mph speed seating 40. It also mentions boats owned by A. J. Walker and J. A. McKenzie, a 18-foot compromise craft seating 6, powered by a Ferro Auto- Marine 3-horse engine at 525 RPM for 6 mph, plus other vessels with speeds up to 14 mph and orange decks.
E A Williams operates the Lady Ellen a 38 foot craft with a state room top and a 9 foot beam. It carries a 15 horsepower engine rated at 18 miles per hour and seats 15 people.
The boat named Harry E. is a 44 foot Fantail craft owned by H. J. Fritz. It measures 7 feet in beam and features a 14 foot something likely related to its draft or length, as described in the fragment.
A 16 foot boat with a 4 foot 8 inch beam features a 6 horsepower 2 cylinder Ferro Engine. It runs at 900 RPM and has a rated speed of 12 miles per hour. The craft seats eight people.
Dr. E J Bjorkman’s boat the Black Hawk is a 19 foot compromise type craft with a 4 foot beam. It has a 6 horsepower Close Engine made in La Crosse. The craft runs at 10 miles per hour and seats 4 people.
Louis Runkle’s 15 seat Red Eagle boat is a 2 percent foot craft with a 5 foot 10 inch beam. It carries a 6 horsepower Peterson Engine Co. motor turning 500 RPM for a rated 8 mph speed.
The 30-foot craft named the 23 from the YMCA will carry 18 people and operate at 9 mph with an 8-foot beam and a 10 horsepower Coman Engine. It makes 360 revolutions per minute and is listed as a compromise type.
E T Muellers boat Elk is a 22 foot speed craft with a 4 foot 5 inch beam and a 14 horsepower two cylinder engine built by the Red Wing Boat company of Red Wing Minnesota.
Frique is a 31 foot torpedo style craft with a 15 horsepower Buffalo Engine, 200 RPM, 12 mph, seating 15 and once the river speed leader. Ramdrosal, the Red Wing boat owned by Hulberg Burton Kurtenacker and Ray, measures 20 feet with a 5 horsepower Red Wing engine, 8 mph, seating 8.
The catalog lists Red Wing model 8S. Boley and Ed Lundgren a 16 foot Red Wing craft with a 54 inch beam and a two horsepower Red Wing engine at 650 rpm capable of 7 mph seated for seven. Grace an 18 foot compromise type built with Cleveland Engine auto engine 5 HP at 800 rpm and about 8 mph for six. Ruth from O J Sorrenson local factory 5 foot beam with Bell engine 6 HP at 600 rpm and about 9 mph.
W. J. Hickish’s San Coil model built by Joseph Sokolik measures 32 feet with a 54 inch beam. It uses a Close engine of 10 horsepower and 500 rpm, averaging 8 mph. The Theo. W., owned by Dr. C. W. Watterson, is a compromise type 28 feet long with a 5 foot beam, equipped with a 12 horsepower engine at 600 rpm, averaging 9 mph.
Henry H Niebuhrs boat the Marjorie is 16 feet with a 4 foot beam and a Red Wing engine two horsepower averaging seven miles per hour. The Peerless owned by L M Bell is 38 feet long with a 6 foot beam a compromise style and Indiana engine four cylinders twenty horsepower, average speed about nine miles per hour.
G Collert sails the Bertha a 22 foot Brooks style boat with a four and a half foot beam. Close engine two cylinders six horsepower runs at 400 RPM averaging nine miles per hour. The Alamo or We No Nah to Trempealeau residents is owned by Harry S Barber and tows excursions around Trempealeau. A 30 foot Gardner Winona boat with a four and a half foot beam is equipped with a two cylinder six horsepower engine. Continued on page 9.
The Tribune publishes an official table of river distances and rise and fall between St Paul and St Louis. Captain W A Thompson notes high demand for this information and urges boat owners and river travelers to clip and preserve copies. The data, based on the latest U.S. surveys, will aid launch owners and others planning distant river trips.
Fragmentary travel note references a trip from St Paul to the Gulf and mentions colorful lines about river days. It quotes exchanges showing regional speech and a nod to Chicago. The readable text hints at life along rivers and possible route ideas.
Mr Trux will tour major river race meets and aquatic events from headwaters to the gulf. The Tribune will publish frequent stories based on his intimate observations this summer. He may stay a week in St Paul to prepare and leave in early June, passing La Crosse en route south.
An advertisement for Fisher Charger of South Bend promotes a charger and storage battery that keeps electricity on tap, maintaining full capacity for a hot spark. It notes installation in W. V. Kidder's 20 foot boat The Loiterer.
Harvey Herkin has received a Ferro engine for his 18 foot launch. The installation is expected to raise speed to about 12 miles per hour.
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