Nov. 15, 1888.] 



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f WALLTNGFOBD, Pa., Nov. 0.— The election day shoot of th 

 Wallingford Gun Club took place at, the country seat of R. W. 

 Downing, at Wallingford, DeJaware county. Fifty well-known 

 gentlemen were present and half of them participated in the 

 shoot. The prize was a cup made of gold, silver, iron, brass, 

 copper, nickel, zinc and tin. It is known as the Protection or 

 Free Trade Handicap Cup, aud is inscribed with the names of the 

 Republican aud Democratic candidates for President. The 

 Republicans were greatly in majority and one of their number 

 won the cup. The terms of the match were: Each man to shoot 

 at 25 bluerocks thrown from a trap 18yds. distant, 40yds. boundary. 

 D. S. B. Chew, of the Riverton Gun Club, and C. G. Downing tied 

 for first place, each hitting 20. In the shoot-off Mr. Chew won. 

 He hit 4 out of 5 bluerocks, while Mr. Downing hit 3. The total 

 scores were as follows: 



D S B Chew 24 B Bernheim lr. 



C G Downing 23 CM Moody 15 



TS Dando. 19 OH Rauuey 15 



W C Downing 19 T K Ober 15 



F T Downing 19 JD Garber 15 



E 8 Handy 17 W Murphv 1R 



John Sanderson 17 E S Hart U 



Dr W S Woolf ord. . . 17 E W Wilkins 14 



J D'Invilliers 17 LA Flanagan 13 



R W Downing, Jr 16 C A Ray 13 



Percy Hill 10 JW Mercur 13 



T H Earquhar 15 JO Roop 12 



Isaac Kenible In 



SPRING HILL GUN CLUB, Blauveltville, N. Y.-The regular 

 holiday shoot of this club was held on election day, Nov. 0. Tho 

 attendance for various reasons was very small. The scores were 

 as follows, 5 traps, 5 bluerocks, sweepstake, 18yds., Hathaway 

 20yds.: 



J Bogert 11090-2 C C Allen 00000-0 



A D Kittle 00010-1 C M Hathaway 01000-1 



C J Bogert 11000-3 



Second match, 3 pair doubles, 10yds., Hathaway 18yds.: 



J Bogert 11 11 10-5 CO Allen 11 11 11-G 



A D Kittle 10 11 10-4 C M Hathaway 01 ul 01-3 



O J Bogert 00 01 00—1 



Third match, for club medals, 10 bluerocks, straightaway, 

 18yds.; C. A. Kittle 20yds., Hathaway 22yds.: 



J Bogert 0101001111-0 C C Allen 1110111111-9 



A D Kittle 1011111111-9 C A Kittle 01 11011011-7 



C J Bogert •1100010001-4 C M Hatha wav 0001111101-6 



Ties— A. D. Kittle 2, C. C. Allen 3. Dr. Allen, gold medal; C. A. 

 Kittle, silver modal. 



Fourth match, 7 glass halls, sweep: 



AD Kittle 0110111-5 Allen 1011010-4 



Hathaway 1001101-4 



Fifth match, 3 pair bluerocks, sweep: 



AD Kittle -.01 01 11-4 Allen 10 1C 11-4 



Hathaway 00 11 11—4 



Ties, miss and out. A. D. Kittle 1, Hathaway 2, Allen 1. 



Sixth match, 5 bluerocks, 5 traps: 



A D Kittle 10110-3 Allen 11010-3 



Hathaway 10100—2 



Ties -Kittle killed 2, Allen 2. 



Seventh match, same as No. 0: 



A D Kittle 01111-4 Allen 01111-4 



Hathawav 00110—2 



Ties— Kittle 3, Allen 1. 



Eighth match, same as No. 6: 



AD Kittle 11111-5 Hathaway 11110—1 



Allen 11010-3 



C, A. Kittle, Sec'y. 



BANDANA GUN CLUB— At the fall meeting of the Bandana 

 Gun Club, held near New Foundlaud, N. J., on Nov. 6, the scores 

 were as follows at 10 live birds, 26yds. rise: 



Murray 6 Howe 7 



Bonner 7 Street 8 



Cambell 6 Sheriff 8 



Morosini 6 



The shoot-off for first money was won by Sheriff, Street taking 

 second aud Howe third. 



WELLINGTON. Mass., Nov. 10.— The rainstorm this afternoon 

 did not prevent a fair attendance at the grounds of the Welling- 

 ton Club, there being 15 present to contest in the merchandise and 

 badge matches. In the merchandise match the following scores 

 were made at 10 clay-pigeons and 10 bluerocks: Melcher hi, Brad- 

 street 13, Olioate 14, Lee 13, Swift 15. Snow 16, Nichols 18, Duff 17, 

 Conant IT, Perry IS. Score 17, Shumway 17, Bond 17, Sand born 16, 

 Moore 14. For the individual badge Melcher got 14, Ciioate 17, 

 Leo 14, Swift 15, Snow IS, JSienols 17, Dull 16, Conant 15, Perry 15, 

 Scott 15, Shun way 17, Bond 10, Sandborn 17. The winners in the 

 sweepstake matches were: Six clay-pigeons— Snow. Six blue- 

 rocks— Scott and Snow. Six clay-pigeons— Duff and Scott. Six 

 bluerocks— Duff and Snow. Six clay-pigeons— Snow. Six clay- 

 pigeons— Scott, Duff and Shumway. Six bluerocks— Duff and 

 Bond. Ten clay-pigi ons— Perrv. Ten bluerocks— Bond. Ten chiy- 

 pigeon— Conant and Choate. Ten bluerocks— Snow. Three pairs 

 bluerocks— Melcher. Three pairs clay-pigeons— Perry and Nichols. 



ANNIE OAKLEY (Little Sure Shot) and Philip Daly, Jr., are 

 hilled to shoot a match at Elkwood Park, Long Branch. N. J., to- 

 morrow, Nov. 16, the Little Sure Shot to shoot at 50 birds aud 

 Daly at 55, Monaco boundary, W. Fred Quimby and W. D. Camp- 

 bell judges. 



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 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 report of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local 

 waters, drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all item? 

 relating to the sport. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 Vice-Commodore— D. H. Crane, Chicago. III. 

 Bear-Commodore- -C. J. S ted man. Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Secretary-Treastuw-Q. H. Hoot, Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Executive Conunlttee-C. J. Bousueld, Bay City, Mich.; T. P. Caddis, Hay- 

 ton, O.; T. J. Kirkpatrick, Springfield, O. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Officers, 1887-88. 



Commodore: R. W. Gibson I . mn , w « v 



Secretary-Treasurer; F. L. Mix. ) Albany, M - * 

 Vice-Corn. Rear-Coin. Purser. 



Central Dir.. W. R. Huntington .E. W. Hasten T. H. Stryker, 



Rime, N. Y. 



Atlantic Dlv.W. P. Stephens L. B. Falnicr F. L. Dtmnell. 



180 Jeroleruon St., Brook! vu. 



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



Springfield. Mass 



N'thernBiv. .Robert Tyson S.S.Roblnaon Colin Ffaser, Toronto. 



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 panied by the recommendation of an active member and the sum of (v'.'M 

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

 tl>0 general A. C. A. camp shall pay $1.00 tor camp expenses, Application 

 sent to the Sec'y Treat, will be forwarded by him to the proper Division. 



Persons residing in any Division and wishing to become members of 

 the A. C. A., will be furnished with printed forms of appllcati on by address- 

 ing the Purser. 



THE WHITE SQUALL. 



THE canoe in New Brunswick has not reached any great dis- 

 tance beyond the point of hard pan utility. It still continues 

 to be almost the sole wealth of the Indian, and is used by the 

 white man as a hunting boat and to navigate waters not suited to 

 other craft. The forms in use are the birch and primitive log 

 pirogue, with a f ew lapstreaks of uncertain shape and unknown 

 weight, and for the most part built "by guess and by greenness." 

 its use as a pleasure craft is confined to a few towns and villages 

 on the rivers, where It is quite the thing for young men to own 

 birches, of apparently good carrying powers, but positively dan- 

 gerous for more than two; in ihe management of which many of 

 them have acquired a good deal of skill. The sailing canoe, is as 

 yet almost an unknown quantity. Professor Roberts, and others, 

 nave written for these columns accounts of canoe cruises in New 

 Brunswick waters, under pole and paddle, in a style that must 

 have pleased their readers, and that I can only vainly wish I had 

 the ability to approach. There is usually more or less sentiment 

 clinging around the memory of one's first canoe. As the first one 

 owned by me is the only sailing canoe in southern New Bruns- 



wick, and so far as I know in the whole Province, I propose, if the 

 editor Wills, to make it the subject of a sketch. 



In 1875 I lived in a small village near Long Island on the river 

 St. John, formerly a famous resort for wildfowl. My hunting 

 paraphernalia constituted my entire personal property, and I 

 prided myself on its completeness. But here was duck hunting, 

 of which a good canoe is a necessity, and I had none. So the man 

 with whom I boarded and myself sent a joint order to a boat 

 builder of St. John for the best canoe he could turn out. We did 

 not know what we wanted, neither did he; but in the. course of 

 time he sent up a lapstreak double-ender of rather graceful lines, 

 about 17ft. over all and 30in. beam. The planking was of clear 

 Aroostook pine, and the work was done very neatly. She would 

 carry three easily, aud four on a pinch, and was propelled by the 

 ordinary single paddle. 



That she was ever furnished with any other motive power was 

 owing to a feature in my character which so far as 1 know 7 is 

 peculiar to myself. I can labor patiently all day at the. most 

 back-breaking work with oar or paddle against a half gale of 

 wind and a suit-stream current; but when it comes to rowing or 

 paddling with a fair wind, 1 am not there; 1 hate it and consider 

 it just as much a waste of force as pouring water in a sieve or 

 1 if ling on one's bootstraps. My partner readily fell in with my 

 proposal to tit her with a sail. In vain did the knowing ones pre- 

 dict the direst results should we carry out our insane scheme. 

 Thev assured us that it was difficult to keep a canoe on its bot- 

 tom at any time, and even hinted darkly that soon after our 

 first essay, there would be strangers in that part of the spirit- 

 world where winter cometh not. We used a narrow-headed 

 spritsail set on the principle of a, spioaker. The clew was fast- 

 ened to a long pole, which was pushed out from midships till the 

 sail set flat and was generally managed by the "forward hands." 

 The sheet was also lastened to the clew, taken through a ring in 

 the stern and belayed close to the steersman. When a squall 

 which in the opinion of the captain was too much for her, 

 chanced to strike, the order, "pull in your jill-poke," (not found 

 in "Canoe Handling") was obeyed, and the sail allowed to bag 

 around the mast. Here was an automatic instantaneous rfceflng 

 gear. We found it something of a luxury after a hard tramp 

 around the islands, in the spring, to tumble into our canoe and be 

 bowled swiftly home by a piping northwester, the prevailing 

 spring wind. 



Our vessel soon grew so in our confidence that either of us 

 would sail her alone. Que evening when my partner was within 

 a half-mile of home on his return from the head of Long Island 

 he was struck by a white squall, which no one thought he could 

 weather. The eyes of the village wiseacres were on him and 

 their tongues busy discussing the probable fulfilment of some of 

 I heir evil prophecies, their regret for the danger of their fellow 

 citizen, half swallowed up in secret joy at the anticipated shower 

 of "I told you so's," that they would pour upon the surviving 

 owner, in case of disaster; but much to the relief of the latter 

 unfortunate the canoe came through safely. Ever after this in- 

 cident she was known as the White Squall. 



After two years, the other owner moved away and I bought out 

 his interest in the canoe. Her great length made her hard to pad- 

 dle against the wind, and it was impossible to turn her quickly 

 so in '78, when she began to leak, we slung her to the rafters of 

 the barn aud invested in a small cedar lapstreak. 



In *83 1 lived on the banks of the Kennebeceasis. Here I made 

 the. acquaintance of Horace W, a young carpenter about nine- 

 teen yt ars of age. Reared within reach of one of the best schools 

 in the Province, lie had made good use of his opportunities; and 

 now be determined to abandon his trade and pursue his studies, 

 with the object of first entering the teaching profession and ulti- 

 mately studying medicine. In my intercourse with him 1 discov- 

 ered that he had a mind of more than ordinary capacity; and a 

 year later, when a teacher was needed in the district, where my 

 father lived, I mentioned the name of my friend and he was duly 

 engaged. I was working five miles away, which distance I rode or 

 drove every morning and evening, and Horace domiciled himself 

 with ns on the home farm. Toward spring he began to inquire 

 about the prospects for sailing. Upon being told that there were 

 no good boats neater than the Narrows, throe miles away, ho said 

 that with such a sheet of water right at our doors, he considered 

 it a slight on the goodness of Providence. In the conversation 

 some one incidentally mentioned the Squall, and his interest was 

 at once aroused. He and my younger brother, Fred, climbed to 

 her resting place, looked her over, and came to me with the 

 proposition that they would put in a new bottom, with a center- 

 board trunk, deck her over, and fit her for sailing, if I would fur- 

 nish the cash to buy material; so I told them to go ahead. 



My time outside of working hours was so fully occupied by care 

 of horse, harness, saddle and wagon, that I paid little attention to 

 what they were doing for the next few weeks; but. I got a good 

 many reminders in the way of sundry bills for deck stuff, uaint, 

 canvas, cordage, blacksmith work, etc., till, had I not been cer- 

 tain of their honesty, 1 would almost have thought that thoseboys 

 were liquidating their entire liabilities on the strength of that 

 job. 



However, when it came to the question of rigging, I was called 

 in to decide what it snould be. The "Mohican settee," which had 

 been illustrated in the Forest axd Stream the previous autumn 

 very favorably impressed Horace, but Fred thought it too com- 

 plicated. It was fun to hear them talk. Horace would say, "Now, 

 this Hoolican settee, or whatever you call it, gives us a good high 

 peak and a big area close to the water; a higher, narrower sail 

 would act as a longer lever to roll a boat over." And the other 

 would reply, "Your Hoolican settee is sheeted home aft, and the 

 wind is pressing on the whole area; it thus acts as a number of 

 snort lovers, and you don't gain all the advantage that you im- 

 agine by your large area near the water." When tt.ey would 



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own ideas about center ot effect, etc., were very hazy. But I 

 thought I saw some force to Horace's argument, and the Mohican 

 carried the day. Then came the labor of a party of novices 

 studying out a rig that they did not understand. 



The sail plan of the Snake had been illustrated the previous 

 autumn, and H. said. "Our boat could stand as much sail as any 

 Snake," so we decided on the same area, 75sq. ft. Then the Snake 

 became our unit of comparison. As the lines of the Squall were 

 finer at the bow and stern, we set the mainsail further aft and the 

 mizen a little further forward. Then we scaled out the drawing 

 to get the proper area. We found the drawing of the mast not 

 exactly true to scale, and cut our first one too short. When we 

 cut the mainsail we set our brad awls in the floor to designate 

 throat, peak, tack and clew, and around these tightly stretched a 

 chalk line. We then laid on our breadths of sail stuff, making 

 due allowance for seams, and cut out the sail. The putting on of 

 the bolt ropes was our sorest trial: we would seem to get too much 

 sail fasteued to a given length of rope in spite of all our precau- 

 tions, but by calling a council of older heads, and following their 

 directions, we at last uid a very satisfactory job. 



Over the mizen the boys had another argument. H. and I had 

 agreed to cut it 5ft. on the foot and 6ft. perpendicular from foot 

 to peak, in order to get the required loft. area. Fred thought this 

 closely resembled guess work, and H. undertook to explain. Then 

 Fred got the impression that our rule only worked on an equi- 

 lateral triangle, and in the midst of an animated discussion, in 

 which his opponent persisted m misunderstanding him, H. picked 

 up his lamp and went to his room. Did you ever know a man 

 whose vocabulary was so barren that he had not one little 

 expletive? Our fr.end 11. had one, and only one little safety valve, 

 the syllable "dan." Ou the etymology thereof I can throw very 

 little light. It may havo been the harmless "dang" used by the 

 Fitzgeralds, "wantin' a bowsprit," or the equally innocuous 

 "darn" so common among descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, 

 bereft of its midship section; but it was always pronounced in a 

 slow, hesitating way, as if after all he was not certain that the 



the base by half the altitude has got to give the area, d-a-a-n me 

 if it hasn't." 



We made the cockpit 7ft. long and about 20in. wide, with a2in. 

 coaming. We fitted her to steer by a ' thwartship tiller" exactly like 

 the one illustrated m the Fouest and Stream among 1887 canoe 

 fittings. Horace laughed long and loudly for him when he looked 

 at it, and said it was another example of great minds following 

 the same groove. It was about the first of June whi n we launched 

 our vessel for the trial trip. We were so impatient that we could 

 not wait till she was rigged, but it took a large part of tho next 

 forenoon to adjust the reef tackle. We were very much pleased 

 with t he way she worked in the light wind in which we first tried 

 her, and the next day, when we found that ihe reef gear worked 

 like grease and the reefed sail sat well, we felt perhaps a pardon- 

 able inclination to i raise ourselves, seeing that there was no one 

 else around to do it. for us. 



When wo were well along with the rigging a nautical man, one 

 of those walking encyclopedias of sea lore wdiieh it has been nearly 

 every one's fortune to meet, had looked the canoe over and given 

 out as hLs opinion "that if we put all that sail on her and keep 

 on her bottom she would go like blazes." We did put all that sail 

 on her, and the public saw that we kept her on her bottom, so by 



a process of reasoning as nearly syllogistic as possible, "she went 

 like blazes." The fame of our vessel went abroad in the land, and 

 very soon we began to feel a desire to pit our boat against some 

 other, or wnsdt to "clean out" or beat somebodj? Be it as it may, 

 wo displayed a caution that, would have done credit to the con- 

 servators of the America's cup. We thought if we could catch 

 any of them out in a good stiff southerly, a very steady 

 wind here, we would not be afraid of their making any great 

 exhibition of us, and like other people when they have the whole 

 business in their own hands, we waited for what we wanted before 

 making our debut at the Narrows. At length our wind c-ime, and 

 about 5 o'clock one June afternoon we set out in company with a 

 shadboat, from which we sailed away as if she had been a buoy. 

 Horace having promised to assist the shadder in setting out nets, 

 we pulled up an eighth of a mile to windward of the fishing 

 grounds, dropped mainsail, trimmed the driver flat, and waited 

 for our consort, which took H off, went on to the grounds, and 

 had the nets out by the time I had drifted down to tbem. 



When we hove in sight of Narrows our eyes were gladdened by 

 the sight of a. half dozen sails disporting themselves in the broad 

 basin below, but while we were waiting, less than a quarter of a 

 mile away, they squared away before, the wind and went on up 

 the lake so far that we could not afford to follow, although we 

 did go a short distance above the Narrows. We were disappointed. 

 Wo had expected a go-as-you-please scramble of boats in their 

 haste to see which should do us first. We bad never counted on 

 being the "brusher," such a position was not to our liking, from 

 the boasting we had heard concerning the sailing of their boats 

 we thought we would simply have to assume the more passive 

 position of "brushee." 



During the remaining two months that H. was with us it 

 seemed impossible to get near the other boats, they were always 

 at the place where we were not, and as Pat said, "When we went 

 there they were somewhere else." We could he pardoned, I 

 think, for our suspicion, that they knew they had little to gain in 

 prestige bj T beating us, and a good deal to lose if so small a boat 

 beat them, and consequent ly they kept aloof , but I don't say we 

 were right. There is a proverb which says: "Fools rush in where 

 angels fear to tread." Having neither an extensive nor very in- 

 timate acquaintance among the classes it names, I have Very 

 little practical proof of its truth, but I do know that young inex- 

 perienced people will often precipitate themselves into positions 

 that older heads would carefully avoid, coming out right side up 

 astonishingly often, and in any event adding materially to their 

 stock of experience. 



One day myself, my brother Fred and our little nephew had 

 beaten the canoe a couple of miles down river, when we spied one 

 of the Narrows cracks nearly opposite our place, laboring heavily 

 down against a squally N.W. wind. We afterward learned that 

 the son of its owner and two friends had stolen off to brush us 

 down "to a fine fraction." I cannot better describe what fol- 

 lowed than by quoting the following extract from a letter I wrote 

 Horace: "We changed our course so as to cross that of the boat, 

 and when we were about 40yds. to windward she payed off 

 quickly and started up the lake ahead of us. We saw she' meant 

 race, and we also had the satisfaction of passing her and in the 

 next fourth of a mile putting her 60yds. in our wake. By this 

 time she had had enough of us, and resumed her old port tack. 

 And here comes in a lesson on minding your own business. Had 

 wo been content with that, we would have established our touch- 

 nie-if-you-dare reputation [you see I was not pleased to find out 

 the truth when its knowledge involved a beating], but w r e luffed 

 and went on the same tack with a promptness that must have 

 surprised them. In the first two stretches across the lake we 

 gained back our 150yds., in the next two we barely held our own- 

 then in a fal ing wind they beat us ignomiuiously, notwithstand- 

 ing tl e fact that we dropped overboard all the ballast. Whether 

 their steady gain after the first two tacks was due to the falling 

 wind, too little centerboard and too much weight, as Fred claims, 

 or to the fact that we taught them a lesson in pointing. I can't 

 say, but I incline to the latter opinion. Fred says he will splice 

 the centerboard and take his revenge yet." He did splice the 

 board, but on the picnic day he expected to get his revenge he 

 was sick, and that ended his chances, for the boat was soon after 

 sold. 



It was about this time that "Deja" raised such a breeze among 

 canoeists by publishing the lines of a boat which he claimed 

 would outsail a canoe. While I regarded his statement that a 

 "canoe required the assistance of a paddle in staying" as a libel 

 on the character of a decent craft, 1 find scribbled in an old note- 

 book tho following indorsement: "Resolved, that in my opinion 

 Deja is right. A boat constructed on the principle he advocates 

 would knock the last vestige of fight out of the best sailing canoe 

 in a half an hour in anything like a heavy sea." The Squall re- 

 mained in commission That season till Nov. 1. and was in use 

 nearly every Sunday, something that drew down upon me not a 

 little censure from the quiet country folK, and perhaps thev were 

 right, in my opinion something depends on the spirit, in 'which 

 the thing is done. Racing on the Sabbath seems to me out of 

 place, aud I confess it is a thing into which a person is liable to 

 be drawn. My understanding on some points is perhaps obtuse, 

 but I am not certain that the man who attends church three 

 times on Sunday is invariably benefited either spiritually or phy- 

 sically by what I consider an overdose; neither is it quite clear 

 that the canoeist who spends a part of the Sabbath afloat, in 

 direct contact with nature, and in the enjoyment of the fresh air 

 and sunshine, of which, perhaps, he sees little during the rest of 

 the week, is neeeesarily so very far from the great Creator, who 

 "holdeth the waters in the hollow of his hand." L. I. Fr.owEu, 



BROOKLYN C. C— The Brooklyn C. C. finished its season with 

 two races on Election Day, a paddling race in the morning, won 

 by Mr, Cammeyer from a fleet of five; and a sailing race for the 

 B. C. C. cup in the afternoon, won by Mr. Ward in the Vagabond. 

 Two junior prizes were also given in the sailing race, the first won 

 by Mr. Geo. Snyder, the second by Mr. Davis. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION.-The annual meeting of 

 the Executive Committee of the A. C. A. will be held on Nov. 17, 

 at the bouse of the Toronto C. C. Toronto, Can., beginning at 3 

 P. M. The chief work of the committee, will be the selection of a 

 site for the next meet. 



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NEW YACHTS. 



BEYOND a vague rumor of a 90ft. schooner for the Sachem- 

 Grayling class, and the probability of a new steel seagoing 

 schooner of large size for Mr. Lloyd Phoenix, there is no talk as 

 yet of anything large in the way of sailing yachts. It is reported 

 that Gitana, Mohican and Alert are all for sale, and if sold they 

 would probably be followed by new boats, as the owners of all 

 three are young and enthusiastic- yachtsmen. Mr. Burgess has 

 lately placed with the Atlantic Works, at East Boston, an order 

 for a steel yacht 120ft. overall, 110ft. l.w.l., 19ft. beam and 8ft. 

 draft, designed for speed. She will have triple expansion engines 

 and a locomotive boiler by F. O. W 7 elling & Co., of Wevmbuth" 

 Mass. 



Dr. W. Seward Webb, of Shelbourne, Vt., has contracted with 

 the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. to build a steel'steam yacht 112f. 

 long. 18ft, beam and 12ft. 6in. depth, for use on canals' and other 

 inland wators, She will have triple expansion engines. The how 

 and stern will be fitted so as to be readily removed in going 

 through canal locks. She will be schooner rigged and will be verv 

 elaborately fitted below. 



terboards. Mr. Ellis's yacht will be 58ft. over all, and 0ft. Gin 

 draft. Lawleys have in hand a steam launch for Dr. Rollins de" 

 signed by the owner. She is 35ft. long, with verv little freeboard 

 Lawley will build two new 40-footers this fall, for Rear Com' 

 Morgan and Mr. August Belmont, Jr., both from Mr. Burgesses 

 designs. The latter will be the narrowest and deepest of tho elass 

 The other Burgess 40-footer, for Mr. N. D. Lawton, will be built 

 by John Mumm at Bay Ridge. She will be similar to Baboon 

 Mr. Mumm has nearly finished a compromise of his own design* 

 35ft. l.w.l., for sale. * 



Wallin & Gorman, at Bay Ridge, have just completed the 28ft 

 6in. m shoal sloop, described elsewhere, and are at work on a cen- 

 terboard catboat for Islip, Long Island. She will be 20ft. on deck 

 21ft. l.w.l., 8ft. btfam, 2ft. 6in. draft, and will have 2,8001bs. of lead" 

 on keel and the same amount inside. 



At Ayer's yard. Bay Ridge, is a new launch with anaphtha-buru- 

 ing engine, by Mr. Ofeldt, the inventor of the naphtha launca 

 Several new 40 and 30-footers are in contemplation about New* 

 York, and others in Boston; and building promises to be verv 

 brisk this winter in the smaller classes, 



