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FOREST AND STREAM. 



|Feb. 22. 1883. 



Worcester Team. 



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Ml) Oilman 111111111110 11111111-19 



kT Smith 1 1 1 1 il 1 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-16 



LB Holdun 11111111110 11111111 1-1H 



W S Perry 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1— 10— 93 



The members of the Worcester team unci their friends, about 

 twenty in niiiiiiit-r. drove to M.ir11i..ro in sleighs, a distance of fifteen 



ml Marlboro clubs : 



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WORCEST 



Kit. Fell. 



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CHEYENNE, VVyo., Feb. ".— We have just reorganized the 

 Cheyenne Gnu Club. Three of the members shot a. match to-day 

 with a heavy wind and plenty of snow allying. The following are the 



P Bergersen 1 l 1 i l 1 1 l 1 l i l 1 1 1— IS 



Warren Camp 1 1 I l 1 l o l l l i l l I l l l l i l— 10 



WC Channel) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 1 I I 1 1 I 1-18 



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BREWERS RECORD.- A correspondent wishes to know whether 

 Mr. Brewer ever kitted 91 pigeons out of 100. 



STATES' ISLAND. -Dorp, Feb. M.— The First German New York 

 Gun Club shot n match Feb. 11. Messrs. Pfaender. Glaeeum and 

 Grainger 2avds., the rest 21yds. 



Otten 1111U11-8 Tisch 01110110-5 



Zahn 0111 1 101 -C Bockelmnu 11011101— G 



Jenuer nioiooi— u Oppennau llilUOl— 7 



Maissh 01111010—5 Grainger , .11011101- 6 



Dotz 111(11110-1! Klein 11111101—7 



Pfaender 01111111-7 Iludson llllllll— 8 



Glaeeum 011 111 10— (i Golitz 00111010 — 1 



Tie shot olT, four birds each: Otten... 0111-3: Hudson.... 1 100— S. 

 The very neat medal was won by Herman Otten. F. W . PfjUSSdeb, 

 rieeretary. 



BOGARDUS-CARVER.— The Hoods will not interfere with the 

 Bogardus-Carver match, which is set down for today (Feb. 22) at 

 Louisville, Ky. A full report ol 'the match willbefouud in our next 



favhtitig m\d ^Httoeing. 



To insure prompt attention, communications should be ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and not to 

 individuals, in tvhose absence from the office matters of im- 

 portance are liable to delay, 



FIXTURES. 



June 19— Atlantic Y. C. Annual Matches. 

 June 21— New York Y. C. Annual Matches. 

 June 28— Seawanhalra Corinthian Hatches. 



COLLECTORS, TAKE NOTICE. 



LAST season a great number of yachts under twenty tons were 

 mulcted by rcveiiur officials acting upon erroneous instructions 

 or by a stretch of their own authority. Several over-officious depu- 



t-i.-t: ■•'. >-L v. i.'ii ~ii I'.u' or I . i oiazu wmles w; toil i inn, nil il ill i ■ ..,■■'. uej 

 nru :;il.;eD r. 1 1 ]j J 1 i- "f 5 in loruutel IS. jv.ueljro the fin jnoial .-ru-Jeli- 



ment of the zealous guardians ol' the cu-doms. A system appearing 

 very much like blackmail was inaugurated by underlings, who 

 profited by the ignorance of yacht owners concerning their rights. 

 To forestall this grab game "for the future, we recently published 

 the Interpretation put upon the laws governing yachts by the Secre- 

 tary of tne Treasury, and we call the attention of collectors and 

 deputies to the same. Yacht owners have now been put upon their 

 guard and advised of their rights, and they are not the people to 



tamely siii.11,,11. o l cco-soi g e va ci in i is, I'irtieials L-iiunot demr.gt! 



"papers" from yachts under twenty tons, Custom House measure- 

 ment, nor can such yachts be required to havetheir names or hailing 

 ports displayed, nor is it necessary rhe inr.ns.ge should be carved on 

 the main beam, fa short, the government takes no more cogni- 

 zance of their existence than of rowiioafs or catboats. But on the 

 other band, the government exercises the right of general supervi- 

 sion at all times, which cannot bo denied it. Officers of the revenue 

 have an unquestioned right to hoard yachts for the purpose of as- 

 suring themselves: tliatttiey are not engaged in smuggling or trading 

 or carrying passengers for pay. They also have the" right to detain 

 a yacht a reasonable length of time for measurement, to determine 

 whether over or under twenty tons; and where the size is fairly open 

 to question, il may save, annoyance to submit, to measurement, and 

 transmit the official's arithmetic to posterity in sundry cabalistic 

 scratches on the main beam. Owners of small yachts, who have 

 been really mulcted, as our correspondent below, can, we think, 

 recover from the collectors the amount illegally exacted. Of course 

 the registration, not heme: authorized by Ian-, is meaningless. Our 

 correspondent may change the name of bis yacht at wdl. 



Editor Purest and Stream! 



Your publication of the law as to registry of yachts under 20 tons 

 C. H has fallen like a bombshell in a camp, and owners of yachts 

 under 20 tons C. 11. have been badly mulcted bv the C. H. offisials 

 in this section. Forest and stream is to be thanked for the enlight- 

 enment it lias given the unsuspecting owners ts to their legal i ights. 



Last June there waslat -at the yard of David (.'aril, of 



City Island, a sloop yacht, in 02 inf! ions. 1 sailed her to my home at 

 South Norwalk. i was informed by the customs officer here (must 

 take out papers, have official number and tonnage carved on beam, 

 and hailing port on stern in three-inch letters. To this last I objected 

 on the plea I hud never seen the bailing port on the stern of any 

 yacht, and requested Mr. Hanover, the Bridgeport official, to explain 

 why 1 was to be made an example of, as nor yacht was used exclu- 

 sively for pleasure. His reply was, I must 'comply with the law or 

 suffer the consequences. My papers cost me about twelve dollars 

 and fifty cents. 



When Mr. Hanover sent his deputy, Mr. Keeler, down to measure 



protesting in a mild way that my yacht was exempt, as 1 had heard 

 yague rumors to that effect His reply was that 1 must have papers, 

 and thai settled it. Now . Mr. Edit .t, was il not Mr. Hanover's plain 

 duty to inform me that the law did not cover my case, and that I 

 was free to go and com.- as J pleased, or was it ignorance of the law 

 and his official duties, that he aid uot'r Let us be charitable and suppose 

 that iiwasonly ignorance. The question now arises: We have been 

 measured, numbered, etc., in tbeOUStom House. Are We at liberty 

 to drop out ami oe exempt from all further trouble and expense? 

 Can we make the officials at Bridgeport disgorge and refund the 

 moneys they have taken? By answering the aoove you will greatly 

 oblige an old subscriber and many others. 



One of the Victims. 

 South Nokwalk, Conn. 



EASTERN Y, C. 



Editor Forest and Stream! 



The annual meeting of the Eastern Y. C. was held Feb. 13. The 

 following list of officers was elected: 



Commodore, Dudley L. Picknmn, Latona. schooner: Viee-Commo- 

 dore, J. Malcolm Forbes. Lapwing, cutter; Rear-Commodore, 

 Edward Burgess, Butterfly, cutter: Secretary. Sidn.-v W. Burgess; 

 Treasurer, Patrick T. Jackson; Measurer, licorice A. Goddard. 

 Regatta Committee— Daniel Appletou. Edward B. Ha/ren, Henry B. 

 Jackson, Francis W. Lawrence, George A. Goddard. House Com- 

 mittee— B. W. Crowneiishield, l'ereival L. Everett, 0. L. Tilden, 

 Charles 0. Foster, John A. Burnhniu, Jr. Finance Committee— C. 

 W. Amorv. J. L. Staekpole. Percivai L. Everett. Binnacle. 



SIDE-WHEEL STEAMER. -A new iron paddle-wheel yacht is web- 

 along at the Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, for Mr, S. V. Darkness of 

 the Cleveland Y, A. Over all, 07ft. ; on the line, Bon . ; beam, 12ft.: 

 depth, aft. Oiu. 



CHESAPEAKE SCHOONER.— Mr. O'Sullivau Dimpfel is having a 

 new 40ft. -schooner built for use on Chesapeake Bay. She is a keel, 

 modeled after the Penzance luggers. Beam Is I Ifl. and o^ft. draft, 

 « ith Oft. hold. 



THE YAWL IONIAN. 



THAT the yawl rig is the m 

 nomiea'l in labor, and 1 



longer h 

 rigged 



a I I- 



ent for work, the most cco- 

 of all in general use, is no 

 in. w. about a dnzmi yachts so 

 eel, Maine and New York. 

 ave main and mizzen. For 

 d to be on trial. As the in- 



effortsof Forest .isn Stream, we have' made it a pointlo "collect "all 

 the evidence attainable from those who acted upon our suggestion. 

 in order that actual experience should settle what the general pub- 

 lic believed to be a debatable subject, however great our own faith 

 in the yawl's urtimaie popularity might be. In our former issues 

 can be found a mass of testimony indorsing the rig in the highest 

 terms of praise, and with such unanimity that the value of the yawl 

 for use in American waters cannot logically be questioned anv more. 

 This testimony avus gathered not in the first Hush of the novelty of 

 the thing, but after owners had given the plan one or raoreyears' 

 trial, so that plenty- of time and opportunity presented itself to 

 oigesf i tie is-sues rest meet willi nil possible variety of contingencies. 



The universal verdict is, that the yaw), upoiiactu.il trial ■ - i.n - 

 mo---: acceigable advantages, .virion grog in trie slnpuer'.-. upur, .. i 

 ation as use obliterates the last vestiges of prejudice against any 

 deviation from regulation rut of "ye olden time," when our yacht- 

 ingwas confined to the small business of ",:t ftenioon sailing."" 



Only very few years ago the introduction of me cutter wasspoken 

 of as a wild chimera of "Forest a.vd Strea-j. nSver to be fulfilled 

 until water ran up hill. Yet to-day the cutler is an established fact, 

 and figure.- rureadv quae e-xien-i'.'ch i:: : ■ n-set. The vav.drig has. 

 it i. "..". on iv 'il i he 'i m - ■;. ' ,. . : r ■,. :• r- ■■, 



the "ever faithful" class who deem it heresy to budge an inch from 

 the inculcations of their youth, and characterize as treason every 

 attempt to keep up with the rest of the world and profit by the ex- 



i.-vilc in' Otis - 'Sin ivji. 1 .iiion ■.. i i .11 s jsc, .-. in i he en- ■■ g 

 "the cutter vs. the ancients," that the pronoundeJ opposition to the 

 yawl rig, when sifted to its source, proceeds from individuals who 

 "kuioc, ub.-ol vilely unliving about (he iirrr-i ij-n.g ,.■ n get ice. red ,re 

 too obtuse in their shallow vanity to grant even a fair hearing to an 

 application for impartial .-judgment. Tney have been sorely discom- 

 fited in the fight for the introduction of cutters, and we think, from 

 present appearances, they will likewise be worsted in the matter of 



fiends at 

 ientlv. - 

 deck ron 



res a bit, 1 

 use, prncii- 

 rase is siui- 

 e rail aft, 



I tin, in a boat design, d 



■ rove through brass d I uehious lour 

 as well «S IV s.'lid rail, ill case of 



,30ft. 



, , lift. 

 ...3»ft. 



18ft. 



if 



Bjgft. 



On the. other baud, Fores' 

 vast deal of evidence and ni 

 life in our own waters. A 1< 



i. en II In iiU-Onn lo .. 



end of the beam, against a i 



tial and competent judge- . 

 which way tne scale willtip 

 sarv to enter upon an argu 

 full' information and con.si 



ini-'i - ; ntr- I ■■ n : " igs. n 



or facts, and that the resiiu 



i has 



lent in detail. Our tiles already afford | 

 leration pro and con. All we demand 

 •ed" bv those without experience, data 

 ony already before the public be given 

 ititles it to at the hands of any one or 



into almost every harbor large and small, hut especially -.mall, be- 

 tween Boston and Penobscot Bay. We me! a bad I bunder squall 



once off the Isles of Shoals, .vhieii di-masted two limf ,d-i 



near us, and it bW a gale ail night afterward, but vy.-iiriunn 

 Ipswich Bay into Rockport, Cape Ann with a fearful sea going, as 

 comfortable and dry as one could wish, though we afterward learned 

 that one of the dismasted coasters lost part of her cargo from the 

 sea boarding her. I do not b+dieve that great beam and fiat bottom 

 are at all desirable under such circumstances. Untr so I to 

 Rockport we had the sea broadside on. hut went along without a 

 sign of pounding or wrenching so characteristic of the wide, sho il, 

 sloop boat. As for the rig. she will work I a perfection under jib and 

 jigger alone, blow high or tilow low. and what an easv matter reef- 

 ing becomes when you have these two little sails to fall hack on. and 

 a snug maiuboom all inboard. Geo. S. Wesson. 



Boston, Mass. 



["With much such affirmative testimony at hand, wo have no hesi- 

 tation in commending the yawl rig not only to yachtsmen, but to 

 fishermen and traders generally, and look forward with confidence 

 to a time when the yawl will bo unite generally adopted as the "work- 

 ing rig" of the const for vessels of moderate size]. 



YACHTING AT OSWEGO. 



elected for 1SS3 are: Con 



m being unsuifed or unjustified by the del 

 ipears to practical seamen and mechanii 

 on the contrary, far more justifiable and 1 

 ichts than the rig of the schooner we si 

 Is of modest size m the East, Tho sehot 

 nd danger 





yawl were chosen instead, the 

 "factory in every respect. 



The yawl is not only superio 

 ness, economy and safety, hu 

 point of speed and close-wind 

 the more justifiable in view 

 tonnage demarkation can be h 

 step in. for that depends upon 

 sailing is done. The twenty 

 crew of one hand bound on 

 right look to the yawl for r 

 large crew, or off for an bom- 1 

 mav, however, he all that is n 

 outmust determine, when the 



preference to tiie schooner, i 



yachting, that I send yoi 

 great deal of cruising ak 

 past. She is »8^ft. on di 

 use her to obta inin g sket 



substit 



to the school 



are all shoal 







Ihat it puzzles 



'e publish this week 

 the very first, vacht it 

 vioh what result Is lies 

 ;e S. Wasson, the Bo- 



ested in the article: 



lid: ■:, - The squadron 

 isn, anu new yachts ar.- i., make their appearance 



rhe smaller e]s- S es „i!l riadauotnel I isl addition 



ic var arc as follows- mouere '- Marquis of 



run. lore. Caplam H. Trott, cotter Psyche; Rear- 

 H. Bowheld, schooner Pastime; Hoooraiy Sccre- 

 shras,!. cutter Yeleuar; Honorary Treasurer. W. 



te of Mtinagcmenl ■ C.S tiun. k Nineteenth 



'eti-eg, \V, A. Ciiauncy. Nineteenth Regiment, cutter 



fwardSj'W. B. Troop, sloop Maria, and A. ArUisuu. 

 -i- ':' - Bancool W, .f Wallace, vawl Mari- 

 iop. w, a. chauncv. f. Hamilton and J. Froser. 



