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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 11, 1889. 



LOG CABINS. 



Log Cabins: How to Build and Furnisb Them, by William S 

 Wicks, New York: Forest, and Stream Pub. Co., price $1.50. 



Mi T-Wicks might have called his book " Every Map His Own 

 Loe Cabin Builder," for he has set out to describe fully and par- 

 ticularly each detail in the process of construction, from digging 

 the post'holes for the foundation to cutting out the ridgte-pole for 

 the peak: and he has described the successive steps so well 



These permanent camps are multiplying; and they aTe destined 

 to be made all the more popular by tnis manual, which Mr. 

 Wicks has prepared as a labor of love. 

 The book is thoroughly practical. Every step in the process of 



that the layman— that is the man who is only an amateur in 

 handling carpenter's tools— can buiJd his woods home for himself. 

 It is a book that has come just in time, for every favorite region 

 of summer and autumn outdoor resort testifies to the growing 

 taste for substantial, permanent camps. It is delightful to take 

 one's tent and pitch it wherever fancy may choose, here this 



construction is explained. The author is an architect, who has 

 himself built log cabins, and very handsome ones, too, as shown 

 in the plates. These designs are numerous and varied. They 

 are a pleasing revelation of the artistic possibilities of log cabin 

 architecture. Nothing is more appropriate for camps— the per- 

 manent private lodges or club houses— than the log cabin; and it 



year and there the next, and at all times to be ready for a change. 

 And yet many are finding out, too, the satisfaction of some fixed 

 abiding place, even on going into the woods or to the lake shore 

 or the river bank. Tf one falls in love with a pretty lake or a 

 knoll with its delectable vista, there is added to the enjoyment of 

 it a home feeling, if in place of the transient tent there be a sub- 

 stantial rough -hewn cabin. 



In the Adirondacks and in the Maine wilderness and on the 

 Western lakes there have sprung up, of late years, beautiful 

 specimens of rustic architecture called camps, but which are in 

 reality very comfortable dwellings of backwoods log cabin pat- 

 tern, beautiful and made charming by the skill of the architect. 



would be difficult to find a more thoroughly enjoyable and satis- 

 factory mode of spending one's leisure days in camp than in 

 building— with the aid of Mr. Wicks's!manual— a log cabin for 

 oue's own occupancy. 



Plans are given for cabins, large and small, with details of ex- 

 terior and interior finish; and there are also some very useful 

 directions for constructing temporary shelters— the Indian camp, 

 brush camp, Indian wigwam, brush house and bark camp. The 

 furnishing consists of tables, cha irs, bedsteads and other articles, 

 all made of the material at hand, and all in keeping with the 

 style of the house. The illustrations are numerous and helpful. 



The illustration here given is reduced from that in the book. 



FIXTURES. 



July. 



13. Lynn. Club, Lynn. 30. 



13. Beverly. Mon.Beach,2d Open 20. 

 13. Corinthian. Marblohead. 



13. Monatiquot, 1st Cham .Ft.Pt 24. 



13. Buffalo Handicap, to Point 25. 

 Albino. 



13. Cane Cod. Dennis. 27. 



13. Atlantic. Cruise, L. I. Sound. 2T. 

 13. R. Can., 2oft. Class, Toronto. 



13-15. Eastern, Annual, Marble- 27. 



head, and Cruise. 27. 



16. Rhode Island, Cup. 



17. Pleon, Club Cruise. 27. 



17. Great Head, 2d Cham. 27. 



18. Quincy, Second Cham. 27. 

 20. Chelsea, Club. 27. 

 20. Hull, Ladies' Race. 29, 

 20. Beveiiv,Marblchead,2d Cup. 31. 

 20. Hamilton, Cruise. 31. 

 20. American, 2d Cham. 31. 



St. Lawrence, Montreal. 

 So. Boston, Mass.. 2d Pen., 



City Point. 

 Pleon, Club. 



Miramichi, Miller and Call 

 Cups. 



C or i n t h i an . M a r b lehead. 

 Beverly, Mon. Beach, 2d Buz. 

 Bay. 



Monatiquot, Club, Ft. Point. 

 Buffalo, Sweep, to Point Col- 

 burn. 

 Cape Cod. 



Hamilton, 25ft. Class, 

 Quaker City Cor., Riverton. 

 R. Can., 20ff. Class, Toronto. 

 Detroit, 2d Pennant. 

 Pleon, Open. 

 Hull, Ladies' Day. 

 Cedar Point. 



REGATTA WEEK ON THE SOUND. 



THOUGH it is only a few years since the Larobmont Y. C. came 

 in with its annual regatta on July 4 to supplement the June 

 races in New York Baj r , the courses between New Roehelle and 

 Stamford are almost as well-known, and promise in time to be- 

 come as famous for hard fought battles as the older ones about 

 Sandy Hook and the Narrows. Of course the big craft that have 

 sailed so many races in the past about the Lower Bay will never 

 come to the Sound, but from present indications it would seem 

 almost as though they had done with racing in the Bay as well. 

 The only classes above 53ft, that can be said to have any life this 

 fear, or in fact last year either, are the 00ft. schooners and the 

 /0ft. single stickers; besides them the racing is left to the small 

 fry. If the present interest in the small classes, notably the 40 

 and 30ft., should prove permanent, this may not be such a great 

 evil, but at this time it is very hard to say what the future is apt 

 to bring forth. Plenty of races and good prizes fail to bring good 

 entries in the larger classes, many classes not filling at all, while 

 in the smaller, in spite of the existing activity and excitement, it 

 is an open question whether the fight will be kept up for more 

 than one or two seasons, and if not what is to follow it. Tnere is 

 no ground for fear that yacht racing in America will die out or 

 even decline, on the contrary it must grow as the interest in 

 yachting extends, but beyond this its future is hard to divine. 

 The refinements of late introduced into racing have served to 

 bring in some new men by the additional excitement offered, but 

 to discourage more by the increased labor and cost of racing a 

 yacht in winning form. Where the happy mean between over- 

 developement on the one hand and lack of interest and excite- 

 ment on the other is to be reached, is a problem which all yacht 

 clubs could study to advantage. Just now a great boom is on in 

 the 40ft. class, promising plenty of sport for this year at least, 

 and though the offered boom in the "Oft. class has been shut off 

 by the practical selection of Volunteer 'to meet Valkyrie, it is 

 very probable that the races between the latter and the leaders 

 of the class here for the Paine Cup will result in a revival of the 

 class next year. 



That there is not more racing in all classes is not the fault of 

 the clubs, as more races are on this year than ever before. The 

 Larchmont annual is this year backed up by four others, the 

 whole series being, we hope, the inauguration of a second race 

 week on the Sound, in addition to the regular June races on the 

 Bay. The week opened with a special race for the forties given 

 by the Oyster Bay Y. C. on Monday, followed on Thursday by the 

 Larchmont annual for all classes, and on Saturday came the 

 Larchmont special for the forties again, and on Monday a regatta 

 for all classes by the American Y. C, its first venture in the way 

 of sailing races. Besides these leading events the New Roohelle 

 Y. C. sailed its annual regatta on Saturday, and the Oyster Bay 

 Y. C. on Thursday, the Cedar Point Y. C, further to the east, also 

 Bailing on the latter date. Altogether the week has been a lively 

 one on the Sound. 



OTSTEB BAY Y. C, 40FT. CLASS, JULY 1. 



The present Oyster Bay Y. C, a young and flourishing club that 

 is snugly esconced in one of the most beautiful nooks of the 

 Atlantic coast, is to a certain extent the successor of the Seawan- 



haka Y. C, first organized on the same Bpot in 1871. and it is only 

 natural that the older club should find a hearty welcome in its 

 first home on the occasion of each annual cruise. This year, in 

 recognition of the new class that is carrying all the brunt of the 

 racing, the customary festivities on shore were supplemented by 

 a special race for a cup costing S200, offered by the Oyster Bay 

 Y. C., for the 40ft. class, the course being from the red buoy in 

 the mouth of the harbor to a markboat off Great Captain's Island, 

 6;knots, thence around Mattinnecock Buoy, 4J£ knots, and home 

 by the way of Center Island Buoy, 7 knots, or nearly 18 in all. 

 The fleet of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. was anchored in the harbor 

 over Sunday night, the weather being rainy and unpleasant, and 

 Mondav morning was no better, the wind being S. E. and light- 

 rain falling. The regatta committee, Messrs. F. D. Weeks, F. T. 

 Underbill and R. T. Townsend, were out early in the Mayflower's 

 naphtha launch, and on the arrival of the first train from New 

 York on the new extension lately completed to Oyster Bay, the 

 fleet of forties stood out for the starting line. 



The starters were Liris, sailed by Capt. Sloan, Gorilla, sailed by 

 Capt. Smith. Maraquita, sailed by Capt. HafT, Jr., Banshee, sailed 

 bv Mr. Alley. Minerva, sailed by Capt. Chas. Barr, and Pappoose, 

 sailed by Capt. Nat Watson. The boats were not all measured by 

 the Seawanhaka ru'es, under which the race was sailed, but Liris 

 allowed the others in the ordor as above. Owing to the lack of 

 sai.ing directions there was some doubt as to the time of starting 

 on the part of several yachts, and those who counted on the 

 regular 10 minutes interval were all handicapped, as but 5 min- 

 utes were allowed between guns. The wind was moderate and 

 over the port quarter at the start, spinaker booms being lowered 

 to nort. Pappoose and Maraquita, both with clubtopsails set, 

 were waiting for the gun and crossed without a handicap, but 

 Liris and Minerva, the former with jibheader and the latter with 

 a small clubtopsail, were dogging each other above the line with 

 phmty of time to spare, as they supposed, but were caught by the 

 gun, Liris having a few seconds handicap. She came for the 

 weather end of the line at a good speed, Minerva under her lee 

 quarter, but just as Liris was up with the buoy and within 301 1. 

 of it as she was going, Minerva luffed sharp up under Lins's 

 stern. As soon as she was clear of Liris's sail her skipper was 

 able to see how close he was to the buoy, and to avoid it he tacked, 

 narrowly shaving Banshee's bowsprit end, and stood up the har- 

 bor, losing a couple of ininu tes before he was able to come on his 

 course for the line again. 



A protest followed immediately after the race, but was not 

 allowed, the evidence being insufficient to show that Minerva had 

 established an overlap, or done any more tban luff under Liris's 

 stern. Banshee and Gorilla followed Liris across, Minerva being 

 last. Pappoose was timed at 12:03:49, Maraquita at 12:04:59, and 

 the rest at 12:05:00. Maraquita was evidently looking to retrieve 

 her losses down the bay, as she had Capt. Huff, Sr., of Titania, on 

 board with his son, and for a time she did very well, streaking 

 along a little astern of Pappoose, and witli the rest in a straggling 

 pack some distance astern. The lightening breeze did not suit 

 Liris with a jibheader, and after a short time she set her huge 

 club, the result being she came up on the leaders and dropped the 

 laggards. Her worst rival, Minerva, was kept busy by Banshee 

 and Gorilla astern, leaving Liris a clear field for a time. After some 

 four miles were gone and she had nearly caught the leaders, the 

 wind went, around to the east, bringing spinakers in and booms 

 over to port. Liris ran to windward of Maraquita, leaving her 

 for the day, and then came up on Pappoose when within half a 

 mile or less of the turn. Liris was to leeward, heading squarely 

 for the mark and going through Pappoose's lee, when the latter 

 hore away until her boom was in Liris's starboard rigging, being 

 Blioved clear by the forward hands. After this little episode a,nd 

 some persuasive language Pappoose bore up and left the way 

 clear. No time was taken, but Liris turned first, then Pappoose 

 and Maraquita in close succession, while Banshee, Minerva and 

 Gorilla were still well astern, rouuding in the order given. 



After jibing Liris lowered her clubtopsail and set a small jib- 

 topsail, btit Pappoose held on to a balloon jibtopsail she had set 

 some time before, though it was only hurting her in a strong 

 breeze and a close reach. She had a short tussle with Maraquita 

 and then dropped to third place. The wind freshened and drew 

 ahead as the next mark was neared, Liris constantly gaining. 

 Pappoose failed to hold either, as was to he expected from her 

 small size, while Banshee, though still ahead, had all she could 

 do with Minerva, Gorilla being practically out of it. The times 

 at Mattinnicock Buoy were: 



Liris 1 40 50 Banshee .1 45 55 



Maraquita 1 42 30 Minerva 1 47 32 



Pappoose 1 43 50 Gorilla 1 50 22 



The last leg was a close reach, with the tide, until the Centre 

 Island Buoy yvas reached, then a hard jam in against a very 

 strong ebb tide. Liris gained a good deal on the windward work 

 in spite of a weak boom and very bad mainsail, headsails and 

 topsail, and finished well ahead of the fleet. Minerva did some 

 good work, coming up to second place. The full times were: 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Liris 12,05 00 2 46 10 2 41 10 2 41 10 



Minerva 12 05 00 2 52 15 2 47 15 2 44 09W 



Maraquita 12 04 59 2 51 52i£ 2 46 53M 2 45 43U 



Banshee 12 05 00 2 55 0M 2 50 0M 2 47 0GM 



Pappoose 12 03 49 2 55 3% 2 51 44}| Not m'd 



Gorilla 12 05 00 2 55 56 2 50 56 2 49 48 



Liris beats Minerva 2m. 59J^s., Maraquita 4m. 33^s„ BanBhee 

 5m. 50%s. and Gorilla 8m. 38s. on corrected time. The Pappoose 

 was not measured. 



In this, her first race, Liris sailed very fast considering the in- 

 complete condition of her outfit and the poor sails and spars. 

 Captain Sloan handled her very skilfully all day. After the race 

 Maraquita left for City Island for a new boom, and the next day 

 Liris sailed to Whitestone and took a tow for Bay Ridge. Her 

 hollow spar was sent ashore on Wednesday morning and in spite 

 of the continual rain the sailmakers were at work all the after- 

 noon on her wet mainsail and jib. Her new boom, a solid spruce 

 stick, was shipped at ft P. M., and by 7 she was under way for 

 Larchmont with a dinghy and naphtha launch in tow. She drop- 

 ped anchor at Larchmont shortly after 11 P. M., in readiness fof 

 her second race. 



LABCHMONT Y. C. ANNUAL BEGATTA, JULY 4. 



The experience of the Larchmont Y. C. on Thursday gave ample 

 proof, if any were needed, of the impossibility of running a race 

 to suit yachtsmen in connection with a regatta for the ladies. The 

 ladies and guests' steamer is a necessary feature of the annual re- 

 gatta of every club, and cannot be neglected, but unfortunately it 

 is the cause of more flukes and spoiled races than any other part 

 of the programme. No doubt, the men aboard the racing craft 

 love their wives and sweethearts dearly, and were anxious for 

 them to see the race, but it is rather trying to box about the linu 

 for a good two hours after all is ready, watching the morning 

 wind that would have made a quick race die slowly but surely 

 away. In such a case there is but one resource and consolation, to 

 heap curses loud and deep on the heads of the regatta committee 

 and Thursday w T as no exception; though as it appears the fault did 

 not lie with the committee. The landing places about Larchmont 

 are very bad, and steamers will not come near the shore, so that 

 there is great difficulty in getting the ladies aboard. In the 

 present case a small steamer had been engaged to carrj T them out 

 to the Albertina, but it broke down and did not appear at all. 

 Some three hours were spent in the endeavor to carry out the 

 guests in small boats, one launch ioad of pretty girls being nearly 

 swamped under the Albertina's guards. 



The morning had been fairly clear, with a moderate breeze 

 f rom S. W., and had the race started promptly on time it might 

 have been sailed through before the calm came; but owing to the 

 delay it was 12:42 before the preparatory gun was fired from the 

 tug Dalzell, on which were Messrs. E. J. Greacen, C. C. Munroe 

 and Otto Sarony, the regatta committee. The conditions were 

 as follows: 



Prizes will be offered in each class where two yachts start with 

 full intention of completing the course, and in each class where 

 four or more yachts start, a second prize will be given. An indi- 

 vidual prize will be given to each member of the crew of the win- 

 ning yacht in any of the Classes 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, in which three or 

 more yachts start with full intention of completing the course. 



The following special prizes are announced: The cups pre- 

 sented to the club in 1883 by Washington E. Connor and George J. 

 Gquld as challenge cups, will be sailed as follows: For Class III. 

 the Connor Cup; for Classes VI. and VII. the Gould Cup. The 

 cups are to be held for the yachting saason and the names of the 

 winning yachts and date of regatta will be inscribed thereon. 

 Bayard Thayer has presented to the club a cup valued at $350, to 

 be competed for by yachts in Class VII., upon the condition that 

 it shall become the property of the yacht winning it. twice, not 

 necessarily consecutively. The Thayer Cup will be sailed for at 

 the annual regatta, and also at the special race on July 6, and will 

 be open for competition to all yachts in Class VII. competing in 

 those races. The Connor and Gould cups will be only open for 

 competition to yachts enrolled in the Larchmont Y. C. All 

 yachts entered for this regatta must report to the regatta com- 

 mittee at the club house by or before 9 o'clock the morning of the 

 race, where they can obtain sailing directions and a chart of the 

 course to be sailed. Except in Classes A and B, and 1 and 2, 

 sloops, all yachts must he manned by amateurs exclusively, but 

 anv cabin yacht may carry and use her regular crew. 



The courses were from a starting and finishing line off the har- 

 bor (which, by the way, was not well placed, and worse still was 

 covered by some of the fleet at anchor) to a markboat in Hemp- 

 stead Harbor, and thence around a markboat off Great Captain's 

 Island, and back, for all classes of cabin craft. The open boats 

 rounded the red buoy off Sc«tch Caps, then rounded the Hemp- 

 stead markboat, and returned over the. same course. One point 

 in passing in regard to the markboats, that at Hempstead mark 

 had a good sized sailboat and a skiff with long painters fast to 

 her stern, making a serious obstacle to yachts when turning close. 

 It would be an interesting question as to whether a foul would be 

 made by a yacht touching such unexpected attachments to a mark- 

 boat. The starters were: 



CLASS D— SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Length. Owner. Helmsman. 



Clara (cut; 53.00 Dr. J. C. Barron Owner. 



Anaconda 52.00 John G. Prague Owner. 



CLASS 7 — SLOOPS — COURSE 20 MILES. 



Nymph (cb) 39.10M....F. W, Flint E. A. Willard. 



Liris (kl) 39.08^. . ..C. W. Wetmore J. F. Lovejoy. 



Maraquita (kl).. 39. ll}£ August Belmont, Jr. .Fred Swift. 



Gorilla (cb) 39.11 R. P. Carroll R. N. Ellis.. 



Banshee (cb) 39.11%. . . . Paul S. Pearsall A. B. Alley. 



CLASS 8 — SLOOPS — COURSE 20 JULES. 



Eurybia 34.06 Chas. Pryer Owner. 



Volusia 32.09J4....J. M. Williams Thornton Smith. 



CLASS 9 -SLOOPS— COURSE 20 MILES. 



Kathleen (kl) ... .29 . 10% . . . Wm. Whitlook O wner. 



Amazon (cb). 25.10 Z. E. Lewis Owner. 



Vorant (cb) 28.00 Geo. Tyson 



CLASS 11— CAT-RIGGED— COURSE 13 MILBS. 



Lakshmi., 29.10 C. McK. Looser 



Dorothy 22.01 W. H. Coombs 



Aura 29.00 W. H. Simonson 



Brunhilde 27.02 C. T. Willis 



CLASS 13— CAT- RIGGED— COURSE 10 MILES. 



Apache 22.10 T. E. Woodbury 



Coyote 20.03 H. W. G. Bucknall 



CLASS 15 — CAT-RIGGED — COURSE 10 MILES. 



Orienta 21.10 Geo. 1. Seney, Jr 



CLASS 16— CAT-RIG GEL— COURSE 10 MILES. 



Rival 19.11 Geo. W. Butts 



lone... 



Giggle 19.08 Leonard Jacobs, Jr 



Only Azalea turned up to represent the two-stickers, and she 

 could not find a rival. There are, we believe, some very fine boats 

 in the 70ft. class about New York, but none appeared at the line, 

 and the handsome Connor cup went begging. Clara and Ana- 

 conda were the largest yachts starting. The 40ft, class turned out 

 but five starters, Minerva being on her way to Marblehead, Toma- 

 hawk at Newport, while Pappoose had neither amateurs nor pro- 

 fessionals for a c-rew. While waiting for the start a funny inci- 

 dent occurred: the saucy little Giggle, noticing the number 13 on 

 Liris's mainsail, and that her long overhang gave her by Larch- 

 mont rules one more man than the shorter boats, or 13 in all, ven- 

 tured some comments on unlucky numbers. In spite of the many 

 thirteeas Liris won in her class, while the Giggle was turned 

 bottom up in the squall. 



Before noon a bank of black clouds had been growing larger in 

 the north, and by the time the start was given the whole northern 

 sky was covered with varying tints of black, shading from the 

 darkest down to a soft gray near the horizon The sight was a 

 most beautiful one, but after the starting gun fired at 12:47 the 

 eager sailors had little time to study cloud effects. Clara led off 

 the dance to Hempstead, with boom off the port quarter, Ana- 

 conda hurrying after her, and then came the forties, led by Ban- 

 shee, with Liris, Gorilla, Maraquita and Nymph in order, the 

 latter holdiug baek until some 7 minutes had gone. Maraquita 

 was tangled up with Lakshmi just at the line, being delayed a 

 little, but it did not count in the time. Banshee led out to wind- 

 ward, but Liris was soon on her beam, and just ahead of Gorilla. 

 Bansjiee luffed out, forcing Liris to do the same, thus aiding 

 Gorilla. After a minute Banshee paid quickly off and laid her 

 true course for the mark at Hempstead Harbor, Liris following. 

 The overture to the squall now began, the fleet jibing over as the 

 new wind struck the boats from the northwest. Clara and Ana- 

 conda were about the same as at the start, but Liris was soon 

 ahead of her class, with Banshee next, then Gorilla and Mara- 

 quita, while Nymph was just starting under the impulse of the 

 squall. The little fellows astern had weakened as the clouds grew 

 blacker, and some dropped everything, Kathleen very wisely- 

 housing her topmast and keeping on under low sails. Liris 

 rounded fir3t of the forties, but with three boats at her heels, the 

 | times being: 



Clara 1 17 04 Banshee 1 20 58 



Anaconda 1 17 1ft Gorilla 1 20 58 



Liris 1 19 15 Nymph 1 22 23 



I Maraquita 1 20 41 



