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Sailing at Newport.— For a prize offered by Mr. H. 
K. Norman, of New York, and a pennant by Mr. J. S. 
Homans, a race was sailed in Newport harbor Sept. 5th. 
Ru tries : Dick, R. Tollmans, of Newport: Baby , H. K. 
Norman, of Boston ; Verona, W. Y. Olyphant, of Brook¬ 
lyn: Mm's, W. Warren, of New York ; Sylph, H. S. 
Eustis, and Lilian, S. C. Powell, of New Haven. Course, 
from Long Wharf around Brenton’s Reef lightship and 
return, 11 miles. Wind fresh from N. E. Dick won in 
Ih. 2m, 30s., and Baby second in lh. 5m. 22a. 
Sharpie Regatta.—T he. regatta on the Quinnipine, 
Aug. 19th, drew many people to witness the sailing 
matches betweon some of the fastest sharpies ever built. 
Entries: Merita, 34 ft., John Stirrup; Banshee , 35 ft., 
Thos. Hempstock: Berlin, 35 ft., Jas. Bishop, Jr.; Carrie 
V,, 35 ft., Lester Rowe. Only the Carrie V. and. Banshee 
started. Coui-se 6 miles. Carrie was allowed only one 
sail of 54 yds.. against the two of Banshee containing 65 
yds. Carrie V. took the lead at the start and increased it 
to a mile at the finish. In full racing rig Carrie V. sports 
no less than 265 yds. of canvas. But then planks are 
rigged out and ballast sent out to windward, In second 
class sharpies. Little Ned, J. S. Bradley, had a walk over, 
and in third class Go Softly, Scott Tftimadge, won, heat¬ 
ing Can't. Keep It, Snail, Little May, Sylvan Terror, and 
Bertie 2d. 
New Yachts.—T he coming winter promises to he one 
of the most active yacht builders have ever experienced, 
Two large schooners are to be built for New York own¬ 
ers; a number of cutters, a sea-going steam yacht, and a 
racing sloop by Piepgrass, of Greenpoint. Boston build¬ 
ers are having’many inquiries and will liavo their bauds 
full, and much activity is manifested South and in the 
W est along the lake sliores, Mr. David Kirby, of Rye, 
has sent us another handsome model for a racing sloop, 
about, sixty feet long, which he expects soon to build; 
and T, Desmond has got us out a model for a Corinthian 
cruiser of the medium type. Everything points to a very 
active time for yacht builders and sailmakers. 
Did Not Sail. —We have been informed that Dare 
Devil did not sail at Totnpkinsville Sept. 3d, as reported, 
some other craft having been mistaken for her. This 
accounts, to some extent, for the victory of Parole, as 
Mr. Dilwnrth would have made her a closer match. It 
is noteworthy that among the “ open yachts’’ Mr. Dris¬ 
coll's flyers have achieved much success this year, the 
Martha Nunn and O'Brien both maintaining his reputa¬ 
tion as a builder of fast ones. They both took first prizes 
in the Empire regatta, and the former sailed a good race 
at TompltinsviUe during the blow Sept. 3d. We may 
here add that Driscoll has excellent facilities for budding 
largo or small at his shop and yard at Pottery Beach, 
Greenpoint, L. I., and will furnish estimates to inquirers. 
Oconomowoc (Wis.) Yacht Club.— The second regatta 
of this club was sailed on Lac la Belle August 12th in 
fresh southwest wind; course 11 mdes. Nautilus, 0. T. 
Sutton, won, beating Magic, W. L. Peck; Sortie, G. 
Sohufeldt ; Pearl, H. Beckwith ; Mystic, C. Johnson j 
Buda, F. W. Peck ! Florida and Blackbird, C. Linger. 
The third regatta was safled August 2.2d over same course; 
wind fresh from northeast; Buda won, beating Mystic, 
Magic, Nautilus, Sortie, Blackbird and Florida, 
Nf.enah Yacht Club. —The regular annual regatta was 
safled August 21st on Winnebago Lake : course 7 miles : 
wind fresh from northeast. Myra Bell won, boating 
Albatross, Mermaid, Carrie Morgan, $. M. Hoy and 
Niobe. 
Geneva Lake (Wis.) Regatta.— Tlte first race of the 
year was sailed August 2d in a stiff blow over a 10-mile 
course. Won by Fearless, J. C. Water, beating Lotus, 
A. C. Ducat; Magnolia, J. H. Simmonds ; Fleetwing, W. 
Knox ; Mischief, G. Van Slyke: Zuave, C. Crane; Daunt¬ 
less. C. Whiting, and Lucy, C. Boswortli. Mischief cap¬ 
sized and Lucy did not finish. The second race was sailed 
August 10th in a fresh wind from northeast. Won by 
Geneva, W. Wood, heating Whisper, N. K. Fairbanks; 
Zuave, B. Crane ; Fearless, C. J. Walters, and Magnolia, 
D. T. Whiting. 
Sailing on White Bear Lake, Minn, — The Juniata 
and Nellie Illsley Bailed a match on White Bear Lake for 
$100, August 20 th. Former won by 6m. 80s. In the race 
for cat-rigs. Nautilus, Lizzie Pratt, Theresa and Stormy 
Petrel started. The Pratt took first prize, $40; Nautilus, 
second, $25 : and Petrel third, $10. Rowing races under 
auspices of the Minnesota Boat Club followed. 
Southern Yacht Club. —The annual cruise of this 
club was safled August 23d, across Lake Pontehartrain. 
Starters : Zoe, Com. O’Brien ; Gov. Claiborne, Mr. Clai¬ 
borne; Edith, Mr. McNeil, and Cydnus, Mr. Harris. Bad 
weather prevented others from coming to the line. Edith 
made the best start, followed by Claiborne, Cydnus and 
Zoe, all with two reefs tied down. Zoe ran through the 
lot and shook out reefs, a manoeuvre soon followed by the 
rest. Cydnus hauled up for Tchefuncta river. At 8:2, 
Zoe lead the way into MandeviUe, making the run in 2h. 
4!lm. -with Claiborne 11m. later. A hpavy sea and lee 
shore were found which did not make things comfortable, 
and capsized'several yawls, landing the crews, The fleet 
was again joined next morning by the Cydnus. Edith 
hating lost her rudder, passed her crew into the other 
rraft, and at noon all hands got under weigh for home. 
Cydnus got the best of the turn to windward in the light 
wind blowing and Zoe could not hold her in spite of light 
duds. The fleet dropped anchor off the club house with 
Cydnus leading, Claiborne next, and Zoe third, after a 
very enjoyable cruise. 
Recent Buffalo Union Regatta.— The case of the 
Arrow having been laid before us for consideration, we 
have come to the following decision —Arrow is not en¬ 
titled to any prize. She t urned one of the marks from 
the wrong side, leaving it on starboard instead of port 
hand, as rule XIII. of the printed sailing directions de¬ 
mands. Her claim that she was compelled so to do or 
t ike imminent risk of capsizing, is not valid : for she 
could have keptto windward ofthe mark, thereby leaving 
it to port, then gone about, if afraid to jibe, or she could 
have lowered mainsail and jibed under jib. Sailing re¬ 
gulations are made to be observed, not broken at the 
option of any skipper. If, therefore, any yacht sailing 
against Arrow lodges a protest, the judges or the regatta 
committee have no choice in the matter, but must debar 
her from any prize, always providing such authority has 
been reserved to the judges or committee by the rules 
tinder which the races were sailed. If no special clause 
to this effect has bees inserted in the sailing rules the 
judges m ay consider whether turning the mark as Arrow 
did was or was not conducive to her w innin g. If ima- 
terial, the protest may be set aside, but if material to the 
result of tlie race, it should be entertained. As a rule, all 
sailing directions should contain a clause specifying the 
loss of claim to any prize if protested successfully against 
on account of infraction of sailing rules. Most directions 
we have seen are wanting in this respect, and tiresome 
controversy is the consequence., 
Shrewsbury Regatta.— The eleventh annual regatta 
on the Shrewsbury River was sailed at Fair Haven, N. J., 
Aug. 9th. Course, 20 miles. Two classes for jib and 
mainsails, and two for cat boats. Prizes, two in each 
class Wind, light from S. W. hut freshened. The win¬ 
ners were ns follows : First class, jih-and-mainsafl, Flor¬ 
ence Capt. J. C. Fisher, 4 h. 12 m. 25 s.: second, Breeze, 
4 h 19 m. 20 s. Second class: Madelaine, 4h. 33m. 25 s.: 
Ideal 4 h. 39 m. 10 s. As to cat-rigged boats the time 
w as taken of hut two, the E. K. and Olivia, the other two 
claiming a foul. 
Compliment Declined.— Some persons have done us 
the honor, moi'c Hibeniico, of associating our name 
with the spasmodic efforts of a correspondent “K” in a 
minor contemporary. Thanks, but on the whole we do 
not care to father all the K’s in this world. We write 
with visor up. 
On the Cards. —It is said that a match between the 
schooners Enchantress and Cetonia for $5,000 from 
Cowes around the Nab Light is among the possibilities in 
English waters. With plenty of reaching the “big 
American” will have it all her own way, but in a twist 
to windward and short sea Cetonia has a pretty sure 
thing of it. 
Snug Rigs. — N othing like having a due relation between 
spars and the hull. The schooner Brenda, E.Y. C., has been 
sailing well this season since her spars were out down, 
and though in light drifting matches her speed may have 
suffered slightly, her owner congratulates himself upon the 
change for all other purposes. 
San Francisco Model Yacht Club.—R aces sailed 
on Oakland Creek. Out of a large number of 
entries Consvclo, Tormentor ana America came in first 
in first class, JVfelli'e and Lotus in second class. 
Folding Boats. —Mr. Coughtry has reduced the 
prices of his canvas folding boats, and has adopted 
“tanned” canvas for the siding of sporting boats, so as 
to he less visible to game. 
To American Yachtsmen.— For complete records of 
all yacht races in England, as well as for a great variety 
of other matter of interest, Buch as cruises and yachting 
tales, read Hunt’s Yachting Magazine, established 1852. 
Can be had of booksellers generally, or direct from Hunt 
& Co., 119 Church Street, Edgware road, London, E. C., 
England. Published monthly, one shilling sterling per 
number.— [Adv. ____________ 
A Specimen Regatta.— A bit of a breeze frightened 
away half the entries from the races sailed Sept. 3d off 
Tompkinsvillc, Staten Island. The races were opened to 
all craft Course from off the “ Good Anchorage,” round 
Fort Diamond, thence to Owl’s Head buoy, thence to 
buoy 17 and home, turning the marks either side. Many 
famous sand-hag machines were at the start, and the 
manner in which they were capsized shows a thorough 
lack of the first principles of seamanship oran entire dis- 
retrard for them, and it is a fitting comment upon the 
worthlessness of our smaller yachts foranythmg at all— 
a condition of affairs induced, it need hardly be said, 
through the custom of shifting ballast. To watch the 
sailing Of such over-weighted, over-sparred mantraps as 
Parole aud her ilk, is to conceive a contempt 
for such machines, and as for the crews which reduce sea¬ 
manship to a mere matter of athletics and jugglery, and 
in spite of sand-bags cannot keep their craft bottom up, 
the least said about them as sailors or yachtsmen the 
betten Parole started with whole sail, the rest reefed 
down No sooner had they fairly got under way than 
the capsizing began. Carrie Taylor led off by dumping 
her crew, and a fine spectacle they presented, sprawling 
in the water. Soon after the Beeves followed suit, going 
over with a flap. Parole beat Dare Devil by 17m. in the 
first class and Martha Munn aud The Brothers won in 
second and third classes, their competitors having been 
dumped overboard. Lizzie V., the smallest of the lot, 
beat Katie M. by more than half an hour in the fourth 
class, and therefore takes the purse. 
Mr. Burgh Speaks. —We have always contended that 
long-distance go-as-you-please exhibitions come lyithin 
the scope of the S. F. P. C. A.’s field. If that organization 
should attempt to deal with these things, its attitude 
toward them may he inferred from the following card of 
Mr. Bergh, addressed to one of the New York daily 
papers : 
It having been announced in the newspapers thfe other 
day that the undersigned was one of a committee which 
went down the hay to meet Weston, the pedestrian, on 
his return to New York, and again last night his name 
appearing as one of the “ Reception Committee ” at Madi¬ 
son Square Garden ; will you do me the favor to state 
that the use of my name in any such connection was not 
authorized by me, nor have I any sympathy with such 
exhibitions. ’ ’ ’ Henry Bergh. 
— Jessamine. Ky., has produced a ninty-pound water¬ 
melon— Exchange. 
We don’t savc-z any ninety pounds, but we’ve seen a 
picaninny paddling about Savannah River at Augusta, 
Ga., iu a dug-out canoe made of a half of a watermelon 
rind. ^ ^ ^_ 
The Coney Island electric lights striking the diamond 
pins of (lie bartenders make it confusing for incoming 
pilots,— Telegram. 
fen mid JJ iver L <J(i<driiifl. 
FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 
Trout, Salmo fontlnalls, 
Salmon, Salmo Solar. 
Salmon Trout, Salmo cotiflnls. 
Land-locked Salmon, Salmo glo- 
fresh water. 
Grayling, Thymallus tricolor. 
Muslcalonge, Esox ni/billur. 
I’ilce or Pickerel, Esox lucius. 
Yellow Percli, Perea flamcens. 
Black Bass, Mieropterus salmoidca; M nigricans. 
SALT WATER. 
Sea Bass, SHamnps ocellatus. 
Sbeepshead, Arcltoeargus proba- 
tou phaltie. 
Striped Bass, Rocctis fin eatus. 
Wli ite Perch, Mitrmie (Unericana. 
Weakflsh, Cutloscion regally. 
Blueflsh, Pomatnmns saltalrir. 
Spanish Mackerel, Cybium nmc- 
ulatum. 
Cero, Cybium regale. 
Rob ite. SardapelamyS. 
Kiiigllf.il, Menlicirrvy vehulnsvs. 
TROUT FLIES FOR SEPTEMBER; 
Gray Coflin, No. 10 aud U.—Body, silver-gray mohair tipped 
with orange silk; feet, light gray hackle wound over peacock's 
fieri; wings and setre, hyaline. 
Brown Coflin, No. 10 and 11, — Body, gray and bright claret 
mohair mixed ; feet, dark gray hackle wound over peacock's hert; 
whigs and setas, gray hyaline. 
The gnat flies mimed for April. 
The Quaker for evening and moonlight. No. 7 and 8. Body, 
gray wound with honey-yellow hackles; wings, made of feather 
from an owl’s wings. 
The white moth for dark nights, No. 0 and 7. Body, feet and 
wings a pure white. 
The stone flies continue on the water until the close of th« 
season. 
At this season use the small ties for day fishing and (lie large 
flies for evening and night. 
The Lakes of the Lower Mississippi.—To most North¬ 
ern sportsmen the lakes of the Lower Mississippi are a 
terra incognita, truly an unknown land. Beginning 
about seventy-five miles above the mouth of the Ohio 
River, and ending at New Orleans, we shall find an al¬ 
most unbroken chain of lakes. Frequently the wild 
dash of the impetuous water against a bluff cuts its way 
through, and thus the old channel of the stream is con¬ 
verted into a lake, sometimes fifty miles long by one and 
a half broad. On the subsidence of the spring floods, the 
water, once as turbid and yellow as the parent stream, 
becomes as clear as crystal, and it is the chosen home of 
millions of peroh, trout (M. salmoides ), buffalo, catfish, 
and in some lakes small striped bass. As the lakes can 
never be seined, the supply is inexhaustible. 
There are many varieties of perch in these lakes which 
cannot bo found elsewhere in the United States. Nota¬ 
bly, a perch called the “raccoon perch," from the black 
bars running around its body j the white bream, a fish of 
about one pound in weight, with a black spot on each 
side of its gills ; the spotted trout, rarely caught, and 
then only when fishing about twenty feet deep ; the bar 
fish, as game as a mountain trout, and far more plenti¬ 
ful. Watch these varieties swarm about the hook, and la¬ 
bor under the pleasing delusion that worms were made 
exclusively for fish to eat. 
Maine. —Messrs, Steele and Morley of Hartford, Conn., 
who have recently returned home from a 200 mile canoe 
trip on Churchill and Telos lakes, Telos river, Webster 
brook, etc., report the trout fishing excellent. 
Maine — Camp Kennebago, Indian Rock, Aug. 30 th.— 
Our party, consisting of N. A. Roberts, Frank .Steven¬ 
son, jr., Frank S. Fay and the writer, have just returned 
from a ten days’ trip to Parmeehenee. We came in via 
Bryant’s Pond and Andover to Arm of the Lake, thence 
to Middle Dam and across Five-and-balf-mile Carry to 
Arm of Umbagog Lake (near landing), thence up lake to 
Brown’s Farms on the Megalloway. From Brown’s 
Farms to Fred. Flint’s camp, at the head of Ariscoo's 
Falls, is seven miles, where we found good accommoda¬ 
tions. At this point we took boats at 6.80 A.M., and at 
4 r.M. reached foot of carry to Parmeehenee, thirty- 
three miles. A carry of four miles, just south of Flint’s 
camp, took us to south shore of Parmeehenee, and one 
and a half miles further took us to J, S. Danforth’s camp 
upon a small island up lake. We spent five days here 
and took more trout than we could eat, hut returned all 
we did not need at camp. The late rains have seriously 
interfered with early fall fishing, but trout are beginning 
to rise to the fly now. The largest we have captured thus 
far are about two pounds each. Small trout are very 
plentiful about Parmeehenee at all times, and early and 
late fishing give larger fish. Those weighing over five 
pounds were taken here last June, Danfortb's Camp is 
a very pleasant affair, about which I shall say more anon. 
Deer are also very plentiful here usually, but the late 
rains have driven them baok into the woods. 
From P. we made a seven-mile carry across to Cupsup- 
tic River (a very good carry by the way) and poled down 
stream eight miles. Then a carry of one-half mile takes 
you below the Rips and into deeper water, where we 
found boats in waiting, and in two hours reached Indian 
Rock — thus making the entire trip easily in one day. 
We reached Indian Rock before the members of the 
O. A. Association had migrated hither, and had the 
grounds almost to ourselves. I say almost ; there were 
three others besides our party to dispute the honors of 
success with us ; and last evening one of them captured 
a 21-pound trout. A very largo one took my fly, but 
having out too much line when I struck I presume I did 
not send the hook home, for he was off in a moment. 
We caught in addition a few small ones, and the indica¬ 
tions are that with fair weather good sport may be ex¬ 
pected this week, for there is every indication that they 
have commenced running up. 
Marshall Whitney, of Upton, Me., guide and tyer of 
1 flies, captured three at Upper Dam tins week with a fly, 
weighing respectively 61,5i and 3 pounds, as I can youcli 
for, as I saw them myself. 
