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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Deo. 27, 1888. 



THE ROYAL CANADIAN AND TORONTO Y. C 



ft l C^WSof the two clubs to be pooled, and 

 ^S^KC^t members of the 

 joint club, without election or entrance fee, baying the same 

 status in the Joint club as they previously had m their respec- 

 tive clubs, that is, honorary members to be honorary members, 

 life members to be life members, and ordinary members to be 

 ordinary members. Life members to be entitled to all the privi- 

 leges of the club, and to pay no fees whatever; no one, however, 

 to be allowed to become a life member after amalgamation. 



3 The executive of the joint club to consist of lour officers— 

 commodore, vice-commodore, captain and honorary secretary— 

 and a eoinniitteee of ten. 



For the first year the commodore and the honorary secretary 

 to be elected by 'the R. C. Y. O. and the vice-commodore and cap- 

 tain by the T. x. C; and five of the committee to be elected by 



ea For C 8ub'sequent vears the election to be held in the usual way 

 at the annual meeting of the joint club. ...... * „ n v 



4. The bV-iawS and rules ot the joint club to be those ot R. U. Y. 

 0. amended so as to comply with the terms of this report, and 

 subject to any further amendments that may be considered de- 

 sirable by a sub-committee, on which both clubs shall be equally 

 represented, to be appointed at an early date after amalga.tna- 



'^The name of. the joint club to be the Royal Canadian Yaoht 



C 6**The amalgamation not to take effect until the 15th of May, 

 so "as to allow of both clubs sending a full number of delegates 

 to the meeting Of the Lake Yacht Racing Association to bo held 

 on the 12th ot 'May. 



The following figures also show the financial condition and the 

 membership of the new club: 



Assets. Liabilities*. 

 o O Y C $21,500 $11,500 



t.' y; a. : 3,000 



Total $28,000 $17,5C0 



Membership. 



R. C. Y. C 



T. Y. C 275 



Total 642 



Estimated joint annual revenue $2'9$! 



Estimated joint expenditure ".500 



Estimated joint surplus -. $1,500 



Including honorary members, the roll will number nearly 675, 

 with a fleet of 60 yachts. The new club will own a very hand- 

 some club house on the island, opposite the city, with a second 

 large and convenient club house on the water front, within a few 

 minutes 1 walk of the business center of Toronto. The course for 

 small craft is within the bay, overlooked by both houses, while 

 the large yachts race over a triangular course on Lake Ontario, 

 just outside, the western entrance to the bay. The Royal Canad- 

 ian Y. C. is the older club, one of the oldest in the Dominion, but 

 of late the Toronto Y. C. has been the more active, the present 

 season having been a very prosperous one, so far as racing is con- 

 cerned. The union of these two powerful clubs is a decided gain 

 to yachting about Toronto, as there was no good reason for the ex- 

 istence of two rival clubs in a city of its size, and where the location 

 naturally brings all the yachting to one point. With the advan- 

 tages of two tine houses, a large membership, and the life and 

 vitality of the younger club added to the high standing of the 

 older club, the new organization will be not only one of the 

 largest in America in point of membership, but one of the most 

 successful in all ways. One great element of its strength lies in 

 number of Corinthian sailors, all active yachtsmen, among its 

 members, the fleet, large, and small, being manned exclusively by- 

 amateurs, paid crews, beyond a boat keeper or cook, steward and 

 a few hands on the largest yachts, being the exception. 



FIXTURES FOR 1889. 



WE will b( gin next week our list of fixtures in yachting and 

 canoeing, and though it will be a long time before the first 

 spring race is sailed, we would again call the attention of all clubs 

 to the importance of selecting and publicly announcing their 

 dates as soon as possible, in order to permi t the full programme 

 of races to be arranged in good season. There is usually more or 

 less clashing of dates between neighboring clubs, most of which 

 might easily be avoided, and each year it becomes more necessary 

 rhat the clubs should work in hanuony as the inter-club racing 

 increases. Beginning with the Larehmout pennant regatta early 

 in June, the races of the larger clubs run on through the month, 

 ending with the Larchmont annual regatta on July 4. Within 

 this time are sailed the regattas of the Atlantic, New York, Sea- 

 wanhaka. Eastern and Larchmont, and as many of the yachts 

 desire to enter all of these, it is necessary that some mutual con- 

 cessions be made in the matter of dates, so that after once dock- 

 ing lor the first race about New York the fleet can sail the re- 

 maining New York races without hauling out a second time, and 

 that afterwbrd they will have time to reach Boston, prepare for 

 the Eastern resratta, and then reach Larchmont again before 

 July i. 



It is the aim of every club to secure, a large entry list, and the 

 most certain way to do this is to make it as easy as possible, by a 

 suitable arrangement of dates, for yachts to enter without miss- 

 ing some other event. What we have said concerning the larger 

 yadhts of the coast fleet applies just as truly to the smaller craft 

 and to tbe lakes. Arrange your programmes at once, let the dates 

 be known, and avoid the trouble and annoyance which always 

 follows any delay in these matters. We will be obliged to secre- 

 taries and other club officers if they will send us their dates as 

 soon as decided on, and also if they will send prompt not ice of 

 any errors in our list of fixtures. 



WATERTUBE BOILERS- 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I clip the following from a recent number of the London En- 

 gineer concerning watertube boilers. It fully indorses the strong 

 stand in their favor taken by Mr. Kunhardt in bis book on steam 

 yachts and launches. The day cannot be far distant, as he says, 

 when the shell boiler will have become a thing of the past: 



"In watertube boilers the pressure which can be carried is 

 practically unlimited. There is no shell. The circulation is 

 natural and perfect. There is no dead water in any part. They 

 are practically inexplosive. They are cheaper to construct. They 

 are easily cleaned. There are no flat surfaces to be stayed against 

 pressure— a feature of the greatest importance. They furnish 

 dry steam. The grate surfaces are large. The combustion is 

 more perfect. They can be taken apart for shipment and stowed 

 in a very small space. There are no riveted members or details, 

 and they are very easily managed in operation. When repairs 

 are needed it is chiefly in the tubes, which are quickly removed 

 and replaced, and lastly, they are much lighter per horse-power 

 than any other boiler. These are really the chief points in any 

 boiler, and that they exist in the watertube boiler is, we think, 

 manifest to all." X. 



NEW YACHTS. 



WE are now preparing a list of yachts now building or built 

 since the close ot last season, and will be glad to receive 

 from owners, designers and builders any information in regard to 

 new work that They may be engaged oh. We should like to have 

 ut least, the names of owner, designer, builder and vessel, the rig, 

 motive power (whether steam or sail), material and the length on 

 deck, length on waterlhie, extreme beam and draft. Any news 

 of alterations to old craft will also be welcome. 



guard ot the fleet of the Biseayne Bay Yacht Club, and are just 

 from New York, after a hard and stormy passage. The whole 

 tleet will soon be along, and will cruise in Florida waters all win- 

 ter, with Biseayne Bay as headquarters. One of the vaehts, the 

 flagship of the fleet, is the Presto, commanded by Commodore 

 Halph Afunroe, while the Nettie is in command of Vice-Commo- 

 aore Edward Hines. Kirk Munroe, the famous canoeist, is the 

 secretary of the organization, and is now on his way to join the 

 fleet with his yacht Alapata.— Savannah News, 



TORONTO Y. C. WINNING YACHTS— The winning yachts 

 in the Toronto Y. C. for 1888 are as follows: 

 CLASS 1 AND 8. 

 Junes. June 30. Sept. 22. Sept.1. Final. 

 Place. Place. Tlace. Place. 1st. 2d. 3d. 



Rivet 1 3 11 •• 



White Wings 2 .. 1 J } •• 



Cygnet 3 2 .. 1 111 



Aggie 1 .. •• !...»;. 



Cyprus 8 •• f 



Verve .. 8 -- •■ •- 1 



Escape .. ■- * 1 



Yolande .. •■ 



CLASS i. 



Caprice I 3 1 .. 2 1 .. 



Mischief 2 3 .. 1 1 1 1 



Alvaetta 3 1 .. -. 1 .. 1 



Finette .. 3 3 ... 2 



Alert .. 3 2 11.. 



CLASS 5. 



Puritan 1 2 1 .. 2 1.. 



Irene 2 3 2 .. ..2 1 



Ruby 3 1 3 1 ... 2 



The club has given over $800 in prizes during the season, m ad- 

 dition to the Murray, Cosgrave and Mo'xaw challenge cups. In 

 the second and third classes the cups were given for the highest 

 number of points in a series of cruising handicaps in different 

 directions on the lake. The Murray cup was won by Cygnet, the 

 Cosgrave cup by Yolande and the McCaw cup by Caprice. Resides 

 the racing a large amount of cruising has been done during the 

 season. 



"WHO WON?"— The second volume of this useful little book 

 has met with such w r ell-deserved success that the author, Mr. J. 

 C. Summers, is now at work on a new volume for 1889. The two 

 volumes alreadv issued, 1.887 and 1888, have become, the standard 

 of reference for all questions relating to the past history of Amer- 

 ican yacht racing, while they contain in addition a great deal of 

 general information of value to yachtsmen and would-be yachts- 

 men. It is Mr. Summers' intention to make the new volume still 

 more complete and accurate, and to issue it earlier in the season 

 than heretofore. 



\mwers to (&arr$8f!an&mt$. 



J3?*No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



E. A. A., Watertown, N. Y.— The pedigree of Lena II. is given as 

 by Royal Ranger and out of Lena. We have no record of Forest 

 Royal. 



H. E„ South River, N. J.— On Thanksgiving Day w T e shot a 

 sweepstake match, first and second money. The first event was 

 all kiUed two birds. We shot at three more apiece, and four 

 killed one apiece and two did not kill any. Do these two get 

 second money. Ans. We presume that six was the total number 

 of entries in the match. All having killed the same number of 

 birds, no one has qualified for second money, and the whole purse 

 is made into one money, to be divided among all, or the tie may, 

 by mutual consent, be shot off under any conditions agreed upon. 



A new edition of Maynard's "Naturalist's Guide" will be is- 

 sued immediately by Cupples & Hurd, Boston; also an ontirly new 

 work, by the Eame author, upon the Eggs of the Birds of the 

 United States, with illustrations, in color, done by the author. 

 The latter work will appear in eight fifty-cent parts, at monthly 

 intervals. Subscriptions are asked for, by the author, from those 

 interested. 



Biding His Time, or Andrew HapnelTs Fortune, by J, T. Trow- 

 bridge. Boston: Lee & Shepard. J. T.Trowbridge's books for 

 young people have acquired a well deserved popularity. As 

 stories they are well told, and the lessons they convey tend to 

 build up the moral character. Andrew Hapnell, the hero of "Bid- 

 ing His Time," was an orphan, but he had had the double advan- 

 tage of inheriting high principles from his mother, and of being 

 brought up by her; and so, of course, he goes through the fierce 

 fire of temptation, and comes out of it like gold, purified by the 

 process. 



The Stories Mother Nature Told. By Jane Andrews, author 

 of "Seven Little Sisters." Illustrated. Boston: Lee & Shephard. 

 Price $1. "Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks," are 

 what Jane Andrews finds everywhere, and with childlike confi- 

 dence she questions Mother Nature of her secrets, and preserves 

 the conversation for the benefit of young people, who will be as- 

 tonished to find what interesting histories some commonplace 

 things have. This little work is written with an object, and has 

 a high educational value, tending both to enlighten the under- 

 standing and elevate the moral nature. 



Travelers and Outlaws. Episodes in American history, by 

 Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Price 

 Under this title the author has published a number of narratives, 

 some of which he has already given to the world through the 

 medium of the Atlantic Monthly. Harper's Magazine and the 

 Century. They are mostly narratives of what may be called 

 minor episodes in American history, as the Maroons of Jamaica, 

 the Maroons of Surinam, Gabriel's Defeat, Denmark Vesey, and 

 Nat Turner's Insurrection. Of a somewhat different cast is a 

 New England Vagabond, who furnished the materials for his 

 own biography, and a stirring chapter for boys is the Old Salem 

 Sea Captains. These latter were the travelers and voyagers; all 

 the others appear to have been outlaws. 



Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. By Maria Parloa, principal 

 of the School of Cooking in Boston, author of "The Applcdon 

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 affords ample evidence of a wide grasp and exhaustive treatment 

 of a subject of vital importance. With Miss Parloa as guide and 

 provider of one's table, there can be no question as to whether 

 life is worth living or not. 



Readings erom the Waverly Novels. Edited for School 

 and Home Use by Albert F. Blaisdell, A.M. Boston: Lee & 

 Shepard. Cloth. The Waverly novels consist of a long and 

 splendid series of prose Actions, twenty-nine in number, written 

 by Sir Walter Scott, and for the most part dedicated to the ideal- 

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 eleventh to the eighteenth century, and present the men, man- 

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 portraits. The charm of Sir Walter Scott's style is indescribable, 

 his stories kindle the latent spark of chivalry in every generous 

 breast, and while he is unparalleled among novelists for the fas- 

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 healthful and stimulating, the style pure and the events de- 

 scribed of solid historic value, lighted by the halo of romance 

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 Without perverting their historic truth. The selection under 

 notice has been carefully made, and is well calculated to whet 

 the reader's appetite for the perusal of the whole series. 



When the case of the Commonwealth against John and 

 Ben Ellman was called in the Criminal Court in Covington 

 yesterday a demurrer to the indictment was made. They 

 were indicted for stealing fourteen ferrets, and tbe demurrer 

 to the indictment was that it was not a felony to steal wild 

 animals, and the defense claimed that ferrets came under 

 that head. The demurrer was sustained, and the Common- 

 wealth appeals. There is nothing in the statutes that makes 

 it a crime to steal ferrets, and they are classed as wild ani- 

 mals. Those who are inclined to steal can now go ahead 

 and steal tigers, wildcats, lions or even snakes and they will 

 not be punished. A civil action is to be brought against 

 the Ellmans, — LxyuisvUle Journal, 



THE DACHSHUND. 



IT seems to me that the people from whom we had the dog, 

 and who have bred and used it for centuries, are the most 

 likely to know what the desirable and correct points of a 

 pure-blooded dachshund should be, and I question the wis- 

 dom of altering the characteristics, as these are recognized 

 in his native home, of any imported dog. Modifications are 

 sure to take place in time, but the type should be upheld; 

 and this has not been done in the present instance, as the 

 most cursory comparison will show. 



The consequence of this divergence from German views 

 has been that our Teutonic cousins will have none of our 

 dachshund standard, and their kennel clubs, on being 

 invited to exhibit at the great Jubilee Show, held under our 

 Kennel Club auspice's, refused, unless classes for German 

 dachshunde were provided, and these classes judged by the 

 German standard. 



The dachshund standard, as settled by the Dachshund 

 Club, November, 1881, is as follows: 



HTead ami stonM.— Long, level and narrow; peak well 

 developed; no stop; eyes intelligent and somewhat small; 

 follow body in color. (Value, 12.) 



JiJars.— Long, broad, and soft; set on low, and well hack; 

 earned' close to the head. (Value, 



Ja it;.— Strong, level, and square to the muzzle; canines 

 recurvent. (Value, 5.) 



Chest. — Deep and narrow ; breast bone prominent. 

 (Value, 1.) 



Ler/s and feet .— 1'orelegs very short and strong In bone, 

 well crooked, not standing over; elbows well clothed with 

 muscle, neither in nor out; feet large, round and strong, 

 with thick pads and strong nails. Hindlegs smaller in 

 bone and higher, hindfeet smaller. The dog must stand 

 true, i.e., equally ou all parts of the foot. (Value, 20.) 



Skin and Coat— Skin thick, loose, supple and in great 

 quantity; coat dense, short and strong. (Value, 13.) 



Loin.— Well archer], long and muscular. (Value, 8.) 



Stem. — Long and strong, flat at root, tapering to the tip: 

 hair on under side coar.se; carried low, except when excited. 

 Quarters very muscular. (Value, 5.) 



Bodftji— Length from back of head to root of stem, 2K 

 times the height at shoulder. Fore ribs well sprung, back 

 ribs very short. (Value, 



Color,— Any color; nose to follow body color; much white 

 objectionable. (Value, 4.) 



Symmetry and (lualvty. — The dachshund should be long, 

 low and graceful, not cloddy. (Value, 11.) 



Weight. — Dogs about 211bs.; bitches about 181bs. 



The Dachshund Club states that it does not advocate point 

 judging, the figures given being only used to show the com- 

 parative value of the features. 



Tbe Germans begin, rightly I think, where the English 

 standard ends, with the description of the dog's general 

 appearance: and it surely cannot be disputed that the Ger- 

 man standard is immeasurably the best and the most intelli- 

 gible. 



A long, low dog would not be "cloddy," and a dachshund 

 never yet was and never will he "graceful," in the ordinary 

 sense Of these English words, although it may be otherwise 

 in some Pickwickian sense recognized by the Dachshund 

 Club. To say that a dachshund is a graceful creature is a 

 most unfortunate misuse of a word, and its autonym, de- 

 formed, more truly describes the animal . 1 f a dachshund is 

 graceful, so is the short-legged, over-bodied, shambling 

 dwarf, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was an Adonis, 

 formed "to caper nimbly in a lady's chamber — shaped for 

 sportive tricks, and to court the amorous looking glass," 

 not "rudely stamped and wanting in love's majesty," nor 

 "cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, deformed, un- 

 finished, sent before his time into this breathing world, 

 scarce half made up, and that so lamely and unfashionable 

 that dogs barked at him." The Lady Anne doubtless took 

 a Dachshund Club's view of the graceful outlines of the 

 hunchbacked murderer of her husband and his father; and 

 when dog fanciers put on their tinted spectacles they see 

 beauties m deformities that are hidden from the eyes of 

 mere common mortals. 



In head and skull the English and German dachshund 

 widely differ, the latter being broad where the former is nar- 

 row and peaked. The ears in the one are "set on low," in 

 the other "placed high." The teeth are described by both as 

 level, hut there is a very remarkable difference, the Germans 

 remarking on the great leDgth of the teeth in general, and 

 especially of the "corner teeth," while the English say the 

 "canines recurvent." The corner teeth are the incisors next 

 to the canines. The caduceous corner teeth are erupted when 

 the pup is four to six weeks old, and replaced by the perma- 

 nent ones at about the fifth month, a month or six weeks 

 later than the other incisors, of which they are always the 

 largest: but I should be gladly surprised to find any marked 

 distinction in that respect between dachshunde and other 

 dogs. 



What, then, does our English club mean by the canines 

 being recurvent? They surely do not mean recurvent. And 

 if. as may be reasonably supposed, they mean recurved, Iask 

 if they mean that the canine teeth of the dachshund are dif- 

 ferent in shape from those of other dogs, and on whatground 

 they rest that statement ? The canine teeth of all dogs curve 

 outward and backward, and there is nothing exceptional in 

 the dachshund. 



Oscar Schmidt, Professor of the University of Strashurg, 

 writing of the Canidec, says: "Any of our readers who 

 can examine the head of a dachshund, may convince them- 

 selves of the fact that the first pre-molar ; above and below, 

 can scarcely be of any use to the animal; it is a little stump, 

 which does not come in contact with the opposite row of 

 teeth, and is frequently wanting altogether. If the dachs- 

 hund is not forcibly suppressed, as a species, its dentition 

 will one day inevitably be reduced by one pre-molar." 



At the dachshund show held at the Aquarium in 1886, I 

 examined a considerable number of dachshunde, and found 

 the case to be as described by Professor Schmidt; and, since 

 then, 1 have noticed the same, thing in dogs of other breeds, 

 though I have not examined any very great number. I 

 suppose the gradual loss in size to be accounted for by the 

 comparative little use of the teeth under our common 

 methods of feeding dogs. 



In describing the chest, the English say deep and narrow, i 

 with breast bone prominent; the Germans, breast broad— J 

 the two being absolutely contradictory, 



I cannot but look on the standard of the English club as a 

 not very intelligible description of the animal, and the value 

 of their points as decidedly puzzling; not, perhaps, so ab- 

 surd, however, as the fact that the club does not advocates 

 point judging, but merely gives the figures to show the com-' 

 parative value of the features. Surely, if the figures show 

 that, it is what judging is supposed to do; and it figures are> 

 an aid to any one desiring to valueg the special qualities of 

 the dog, they must also be of value to the judge, who should* 

 use them as a means of instructing students of the breed; 

 but if they are of uo practical use they ought not to be put 

 forward. 



It is really too ridiculous to say a dog's ears are within 

 half a point of the value of his chest; and to value the stern, 

 at 5 per cent, of the whole dog, and to throw the quarters in 

 as make-weight, appears to display a singular misconception 

 of animal structure.— Bazaar. 



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