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often spriously interferes with the steerage of the craft, and in some 

 instances is liable to get entangled with some passing craft, to the 

 serious injury of our vessel. 3d, the line can be raised high enough 

 to pass over instead of under a passing canal boat or other consider- 

 able obstruction, a great convenience which in many cases allows one 

 bis choice of waters. 



Some arrangement of this kind is indispensable in a single-handcr, 

 and even with larger crews is also useful, ns the man at the helm is 

 sure to be on the alert whatever the other hands may be doing, and 

 it gives him full control of the yachts at all times. 



In pulling out of locks, Mr. Kuuhardt experienced the usual diffi- 

 culty on account of the bow of the Coot being drawn in against the 

 bank before the boat acquired steerage way. To obviate this 1 would 

 suggest an addition to the above plan as follows: Make a light spring 

 fast to the tow line near the baw, and lead it aft outside of the rig 

 ging. While the boat lies in the lock haul this spriner in sufficiently 

 to take the strain of the line when the team starls. The power now 

 being applied at the stern, the bow can be shot well away from the 

 wall into clear water, when the spring is eased off and the towing goes 

 on as usual. 



Mr. Kunbardt's suggestion of a ruuning fender of boards is most 

 valuable, for ordinary fenders are of little avail, and if there is an un- 

 protected spot it is sure to be found out in a canal. Another good 

 plan is to get an old hawser of the junkman and sling two turns en- 

 tirely around (he yacht about midway between planksheer and water 

 line. This will be found very effective, and at the end of the voyage 

 the rope can be sold again for nearly its cos*. 



Trusting that my long yarn will prove useful to some of our enter- 

 prising cruisers, I will belav by hoping that the Coot, whose adven 

 tures inspired these lines, will survive her long voyage and turn up 

 smiling in the spring. As for her wide awake skipper, I think we 

 need have no fears for him. H. 



IARCHMONT Y. C— The annual meeting of the Larchiuont Y. C. 

 was held at Delmouico's on Feb. 10. with Com. Munroe in the cbair. 

 Eleven new members were elected. Messrs. Harrv Flagler. DeLancey 

 D. Kane. Henry Adams, Jr.. Harold Forwood. Gyrus \V. Field, Jr., E, 

 K. Becldall, Charles Sweet, W. S. Badger, Henry L Backus. Franklin 

 Bowker and Geo. D. Leech. The officers elected fr'r 1886 were: Com- 

 modore, W. S. Alley, Schemer; Vice-Commodore. Charles Stevenson, 

 Yolande : Rear Commodore, Gerard M. Barret te. Nora: Secretary, W. 

 Harris Roome; Treasurer, Eugene L. Bushe; Measurer, Frank E. 

 Towle; Trustees, Augustin Monroe, Francis M. Scott, William Mur- 

 ray. After amending Fome of the articles relaLing to the club house 

 and grounds the following amendments to the sailing rules were also 

 passed: To introductory sentence, prefix "from the time of giving 

 the preparatory signal/' Under heading Classification Class TL, 

 strike out "80" and substitute "33.'' and in Class III. strike out '-80" 

 and substitute "33." After Class VIII. insert. "Mixed Rigs. -In mixed 

 rig races schooners shall be rated at 85 per cent., and yawls at 93 per- 

 cent, of their respective sailing measurements." Under heading Sails, 

 seventh paragraph, insert word "racing" after word "as a." Under 

 heading. Courses, Course No. 2, strike out "the black buoy off Con- 

 stable's Point," and substitute "the home stakeboat." Second para 

 graph, after word "Island" insert "nor between the buovs on Hen 

 and Chickens Reef," In Rule VIII. omit the words "may 'luff as she 

 pleases, to prevent another yacht, passing to windward, but." Under 

 heading. Measurement, after "shall be" strike out and substitute "the 

 length of the yacht's hull 2 per cent, of her actual load water line 

 above and parallel to said water line." Under heading Prizes, strike 

 out and substitute "prizes shall be awarded as provided in the By- 

 Laws." To strike out the table of time allowances as it now is and "to 

 substitute the table in use by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. It 

 wiU be seen that the club have dropped their old measurement of 

 length plus overhang, in favor of the more equitable rule of the 

 Atlantic Y. (J. The treasurer's report showed a balance of 82,2:25 

 cash, besides $1,798 uncollected, the net assets of the club being 

 $7,01© 88. Tie Membership Is now 330, the limit being 400, and the 

 fleet numbers 135 yacbts, 



YACHTING NOTES. — The 5-tonner Molly, of Hamilton, Ont., will 



have 3,000 lbs. of lead transferred from inside to the keel Mr. St. 



Clare J. Byne, N. A., of Liverpool, arrived in New York last week 

 on business connected with Mr. Vauderbilt's new steam yacht.... At- 

 alanta arrived at St. Kitts from St. Thomas on Jan. 24 and sailed three 

 days later for Guadaloupe. . .Nokomis was spoken on Feb. 12 in lat. 31° 

 42', long. 75" west by the steamer Santiago.... On Feb. 9 the Carlotta 

 sailed from Brooklyn for the Windward Islands, touching at St. 



Kitts Cora has sailed from Key West for Havana. .. .Mont auk 



made the run from New York to Nassau in 7]4 days, arriving on 

 Jan. 21. 



ANOTHER CRUISER — Mr. Rushtou has partly finished a new 

 model of cruiser, the sneakbox bottom carried out into a boat's bow, 

 the sides also being raised several inches. The dimensions are 15x5ft., 

 and there are two centerboards, the larger forward and the smaller 

 in the deadwood aft. The model affords large space, for dry stowage 

 withing bulkheads and small shelves around the side decks 'to add the 

 room. The sleeping space, owing to the board being well forward, is 

 quite large. 



CLUB FESTIVITIES.— The ball of the Royal Canadian Y. C. at 

 Toronto, was a great success. We have received invitations to the 

 concert of the. New Haven Y. C, and the annual ball of the Yorkville 

 Y, C, 



<i!/anaeing. 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Publish- 

 ing Co, 



A WINTER EVENING'S REVERIE. 



{Concluded.) 



PERHAPS we do dream that we are capsizing or that the anchor 

 has dragged or that some other calamity has happened. So 

 strong is the illusion that it is incumbent upon the skipper to put his 

 head out of the tent. All right; it is only the morning tide widen has 

 lifted the boat and runs merrily by with a sort of articulate morning 

 greeting as it ripples along the side of the boat and plays with the 

 tightening cable. 



Another hour may safely be devoted to Morpheus, and this time it 

 is the mate who wakes, and, sitting up, exclaims, "Hello, tide's up!" 

 Then severely to his superior officer, "Get up, or we shall be neaped; 



tide's going down." "Tide be !" Lengthened snore. "Do get 



up. if you do. I'll make a cup of coffee for you." "Oh, thanks' 

 Make me a cup of coffee and I'll get up." "No. Get up and I'll make 

 one." 



It ends by the mate tricing up the tent and letting the cool winds 

 of heaven blow upon the recumbent skipper. It would never do to be 

 shut up m the wretched little creek for a whole summer's day, so we 

 make ready for sea with all convenient speed. 



We are not seen at our best, perhaps. Early rising aarrees neither 

 with pur tempers nor our appearance. Perhaps the mate does use 

 broad Saxon when the stripper drops the muddy anchor on his toes 

 and if the. skipper retaliates in words of similar breadth and antiquity 

 when the mate, in his effort to let go the stern line, trips the skipper 

 up and causes him to sit down with violence up the belaying pin rack 

 what matters it. We know each other too well to take heed of such 

 trifling displays of early morning temper. 



The important thing is to get out of that creek before the tide leaves 

 us high and dry, and so with bed clothes, anchors and gear pretty 

 well mixed up we push off with the sculls, and once in the tide sail is 

 made and order is evoked from chaos. 



~Tents, blankets, bags and extra coats disappear into their respective 

 bags. Ropes are coiled away, decks swabbed down, some sort of a 

 toilet is made, and in a consiberably improved frame of mind the 

 crew are piped to breakfast. 



The day promises to be a glorious one. Grimsby Tower is right be- 

 fore us but we sheer off toward the Yorkshire coast, past the buoy 

 marking the extremity of Sunk Island, once in reality an island but 

 now reclaimed and annexed lo the mainland, and so out on to Trinity 

 Bay. At low water it is a waste of sand banks, but now a wide ex- 

 panse of water, over which we sail merrily toward Spurn Point which 

 forms a natural breakwater to the entrance of the Humber. 



How pleasant to sail over the rippling waves of the bay with the 

 warm sun making the wavelets sparkle again. 



The mate, ever active, has set the spinnaker, an operation involving 

 an acrobatic performance on the "giddy footing of the hatches" or 

 rather on the fore deck, and comes aft to take his turn at the helm 

 while the skipper, making to himself a nest forward with pea jackets 

 and rugs, whdes away the time with pipe and book or lets iris 

 memory wander back to other days and other cruises. 



He recalls his first trip that way to his first canoe, now ten years 

 ago, when he found himself tossing about the broad entrance to the 

 Humber during several weary hours of darkness, trying to make the 

 Spurn. In those days he would set off on such adventures in a sub- 

 lime state of ignorance as to local tides and currents. Nowadays we 

 have grown more scientific. We draw pencil lines on the chart, make 

 cross bearings of prominent landmarks, excite ourselves about the 

 whereabouts of this or that buoy, and pride ourselves generally on 

 adhering strictly to ship tracks. J 



Before approaching Spurn we come to anchor for a bath aDd din- 

 ner, when luxuries of various sorts grace the board (N. B. Tinned 

 curried chicken, most excellent}. Then with a vi9w to call on old 

 friends at the Point, some little finish is made to our toilet in the way 



of collars and cuffs. The mate, even on one occasion, produced from 

 his ditty bag a white waistcoat, a set off. no doubt, to the skipper's 

 blue serge coat and bronze buttons, the uniform of the Danish Yacht 

 Club. 



By this time we are running under the Spurn Point and can hear 

 the rollers of the North Sea breaking outside. 



The anchor is let go with a tripping line attached, which is taken 

 ashore, and we leave the canoe to swiug to her anchor, the stream 

 keeping her off the shore. 



We have time before the tide turns to pay a visit to all old friends, 

 for ten years of Humber canoeing has made us intimate with Spurn 

 society, and a warm-hearted, kindly set of people too. They are but 

 a handful The lifeboat crew, the lighthouse keeper and the landlord 

 of the little inn. The memory of many a happy hour comes across 

 the skipper as he pays bis round of visits. Over a pipe enjoyed with 

 the captain of the life Boat in his snug little house, he recalls that 

 never-to be forgotten night when two wrecks were ashore, and the 

 lifeboat, after battling all night with the wild North Sea, brought in 

 the two crews safe and sound. 



Then we have time to mount the lighthouse, Smeaton's time-worn 

 old tower, and look down over the far stretching ocean, with many a 

 gallant ship with sunlit sails making for the Humber. and the smart 

 mail steamers with their decks crowded with Swedi h emigrants. 

 From this point of observation we note the peculiar conformation of 

 the long, geutly curving spit of sand forming Spurn Point, with the 

 sea breaking ou the one side and Humber on the other, rolling its 

 sandy waves over the site of the buried city of Ravcnspurn. 



Afternoon tea with the bead light keeper and his amiable family, 

 pleasant reunions, which on one occasion kept us so pleasantly en- 

 gaged that the tide had turned and covered the shore line, compelling 

 the skipper to swim off— clothes and all. for the eyes of Spurn and its 

 wife were upon him— to the anchored canoe. 



Needless to describe the home journey. Perhaps a long thrash to 

 windward showing to perfection what the little Jigir with her center- 

 board and well balanced sails can do under such circumstances. 



We find ourselves once more in the Hull Roads, this time iu dark- 

 ness. But the ordinary perils of the deep are increased by the maze 

 Of lights, riding lights, town lights, dock-gate lights, and side lights, 

 looking like some constellation gone wrouc, but the "sweet little 

 cherub" extends his protection to us as well as poor Jack, and brings 

 us at length to our desired haven refreshed and invigorated and ready 

 for the week s work. 



But my pipe has gone out during this long reverie and as I sit in 

 my arm chair, I pass in review many a pleasant memory, such as has 

 been described, perhaps too discursively, but given a pet subject, re- 

 straint is difficult. 



Alas! many a month must elapse before the TEgir ploughs the 

 waves again, and in the meantime she lies in dark seclusion, shrouded 

 in her cover, a very chrysalis, to burst out, if all goes well, into a 

 butterfly existence as soon as she feels next summer's balmy breath. 



Our latest canoe, 18ft. X5ft. 8in., being too large to haul up, must 

 perforce, lie afloat, and her owner, muffled in all his jerseys and all 

 his coats, may be seen buffeting the wintry waves of 'Humber while 

 the rest of the world is skating. 



Verily the boating spirit is not quite dead and our American broth- 

 ers may rest assured that their canoeing aspirations find an echo in 

 the good wishes of the boating men of old Humber, where, though 

 shorn of the brightness and picturesqueness which characterizes 

 American canoeing, the boatiug spirit still lives and where its vota- 

 ries feel that they in some sense inherit the adventurous spirit which 

 led the Vikings of old to these very shores to plant their names and 

 memories in the quiet villages of Humberside. ^Egir. 



THE BARNEGAT CRUISER IN FLORIDA. 



Editor Forest and Stream; 



I have just returned from a trial cruise to Fernandina (86 miles by 

 water) and also up St. Mary's River. I am now able to give an 

 opinion of my Petrel. I left J. in half a gale of wind (fair) with a 

 parting shake from Dr. Neide and a wave of the handkerchief from 

 three ladies. I had everything snugged down and carried whole sail. 

 Wind freshened at Dame's Point where I made a running jibe to test 

 things. She went down with half her lee rowlock under, and whew! 

 how she flew. Kept all canvas on her, however, until I reached 

 Brown's Creek where I turned in a single reef and hastened on. The 

 river was white as a sheet by this time, and I went to Sister's Creek, 

 2.3 miles from J., in a trifle less than 3 hours, part of the way under a 

 stogie reef. Pitched my tent and cooked a square meal. 'Wrote up 

 my log and several letters and turned in. Woke up at dawn, raining, 

 hastened on after a cup of coffee and a pan of oatmeal. 



That night at 6 o'clock came to an anchor in the bight of the rail- 

 road dock at F., and had all I could do to hold her; had to back her 

 big anchor with my Chester, and passed a comfortable but sleepless 

 night. Wind hauled north and blew the biggest kind of guns for two 

 days. Soon saw how it would turn, and clapped her lackle on to the 

 painter and at high tide hauled her high and dry. Lay this gale 

 out snug as a bug in a rug and wet nothing on board. After the 

 clear up took a run up Amelia River to Lanceford Creek; shot a 

 few shore oirds and caught some fish. Remained in F. ten days. 

 Aurora spent Sunday with me; good time. Left Fernandina Friday 

 at 11 A. M., last of the flood. Crossed Nassau Sotmd at 2 P, M , and 

 was lost three hours in isawpit Creek. Mopped for the night still out 

 of my reckoning. While eating supper a darky hailed me in plain- 

 tive tones, asking, "Boss, dis chile am lost." Mighty glad of the 

 sight, of a face in that lonesome swamp. I hastened to invite him 

 aboard. And didn't we have a supper! Better than that darky had 

 bad for many a day. Menu: Bacon, fried salt-water trout, scram- 

 bled eggs, coffee, pilot bread, good Ohio butter, and a wind-up on 

 canned peaches. Found the darky a fine looking, intelligent negro 



The next morning I took my bearings, and after three hours work 

 in a gale of wind (ahead) and a strong head tide I pulled across Ft 

 George inlet, and after mending the darky's mast step so he could 



St. John's Bluff. Chilled through and wet as a drowned rat No 

 water in the cruiser though. At 2 P. M. Dr. Neide hailed me off 

 Wisner s boat house and helped me ashore with a warm grasp of the 

 hand. My boat house friends and companions, Mr. W. H. Wisner 

 and friend who are engaged in boat ouilding and renting boats, soon 

 had me a steaming hot pot of coffee, and Petrel's skipper was hioi- 

 self again . Thus ended the maiden cruise of the Petrel, a fair test of 

 a boat's capacity, being made in a gale of wind and all the time in a 

 driving N, E. rain storm. She came through it nobly and I am proud 

 of h6r - Petrel. 



A CANOE EXPOSITION. 



THE coming season promises to be a notable one in the canoe 

 world, with our foreign visitors ana two cups to be raced for, 

 and we may expect tnat canoeing will receive more notice and more 

 iavorable consideration than ever before. As a part of the season's 

 attractions the Knickerbocker C. C. propose to hold an exhibition of 

 canoes and all pertaining to canoeing, and have sent out the follow- 

 ing invitation: 



•Your presence is cordially invited at a oreliminary camp fire at 

 Harvard Rooms, 729 Sixth avenue (corner Forty-second street) at 8 

 P. M., Thursday, Feb. 25. The object of the meeting is to make ar- 

 rangements for a public canoe exposition, to be held in the near 

 future. A number of prominent canoeists belonging to different clubs 

 are expected to exhibit models, rigs, camp outfits, cooking kits" 

 tents, Hags, badges, trophies, photographic cameras and views, etc.! 

 and a supply of canoe literature, fittings and material are anticipated 

 from different manufacturers and business houses. It is confidently 

 believed that this exposition will be a source of much pleasure and 

 instruction, not only to canoeists and their friends, but also to the 

 general public. In conjunction with the coming International Chal- 

 lenge Cup races, it will exercise a powerful influence in popularizing 

 the sport and directing to it the attention of many desirable future 

 brethren who at present have very vague or totally mistaken ideas 

 as to its nature. This project will need the concerted action of ail 

 interested in canoeing, and the sub-division of different departments 

 and details of preparation among a large number of individuals We 

 confidently rely upon your encouragement and help in making it a 

 success, and trust you will be present to give us the benefit or your 

 personal support and assistance. We remain sincerely aud frater- 

 nally yours, Edwin Fowler, Com., Henry Stanton, Lafavette W. 

 Seavey. Committee." 



Though the prejudice against canoes that at one time existed gen- 

 erally among rowing aud yachting men has largely disappeared, there 

 is still prevalent a feeling that canoeing is only boy's play and not to 

 be compared with other varieties of sailing. Nothing will do more to 

 correct false impressions and to disseminate correct ideas of canoe- 

 nig than suck a public exhibition acis proposed aud it may be male 

 of sufficient interest to attract all classes of boating men aud pleasure 

 sailors. There need be no difficulty to finding material for a very 



RUSHTON'S ANNUAL CATALOGUE.— No better index can be had 

 of the growth and present standbier of canoeing: in America than the 

 new catalogue for the current year, issued by Mr. J. H. Rushton, of 

 Canton, N. Y. Half a dozen years since a small folded circular con- 

 tained all the needed information about the builder's boats and 

 canoes, while now the same information fills a large pamphlet of 

 sixty pages, a third being devoted to canoes and their fittings. Of 

 •boats. Mr. Rushton is still building the same large variety, with 



model 



e list this year is 



the steady improvement in buil 

 widely-spreading reputation The can 

 provement iu every way on the preccd 

 ter. the sails of greater variety, and the list, 

 lengthened by special devices and novel ti 

 advance over former years is the tliscardin 

 models and the corresponding simplification 

 that makes it easdy comprehensible to the novice. 



ide his 

 im- 

 . bet- 

 has been largely 

 aps the greatest 

 r,ber of obsolete 

 list to an extent 

 The great num- 

 ber of various model* has in the past been very confusing to begin- 

 ners, owing to the small noints of difference. In the present arrange- 

 ment, the Springfield, Shadow. St. Lawrence and 14ft. Princess 

 models have been omitted, the list now comprises, he idf-s the Ness- 

 muk canoes, the Stella Maris, Grayling, Ellard, 15x31^ Princess, 

 Tandem Princess and four Mohican canoes. The latter are. the most 

 interesting, and promise to become the most popular models. In all 

 lour the lines of the famous Snake have been used as the basis for the 

 design, the hollow lines of that boat having been filled out somewhat. 

 The dimensions are: No. 1,14.6X30; No. 2, 15X31}^: No. 3, 15x28; No. 

 4, 15x30. The series thus include the original Snake size, a canoe for 

 general cruising, a larger boat built to the full limits, for sailing, and 

 two "average" boats, Class B and Class A. making a quartette from 

 which a good canoe for almost an.y purpose may be selected. A 

 special feature of the book is the long list of fittings of all kinds and 

 especially brasswork. Mr. Rushton has lately made a specialty of 

 the latter, manufacturing it himself, and he has devised a number of 

 very convenient fittings. At present he has a force of seventeen em- 

 ployed on boats and canoes, and at this date is not up to his orders. 



BUFFALO C. C — The annual meeting of the Buffalo C. C. waj3 

 held on the evening of Jan. 25, at the home of Mr. E. L. French, the 

 purser of the club. A large number of the members were present, 

 and considering the icebound condition of the canoeist's native 

 element, considerable enthusiasm was manifested on all sides. The 

 question of classifying larger canoes in the A. C. A. was discussed 

 pretty thoroughly, the members being about evenly divided in their 

 opinions, with a doubtful balance against: the proposed new class. 

 The action taken by the A, C. A., in increasing its annual dues, was 

 criticised very unfavorably, and in view of advices received from 

 other clubs, it is feared that it will not have a tendency to increase 

 the membership of that body. The purser reported the club's finan- 

 cial affairs to a flourishing condition, and several new craft will be 

 added to the fleet in the spring. A new club signal was proposed and 

 adopted, disposing of a subject which the members have been wrestl- 

 ing with all the previous summer. The following offiers were, elected 

 for the year 1SS6: Captain. William Lansing; Mate, Edwin L. French ; 

 Purser. Henry L. Campbell. The club then adjourned to meet at the 

 home of Mr. Lansing on the last Wednesday to February. — H. L. C. 



AN ONTARIO CANOE ABROAD.— "Two in a Tub" is the title of a 

 charming little log of a canoe trip down the Danube, Moldau and 

 Elbe, made by two English canoeists to 1884. The canoe was an open 

 Ontario, 18x3ft. bin. , fitted with one sad and propelled by single pad- 

 dles. The cruise lay through a novel country, and the rivers were 

 obstructed with weirs, dams and rapids, giving plenty of variety to 

 the. work. The authors, "Bow" and "Steersman," are close observers, 

 and their little book is not only very interesting, but is so exact to 

 details as to make a valuable guide to others to the same waters. 



SPRLNG REPAIRS.— A short time now will bring warm weather, 

 and the haste to get afloat that always comes with it. Is your canoe 

 ready, or is she still stored away to be hauled out and rigged to a 

 hurry? If she is, get her out now, refit, varnish and rig her. and 

 when the time does come be ready to enjoy the actual sailing instead 

 of staying ashore to varnish. 

 THE A. C. A. TROPHY. —.Editor Forest and Stream,: I beg to 



acknowledged, 

 Feb. 15). ~ 



,...jusly 



Total to date, $112.— Wm. VVhitlock (New York, 



\W" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



W. S. W., Mass. Institution of Technology.— Your question is too 

 indefinite, we do not understand it. 



J. N. G., Everett, Mass.— Suil-a-Mor is owned by Mr. Joseph Hays. 

 His address is Box 1800, Boston, Mass. 



W. S. L., Niagara.- We cannot furnish the working plans. You 

 can build from the published designs. 



J. W. H., Pittsburgh, Pa.— The small engine was built by an ama- 

 teur in Wales; we know of none for sale. 



W. R. M. — We do not know the builders of the boat, but have for- 

 warded your letter to our correspondent. 



A. S. Collinowood.- Use cotton for caulking. Paint the seam 

 well as soon as the caulking is driven home, and putty over it. 



A. A. R.— The best place to purchase an old boat would be about 

 Boston. We could not give cost of rigging without more definite in- 

 formation to estimate on. 



W. T. H.. Long Island City.— A 15x30 canoe will easily carry two 

 persons. If a long cruise is intended 10x30 will be better or 10x31 

 tor a heavy crew with much baggage. 



F. W . T., Portland, Me. You will find full description of a sinkboat 

 in the Forest and Stream of Oct. 27, 1881. Several designs of ducking 

 boats are published in "Canoe and Boat Budding." 



it is through your paper. Ans. The bird" "is V red-necked' grebe 

 (Podieeps gi iseigena holbcelli). 



B. G. S. B., Passaic, N. J.— You will find places about the bay where 

 the boat can be left m charge of a caretaker. She would be safe out- 

 side m fair weather. The eeuterboard is 3ft. long and fits the trunk 

 shown m the drawing. Some sandbags would be useful in heavy 

 winds, but are not needed to cruising. 



R. H., Brooklyn, N. Y. — We have never published the drawings you 

 wish. One inch is thick enough, the plank running lengthways with 

 square joint caulked, not tongued and grooved. The af ter end of the 

 board should come near the middle of the boat. The board should be 

 about 5ft. long, with bolt at fore end. See ' Small Yachts" for lines 

 of other sharpies. 



H. H., Greenville, Ala.— 1. What book can I get that will teach an 

 amateur all aoout fly-fishing? 2. What kind of tackle and bait are 

 best for fishing m ordinary lakes and creeks? 3. Describe an outfit 

 suitable for such fishing? 4. Refer me to a book that will teach me 

 of the habits and how to hunt wild turkeys? Ans. 1. There is no such 

 book Some information on the subject is contained in the works of 

 Morris, Scott, Wells, and others; but the art of fiy-castmg to say 

 nothing of fly-fishing, cannot be learned entirely from books ' 2 Un- 

 less you name the species of fish to be angled for, we cannot answer 

 this. 3. Answered above. 4, Hallock's "Gazetteer;" we can furnish 

 it. 



tiona.1 affair, and deserves the aid of every canoeist in America. We 

 shall give the full particulars of the meeting. 



RONDOUT C. C— This club now has twenty-seven members and a 

 large fleet of canoes, to which several new boats will be added this 

 !n« son r^_ Theclub is about to build a new and handsome house, 50x 

 30tt. They are now looking forward to receiving then- neighbors 

 from both ends of the Hudson at jEsopus Island on Decoration Day. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Sale of Sportsman's Goods.— Mr. Benjamin Starks offers this 

 week, at an assignee's sale, a large assortment of guns, rifles flshin» 

 tackle and other sportsmen's equipments. An inspection of the cat- 

 alogue of this sale shows a large number of weapons, many of them 

 by well-known makers, at prices which appear to be low. it is never 

 sale to buy an article without seeing it, but the list of goods described 

 m this catalogue would certainly seem to include some decided bar- 

 gains. — Adv. 



Take Cabe of the Dimes, and the Dollars will care for them- 

 selves —An older and wiser saying can rarely be found. It has 

 made the fortune of more people than can well be numbered Not 

 that the dollars do not need care, but the habit formed in sayfrig. the 

 dimes extends to the dollars, and they are saved without care The 

 whole matter resolves itself into habit, the formation of the habitual 

 thought, aud manner of the man. Some men become rich by accident 

 but the real rich are made so by habit. For tiie manner holds good 

 in a thousand things. The waste in cents and dimes extends to 

 smoking, drink, food, clothing and amusement, time and opportunity, 

 health and life itself. The saving in the little is the making of mo 

 much, and m the sum of life is the difference between wealth and 

 poverty. A\ ho wastes the little must spend the much to balance it 

 and so is poor. He who constantly keeps well has no doctors' big 

 bills to pay, or wasted busiuess from sickness to eat him up This he 

 may do as thousands are doing by using Humphreys' Homeopathic 

 Specifics promptly and habitually in the little illnesses of life. The 

 bad colds that lead to consumption, the chill that brings pneumonia 

 or pleurisy or rheumatism, the biliousness that brings dyspepsia, and 

 so all through, you cure the little illnesses, and the big ones are cured 

 before they are hatched.— Adv. 



