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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dec. 2, 1886. 



iiave, and they are less familiar -with tlie maeliinery of organiza- 

 tion. Already they are preparing for the formation of a Canadian 

 Division, and ^vill in all probability hold a local meet nest spring 

 and elect ofHcers, applying for recognition atthe next meet. Once 

 fairly organized they will be in a position to hold a large Division 

 meet of their own in such years as the A. C. A. meet shall he held 

 at distant points. Just now, however, they are in an unsectled 

 state and without any definite organization. If the meet was held 

 on salt water about New York or Boston, they would be unable to 

 attend, and the formation of their Diidsiou would receive a severe 

 checlv, while they would feel that the Association had in a_ great 

 measure deserted them by going where they could not follow. 

 Nest year, with a strong local organization, rliey will be very dif- 

 ferently situated, and in a position to hold a Division meet alone. 

 These facts have been felt strongly by the leading A. C. A. men, 

 and have led to the selection of a site midway between Canada and 

 the Atlantic coast. The distance from New York is really less 

 formidable than it seems if we consider that a night on the Hud- 

 son River and a few hours by rail will bring a New York man into 

 camp in time for dinner. It is now pretty well settled that a local 

 meet will be held on salt water by canoeists of New York and New 

 England prior to the A. O. A. meet. This will meet the demands 

 of "Idlemere" and others, and it only rests with the canoeists 

 themselves to make it almost as important as tlie A. C. A. meet. 

 Let the canoeists of New York, New Jersey and New England take 

 the matter in hand in good time, discuss it and settle details this 

 wintei-, hold as many small meets as possible early in the spring, 

 enlist all their canoeing associates, and then hurrah ! for a big 

 salt-water meet in the early summer. Much has been done and 

 much more still remains to do before the A. C. A. is brought near 

 to evei-v canoeist, hut tlie work is in good hands and progressing 

 as rapidly as could be expected. The more who help, however, the 

 aooner it 'will be completed, and now is the time for the non-mem- 

 bers to lend their aid. With the help of all tlie salt-water meet 

 may easily exceed in numbers the A. C. A. meets of three or four 

 years since. All that is needed is the hearty co-operation of all 

 hands. Those now in the A. 0. A. have worked hard and long to 

 make it what it is. Is it fair now to expect them to do all the work 

 of enlarging and extending it while those outside decline to help 

 until they can see their $a expended in a meet on their to-^vn com- 

 mon ? Every canoeist can and should help the Association in re- 

 turn for the indirect benefits which he in common with others 

 receives from it, but further than this it now seems certain that 

 he will soon find it near enough to him to afford more direct and 

 visible advantages.l 



WIDE VS. NARROW CANOES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. Clapham claims to have heen silenced on an issue raised by 

 him previously. This is a condition his friends among your read- 

 ers will hardly beliere possible, and I should be sorry to think it 

 Impossihle to convince so enthusiastic a lover of sport on the 

 water. To the issue he now raises, a point he overlooks suggests 

 itself as an immediate answer. 



How far and how easily can he paddle his wide canoe? Grant for 

 a moment the points he claims (they are disputed as inaccurate by 

 many present at the meet), would he paddle one or fl^ve miles 

 against any recognized good all-round man— Vans. Brokaw or 

 Gibson? ould he enter any combined race? Even "we racei-s," 

 as the Ideal Cruising Association's admiral loves to stigmatize us, 

 recognize that the canoe is primarily an all-round craft, and that 

 the permanence and continued growth of our sport depends on the 

 preservation, at aU hazards, of this all-round or cruising side. 

 Within the limits now wisely fixed by the A. C. A., we are striv- 

 ing, therefore, each of us, to develop that side of the sport which 

 appeals to our individual tastes, and we should be spared, in my 

 opinion, such one-sided attacks as are from time to time made on 

 our chosen type. 



In conclusion, I would say that some of Mr. Clapham's state- 

 ments afford me genuine surprise. His Red Jacket was, indeed, 

 constantly on the water; hut, to my knowledge, was outsailed in 

 many impromptu trials. Mr. Butler's Blanche got away from htm 

 easily. My own AVraith, on the only occasion when I could get a 

 try with him, walked easily out to windward and outfooted him, 

 rather to my surprise, I confess, as he carried a large sail compar- 

 atively. Others were reported to have done the same. 



It is H curious statement to make of a boat under trial, like his, 

 that she could carry much more sail— hut cUdn't. Our great sore- 

 ness just now over the L,ondon F-khVs garbled account of the races 

 in New York and at Grindstone arises from just the same cause- 

 viz., that the plea should be seriously advanced that boats entered 

 for an import-ant test should he excused on tJie ground of want of 

 proper preparation- in fact, pleading the baby act— and I am truly 

 sorrv to see any American gentleman take similar gi-ound. 



GUENN. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Red Jacket, ahovl Lav to, drop sail, or do something that I can 

 get a chance to get up to" you. Your singlehander (for such is the 

 name by which your "wide canoe" should be called) of such beam 

 and sail can outsail my narrow canoe easily. If I am not mistaken 

 there is a boat somewhat like your "wide canoe" on the Delaware 

 River, whose dimensions range from 14 to 15ft. long and •!() to iSin. 

 beam. A 48in. boat is considered as "beamy." These hoats are 

 called "duckers" on account of being built especially for ducking. 

 In going for ducks this boat is poled or paddled by a single blade, 

 a short platform is in cue end and a seat In another. This boat 

 has no deck or centerboard. But the ducker that comes near the 

 description of Clapham's wide canoe is of the same class as quoted 

 but differing slightly from it— a deck the same as a canoe, but no 

 hatches, bulkheads, foot steering etc., such as are on a canoe. 

 They carry a dagger centerboard well forward, the mast being 

 stepped in the eyes of the boat. A cockpit of 8 or 10ft. long, the 

 washboard being but Oin. wide. They invarialjly can y a single 

 sail, fore and aft, or sprit sail, the sail area being from 10 to 18 sq. 

 yds. To handle this boat efl'ectively the cre^v must consist of two 

 men. One man very seldom goes out in a ducker single-handed; 

 often you will meet three men, while a crew of five is very com- 

 mon. I remember outsailing four duckers the past summer in a 

 I4.4ft.x32in. canvas canoe and using Mohican rig of 85 sq. ft. I 

 mav here add that this canoe was sold this fall partly on account 

 of the naddling difficulty, and have now ordered a 30in. boat, while 

 I was seriously thinking of getting a 15x28, The first ducker I left 

 astern was in this manner: While sailing down stream ^ylth wind 

 forward of bow I caught up to the Doat which had one man as 

 crew. No sooner had I got near him when he sang out: "Those 

 things go like thunder, don't they?" I gave him my opinion and 

 asked how many yards in his sail; he replied, "Over Syds." The 

 same day in mid "stream opposite Gloucester I saw tluec in a 

 hunch. I soon ran up to them and sailed a short distimce with 

 th^m, answei'ing a job lot of cjuestions on stability, speed, etc. 

 The breeze increasing the topic changed to "How are xhey in a 

 strong breeze?" For an answer I showed them my sternpost, get- 

 ting a lead of about 20yds. At another time it was nip and tuck 

 to get ahead of a saucy little ducker. One Sunday I was stoi^piug 

 at a float at Gloucester, when a gentleman (with whom I am now 

 acquainted) asked the usual amount of questions, informing me 

 that he was interested in canoeing. After chatting with him for 

 an hour I departed. A friend of his accompanied me a short dis- 

 tance to see how a canoe could sail. Somehow he could not get 

 where he wanted, viz.: a few leugths ahead of the canoe. The 

 wind was astern and his boat had 18yds. of canvas. The next 

 opportunity I had of meeting my acquaintance he informed me 

 that the crew of the ducker were surprised at the .speed the canoe 

 showed, and also that the helmsman was a semi-professional racer. 

 The ahove named gentleman is about to discard his boat for a 

 canoe, Avhile for another owner of a ducker I am building a 

 15XoOin. canoe. S. 



THE OAKLAND C. C. 



WHILE canoeing has heen followed on the Pacific coast for a 

 long time, its existence for a some years was rather precari- 

 ous, but with the organization of the Oakland C. C. it has been 

 placed on a firm and permanent footing. Though far from the 

 canoeing center in the East, and out of reach of the annual meets, 

 the canoeists of the Pacific are full as energetic and enterpri.sing 

 as their older brethern, and are working as successf ully for the 

 spread of the sport. The difficulties at first were considerable, as 

 the freight on canoes from New York or the East was heavJ^ and 

 there were no local builders; but the club now boasts a fine fleet, 

 mostly " ' ■ 

 used 



give herewith a map ..^.^ ^'t' l-,'' 



straight course of 1}4 mUes being the one usually sailed, while the 

 triangular one was used for the first race for tlie Edwards Cup on 

 Nov. 3. This cup was presented by Mr. R. W. Edwards, of Oak- 

 land, Cal., to he raced for under the following conditions: 



The races shall be sailed over the courses of the Oakland C. C. on 

 Oakland creek, and shall he open to all Second and Third Class 

 canoes of the O. C. C, sailed by their owners. They shall take 



glace on the first Sundav of every month, or on the nearest legal 

 oliday thereto, due notice being given. Time allowance and other 

 details to be governed by the rules of the club. The winner of 

 each, race to hold the cup until the sailing of the next race. Should 

 he cease to he a member of the club before the series of races is 

 decided, tJxe trophy shall revert to the club and hisreeordhe nuUi- 



OAKLAND C. C, SAILTSG COURSES. 



fled. The above i-ules have been decided upon and drawn up by the 

 hoard of directors. 



The first race was set for Nov. 2, Election Dav. A number of 

 ladies and friends were invited for a good time" and all left tlie 

 boat house about 11 A. M., the fleet comprising eitrht canoes, viz.: 

 Shadow, Zephyr, Zoe Mou, Coney Island, Mystic," Colombia, Fal- 

 con and Waif, and the yawls Nettie, Bonita, Nautilus, Clark and 

 Aloha. With a scarcely perceptible zephyr they glided gently up 

 the creek to the basin. Near the Alameda shore there have been at 

 anchor for a long time a lot of big floats all tied together, and it 

 made a splendid landing place for the small oral L On one of the 

 floats there was laid up a Whitehall boat, and this was covered 

 over nicely from end to end with planking for protection from the 

 weather— which made a fine table for lunch. The party I'onsisted 

 of about thirty ladies and gentlemen, and the luncli was all that 

 could be desired, elegant in every way— and a flue appetite divided 

 up among the assembly enabled them to do full justice to it. Tlie 

 weather was simply delicious, a red-letter day, even for the glori- 

 ous climate of California. By 2 o'clock all was in readiness for 

 the first race. A nice little breeze — ^too light for speed — was blaw- 

 ing from the north, and the AVaif, Falcon, Shadow and Colombia 

 got a good send off at 3:07 P. M. The little Waif, a Rushton, with 

 two large lateens, w^alked away from the rest witli scarce an effort, 

 and came home an easy winner in 42m., as shown In the report be- 

 low. The winner took the silver cup for one month, when the nest 

 race of the series will occur. 



Next there was a handicap for all the canoes, which amoimted 

 to little better than a di-ift most of the way, with here and there 

 an occasional puff. This was won by the Mystic, as below. 



Ahout 4:30 P. M. the party packed up camp stools, empty bask- 

 ets, hampers, etc., and started for home, the leading boat to have 

 for a prize a very artistic old shoe of paper niache. The Waif 

 arrived first, hut as she started considerably aiieud and carried no 

 passengers she was ruled out and the prize a\'s'arded to the Zoe 

 Mou. Altogether this was the most delightful canoeing trip the 

 club has had and the ladies are more enthusiastic over canoeing 

 than ever. 



Mr. Engelhrecht, nothing daunted by the loss of his much prized 

 canoe Sprav, is at work on a new one, which is already nearing 

 completion. She Mdll he a little longer than the old one and a dif- 

 ferent model somewhat, hut promises to prove as fast. 



The Oakland C. C has systematized its reports of races in a way 

 that all oluljs would do well to follow, each race being entered on 

 a printed blank which provides a space for all details. The pre- 

 servation of records is a matter to which clubs arc apt to give 

 little attention until some day tlie occasion arises when they are 

 needed and cannot be had. The expense of proper blank forms is 

 merely nominal and they should he kept on hand by the secretary 

 and filled out in duplicate, one being preserved aTul tlic other foi- 

 warded to the Forest AKD 8tui:am fo insure a correct report of 

 the race in print. Tho followi'i-.' :-i-."T!s of the two races men- 

 tioned above show 1 be form uii, . I ■ Oakland C. C. Spaces 

 for 12 entries are provided ou e:-<:j •.. Columns for "Position," 

 "Difference" and "Remarks" are also in o , ided on the blanks, but 

 necessarily oihitted here for lack of space, 



OAKLAND CANOE CLUB. 



ffccoj-d 0/ Sailing jRacc. GZflss 1st and 2d. 

 Prize, Miniature Bottle of Bourbon. 



Date, Nov. 3d, lasc. 

 Courrie, East Oakland Basin Triang'ilar. I>istancc, 2 Mile". 

 Tide, High at 3:.50 P. M. )YlinU North; Ught. 



Mystic .... 

 Zoe Mou . . 



Waif 



Coney I'l'd 

 Zephyr.... 

 Colombia . 

 Shadow.. . . 

 Falcon — 



p. M. 

 W.W.Blow. 3 00 



H.DarneaL. 3 00 



F. Fallaut . . 3 00 

 E. R. Cooper 3 00 

 A. H. Blow. .1 3 00 

 P.Gonzalez. 3 00 



G. T.Wriglit: 3 00 

 Abe Gump.. I 3 00 



H.M.S 



TurnsjFlnish. 



Time, 



AUow- 

 ance. 



Cor, 

 Time. 



1. 





H. M. S. 



M. 8. 



M.S. 



M. S. 



3 



1 



3 41 00 



41 00 



Allon's 



41 00 



1 





3 43 00 



43 00 



48 



42 12 



4 



4 



3 46 00 



48 00 



2 08 



48 52 



2 



3 



3 45 30 



45 30 



1 09 



44 21 





5 



3 m *■> 



4fl 45 



1 53 



44 53 



7 



6 



3 50 30 



50 30 



3 00^ 



48 20 



6 



7 



3 50 00 



m 00 



1 26 



48 84 



8 



8 



3 t,lM) 



51 45 



14 



51 31 



R. D. Jackson, Judges 

 . . Timekeeper. 



Record of SaiUug Rice. C/a&s Second. 

 Prize, The Edwards .Silver Cup, 1st Race. 



' Da(»:, Nov. 3d, 18S0. 



Course, East Oakland Basin Triangular. JDiataiicc, 2 MHei<. 

 Tide. High at 3;80 P. M. mnd, North; light. 



Waif F Fallaut. . . 



Falcon Abe Gump.. 



Shadow.... IG.T. Wright 

 Colombia . P. Gonzalez. 



Allow- 

 ance. 



1 3 49 00 43 00 



3 3 34 001 47 CO 



2 2 54 SO 47 30 



4 Did Eot finish. 



None, 42 CO 

 None. 47 00 

 None. '47 00^ 



Cor. 

 Time. 



R. D. JACKSON, Judge. 

 . Timekeeper. 



WASHINGTON C, C- Washington, D. C, Nov, Sa.-Editor 

 Forest and Stream: Owing to the heavy and continued rain, tlie 

 final race of the championship series was not sailed to-day. and 

 the prizes ^vill, in consequence, probably go over until next season 

 unless an opportunitv is presented in the immediate future to fin- 

 ish the series this year. The Mermaid and the Petrel each stand 

 as the winner of oiie race, hut as one boat must win in two races 

 neither eau claim the championship. The arrangements for win- 

 ter quarters are nearly finished, and the prosppcts seem bright 

 for a series of pleasant camp-fires during the cold weather and an 

 early and enthusiastic carupai^n next spring. Paddling cruises 

 for a day or two at a time are still in '''Ogue, and -n-ill probably be 

 kept up Vhile the river remains open. The Washington C. C, hope 

 to be counted in in any branch of the A. O. A. which may be 

 formed within reasonable distance,— J. Lake, Sec'y and Treaa, 



ANOTHER LONG CANOE CRUISE.-WellsviUe, O., No\'. 15.- 



Ediinr Fnrr;4 ainj Sirernn: During the leisure hours of the summer 

 season Bert Jones, aged about 16 years, son of Rev. P. H. Jones, 

 built hiniscli a rude but substantial little cunoo, in which ho later 

 embarked as CHptain, crew and passengers, for a voya.ge l oward 

 the simny South. He took along with him fishing tackle and 

 hunting accoiitrcnients and a small "A" teut which he projiosed 

 rigging to the boat for shelter at night. When last heard from he 

 had reached Memphi.s, I'enn,; was securing plenty of game, and 

 perfectly delighted with the trip. He thought strongly of con- 

 tinuing the voyage to Texas, where he would join his hrolhor . 

 CoiLSidering lii's extreme youth and the slight experience possessed, 

 he displays a grit characteristic only of enthusiastic sportsmen.— 

 Jo. 



^mwers to ^otreBpondmt§, 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspouden t«. 



J. B. P.— Of the three you name Scott and Greener, 



C. C, Philadelphia, Pa.— The rockered keel and rounded stern 

 would improve the model. 



M. M., Grand Rapids, Mich.— Canoee mu!3t pay the duty on man- 

 ufactured wood, 85 per cent. 



H. C„ Vermont.— You will doubtless find the gun named satis- 

 factory. For safety there is no choice between it and a dozen 

 others. 



iNQTjiRETi, Austin, Miss.— The Atlantic was built hy the so-called 

 "Rule of Thumb," The other yachts were the work of professional 

 designers. 



Kanttok, Toronto.— a Class B canoe may he 16in. from under 

 side of center of deck at fore end of well to inner side of garhoard 

 next to keelson. Vesper and Pecowsic are under this limit; prob- 

 ably 14 and 13iu. respectively. There were no formal races with 

 Red .Jacket, but Ve.sper beat her in one scrub race and other 

 canoes did so as well. There was no "no-ballast" race this year. 



W. L. F,, South Bend, Ind,— I should like to get liold of some 

 book that would give mean idea of the wolfing business on the 

 northern bounda ry of Montana or in the Saskatchewan country. 

 Do you know if 1 could get any reports of the extent of this busi- 

 carricd on by sending to Washington. I have had some experience 

 in the business in California. Ana. The wolfing business is carried 

 on by poi.soning bait with strychnine. Montana is the best 

 country to work in that we know of at present. An account of 

 the business was published in Forest and' Stkeaji of July 22, 1880, 

 Fort Shaw, Montana, is a good outfitting point. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Messrs. Lee & Shepard, of Boston, have issued in very fully- 

 illustrated form four of our most familiar and sweetest liymns, 

 "Rock of Ages," "My Faith Looks up to Thee," "Abide With Me" 

 and "Nearer My (toJ to Thee." These are uniform in size, each 

 small quarto volume containing its single hymn and the engrav- 

 ings wnich accompany it. Tlie paper is heavy, the illustrations 

 are numerous and varied, and the binding is in imitation of alli- 

 gator skin. 



Similar in general character are "Home, Sweet Home" and the 

 "Curfew Must Not Ring To-night," from the .same press. These 

 are handsomely bound in cloth and are profusely illustrated. 



An extremelv useful little volume is "Mistakes in Writing Eng- 

 lish," by Marshall T. Bigelow. also published by Messrs. Lee A: 

 Shepard. This little book deals with the blunders most commonly 

 made in writing, and should he in tlie hands of every one. The 

 author has set right a very great number of vulgar errors. 



Under the title nf "Young Folks' Pictures and Stories of Ani- 

 mals for Home ancl School" Lee & Shepardpublish six little Tol- 

 nmes 

 six \' 



Sea LUxlihis, Star^r/she^^ They are nseful little vol- 



umes and mav nroiitably be put into the hands of young children. 

 The stories of' the creatures whose habits are detailed arc pleas- 

 antly told and in general are drawn from good sources. The illus- 

 trations are numerous and familiar. ? 



A verv striking holiday hook, complete in aU its make up and 

 marvelous in the beautv and number of its engra^dngsis "Nature's 

 Hallelujah," arranged and illustrated by Irene E. Jerome. The 

 story, so far as it baa one, is tltat of the fancied rejoicing of Nature 

 at the coming of spring, and the time is April, May and June. The 

 fragments ot verse which accompany the illustrations arc many 

 of tUeni verv beautiful, and we flud scattered everywhere through 

 thp liases conceits quaint and charmiiig, wlneh make tho book 

 delightful to pore over. Too much can harcUy lie ^aid m praise of 

 the iUustrations. They are the work of a true lover ot Mature. 



"The Young Wrecker," by Thomas Meade Bache (Lee & Shep 

 ard), has reached its sixth edition. It is the story of a boy, crazy 

 to go to sea, hut restrained from doing so by his lather's com- 

 mands, who was at length carried off hy accident in a vessel 

 hound for Havana. Here he was transferred to a wrecking 

 schooner, and passed some pleasant months on the Florida coast be- 

 fore receiving a letter from his father, to whom he had written at 

 the first opoortunitv. The story of Fred's adventnres is well told, 

 and the whole motive and lesson of the book is a good one, while at 

 the same time there is in it plenty of adventure and excitement. 



"His One Fault." by J. T. Trowbridge (Lee & Shepard), is 

 another boA's' book. The hero is a boy whose heedlessness is con- 

 stantly leading him into scrapes of all kinds. After a series of 

 severe lessons f i-om which he emerges witli no loss of credit, lie is 

 supposed to he cured and the story ends. The history of Kit 

 Downimcde ma>- be read "with profit by a great many boys. 



"The Complete Poultry Manual," hy F. D. Craig, is a handy 

 little pamphlet, on poultry keeping and poultry breeding. Ihe 

 common diseases to which fowls are subject are quite fully treated, 

 and instructions given as to the accommodations for poultry. A 

 list, with some description, of the different hreeds is given and a 

 vocabulary of technical terms used in this connection. The last 

 third of the book is devoted to a little romance, so-called, m which 

 the success of two young poultry breeders is detailed. 



"Under Blue Skies," published hy Worthington Company, 747 

 Broadway, New York, is a beautifully iUustrated c iiild's book. The 

 verses and colored pictures are by Mrs. S. J. Bi-jgUam, ftud bOtft 

 are entitled to high praise. 



