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vulgarian than to be ignored by gentlemen in iheir arrnnge- 

 I specially when he affects a knowledge and auperior- 

 ity in the affairs about which they assume representative 

 control, Besides the inexplicable innate animosity which 

 the mins ■cuMte all over the world entertains toward the 

 gentleman, to be in New York and to be unrecognized and 

 unplaced in her great Kennel Club, must be very galling to 

 those who boast of their wonderful dog lore and experience. 

 Yet I fancy that if every professional pigeon-shooter were 

 taken up by the Westminster Kennel Club and admitted 

 into its counsels, it would very soon loose its well-earned 

 prestige as a gentlemen's organization, and become a mere 

 organization of "sports." The flattery bestowed on the 

 Philadelphia and Boston Clubs by such fellows is from no 

 genuine feeling; it is through resentment to the Westmin- 

 ster Club, and from a desire to belittle it by comparison. I 

 do not doubt that the Philadelphia and "Boston " organiza- 

 tions are composed of gentlemen. I know they are. And 

 the judges of both are not only good judges, but gentlemen 

 in public and private. I doubt not that they are disgusted 

 at the invidious comparisons made between themselves and 

 the New York Dog Show, and know that they are made from 

 transparent motives of spleen. 



Such fellows as I have described, when the longed-for op- 

 portunity occurs hesitate at nothing to vent their pique and 

 ill-will ; falsely belittle the exhibition which every dis- 

 passionate observer knows is the finest by long odds in the 

 country ; violate even the hospitality of the metropolis by 

 publishing and giving utterance to libels upon gentlemen 

 judges Who, from mere love of sport and sporting matters, 

 travel hundreds of miles to elevate and give tone to such af- 

 fairs ; attempt to convert what should be delightful re- 

 unions into angry recriminating wrangles, and bring in their 

 low tastes, language and thoughts, as a stable-boy would 

 befoul his master's parlor. 



Brother sportsmen of every section — I mean gentlemen 

 sportsmen— if we intend to submit to this, it is better that 

 we stop at once. If we intend to pursue our pleasures, let 

 us forthwith band to stamp out the blackguards. Like all 

 blackguards, they are cowards at heart. Let us order them 

 out, and put them down, and if they cannot otherwise be 

 taught their place, let us kick them out. It is our only al- 

 ternative, and while they will doubtless thank us for the at- 

 tention and notoriety, it is our only resource. My name 

 can he had of the Editor of Forest and Sikbam. 



Goshawk. 

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St. Bernards.— The St, Bernard bitch Hero, winner of 

 fust prize at the Crystal Palace dog show when 11 mouths 

 old, and owned by Mr. Le Roy Z Collins, of Lancaster, 

 Mass., whelped on May 30th sixteen puppies, sired by same 

 owuer's Alp. 



fttchMng and ^oating. 



HIGH WATER FOR THE WEEK. 



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COMING FIXTURES. 



Jane 9— Southern Y C Cup Regatta. 



June 111— Brooklyn Y c Annual Regatta. 



June 10— Silem Y C Opening CruUo. 



Juue in— Philadelphia Y C Annua) Regatta. 



June 11— limpu-e Y Annual Regatta. 



June 13— Quaker City i C Anuual Regatta. 



June 13— bay of QuLute Y C Spring Regatta. 



June 14— Beverly Y C Special Regatta. 



June 14— Chicago Y C Annual Regatta. 



June 14— No»a Scotia Y S Opening Cruise. 



June 17— Eastern Y C Opening Crulae. 



June 17— Lynn Y C Annual Regatta. 



Juue 17— MarblelieaJ Sixth Annual Regatta. 



Jnnel7— Newbnryport Y C Annual tie. una. 



June 19— Dew Jersey Y u Annual Regatta. 



Junel»-New York Y c Annual Regatta. 



June 20— Eaatern Y C Cruise. 



Juue 21— Buston Y O Union Regatta. 



Jnue 21— seawanhaka Y Open Corinthian Regatta. 



June 21— Nova Scotia Y 8 Spring Regatta. 



Jnne 23— Breuton'a Reef Cup Match. 



June 23— Co'ujnbla Y C Annual Regatta. 



June 23— Nova Scotia Y S Harbor Cruise. 



June 28— DorcaeBter Y C Championship Regatta. 



THE METROPOLITAN SEASON. 



THOUGH: straggling events and short cruising had already 

 marked the previous month, the advent of Decoration 

 Day, May 30, may fairly be said to have opened the yachting 

 season in metropolitan waters. The commendable custom of 

 bringing together the squadrons for an "opening cruise" 

 under the flag officer's charge seems to be coming more into 

 popular favor. Anything which tends to unity of purpose 

 and practical experience is to be encouraged by all who are 

 anxious to see our yachtsmen gradually rise to that state 

 of proficiency which is so characteristic of our cousins across 

 the sea. To arrive at their thoroughness in practical seaman- 

 ship, we need all the squadron cruising possible with little 

 touches of breeze and sea thrown in, such as we can find in 

 early spring or late in fall. It is only when in company with 

 others that a yacht's crew is put to a test and that amateurs 

 are most anxious to develop what seamanship they possess ; 

 lor to the yachstmau there is no more coveted reward than 

 the indorsement of his sailor qualities by his shipmates. 



This year, the 30th of May, brought with it a fine breeze 

 from the S. E. with cirro-stratus clouds aloft and a murki- 

 ness below which promised more wind as the day wore on. 

 The Seawanhaka Y. 0. had this year initiated an opening 

 cruise as one of the fixtures of the club in addition to those 

 customary later in the season, and the success of the day's 

 sailing will bring a larger fleet to the line next year. The 

 Corinthian element was out in force, for if there is any such 

 element to be found in our waters, it is most certainly to 

 be looked for among the Seawanhaka and Atlantic roll of 



members. Many craft had come to off Stapleton the night 

 oefore, and by the time the signal was hoisted to heave up, 

 the following fleet had collected: I£'hiit , 03ft., flagship of 

 Vice-Corn. O. E. Cromwell, in charge ; Osprey, G8ft. T Mr. 

 Thomas Lord; and the sloops Reijina, 50ft., Mr, W. A. W. 

 Stewart; Schemer, 30ft., Mr. C. 8. Lee: ftV,„, 35ft. Mr. C. H. 

 Leland; Blanche, 41ft.. Mr. C. H. Grundy ; OMef, 45ft., 

 Mr. C. L. Perkins; Qaprtee. 40ft., Mr. 'it. It. Hamilton ; 

 Julian 31ft., Mr. Wm. May; Mnlg, ,30ft. , Mr. W. E. Iselin.and 

 the smart looking cutter Wduatc, 40ft., Mr. F. B. Hitchcock. 

 The sloop Nettie, Mr. Wm. Morgan, accompanied the fleet. 

 With working topsails aloft, alljhahds canted to port and went 

 off on the starboard tack a few strakes down, the smaller sloops 

 with their rails awash. Yotante astonished the unbelieving by 

 showing grand weatherly qualities, for she screwed out to 

 windward of the lot, and this in spite of the tide which was 

 still running flood. Up to the Narrows the fleet kept pretty 

 much a bunch, working out with a lot of other yachts, but 

 when tacks were split and the ruck of strangers left astern, 

 the fleet soon scattered, and little remains to be told other than 

 that Otga and Caprice had a lulling match all to themselves 

 and every one was making the best of his way to the S. W. 

 Spit, the mark to be rounded before running for New Dorp 

 and a dinner. Though the wind was only a topsail breeze 

 and the sea very moderate, in fact 5 ton weather ; some of 

 the sloops went through some lively antics and their 

 decks were wet fore and aft, the spiteful Bpray being 

 flung from forward with anything but scant allowance. 

 To say that the sloop is a dry boat in a sea is about 

 the toughest yarn that has been told about the shingle 

 bottoms. The sea seemed too much for some, or else the at- 

 tractive reputation of a New Dorp dinner was such that all 

 hands did not -see the object of rounding the Spit just then 

 and in that kind of water, so the old Illinois hulk and a 

 stray buoy were substituted by most of the fleet for a round- 

 ing mark, and with the freshening breeze dead aft, it was not 

 long before they brought up at an anchor off Peteler's Hotel 

 on the Staten Island beach near New Dorp. On the run down 

 the wind, Volants and Schemer carried "spinakers," prob- 

 ably the first time in any club event in America. This sail is 

 so effective, serving even to keep the jib rap full from the es- 

 cape between the spinaker's luff and ttie mast, that it will not 

 be long before every craft up to the times will have to tally 

 away a spinaker among the other sails in her locker. What 

 with spinakers and the modified cutter rig now being rapidly 

 adopted, who will say there are not better things in store for 

 the future ? Begina is the latest convert to common sense, 

 and comes out this year with no huge pot-bellied jib to raise 

 the blisters on her amateur's hands, but has wisely adopted 

 the snug cutter rig In its modified form, and now she hoists, 

 sheets home, and furls with half the amount of labor and in 

 less time than before, while her sailing during this cruise 

 proved her to be the same tough customer as before. When 

 the last big jib of the lubberly sloop rig, a veritable sailor's 

 eyesore, disappears from our waters, what a relief it will be ! 

 The day's uot very far off either. It took five years to drive 

 this innovation through our worthy pilot's heads, but the 

 yachtsmen promise to fall into line all the quicker. The 

 fleet was joined at tlieir anchorage by the three-hulled 

 schooner Nereid, Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes. After some nar- 

 row escapes in landing and the discomfiture of the best efforts 

 of New Dorp's French cook from Cork or Berlin, the Vice- 

 Corn, gave the word and all hands embarked for the run home, 

 without observing any special sailing order. The schooner 

 Edclie took matters leisurely, and under jib and main- 

 sail had a little scrub race with Nereid of the three 

 hulls. The latter was left astern, whereupon Mr. Stokes 

 made more sail, and with gaff topsails and jtb .topsails barely 

 succeeded in outrunning the Vice Commodore's tidy little 

 schooner under half her lower sail only. This is hardly speak- 

 ing well for Nei'eid.bul with sheets cheeked or boom over the 

 quarter she ib certainly very slow, whatever may be her qual- 

 ities in a strong blow when jammed on the wind. Her fail- 

 ure in running we attribute to her large amount of wetted 

 surface and to the generation of two or even three bow waves 

 and the difficulty of their clearance amidships. Though we 

 cannot speak positively without the lines of Nereid before us, 

 we judge her wetted surface to be about 1,100 ft., while that 

 of a schooner of the same length would be only 700ft. Allow- 

 ing additional length to the schooner of ordinary type, so as 

 to bring her wetted surface equal to Nereid's, would call for 

 a craft 60ft. on water line, and Bhe would certainly cany more 

 sail than Nereid. The latter is therefore poorly off for driv- 

 ing power in spite of her large stability in proportion to dis- 

 placement or length. The fleet made harbor one by one 

 during the twilight hours, the smaller yachts running up to 

 Gowanus where they picked up their regular moorings, IV 

 lante, Chief, Olga and G.<prey having previously cut loose 

 from the fleet and returned home. Among the scnooners at 

 anchor off Stapleton were found the well knowu Magic, re- 

 cently returned from a Southern cruise, and the beautiful 

 Noma, the latter looking majestic with her high sides and 

 incomparable spars and rig. Many were the flattering enco- 

 miums bestowed upon her, and it did one's eyes good to see a 

 ship shape flush deck and seagoing craft, in strong contrast 

 to the lighter material laying about her fitted for fine weather 

 only Noma has to our mind the handsomest rig of any 

 schooner in America, and there is about her as a whole some- 

 thing so strongly indicative of purpose in her design, that the 

 handiwork of the skilled modeler and the educated eye are at 

 once apparent. And so the first opening cruise of the Sea- 

 wanhaka Y. C. came to a successful close after a fine day's 

 sail and propitious auguries for the next events of the season. 



YACHTING NEWS. 



Atlantio Yaoht Club.— This club sailed their opening 

 cruise on Decoration Day, with a fair turnout of vessels. 

 We believe it is due to the Atlantic Y. C. that this feature of 

 opening cruises was first introduced in New York waters. 

 With a fine S. E, wind, the small craft were sent away at 

 10:15 from their anchorage in Gowanus Bay, Mab, Nomad, 

 Alma and Pilot filling away on the port tack under whole 

 canvas. A quarter of an hour later a second gun from the 

 schooner Agnes, with Com. Latham A. Fisk on board, sent off 

 the rest of the squadron consisting of the Echooners Peerless 

 in the lead with Triton and Agnes following, and the sloops 

 Kaiser, Sadie, Genia, Winsome, Pirate, Imperia, Dolphin, 

 and Orion all in close order. Lizzie L. , the new sloop of Dr. 

 J. C. Johnson, got under way soon after with her builder, 

 John Mumtn, on board and followed the fleet, doing well 

 alongside of the smaller sloops and finding nothing worthy of 

 herself short of Orion and Sadie. In this Lizzie L. rather 

 surprised the knowing ones and gave the lie to her previous 

 reputation. The schooners made an excellent match all day, 

 Peerless having the best of it, the ugh she could not shake off 

 Triton, the latter hanging to her like a leech, until in crossing 



ticks below the Hospital Island. Here, to avoid collision, 

 Triton bore away for Peerless, though on [the starboard 

 tack, and in so doing was struck by a flaw carrying her down 

 to the coamings and washing away her lee waist-boat. The 

 delay caused in picking the boat up gave Agnes second place 

 among the two stickers. The S. W. Spit buoy was first 

 turned by Mr, Maxwell's smart schooner (who by the way 

 seems to be doing well with the lead on her keel and the lug 

 to her foresail), Agnes followed round two minutes later and 

 Triton at a little longer interval. Sadie stood over too far and 

 Orion slipped first around the mark among the sloops. Lizzie 

 L. also lost to Wmsomeby wanting too much room, but when 

 once off the wind made good her loss by passing Winsome in 

 spite of the liberal balloon jib topsail the latter set and which 

 ripped the stick out of her. The same order was maintained 

 into Gravesend Bay with the schooners, the sloops coming to 

 with Orion in the lead, followed by Sadie, Lizzie L. , Pirate, 

 Winsome, Dolphin, Imperia, and the little cat Wind which 

 had done wonders all day in the heavy sea with Mr. Wm. 

 Peet at the helm to luff her out. The Genia had carried away 

 something and failed to fetch the weather mark. The smaller 

 craft had already made port, Alma minus her topmast. 

 " Charley Noble " was set to smoking, and after a hearty dig 

 at the scouse kittle and dough pan, the fleet got underway 

 again, homeward bound, the ancorage at Gowanus being made 

 as best they could. The cruise was very successful and served 

 its purpose in giving amateur crews a "shake down "into 

 their respective billets for the season. 



Socthwark Yacht Ci.txb.— Last Monday, (May 20,) the 

 annual regattas of both .the Cooper's Point and Southwark 

 Yacht Clubs were sailed, and a better day could not ;have been 

 selected. A heavy breeze from northwest to north began to 

 blow early in the mormng, and the tide being ebb at five 

 o'clock made a splendid course for the boats, with no rough 

 seaway. The boats ot the Southwark fleet, are divided into 

 three classes — first and second class double-euders and tuck- 

 ups. They are all fifteen feet long, and the only difference 

 between the first and second class double-enders is about three 

 inches more beam. The tuckups are about the same size as 

 first-class double-enders, but have square sterns. They all 

 carry from 40 to 55 yards of sail. 



At 10:10 o'clock the second-class double-enders got off as 

 follows: Emma, Morgan. Mayan and Oliver (the Cutter and 

 EsteUe capsized just previous to the signal being given). 



After a lapse of ten minutes the signal was given for the 

 first-class dnuble-enders, and off went the Mitchell, Laa-rcio . 

 Maid, Fir ii gam. Tun n g, and others, and as their light sails 

 caught the full force of the lively nor' wester, they careened 

 over to their earnings, and with six men stretched out to 

 windward, and the weight of the sail and spars to leeward, 

 you would think these frail little structures would be torn 

 apart ; but they are tough and springy, being built of the best 

 cedar, nnd all copper fastened. 



At 10:30 the tuckups were in line, and before the echo of 

 the signal given bad died away, the Ledyard, Campbell 

 Boyle, Sparlr, Chri;: Klicnz, I ell, Lenoir, and 



Bard, were all under way, quickly followed by the balance 

 of the fleet. 



The boat that was to accompany the regatta, and which 

 contained the judges (the Creedmoor Ct'ttir), haa taken so 

 much water by leakage, that it was with difficulty she could 

 be moved, and before the tug had drawn her out into the 

 deep water, the last of the fleet of tuck-ups was nearly two 

 miles down the river, and some of the double-enders were 

 not seen again by those on the Cutter until after they had 

 rounded Chester buoy, and were on their return home. The 

 Cutter leaked so much that she had to be beached at Billings- 

 port, about 14 miles below the city, and her passengers were. 

 brought to Philadelphia in tugs. 



Sparks carried away her throat halliard block, and stopped 

 to repair; the Campldl, which led the fleet of tuckups to with- 

 in four miles of the lower buoy, split her rudder, and was 

 towed home. The Morgan upset when rounding Chester 

 buoy, being leader of the second-class double-enders ; she 

 righted again, baled out, and came in third of her class. The 

 Lenoir swamped : the Forest upset, and the Mitchell, after 

 leading all the boats of her class, down and around Chester 

 buoy, up to Greenwich Point, a short two miles from home, 

 caught a heavy flaw of wind from the northwest ; her crew 

 stretched outboard to counteract it, and brought her up too 

 suddenly, when she caught a "back full" and capsized to 

 windward, thus losing the race. The Laurence. Captain 

 Swallow Martin, one of our most skillful sailers of small boats 

 caught the same flaw but squared away, and received no 

 damage. So did the Maid, Captain Isaac Sharp, the treasurer 

 of the club. These last boats reached the home buoy in the 

 order named, and won first and second prizes. The La tcrencc'* 

 prize being the champion flag and handsome mantel clock, 

 and the Maid's prize a silver castor. The Bmma-yran first 

 prize for second-class double enders, and the Oliver second 

 prize. The Ledyard won first prize for tuckups, and the 

 B, tyle second prize. The prizes were all of the same character. 

 The time was about the best ever made— a trifle over four 

 hours over a course of over thirty miles. o. C. 



Coopbb's PoiST Yaoht Cltjb.— The Cooper's Point regatta 



sailed May 30, was a great success. The following boats en' 

 tered: Cohill, Bare, J-\uiy, Holland, Gnang, Kramer, AV- 

 nan. Sc/iticl: and Ntrcross of the Cooper's Point fleet, and the 

 'AsJttt/n, Pierre and Annie, second-class boats of the South 

 Camden fleet. These last did not contend for the champion 

 flag of the fleet, only for the money prizes. They started 

 30 minutes ahead of the others (the time allowance of their 

 class). The An nit capsized before she had gone two miles ■ 

 the Pit ret did not return to the home buoy: and the Ashtoil 

 sailed over the entire course, upwards of 35 iniles, in the un- 

 precedented time of 4 hours and 1 minute. 



- sparkling 



northwest breeze. The Holla n, l, which has a smaller mast 

 ' iucIi better trim, 

 ntained the lead 

 under a double 

 , Se?nieh 

 rased the Cohill, 

 ahead. These 

 St the ebb 

 ihange to flood, 



and sail than last year, and is oi i 



gradually drew ahead of the T?ei 



all the way to Chester buoy. 



reefed sail, followed, then came t 



and Pair. Along Tinioura I i 



and rounded Chester buoy abor 



two boats held their way tip the 



tide, knowing that in a naif houi .. 



and they would then have the full advantage of it, whilst the 



others took the shore along Tinienm. The Cohill shook out 



her reef at Crab Point, and gradually overhauled and passed 



the Noreross, and at the mouth of ihe Schuylkill, at lower end 



of League Island, was not more than half a mile behind the 



Holland, and at least a quarter of a mile to windward. Harry 



Funk, her captain, handled her most beautifully, steering for 



