MiKoa S, iSSl.J 



FOREST AN£) STREAM. 



141 



fidcnt that there exists amoiig the yucht owners of tliechib a 

 sportsmanlike spirit sufficient to insure uiimerous interesting 



I races durintr the approaching snmnier; and lliat tliey may oic^r 

 an acceptahle programme at the earliest moment, tliey ask yon to 

 fill out and return before Feb. ~S, an iinswer to each of I lie' qu-'-e- 



I tions on annexed sheet. The committee do tiot protnise that all 

 or any one of t lie races suggested will he giren, and will not re- 



) gard any jH'omise to tsitev your yaehf, but simply seek to gain 



\ early knowledge of the probable preference, ot owners. By per- 

 mission of tij6 commodore it juay he stated that the auuuaiemiso 

 will prnbaVdy begin in l,he early part of July. A full answer witli 

 suggestioiis ia requested. 



Wm. S. Eaton, Jr., Chairman, 

 R D. Wears, 



P. E. PRABODY, 



P. T .l ACKsON, Jr. 



Henrt H. Buck, Secretary. 

 ^ Regatta Committe. E.Y.O. 



Feb 24.— To Henry n. Buck. Secretary K«gn.t.fa Committee. E. 

 Y. C, .50 Ststp Street, Bf.ston.— D-ar Sir: In reply to the regatta 

 committee's circular of tVb. 23, 1 number {from 1 to (i) the kinds 

 df races susges-ed in the order in wbtch they appear attra tive to 

 me. and i do not now S€o anything to prevent my en tering my 



yacht (rig) (I.w.l.) 



m races on those of the foliowiag dates against which I mark X 

 in case they are decided upon: 



Kinds of Races h'lrGOESTED. Dates of Haces Suogbsted. 

 Racing trim. May 30. Decnracion Day. 



CruiBing trim. June 17, Holiday. 



Handicap. .Tune 29^nnual Regatta. 



Sweepstakes. July 4, Holiday. 



Match race. July — , Two days hefore cruise, 



Port to pen. cruising trim, club topsails 



barred. 



Aug. 15, or at end r£ cruise of 



N.y.Y.O. 

 Sept. 1 ( iboul). 

 Sept. 15 (about). 



iBUggest... .... 



The will probably be in eommlBSlon by 



She could bs in commission by 



Name . 



Address 



Tbe following circular, annouTiclng the result, has since heeu 

 issued: In yiew of the expressed wishes of the yacht owners, in 

 answer to the circular of Feb. 23, tbe regatta committee of the 

 Eas'ern Y. O, propose the following races tor the season of 1891, 



AH details will be staled in circulars hereafter. 



May aO— Handicap race for first and second class schooners and 

 Hfth, sixth and seventh class sloops. 



.Tune IT— Sweepstakes races for first and second class schooners 

 in cruising trim, and for flftb, sixth, and seventh class sloops in 

 racing trim. 



.lune 29, subject to change— Annual regatta. 

 . July, two days hffore the cruise— flaces for all classes. Handi- 

 cap, cruising trim. 



Aug. l.'i, or end of N. Y. Y. C cruise— Sweepstakes for first and 

 second class schoonei s, and fifth, sixth and seventh class sloops. 



Sept. 1, subject to chfiuge— Fall regatta for all classes. 



The club will pay all expcDses of the races, and should the en- 

 tries for either or both of the sweepstakes warrant it, the club 

 will add to the st<^kes. 

 ' Tbe regatta committee reserves the right to invite visiting 

 yachts to enter any of these races and will be glad to arrange 

 additional races, or races on these dates for other classes shotild 

 prii^es ho offered. 



The above programme includes two features, a race in cruising 

 trim and a handicap, both of which are new in American waters. 

 • The committee has set to work in earnest, and if it receives a 

 reasonaole amount of encouragement from the owners, the season 

 at IMarblehead will be by no means a dull one. 



RHODE ISLAND Y. C.-The Rhode Island Y. C. has electird the 

 following ofHcers for 1891: Com.. James Lawles; Vice-Corn,, F. P. 

 Sands; Kear-Com., C. Gr. Bloomer; Pres., Geo. H. Slade; Sec'y, E. 

 P. Eddy, and Treas., E. T. Herrick. The annual dinner was held 

 L on March « at Provlden e. 



I THE RIVER IS OPEN.— The first harbinger of spring, in the 

 shape of 'he clam boat Addie, Oapt. Merrill, reached Newburgh 

 on Feb. 24 and the ice yachts have folded their white wings for 

 the season. The vocabulary of Arctic names having been nearly 



! exhausted we would suggest, as a novel and very appropriate 



! title for the next ice flyer, the name Hope. 



JESSICA.— It is stated that Capt. Ben Parker, who began his 



1 saiiorizing many years ago as a boy with Mr. Beavor Webb in the 

 little 5 ton Fred", and who has since won renown as a skilftil 



I racing skipper, being in charge of Dragon for two years, will race 

 .fessica this season. 



CAPE ANN Y. C— Officer.^: Com., J. McLaughlin; Vice-Corn., 

 Brooks; Fleet Captain, Aaron Brown ; Sec'y, Arthur Hall; Treas., A. 

 P. Park hurst; Meas.^ Franklin Davis; Trustees, Aaron Bi'own, 



I Henry Norwood, Daniel King. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membersiiip, 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 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their. loeal 

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

 Items relating to the sport. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



OFFICEIiS, 1890-91. 



CojiMOBORB: Walter tj. La.wso}.', Boston, Mass. 



Seorbtary Treasuher: RAI.PH F. Bbazer, 4T Central street, Lowell, Mass. 

 Regatta COMMITTEB: .). A. Gage, Lovrell, llass.; W. G. MacKendrlck. 

 Toronto; L, B. Palmer, Newark, N. J. 



CENTRAL DIVISION. 

 Officers: 



ViOE-CoM.: C. V.Wtnnp, Albany, N.Y. 

 Reah-Com.: T. p. Gaddls, Daj ton, O. 

 Pdrser: Ho^vard Bi-owUiAlbany^Ny 

 Ex. COM.: J. K. Bakewell and H. M. 

 Stewart. 



EASTERN DIVISION. 

 Ojffioer.i: 



ViOE-COM.: ,1. W. Carl Wright, Jr. 

 Ebab-Com.: G. L. Parmele, Hartford. 

 Purser: B. ApoUonlo, Winchester. 

 Ex. Com.: Paul Butlei.E. S. Towne 

 and Sidney Bishop. 



Applications for memoei-ship must be made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied by the recommendation of au active member and the sum of $2.(X) 

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

 the general A. C. A. camp shall pay $1M for camp expenses. Application 

 sent to the Seo'y-Treas. will be forwarded by him to the proper Dmsion. 



Pei-sons residing in any Division and wishing to become members of 

 the A. C. A., will be furnLshea wdth printed forms ot application by address 

 tag the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— D. H. Crane, Chicago, 111. 



Vice-Commodore— N. B. Cook, Chicago, 111. 



Rear-Commodorc— O. A. Woodrtilf, Dayton, O. 



Secretary-Treasiu-er— J. H. Ware, iSOHlalto Building, Chicago, III. 



Applications for membership should be made to the Sec.-Treas., on blanks 

 which may be obtained from him. and should be accompanied by $3 as 

 initiation fee and dues for the curcent year. 



NORTHERN DIVISION. 

 Officers; 



VicE-CoM.: \V. H. Cotton, Kingston. 

 Reak-Com.: .1. C. Edwards, Lindsay. 

 Purser: s 

 Ex. Com.: Colin Eraser and E. 

 Glsborne. 



ATLANTIC DIVISION. 



H. 



VicE-CoM,: I. V. Dorland, Arlington 

 Rbab-Com : E.D. Anderson, Trenton 

 Purser: Rlch'dHobart, Newark N..J 

 Ex. Com.: H. L. fiuicfc and H M 

 Kreamer. 



FIXTURES. 



MAY. 



30. Bayonne, Annual, Bayonne. 



JUNE. 



6. Hoisting Sail Competition, 20. Marine & Field, Open, Bath 



Brooklyn. Beach. 

 13. New York, ARnual, S. I. 27. Brooklyn, Ann., Bay Ridge. 

 20. New York, Sandy Hook Race — . lant he. Spring, Passaic Riv. 



.ITJLT. 



11-26. W.C.A. Meet, Ballast Island. 



AUGUST. 



6-37. A. C. A. Meet, Lake Champlajn. 



SEPTBMBBB. 



7, lantba, Ahq., Passaio Biyor, S« Orange, Aoa., P»s9AlaJ$iver. 



THE CRUISE OF THE SHENANDOAH C. C. 



AS DBTATEED BY THE OOMMODORB. 

 yAHT X 



"/^REAT Scottl"crit;d Lncr, as the train dashed out of along, 

 vjr deep cut and thundered across the lofty iron bridge, and we 

 caught our first glimpse of the river. It was as red as brick 

 dust. 



"That knocks the flsbin'," said George disconsolately, as we 

 gazed out upon the hopelessly muiidy stream that meandered 

 alongside of the ti ack as we speed onward. 



"There must have been some rain down this way," said Lacy. 

 "It's curious how red these Virginia rivers get after a rain or 

 during high water." 



"Yea, it's tbe surface wash from the red clay soil," said George. 

 "The river is not high, though, and perhaps it will clear in a day 

 or so. At any rate. ^liddle River was clear when we crossed if 

 back at Verona, and Ave'll reach the point where it comes in to- 

 moriow; and we can go into camp there for two or three days and 

 fish in that st ream while North River eleius." 



It was rather a heavy ,iob carrying those three loaded canoes 

 down tbe long hill from the station to the river along the primi- 

 tive road that led to th^- ford: and the three Itisty loafers whom we 

 picked up at the station and tieguiled into the evidently uuacctis- 

 tomed exertion of doing the bulk of the carrying, certainly earned 

 thoir quarter apitrce, as they no doubt felt as they rubbed their 

 astomsiied anna, backs and legs, and gazed curious! v at us and 

 our outnis as we arranged our cargoes and shoved our canoes stern 

 first into the r;ver. » 



It was 8 o'clock in the evening when we stepped aboard our 

 boats, pushed o(f from the bank and turned our bows down the 



I , -.. i .A- .V .tv^iiu-- ,jci,jv-v VYjacitT' WU UlilUai K-CO, was 



SO shall w that we at oneo stepped out into the w.ater, rippling 

 down over the bar, and lifted our canoes over as soon S,s we iirove 

 their sharii bows against the rough gravel bottom in a fruitless 

 attempt to pass over. 



"Hf re's where I encountered my first rapid in my cruise on this 

 stream four years ago." said 1, as we passed under the loftv rail- 

 road bridge, upon which the entire able-bodied male population of 

 the lit tle hamlet arotind the station appeared to be assembled. 

 prPsentJng a curious silhouette of arms, legs and hats against the 

 sky. We rounded the bend below, and tne river, at the present 

 low s-tage, ran smoothly though swiftly through a narrow chan- 

 nel. bMrdered on either side by bush-covered flats, profusely 

 sprinkled with big recks, whose black heads also dotted the sur- 

 face of the V ater. 



"The river was way up, booming, and the waves ran big over 

 these rocks along here. It was smoother on either side along 

 close to shore, but in midstream it looked very much like the 

 wake of a stern- wheel steamboat; and, as a boy, I used to be fond 

 of riding steamboat wakes, at a respectful distance, of course, so 

 I sailed rieht down the middle. 



"It was my first camping cruise, and the Frankie had a tremen- 

 dous miscellaneous assortment, in the way of supplies, on board: 

 enough for two men, in fact, with plenty to spare; and 1 noticed 

 when I pushed out that she was low in tbe water and rode heavily. 

 Also, she was my first canoe, home-made of course, and her shape 

 was somewhat crude, and she had very little fullness at her bow 

 and stern, with all her 30in. beam. Well, she lifted slowly over 

 the first wave, and dropped her nose and drove nearly rio-ht 

 through the next one. and the water rolled in a smooth, unbroken 

 sheet clear over her from stem to stern, and came aboard bv the 

 bueketfnl, under the poorly arranged apron with which 1 was 

 equipped; wetting my legs and feet tboroughly, and I was thank- 

 ful to get through the rapid without swamping. Fortunately it 

 was a short one, and after that when 1 saw any more big waves 

 piling up ahead, I was only too thankful to get a chance to dodge 

 them, if such a chance offered whicii was not often." 



"Hold on, fellows; my canoe is leaking like an old tub!" shouted 

 Lacy, who had dropped some distance astern, and had stopped 

 paddling and was engaged in dipping the water otit of his boat 

 with his tin cup and boat sponge. We beached our canoes on the 

 crest of a hugn fish dam that stretclied across the river just 

 below, and awaited his arrival. 



"Can't you find the leak, and stuff your handkerchief into it?' 



"No, but the water is above the floor boards and coming in right 

 fast." 



"You knocked a hole in the bottom of your canoe up at that 

 first rifHf"; you mustn't try to force your boat over such places, 

 but whenever she sticks hard and fast, as she did ttp there, you 

 must step right out and ease her over," said George. 



"There's no place to camp here," said I. "Can't you keep afloat 

 until we reach a house or a ford or spring or some place to hans 

 up for the night?" 



"O, yes, if-you'll wait for me to hail out occasionally." 



We rifted our canoes over the fish dam. as there was no shoot in 

 it, and shot down the swift, rocky rapid below, and picked our 

 way along cautiously among the reefs and ledges that abounded 

 everywhere; consequently our progress was slow, and twilight 

 began to throw its shadowy mantle around us and we were still 

 several miles above the spring I had in mind as our camping 

 place for the night. We abandoned all hope of reaching it, anc 

 scanned the banks closely along the base of the steep, densely 

 wooded bluffs that skirted both sides of the river, as we passed 

 along, in hopes of finding a spring and room to camp. 



•'1 don't know about that shoot!" I remarket! dubiously, as I 

 looked down over the crest of another big fish dam, wbic'h. like 

 most structures of its kind, was simply an irregular wall of loose 

 stones piled up across the river, some three or four feet high, with 

 a slight gap or notch in the top for the passage of boats; or, more 

 likely, the place where the trap had stood, through which the 

 water poured in a furiotis torrent down over the rough, steeply- 

 sloping face of the dam. 



"It's right narrow and steep; and there's a bier rock at the bot- 

 tom, right in the middle of it. What do you think of it?" 



George paddled up to the top of th* shoot and took a look down 

 its foaming slope and at the suspicious-looking wave at the bottom- 

 and the only answer he vouchsafed was to close the hatch In 

 front of him with a snap, pull the apron up to his chin, and drive 

 the Rosa straight down it. By a dextrous twist of tbe paddle he 

 swerved aside and avoided the rock at the bottom, and the Rosa— 

 the spray streaming from her decks and closed hatches in sheets- 

 slid safely and gracefully out mto the smooth water below. I 

 followed in the Frankie, but she would not swing, owing to her 

 sailing lines and greater bulk, but struck the rock on her star- 

 board bow with a era h that made the tinware in her hold ratt' 

 again; sustaining no apparent damage, however. 



"Commodore, that new canoe of yours don't seem to bandle a.s 

 promptly and easily aa our smaller boats; she's a little too full 

 and broad, ain't she?" said Lacy, as lie drew up alongside and 

 bailed the water out of his leaking canoe, after successfully mak- 

 ing the shoot. 



"1 don't think so; she is a very dry boat, owing to her full lines. 

 I came down over that dam with^ my hatches open and did not 

 even wet my decks, while the water rolled clear over your canoe, 

 and George's also." 



The bluffs fell away on either side; the country became more 

 open and level; and presently our eyes were gladdened with the 

 welcome sight of a horseman fordio^ the river a quarter of a mile 

 below; so we pushed on for the f'U-d, knowing that we would, in 

 aU likelihood, find room for a camp alongside of the road; while 

 the roof of a house, showing up indistinctly across the fields in the 

 rapidly gathering shades of night, gave promise of water. 



"Hello, Johnnie!" George sung out to a little tow-headed, tow- 

 breeched urchin who stood on the bank staring at us in open- 

 mouthed amazi^ment, as we rounded to at the ford; while a slat- 

 ternly, sun-bonneted woman, with two or three more little 

 wandering tow-heads clinging half in affright to her limp skirts, 

 stood gazing at us with dull curiosity a little further up the road. 

 "Is there a spring anywhere close around here?" 



"Yes, sir, rif-ht up here in the bushes; I'll show you," said he, as 

 he trotted along up the bank, his little flag of truce fluttering out 

 behind, foUowPd by Lacy with the camp kettles. 



It was indeed a lucky find, and while George purloined a hoard 

 off the fence and reduced ir to firewood, I gathered the camp- 

 stove and kitchen outfit from the hold of the Frankie and set up 

 my kitchen and qtiickly prepared a bountiful supper of lamb 

 cliops, fried potatoes, bread and butter and coffee, George and 

 Lacy in the meantime unpacking and carrying the canoes and 

 stoves up the bank a'n^ locating them for the night. 



After supper, which we dispnsod of by the light of our lanterns, 

 Lacy'a canoe was turned over, and an esamication revealed quite 

 a good-sized hole, knocked through the canvas skin, which was 

 readily patched by pasting a piece of canvas over it by means of 

 the composition of resin and grease carried for that purpose. 



It is one of the advantages of a canvas canoe, that while easier 

 In.inred than a wooden one— and not a great deal easier either, 

 for when the frame is covered with heavy duck, well oiled and 

 painted, the canvas becomes a tough leathery skin, very hard to 

 break, and being yielding and elastic it will stand blows without 

 injury that would spl t a wooden shell— it is also much easier re- 

 paired. If the bottom is well protected with bilge keels a canvas 

 oauoe will stand an astonishing amount of hard usage and knock- 

 ing aroand generally. Our canoes were protected by an o»lc keel 



3in. broad and i^ln. deep, and by four bilge keels on each side of 

 it, each Im. broad by J4in. deep, and when the cruise was finished 

 the keels and bil^ic keels were bristling strips of splinters, while 

 the canoes were practically uninjured. 



It was intensely hot next mornin-y, and wo hunted the shade as 

 industriously as possible during our day's cruise, 



The entire bed of the Shenandoah from tbe utmost springs of 

 its triplet headstreams. North, M'ddle and South rivers, in Au- 

 gusta county, Virginia, to its final swift union with the Potomac 

 at picturesque, historic Harper's Ferry, is literally ribbed and 

 seamed with rough, jagged limestone ledges, looking like great 

 shells set up on edge and generally extending in more or less reg- 

 ular parallel lines, either with the stream or across it. 



Sometimes they are so deeply submerged as to be invisible lu 

 the ■ eddies" or pools, but an examination of the bottom with pole 

 or paddle reveals their presence; and sometimes the rRpida appear 

 to be simply short gravelly bars, but the gravel drift only fills in 

 the spaces between the ledges, and it is often difficult in the rapids 

 and tails that everywhere abound in the river to find gaps or chan- 

 nels through the ledges for the passage of raiiops; and in lov? 

 water, even in tho eddies, theylVeiiuently appr-iach tbe surface 

 so closely as to be quite troublesome, as we frequently found, to 

 otirtrreac tmnoyauce, when we hung up on one (which we too 

 often did) squarely amidships, with no bottom to be found on 

 eit.her side with paddle or push-pole, tho only way of getting her 

 oft being to easily push our piken as far under the bottom? of our 

 canoes aspossiiile, and with the Inverage thus gained gently work 

 and rock them off sidewise. Throughout this entire cruise of 

 oyer 100 miles, owing to the very low water, we were obliged to 

 pick our way along through rapid and eddy (as the long still 

 reaches or pools are incorrectly termed in local parlnnot) as care- 

 fully as one driving abuggy throuarh a field of slumps. With a 

 footmore water we would have had magnificent coasting down 

 the miles of rapids that abound in tbe Shenandoah. 



"The canoe's top big for me; Pro goiug to sell her this winter 

 and build a smaller onCi" said 1. for about tbe ninth limethafc 

 mornmg, as the Frankie went bumping and drifting stern first 

 down a stiff litile rapid, after hanging her how on a submerged 

 rock wiiope ripple I bad plainly seen for oOpda. abave, and which 

 she had, with high-beaded obstinacy, run straight upon. In spite of 

 every effort on my part to induce bor to dorfge it. 



'WhiT model ia your boat built from, commodore?" asked 

 Lacy. "It certainly is beautifully shaped, but what induced you 

 to luild such a big boat, and with so much sheer to her bow and 

 stern? Ishonld tbink it would bo hard to paddle against a head 

 wind with all that bow." 



"It probably will; but wait until we strike gome real rough 

 water, some of those Shenandoah falls, the falls at Port Republic 

 or Kemple's Falls for instance, where the big waves come piling 

 up at you several feet high, and then you'll see where that full, 

 high bow comes in. Why, I've been going over these fish dams 

 and rapids all the morning with my hatches open, and have 

 hardly taken a drop of water on my decks even, while you and 

 George go under every time with your little sharp-nosed, low- 

 decked Rob Roys." ' 



"Rut she .seems to turn so hard." 



"Yes, if her bow and stern were cut away more like vour canoes 

 it Would be better, for she would then undoubtedly turn quicker. 

 As it is, she has a bad habit of going straight ahead, or bodily 

 with the set of the current, in spite of my most earnest efforts to 

 place her where I want her. On such occasions 1 feel strongly 

 tempted to whale her over the head wnth my paddle. Also being 

 so much bigger she paddles harder than your canoes, hut on the 

 other band she draws less water, for I have several times this 

 morning gone over and through places where you and Georiie 

 both stuck." 



"What are her dimensions, and why did you build so big a boat? 

 \ou look lost in her." 



"She is built from the noted Jersey Blue model, modified for 

 this kind of cruising on rapids, shallow rivers of course, by 

 rounding her stern away, just like the how, hy leaving off her 

 deep keel, and dispensing with her rudder and sails; and by put- 

 ting in an SCt. cockpit a well like yours. She is 14ft. long, 30in. 

 beam, lOin. deep amidsbip, llin.' at stem and 16in. at bow; while 

 your canoes, with the same length, are but .26in. beam, Sin. deep 

 amidship and lOin. at each end. I built her so large Ijecause I 

 particularly wanted more sleeping room, as well as more stowage 

 room, and in these respects at least she certainly is a success. I 

 have ample sleeping room, while you fellows htive to get up and 

 go out of doors to turn over, and I do not have to part my hair In 

 the middle to keep her from rolling over with me either. She is 

 undoubtedly the beat boat of the fleet, but for a man of my size, 

 weight and muscle, a smallfr boat^— but still a boat somewhat 

 laigpr than yours— would tmdoubtedlv have been better." 



V\"e easily portaged the Showalter Dam and also the Brewbake 

 Dam a couple of miles below it, by simply slidingthe canoes right 

 over the crests of the dam.s; Lacy and I standing on the dams 

 above and pulling them over, while George stood in tne shallow 

 water on the rocks below to ease them down. Further down the 

 river we frequently slid the boats over the dam from above into 

 deep water below by simply letting tbe ends go right down into 

 the water; and in no instance did we ever ship a drop of water, 

 •althotxgh a sharp bow or stern would sometimes gadown a couple 

 of feet or more below the surface. 



"There are some fellows fishing yonder on that point where the 

 river turns," said George, as we entered a long straight reach a 

 mile below the Brewbake Dam. 



"Yes, that's tbe mouth of Middle Rivei; they're right on the 

 point between the two rivers." I replied. 



"Now this looks more like fishing.' I vote to hang up here for a 

 few days if we can find a good camping place," said George, as we 

 passed the point and paddled out of 1 he muddy water of North 

 River into the calm clear waters of Middle River, on whose crys- 

 tal depths -we seemed to float, suspenaed as lightly as bubbles. 

 The natives seated on the iwint fishing looked upon us with won- 

 dering interest as we glided smoothly and silentlv bv. 



"Gosb, Bill! did ye ever see such purty little tricks es them 

 boats?" was the admiring comment we heard, in an undertone, as 

 we passed. 



"See how distinct and plain the line is between the two rivers," 

 said Lacy, as we were making our wav ashore for a belated and 

 much-needed lunch, at a fine sprin.g in the bank some .Wyds below 

 the junction of the two rivers, to which we were directed by the 

 kindly disposed rustic fishermen on the point. "Tbe muddy 

 waters of North River and the clear waters of Middle River. They 

 run along side by side without mingling as far as you can see." 



"Yes, 1 was just noticing it," said Georgf. "This frequently 

 occurs when a clear and a muddy stream come together so near 

 the same size as these two rivers. Ah, here's the very place for a 

 camp," as we beached our canoes. "Shall we stop here for two or 

 three days ? What do you all say ?" 



"Agreed," was the ready reply. 



Lto be continiteu.] 



WASHINGTON CANOE ASSOCIATION.-The fifth annual 

 dinner of the Washington Canoe Association took place on Feb. 

 23 at the residence of Mr. Frank Dyer. 1335 Vermont avenue. 

 After the dinner, which began at 9 o'clock, several interesting 

 speeches and other forms of entertainment added to the record of 

 the evening's enjoyment. Mr. Otis B. Gondall gave a bright his- 

 tory of canoeing m this city since 1884, when it was first introduced 

 as a separate sport. A letter was read from Ex.-Oommodore J. R. 

 Lake, who is now a New Yorker, and ReV. T. S. Wy nkoop gave a de- 

 lightful talk on canoeing in India and England. The members 

 gave some club songs. The table decoration and the menu card 

 were appropriate to the occasion. Those present were Rev. T. S. 

 VVynkoop, Mr. F. L. Dyer, Mr. T. E. 0.-rtel, Mr. J. A. Oliver, Mr. 

 Otis B. Goodall, Dr. Hugh M. Cline, Mr. Alfred Keneaston, Mr. 

 Charles E. Bright, Mr. L. Dyer and Messrs. Perkins, Berry and 

 Clarke. As the Canoe Association is a thing of the past, having 

 amalgamated with the Analostan Club, the old members took ad- 

 vantage of this reunion by organizing themselves as an honorary 

 a=sociat"on and electing tbe following officera for one year: Rev. 

 T. S. Wynkoop, Commodore; Frank L. Dyer, Vice- Commodore, and 

 Ot)8 B. Goodall, Secretary.— jBi'cnfoff Star. 



WINTER QUARTERS.-The regular reunion will take place on 

 Frirlay at 19 West 24th St., dinner being served at 7 P. M. Messrs 

 Seavey and Rogers will tell of their trip down the Housatonic. 



A. O. A. MEMBEBSHIP.-CentralDiv., Chas. E. Cragg, Point, 

 Henry N. Y.; G. S. Whitlcck, Chicago, 111. Atlantic Div, S. W 

 Ball, New York. 



West India Hurricanes and the Great March Blinsard.'' Bu 

 Everett Hayden, (1. S.Hudrograpftic Office. Large quarto, with M 

 Mhoffraphic plates. Price $l. Gontaim full history of fc/te areiO. 

 storm of March, 1888, with practical information how to na/iidle- a 

 vessel', n a cyclone; use of oil at. sea, etc. 



Small Yachts. By C. P. Kunhardt. Price S7. Steam TaclKts and 

 Launches. ByC. P. Kunhardt, Price $3. Yachts, Boats and 

 C(MW^. By a StamMld-HiQl(9, Price $8M, Steam Machinery, Su 

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