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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[Jan. 31, 1889, 



CINCINNATI, Jan. '35.— The Cincinnati East End Gun Club 

 held their first Annual live-pigeon shoot of the season to-day. The 

 birds were excellent, good of wing and extra tough, judging from 

 some of the charges thej carried off. McPhee set the pace and 

 held it to the finish, landing a good winner. The scores made 

 were: Live hir (s, ouyds. rise, from 6 trans, use of both barrels, 

 Hurlingham ruks. First mutch, live birds: 



Ferris 01111-4 Handle 1)111-5 



Murphy 33011-4 Taylor ....11)11-5 



Girton 20111-4 Shot.t 12220-4 



Scbatzman 01212—4 McPhee 12111—5 



Cole 30121-4 SG 00111-3 



N G 11021-4 Ties divided. 



Second match, live birds: 



Bundle 20112-4 Cole 11111—5 



NG 12112-5 Apking 110.2-4 



McPhee 11201—4 Murphy 12020—3 



shott: 11220 -4 Deck 10110-3 



Tavlor 10212—4 Bill 12111-5 



SG 21021-4 Girton 12131-5 



Sohatsman 11011-4 Ties divided. 



Third mutch, live birds: 



Handle 11210-4 Girton 2221 1 -5 



Shott. 21100-3 Sehatssmnn 02102- ;< 



Tavlor 11101—4 Richard 11010-8 



SG 11110-4 Bill 10111-4 



Cole 02111-4 Beck 02220-3 



McPhee 122 1 2-5 Ferris 11011-4 



MJNG 20011-3 Murphy 21211-5 



Apking .. .0022!— 3 Ties divided. 



Fifth match, miss and out at live birds, won by McPhee: 



Bandle 1112100210 Bill 1222110000 



N G 1021100001 Deck 1000000000 



01 020! mm 



022001 mil id 



112100;iinni 



211210011" 



. . .21 l:J2! 10000 



Cole 



Shott ... 



SG 



Taylor .. 

 Apking. . 

 McPhee 



.1212100100 Richard , 



...131U200000 Boutot 



..1221101200 Scbatzman 



.10U1COOOO Murphy 



.1003100000 Ferris 



...1112100212 Ties divided. 



EATON, N. Y„ Jan. 20.— In view of the fact the Dr. had never 

 won the badge, and, added to this, his uiasniatnious spirit, he de- 

 cided to-day to donate a box of cigars to the boys of the gun club, 

 The highest score to take badge and cigars. At 3 o'clock seven of 

 the boys shot, and the Dr. walked away with both, with the fob 

 lowing score: 



Hamlin 1110111011—8 Morse 0001110100-4 



Snort lOlinOlNOO-4 Tuck 1011010010-5 



Hiebardson 0111101110-7 Curtis 0111100111-7 



Briggs.-. . 000011 0110-4 



The cigars, being won by the donor, were again shot for. which 

 resulted as follows: 



Hamlin lOOOOtUOll— 1 Morse 100001 1100— 4 



Short 1011110011—7 Luck 1001111000—5 



Richardson 110011 1 111 -8 Curtis 101 00011 11 -tl 



Briggs 1110101111— R 



In shooting off Briggs won. 



NORWICH, Conn., Jan 28.— I send ymi a report of Saturday's 

 shoot. The club is divided into two classes, according to pre- 

 vious averages, and two gold badge? a re given— one for each Class. 

 The contest commenced Aug. 11, 1888. and ends Aug. 10, 1889, 

 being shot for on each alternate Saturday, the party winninig 

 either of the badge* the most times to own it. Any one winning 

 a badge at IS yds. is handicapped 2yds. each time until he reaches 

 24yds., and there he remains until the contest is ended. They 

 have been snot for Thirteen times, and have been won as follows; 



three times each. 



Saturday's prize shoot was for the best score in a possible 25 

 Keystones. Class A— Ycrrington, 24yds., 20; Pattison, 18yds., 19: 

 Palmer, 18yds., 10: Barnes, 18yds., 14; Harvey, £0yds., IS; Class B 

 —Bid well, 24yds., 12; Johnson, 18yds., 21; Olcott, 24yds., 21: Mitchell 

 23yds., 16. Johuson and Olcott will shoot off at the next shoot. 



Ten clay birds. 5 traps, 18yds.: Yerrington 10, Mitchell 5, Harvey 

 5, J. H.Ames (New London! 8, Pattison 2, Barnes 7, Sargent 3, 

 BidweU 5. 



Ten clay birds. 5 traps, 18yds.: Yerrington (20yds.) 8, Bobbins 8, 

 Bid well 7, Barnes 7, Ames 7. Mitchell 5. Ties div. 



Five pair Keystones: Sargent 9, Bidwell 7, Pattison 7, Yerring- 

 ton 0, Bobbins 6. Ties div. 



NYACK, N. Y., Jau.20.— Nyack Rifle and Gun Club, swecpstaks 

 at 30 birds iLoekport ba ts), use of one barrel: 



H Garner... 0111011 10001 1 0< i H ■ 1 1 ; U0101 01 lOltmi 11 1 —SO 



L L Laurence. 111001 llllHOlOimuoiniOOllll 11101-27 



G Chapman OillllOOOm I lOPill] lt.Kil 11101101101100-21 



LC Van Rinen 101 1 ) 11 1 11 1 1 1 CmiIIO 1 11104111111101101 — 29 



P Moeller " 0010101111101011111011301111011111101—25 



BROOKLYN, Jan. 25.— A prize shooting will take place at Wis- 

 se.l's Cynress Hill Park, Feb. 4, at 1 o'clock, between the members 

 of the Acme Gun Club. 



WORCESTER, Mass.. Jan. 24.— At this week's attendance at 

 the third of the classification prize shoots the attendance was 

 not as large as usual, biit all the contestants proved to be in Class 

 A, and the purse which is usually divided for tnreo prizes for 

 each class, was divided into four prizes for those contesting. In 

 the classification score there were 4 strings of birds, a possible 

 24, and in the prize score a possible 10. The. first prize, gfi, was 

 divided by Howe and Smith; second prize $4.50, was divided by 

 Dean, Rugg and Snow; third prize $3, was divided bv Gilmore, 

 Russell and Knowles; fourth prize $1.50, was divided by Holden 

 and Webber. The work of each man more in detail follows: 



Classif'u. Prize. Classif'n. Prize. 



C H Howe 20 10 M D Gilmore 20 8 



ET Smith 19 10 GW Russell 17 8 



WROean 28 9 E S Knowles .17 8 



G J Rugg 20 9 CBHolden 21 8 



EFSwan 17 9 HW Webber 18 8 



CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 24.— The Gun Club held its eighth annual 

 meeting at the Sherman House last night with President J. B. 

 Reeme in the chair. The secretary and treasurer's report showed 

 a very satisfactory financial outlook, and on motion, it was voted 

 to appropriate $100 to be divided into four prizes and awarded to 

 the four men holding the four highest averages during the year. 

 Appropriations were also made for the ground, trap and miscel- 

 laneous medals, and the directors were instructed to citll one 

 shoot in February and one in March and two each month there- 

 after until September. The following officers were elected: Pres- 



empowered to make Hie club's donation to the tournament of 

 the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association, and also to i=sue chal- 

 lenges and arrange matches with other clubs. The Mak-saw-bas 

 hold another big tournament shoo L at their club grounds at Davis, 

 Ind., next Saturday, Jan. 26. It will be considerable of a shoot 

 and there is going to be close work and plenty of fun. Scores 

 will be sent in.— E. H. 



OAK POINT. N. Y., Jan. 24.— The fifth weekly sweepstake 

 match of the Mt. Morris Gun Club took place at Oak Point this 

 afternoon. The conditions were that each man was to shoot at 20 

 live pigeons, 25yds. rise, 80yds. boundary, from 5 traps; $25 en- 

 trance each man; a winner of a previous match to be handicapped 

 2yds. The entries were as follows: P Mullen, P. McKeon and J. 

 L. Mott, Jr. Mr. Mott shot from the 27yds„ while Messrs. Mullen 

 and McKeon shot from the 25yds. Frank Bankain of the Crib 

 Club was referee, and L. Contoit scorer. G. Rea handled traps. 

 The following is the score; 



Mott 1 01 01011110 1 1 1 ill 11 ] — 1 McKeon.. 11011111110011111111— 17 



Mullen.... 11 1UU111 1101 11110100-14 



There was also a clay-pigeon sweepstakes, $10 a man, which re- 

 united as follows: 



Mott Ill 011 11 11— 9 McKeon 1C01110111-7 



Mullen 1010110101-0 



BERGEN POINT, N. J., Jan. 25.— The members of the Carteret 

 Gun Club assembled in force t his morning at their club house 

 here to witness a pigeon shooting match in which two members 

 of the Riverton Gun Club of Philadelphia vanquished the best 

 shots of New York. The match grew out of a challenge issued 

 by Mr. Phillip Randolph and Mr. H. Yale Dolan to shoot two of 

 the best known shots of New York for a purse of $100. The 

 Carteret Club selected Cant. Pierson and James Gladwin to 

 represent their skill, and the conditions were according to the 

 Hurlingham rules, which provide 50 birds for each man, with 

 80yds. rise. The New Yorkers, being much older men than then- 

 antagonists, were confident of an easy victory. They were dis- 

 appointed, The score was as follows: Capt. Pierson killed 43 

 birds and missed 7; Mr. Gladwin 41 killed, 9 missed. For the 

 Phibidelphians Mr. Doian killed 18 and missed 2; Mr. Randolph 

 killed 45 and missed 5. Altogether the shooting waB remarkable 

 for its excellence, and tire skill of the Philadelpbiaus was a sur- 

 prise to their older competitors. 



SUBURBAN SHOOTING ASSOCIATION.— The opening tour- 

 nament for the season of 1889 will be held on the shooting ground 

 at Claremout, N. J., on Friday and Saturday. Feb. 22 and 23. The 

 programme includes the following events: Team Sweeostakes, 

 Feb. 22, open to teams of 5 men each from any gun club hav- 

 ing been organized three months; a club may enter as many 

 teams as they choose, but no man shall shoot in more than ono 

 team of 5: 10 single rises, entry $1 per team. Team Sweep- 

 stakes, Feb. 23, teams of 3 men each, same condition as above, no 

 man can shoot in more than one team of 3: 15 single rises, entry 



team shooting. Announcement will be made of the merchandise 

 prizes and trophies for amateurs. The shoot ing will commence 

 at 9 A. M. and continue all day. The shooting will be on the Key- 

 stone plan. Club shoots will be held on those grounds every Sat- 

 urday afternoon. Monthly tournaments every fourth Saturday, 

 commencing at 9:30 A. M. For full programme address the N. Y. 

 Suburban Shooting Grounds Association, No. 291 Broadway, N. Y. 



PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— The traps of the North End Gun Club 

 are now sprung by electricity, being operated on a system worked 

 out by Mr. James Wolsteneroft, a prominent member of the club. 

 It is an original plan, and was so successful at its first trial that 

 the club adopted it at once. It lets the birds leave the traps 

 quietly and quickly, with diminished chances of breakage. On 

 Saturday, Feb. 2, the North End will shoot a friendly match 

 against the Cinnaminson Gun Club, of Cinnaminson, N. J. 



WELLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 26.— The weather conditions were 

 favorable for good shooting to-day, and in the merchandise and 

 silver pitcher matches some very good scores were ma 'e. In the 

 merchandise match points were scored as follows; Stanton 18, 

 Perry 14, Swift 12, Sanborn 10, Bradstreet 7, Bowker 10, Melcher 



silver pitcher match, at 8 day-pigeons and' 7 blueroeks* the fol- 



Six blueroeks, Choate, Bowker and Nutting; 6 blueroeks, Lang, 

 Swift and Stanton; 6 clay-pigeons, Bowker, Schaefer, Garfield 

 and Baldwin; 6 maeombers, Choate and Stanton; fi blueroeks, 

 Lang, Perry, Webster and Warren; blueroeks, Wilsonand Field; 

 3 pair clay-pigeons, Perry. Lang, Choate and Short; Maeombers. 

 Stanton; 7 blueroeks. Chase; 6 Maeombers, Perry; 6 blueroeks. 

 Perry and Choate; 8 pairs clay-pigeons, Stanton, Choate and 

 Short. Swift was first for the. silver pitcher with 14 out of a pos- 

 sible 15, and will have to stand back 21yds. from the traps at the 

 next shoot. An all-day's shoot will be held next Thursday, when 

 the contest for the amateur team badge will take place between 

 the Jamaica Plain Club and the Wellington and others. The 

 challenge amateur individual badge of the Massachusetts Shoot- 

 ing Association, now held by R. F. Schaefer, will be contested 

 by C. B. Sanborn, the shooting to be at 8 clay-pigeons and 7 blue- 

 rocks. The team match will be at 5bluerocks atid 5 clay-pigeons. 



Keokuk. Iowa, March 12. 1888. — J. F. Breitenstein, Esq., Keokuk, 

 Jo.: Dear Sir: The box of U. S. C. Co. paper shells that I received 

 from you last fall I tried, and found them to be all that you 

 claimed, and better than any shell I ever used, not one of them 

 missing fire. Yours truly, (Signed) T. J, Lowrie. — A.dv. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— J. R. Bartlett, Fremont, Ohio. 

 Vice-Commodore— I). H. Crane, Chicago, m. 

 Rear-Commodore- -C. J. Stedman. Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Secretary -Treasurer— O. H. Root, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Executive Committee— C. J. Bousfleld, Buy Citv, Mlcli.j T. p. GadiUs. Dav 

 ton, O.; T. J. Klrkpatrick, Spriurfield, O. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



OFFICERS, 1887-38. 



Commodore: H. C. Rogers ) L. , _ . _ 



Secretary-Treasurer: Geo. W. Hatton ( Peterborough, Can. 

 Vice-Corn. Rear-Corn. Purser. 



Central Wv..W. R. Huntington. E. W. Masten T. H. Stryker. 



Rome, N. Y. 



Allan tie Div. W. P. Stephens L. B. Palmer F. L. Dunnell, 



Mti Jorolemon St., Brooklyn. 



Eastern Div. .H. E. Rice, M. D, . .Maxton Holmes H.D. Marsh, 



Springfield. Mass. 



N'thernDiv. .Robert Tyson S.S.Robinson .Colin Fraser, Toronto. 



Applications for memnership must be made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied by the recommendation of an active member and the sum of 182.00 

 for entrance fee and dues for current year. Every member attending 

 the general A. C. A. camp shall nay $1.00 for camp expenses. Application 

 sent to the Sec'y-Treas. will be forwarded by him to the nroper Division. 



Persons residing in any Division and wishing to become members of 

 the A. C. A., will be f urnisheu with printed forms of applieati on bv address- 

 ing the Purser. 



FIXTURES. 



June. 



15. Brooklyn Annual. 22. N. Y. C. C. Annual, Staten 



16-17. South Boston. Local Meet. Island. 

 Pettieks Island. 



July. 



- . W. C. A. Meet, Ballast Island. 

 10-22. Atlantic Division Meet. 



August. 



16-30. A. C. A. Meet, Sugar Island, St. Lawrence River. 



A LEFT-HANDER NOT FROM A COWARD. 



Editor Forest ami Stream: 



The shades of night are falling fast as seated in the midst, of 

 some fragrant-smelling marlin, with the usual amount of canoe- 



blows below the belt. Suddenly the paper is dropped and the 

 next few moments are devoted to lashing myself securely to the 

 mainmast while the order is given to see that all is clear "for'ardl" 

 that the decks are cleared for action, and that every mother's son 

 arm himself with a pea-shooter and prepare to receive— well, 

 almost anything, from porridge tossed at you with a boat hook 

 to— to— a threat to stop the crew's grog. 



There are one of two pomts in the Right-hander that to one who 

 did not read my first epistle might appear rather strange, and I 

 take this opportunity of putting myself straight on the question 

 re changes in the sailing regulations. 



Mr. Yaux infers that I would change the rules every fifteen 

 minutes, and, with several references to the "fifteen minute 

 MaeKendrick plan," says, "Where would we be if the regatta 

 committee were allowed to change the rules at their discretion 

 every fifteen minutes?" 1 presume Mr. v aux did not intention- 

 ally misrepresent what 1 said, so I will copy for his benefit from 

 mv article in the Forest and Stream of Dec. 20, of the same 

 paper from which he took his quotations. I wrote as follows: 

 * * * "The greatest and almost only evils, which could be 

 checked by simple rules introduced by the regatta committee 

 and passed upon bv the executive committee," and also, * * * 

 "after seeing about Sin. of a circular saw projecting above the 

 combing that it would just take a regatta committee about fifteen 

 minutes to see that if by the sailing regulations," etc., etc., and 

 after they "had seen" (not legisla ted) they could take the consti- 

 tutional method that 1 mentioned before of having their sugges- 

 tions made into rules. There were many other points of a per- 

 sonal character, not bearing at all on the questions at issu™ but 

 as my friend has doubtless ere this recovered his usual good 

 temper we will pass them over and drop anchor alongside the 

 quest ions on which we do not agree. 



It is a pleasure to have "wid us" the chairman of last year's 

 regatta committee on t wo out of the three points raised, I quote 

 his words of Jan. 3, in re the sliding seat: "Yet I would not oppose 

 KB being ruled out if extending past the side of the canoe," and 

 "likewise I would not oppose a rule forbidding the board coming 

 above the deck," and as we are a unit on those two points we will 

 hoist anchor and lay for the standing sail work and see if we 

 cannot come nearer one another's ideas by a lit tle quiet discus- 

 sion. 



Mr. Vaux says "The performance of the Fly proved that the 

 hoisting rig is quite the equal of the standing rig in points of 

 speed (contrary to Mac's statements)." Well, that is Mr. Vanx's 

 opinion perhaps, but it, Is not the opinion of many who are com- 

 petent to judge. Mr. W. P. Stephens, canoeing editor of Forest 

 and Stream, who spends a considerable portion of each meet ex- 

 amining just such points as that, and is therefore, probablv, the 

 person most competent to judge in the whole A. C. A., says In the 

 Forest and Stream of Dec. 27: "The probabilities are thai 

 within certain limits of wind and under such conditions as main- 

 tain in many races, the standing sail is faster than any lowering 

 and reefing sail can "be." The fact that the Fly took a good place 

 among a number of standing rigs does not by any means prove 

 that it was the lowering sail that put her there, no more than a 

 paddler wins his races simply by his having a good paddle. I 

 have no hesitation in saying that the standing* sail properly made 

 is a taster sail, area for area, than the best hoisting sail that ever 

 has or will bo made; and any one knowing the care and ability 

 which Mr. Butler displays in handling and sailing bis canoe, will 

 rather incline to the opinion that it was his able seamanship that 

 took the Fly into her well won position, and not, as Mr. Vaux 

 believes, that it was the lowering sails that did the work. The 

 tact that many of our best men have adopted the standing rig 

 and retain it proves that, area for area, it is faster than the low- 

 ering rig or they would discard it quicker than they'd drop a hot 

 brick. 



Last winter when we were discussing this same question, Com. 

 Gihson suggested that, as we already had limited our races to 

 one man, one canoe, we should take the next natural step and 

 make it one suit of sails, i. e., one man, one canoe, one suit of 

 sails. The Northern Division was quick to see the advantage of 

 Mr. Gibsons suggestion, and when publishing their programme 

 in '88 stated that one suit would have to be used tfiroughout their 

 races, and the success that attended the experiment confirmed 

 the opinions held by the regatta committee when they introduced 

 it, and not a single standing rig was seen at the meets 



(D It has this effect on those intending to enter the races, it re- 

 duces the excessive sail area, such as were carried by Dimple or 

 some of the other canoe3 at the last meet. A person getting a 

 suit of sails that he intends using throughout all the races says 

 to himself; Well, me bucks! if I've got to carry these sails, hlovv 

 high or blow low, methinks I'll get a moderate-sized suit or a 

 pretty big suit that I can reef and make nice and suuk if it blows 

 hard. 



(2) It also has the effect of making one devote more time to the 

 single rig, and therefore get a more perfect one than if he had to 

 fix up and monkey with a box full, two-thirds of which would be 

 left on shore, while he uses the one suit which is built for the 

 wind that happens to bo blowing at the start. 



(3) If he has to use but one suit, the chances are nine to ten that 

 it will not be a standing suit, and few would care to run the risk 

 of going to a meet, where it is just as likelv to blow hard as easy, 

 with only one suit, of the standing article. 



(4) It has the effect of making the record men have lowering 

 sails; if they just use one suit as a standing sail thev cannot enter 

 the combined race, 



(5) It has the effect of encouraging the all-around canoeist as 

 distinguished from the machine man, and if adopted would in a 

 year do away with the "standing, non-stowable abomination" as 

 effectually as if they had been summarily ruled out, though any 

 one who considered a suit of standing sails bel ter as all-round 

 sails than a lowering rig would be quite at liberty to use them. 



Oh It would have the effect of bringing into use a class of sails 

 that could bo used for cruising to and from the meets with com- 

 fort, and a class of sails that canoeists could point at with pride 

 as general purpose articles lit for all weathers. 



(7) It has the tendency to head canoeing in the direction from 

 which we have been steadily drifting since 'S6. 



The editor, in the Forest and Stream of Feb. 18, 1888, savs 

 "The great problem in all racing is to make the sport interesting 

 and popular, to induce men to take part and to work for the prize;" 

 and methinks the sport would be more popular and iust as inter- 

 esting were, the races competed for by canoes of the Flv persua- 

 sion as disi inguished from the Dimple line; they would" be more 

 popular and just as interesting tothenewmen, and much more so 

 to those old veterans like Gen. Oliver, Fernow, Gibson, Stephens 

 Baldwin, Rogers, Edwards, Bntler, etc.. who cannot but look back 

 with feelings of regret when they contrast the appliances that 

 are now used compared to the sails and fittings used from '80 to 

 'HI and '85, when each member was trying to make the canoe what 

 she should be— a good, safe, general purpose boat, with the best 

 cruising gear that could be devised; or to the time when ex-Corn. 

 Gibson, in writing with reference to cruising one-rig men, says, 

 "I am one of them and Vaux is another; all the Mohicans and 

 many others are one-rig men whose boats are cruisers first and 

 racers afterward. Could any of the hikers with the non-stowable 

 articles point with pride to the club of his persuasion and say he 

 gloried in being able to say he was a hiker, a standing-rig man, 

 with centerboard in middle of his canoe?" etc., etc. 



I tell you, gentlemen, the road we have been d rifting since a 

 Mohican was proud to slap his chest and proclaim himself and his 

 whole club as one-rig men whose craft were cruisers first and 

 racers afterward, is not the correct road, and it behooves old vet- 

 erans who looked after things in those days to agaiu don their 

 war paint, and, wit h shoulder to the wheel, endeavor to extricate 

 it out of the. present rut into which it has temporarily fallen. 



I believe one of the very best ways by which this can be accom- 

 plished is by reverting to what was then an unwritten rule, which 

 the Mohicans (who were the leaders in racing in those days) and 

 many others observed. I refer to the one man, one canoe, one 

 suit of sails, which was then observed without a rule to enforce 

 it, hut which now, under altered circumstances, requires a rule to 

 be made to that effect. 



To do this we would have to decide as to what should make a 

 complete suit of sails, and as a start I beg to suggest this definition 

 —a suit of sails shall consist of all the sail or sails that a canoeist 

 can hoist at once, and which when not hoisted must be carried on 

 board throughout all the sailing and combined races. I know this 

 will not. suit my friend Vaux, who wants to carry four sails, proba- 

 blv two mainsails, a mizen and a spinaker, but areruing on that 

 principle, if he goes to his tailor for a suit of clothes he will, I 

 suppose, expect to get one coat, one vest and two pairs of trousers 

 or probably two coats, one vest and one pair of trousers, but me- 

 thinks his tailor will soon disabuse his mind of the idea that there 

 are two pairs of trousers in a suit of clothes, or two mainsails in 

 a suit of canvas. The one suit would embrace mainsail, mizen, 

 spinaker, topsail (if one is wanted) and in Pecowsic's case would 

 include a third sail in middle of boat if one is wanted, and it 



my knife and fork and lay to before the other boys do me out of 

 my soup. Wlll G. MacKbndrick. 



Toronto, Jan. 19. 



P. S.— While waiting for a second plate of soup a thought just 

 strikes me re. the centerboard coming above tfie combing. Mr. 

 Vaux says "there was only one that projected very much above 

 the combing;" and because there is only one, now is the time to 

 allude to tnat one, not to wait until there are twenty of them. 

 The first year there was only one standing sail. How'many are 

 there now'? I believe the skipper of that one is gettinga new craft, 

 and unless he has changed his mind or is headed off by a rule the 

 new craft will have the same style of centerboard, and perhaps 

 there are many like him. Take time by the forelock and don't 

 wait till the forelock gets past you, leaving nothing to hang on to 

 but the animal's tail, which in most eases is a mighty bad rudder 

 -W. G. McK. 



ATLANTIC DIVISION, A. C. A. 



To the Mcmberx of the Atlantic Division: 



The Executive Committee of the Atlantic Division has been, for 

 some time past, collecting information which it is thought will 

 be useful to a canoeist wfiile cruising. It now proposes pub- 

 lishing, and sending to each member of the Division, a book con- 

 taining the names and addresses of the officers of the Association, 

 of the Division and of the clubs in the Division; tide tables, canoe 

 pilot, calendar, weather indications, information regarding nre- 

 vailing winds, navigation, buoys, liehts, etc.; a list of totems, 

 burgees and sailing signals of the Division clubs: directions for 

 reaching clubs by rail or steamer from New York city: and, when 

 possible, charges for canoe transportation. 



A concise canoe cookery; also a description of useful knots, 

 splices, etc., will probably be added next winter, at which time it 

 is proposed to add to the pages now in course of preparation a 

 series of maps of the Division waterways, on which the location 

 of good camping ground, springs and wells, club houses, canals, 

 etc., will be marked. These maps can not well be published at 

 present on account of the expense they would involve. 



Any suggestions or expressions of opinion regarding this publi- 

 cation, the expense of which will have to be met by the Division, 

 will be of much benefit to the committee, which also requests in- 

 formation relating to any of the subjects mentioned, but especially 

 that relating to good camps and location of springs or wells. Let- 

 ters may be addressed to Lincoln B. Palmer, 57 Lincoln avenue, 

 Newark, N. J. 



