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you will forget one-half, and find yourBelf afloat without oil, oan 

 dies, matches, or other equally essentials. At last all aboard but 

 the inilk, which has been omitted. No time then to get it. Some- 

 one suggests condensed milk— and right here let me pause, remove 

 my smoking cap, assume a reverential attitude, and invoke 

 a benediction on the head of Borden, the man whose cans bear 

 the legend that he is the condensed milk man. Mr. Borden, in 

 the name of all yachtsmen, huntsmen, sportsmen, duckemen, and 

 travelers generally and otherwise, I thank thee. Thou art indeed 

 a benefaotion to thy fellow men— and women, too ; for you have 

 condensed all our lacteal troubles into one handy little can. On 

 your family coat of arms let there bo a pyre of milk cans and 

 pumps, and the proverbial milkman surmounting, and all burning; 

 on the other side let there be a dozen kDeeling women invoking 

 their blessings, and the Goddess of Liberty emptying a large-sized 

 cornucopia made of the biggest gunny sack of twenty-dollar gold 

 pieces on your devoted head. Borden, long may you wave, and 

 continue to condense cows into the brief space you now do, and 

 never go back on the quality as you wax rich and greedy. The 

 . purity of the ballot-box is a secondary consideration— of none at 

 all in comparison with your milk. For years have I worried with 

 cows that clutter up and create noxious odors in my stables, and 

 regularly dry up — just what I tell my old nig to do when he 

 announces the catastrophe — a regular old-time plantation nig, by 

 the way, rejoicing, as he informed me, when he came to run my 

 cow department, in the distinguished name of Marshall O'Roberts. 

 Through Borden, the present incumbent cow will speedily lose 

 her situation, and the old humbug of a nigger be turned out on an 

 unfeeling world to dry up, in three weeks, some other man's brand- 

 new eixty-fiva dollar cow. Pardon the lengthy bubblinga of a 

 grateful soul, but I must do Borden justice if the heavens fall, 

 whioh they probably have no intention of doing, even for Borden 

 and his milky way. 



And now let uh see if we oan get off, for the tide has turned 

 flood these two hours. Firstly let us run over the list, and sea if 

 everything is on board. Guns, cartridges, gum boots, old shooting 

 coat, pipes, tobacco, liquids, tea, coffee, sugar, pepper, salt, bread, 

 butter, biscuits, doughnuts, cold corned beef, sausages, head 

 cheese, mutton chops, beefsteak, canned oysters, potatoes, ham, 

 bacon, and lastly, Borden's compressed cow. 



My companion du voyage— whom I will call Jones for two rea- 

 sons : Firstly, because it is customary to do so ; secondly, because 

 his name is Jones— is an amateur in yachting, his knowledge being 

 more exteneive in shells, pulling stroke oar, etc. Wo have agreed 

 on the division of duties — I am to sail the yacht and cook ; Jones 

 to wash dishes and keep the ship in order. 



The wind, although light, is fair, and so is the tide. We get 

 nnder way, and head up the bay bound up to the location of our 

 floating shooting-box, our scow-house so cosy and comfoitable, 

 that has done good duty for the last five years. She lies up at 

 Sherman Island in the " tubes," where the mallards and canvas- 

 backs congregate to feed on Ibe wild celery and young tube roots. 

 The day is warm and sunny. A blue flannel shirt does duty, no 

 coat t-eing needed. A pleasant breezo fills our mainsail. We take 

 slight cold bite, and lighting our pipes ask ourselves if there is 

 anything specially the matter with this sort of thing. Poboees. 



CUTTER AND SLOOP. 



New York, Nov. 8,1878. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



Before commencing our promised cruise, I feel called upon to 

 state that the incidents described will, as far as possible, be 

 founded upon actual fact. And my intention is simply to oompare 

 the relative merits of the different typos of vessels— the American 

 and English— in a spirit of fairness, that the young, enthusiastic 

 yachtsman may not be led by fashion into fatal or aggravating 

 blunders, and thereby become disgusted with a manly sport ; and 

 in so doing, I will draw upon my imagination as little as possiblo: 

 It is the 15th of May. Our ideal cruiser has been built, launched, 

 sparred and rigged during the winter months. In the same yard 

 my friend, who has a mania for everything a VAnglaise, has in- 

 sisted, in spite of my friendly remonstrance and ridicule, upon 

 building a cutter yaoht. She was designed by one of onr celebrated 

 yacht designers, resembles, and has nil the elements of the cele- 

 brated and successful English cutter JAly, and has boon pronounced 

 by the whole scientific corps a decided success, aud a perfect sea- 

 going craft. 



ThiB cutter differs from our vessel as follows : Six feet longer 

 on water line, 3ft. narrower, and 4ft. deeper with flush deck ; and 

 in hulk is practically the same as our vessel, excepting she has 

 her greatest width at or about water line, and wall-sided, as usual 

 in that type of vessel ; instead of 3ft. Oin. draught she draws 7ft. ; 

 instead of our cabin house she has on deck two low boxes, form- 

 ing seats with skylights over, two companion ways— one forward, 

 one aft— and a hole aft to sit in and handle the tiller. 



Her owner, my friend, appears on deck, and calls to me: " Ed., 

 come aboard and take a look. You don't seem to take much in 

 terest in my ship since you commenced your own." 



'• Well, John, old boy, it's a fact. I have not shown so much in- 

 terest in your ship as I ought, considering we have been so many 

 cruises together in our old ehipe; but yon know I do not take any 

 stock in the cutter type of vessel. Besides, I have been employed 

 on my own vessel, and you know there are so many things to be 

 looked after. However, I must say you have a fine, well-built 

 craft. I expjeiod the rest of my ballast down this afternoon, but 

 see rt has not come yet.'' 



'■ ' I say, Ed., speaking of ballast; you've got iron, I believe ; how 

 much did it cost you?" 



"\es, iron is good enough for mo. I got five tons for my boat. 

 I pnt on such a large rig I thought I would get an extra ton for 

 cruising, as you know it is a good thing to have below sometimes. 

 I have the bill with me ; cost $175, I believe." 



"Jupiter! Ed., do you know that's an item I did not tako into 

 consideration when I started my ship ? See the lead on my keel, 

 besides, I have her run full of it. Jenkins, my designer, said she 

 must have it, that iron would not do, and he knows." 

 " Yes, I see your lead keel i it's a good job." 

 "Good job, yes; Jenkins furnished drawings, showing how it 

 was to bo pot on and secured ; but that little item cost me just 

 $900." 



"Nine hundred dollars ! Cheap, and less than I expected." 

 " Well, come aboard, Ed., anyhow." 

 (He goes aboard.) 



"John, you're pretty narrow on deck. You must be very care- 

 iul, when yon fall, to do so fore and aft. I see your cockpit. Do 

 you like the idea of getting into that hole to steer ?" 



"I must confess I do not like it as well as I expected. My deck 

 looks cramped, especially after being aboard your ship. But the 

 correct thing for a cruise, Ed.; safe. Let's go below. 

 (They go below.) 



" Ed., this is my saloon, this my stiteroom, and the W.C. there; 

 my sailroom is aft, and I get to it from the hole on deck, as you 

 call my cockpit. "' 



" You've considerable more length here, but not much width." 

 "Yes ; I confess it does not look so roomy as your cabin, but 

 that I suppose is on account of the bulkheads across her. Do 

 you know, I expect to carry two men forward, and to get accom- 

 modation for them I had to put in folding beds— something like 

 those used in prisons, you know— to get room to pass, she is so 

 fine forward ; and tho sailroom does not amount to much, either, 

 for the same reason. I admit she's a failure as far as genuine 

 comfort below goes, but the correct thiDg after all, you know. 

 Bye the bye, Ed., I see in your ship no stateroom, although you 

 had room for two larger than mine each side of your centreboard, 

 besides a good saloon aft, and no W. C, either." 



"I put in no bulkheads for staterooms, because in a little boat, 

 the purpose is just as well obtained by means of curtains. As to 

 W. C, I prefer a temporary to a permanent nuisance, as all such 

 things are if the pipes cannot be placed above watar line. I see 

 you have a two-legged folding table, but it occupies scarcely less 

 room than my centreboard case." 



" Fact, Ed., that was one of the delusions. My floor is only 2ft. 

 wide, and as my table takes up Bin. of that when folded up, even 

 then it is hard to pass ; but I have sacrificed comfort below for 

 the sake of other good qualities. But, Ed., tell mo, what will 

 your craft stand you in when finished ?" 

 " I calculate about '$1,500, with furniture and fixtures." 

 "You cautioned mo regarding expense of the cutter, but I 

 thought it |aome of your usual talk. I have already paid out 

 $2,500, and have no rig nor sails yet." 



'• Yes, my boy, you will find yonr rig and sails will cost you a 

 pretty penny yet." 

 " Do you think so ?" 



' ' Yes, my rig cost me ?250 ; if you get off for $100 you will be 

 lucky, provided you make a full fledged cutter of her, which, I 

 suppose, is your intention." 



" Yes, I have gone so far I will go the whole hog ; besides, every 

 body tells me it is the perfect thing." 



" YeB, John, put the full cutter rig on this craft, for if she goes 

 at all, it will be under that rig." 



" Ah, Ed., there you go again ; always sneering at everything 

 English, I think, just for the sake of so doing," 



" No, John, I would advise nothing I did not honestly believe ; 

 and I again say, Put on the cntter rig, for she is not suitable for 

 our sloop rig. In the first place you depend upon ballast almost 

 entirely for stability, and your ballast, to be of service, must be 

 centralized ; consequently, should you place your mast far forward, 

 as in the sloop, its weight on account of your fineness of lines, 

 would have to be counterbalanced by weight in your run, and thus 

 injure one of your good points. Besides, it is necessary that this 

 type of vessel have a low rig, because she will not carry a li 

 one. For the English yachtsmen, however much I may differ from 

 them in theory or opinion, I have the greatest respect. They, 

 having this miserable form of vessel thrust upon them by their 

 tonnage laws, have made the very best disposition of material 

 possible." 



" I see, Ed., you, as usual, have put a whacking rig on your boat. 

 You hate to get outsailed. Besides, you have it high and short." 

 " My rig has caused me much thought. I made a draught of 

 rig when I draughted my mode), as you know, and hung it on my 

 vessel to suit me. Then , in considering the matter, and how much 

 easier it was to cut down spars and rigging than to enlarge same, 

 I added a few clotheB all round. After seeing the vessel in frame, 

 added still more canvas. I know it is a whaoker, thereby the 

 extra ton of iron I ordered sent down. I made it short aud high ; 

 it's handy and right for a craft like mine. Besides, speaking of 

 quantity, Jenkins, the designer of your vessel, however hand- 

 somely he may converse and argue the beauty of an easy vessel 

 and email canvaa for speed , can go beyond any one I know of; 

 and I do not doubt if your vessel is not fast it will not be on account 

 of a want of that article." 



"You're right there, Ed. ; Jenkins, let him say what he likes, 

 knows tho value of the dimity." 



"Yes, and he's not to blamo for that. Do you recollect how 

 often we uaod to wish, before you re-rigged your old vessel, that 

 her rig was larger ?" 



" Yes ; before we used to cruise together I never thought Bella 

 was fast, and used to shun boats of mv size— although not a ra- 

 cing man I disliked to get outsailed. Do you recollect your advis- 

 ing me against substituting a keel for centreboard, for fear of 

 injuring speed? Since I have put plenty of sail on Bella, and 

 found she went about as fast as her sizo can go, I am ashamed of 

 no company, big or little— in fact, it is tho spice of tho sport." 



1 ' Yes, and if you had not caught tho fashionable mania we 

 would have built a vessel and continued to oruise together. I hope 

 you are not disappoiuted in your cutter." 



" Well, T am some six f aet longer than your craft, and expect to 

 outsail you anyway ; besides, you must allow me two or three 

 minutes by Seawauhaka Club Rules." 



"Yes, John, I know that Club ; takes only two dimensions, 

 length and breadth, in their rules— English aud the perfect thing ( 

 you know — only much simplified in their case." 

 "You think it wrong, then ?" 



'• I fail to see how bulk can bo measured by superficial rule. 

 Suppose you try to get the contents of your wood pile or coal heap 

 by two dimensions ? In my opinion they practically rule out any 

 vessel except the cutter." 



"You admit that I can outsail you, then?" 

 " No, I almit nothing of the kind— on the contrary." 

 "You have too much confidence— always had." 

 " I haya taken every precaution to insure success ; besides, I 

 have a eanguine disposition. I got my modol from Elaworth, who 



modeled Cornel ; besides, I have seen quite a number of hia 

 vessels, and they are, without exception, fast. I draughted model 

 and made calculation myself ; bo far, I know everything to be 

 correct. " 



' ' Why did you not go to Jenkins, Ed. ; you are an old friend of 

 his?" 



"While I respect Jenkins and his services, I did not employ 

 him because I had ideas of my own, and would rather take tho 

 model of a practical man, with what little knowledge I learned 

 from Marrett, for my chance of success, than to have quotations 

 from Kemp pumped into me by tho hour, when I could argue the 

 cutter type of vessel, if so disposed, from tho same source. Be- 

 sides, did it ever strike you that none of our epeedy vessels were 

 designed by scientific men ? Take Georgo .Steers, for instance, 

 who designed the famous ya: I , and niaDy 



others ; also the beautiful Bhip of war, Niagara, He made no 

 failure as to speed. Kobert Fish, who gave us Vixen and many 

 other fast vessels ; Herresehoff, Orion and others ; Elswoith, who 

 modeled Comet, Watson and others;— none of these are what may 

 bo called other than practical men, with great talent in their way. 

 Now, I eay, combine talent and practice with science, uud you will 

 approximate correctness." 

 " Ed., I know you always, whichever side you are ou, argue in 

 plausible mauner. But you cannot convince me that you have 

 sea going vessel ; she is good enough to plug the Sound, I know. 

 I expect to launch to-morrow." 



I'm for home ; expect to sea you Boon. Good bye." 



CobinthiaS. 

 (To be continued.) 



%nmt of (j^ltess. 



Notice.— Chess exchanges, communications and solutions should ho 

 addressed " Chess Editor Forest and Stream, P. O. box 54, Wolcott- 

 vUle, Conn." 



White to play and glvemate in three moves. 



SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS— NO. "I. 



1— BtksKt. I' 1— Ktcb 



■:— Ki. IkaKt. 'J— Any 



a— B-K4 mateB 



Game No. 92 — GINC'CO PIANO. 



The following ia on International Tourney game heiw 



Monck, of Dublin, and Freeh, of Washington, In Which Mr. Freeh an- 

 nounced a wiu In twenty-seven moves : 



White. 



MomsK. 

 1-T'-K4 

 2— Kir K B3 

 3— B-Q Bl 



-i-r-u Bs 



5-F-Q4 

 B— P-K5 

 7— B-Q Ktfi 

 8— B 1KB Kt ■ 



9— P IKS P 



10— Castles 

 II— B-K3 

 18— Kt-QBS 



Black. 



Freeh. 

 1— B-Kd 

 3— KtQ B3 

 3— B-Q i'i 

 i-Kt-K BS 

 5— P Iks P 

 6-P-Q4 

 7-Kt-KS 



10— B-2.K13 

 12— P-K Bl 



White. 

 alone*. 



IS— F-KKIS 

 14- K-K KI2 

 IB— P-K l.'i 

 16— KtlkB Kt 

 17— P Iks 1' 



I3r-Q K BCj 8) 



IS— P-KBS 

 W-PtksB 



! litCll 



ail— K-K B sq ch 

 21— P tks Kt 



22-I'QK!!(li) 21 



■2.1— K-K tq S3— K-K Bl! 



•24-R-KBsq<ol 



NOTES. 



(a) An; excellent move on Black's part. 



(ii) This move almost completely blocked Black's game. 



(o) Tliia move gave Black the gn me, us it permits him to Queen a 

 Pawn In twenty-seven moves thereafter. Bat as a problem of twenty- 

 seven moves ia equal to an entire game of ordinary length, White's 

 ability cannot be called into question by it. 



Black announces a win by lie Queening of a Pawn in tweuty-eeven 

 movea. The solution: 



25-XtKBB 



27— P-QKJ 



24-Rtksi: 

 S5— K-K3 

 00— F-Q M 



H- r ii .. B 



i'J— B ins F 



SB— K ikjP 



31— P-K K'3 

 SB— K-Q KU 

 3H-P-Q T.4 



39— K-UK12 



It— K-y ii aq 

 43— K-u B so 



4u— K IKS 1' 



IS— K-tM 



B0— K-K B6 



51— Ke^lgua 



38— K-QK-I 

 39— K-Q KIS 

 40— P-Q B0 



! . 

 [■-<?] 



43 -K-Q II 



46— K-K BT 



47-1-KO 



■ ■on 'a- cu 

 ■ Bfi oh 



81— K-b 2 



sa— K-Qs 



83— K-Q B3 

 34-P-K K S 

 (W— K-Q Kl3 



86— K-QB3 

 37— K-Q KIB 



The faci that from the 10M1 to the ist.li move Black does not make a 

 move in a backward direction is evidence of the persistency of hia 



-Ilart/ord Times. 



cursory JorrrNua. 

 —One of the games in the series In the international Tourney between 

 Mr. J. K. Stranger, of Nortt 



Sllch., has been declared ttilr.n.' ■ omenta Air. 



Bull waa compelled to abandon all Of his games, winch Mi - 

 the timts, afterwards conducted with the consent of Mr. Stronger. 



The above mentioned game was conduct i train the 



l~ih more to the declared draw on the 37th move. In par 

 table of the iron and lost gam=s In tbi* tourney, published last week, 

 the won games betwaei agar aud Ctiatto and Messrs. 



Berry and Kankcn, should have been scored la favor ol Qreat Brltalu'B 



