Oct. 12, 1895. 



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heat fresh, would be a hardship on the first heat dogs. I 

 am in favor of a stake for the winners to compete in and 

 sustain themselves each year. I will have no champions 

 to enter, but will only look on for fair play." 



We are informed that Maj. J. M. Taylor, 19 Park Place, 

 New York, will supply catalogues of Mr. Lorillard's setter 

 sale, and will execute commissions for those who desire 

 to purchase. He will attend the sale in person. 



In the Park. — Laura — "George, look at. that dog! 

 Will he bite?" George— "Bite? If he's a dog of any 

 judgment, Laura, he'll try to eat you! Get out, you 

 brute!" — Chicago Tribune. 



Mr , Edward Brooks informs us that he has sold his en- 

 tire kennel of Dandies and Scotch terriers to Mr. G. S. 

 Thomas. 



Says the Dog to Himself. 



I am happy in knowing tbat such laws as apply to dogs 

 do not enumerate the misdemeanors of man. 



It is a mistake to suppose that I love the people best 

 who treat me worst. 



I have noticed that some masters give their dogs a beat- 

 ing under the mistaken belief that they are teaching 

 them a lesson. 



I am not always in good health or spirits, hence I can 

 not be active and cheerful always. 



The malevolent disposition which prompts a man to 

 kick his dog is the same which prompts a man to kick 

 his neighbor when displeased with him, but the neighbor 

 can kick back and the dog can not. 



To call a man a puppy is to take a mean advantage of 

 the puppy. 



Do not chain me up and imagine that for me imprison- 

 ment is happiness. 



A tight collar is quite as distressing to me as it is to my 

 master. 



I like plenty of good water to drink when I am thirsty, 

 and suffer when I do not have it. 



If I sleep in foul kennels my health suffers. 



When in a strange place, if I bave to hunt up my own 

 bed, I think my master should first see if there is one at 

 all for me to hunt. 



Every dog does not have his day; some have several 



day 8 - j 



It is commonly supposed that I bay the ffiOon at night, 

 though I bay impartially, whether there is a moon or 

 not. , 



Danbury Show. 



Entries at Danbury bench show as follows: Total num- 

 ber, 220. Mastiffs 9, St. Bernards 17, great Danes 6, point- 

 ers 11, English setters 11, Irish setters 11, Gordon setters 

 15, spaniels 25, fox-terriers 19, foxhounds 5, bulldogs 6, 

 poodles 6, beagles 9, bloodhounds 4, Russian wolfhounds 

 4, greyhounds 3, Chesapeake Bay dogs 2, collies 2, bull- 



6, Italian greyhounds 3, miscellaneous 3. James Morti- 

 mer judges all classes. 



KENNEL NOTES. 



Kennel Notes are inserted without charge; and blanks 

 (furnished free) will be sent to any address. Prepared 

 Blanks sent free on application. 



BRED. 



Mr. C. W. Travers's Nellie Bland, rough-coated St. Bernard bitch, 

 Aug. 18, to California Bernardo. 

 Mr. John R. Kelly's 



Bonnie Lee, rough-coated St. Bernard bitch, Aug. 6, to California 



Bernardo. 



Princess Royal, rough-coated St. Bernard bitch, Aug. 18, to Cali- 

 fornia Bernardo. A . 



Dr. Belt's Wawaset Lucy, fox-terrier bitch, April 5, to Hillside 



^Slr^J. E. Dalton's Winning Hand, fox-terrier bitch, Aug. 31, to Hill- 



8 mV*E?b! MacNair's Nancy, fox-terrier bitch, June 8, to Hillside 



* 0yflL WHELPS. 



Mr. E. B. MacNair's Nancy, fox-terrier bitch, whelped, Aug. 6, four 

 dogs, by Hillside Royal. 



Dr. James Ferris Belt's Wawaset Lucy, fox-terrier bitch, whelped, 

 June 1, five (two dogs), by Hillside Royal. 



SALES. 

 Dr. James Eerris Belt has sold 



Wawaset Lady, fox-terrier bitch, to Mr. Jas. Mason. 

 Wawaset Royal, fox-terrier bitch, to Miss Cecilia Evsfaphieve. 

 Wawaset Molly, fox-terrier bitch, to Mr. Robert Wallis. 

 Wawaset Dinah, fox-terrier bitch, to Miss Mary Green. 

 Ferris Glen, fox-terrier dog, to Mr. J. E. Dalton. 



Aberdeen Coursing Club's Meet. 



The meeting began on Oct. 1, at Aberdeen, S. D. The 

 Palace stakes, sixteen entries, were run first. W. 

 Stephenson judged. W. Angell, Oakes, slipper. The 

 weather was pleasant, too warm for good work. There 

 were unnecessary delays between courses. The first day's 

 running was as follows: 



Pearl, St. Louis, beat Ardgay, Indianapolis; Chartist, 

 Minneapolis, beat Van Troump, Indianapolis; Valkyrie, 

 Indianapolis, beat Major, South Dakota; Van OUie, In- 

 dianapolis, beat Charming May, Fox Lake, Wis. ; Long- 

 fellow, San Francisco, beat Nancy, Cable, 111.; Caliph, 

 Oakes, N. D., beat Astronomy, Indianapolis; Raven, 

 Aberdeen, beat Recollection, Aberdeen; Lady Misterton, 

 Oakes, N. D., beat Just Eclipsed, Indianapolis. 



Second Round — Pearl beat Chartist, Valkyrie beat Long- 

 fellow, Caliph beat Van Ollie. Raven ran a bye, Lady 

 Misterton being withdrawn lame. Further running of 

 this stake was deferred till the 3d inst., the Derby being 

 started in the meantime. Pearl was withdrawn and 

 Valkyrie had a bye in consequence. Caliph beat Raven. 

 R. H. Wood's Raven (Major Glendyne— Humming Bird) 

 beat Dr. Q. Van Hummell's Valkyrie (Lord Neversettle— 

 Partera). 



The Aberdeen Derby had twenty-six starters, and was 

 started on Wednesday. 



Merry Maid beat Glenrosa, Gyp put out Village Girl, 

 Banker won .the course against Van Hoie. The fourth 



course was won by Van Cloie against Miller's Maid. In 

 the fifth course Van Traale beat Hot Stuff, San Joaquin 

 beat Van Brulie. Mormon Boy won over Colonel D. 

 Lady Aberdeen lost the eighth course to Rochester. Mar- 

 cello lost to Ravolt. Venture beat Wayfarer. There was 

 no course in the eleventh race owing to a false slip, 

 Volusia alone following the hare to a kill. In the twelfth 

 course Minneapolis beat Master Dennis. The laBt course 

 of the day was won by Van Bree against Oakes. 



On Thursday the running was resumed as follows: 

 Merry Maid against Gyp, in which Merry Maid proved the 

 fleeter and won easily. The next should have been be- 

 tween Banker and Van Cloie, but the former was drawn 

 and the latter ran a bye. Van Traale lost to San Joaquin 

 in the third, Rochester to Mormon Boy in the fourth, 

 Ravolt put out Venture in the fifth, and Minneapolis won 

 against Volusia in the sixth. Oakes ran a bye for the 

 seventh. In the third series Merry Maid put out Van 

 Cloie in the first course, San Joaquin was too much for 

 Mormon Boy in the second, and in the third Ravolt lost to 

 Oakes. Minneapolis ran a bye with Minnehaha. 



On the fourth day Merry Maid beat San Joaquin, and 

 Minneapolis beat Oakes. The owners of the two dogs 

 left in divided first money. Merry Maid is by Miller's 

 Rob— Ramona, and N. P. Whiting's Minneapolis is by 

 Glenkirk — Innocence, 



The Marine Journal makes a plea for the indicted officers of the 

 Iron steamer Perseus, on the general grounds that "they are experts; 

 in the business of Seeping out of the way of vessels under sail, and 

 * * * they are provided with a pilot house above everybody and 

 everything else, with an unobstructed view, and with no duty before 

 them but to secure safe navigation to their boat. " We know nothing- 

 about this special case of the Perseus and Adelaide save the published 

 evidence, but we have a pretty clear idea, after some years of yacht- 



ng in New York Harbor, of what it is to sit in a small yacht on a still 

 summer day, with no wind and jammed with a foul tide in the 

 Narrows, and to listen to the monotonous thump of the paddles while 

 we speculated whether it was the pleasure of the blue-coated demi- 

 god, safe in his "pilot house above everybody," to cut us down 

 squarely amidships or only to stave in our side with a blow of his. 

 paddle-wheel, or to swamp us with his wash. We would like to see the> 



editor of the Marine Journal in such a predicament as is but too* 

 familiar to the men who have boated about New York Bay, and have 

 come to look upon the boats of the Iron Steamboat Co. as the worst 

 danger they are called upon to meet. The captain of the steamer,, 

 secure in his lofty pilot house, has before him the very remote possi- 

 bility of an indictment and the still more remote possibility of such, 

 just punishment as was dealt out to the drunken pilot who ran down 

 the yacht Amelia several years since. The man in the small boat, 

 often a skillful and experienced yachtsman, has the loss of his boat 

 and very possibly of his life imperiled through the conduct of tha 

 pilots of these swift iron steamers. 



After the vast deluge of nonsense which has appeared of late in 

 print it is refreshing to turn to the plain sensible comments of Mr. 

 Irving Cox which we reprint this week. While we are not prepared, 

 off-hand to indorse the suggested remedy of a standard design, a Bim-. 

 ilar proposition to that made by the British designers in 1893, we are* 

 heartily in accord with all that Mr. Cox says as to the cost and general 

 uselessness of the latest yachts; and in particular we agree with him 

 that absolute speed is not an essential factor in yacht racing. The 

 comparison of yacht racing to an obsolete sport such as archery may 

 strike some yachtsmen as very absurd; but it is a fact that the steam 

 yacht on the one hand and the syndicate racing machine on the other 

 are taking all the life out of yacht racing. 



The success of the little Ethelwynn in the trial and Internationa 1 

 races has naturally awakened a very great interest in her, and we are 

 in receipt of inquiries from all quarters as to the availability of the 

 model for various uses. It must be remembered that the boat was 

 built for one special purpose— match sailing under the conditions laid 

 down by the Seawanhaka C. Y. C, and in ordinary summer weather. 

 Under these conditions she was allowed a little over 200sq. ft. of sail 

 and a crew of two men, with various other limitations. Because she 

 has succeeded in the two sets of races, beating Beven other boats in 

 all, and winning six out of the eight trial and cup races sailed, it does 

 not follow that she would win in a class of 15ft. catboats with sand- 

 bags and a crew of four or five, or that she would make an all-around 

 cruising and racing boat. The type is an excellent one for many local- 

 ities; with half a dozen boats of this kind just as good sport may be 

 had as with very much larger craft; in fact, in these days, when elab- 

 orate and expensive construction are so essential to speed, it is econ- 

 omy to have a small racing boat of the best possible construction for 

 racing, and at the same time to keep a larger, less modern and alto- 

 gether more comfortable boat for cruising. 



It is only within a very short time that American yachtsmen have 

 begun to appreciate the principle on which the one-raters and half- 

 raters are based, a principle diametrically opposite to that heretofore 

 existing in American yachting. 



Under the old-time rules of waterline length, mean length and cubic 

 contents, the only thing to do with a yacht of a given length was to 

 crowd on all the sail she could be made to carry; and this idea has 

 prevailed in a modified form through a dozen years' practice under 

 the Seawanhaka rule, of length and sail area combined. In accord- 

 ance with it the yacht or boat that carried the largest sail plan has 

 been considered the best in every way, even though no faster than 

 others with smaller rig. 



The principle on which the small raters are designed is very differ- 

 ent; it is left to the designer in the beginning to select the best pos- 

 sible proportions of waterline length and sail area within a certain 

 fixed limit of measurement, and the success of the boat depends pri- 

 marily on the skill with which this selection is made. The history of 

 designing in Great Britain within the last eight years shows many 

 examples of yachts in which the actual model is perfect, but the 

 size is too great for the sail plan allowed within the limit of the 

 class. 



HThislidea of a moderate and careful use of several factors rather than 

 the excessive use of one is now gaining ground in America, and as it 

 becomes better understood we look for a material improvement in 

 yacht models; the resulting craft being of superior form and less 

 power, with a more moderate sail plan. 



The Adelaide— Perseus Collision. 



Ok Sept. 30 indictments for manslaughter were found against Capt. 

 Wm. H. Hulse and Pilot James Allen, of the Iron Steamboat Co.'s 

 steamer Perseus, for causing by negligence the death of Robert W. 

 Inman in the collision with the yacht Adelaide on Aug. 26. Eoth 

 pleaded not guilty and were placed under $5,000 bail for trial on 

 Nov. 18 



Yacht Building at Nyacls. 



Messrs. Charles L. Seabury & Co., Nyack, N. Y., have just entered 

 into a contract with a New York yachtsman to build him a cruising 

 steam yacht of 135ft. over all, (about) 110ft. l.w.l., 16ft. beam, 9ft. 6in. 

 depth and 7ft. draft. The hull will be composite built, frames of angle 

 steel, keelsons, breast hooks, diagonal straps and fore and aft plates 

 of steel. The planking will be of To bin bronze through bolts. There 

 will be four steel bulkheads. The rudder will be of bronze with 

 steel shank properly protected from salt water. The deck will be of 

 clear white pine fastened with lag screws from under side of deck tim- 

 bers. 



There will be a mahogany deck house on forward deck, the lower 

 part panelled and upper part fitted with heavy plate glass windows to 

 slide up and down. In the after part will be a huffet, with mirror in 

 center, arranged for glassware, dishes, etc. Aft of dining room and 

 buffet and connected with the house will be arranged a stateroom 

 finished in mahogany, to be fitted with a wide berth with drawers 

 underneath, dressing case with mirror, drawers, etc , and folding 

 washstand. A bridge for steering from will be arranged on top of 

 deck house. 



Directly aft of the chain locker and store room will be the crew's 

 toilet room, fitted with marine water closet and stationary wash bowl. 

 Aft of toilet room will be fitted berths and lockers for the crew. This 

 Toom will also be used as a messroom for the crew, fitted with a fold- 

 ing table for same. Next aft will be arranged two staterooms, one for 

 the captain and one for the engineer. These will be fitted with a wide 

 herth in each with drawers underneath, also small dressing case. All 

 these rooms to be thoroughly ventilated by port lights. Aft of these 

 staterooms will be the galley of the full width of the vessel, fitted with 

 large ice box, dresser, dish rack, locker for coal, sink and pump. A 

 large skylight will be fitted over after part of same for ventilation and 

 light, also port lights on either side. The finish of this room and the 

 other rooms forward will be in butternut, natural color. Abaft the 

 galley will be the engine and boiler room. 



Directly abaft the boiler space will be the owner's stateroom, 6ft. 

 6in. long, to extend full width of vessel, with exception of toilet room, 

 which will be fitted on one side, the room to be finished in mahogany, 

 with a wide berth suitable for two, with drawers underneath, large 

 dressing case with mirror, fitted with drawers and rail around top. 

 A skylight will be arranged over this room for light and ventilation, 

 and there will also be two port lights. The toilet room connecting 

 will be finished in mahogany, fitted with a marine water closet, large 

 hath tub and set basin, all properly plumbed, for hot and cold water, 

 also for sea water connection for bath tub and pipe to heat same. 



Abaft the owner's stateroom will be arranged the main saloon, fin- 

 ished in mahogany, paneled on sides and ceiling. Transoms arranged 

 on each side of suitable width to sleep on, and mahogany center table. 

 The entrance will be through a wide companionway leading direct 

 from deck. The guests' staterooms aft of saloon will be three in 

 number, finished in butternut and mahogany. There will be a berth 

 in each room with drawers underneath, also dressing case with 

 mirror. Doors will be arranged to slide and swing. 



Abaft the saloon on port side will be a toilet room fitted with water 

 closet, stationary wash-basin, etc., finished in butternut and mahog- 

 any; and abaft the toilet room comes the lazaret. 



The machinery will consist of a Seabury design triple expansion 

 engine of latest type, and Seabury patent safety water tube boiler 

 with all fittings, etc., required by law. The speed is guaranteed to 

 be 16 miles per hour for three consecutive hours over measured course. 

 The yacht will be flush deck, schooner rigged. She will carry a launch 

 and three other boats, and will also be equipped with electric lights 

 and search light on bridge. The furnishings and upholstering will be 

 of the best, and in all her appointments she will be complete in detail. 

 She will be ready for commission May, 1896. 



A large number of yachtB and launches are now going out of com- 

 mission at Seabury & Co.'s yards, among them the 48ft. mahogany 

 flyers Palos, .T. B. Edson; Levanter, Alfred Marshall; Imp, A. L. 

 Barber, and So So, A. A. Stewart. There are also the yachts 

 Charliette, W. B. Higgins; Claymore, J. Kennedy Tod; Cricket, Archi- 

 bald Rogers; Delma, Lilly, and Anemone. 



The yachts and launches Margaret, J. H. Rutherford; Marjencha, 

 Dr. H. A. Mandeville; Washita, John P. Duncan; Hurrah, W. W. Hall; 

 Espadon, F. DeCoppet; Daisy, N. C. Reynai; Vanish, J. L. Hutchinson, 

 and others, will also lay up at Nyacfc when they go out of commission 

 for the season of '95. Thomas A. Mclntyre's launch Strae is now 

 fitting out for her usual Southern cruise. J. H. Rutherford's yacht 

 Margaret arrived at Nyack a week or so ago, and immediately fitted 

 out for a trip to Portress Monroe, Va. 



Come to Halifax. 



Halifax, N. S., Sept. 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: If there is 

 ever another contest for. the America's Cup, why not sail it at Halifax? 

 The reasons are manifest: 



1. It would be in neutral waters, and the American boat would have 

 to make a short, but real, sea voyage to reach it, thereby putting an 

 end to the always repeated charge that she is not fit to go beyond 

 Long Island Sound. 



2. The boats would have a magnificent course, with much stronger 

 and truer winds than commonly prevail about New York and even 

 Boston in summer time. In summer four days out of five the south- 

 west wind blows hard and true. Galatea and Dauntless sailed here in 

 1889, and both their owners said that the course laid out for them was 

 the finest they had ever sailed over; free from shoals and currents, 

 ,and with a splendid breeze from start to finish. 



8. Competing yachts would find all facilities for racing here; a capi- 

 tal harbor, always most easy to enter and leave, and both a dry dock 

 and a first-class marine railway. The latter was used by both Galatea 

 and Dauntless, and Lieut. Henn in particular expressed himself as 

 very much pleased with the manner in which Galatea was bandied. 



4. As to the crowd of excursion steamers, I venture to think it 

 would be unsigniflcant. There is no fleet of steamers and yachts 

 here, as in Boston, to cause any trouble. No doubt some steamers, 

 particularly yachts, would attend, but I do not see how it would be 

 possible for the great fleet of excursion steamers to come. They 

 would have to leave their regular work for a; fortnight at least, 

 probably longer, and they would have no huge city at hand to supply 

 excursionists. They would have to depend entirely upon what they 

 brought with them and upon the enthusiasts who might care to come 

 over here specially for the races. 



I can say for the yacht club here that it would only be too glad to 

 do everything in its power to render assistance and make matters 

 pleasant. A Bluenose Yachtsman. 



Friar. 



We have already mentioned the little Dyer boat Friar, at first in- 

 tended for the 15ft. class, but afterward canvased more heavily, her 

 length over all being 20ft., l.w.l. 14ft., and beam 5ft. 6in. with 300sq. ft. 

 of sail. On Sept. 7 she sailed in the regatta of the Pine Lake Y. C. at 

 Nashotah, Wis., winning the Schmidt trophy. Another new Dyer boat. 

 Avers, also owned by Mr. Robert Nunnemacher, was capsized before 

 starting in this her first race. The times were: 



Actual. Corrected. 



Friar, Robert Nunnemacher 1 18 03 



Novice, H. V. Lester , 1 15 50 



Nyack, H. Niedecken 1 20 15 



Allida, A. H. Vogel, J. Barth 1 18 30 



Henrietta, George Brumber .1 24 05 



Edna, Wm. & H. Manegold 1 24 35 



The first race for the new challenge trophy presented by Mr. Fred 

 Pabst was sailed on Sept. 14, being won by 3s. by Avers, 30ft. over all, 

 20ft. l.w.l. and 8ft. beam, with 650sq. ft. of sail, the little Friar being 

 second and another Dyer boat, Argo, third. 



1 11 16 



1 13 43 

 1 15 42 

 1 16 40 

 1 22 37 

 1 23 45 









Time 





Start. 



Finish. 



Actual. 



Allowed. Corrected. 



2 16 25 



3 07 16 



50 51 



00 15 



50 36 



2 18 15 



3 17 05 



58 50 



08 11 



50 39 



2 16 20 



S 09 21 



52 10 



02 39 



50 42 



2 16 20 



3 15 46 



59 26 



02 07 



57 19 



2 19 50 



3 22 46 



1 03 16 



02 19 



1 00 57 



2 19 02 



3 23 26 



1 04 24 



00 20 



1 04 04 



2 17 02 



3 24 09 



1 07 07 



02 31 



1 06 36 



2 17 40 



3 26 14 



1 08 34 



08 11 



1 04 37 



2 18 35 



3 25 22 



1 06 47 



02 01 



1 04 46 



2 20 00 



3 26 19 



1 06 19 



01 28 



1 04 51 



Nyack capsized and Emma withdrew. The race was sailed in a S.E. 

 wind of 18 miles per hour, the first three boats beating the club 

 record by 8 minutes. 



Capt. Barr and Niagara. 



Capt. John Barr reached New York on Oct. 5 on the Anchor liner 

 City of Rome from Glasgow after a very successful season as skipper 

 of Mr. Howard Gould's 20-rater Niagara. For 52 starts Niagara won 

 31 first, 8 second and one third prize. She is now laid up in Fay's yard, 

 Southampton, and will be raced again next season. 



The Forest and Stream is put to press each weeks on Tuesday 

 Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 

 latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 



