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machine is taken out, the drivers are apt to 

 smuggle the car through the doors during the 

 evening hours to take some of their boon 

 companions out for a lark. If it ends in in- 

 toxication, as usually seems to be the case, 

 the inevitable result is a collision on the high- 

 way, or running some innocent pedestrian 

 down, with a tine damage bill as the outcome. 

 If the chauffeurs, who are thoroughly re- 

 spectable and very earnest in keeping up the 

 standard of their calling, are as successful as 

 they hope to be with their new organization, 

 it will be impossible for a driver who mis- 

 behaves to secure employment by a reliable 

 source. 



A new clubhouse is to he built by the 

 Motor Boat Club of America this spring. 

 It will be near 112th street, on the Hudson 

 River, and it is expected that the building 

 will be ready for occupancy 'by July 4th. 



The clubhouse will cost $50,000. Although 

 organized only last October the Motor Boat 

 Club of America has one hundred members, 

 including the owners of some of the fastest 

 boats built in this country. The club will 

 be represented in the international races this 

 year by the i5ohp. motorboat Dixie, built 

 last year by E. R. Thomas. This boat has 

 covered twenty-eight miles in an hour. The 

 Dixie is equipped with 8-cylinder simplex 

 motor and will be the fastest American boat 

 ever sent across the Atlantic. 



The present officers of the Motor Boat 

 Club of America are : 



Commodore, A. D. Proctor Smith; Vice Commo- 

 dore, Frederick Sterry; Rear Commodore, George J. 

 Gillig; Secretary, Hugh S. Gambel; Treasurer, 

 Charles Francis; Fleet Captain, Joseph S. Bunting; 

 Fleet Surgeon, Seymour Oppenheimer, M.D.; Meas- 

 urer, Francis W. Belknap; Board of Governors, Ed- 

 ward R. Thomas, Howard Gould, William B. Hay- 

 den, H. H. Behse, John J. Amory, and George J. 

 Vestner, and the officers. 



The first annual banquet and smoker of 

 the Oshkosh Power Boat Club was held at 

 the Revere House, Oshkosh, recently. 



Before the banquet proper a business ses- 

 sion was held, and the officers for the ensu- 

 ing year were elected as follows : 



Commodore, William Faber; Vice Commodore, R. 

 Herbert Pew; Secretary, George Mueller; Treas- 

 urer, H. F. Gibson; Fleet Captain, William Engle; 

 Lieutenant Fleet Captain, William Doman; Meas- 

 urer, George Overton; Chaplain, Rev. A. M. Ayres, 

 Advisory Board, Samuel Hawthorne, chairman; R. 

 B. Anger, H. W. Petrie. 



The club house will be built along the Fox 

 River, a committee of six having been ap- 

 pointed to take up the question of the build- 

 ing. 



The editor of Recreation, whose log house 

 in Pike County, Pennsylvania, is the undis- 



puted pioneer log house built for the pur- 

 poses of a summer home, and who has for 

 years pointed out the absurdity of the pal- 

 aces in the woods masquerading under the 

 names of camps, is glad to see that he has a 

 convert to the real thing in Mr. Payne Whit- 

 ney, whose log house is thus described by 

 the Flushing, L. I., Journal in the following 

 clipping : 



"During the week Payne Whitney has en- 

 tertained a party of his friends at his estate 

 in Manhasset, L. I. The party has enjoyed 

 the use of the pretty log cabin which Mr. 

 Whitney recently completed on the estate. 

 It is one of the most unique features of any 

 of the estates of millionaires on Long Island. 

 The cabin is as near like that used by the 

 early settlers as possible, even to having 

 oiled skin in the windows instead of glass. 

 The interior of the cabin is sumptuously 

 finished with skins and valuable trophies of 

 the chase. The cabin is located on part of 

 the estate where there is plenty of good hunt- 



ing. 



This proves that Mr. Whitney is a man 

 who keeps abreast of the times, and he uses 

 a motor boat to reach his log house on Long 

 Island. 



State Fish and Game Commissioner Z. T. 

 Sweeney of Columbus, has sent his report to 

 the Auditor of the State of Ohio. It shows 

 that up to January 1, 1906, 24,166 hunters' 

 licenses were issued by Commissioner 

 Sweeney. Of this number 8,000 were issued 

 prior to January 1, 1905, which leaves a total 

 of 16,166 licenses issued during the year. 

 Each license cost $1. ' This money has been 

 turned into the state treasury to the credit 

 of the commissioner. It will be used princi- 

 pally in the enforcement of the game laws of 

 the state. 



State Game Warden J. W. Baker, of Cot- 

 tage Grove, Ore., has filed his annual report 

 with the governor. This is the first report 

 since the law was passed requiring all hunt- 

 ers to procure a license. The receipt from 

 license fees was $17,000, and after meeting all 

 legitimate expenses there is a balance of 

 $13,000. More arrests were made and fines 

 collected for violating the game laws, accord- 

 ing to the report, during the year just closed 

 than during any previous year. 



State Game Warden Dr. J. A. Wheeler has 

 opened a state game preserve on his farm 

 near Auburn, 111., where game will be raised 

 for distribution over the state. It will be 

 stocked with 10,000 quails, 500 prairie chick- 

 ens, 500 pheasants, and other game birds. 



