Ninety years ago, DeWolf Barton discovered the secret of attracting the girls: Just offer them the chance to go out for a spin on the ice of Lake Placid aboard his ice yacht. Barton, shown to the left piloting the craft, is joined by Virginia Markel of Cambridge, Mass., Dorothy Knoepke of South Orange, N.J., Patricia Schmidt of New York City, and Eloise Thompson of New Haven.

The radio is said to be a superhetrodyne fed by a “concealed loop” for an antenna.  Mr. Barton was apparently a particularly skilled navigator of the craft, since there’s no mention of the boom of the sail knocking over the precariously placed speaker.  This photo appeared in the January 17, 1925, issue of Radio World.

Miss Markel was apparently no stranger to winter sports. She is shown here skiing at Lake Placid, from the December 27, 1928, issue of the Niagara Falls Gazette.

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