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FOREST AND STREAM, 



Mame takes first money for first-class schooners, Fearlets for 

 second-class fH'ook.tf, ami Shadow for second-class sloops. 

 . ' i ad a private flag up between them, Foam 



giving her rival twenty minutes allowance. Rebecca takes the 

 prize, if the owner of Foam makes no objection to her having 

 carried two staysails. The steamer Governor Andrew was on 

 hand, but the day was not one for ladies, and there were but 

 few people on board. The Pater B. Bradke was used for the 

 judges, who were as follows : Meesrs. W. II. Whitney, John 

 Jefferies, R. H. Stevenson and George A. Goddard. As 

 neither Wayward nor Enterprise put in an appearance there 

 was no race for first-class sloops. Cruizes. 



YACHTING NEWS, 



Sax PaAMOifioo Yacht Club.— The life lately infused into 

 this organization seems to be of a lasting character, and the 

 amateurs of the Golden Gate have exhibited good staying 

 qualities. Squadron cruises follow each other in rapid suc- 

 cession, and the amount of actual sailing put in by the mem- 

 brrs will compare favorably with anything we do in the East. 

 Clara, a New York model, and Em&rali, built at San Fran- 

 cisco, are likely to be matched. Our friends out there claim 

 —and we think justly so— that the skimming dish craft of 

 Eastern waters are no match for the more powerful model 

 i i vogue among builders of the Pacific coast— at least, not in 

 the stiff breezes and lumpy water they have out there. So 

 far, we believe, Clara has not shown "herself equal to the 

 large displacement yachts native ta California waters. 



Chicago Yacht Cotb. — This club sailed its annual regatta 

 on Lake Michigan, September 6 and 7. Course for first class, 

 around the "crib" and return. Won by Cora in 4li. 3Dm. 

 16s., beating Greyhound. In second class, Ina had a walk- 

 over. In third class, Peri won in 4h. 16m. 45s., beating 

 Goodenough, Ma! us, ISovtlueind, Zephyr, No-name, and Sym- 

 latsli. In fourth class, course twelve miles to windward and 

 return. Parus won, beating JYo-name, FketvAng, Fane/ion, 

 Linooln, Zphyr, Mischief and Undine. A skiff race followed 

 won by American Girl in li. 30m. 5s., over a five-mile 

 course. 



OAR AND PADDLE. 

 The Raisix RivkeKavy. 

 The Rasin River Navy held its fourth annual regatta on 

 this historic stream on the 5th, and it proved a pleasant and 

 enjoyable affair. The navy is composed of the Floral City, 

 Amateur and Shoe-wae-cae-mette boat clubs, who own about 

 twelve boats, four and six-oars, Bingle and double-sculls, and 

 one eight-oared barge. Boating on the Rasin has not been 

 extensively indulged in as a pastime previous to five years ago, 

 and not until fotu- years ago have any of the clubs attained 

 any prominence as oarsmen. The first victory was by the 

 Shoe-wae-oae-mettes in 18(14, at Toledo, in a regatta of the N. 

 A. K. A., when they not only attracted attention by this vic- 

 tory, but by their extraordinary style of rowing, which soon 

 became the butt of all sporting editors and con-espoudeuts. 

 They have since, as all the world knows, compelled, by their 

 wonderful progress in style and speed, universal admiration 

 wherever rowing is known or appreciated. 



The success of this crew, no doubt, had much to do with 

 the increased interest and enthusiasm in other members of the 

 navy, and practice among them all was lively, and many sub- 

 sequent successes, not least that of Bowlsby at Newark, on 

 the Passaic, lias entitled Monroe to a claim of being one of 

 the prominent boating centres of the country. The last re- 

 gatta, that of yesterday, was not intended nor projected as an 

 affair of general importance, though invitations to a few clubs 

 were issued to join them in a social and friendly meeting here 

 at their home. The Centennials, of Detroit ; Wyandotte, of 

 Wyandotti, and Undines, of Toledo, responded with some of 

 their best oarsmen, and full turnouts by Monroe clubs made 

 a most respectable showing. 



This river is wide enough at the point where the regatta 

 took place to allow of but two crews to row safely, but the 

 water is always smooth, and the course a good one, with the 

 exception of one rather sharp bend, which, a half mile down 

 stream, shuts off the view from the grand stand. The attend- 

 ance yesterday was very large, fully 2,000 people witnessing 

 the races, who represented the very best of Monroe's excellent 

 people, with some liberal sprinkling from Detroit, Toledo, 

 Adrian, Saginaw, and smaller nearby towns. 



The first race was for four-oared shells. Entries : Floral 

 City, of Monroe— Crew: Fred. G. Bulkley, G. S. Willets, 

 Jas. F. Grant, J. C. Sterling. Undines, of Toledo— Crew : 

 J. G. Kaney, J. W. Hickman, J. T. Marrow, E. J. Standard. 

 Centennials, of Detroit— Crew : J. C . Possilius, ,T. Schafbr, 

 A. Stegmeyer, P. Keeler. Amateurs, of Monroe — Crew : J. 

 Durell, A. V. Ditfenbaught, A. O'Reilly, G. W. Bowlsby, 

 Course one mile and return for four and six-oared shells, and 

 one-half mile and return for all others. The first trial heat was 

 between the Florals and Undines. This was a closely contested 

 race, and though not very fast time was made, owing to a 

 mistake in getting out of the course by the Undines it was 

 an interesting contest and won by the Florals in 14m. 44s.; 

 time of the Undines, 15m. The next heat was between the 

 Centennials and Amateurs. 



This race bid fair to be exceedingly interesting, the start 

 being even and the first half mile well contested aud excitiug. 

 At the "canal" the Centennials led and were out in the 

 stream to clear the return, forcing off the amateurs who 

 damaged their steering apparatus and gave up the race, They 

 claimed no foul, the Centennials being in their own water. 

 The Centennials rounded the stake and kept on at their usual 

 speed, reaching the winning line in 14:47. 



Although two other races intervened before the final heat 

 was rowed, the result of that contest between the Centennials 

 and Floral City's is given here. Their start was very fair, but 

 on the way down the Florals showed bad steering. The 

 Centennials reached their stake first, and were almost around 

 before the others came up. At that moment the Floral Citys 

 held with their port oars, the Centennials did likewise, but 

 the radius of the circles described by the respective boats 

 overlapped and the Centennials ran the bow of their boat 

 over upon the quarter of the Floral Citys' shell, sliding up aud 

 over-riding it. They hung together ; one backed water, the 

 other pulled ahead, and after a minute or two the boats were 

 Cleaved. Judges Soper and Calhoun, who were close by on 

 the steam yacht Perkins, agreed that there was technically no 

 foul, each boat being withiug its own proper course. The 

 Centennials managed to keep their lead, but had to work for 

 it, rowing at times forty-six strokes to the minute, whde 

 their competitors pulled forty-four. The Centennials caino 

 in first in 14:10, winning the heat and the prize. The Floral 

 capsized just as they came opposite the grand 

 stand. 



The race for single sculls, one-half mile and return, was 



between G. W. Bowlsby, of Monroe, the young rower wh 

 won such laurels on the passaic recently, and Mr. Van Nie 

 man, of Toledo, who, simply to make a race, undertook to 

 pull as a substitute for H. B. Taylor. Bowlsby made the 

 mile in 9:36 without the least pretense of exerting himself. 

 He is a fine oarsman, and all present would have been glad 

 had be worked for a good time record. 



The double-scull race, one-half mile and return, was be- 

 tween S. J. Lawrence and H. W. Stone, of the Wyandotte 

 crew, and H. B. Taylor and J. G. Kaney, of the Undines. 

 Nothing particularly distinguished it, except the poor steering 

 and worse turn of the Undines, who, when at the lower 

 stake-, lost considerable starting home, and finally aban- 

 doned the contest. The race was awarded to the Wyandotte 

 crew in 7:09. The Sho-wae-cae-mette crew, with Bowlsby 

 substituted for Joseph Nadeau, presented a fine appearance, 

 and show a much more finished style of rowing than former- 

 ly characterized them. The mile was made in 6:30^. 



The six-oared shell race, one mile and return, was between 

 the Undine crew, of Toledo, Taylor, Hepburn, Standard, 

 Merrill, Acklin and Kaney, and the Floral City crew, Bulk- 

 ley, Willitts, A. Grant, Wing, J. F. Grant and Sterling. The 

 race was, perhaps, one of the best of the day, characterized 

 by good steering and more equality between the crews. The 

 Floral City crew won in 13:33A. 



The day's sports concluded with a working boat race of one 

 mile, in which Lazette and Viuier were the winners in eleven 

 minutes, and a tub-race between two lads, won by Frederick 

 Rochefort. In the evening a reception was held at the hotel, 

 when speeches were made and a purse of about $400 was pre- 

 sented to the Sho-wae-cac-mettes. The prizes were also pre- 

 sented to the winning crews as follow : Centennials, four-oared 

 shells, silver ice pitcher ; Wyandottes' pair, silver goblet ; 

 Floral City, silver water service. The following are the offi- 

 cers having charge of the regatta : Commodore, W. P. Ster- 

 ling ; Vice-Commodore, Moses Nadeau ; Signal Officer, W. 

 C. Sterling; Judges, H. U. Soper, Detroit; W. B. Calhoun, 

 East Saginaw ; Joseph Meyers, Toledo ; Timekeepers— il. 

 H. Conaut, M. A. Noble, Monroe ; Referee, E. D. Price, De- 

 troit. KECJiA. 



Monroe, Mich , Sept. 6. 



Trm "Exiles" or Faikmount— HI, Paul, Minn., Sept. 

 10.— One of the most interesting events which occurred here 

 during the Fair week was the entertainment given to the 

 " Exile " boat crew by the Minnesota Boat Club, of St. Paul, 

 consisting of a series of aquatic contests and a dinner. The 

 Exiles are a small colony of English gentlemen, most of 

 whom have been settled at Fairmount for the past four years. 

 They are enthusiastic sportsmen, and contributed greatly to 

 the various attractions of the Fair by their hurdle races, fox- 

 chases, jack rabbit coursing and othei field sports more com- 

 mon in England than America, appearing on the field en 

 grands temie, in full panoply of boots, spurs, breeks, etc. One 

 of the most prominent of these gentlemen is S. Colquohn, of 

 Duubartonslane, Scotland, whose father is the author of 

 many familiar works on field sports. The Minnesota Boat 

 Club comprises some fifty members, selected from among the 

 best citizens of St. Paul, many of whom are college graduates. 

 They own, individually and collectively, some twenty barges 

 and shells, and occupy a commodious and very charmingly 

 located house on an island iu the Mississippi River, upon 

 which rests one of the piers connecting the bluffB of St. Paul 

 with West St. Paul, 'the view from the club bouse grounds 

 is very romantic, while from the centre of the lofty bridge 

 above it is far reaching, aud commands the entire distance 

 of the course run by competing boats. The leading aquatic 

 event was a race between a select four of the Exiles and a 

 picked four of the Minnesota Club. The latter won easily in 

 13m. 13s., and have beaten this time by lm. 17s. The Eng- 

 lish crow were unfamiliar with the current. The names of 

 Exiles were : G. Sharpe, stroke ; C. Sharpe, A. Lyon, S. 

 Colquohn, bow. Of the llinnesotas, F. B. Jilson, C. P. 

 Marvin, W. 11. Hyndman, H. M. Butler. A race between 

 two four-oared boats of the club followed. At 9 r. m. the 

 Exiles and a number of strangers, including the writer, were 

 most agreeably entertained at supper, with the usual toasts 

 and excellent music from a brass band. The club was 

 founded iu 1871. May success attend it. 



Cottbtset-Haslan. — The latest hitch in the attempt to 

 bring these two oarsmen together has luckily been brought to 

 a successful understanding. The race over the Lachine course, 

 near Montreal, is to be for the championship of America after 

 all, and on this condition the money for the event will be sub- 

 scribed by the citizens of that place. Courtney does not much 

 fancy the idea of pulling in a match in which the loser is 

 not to receive a cent, but seems to have finally consented to 

 the arrangement, as it was high time he accepted some sort of 

 terms. The Lachine course is not very suitable for the event, 

 as the water is liable to be rough, especially so in October; 

 and the point made that Han Ian is more at home in a lop than 

 Courtney is worthy of consideration to those proposing to in- 

 vest upon the result. Su- Hugh Alleu is chairman of the 

 Citizens' Committee who are to manage the affair in Montreal. 

 We are inclined to consider both men pretty well matched in 

 the coming race, with the odds slightly in favor of Hanlan, 

 owing to his familiarity with rough-water pulling, and Court- 

 ney's recent illness, which seems to be more or less chronic. 

 Both oarsmen will use cedar boats, by Judge Elliott, of Green- 

 point, L. I. Hanlan has had two ships built, one 30ft. 9in. 

 long, lOMn. wide, aud 51in. deep, weight 30 lbs., the other 

 30ft. long, 11-Jin. wide, and 5 Jin. deep. He will try both, and 

 select the one he fancies best. Should the water be rough, he 

 will pull in the shorter and wider of the two. Courtney's 

 craft has been sent on to Auburn. It ia 30ft. long, lljin. 

 wide, and 5§ in. deep, weight 30 lba. Rules of the N. A. A. O. 

 will be observed. Coaching prohibited, Referee, James 

 Harding, Esq., of St. John, N. B. 



Cbbscent Boat Cltxb or Nbwabs. — This 1b the name of 

 a new organization, brought to life through the recent regatta 

 of the National Association being held on the Passaic. A pity 

 the members could not have selected a name not quite so 

 hackneyed, and one more appropriate. The club held its first 

 annual regatta on the Passaic, Sept. 9. First heat, single 

 sculls, won by H. Miller in 10m. 20s., beating R. A. Learned. 

 at, won by D. Demarest iu 16m, beating E. C. 

 Nichols. Final heat won by Miller. Double scull race, first 

 heat, won by H. Miller and A. Learned in lOni. 55s., beating 

 J. BnUerfleld and E. Nichols. Second heat, won by W. 

 Meechridge and Clarence, beating D- Demarest and W. 

 Breath. Final heat, won by Miller and Learned in 10m. 50s. 

 W. B. Russell, judge; T. P. Palmer, teferee, aud R. K. 

 Clark, timekeeper. 



"If.''— in a private letter to a friend, President White, of 

 Cornell University, speaking of American successes at the 

 Paris Exposition, says : "In regard to several exhibits, while 

 the presidents of the class juries presented their reports, they 



went into exclamations of surprise over the recant revelations 

 of American energy and industry. One of them especially 

 declared that if America went on as she at present is going, in 

 regard to the paper manufacture, she would soon have control 

 of the European markets, instancing more particularly the 

 new applications of this industry in the United States. I only 

 wish wo could have had one of those paper boats present, such 

 as that in which our Cornell boys beat Harvard the other day. 

 That would have, completed the tableau." Exactly, //Ameri- 

 cans only knew enough to push their wares in [oreuj 

 including paper boots, dull times would soon cease altogether. 

 There is a vast field for paper boats abroad, and i 

 Waters & Sons, the sole owners of the patents under Which 

 such boats are manufactured, are themselves so 1 

 American'orders that they must turn away customers from 

 their doors, why not make arrangements with parties abroad 

 to carry on theprocessin Europe? We are too much wrapped 

 up in ourselves altogether. We hide our light under a bushel. 

 Paper boats, which have come into such general use in this 

 country, are as yet hardly known to exist abroad, and it was 

 only recently that some of our English cousins went into rap- 

 tures over the old-dug out of the Shoes at Henley. "What 

 would they say to one of Waters' latest ships ? 



Lake Hopatoong Rowing. — In the double scull race for 

 the championship of Lake HopatCOng, N. J., rowed Septem- 

 ber 7, J. M. Moore and N. Murphy won in 9m. 41s., beating 

 J. M. Clilicudy and Z. Lozier and E, Barnes and H. C. 

 Speddy. 



Racing on the Pabsaio. — James McClinchy, of Newark, 

 defeated Michael Feely, of Jersey City, over a three mile and 

 a half course, onthe Passaic River, Sept. 7. Time, 32m. 



Relief for the Sorm. — The Mystic Boat Club, of New- 

 ark, has sent the sum of $50 to the relief fund for the South, 

 an example which might well be followed by all other organi- 

 zations. 



Tebbible Deahth op Names. — Another Columbia Boat 

 Club has sprung up, this time in Sacramento. When will 

 people stop using over and over again such cut and dried 

 names as Ariel s, Excelsiors, Columbias, Undines, etc? It is 

 exasperating to see so little taste or sense displayed in the 

 selection of club titles. 



ConoeRace at Chicago. — We have to record the first 

 canoe race of the season. It was held at Chicago in connec- 

 tion with the yacht club regatta, Sept. 6 and 7, was paddled 

 in open canoes, mostly birch bark, with single-bladed paddles. 

 Course, one-quarter of a mile and return. Won by Mr. 

 Heissler. 



BOWISO KIP-PLES. 



AmerictiB Boat Club held a race for double-sculls Sept. 8, 

 foot of Fifty-seventh Street, East River. Course, two miles. 

 Entries: T. Heney, how, J. Powers, stroke; J. Gal- 

 lagher, bow, A. Keck, stroke. W T on by former in lorn 



21|s A ten-oared barge race took place at Detroit, Sept. 7, 



in consequence of a challenge issued subsequent to the Detroit 

 River IS a vy's Regatta. Entries: Wah-wah-tah-we— W. A. 

 Ferguson, bow; R. L3 Blanc, J. D. Montie, Gideou Saneh, G. 

 S. Beaubien, H. L. Seavitt, G. S. Cicotte, Eli Lfl 

 H. Labttdic, W. H. Montie, stroke; John Seavitt, coxswain. 

 Wyandotte— H. W. Stone, bow; D. Campau, O. Beigler, H. 

 Leslie, A. Griff or, T. T. Busha, F. Walcott, B. J. Hurst, M, 

 S. Griffor, J. McKnight, stroke ; S. J, Laurence, coxswain 



Won by Wyandottes in 9m. 37a Nautilus Boat Club, ol 



Philadelphia., hold a regatta, open to all Schuylkill < l 



28 Race between Ward Brothers aud Faulkr. 



crew is off, Gil Wardbeingsick The Nonpareils, i 



of printers, held their regatta on the. Harlem, Sept. 11. Single- 

 sculls won by J. B. Oouch in 7m. 55s.; Junior pair-oared gigs, 

 won by the Martin Crew in 7m. 38s.; Senior pair-oar 

 won by Masters' Crew in 7m. 6s. Swimming matches fol- 

 lowed Davis and Reagan, of Boston, will pull a four-mile 



race at Silver Lake, Oct. 8 Dauntless Boat Club regata on 



the 15th prox Chicago Yacht Club gave a series of boat 



races Sept. 6 and 7. Single-sculls, won by C. S. Downs, in 

 4in. 7^9. course, three-quarters of a mile. Four-o.u 

 Darlingtons and Riverdales fouled, former came in first. 

 Canoe race, one-quarter of a mile and return, won bj 



Swimming and tub races followed Bhawmut Boat Club, of 



Boston, rowed their annual regatta over the South Bay course, 

 Boston, Sept. 5. 8. Gookin won iu the single-scull profes- 

 sional, and J. B. Reilly in the amateur race. 



HEAVY-WEATHER YACHTS. 



Boslyn, L. I., Sept. 9, 1878. 

 Editoe Fobest and Btseasi : 



I have waited patiently for some readier pen to speak a good 

 word for my pet— ilia centreboard sloop, but I have waited In 

 vain, so will now tell you and your readcia of thfi " Corinthian " 

 brotherhood what I know to be facte. I suppose the writai ot 

 your interesting artiules on the cutter yachtH haa practically test- 

 ed his theory, and knows jtiBt want he is talking about , all the 

 same, I am willing to risk the prediction that the cutter nil! never 

 take the place of that eseentially. American craft — the centreboard 

 sloop— in American waters. 



Often have I watched the cutter at home iu her own English 

 ohoppy aea, aa well aa the efforts of her faulty imitahi 

 and do not hesitate to say that in all the points of ejieed, sea- 

 worthiness, beanty, quickness in stays, and Justly, in comfort, she 

 ia inferior to a properly constructed and modelled sloop For flf . 

 teen years I have aaUed my own boat, assisted by my friends, with 

 never the aid of a professional During eleven years of that time 

 our sailing has been done in a sloop (HerieshorTB eecond) 40ft. 

 over all, 15ft. beam; with Sft. draught— just what your cutter 

 man would call a skimming dish. Ah, hut I'd really enjoy seeing 

 him (not his man) go forward on hie cutter and reef, furl, or 

 '■'bob" his jib in an old-fashioned "greybaok" off Block Island. 

 If he did try it, he'd beat know how to awim — he'd ha 

 anyway. Why, one night at Newport, I boarded a well-known iron 

 cutter, and talking to the 'fore-the-maet men— they know— asked 

 how she sailed, and what kind of a aea boat *hfj was . 

 plied one, " uue's safe enough, hut a beast for sailing under svater 

 nstead of over it ; and it takes sovon mtm to get her club-topsail 

 ialofl, and nearly breaks their backs at that." 



Well, our cruising ground in the skimming dish haB been any. 

 where between New 'York and Nah&nt, east of Boston ; our sailing 

 season all the year round, when ice permitted. Wu never turned 

 tail hut once to bad weather from necessity. That was off 

 Brenton's Beef in a November aou'-wester. when myorew, all told, 

 was one smart boy of fifteen. So you will sea that kiu glovets 

 were at a discount aboard the Qui Vive. We have sailed in many 

 regattas, almost alnayo pitted against professionals ;' h»vo woo 



