Makch 13, 18di.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



1©9 



UNION GUN CLUB. 



SPRINGFIELD, N. J., March 5.— The trap-sbootiug tournament 

 of the Union Gun Club yesterday and to>day was ushered In 

 with a rain and snow storm that greatly curtailed the attendance. 

 The day was devoted to shooting at Keystone targets, and the 

 scores made by the several contestants were as follows: 



Collins 10 9 19 B 9 18 9 (5 9- 95 



Miller 10 8 go 5 10 19 10 10 9—101 



Lindsley 5 9 18 5 7 19 9 1 8— 81 



Stout 6 3 7 . . 5 , . 8 . . 6— 34 



Margernun 3 3 14 .. 5 — S5 



The shooting on Thursday was at live pigeons. The day was 

 cold and clear, and the wind very strong until 2 o'clock. The 

 events were as follows: 



First event, 4 birds, .?3 entry: Miller and IloUis 4 eacli, took 

 nrst money: Captain Jones and Lindsley on 8 each took second; 

 and Collins on ~' took third. 



Second event, 8 birds, $7 entry: Miller and Lindsley took first 

 money on clean scores; Jones, Collins and Hollis tied for second, 

 Jones and Hollis div. after shutting Collins out on the shoot-off. 



Third event, 10 birds, $7.50 entry: Williams. Penrose and MiUpr 

 tied for first and shot off at 3 birds each, Penrose winning the pot; 

 second went to Collins and Liodsley on S each; Jones and Hollis 

 div. third on 6 each. 



Fourth event. 4 birds, $3 entry: Collins, Williams, Jones and 

 Miller div. first on straieht scores; Lindsley, Penrose and Hollis 

 killed 3 each and took second monej ; third money being added to 

 the first. 



Fifth event, 8 birds, $7 entry: Collins took first alone on a clean 

 score; seeoid was diT. by Williams and Hollis on 7 each; third bv 

 Jones and Miller on 6 each; Lindsley and Penrose being shut out. 



Sisrh event, h birds, §5 entry: Lindsley, Jones, Miiler-and Hollis 

 captured the first pot with clean scores; Collins and Penrose killed 



4 each and took second; third went to Williams r,n 3 kills. 

 Seventh event. 5 birds, $5 entry: Jones, 5 kills, first; CoUins, 



Lindsley and Miller, 4 each, div. second; third went to Williams. 

 Penrose and Hollis on 3 each. 

 Eighth event, 5 birds, S5 eutr?: Collins and Penrose div. first on 



5 each; Lindsley, Jones and Miller got 4 each and div. second; while 

 third went to Hollis alone on 3. 



The shooters then tried their hands in a sweep at 10 Kevstone 

 targets: Miller broke 9 and took fir.st money; Lindslev, Collins. 

 Penrose and Jones tied for second on 7 each, and shot off at five 

 birds each, Cnllins and Penrose div. after breaking 4, t o T^mdslej 's 

 3 and Jones's 3. 



ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 24.— The tournament of the league of 

 northern New York was held at the West A]b.H,ny ranges to-day, 

 and brought out a good line of contestants. The prcaramrne 

 comprised 10 events. Four were 10-bird sweeps, entrance^in eacli 

 SI; 4 were 15-b1rd sweeps, entrance in each $1.50; the League 

 medal contest and a foam match. With 13 entries or under the 

 purse was divided 30 and 20 per cent., 12 entries. 40. 30. 20 and 10 

 per cent. Every contestant who shot through the eight prelimin- 

 ary contests shot at hX) kingbirds. The club offered $10, divided 

 §4, $3, 83, SI, for highest aggregate scores. Back (Saratoga) won 

 first monej-, score 87; Becker (New Scotland) won second, score 92; 

 Rockworth and Geisel (Albany) divided third, each scoring 01; 

 Schneider (Albany) and Ramsdill (Saratoga) divided fourth, each 

 scoring 89. 



The League Medal Contest. 



Buck uiimmoiiiioiiiimio-23 



Eockworth lllllOllKHJlllllllOllllll— .21 



AdHma 1110011000111111111111111-20 



Buesser Ill OllilioillU 1001111001— 19 



Mattiee 1101011110100111111110110—18 



Goggin 00100011 < 1111 111110110011-17 



Betis UlOOUOllimiO w. 



Mr. Washington A. Coster (Buck) won Che medal. This makes 

 a second \Tinning of the troptiy his. There are two other mem- 

 bers of league clubs who have won the medal twice— Henry K. 

 Adams, of Albany, and William Mattiee, of Catskill. Another 

 winning by either of the above named and the medal will become 

 the personal property of the successful shooter. 



The team match, open to teams of two men from any club; con- 

 ditions: 2.5 kingbirds per man, .50 per team, entrance $2.75, purse 

 divided -50, 30 and 20 per cent. 



Saratoga Gun Club. 



Ramsdill 1 lllUll Ul 11111111111111-2.5 



Buck 1111111101111110111111111-23-48 



West End Gun Club. AJbany, Team No. 1. 



Schneider ..1111111111110011111111111-23 



A dam s 1011 100111110011111101 111—19—42 



West End Gun Club, Team No. 2. 



Porter 0111111111111101110110111—21 



Sidney 1111011111101111101011110—20—41 



«reenbu.sh Gun Club. 



Leon imilllllliniOllllOlOll-32 



Dacy 101101001 1 011100110011111-1(5—38 



West End Gun Club, Team No. 3. 



Beckworlli 11110001010 lOmilUlllU— 19 



Geisel . .1111101111111100110011010-18-37 



CLEVELAND, O., March 5.— The members of the East End Gun 

 Club and those interested in the contest for the Smith gun had a 

 red-hot fight this afternoon. Three men tried for the bud and in 

 the shoot off Held won by one bird and is now a factor in the fight 

 with Wherry, Murray, L. L. Jones and Svveetman. The score of 

 the .shoot is as follows, correct score in the first column and handi- 

 cap added in the second: 



Wherry 

 A B Jones. 



Ashley 



L O Jones. . 



Storey 



Sweetman 37 



Held 43 



Murray 41 



.31 

 ...34 

 .. 41 

 ...34 



Upson ia 



Wilson 36 



Sweeney 37 



Maygo 45 



Nrrth 43 



Holt 37 



Calhoun ^9 



37 

 38 

 45 

 42 

 44 

 45 

 48 

 48 



Shoot OS, 



Held 84 Murray 16 Maygo 33 



BABYLON, L. L., March 6.— An unusually large number of 

 society folks went down on the train to Babylon, Long Island, 

 to-day, among whom were some well-known pigeon shoot- 

 ers. The attraction was the handsome grounds of the Westmin- 

 ster Kennel Club, where a special match at 100 live birds for a 

 stake of $4 000 was to be decided between Robert Lawrence and 

 Frederick HoeJ^ Superintendent James Mortimer had a wonder- 

 ful lot of birds on hand. The grounds were especially prepared 

 for the contest, which attra cted a large throng of interested spec- 

 tators. At the first attempt so evenly were the gentlemen matched 

 that the contest was a tie. On the shoot-oif Mr. Lawrence won. 

 Mr. Hoey's birds were a particularly strong lot of flyers, and sev- 

 eral towerers and quarterers to the right succeeded in carrying 

 their loads of shot outside the boundary, to the plainly exoressed 

 disgust of the Long Branr-h man's backers. Mr. Hoey was the 

 favorite in the bet ting, which was very brisk. Several thousand 

 dollars chansed hands on the result. Hoey killed 70 and missed 

 30. Lawrence killed 70 and missed 30. 



WELLINGTON, Mass., March 7.— There was a good attendance 

 at the grounds of the Wellington Gun Club to-day, and the con- 

 ditions were all that could be desired for good shooting. In the 

 classification match at IS standards and 5 pairs blu<^rocks Barrett 

 won in class A with 21; Bradstreet in class B with 21; and Moore 

 in class C with 14. The other scores were: Perry 21, Bennett 18, 

 Stone 17, Pnrdy 17, Sanborn 10, Stanton 15. 



SAN FBANCtSCO, March 2.— The members of the San Fran- 

 cisco Gun Club will this season compete for the beautifid trophy 

 offered by Harry I Babcock. The San Francisco Gun Club is an 

 organization of well-known club men of this city, with a member- 

 ship limited to thirty-two, and of which H. 1. Babcock is president, 

 S. L. Golcher vice-president, and J. K. Orr secretary and treasurer. 



NEWARK, N. J., March 9 — The Active Gun Club is the title of 

 a new organization which comprises a number of well-known 

 amateur live-bird shooters. The club will hold a contest at live 

 birds in the Newark Shooting Park on the first Tuesday in each 

 month. Robt. Laible is President; Geo. Dammeron, Vice-Presi- 

 dent; Arnold Biandorff, Secretary and Treasurer. The trap- 

 shooters living in Caldwell recently organized the Caldwell Gun 

 Club, which now holds weekly shoots at that place, artificial tar- 

 gets be used. 



VICKSBURG, Miss.-The Hm City Gun Club, of this place, will 

 give a grand shooting tournament, beginning May 5 and lasting 

 lour days. Liberal purses; open to aU. We would like to see a big 

 ot of North&rn shooters down in Dixie. We promise them lots of 

 fun.— Geo H. Dohset, Cor. Sec. 



FOHBST AND Stbeam, Box 2,833, N. Y. city, has deseriptlye Illus- 

 trated circulars of W. B. Lefllngwell's hook, "Wild Fowl Shoot- 

 ing," wtdoh wiU be mailed free on request. The book isjro- 

 nounced by "Nanlt," "Glean," "Dick Swlveller," "SyblUene" snd 

 other competeat aathorities to be tbe best treatise on the aabject 

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THE CRUISE OF THE SHENANDOAH C. C. 



AS DETAILED BT THE COJOIODOHE. 

 PART 11. 



J T was a beautiful place for a camp. A nice shady bank, with 

 the united rivers flowing broad, still and deep'in front; the 

 clear water of Middle River on our side, while the muddy current 

 of North River ran' along the other side; the two streams com- 

 mingling in little swirls of clear and muddy water along the 

 center. 



The spring was a large, fine one, and was in the bank down at 

 the water's edge at a convenient distance from where I had located 

 the kitchen and dining fly; and we soon had the canoes carried 

 up the bank, emptied of their cargoes and standing out in a row 

 under the beautiful growth of young sycamores alongside of the 

 faint trace of a road that led along the bank to a ford below; I he 

 blankets spread in them and the picturesque little Mohican tents 

 of blue and white striped awning cloth erected over tliem. In the 

 absence of masts— for sails and rudders are superfluities on the 

 Shenandoah— each tent was erected by means of a pair of light 

 standards, one for each end of the tent, each standard consisting 

 of two light pieces of pine about 3}4 to 4ft. long, bolted together at 

 one end while the other opened like a pair of compasses, with the 

 feet resting on the gunwales on each side of the cockpit, while the 

 light lines rove into each end of the top of the tent were passed 

 over the notched tops of the standaid, and made fast to the 

 painter rings at each end of the canoe. We first, however, par- 

 took of our ample lunch of bread and butter, potted ham, bo- 

 logna, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, flgs and gingersnaps, procured 

 frr m the mess chest of the Rosa, washed down with a p'nt cup of 

 lemonade apiece. 



We erected a dining table by mounting the Frankie's broad 

 midship hatch upon stakes carried for that purpose, and over it 

 put a light fly of bed ticking, using the iron-shod pike poles car- 

 ried by the B^ankie and Rosa for lent poles, with an extra piece 

 of light pine for a ridge pole, which was carried by the Clyde for 

 that purpose. 



The camp stove was piflced just at the edge of the fly; the ex- 

 peditionary tinware and cooking utensils neatly placed in posi- 

 tion on the stove and table; all of which being done we were fulily 

 at home tor an indefinite time. 



We led a dreamy, lazy, enjoyable existence In this beautiful 

 camp for the next two or three days. We were in no hurry; time 

 was no object to us; and just to lie around in this deliglitfnl, 

 balmy, shady, big out-of-doors, with thehpautiful golden sunlight 

 elintmg through the leaves, the river gleaming mirror-like in 

 front, the musical murmuring plash of the water over the stones 

 of the ford below, mingling with the gentle rnsile of the breeze 

 through the leaves and branches overhead, and the general rest- 

 ful pastoral surroundings, seemed to he all that our brick-and- 

 mortar-tried systems requii-ed to complete their sum total of con- 

 tentment and satisfaction. 



We had some lair fishing, enough to keep our table well supplied, 

 and the half mile of most beautiful tree-shaded water up which 

 we daily poled the slow-moving, broad, flat-bottomed boat kindly 

 placed at our disposal by a neighboring resid^^nt, on our way up 

 to our chosen fishing place in Middle River, a huge fish dam, fol- 

 lowed by some .50 or 60yds. of bass-haunted rockv rapids, was 

 indeed a study for an artist. 



One ot us always remained in camp to keep out predatory pigs 

 and little darkies, both of which vermin were a constant source 

 of annoyance to us. \Ve had a couple of heavy rains also, but 

 clad in our rubber suits or ensconced within our snug little tents 

 with book and pipe, or seated companionably around our table 

 under our convenient dining fly, the rains caused us no special 

 inconveuieuce beyond making pedestrianism around the camp 

 anything but a pleastire. 



"Hello! What's gone wrong with the river?" said Lacy, who 

 had stepped across to the spring for a bucket of water for matuti- 

 nal purposes early on the fourth morning of our sojourn here, 

 preparatory to breaking camp and resuming the cruise. "The 

 water's muddier than ever, and it's all over on this side, while the 

 other side's nearly clear; it's up into the spring, too." 



I lit a match and touched off the oil-saturated pile of kindling 

 and wood in the camp stove, and walked to the edge of the bank 

 and took an observation. 



'■There's a small rise coming out; of Middle River, that's all 

 Those rains must have extended up above for sorne distance." 



"That means no flshin' at Rippetoes," said George disconso- 

 lately. 



"Yes; and nowhere else either, unless we find North Fork clear 

 at Riverton," I replied. 

 "How far is Riverton?" asked Lacy. 



"Just one hundred and six miles from this camp," I answered. 

 "Well, let's break camp and go tiere." 



It was a royal breakfast I got up for the boys. I fried some 

 bacon, then fried three or four apples which Lacy peeled and 

 sliced; then I put into the frying pan a mixture ot sliced potatoes 

 and onions (in about the proportion of two potatoes to one onion), 

 and when this was done 1 stirred in three or four well-beaten 

 eggs; all of which, with*a pot of hot coffee and biscuits and butler, 

 soon disappeared under the combined attacks of the party, after 

 which I left the boys to clean up the breakfast things while J set 

 out across the country to the little hamlet of Mt. Meridian, or 

 Middle River, a mile and a half above, tor mail, and to send back 

 home some tbmgs that were found to be superfluous. 



It was a most lovely of all times— early in the morning of a 

 bright summer day, and the walk across the fields in the crisp 

 morning air, freshened and purified by the rains, with the bright 

 golden sunlight flooding and sparkling in radiant effulgence 

 everywhere, was a most charming episode. 



The water tumbling over the the big fish dam sung out cheerily 

 at me across the fields as I passed up; the drowsy hum of insects; 

 the joytus caroling of birds, and tne lowing of cattle pervaded" 

 the air. 



The only walls and roofs in view were the stately walls of living 

 green, with the majestic mountain peaks in the near background, 

 over-arched by the blue dome of the .sky, a few light fleecy clouds 

 drifting high up across it. The lovely pastoral prospect was en- 

 trancing, the busy workaday world was behind me, and just to 

 live in such an air and in such calm, restful surroundings seemed 

 all there was of life for the time being. 



"They bed a tremend jus' heavy rain storm in Stanton yester- 

 day," said the venerable postmaster to me as he took down the 

 post-ofliice (which consisted of a cigar bos) from a shelf by the 

 tiny back window of his little residence, and after deliberately 

 adjusting his spectacles slowly looked over the handful of letters 

 in the box, finally extracting one and handing it to me. 



"Yes," I replied, as I looked over my letter, "I supposed from 

 the looks of the river that there had been a heavy rain somewhere 

 above as well as here." 



"Yes, goin' down river again, I reckon." 



"0 yes. I couldn't do without my summer's cruise." 



"Well, good luck to ye, and a pleasant trip," was the kind re- 

 joinder, as I started on my way back to camp. 



The tents were soon struck and the canoes packed where they 

 lay and then slid down the bank into the river and we were once 

 more afloat. 



We had the usual difficult portage over the peculiarly ugly dam 

 at Rippertoes and easily shot the big fish dam in the angle of the 

 bend a couple of miles below it and picked our way cautiouslj' but 

 safely through the mazes of the half mile or so of reefs that suc- 

 ceeded tlie fish dam. 



"There's the worst falls yonder ahead," said George, as we 

 paddled through the broad, still, lake-like expanse of river 

 below the reefs toward the wall of low, rocky, bushy islands that 

 seemed to extend like a dam across the entire width of the river 

 ahead of us, which here widened out to a considerable breadth; 

 while for half a mile or more below the river sloped away down 

 hill, and we could everywhere see the whitened crests of the 

 waves as they lifted their foam-capped summits from among the 

 jagged black rocks and little bushy islets that pushed their heads 

 above the water over the entire expanse, and seemed to almost 

 completely fill the bed of the river; while below the higb brlr'ge 

 across the river at Port Republic traced its slender iron filaments 

 against the great green background of the Blue Ridge. 

 "Here's where we had sucb a time two years ago," said Lacy. 



- -. apprehen 



sively. 



"We will not," I replied. "I didn't know anything of the location 

 of the boat channel then, and started in over yonder under the 

 left bank, where most of the water is." 



"Well, isn't that the proper place? The river seems to set that 

 way." 



"Not a bit of itl The boat channel is entirely an artificial chan- 

 nel, and by no means follows the natural bend of the river in all 

 cases. I know it through here now, and we will not have any 

 trouble, George and 1 came through like a breeze last summer. 

 Just you fellows follow me; keep tolerably close, and look sharp, 



for the channel is a crooked one and rough enough, and the falls 

 are long, and if you get out of the channel there's going to be 

 trouble." 



"How did you ever drop on that channel, Commodore ?" asked 

 Lacy an hour afterward as we sat at luncd under the beautiful 

 growth of willows on the old camp ground across the liver from 

 Port Republic, "why we crossed the river t^vico coming througli 

 there!" 



"It was pointed out to ms from the bridge by an old boatman 

 one evening when we were camped here a couple of years ago. It 

 goes in right in the middle of the river between the two largest 

 of the low. Hat, bushy islands, then veers clear over against the 

 right bank on reaching the still water belovv the first ledges and 

 we go through the worst of the falls here." 



"Yes, and it's pretty rough, too, even in the channel the big 

 wa ves ran clear over my canoe from end to end." 



"Did you ship any water?" 



' No, indeed! my hatches and apron kept it all out." 



"Well, I came through that entire fall w^ithout closing my mid- 

 ship hatch or apron; I told you that fnll high bow would count 

 when it came to rough water. Well, after this part of the falls is 

 passed we then cross back clear over to the left bank and come 

 out finally on this side close to the left hand pier of the bridge." 



"I move we camp here to-night for old times sake. I want to 

 make a new seat for my canoe," said Lacy. 



"Well, it's a good idea," I replied, "we need some supplies, our 

 outfit needs a little overhaulina and the villsae is handy." 



We soon had the canviis up and the camp in order for the night, 

 although it was yet early in the day, after ^vhich wo separated 

 for the Afternoon, (Jeorge and Lacy in search of a carpenter shop 

 while 1 repaired to the village store to replenish our supplies. 



VESPER B. C— The annual meeting of the \"esper B. C. was 

 held on March 5, with President Paul Butler in the chair. The 

 treasurer reported the finances in a good condition, although 

 S3,a00 had been spent during (he year; a part in the new bowling 

 alley and the canoe annex. The following officers were elected; 



A. Lawson, A. C. A., who is an old meniber of tpp Vesper B. C, 

 was present and spoke of the coming meet and of the A. C. A. 



WINTER QUARTERS.— The meeting on Mar.-^h 6 was a great 

 success. Com. Seavey first told his story of the Housatonic cruise, 

 Mr, Rogers being absent; then the latter gentleman was admitted 

 and told his story of the same cruise. 



NEWBURGH B. AND C. A.-The annual meeting of the New- 

 burgh Boat and Canoe Association was held on March 3, the 

 officers being Com., B. B Moore; Vice-Corn., C. 8. Williams; Capt., 

 A. Kayne; Purser, W. K. Leech. 



A. G. A. MEMBERSHIP.-Eastern Division— F. W. Miner, Jr., 

 H. A. Dyer, Providence, R. I.; F. L. Bean, Lowell, Mass.; Rev. H. 

 L. Wheeler, Burlington, Vt. 



Model FacMs and Boats. Their design, maMng and swilinf), uritli 

 dcsigm ami worMng drawint/s. Postpaid, 



Yachtsmen who do not see what they want under this heading 

 will please lookunder the hatches of the Canoe, peep into the 

 E'e?7))6?, squint down the barrel of the Rifle, open the Fish Car and 

 Game Bag, inquire of the Sportsman Tourist, and if their yearn- 

 ings are still unsatisfied, push their explorations into the Editorial 

 and Advertifting Departments. 



BISCAYNE BAY Y. C. REGATTA. 



THE fifth annual regatta of the Biscayne Bay Y. C. and the first 

 event of the yachting season of 1891 was sailed on Feb. 33 over 

 the regular club course off this place. The "practice heretofore 

 has been to sail the club races on one day, and a Sf end series, 

 open to all comers, on the next; hut as there was a yacht race at 

 Key West yesterday that attracted most of the outside boats on 

 which we had depended, it was decided to combine our forces and 

 sail >ioth the club and open races together. The result Was thor- 

 oughly satisfactory, and the prize winners were Nethla (club). 

 Vice-Commodore Thos. Hine, cup and championship pennant for 

 Class B schooners; Allapatta (rluh). Secretary Kirk Munroe, cup 

 and championshin pennant for Class C schooners; Mischief (club) 

 Edward Hine, cup in Class D yawls; Florence W., Richard Cajney, 

 pin and championship pennant for Class E open boats: Sunbeam, 

 Fletcher Allbury (open), cup in Class B schooners, and Four B's 

 (open), William Pent, a cup in Class E catboats. The judges and 

 timekeepers were Edwin P. Brown, John Peacock and Robert 

 Thompson. 



The course was the twelve-mile triangle lying between Cocoanut 

 Grove, Bear Cut, and the inner buoy of the Cape Florida channel. 

 With a light breeze from the westward, or oft' shore, the pretty 

 fieet slipped over the starting line between the judges' Isunch and 

 a flng, half a mile off shore, and with the schooners sailing wing 

 and wing, headed for Bear Cut, dead to leeward, shortly before 11 

 o'clock. Allaoalta was the first to cross, and held this position 

 nearly to Bear Cut buoy, where she was overtaken, blanketed and 

 passed by the big schooners Nethla and Sunbeam. In the wind- 

 ward work to the second mark the Class C boats, Nicketti and 

 Daisy made a pretty fight for weather berth, a.nd were so evenly 

 matched that as they broke tacks thev repeatedly crossed each, 

 other's bow. Finally Nicket'i shook off her sturdy opponent and 

 started in a vain pursuit of nimble-footed Allapatta. At the 

 second mark she had made a slight gain, but after turning this 

 and entering the homestretch Allapatta had everything her own 

 way. She crossed the finish line a winner by Im. and 3s. actual 

 and corrected time. Nethla, which had jogged easily over the 

 course with a large party of guests aboard and everything in 

 cruising trim, and Sunbeam, were already in, both winners of 

 their re.spective walk overs, the former crossed 6m. 5s. ahead of 

 the latter in actual time, hut with her allowance Sunbeam was a 

 winner by 4m. 38?. 



In Class C, Allapatta was followed by Nicketti and Daisy in the 

 order named. In Class D. Mischief beat Egret by 7m. 7s.. and in 

 Class E, Florence W., being the only club boat, retains the pen- 

 n ant won by her last year. 



One of the most interesting features of the regatta was the re- 

 markable sailing of the 18ft. catboat Four B's, which not only left 

 three competitors of her own class out of sight, but passed the 

 Class D boats and finished among the Class C schooners. From 

 her own class Four B's won by 25m .5es. This boat was built at 

 this place by Jack Peacock two years ago, and is fitted with a 

 small cruising sail. The following table shows the actual and 

 corrected times of the several races: 



CLASS B. 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Nethla (club) 10 69 15 1 20 01 3 20 46 3 20 46 



Sunbeam (open) 10 56 57 1 24 34 2 27 37 2 10 10 



CLASS C. 



Allapatta. 10 .55 42 1 ,50 30 2 54 48 3 54 48 



Nicketti 10 57 15 1 56 04 3 56 49 3 56 49 



Daisy 10. 57 50 3 07 53 3 10 02 3 10 Oi 



CLASS D. 



Mischief 10 57 55 3 33 46 3 35 ,51 3 35 51 



Egret 10 58 26 2 41 24 3 42 ,38 3 43 38 



CLASS E 



Four B's 10 .57 20 1 57 04 3 ,59 4 4 3 50 44 



Florence W 10 57 30 2 37 UJ 3-2!3 53 8 35 40 



Edna 10.57,55 withdrew. 



Mamie 10.58 20 withdrew. 



The anticipated [noian canoe race that was to have been sailed 

 in the afternoon did not come oft", as only one canoe put in an ap- 

 pearance. Its captain, Mr. Coacooehee, lingered about the club 

 house tor awhile, but wlien ho fotmd his dugout was not to be 

 started in the morning race with the other yachts his aboriginal 

 dignity was so outraged that he incontinently took his departure 

 for the everglades, without the prize that he might have won by 

 a walk over. 



On the evening of regatta day the club entertained over two 

 hundred guests at a reception and ball. This affair, with its 

 orchestra imported from Key West, its supper, and the profuse 

 decorations of signal flags, ensigns and bunting, was by far the 

 most elaborate and preteniious of its kind ever attempted in this 

 remote corner of Uncle Sam's territory. During the reception the 

 prizes and championship pennants won in the regatta were pre- 

 sented, and when, shortly before sunrise this morning, the last 

 light was extinguished the faint echoes of music lingering above 

 the moon lit waters, whispered that^ the fifth annual regatta of the 

 Biscayne Bay Yacht Club had been an unqualified success in every 

 particular. Q. K, Chobee. 



OOOOASUT Gbovb, BiBoayne Bay, Fla., Feb. 84. 



