Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — A Gasoline Steamer. [ARTICLE]

A Gasoline Steamer.

Baltimore Sun. The Pocomoke Gasoline Boat Company is the name of a corporation recently organized and chartered by the court at Pocomoke City. Md. For the past two months they have been engaged in building a boat to ply between that place and the eastern shore of Virginia. It is now nearing completion and in about two weeks will make her trial trip. Her measures are: Keel, 90 feet; beam, 24 feet; draught, 21 inches. She is a as ide-wheeler, and is built t) move smoothly over the mud at the mouth of the" river. She will be propelled with a thirty-five horsepower “Otto gas engine,” and is expected to make ten miles an hour. She is said to be the only gasoline boat of this model ever built and her final trial is watched with great Interest, as there are several companies in distant places that intend to adopt the same model if this one proves a success. The William A. Winant, as the boat is called, sits gracefully to-day upon the waters of the Pocomoke, and is a subject of general conversation. The section to which this boat will run, or at least a part of it, has been entirely cut off from the outside world by reason of having heretofore had no railroad or steamboat communication. This boat will supply the demand to these points, and will no doubt prove a great blessing to the country through which it passes. The boat is expected to make daily trips from Pocomoke to Messongo Creek, Accomac county, Va., and return. „

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