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[Serr. 11, 1884. 
jower end of the rod, If the board does not weigh over 
thirty pounds it is raised and Jowerea by a single pennant of 
braided cord. Tyo brass plates are rivetted, one on each 
side of the board, at its upper after corner, and a brass 
thimble in which the lifting line is spliced, plays on a rivet 
through their upper ends. A. pulley is placed on deck, from 
which the cord leads to a cleat. 
Por 1 heavier board a purchase must be used, a chain made 
of flat links side by side, is fastened to the centerboard by 
two large links, a rubber ball is then slipped on to the chain 
to set as a butter, and 2 single brass block is lashed to the 
end of the chain, The deck pulley over which the chain 
yuns has a sheave with a square groove to take the chain, 
and is also fitted so ag to slide into place on deck, or be 
readily removed, without taking it off the chain, A brass 
Hlock is also lashed to the lifting rod at deck, and the line is 
yove by making one end fast to the tail of this block, leading 
through the other block, ou the chain, and back through the 
first block, thence to a cleat. By taking hold of the chain 
near the pulley with one hand, and of the lifting handle 
with the other, the pulley may be disengaged and the board 
readily lifted ont. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 
Tou the Members of the American Canoe Association: 
GENTLEMEN—I find it necessary to call your attention to Article 
XL. of the by-laws: ‘Hach member shall send into the secretary by 
Oot, 15 of cach leas a log of such cruises as he may have made, 
noling especially the condition of such waters as he may have 
cruised on, rapids, dams, shoals, good and bad camping places and 
all items of yalue to other canoeists.*’ I particularly request that 
those members who haye made cruises to or from the Grindstone 
Island meet, in part or whole, will send mea condensed report of 
same at their ¢arhest convenience, not only that they may be placed 
on file in this office, but with the hope that they may, af no distant 
day, be published in book form as a reliable guide for canoeists who 
miy wish to cruise on the waters mentioned. It is also necessary 
that I call your attention to Article I, of the by-laws regarding the 
payment of annual dues; 
S = « ‘Hach subsequent annual puyment shall be one dollar, and 
shall be payable at the annual Congress. If not paid within two 
months thereafter, the secretary shall notify the members in arrears 
and if, at the end of oné month more, the dues are still unpaid, the 
membership shall be forfeited, and the member’s name stricken from 
the roll, except in case of absence from the country or other sufficient 
reason.’ 
Tl urgently request that all members who have not complied with 
this law, will do so at once. Money should he sentin P. O. notes or 
orders on ‘Saratoga Springs, N.Y. I woultt also say to those mem- 
bers who have not reported their canoes to me that they will be fur- 
nished with blanks on which to do so, if they will apply to me for the 
same. It is only necessary that all canoes belonging to members of 
the Association be registered, as the committee haying the 1885 
regatta in hand will insist on the strict letter of the law being en- 
forced. Therefore no canoe not registered with the secretary will be 
allowed to enter amy of the A. (. A. races. 
Quads. A. NEpE, Secretary and Treasurer A, C. A, 
SEORETARY’s Orrice, Schuylerville, N. ¥., Sept. 1, 1884. 
Hditer Korest aud Stream: 
A, ©. A. Camp 1884 is over, and more experience has been added to 
the slock accumulated by racing canoeists, Formst AnD STREAM has 
begin a good course in suggesting certain improvements in future 
arrangements. The regatta committee will meet at a very early 
date and will be glad to have the benefit of suggestions from an. 
practical canocists. These will be much more serviceable than eriti- 
eisms ata later date. Therefore let any such canoeist write his ideas 
immediately for publication in these columns, and they shall receive 
due eousideration in making programme and regulations for 1885. 
REGATTA COMMITTEE. 
THE DROWNING OF MR. ALLEN. 
NE of the saddest accidents that has happened in the records of 
canoeing in this country is told in the following letter from Mr. 
James A, Alien, of Buffalo, whose son, Mr, Arthur Allen, of the Buat- 
falo C. C., was drowned in Lake Erie on Aug. 30, Ttis but two weeks 
since we published Mr, Allen’s note about the Canoe Club, of which 
he was atniost enthusiastic member. His death is one of those acci- 
dents which sometimes happen in spite of care or skill; bub it is not 
necessary to condemn the sport as dangerous on account of it, rather 
let usresolve to use still greater care than heretofore, to consider 
wellall risks, and to look more carefully, above all to the proper 
aprons and hatches so necessary in_rough water, but which heme 
seldom used, are often neglected, We sympathize deeply with Mr. 
Allen in his great misfortune, as the loss is not only his, but a loss to 
all canovists. 
Bditor Forest and Stream: ‘ 
Your letter of Aug. 30 to my son Arthur, acknowled ging the receipt 
of his communication, published in your journal on the 28th, was re- 
ceived only after his death. Ashe was an ardent lover of aquatic 
sport and had been for about four years a very diligent reader of the 
FoREST AND StRWAM, as wellas at times a contributor to its pages, I 
have fell certain that [ could count upon your interest in him, and 
have thought that a brief note from me, giying an account of the 
necident in which he Jost his life, might not be unacceptable to you. 
Tn the cultivation of manly exercises it is a necessity that in very 
large part the pursuit should rest with lads im the flower of their 
ealy physical development, before they have acquired that ripe 
maturity and soberness of Judgment, which becomes later one of the 
compeusations of a more advanced and less athletic period of exist- 
ence. A little more than this is true; for since the world began there 
has been, not here and there but always, a perilous wine in the blood 
o£ youth, leading it to court dangers for the sake of danger, an utter 
buoyancy of heart that scorns all thought and fear of death, and 
which, as human life has moved along, has filled the pages of liter- 
ature and story with its most moving scenes, Deeply as we are 
foreed 40 mourn when trafic results follow, we cannot blame, for we 
could not if we would alter the Fapulbes and instinets which stir so 
mightily in the breasts of the youth of perfect mould and prowess 
and push them on to meet dangers voluntarily incurred and to grapple 
with emergencies which in a different mood they ceuld so well and 
easily avoid. L 
Between 2anud3 o'clock on Saturday, the 30th, my son started to 
take his canoe, which he had named the Surf, back to the club boat 
house in front of Fort Porter, from the shop of Mr, Hingston, the 
builder, on the line of the canal near the foot of Jersey street, where 
it Had been for Some days foraslight repair. The boat could have 
heen iaken home by the route of the canal by its being lifted with 
assistance into the Black Rock harbor over an mteryening wall. The 
ouly obher course was to paddle up the canal to the Erie Basin, and 
thence crossing three-fourths of a mile of open lake which lay be- 
faveen the basin and the end of the Bird Island pier, enter the Black 
Rock harbor. A strong southwest wind was blowing to land from off 
the lake, and the séa was running yery high and angry, so much so 
that the raised tracks of the railroad opposite the lake were wet, and 
the spray was tossing and falling around the rows of cars that stood 
in the vicinity. Artbur struck out to paddle the race for life or death 
across this stretch of open foaming Jake. Ido not dotbt that he 
reasoned rightly in holding thatthe trip was one perfectly feasible 
to him to take, all the conditions preserved, only as is shown clearly 
by the event, he did not leave a just margin of allowance for contin- 
gencies. He had crossed about three-fourths of the distance to be 
overcome when itissaid by an eye witness that he was observed to 
be standing in his canoe; ibis supposed that probably the rudder was 
then broken and that he was tryipg to unship it, fy 
The next yiew of him was in the water to the windward of his boat, 
swimming behind it. Butthe unballasted canoe being driven sideways 
shoreward by winds as well as waves, ib was not possible tor him to 
reachit, After some moments of swimming, the canoe being blown 
near the shore abreast of the formidable projecting piles and rocks 
that form the buttress of the railway tracks against the sea, the brave 
boy, either exhausted or drawn in by undertow, sank down to rise no 
more. Only one man was found atthe scene daring enough to at- 
tempt a rescue. The boat in which he started out was speedily 
swamped, though the lad making the venture was happily saved, 
The body of my son was discoyered about noon on Tnesday in Black 
Rock Harbor, in theneighborhood of the water works, caughtamidst 
sonie stay pieces of boards and timber near the line of the break~ 
water. Tihs watch found upon his person stopped ab seven minutes to 
‘ 
five, which must mark nearly thé time when his brave, loving and 
manly heart ceased to beat. At 9 o’clovk the same evening the pierc- 
ing message reached me at the island resort of Manisses, where Iwas 
resting, and by the boat of the following day Lsetmy face homeward. 
The sun lay bright on the shores of the Narragansett as we steamed 
upward from the ocean, and the lordly Hudson and placid Mohawk 
have been rarely more lovely than as my train skirted them on that 
fair ist of September; but a veil of mist and cloud was in my eyes 
and heart, andl could think only of the drowned body of my dear 
son weltering in the waters, and of the broken prop and stay of my 
declining years. His remains were interred on Thursday, the 4th, at 
orest Lawn Cemetery, amidst the soothing burial service of the 
ehurch in which he was reared. 
Arthur was an expert yachtsman, haying been one of the crew of 
the sloop Scud in the Cleveland regatta of July 4, 1888, contesting 
the second class race, the Scud fairly winning the first place, but 
being ruled second, owing to a change of regulations regarding the 
finish not known to the sloop, which had made alate arrival on the 
morning of the race, having barely time to take position and enter, 
His yachting cruises to all points in the lower part of the lake during 
the last three seasons have been very numerous, Point Abino being 
thé more usual destination, but oecasional trips were made to un- 
kirk, Long Point, Bay View, Angola, Wind Mill Point, ete. 
The canoe club, as is shown in his communication of the 28th, has 
been very recently formed, but at a little regattain the harbor on the 
xed, he was the winner of a silk flag, the prize of one of the races, 
Erect in figure, of marked and clear-cut features, elastic in move- 
ment, blithe and buoyant in disposition, wearing upon his face, as 
nature's gift to him, a pléasant smile, the mirror of a happy heart, 
his lovers cored the whole of his acquanitance, The tokens of 
esteem and affection which have been paid to his memory on the 
part of his young friends and admirers in all ways have been of the 
most touching description, As oné whose familiar knowledge had 
been greatest and longest, itis my right and privilege to say of him 
that im soberest verity he was the sweetest and sunniest soul boru 
into time whom I had ever known. His years lacked one month and 
three days of twenty-one. 
_Let me close this brief, sad note, Mr, Ndifor, with a word of can- 
tion to the ardent young canoeists and boatmen, readers of your good 
and useful journal, prized by me for the esteem in which my son held 
it, that they should not incur needless danger, and when siwonely 
tempted to do so they should call up in mind the consequences of 
error to those they dearly love, and thus be led in the way of pru 
dence. i Jamms A, ALLEN. 
Burrato, Sept. 5. 
as she approaches you in mid-stream, A stranger would wonder if 
she Ineant torun high and dry on thebank, She is only keeping the 
channel and her wanderings are guided by knowledge. Steam yachts 
and schooners are not so threatening, but still very respectable op- 
ponents. Under these circumstances canoeists without lights will 
have a lively time, Last year one among us obtained a simplelantern 
with small globe, plain glass allaround, and hung if on his dandy 
mast with a little loop to prevent it swinging and breaking in the sea. 
Tt was the solution of the problem as nearly as we could expect. It 
commanded respect from any quarter afloat (in the darkness a, pilot 
always respéct a light), it was not any impediment to the vision of the 
evew, and it was the handiest lantern around camp. As to details, ib 
was an oil lantern disemboweled, so that where wick and hurner 
had been a candle thrust up through a hole cut in the bottom 
displayed its mild effulgence. And one by one the Mohican canoes 
took up the idea. A lantern on the dandy mast is the thing required. 
We have two or three rules as regards cruising, made and obeyed for 
general safety. The rule to carry a white Licht visible all around 
would have been posted with the others, bub it was not, because it 
was superfluous, We all know its advantage, and’ the Mohican 
who has not his light is a rare and unhappy nighthird. Thisis @ 
canoeist’s contrivance. The dandy mast is an existing, conyenient 
place for the lantern, easily accessible and behind him, sq as not to 
interfere with his sight. What a rowboat can do is another matter 
which does not now concern me. Thecrew facing astern complicates 
the question, but let any canoeist try this plan tor either sailing or 
paddling, and he need never trouble canoeing literahire with com- 
plaints or theories about “that lantern.” Lastly, common candles, 
which ean be bought everywhere, which do nob get injured by wet 
and which do not demand any care about the right end up of the 
lantern when not in use, or of the reserye in the locker, and which do 
not smell like fury when they spill, are the best things to burn, 
MonicAn GANoE CLUB, R, W. Gigson, Capt, M, C, C, 
SOME A. €. A. RULES. 
A asts regatta committees by the constitution is “‘appoimted within 
thirty days after his election by the commodore,” Its duty is 
to “prepare and publish not later than June lan order of races for 
the annual regatta, . . .” The earlier the better. Jan. 1is the 
best time, so preparation ean be made for races while the results are 
still green in the memory. The laying out and buoying of courses 
has been done. (See Art. [X., Regatta Committee Duties.) *‘The 
providing of prizes.” Why cannot this be divided among the clubs 
and a large expense saved the A, C, A,, and vues of much more 
interest and better in design than the manufacturers’ regulars be 
collected? Let the committee decide upon the wording and the 
shape, so as to distinguish paddling from saiting, and first from 
second prizes. Also let them name a date when all must be sent to 
the chairman; then any shorts can be added, and the spectazle of a 
chairman at the meet without a single prize, and telegraphive fran- 
tically here and there to get them, while the races are about to be 
called, will be avoided. ‘To appoint judges, starters and time- 
keepers.” This does not include u clerk of the course unless time- 
keeper means the same thing. Itis a good thing to have vacing’ men 
on the regatta committee; butitis a bad thing to have any duties 
devolving on a man entering races; therefore the judges, timekeep- 
-ers, starters and clerk of the course should be members not intending 
to enter races, and there are many such, and they should be ap- 
pointed if possible—the clerk at any rate—before regatta weelr, so 
they can prepare themselves for their duties, which, though simple, 
need a little thought, The committee or the Association shonld cer- 
tainly provide the clerk with suitable blanks on which to make the 
entries and record results. ‘‘They shall post the course and condi- 
tions of each race in some prominent; place at least one honr before 
the race is called.** Has this ever been done? Jf not, why? Hither 
obey the instructions or abolish them. Obedience in vbis case is the 
qetter course. 
The measurers at the last meet found plenty to do and their services 
were of great importance. Why not appoint them also hefore 
the races begin so they can provide themselves or be provided with 
tape, square, etc. The A.C. A. is getting so large that the work of 
regatta week must be largely distributed so a8 not to fall too heavy 
onafew shoulders. By making appointments early and selecting 
suitable men everything about the regatta will run much more 
smoothly for the time given each official to learn his duties and pro 
vide what is necessar to fully carry them ont. 
“All entries must bein writing, on blanks provided, and must be 
handed in to the Regatta Committee (clerk of the course) within such 
time as they may direct.’ Yes, but suppose no blanks are provided? 
Were this rule followed oul, much confusion would be avoided, 
any amount of mental anguish spared the clerk, and a me ae a 
man’s own siguature—of the dimensions and class of the canoe ob- 
tained, which could be filed forreference in case of protest or question 
as to measurement. The slips for any one race could be pinned 
together and time or order of finish of each canoe entered on its own 
entry slip. Afterward the slips could be arranged in order and the 
entire record copied once for all on large blanks, or in the official 
book, and handed to the secretary of the Association as provided in 
the constitution. Obey the rule or wipe it ont. 
Rule LV. has never yet been followed and should be changed, The 
object of it is that the judges and timekeepers may be able to dis- 
finguish the various canoes—one from another im 4 given race, This 
eannot be done by a strict observance of therule. Other ways are 
much more effective and should be resorted to. Printed numbers on 
the bows or decks for paddling or some sueh marks are good, and a 
like sign on the sail for sailing races, as often adopted in small yacht 
races. Many canoes now are provided with indiyidnal marks which 
identity them a long distance off—the Snake for example. (Se8 Stod- 
dart's photograph of Squaw Point), : 4 
The third prize item in Rule V. should go. The no other prize” 
jtem in same rule we hope to see amended to include the average 
prizes—one and two—tor the meet of *8. 
Rule Vi.—about posting directions—must also be followed or 
dropped. Poor Regatta Committee! you do have duties and no mis- 
take, but for pity’s sake live up to them. A CeueRrt. 
AMENDMENTS TO THE SAILING RULES, 
| Pee late races have already borne good fruit in calling the atten- 
tion of allto the rules and their shortcomings. The following 
letters deal with the question of signals, the rule converning which 
has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. Jn 1re~ 
gard to ‘Tip Top’s” first suggestion, the retarding effect of a small 
flag, is too slight to be noticed, and the amendment proposed by Mr. 
Vaux seems to us much better than to, abolish flags. as the faces of 
some are unknown to the judges, while the designating of canoes by 
numbers instead of names will be a little easier for those keeping the 
records, The suggestion of the number in red on the sail is also a 
zood one, as it is difficult to distingnish the boats in a race by any 
other mark. 
Rule V. may well be amended to two flags only, 
The third prize was intended to promote entries, but the ‘Average 
Record” will now accomplish lhe same end. 
Tn Rule X. the term distanced is understood as equivalent to dis- 
qualified among boating men and a change is hardly necessary. 
Rule VIII. is capable of improvement, as the touching of a bnoy, 
flag oy mark boat is considered a foul, and it should be so stated in 
e rule. 
The suggestion regarding the definition of a professional is imprac- 
ticable, as every previous attempt on the partof oarsmen has been 
unsuccessful, and the introduction of the point will only lead to dis- 
cussion and dispute. The subject had better be left to the judgement 
of the Association rather than to lay down a cast-iron rule, which 
may be evaded by some while unfair to others who would comply 
with its letter, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Tf you will permit me a little space, I would like to call attention to 
a few changes and suggestions that 1 hope will be made regarding the 
Sailing Regulations, and as the Regatta Committee will hold their 
meeting shortly, I trust we will be able to get an expression of opinion 
ou them and others that will be presented. 
Ishall recommend the changing of Rule 1Y,, which provides for 
the carrying of private signals during races. While in canoe racing 
time is the least important feature, I believe that we should not 
hamper and hinder men by compelling them to carry in a pad- 
dling race a private signal, which of necessity will greatly retard 
them, and which is of no use whatever. The original intention of 
private signals was to distinguish the different boats, but m ourraces 
facial recognition is easier than by flags, as small as ours must be. 
This 7ule should be abolished, Rule V, provides that “flags of three 
patterns shall be given for first, second and third prizes,” but as in 
no régatta more than two have been given, T shall recommend the al- 
tering this rule to conform to custom, 
Rule X. provides that if a man in 4 paddling race refuses to slart 
according to the instructions of the starter, he “shall be distanced.” 
As this is very vague to the general reader, T would suggest that if 
any competitor refuses to obey the directions of the starter that he 
be ruled out. Much has been said during the past three years about 
this man being a professional or that man being a professional, and 
it has occasioned both discomfort and unpleasantness to many, 10 
fact, so objectionable that in one case it was found necessary this year 
for a representative of one club to rise up and protest against ifs con- 
tinuance in reference to Mr. Johnson, eyen in the A. C. A. general 
meeting. I would suggest that a rule be introduced defining a pro- 
fessional and then have it strictly enforced, 
One more lap andiam through. Wedeseribe fouls in eyery way 
but one, and that is where a man touches a buoy or stake, Wo 
penalty is laid down in the rules for this. Should there not be? 
These are but suggestions that have come to me while reading over 
the Rules, What do A. C. A. men think of them? Tre Tor. 
A. CG. A; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 
AMBPRICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION, l 
ExEcurtve Oreice, Aurany, N. ¥., Sept. 9, 1884. | 
HBPRE will be a meeting of the Hxecutive Committee of the Asso- 
ciation at the Delevan House, Albany, N. ¥., on Sahurday, Oct, 
d,ati0 A.M. Allmembers of the Association are cordially invited 
to present, either in person or by letter, any suggestions or ideas 
for the action of the committee that they may deem of benefit to the 
Association. , 4 
The following members will constitute the Regatta Commitiee, anc 
they will be obeyed and respected accordingly 
R. W. Gibson, of Albany, chairman, ’ 
R, T. Wilkin, of New York, 
J. L. Weller, of Peterborough, ’ : 
The conimittes will meet at the call of the chairman previous to 
Oct. 4, to prepare such matter-as it may deem advisable tosubmit for 
the action of the Executive Committee. Members are respecttully 
requested to address all communications relatiye to matters in the 
jurisdiction of the Regatta Committee to the chairman thereof on or 
before Oct. 1, 
By order of the committee, 
Editor Forest aid Stream: : . 
The question of modifying the rule governing signals was raised in 
your issue of last week. The flag of a canoe isso small and the de- 
sizn of it so hard to make out at a distance that it is practically use: 
less ag a distinguishing markin aregatta. The signals on the sails 
are club signals, If every man attending the A. CG. A. meet should 
provide himself with his membership number m red, sewed in the 
peaks of bis sail on both sides, there would beno trouble about 
knowing @ canoe even at some distance away. Let each man also 
provide himself with a white tlag 12x18 with the same number on itand 
a good signal for paddling races results. The question of size that 
the figures should be can be easily devided by experiment. 
@. Bowypr VAux. 
LIGHTS ON SMALL BOATS. 
Hditor Forest and Streatu: : 
Much has been written and said about lights upon canoesand other 
small boats, aud I notice another comment under this head im & recent 
number of Fores AnD StRwAM. Such an important subject deserves 
attention, since serious risks are run in some waters by small boats 
after dark, if they are not equipped with a serviceable light. It must 
be remembered thatthe object of this lightis not to render things 
visible to the crew of the canoe, nor to warn other erart ahead as a 
locomotive or steamer or other giant of modérn science is expected 
to do, by means of headlights and colored signals, but only to be yisi- 
ble, with a modest remonstrance against its own destruction. There- 
fore a simple white light visible all around, is the only proper display 
and is the one which the law and custom almost everywhere directs. 
Mhe objection to it has been that a light betore the eyes of the 
erew renders everything else indistinguishable, and many a man has 
endeayored to peerinto blackness across the dazzle of a bright lantern 
and has become convinced that the experiment was afailure. Dut 
that is not a proper reason for discarding the light or for shutting 
off that part which shines where the crew’s eyes (om a canoe) are 
jeast effective, viz., aft, as is done in those lanterns with blank backs, 
which are unseev if approached from behind. The pretty oil lantern 
with white lisht ahead and green and red on _ starboard aud port is 
imperfect, and as regards its coloris a toy. It matters little to a fast 
steamer what tack or what direction a canoe is sailing, her speed is 
so insignificant that her presence in 4 certain spotis the chief thing 
to be noticed. Two seasons ago some of the Mohicans carried this 
style of lantern, te : ’ 
"he Hudson up here is quite liyely with steamers ab times, and we 
are prone to evening excursions, to suppers and carips and less 
definite ends, 
U, A, Nero, See. A, GL A, 
SAILING COURSES AT GRINDSTONE ISLAND. 
Editor Forest and Stream: -. 
Referring to your suggestion, contained in Pormust AnD STREAM 
Sept. 4, ‘that the A. ©. A. sailing course in Wel Bay be chahged to 
one of a triangle with nile sides,” 1 would say that it would be 
found extremely difficult to get such a conrse free of obstructions 
(as the present one is) in the way of islands and shoals, When fT 
made the survey last winter, Tendeayored to get such a course as 
ou suggest, but found I would have to make the start nearly a mile 
From the camp, and even then, on tiwoof the angles, Lran into the 
rushes. It may be possible to get-such a course as you mention by 
running from the present starting buoy close along shore, to and be- 
yond Picnic Point, and turn off to the N.B., but even that Trear would 
carry us béhind the islands and across thse shoals, to say nothing of 
being forced to keep under the lee of the Jand on the first angle. 
This 8 meve guess work on my part, as I have not the chart by me, 
from which to make the measurements, The mather of expense 
should also be taken into consideration, The present courses have 
cost the Association over $50, and we have gone to a small additional 
expense in order to preserye the points fur another season. 
Cras, A. Name, Secretary A.C. A. 
Tows of ponderous maguitude take their regular 
trips up and down, and in making and breaking paousTOee the 
whole river with a crowa of snorting sesh carrying off unwieldy 
boats to the havens where they would be. Then there are thousand- 
ton passenger steamers from Albany aid Troy, which ai fifteen miles 
an hour take. an erratic course of zigzazs through a river of no mean, 
breadth in amxiety to keep in the deyious deep channel; and one com- 
ing down on the ebb with a red light visible five hundred yards 
above will suddenly shift her helm to starboard ‘and show the green 
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CANOES AND SAILS FOR SALE.—We would call attention to the 
canoes offered for sale in our last issue by Commodore Oliver, who 
is going into a Class B boat. The Marion is well known to canoeishs 
as & most complete canoe in her fitting and équipment, She is, how- 
ave, the only small canoe in the club, the others being 30in. Those 
ae racing sails will also finda set for sale in onr advertising 
columns, s 
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