Feb. 20, 1890. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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QUAKER CITY Y. C. 



THE annual meeting of the Quaker City Y. C. was held at the 

 clubhouse in Philadelphia ou Feb. 5, with President John 

 Slcan in the chair. 



The trustees' report showed the club to be in a prosperous con- 

 dition. Other reports showed thai, there were 98 active, 2 life and 

 3 honorary members, and a fleet of 27 sail and 7 steam yachts. 



A resolution in regard to the death of Harry G. Noblit was 

 offered and adopter!. 



Six new members were elected, as follows: George M. Freeman, 

 Fairman Rogers, Francis Green. Edward Roth, Frank H. Lock- 

 wood and Walter L. Virden. 



The secretary reported the enrolment of the following new 

 yachts: Yawl Alice, Messrs. C. H. & R. C. H. Brock; sloop Yetira, 

 Mr. J. J. Murphy; and open cat Claribel, Mr. R. W. D. Alhury. 



Mr. Thomas D. Wbltafcer presented a communication asking 

 the club to take action against the passage of the present bills 

 before Congress concerning steam, gas and fluid-burning boats. 

 The communication was referred to the law committee with in- 

 structions to take immediate action upon it. 



The amendment to the constitution and by-laws, adopted at the 

 last meeting, abolishing the offices of president and correspond- 

 ing secretary, the paying of dues annually instead of quarterly, 

 placiae the administration of club affairs in the hands of the 

 trustees, and denning the duties of the secretary and treasurer 

 wont into effect at the adjournment of this meeting. 



The following officers were elected: Com., Chas. D. Middleton; 

 Vice-Corn., Chas. L. Work; Rear Com.. Brereton Pratt; Sec, A. F. 

 Bancroft; Treas.,C. W. Lyon; Meas., S.A.Wood; Fleet Surgeon 

 and Fleet Captain not filled; Trustees, Arthurn Colburn, ltobt. K. 

 Neff, Jr., Horace F.Smith, John H. Sloan, and the commodore 

 secretary and treasurer: Regatta Com., A. F. Bancroft, N. N. 

 Wentzaud H. L. Williamson; House Com., L. K. Crump, Brereton 

 Pratt, Robt. K. Netf, Jr.. H. P. Lloyd, Jan. Marfarlan; Com. on 

 Entertainments, Chas. L. Work. II. L. Williamson, H. P. Lloyd; 

 Library Com., S. B. S. Barth, O. E. Ellis, T. S. Manning; Com. on 

 Models and Exhibits. S. A. Wood, A. Box, W. J. Davis; Law Com., 

 J. H. Sloan, J. J. Molony, W. S. Hoffman. 



The schooner • Helen, Com. C. D. Middleton, and steam yacht 

 Sybilla, Mr. John F. Betz, Jr., have beeu cruising south since 

 December. They are now at St. Augustine, Fla., and will cruise 

 asfar as Havana before returning. 



The yawl Alice, built bv Thos. Clapham in December, 1889, for 

 the Messrs. Brock, left Philadelphia .Tan. U with Mr. C. H. Brock 

 and crew on board. Their destination is Tampa Bay aud the west 

 coast of Florida. During the coming season the Messrs. Brock 

 intend cruising as far north as Halifax. The three yachts are 

 enrolled in the Quaker City V. C. 



PORTLAND Y. C. 



ON Wednesday evening, Feb. 10, tho Portland Y. C. had the 

 misfortune to suffer an estimated loss by fire of $1,500. The 

 fire broke out among cooperage and lumber on Brown's Wharf, 

 to the westward, and was driven by a heavy northwest wind 

 directly toward t he club house and the water front. Some fifteen 

 or twenty of the members were quickly at hand and in an incred- 

 ibly short time had twenty-live boats in the water loaded with 

 pictures, models, charts and yacht furniture, meanwhile keep- 

 ing the roof and side of the house next the fire wetted down by 

 means of buckets. The sheds on Merchant's Wharf, between the 

 club house and Commercial street, were soon ablaze and a num- 

 ber availed themselves of the opportunity to get away before the 

 wharf itself should be consumed. The others kept at work until 

 help came from the waterbout Fanny G., whose stream relieved 

 the bucket bearers and effectually saved the house. 



All the yacht tenders, a large number of other boats, and a 

 naphtha launch were stored on the first floor for the winter; and 

 all the sails and tackle belonging to the various yachts. Many of 

 the boats were dry and open, filling as fast as they struck the 

 water. Nothing was removed from the main club room except 

 such articles as could never be replaced and a few pieces of furni- 

 ture, and t hese not until it became so hot that to remain longer was 

 impossible. As soon as it became apparent that the house would 

 stand, all hands turned to and hoisted the boats aud their eon- 

 tents back into the house, cut holes through the floors to drain 

 away the water, and then set out a lunch to which the cold and 

 wet firemen as fast as relieved did ample justice until late in the 

 morning. 



The house was badly damaged by fire and water, and the models 

 and pictures suffered considerably from breakage. Some prop- 

 erty of individual members was stolen by sharks in dories from 

 Cape Elizabeth, a part of which has since been recovered. The 

 records and files were all saved intact and all the books in the 

 library. At present the boys are awaiting the settlement of the 

 insurance, and then will at once move in the work of repair and 

 renovation. The insurance on the house was $3,000, and on models, 

 charts, pictures aud instruments $500. Thanks to the timely 

 efforts of the Fanny G., owned by Capt. Willard, a member of the 

 club, we shall be able to welcome visiiors this summer as usual; 

 a privilege which we feared at one time we were not likely to 

 have. Anaphlha and a steam launch owned in the club were 

 stored on the wharves above, but were removed without damage; 

 a three-masted schooner about to sail for Cuba was destroyed, 

 and the total fire loss is set at $110,000. 



On March 5 will occur the annual meeting, and more than the 

 usual amouut of business will be likely to come up. A 47ft. 

 steamer and an 80ft. schooner are building to be enrolled in the 

 club. The membership has increased materially, and everything 

 points to a prosperous season, barring fires and fog. K. 



FOLDING BOATS. 



by some revellers in the small bours, and two of them drove down 

 and woke up the boat, people, a gun would have conveyed the 

 intelligence a good deal quicker; besides which, revellers iu the 

 small hours cannot always be depended upon for the necessary 

 clearness of vision. 



Here is another case where a gun might be of great use; the 

 vessel having got ashore a sailor tries to get to land with a line; 

 sometimes he does it, oftener he only loses his own life and saves 

 nobod.x ; suppose now the ship has a gun and two or three ball 

 cartridges to which a line may be attached. A sailor entirely 

 unencumbered might have a sort of a, chance to swim or float 

 ashore where a line dragging behind him would inevitably 

 drown him; and baviug struck terra ftrma be lias only to wait 

 until his mates, having unrove the signal halliards or any other 

 light line can shoot it to him, the chances of bitting the shore 

 from a wreck must certainly be better than the chance of hitting 

 the wreck from the shore. 



There arc several other things which might be said in favor of 

 small guns on ships and coasters but this will probably do for 

 the present. Will Brooks. 



San Francisco, Cal„ Jan, 11. 



Editor Fur est and Stream; 



In all my l eadings of your articles, aud they cover a few years, 

 nothing on the subject of folding boats, either for or against, has 

 ever come to my notice. For this reason when I purchased one 

 last fall my venture was somewhat of a step in the dark, but by 

 good luck' the step landed me in as good a boat as any circum- 

 stances would call for and at a price much below what I had be- 

 lieved it necessary to secure one. As the price of an article has 

 much to do with many of us who are not millionaires or plumbers, 

 I will say at the start that the craft complete cost only $18, that 

 she was iott. in length, 3%ft. beam, and drew about 3J$in. of water 

 wit h two in her. She has when necessary carried four. Above 

 all she was not crank, for we shot broadside from her while stand- 

 ing up, and I have been paddled around a lake by a man in the 

 stern while I stood in the bow and made casts in likely spots. She 

 was not of course a racing craft, but would make very fair time 

 and paddled easily, and the »vay she would ride white caps, even 

 when heavily loaded, was a caution. 



When 1 say she was none the worse for a trip on the Erie Road 

 you will have some idea of her strength of construction, and for 

 two weeks at a time she was kept afloat without the slightest in- 

 dication of a leak. The boat was made by C. W. King, of Kal- 

 amazoo, Mich., and 1 will state right here that I am interested in 

 the matter, for as far as 1 know it is the only portable boat at a 

 reasonable price on the market, aud without it my last vacation 

 would have yielded about one-half the sport that it did, and if 

 Mr. King receives any orders through this indorsement I shall be 

 heartily glad, for it was oue of the precious few bargains in my 

 limited experience that did not "crack, fade or rip," but would 

 wash. Lancwood. 



New York. 



SIGNAL GUNS ON COASTING VESSELS. 



Fxlttor Forest and Stream: 



In view of the fact that the life-saving station at this place has 

 not been fortunate in the record it has achieved, I am led to 

 make the following suggestions. I would begin by saying that 

 vessels intending to wreck themselves on this coast almost 

 invariably show an immense want of consideration for the life- 

 boat people by going on, either in a fog when no one can see them, 

 or in a stoim when it is too rough to launch the boat comfortably. 

 1 would suggest then that as there is probably no way of preventing 

 vessels from coming ashore if they want to, nor compelling them 

 to choose pleasant afternoons to do it in, vessels of all kinds 

 should return to the good old planjof earring a gum Breech- 

 loading guns of almost any size can be obtained at very reasonable, 

 rates aud would- 1 think amply repay their cost. The gun should be 

 kept lashed and covered on the quarter deck and a dozen or so of 

 blank cartridges in the mate's room, then if a craft gets into 

 trouble, instead of waiting until it clears away enough for the 

 life boat to discover that she is there, the captain can begin to 

 make his woes known as soon as the trouble begins, and that 

 may mean saving the crew. 



When the whaler Atantie came ashore, one boat load landed 

 and they woke up the life-boat people and told them about it; but 

 nobody else got ashore. Now if the Atlantic had had a gun and 

 somebody had made a noise with it the chances are that the life- 

 boat could have been alongside in time to do some good. 



On another occasion a wreck was sighted from the Cliff House 



ATLANTIC Y. C. — A meeting of the Atlantic Y. C. was hold on 

 Feb. 10, at which the following officers were elected: Com., N. D. 

 Law ton; Vice-Corn., E. B. Havens; Kear-Com., Thos. L. Arnold; 

 Bee, Sec'y, F.L.St. John; Treas., H. 0. Wiutringham; Meas., H. 

 J. Gielow; Cor. Sec'y, (Sep. H. Church. Trustees, J. Rogers Max- 

 well, Stephen Loin'es, Jefferson Hogan, Thomas P. Piske, J. P. 

 Howell and H. J. Gielow. Membership Committee, H. A. Gouge, 

 Edmund Fish and H. W. Banks, Jr. Regatta Committee, Charles 

 T. fierce, H. B. Howell and George F. Barlow. The new consti- 

 tution aud by-laws, containing a number of important changes 

 were adopted, arid also the following classification: Schooners: 

 Class 1. all over 90ft.. l.w.l. Class 2, all over 70ft. and not over 

 90ft. Class 3, all under 70ft. Sloops, Cutters and Yawls: Class 

 1, all over 70ft. l.w.l. Class 2, all over 01ft. and not over 70ft. 

 Class 3, all over 58ft. and not over tiift. Class 4, all over 40ft. aud 

 not over 53ft.. Class 5, all over 40ft. and not over 40ft. Class 6, all 

 over 35ft. and not over 40ft. Class 7, all over 30ft. and not over 

 35ft. Class 8, all over 25ft. and not over 30ft. Class 9, all of 25ft. 

 and under. Class 10, all open sloops. Class 11, all cat-rigged 

 yachts. Any yacht which shall have been launched prior to May 

 I, I sss, exceeding the higher limit in any class by not over the 

 fraclion of a foot, shall be included in that class. The Seawan- 

 haka rule was adopted, the clause relatint.' to spinaker boom being 

 worded rather more clearly. The following building committee 

 was appointed: Messrs. N. D. Lawton, H. A. Gouge, Henry J. 

 Gielow, James O. Bergen and John G, Prague, 



LARCHMONT Y. C— At the annual meeting of the Larchraont 

 Y. C. on Feb. 1.3 the following officers were elected: Com., Girard 

 C. W. Lowrey, sloop Daphne: Vice-Corn., Chester C. Monroe, cut- 

 ter Oriva; Roar-Corn., Joseph II. Sterling, schooner Leona; Sec'y, 

 Wm. G. Scott; Trcas., Wm. Murray; Trustees for three years, 

 W. S .Alley and Howard W. Coates. The following amendment to 

 the constitution was passed: "It shall be the duty of the treas- 

 urer to have, the custody of the funds of the club, to collect all 

 dues, to pay all bills contracted by the club, and to keep correct 

 and ample accounts of all receipts and disbursements. He shall 

 make a report of the financial condition of the club when re- 

 quested by the commodore, and at the annual meeting shall fur- 

 nish to each member of the club in printed form a general balance 

 sheet showing the exact financial condition of the club, together 

 with a statement showing the receipts and disbursement for the 

 year of each department of the club." 



BISCAYNE BAY Y. C— The annual meeting of the Biscayne 

 Bay Y. C. was held on Feb. 1, the officers elected being: Com., 

 Ralph Munroe; Vice-Corn., Thos. A. Hine: Sec'y. Kirk Munroe; 

 Trcas.. Walter H. Browne. The club also adopted the Seawan- 

 haka C. Y. C. rule and allowance tables. The annual regatta, 

 for which five cups are offered, will be held on Feb. 22, and on the 

 following Monday five more cups will be offered for an open re- 

 gatta, several cracks from Key West being expected. Mr. Cald- 

 well H. Colt, in the steam yacht Puzzle, was at Biscayne Bay for 

 a week, and after a trip to the west coast will return for the re- 

 gattas. 



CORINTHIAN Y. C. OF M ARBLEHEAD.— On Feb. 10 a special 

 meeting of the Corinthian Y. C. was held to consider a change of 

 measurement. The rule iu use in the club last year was a form 

 of length and sail area rule. Its only merit was that it had no 

 square roof in it; apart from this it was a pretty poor rule, 

 placing a premium on bad sail plans. Mr. Burgess was present 

 at the meeting and explained the present Seawanhaka rule, 

 which was adopted by the club ou motion of Mr. Stewart, chair- 

 man of the last year's regatta committee. 



A NEW LIGHT AT OY'STER BAY.— Notice is given of the 

 establishment of a new light on tho eastern end of the shoal 

 making out to the eastward of Center Island, We, miles E.S.E.t^nl 

 from Center Island Point, aud 650yds. S. W. from Derby's Cu- 

 pola, West Fort. The light is fixed red, 44ft. above water, visible 

 1U4 miles, and is shown from a cylindrical foundation pier, 

 painted black, surmounted by a square, pyramidal wooden tower, 

 above which rises a black lantern. The fog signal is a single 

 stroke of the bell every 30 seconds. 



CORINTHIAN Y. C. OF SAN FRANCISCO.— The annual meet- 

 ing of this club was held on Jan. 29, the following officers being 

 elected: Com , G. E. Billings; Vice-Corn., W. P. Harrold; Sec, T. 

 F. Tracy; Treas., F. D. Spaulding; Port Captain, Chas. E. Miller; 

 Meas., A. 0. Eckman; Directors— A. I. Lyons, J. A. Shepard, J. H. 

 Johnson; Regatta Committee-W 7 . A. Stringer. H, D. Keil, A. D. 

 Cross. The opening day will be April 26 and the annual regatta 

 will be on May 30. During the evening a very handsome badge 

 was presented by the club to Com. Billings. 



THISTLE, cutter, lately purchased by Mr. Jas. Bell, has been 

 taken to Henderson's for alterations. She will still be cutter 

 rigged, but her rating will be reduced to 125 in place of 143. This 

 will mean a reduction of sail area from 10,000 to about 8,700sq. ft. 

 Capt. Robt. Duncan of Marjorie, who sailed Madge in America 

 in 1881, will command her, 



NAYATT CORINTHIAN Y. C— This club, organized last July 

 at Nayatt Point, Rhode Island, is now in a prosperous condition. 

 The officers are: Pres., S. Q. Dexter; Vice-Pres., G. Owen; Sec'y- 

 Treas., H. T. Merriman; Com. H. A. Munroe; Fleet Master, C. H. 

 Merriman. Last season several races were held. 



OHIO Y. C— We have received a copy of the new book of the 

 Ohio Y. C. for 1880. The club has now a membership of 120 active 

 and 12 associate and honorary members, with a fleet of 20 yachts, 

 including the schooner Sporanza and steamer Sigma, 



PRINCESS.— A new steam yacht with this name was launched 

 on Feb. 15 from Lawley's yard, where she was built for Mr. Edwin 

 Morey, owner of Jauira. Like the cutter yacht, she was designed 

 by Messrs. Lawley. 



THE NAPHTHA LAUNCH ETC ETER A.— The supply of 

 naphtha carried by this yacht is 150 gallons, and not 50 gallons, as 

 printed last week. 



BANSHEE, sloop, has been sold by Mr. P. S. Pearsall to Mr. 

 Edmund Fish. 



The list of officers and directions for joining tho A. C. A. and 

 W. C. A. will be found in the first issue of each month. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of 

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

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

 reauested 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 ail items 

 relating to the sport. 



CANOEING ABOUT MONTREAL. 



IF any of the readers of the Forest and Stream wish to learn 

 of a charming bit of country, where a pleasant week may he 

 had in a canoe, let him take heed to my words, for I know a 6pot 

 so beautiful, so full of variety, and so accessible that I verily 

 believe there are few other sections of country, where so high 

 an average can be got, if pros aud cons both are taken into ac- 

 count. 



Open up a map of the island of Montreal and vicinity, when the 

 experienced canoeist will recognize at a glance that the district 

 promises well, on paper at least, All the waters flow in a general 



easterly direction, and lying furthest to the south are the strong* 

 broad waters of the great St. Lawrence. Connected with the St. 

 Lawrence, a little to the north, lies the beautiful Lake of Two 

 Mountains, a widening of the Ottawa River. From this lake flow 

 two branches of the Ottawa, which go one on either side of Isle 

 Jesus, uniting further down, and flowing as one stream into the 

 St. Lawrence. In common with all Canadian rivers, the volume 

 of water going down these rivers varies much in different seasons 

 of the year. In spring very high water is expected, when it is 

 found to be no easy matter for an unskilled hand to safely pilot, a 

 frail craft, through the swift-running turbulent "waves. Later on 

 the waters decrease, and well oh in the year another cause for 

 care arises, for a good many ugly looking rocks begin to poke 

 their noses into more prominence than is desirable, and some- 

 times have been known to poke their noses through the bottom 

 of a canoe. 



The scenery along the way is particularly fine in places, and 

 good everywhere, An interest is added to it by the fact that, 

 many of the French farmers hold to the old style of houses and 

 barns, their places being counterparts of what one would have 

 met with in France throe centuries ago; and so far as I know there 

 is nothing else on this continent resembling them outside of the 

 Province of Quebec. But it would be a mistake to argue by anal- 

 ogy from the antiquity of their architecural style that in all their 

 ways these, farmers are behind all the rest of the world. From 

 St. Ettstache down to the end of the. island I believe the opposite 

 holds true, ami if one makes a stop at anv of these villages on a 

 Sunday, wishing to see, he will discover that all the people who 

 come to church drive able, good-looking horses and comfortable 

 vehicles, and are dressed in good clothing, suitable, to the season, 

 the women erring on the. side termed gaudy. 



Tho peasantry of this little section of country will compare 

 favorably with any peasantry in Europe I have seen. They are 

 not cramped with a scarcity of land or exorbitant rents, as they 

 are in many parts of the Old World, and being frugal by habit 

 they have enabled themselves to lay aside a little for rainy 

 weather. lie Binard, which lies at the head of He Jesus, is attrac- 

 tive from the outside, but the population are a worthless lot, and. 

 the island presents the aspect of an entire district where the 

 standard of morals is low, and markedly so when compared with 

 thatof the people surrounding them. 



Near here is St. Eustaehe. If one is so inclined he m.av take a 

 walk to the church, seeing there still the hollows in the stone 

 facade, made by cannon shots fired by Her Majesty's troops dur- 

 ing the rebellion of 1"37. The rebels took up position m and 

 around the church, where they were defeated, many of them being 

 killed. 



Starting hem e, a friend and I had a most pleasant trip one day 

 last, summer, coming out by the evening's train to Goulet's Hotel, 

 which, by the way, is (iuite famous. It has an individuality of its 

 own reflecting its landlord and his wife. These two do a great 

 deal of the work, and certainly make things very snug. That 

 there are servants about there is no doubt, but the guests never 

 even suspect the presence of one. For supper we had placed be- 

 fore us a large, uncut roast of cold lamb and a joint of pork where- 

 with to stay our clamorous appetites. Afterward we went down 

 to the village, which is interesting and old-fashioned, being a 

 change from whatoneusually sees elsewhere. Being nearly dark, 

 the lamps were alight, and in places we could get a glimpse info 

 the interiors, revealing something of the home life, and the people 

 in their strange old houses looked quaint and of a somewhat ante- 

 diluvian appearance, reminding us of pictures of the old-time 

 Normandy villages. 



Next morning we started with the lark, about 8:30 o'clock— the 

 larks here do not get up quite so early as they used to do. Just at 

 the landing was a big frog trying to eat a smaller one. We stood 

 watching him for some, time, till begot the smaller one, alive, 

 partly into his mouth; but to judge by the way the other fellow 

 wriggled, we concluded that he did not enjoy the eating process 

 as much as the bigger one did. The strange part was, that the 

 one that was being eaten was not much smaller than his captor. 

 We tried to separate them, when the big one swam down into the 

 weeds, holding on to bis prey, and did not appear again. Frogs 

 are great cannibals and eat one another whenever they get the 

 chance. 



Getting off to the main river, a branch of the Ottawa, we made 

 St. Rose without adventure, lots of birds, among them stately 

 herons, chattering kingfishers, ha wks and many other kinds, en- 

 livening the paddle. Below St. Rose we took lunch beneath some 

 venerable old trees. As we sat. eating, it could be seen that below 

 the character of the water bed changed completely. Up to this 

 point it had beeu a broad, deep river; below large boulders showed 

 themselves, and gradually the water became more shallow. 



Moving off we came presently to a mill dam thrown quite across 

 the stream, which was comparatively narrow here. The river 

 approaching the dam is a very quick running stream of a couple 

 ot feet deep only, with deeper holes here and there, and through- 

 out the river bed was strewn with large boulders, carried in the 

 spring by the ice from above and deposited here. This made it 

 rather difficult to navigate. Near the dam we drew in shore to 

 inquire of some laborers, evidently natives, if we could get past 

 without a portage, and learned that in one place the spring fresh- 

 ets had broken a small gap, but no one had been known to go 

 through it. One intelligent looking fellow suggested that it might 

 be done, but questioned the likelihood of our small, delicate-look- 

 ing craft ever getting through safely. Inspecting irorn where we 

 were as we best could, we concluded to move again into the stream 

 in front of the opening, and to decide there as to our chances, the 

 result, being that in the space of a very few seconds we found our 

 canoe headed for the heaving piles of water, and traveling toward 

 them at no mean speed. The opening was narrow, and one diffi- 

 culty was to keep just midway between the broken timbers so 

 that we should not strike them. However, we did it safely, and 

 were carried over and down, hurried impetuously along by the 

 boiling, seething torrent beneath and around. The exhilaration 

 experienced from such, a run will be appreciated only by those 

 who have done similar work. 



Later we got into a rapid filled with sharp ledges of rock, and so 

 shallow we were unable to run it, being obliged to get out to carry 

 the canoe. As she had carried us all day it seemed only fair that 

 when the poor thing got into trouble we should in turn carry her. 

 We wadeu down to deeper water, but as our shoes were, lost we 

 had to go barefooted. Unfortunately all the rest of the way to 

 Terrebonne was shoal and rapid, for we followed a wrong channel 

 by the directions of some men who sent us the worst way through 

 ignorance. And such a route; we got over it fairly well until 

 Hearing Terrebonne, but there we had to wade for about a mile, 

 and over such ugly rocks too. Going barefooted in the rushing 

 water is not so nice as toasting one's toes in slippers before a 

 winter's fire. 



From opposite to Terrebonne we had to cut across the river, 

 and as darkness was falling we had to do it quickly or sleep iu 

 the open. As we were wet we wanted to make comfortable 

 quarters for the night, and took chances on the run across. 

 Crossing a rapid is always a little more difficult than going up or 

 down, as the water has a trick of twisting the canoe broadside on 

 on when the position becomes one of extreme delicacy. 



N earing our landing, a broad, deeper portion of the river came 

 boiling and roaring down. Across this we were going when our 

 how touched a hidden rock, and the stern, swinging round, came 

 in contact with another. We were bounced out, duds and all, 

 just like lightning— I have an idea forked lightning is a rapid 

 kind— into the water. What a sharp and sudden change. Every- 

 thing went whirling about iu the water and it was some minutes 

 before we could get hold of the, canoe and draw her into a shal- 

 lower place. 



About a hundred of the townfolk lined the shore, thinking we 

 were in danger. But danger there was none, saving the danger 

 of a ducking, but as duckings go it was a good one. Half swim- 

 ming, half wading, we got ashore and each borrowed a pair of dry 

 trousers, and after supper repaired to a kihehen to stew our- 

 selves over a big cooking stove in a vain attempt to dry our shirts 

 before turning m for the nigfit. 



We got back to town next day feeling what is called splendid, 

 but poor H. had not any skin worth talking of on his left leg. and 

 one of my toes was bruised, and black as Stephen's blue black ink; 

 the other foot carried a nasty deep cut on the sole. But we could 

 not help it and didn't much care. Only I recollect the way the 

 current tumbled me about and rolled me around in sheer spurt. 



My friend and I made several runs together after this one, and 

 found we could paddle two in a canoe 30 to 45 miles in one day. 

 We did the last distance only once, and then with a current in our 

 favor: we did it with ease, but I believe 45 miles in dead water and 

 no wind, between sunrise and sunset in the end of August is a big 

 contract to fill. c W. 



CORINTHIAN MOSQUITO FLEET. -The following names 

 have been proposed: B. H. Nadal, C. C. Munroe, J. M. Motley, J. 

 F. Lovejoy, H. W. Hoyden, F. H. Reed, E. H. Borth. 



CAMP COTS.— Iu addition to canoe sails and tents, 11 cmtnen- 

 way is now selling the folding tourist cot that is so much used by 

 canoeists. 



A. 0. A. MEMBERSHIP.— Eastern Division: H. M. Farr, Holy- 

 oke,MaB6.; Walter B. Perkins, Lowell, Mass, 



