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YACHTING. 



Ceding to the United States jurisdiction over cer- 

 tain military posts and lands and the Shoshone In- 

 dian reservation. 



Prescribing the age at which deal and dumb chil- 

 dren may be admitted as pupils in the Blind, Deaf, 

 and Dumb Asylum as State charges. 



Amending an act entitled An Act regulating volun- 

 tary assignments and for other purposes, approved 

 March 13, 1890. 



Joint memorials were sent to Congress praying for 

 the submission of a constitutional amendment pro- 

 viding that United States Senators shall be elected 

 by a vote of the people, and desiring Congress to en- 

 act laws to restore silver to the position occupied in 

 the currency of our country prior to the demonetiza- 

 tion act of 1873. 



No Senator was elected by the Legislature of 

 1893 to succeed the Hon. Francis E. Warren, 

 (Republican). After the expiration of his term 

 the Governor appointed A. L. Beckwith, who re- 

 signed before the United States Senate had 

 taken final negative action on similar appoint- 

 ments, and so until the next meeting of the 

 Legislature the State remains with but one rep- 

 resentative in the Senate. 



Woman Suffrage. The following concur- 

 rent resolution was unanimously adopted by the 

 Legislature : 



Resolved, By the second Legislature of the State of 

 Wyoming, that the possession [and exercise of suf- 

 frage by the women in Wyoming for the past quarter 

 of a century has wrought no harm and has done 

 great gjood in many ways ; that it has largely aided 

 in banishing crime, pauperism, and vice from this 

 State, and that without any violent or oppressive 

 legislation ; that it has secured peaceful and order- 

 ly elections, good government, and a remarkable de- 

 gree of civilization and public order, and we point 

 with pride to the facts that after nearly twenty-five 

 years of woman sutf'rage not one county in Wyoming 

 has a poorhouse, that our jails are almost empty, and 

 crime, except that committed by strangers in the 

 State, almost unknown, and as the result of experience 

 we urge every civilized community on the earth to 

 enfranchise its women without delay. 



Resolved, That an authenticated copy of these 

 resolutions be forwarded by the Governor of the State 

 to the Legislature of every State and Territory in this 

 country, and to every legislative body in the world ; 

 and that we request the press throughout the civilized 

 world to call tne attention of their readers to these 

 resolutions. 



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YACHTING. The preliminary conditions of 

 yachting for 1893 pointed early in the year to an 

 unprecedented rivalry between the two great 

 maritime nations of the world, and the promise 

 was borne out in the construction of a fleet of 

 sailing craft the like of which has never been 

 afloat before. The series of international sailing 

 races that followed on both sides of the ocean 

 place the year easily at the head of the yachting 

 calendar, and, in view of the increasing use of 

 propulsive machinery for pleasure craft, it seems 

 probable that the sailing yacht has reached the 

 zenith of its popularity, though not by any means 

 its ultimate perfection in build and equipment. 



This culmination of interest in a noble and 

 manly sport that trains seamen and officers for 

 the ships of two great nations is due to the in- 

 auguration of international yacht racing by a 

 company of New York yachtsmen, who in 1851, 

 the year of the first World's Fair in London, 

 sent the schooner-yacht " America " to try con- 

 clusions with the Royal Yacht Squadron. Her 

 sailing powers were so undeniably superior to 

 everything that the English could bring forward 

 that she can hardly be said to have had an of- 

 ficial chance to demonstrate them. However, 

 she brought home the trophy now known as 

 " The 'America's' Cup," which is by common con- 

 sent recognized as the emblem of the world's 

 yachting supremacy. 



English yacht architecture was largely modi- 

 fied in model and rig from the example set by 

 the " America." Sails were cut to set flat, masts 

 were sharply raked, and entrance lines were made 

 longer and finer. English designers, however, 

 continued to build their boats narrow and deep 

 rather than broad and shallow, as was the tend- 

 ency in America. 



Nineteen years passed before an attempt was 

 made to win back the cup, and during that time 

 English designers had worked out results that 



introduced wide divergence from the American 

 type both in schooners and in " single stickers," 

 as has come to be the common designation of 

 sloops and cutters. The diagrams given here- 

 with show all English challengers and all the 

 American cup defenders with their respective 

 midship sections. The lines are necessarily 

 drawn to such a small scale that they must not 

 be accepted as absolutely accurate. Some of 

 them are off-hand sketches from models, and 

 others are from official lines. They are merely 

 intended to serve for purposes of comparison. 



It should be explained here that in 1876 and 

 1881 Canadian yachts challenged for the cup 

 namely, " The Countess of Dufferin " (schooner) 

 and " Atalanta " (sloop). They were easily de- 

 feated respectively by " Madeline " and " Mis- 

 chief," and the only interesting incident in con- 

 nection with the two matches is that the Cana- 

 dians had the honor of sailing the last schooner 

 race and beginning the list of sloops. Diagrams 

 of these yachts are omitted because they were 

 not British types, and had no influence upon the 

 development of yacht architecture. 



Nine large " single stickers " 5 American and 

 4 British were built for the season of 1893, the 

 exciting cause being cross challenges by the 

 Earl of Dunraven for the " America's " cup and 

 by Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll, of New York, for 

 the "Victoria gold cup." America was rep- 

 resented by " Navahoe," "Vigilant," "Colonia," 

 " Jubilee," and " Pilgrim " ; Great Britain, by 

 "Valkyrie," " Britannia," " Satanita," and " Cal- 

 luna." All were of the 90-foot class, the largest 

 single-stick yachts ever constructed. They all 

 had the new overhanging bows. " Pilgrim " and 

 " Jubilee " were of the fin-keel type, but did not 

 distinguish themselves, owing, perhaps, to lack of 

 experience in the management of this class of 

 vessel. " Navahoe " failed to capture the prize 

 for which she crossed the ocean, though she won 



