Mat ii, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



839 



WATSON'S PAKK.-Burnside, 111., May 6.-A. W. Reeves and 



A. T. Loyd, 50 live birds, for the birds, lllinoie State rules: 



AW Reeves ... 20132011012011111201110122011111010011313320111111-39 



A T Loyd. 33151000311112001010011120110110310112012012113112-36 



Chicago Sbooliug Club, 13 live birds, Americau Association 

 rules: 



M J Eich 03231231201)1- 9 LM Hamiline ...312232211200-10 



A W Reeves 121311220110-10 A T Ley d 333130201101— 9 



Ties: Reeve's 15 straiKht,, Hamiline U: 



Same day, 35 Peoria blackbirds: 



M J Eich 0111111111111101100011001-18 



A W Reeves 0011111111111110001101111 -19 



L M Hamiline 0001110111111111111111111-31 



A T Loyd oioooioioooiooiiniiomo— 13 



May 7.— Fort Dearborn Club for club medal, 15 live pigeons, 

 Illinois State rulps: 



Henj'Y Ehlers.l3210132:«l] 2:^0-13 W Shepard . . . .101110121001112-11 



J E Price 11211()2il:.'32210-13 W P Muasey . . .011110111331333-13 



A Klein man. ..1110^2112210103— 13 J Huicbinsou. 211111310211230- 13 

 G Kleinman. . .111112.331212221—15 W McFar]and.3211211120i3211-14 



C Gammon ..101011212111001-11 Geo Airy 021101321031203-11 



C E Willard . . .110311101131311-13 W W Lowe. . 013313122310001-11 

 Club's target medal, 30 Peoria blackbirds, 3 traps, unknown 

 angles: 



A Kleinm'lllllOlllllllllOlUl-lS McFarl'd . UllOlOOOOmLilllOOll-lO 



Lowe UOllllOllOlOOlOOOOO-lO W hitney.. 11111001110110110011— li 



ii Kleinm'OlOl 1111111101111111—17 Torking'n 11111101010111101111—10 

 Willard . ..bininiOlllOlOllllO-lo Shepard . .110 OOILIOIOIOOIOOOI— 10 

 Wilcox . . .10111111111111111111-19 Gardner. .11111111111111101111-19 



Airy 11111111101111111111-19 Jim Finn 01101110011110110110-13 



Gammon .1111011111 1111101111-18 Parker. . ..01011011011111111111-16 



Ties to be dticided the next shoot. 



Jifaj/ S.— The Gun Club of Chicago for the club medal, 10 live 

 pigeons, Illinois Siate rules: 



L Willard 011U21111— 9 L M Hamline 3122200001— 6 



C E Willard 2120131101- 8 F Place 1203111023- 8 



R B Wadsworth.... 2313231211-10 A T Loyd 1002001111- 6 



B Rock 1112022113- 9 HA Foes 2130333311- 9 



A B Biheuf 1010221011- 7 J L Wileox 1210230331- 8 



A W Adaina 0<X)130012O— 4 A Torkington 2033333100— 7 



r Willai d 11231 13311-10 Ed Steck 3120033120- 



Tie will be docide.d next, shoot. 



For the club's target medal, 30 Peoria blackbirds, 3 traps, un- 

 known angle?: 



F WillardlllllOOlllOllllOlOll-15 Place ....11101111101111110101-16 

 B Rock... 10111011001111111011-15 G WillardOUlOOllllOOOOllOw 

 Babeuf. .. .(10010111011011111101-13 JS Steck. . .lUOOOlinilOOlolOllO-ll 



Hamline. .11101111110011110101 -15 Foss 11011110110010011111-14 



L WiUardll 110110111111110111—17 Wilcox. . . .01111111111111010111 -17 

 Wadsw'thlUlOlOllOllOllw Ravelrigg. 



KANSAS CITY, Kan , May 5.— Inclosed please find score of 

 Kansas Ci*y (Kansas) Gun Club, made to-day at their regular 

 shoot at Metropolis Park : 



Rooney 0111111 111111111111 1 11011-33 



Farrell ^ OlllOlllllilllUllllllOll-33 



Stocking, lOMHJlllOlllllllllllllll- 30 



Butler . r. 1100010111101011111011 1 10—18 



Thompson .liUJOOOOOllllOOOOOOOOlllll— 11 



ST. LOUIS, Mo.— On May 37, S8 and 29 will be held the grand 

 sweepstake shoot at Bowling Green, Mo., under the management 

 of the Bowling Green Gun Club. It will be an amateur shoot, 

 open to all, and the prizes will be divided in the ratio of 10, 30, 30 

 and 10 per cent, Eleven matches will be shot each day, both at 

 targets and live birds. Th? entrance fees for the matches range 

 from SI up to .f 1. A large attendance is expected from all over 

 the country. The Compton Hill Gun Club, of this city, held its 

 annual election a few days ago. The officers art : C. H. Rawlines, 

 Prestdem: C. C. Weaver, Vice-President; E. O. Mohrstadt, Secre- 

 tary; Jos. Lenharth, Ca'jtain. The club is now one of the largest 

 in the city, having 125 rctive members. New grounds have been 

 secured, and much interest is taken in the sweepstake matches 

 which take place every Sattirday, from May 3 to Sept.. 27. Shoot- 

 ing Is reetrictt-d to the actual members of the club. The members 

 of the St. Louis branch of the Sharpshooters' Union of Western 

 America have perfected arrangements for the annual tournament 

 to be held June 7 to 14, on tne grounds at Creve Ccboi- Lake. Some 

 S30,000 have been raised by the members for the festival. There 

 will be delegates present to the estimated number of 5,000. On 

 June 9 there will be a grand parade in this city previous to going 

 to the grounds, when the match will begin. There \yill be seven 

 shooting contests, and the prizes will aggregate about $10,000.— 

 Aberdeen. 



WANTS A NATIONAL NEW YORK CLUB.— Edftor Forest 

 and Stream: I am formulating a plan which, 1 believe, if brought 

 to a head will he a lasting benefit to the great army of sportsmen. 

 My idea is to bring about a great amalgamation of all the clubs 

 throughout the Union, especially in New York city and vicinity. 

 My nlan is that every club should pay so much to enter the asso- 

 ciation, and that New York city shotild be the headquarters, 

 where a room could be hired at which all the sporting papers and' 

 books would be kept and club meetings be held. It would be, of 

 course, a general rendezvous for sportsmen all over the States or 

 throughout the world, where they could get the news, and visit- 

 ins sportsmen would be directed to hotels and generallv helped 

 while in the city. Grounds close to the city would be provided, 

 where the appointments would be first-class, where shooting 

 could go on the entire year and all public matches take place. If 

 the project is worthy, 1 look to Forest and Stream to give their 

 support, and hope at least they will criticise it. A paid secre- 

 tary would be kept, and a sportsman visiting this vicinity would 

 have all the assistance he desired. That is to say, if his club be- 

 longed to the association he would be afforded all the privileges 

 that were open to him. It will be in one sense, in fact, the A. K. 



C. of the shooting world. In these few words I have only given 

 an outline or bare idea of what might be accomplished in bring- 

 ing about a grand organization of sportsmen throughout the con- 

 tinent. I hope we may hear from many men of experience on the 

 subject.— W. Cox. 



READING, Pi., May 8.— The Reading Shooting Association has 

 been organized: President, Henry C. W. Matz; Vice- Pres., William 

 Bowman; Secretary, Walter I). Eiler; Treasurer, Daniel Eppinger- 

 Captain. George Ritter; Directors, Matt Eisenbise, George fecheele 

 and Isaac Berg. The association has a membership of thirty-two, 

 and i'.s objects are the protection oi flsh and game, and the practice 

 of wmg and target shooting. The association has adopted the 

 s'andard keystone target and rules. Headquarters are at White 

 iilephant hotel, Tenth and Muhlenburg streets. The fissociation 

 has appointed a committee to procure suitable ground8,upon which 

 will be erectfd a handsome club house. The members will indulge 

 in a snooting match on Memorial day. All sportsmen in the city 

 and county will be invited. Yesterday the members had a shoot- 

 ing match on Fairview street, nearly all of whom made creditable 

 scores. Several of the members will participate in the trapshoot- 

 ing tournament at Harrisburg on the 13th, 14Lh, 15th and 16t1i inst., 

 and others wQl take part in ihe tournament of the Capitol City 

 Gun Club at Washington, D. C, on the 19th. 30lh and 31st inst. 

 Any person can become a member upon paying $1, and can retain 

 his membership by paying 35 cents a year thereafter. 



WASHINGTON INTER-STATE.— The trap-shooting tourna- 

 ment given by the Capital City Gun Club, assisted by the Inter- 

 State Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association, at Washington 



D. C, May 19. 30 and 21, will be on the shooting grounds at Ivy 

 City race track, Ivy City, D. C. Open to all, $1,000 guaranteed by 



- the association, every event guaranteed. Sportsmen are requested 

 to reach Washington Sunday, May 17, and devote Monday to 

 seeing the sights and visiting the public buildings at the Capitol 

 in charge of the committee on entertainment. Bring your wives 

 and lady friends and make this a pleasure trip. Grounds may 

 be reached via Eckington and Soldiers' Home street R. R. to 

 New York avenue and Boundary street, N. E. (grounds 5 minutes 

 ride from this point), thence via conveyances to Ivy City race 

 track. The following list of experts will have to shoot at un- 

 known anele.s: H. McMurchy, C. W. Budd, R. O. Heikes, J R 

 Slice, W. Crosoy, W. Wolsteccroft, John Ruble, F. D. Kelsey h" 



B. Whitney, E. S. Benscotten, E. D. Miller, W. Scott McDonald 

 Al. Bandle. M. F. Lindsley, Frank Parmlee, Jack Winston, A. g" 

 Courtney, W. E. Perry, O. R. Dickey. H. G. Wheeler and Mr! 

 Stanton, of Boston, and all others whom we know to be better 

 than 90 men. As soon as an amateur proves to be shooting strong 

 enough he will be advanced to the expert class and be compelled 

 to shoot there. 



MAPLEWOOD, N. J.— The spring tournament of the Maple- 

 wood Gun Club will be held May 30, commencing at 9 A. M. Open 

 to all. Keystone system will he used and experts required to 

 shoot at unknown angles. Money divided as follows: Less than 

 10 entries, 3 moneys; betwi «n 10 and 15 entries, 4 moneys; 15 and 

 over, 5 moueys. Shooters ■ ying In any event wiU be allowed to 

 draw out their share. 



INDIAN.IPOLIS, Ind.-The Capital City Gun Club tournament. 

 May 19-31, promises to be a great success. For programme, send 

 to W. B- Allen, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 



WOLSTENCBOFT'S SECOND ANNUAL wiU be given May 

 26 to 28, al Tacony Driving Park, Uolmesburg Junction, PennR, 



GOOSE EGGS GALORE.— Beeville, Bee County, Tex., May C— 

 The BeeviUe Gun Club, whose membership is now quite large and 

 whose scores h«ve gone out (so Blanco says) aa the most remark- 

 able on record, is thoroughly organized for this season's shoots. 

 For business reasons and for fear Forest and Stream may not 

 be supplied with asufBcient number of a certain letter in the alpha- 

 bet shajjed something tliuslv, O, to give us a full report, the scores 

 of the club have not been forwarded to you. Several of the boys 

 are fixing to attend the Slate shoot at San Antonio this month, 

 expecting to meet the enemy, the San Antonio Club, who walked 

 otf with most of the prizes' last fall at the Beeville fouruameni, 

 and if possible return the compliment and rout the enemy. Mr. 

 J. Leioht, the veteran tran-shot, is now a member of our clu'->; and 

 Criizer, the 20-horecrauk of San Antonio, has some followers 

 among the membership of our club, though their scores, like (he 

 rest, are generally "clean scores."— T. J. S. 



NE WARK, N. J., May 7.— The match at 30 live birds, announced 

 to be shot on the East Side Mutual grounds to-day, between H. C. 

 Koegel and C. M. Redden was postponed, owing to the illness of 

 Mr. Koegel. A number nf live bird shooters were at the grounds, 

 among them being AL Heritage, of the Jersey City Heights Gun 

 Club, and half a d'-'zen members of the Newark Gun Club. Two 

 sweeps were shot with the following results: First sweep, 4 birds, 

 Hilfers killed 4 and took first money. Second sweep, 5 birds, .f5 

 entry; Ferment killed five and took first money. The rest of the 

 afternoon was devoted to shooting at hluerock targets, 



May .y.— The monthly shoot of the Newark Gun Club took place 

 at John Erb's to-day, each member shooting at 10 live birds under 

 club rules The scores were as follows: Al. Heritage, Jr. 10, J. 

 Riggott 10, S. Castle 10, C. M. Hedden 10. 6. Griflin 10, P. J. Ze.glio 



9, W. G. Hollis 9, E. O. Collins 9, R. H. Breintnall 8, C. Reinhardt 



8, H. Leddy 8, M. F. Lindsley 7, J. Bruen 6, J. Erb 5, C. Heath 4. 

 OLAREMONT, N. J., May 9. -The members of the New Jersey 



Shooting Association contested half a dozen prize clay- pigeon 

 shooting matches this afternoon on their new grounds at Clare- 

 mont. The results were as follows: First event, 10 singles each. 

 Keystone system: W. Simpson 10, Charles A. Pope 9, Major James 

 M. Taylor 8. Second event, 10 singles ea^h, walking: J. J. Berdan 



10, R. W. Richmond 9, Major James M. Taylor 9. Third event. 10 

 singles each. Keystone system: George S. Virden 10, W. Simpson 



9, C. S. Tatham 8. Fourth event, 10 birds each. Keystone system: 

 George S. Virden 10, H. Hobart 9, Major James M. Taylor 8. Fifth 

 event, 10 birds each, unknown angles: Major James M. Taylor 10, 

 George S. Virden 8, J. J. Berdan and Richard Lundemann 7 each, 

 divided. Sixth event. 10 birds each. Keystone system: R. Hobart 



10, Major J. M. Taylor 9, A. F. Compson 8. 



DALLAS. Tex., April 28.— The lovers of trap and gun assembled 

 nt the Oak Cliff Ball Park this afternoon to witness a match of 

 100 single bluerocks between Will Allen, Kirk Williams and C. A. 

 Hardy, 18yds., American Association rules: Allen 70, Hardy 69, 

 WiUiams 65. 



Model Faelits and Boats. Thew design, maMng and sailing, with 

 dem'giht and worHing draimngs. Postpaid., $M. 



FIXTURES. 



MAY. 



16. Excelsior Open., New York. 30. Rochester. Open, Sodtis Bay, 



16. Larchmont, Open.,Larchm't 30. Corinthian, Annual, San 



23. San Francisco, Fish Cruise. Francisco. 



33. St. Lawrence, Club Sweeps, 30. Eastern, Handicap, Marble- 

 Montreal, head. 



28-31, Portland, Cruise. 30. Brooklyn, Opening, Graves- 



30. Cor. Mos. Fleet, Larchmont. end Bay. 



30. American Model, Opening, 30-31. San Francisco, Cruise, 



Prospect Park. Mare Island. 



^HE yachting 



YACHTS' NAMES. 



„ editor of the Boston (rJoibe has brushed up his 

 Isss'c and oriental lore and compiled the following de- 

 scriptive list of the names of the new yachts: 



"All of the nine 46-fooiers have now been named, and their ap- 

 pellations are well worth considering. 



"August Belmont's Burgess cutter is named Mineola. This is 

 the name of the town in Now York, on the Long Island Ilailroad, 

 where Mr. Helmont has his sum m er home, 



"A. R. Turner's Burgess boat is named Oweene. This is the name 

 of an Indian girl. There is a prominent race horse named Oweene, 

 from which Mr. Turner got the idea for his name. 



"(Cornelius Vanderbilt's Burgess boat is called Ilderim. This is 

 an Arabic word, signifying lightning. One of the sneiks in 'Ben 

 Hur' is nam^ d liderim- 



"Bayard Thayer's Burgess 46 bears the name Sayonara, a 

 Japanese word which means good-bye, 



"Dr. John Bryant and C.A.Price's Burgess centerboarder is 

 called Beatrix. TbiaisaLatin feminine word, and signifies the 

 one who makes people happy— in other words, a female philan- 

 thropist. 



"John Paine's 46-footer is named Alhorak. This was the name 

 of a mythical creature, sometimps referred to as a mare, on which 

 Mahomet is said to have made journeys to the celestial regions. 

 AJborak signifies the lightning, and the mare was so named on ac- 

 count ot her swiftness. 



"Barbara is the name of C. H. W. Foster's Fife boat. Barbara, 

 while now a common name for a girl, is derived from the Greek, 

 in which language it signifies a stranger or foreigner, not a bad 

 name tor the Fife boat. 



"E. 1). Morgan's Uerreahoff 16 is called Glorinna. This is a name 

 derived from the Latin word which means glory. In Spencer's 

 poem, the Taerie Queene,' Gloriana appears as the 'greate-st, 

 gloriou" queen of fairyland.' 



"Nautilus finishes the list, being the name of the Wintringham 

 46-footer building for J. Rogers Maxwell. Nautilus comes from 

 the Greek, and is the name of a shellfish which is furnished with 

 a membrane that serves it for a sail. 



"Of these names, two are Arabic, two Greek, two Latio, one 

 Indian and one Japanese. This collection speaks well for the 

 literary attainments of the owners of our 46-footerp, and estab- 

 lishes the fact that literature and yachting go hand in hand. Still, 

 without wishing to 'cast any asparagus' on the lore displayed by 

 these gentlemen, it would be better for the peace of mind of the 

 average yachtsman, and the names themselves would receive 

 better pronunciation, if more of them were taken from the 

 English language." 



We cannot altogether agree with the Globe's conclusion, hut 

 rather look upon the names of the new fleet as a distinct advance 

 from the tiresome string of chestnuts wnich monopolizes most of 

 the Yacht List. The names of the newer American yachts, espe- 

 ally the 41) and 46-footers, are as a rule sufficiently new and dis- 

 tinctive as to leave no question as to the identity of the boats, as 

 in the oases of Pappoose, Baboon, Gossoon, Liris, Mocassin and 

 Gorilla; and this more than compensates for the absence of any 

 special meaning or even for a lack of euphony. It is a great relief 

 to get rid of the numerous family of Annies, Jennies, Fannys, 

 Grades, Marys, Janes and Kates, and their elder sisters, the Un- 

 dines, Loreleis. Nymphs and Wraiths, that have done service 

 since the first days of jachtiug. We commented a week or two 

 s'nce on the ancieut and inappropriate name, Me'eor, chosen by 

 the Emperor of Germany for the This'le, and now we notice with 

 regret that under her new owner Yarana has had her reputation 

 and identity destroyed by the tiansferral of a second-hand name 

 from her owner's previous yacht, making her the Maid Marion. 



SAIL VERSUS STEAM. 



THE following decision in the case of a collision between a tug 

 and a sailing vessel will be of interest to yachtsmen. The 

 case was recently tried in the JJ. S. District Court of the Southern 

 District of New York. 



The tug Coe F. i*oung was going up the Hudson River on a clear 

 day, A small sloop was beating upstream ahead of her. The tug 

 had no lookout except the master at the wheel. The river at that 

 point is about 3,000ft. wide; when about 1,000ft. from the New 

 York shore the sloop went about on another tack, the tug being 

 then some lOO to 150ft. distant. Collision ensued and the sloop 

 was sunk. Held, that a sailing vessel beating in a channel is not 

 obliged to run out her tacks, providing she does not mislead or 

 embarrass other vessels that are bound to keep out of her way, 

 and that the collision was caused solely by the want of a proper 

 lookouc on the tug. 



Hyland & Zabriskie, for libeUanta. E. G. Benedict, for claim- 

 ants. 



Brown, .T, In the forenoon of April 19, 1890, as the tug Coe F. 

 Young was going up the Hudson River, with the last of the fiood 

 tide, when opposite Twenty-sixth or Twenty-seventh street she 

 came in collision with the .sloop Mary, which was beating up river 

 against a northerly wind, and cut her in two, damaging almost 

 all the personal eft'ects of two of the libellants and injuring the 

 libeUant Osborn, who was thrown into the water by the blow. 



Very shortly before collision the sloop had tacked on the New 

 lork side and had filled away on her starboard tack, heading, as 

 her witnesies allege, about 4 points above a line straight across 

 the river. 



There is considerable conflict in the testimony in regard to the 

 direction of the wind; whether the sloop's long tack was her star- 

 board lack or her port tack; as to the distance of the point of col- 

 lision from tbe New York shore, and whether the sloop, as the 

 defendants allege, came a.bout very suddenly and almost directly 

 under the bows of the tug, without running out her port tack, so 

 as to render collision unavoidable. It is the la.st point that is 

 most important, the others being material only as they affect 

 that. The river there, from the ends of the docks on each side, is 

 about 3,000tt. wide. Taking all the evidence together, I am satis- 

 fled that the collision took place about 1,000ft. from the end of 

 the New York docks. That the distance is much greater than 

 that stared by a number of the libellant's witnesses is to be in- 

 ferred, not merely from tbe testimony of disinterested witnesses 

 for the defendants, and the probabilities of the case, but from the 

 testimony also of the libellant's witness Sands, who, though 

 evidently mistaken in some parts of his testimony, is not likely to 

 be much mistaken as to tbe considerable distance he had to row 

 in a small boat, stated as about 8lX)ft., in picking up the first 

 debris from the wreck. 



The lioellant's witnesses mostly testify that the sloop did not 

 tack until she had run witliin 1,50ft. of the New York docks; 

 several of the defendants' witnesses say that she tacked far away 

 from tbe docks, and near to the tug. The captain of the tug says 

 that when he first noticed the sloop she was on his starboard 

 hand off Fourteenth street upon her tack to the eastward, and 

 from 100 to l-50tt. eastward of his course, and that when she came 

 about cff Twenty-seventh or Twenty-eighth street, she was about 

 the same distance eastward of him, having twice in the interval 

 come up into the wind, and filled away again. 



Tne captain is evidently mistaken in bis testimony. The sloop, 

 with the wind as it was, could not have come up river from Four- 

 teenth street to Twenty-seventh street in the way he states. It 

 was doubtless off Tsventy-third street instead of Fourteenth street, 

 that he first saw this sloop, as the answer alleges. If she was 

 then 100 or 150ft. away, she svas certainly more than that distance 

 away from him when he tacked. All agree that at the time of 

 collision she had come about completely and that her sails were 

 full. 



It is not material in this case whether the sloop ran as near the 

 New York shore as she might have done or not. There was more 

 of the flood tide out in tbe stream than along the shore. The 

 sloop had the right to avail herself of this advantage in naviga- 

 tion by shortening her tacks, provided she did not mislead, or 

 embarrass, other vessels that were bound to keep out of her way, 

 I think that tbe tug did have abundant time and .^pace to have 

 kept out of the way of the sloop from the time she tacked, had 

 any proper watch been kept upon her movements. There was no 

 lookout, however on the tug, except the pilot aione; and there is 

 some evidence that he jumped to the wheel just before collision; 

 in other words, was nr c watching the sloop's movements. The 

 tug was unencumbered; she could be very quickly handled; and 

 she could be maneuvered certainly as easily as the .sloop, as she 

 exceeded her in speed. Whether the sloop ran out her tack or not 

 I therefore regard as immaterial in this case, because not the 

 proximate cause of the collision. The real cause was the failure 

 to keep a proper lookout; had this been done I am satisfied the 

 collision would have been avoided. 



I allow the llbellant, Osborn, $545 damages for personalinjuries ^. 4.,^.,.o-ci.,,uodii.d x uao umweu 



aud effects, wltti costs. A reference may taken to compute its winter quarters in Biaton, and the club houses 'on Rowt's 

 fcbe daiaageg in tti* other cages. Wharf and at Doroheeter are now open, 



NEW YORK YACHT RACING ASSOCIATION. -At O'Neill's, 

 Sixth avenue and Twenty-second street, on April 24, there was held 

 a meeting of the New York Y. B. A., at which delegates were pres- 

 ent from the following clubs: Columbia, Hudson River, .lersey 

 City, Newark. Newark Bay, New Jersey, Pavonia, Staten Island 

 Atb. Club, Yanht Dept., Tappan Zee, Yonkers Corinthian, Indian 

 Harbor and Oceanic club«, 13 clubs. Com. A. J. Prime presided, 

 and in a neat little speech accepted the olEce of President of the 

 Association for another year. The secretary reported having en- 

 gaged the iron steamer Cygnus for the 3d annual regatta of the 

 Association, on Sept. 7, Labor Day. The Kill von KuU Y. C. of 

 Staten Island, New York, was elelected to membership. This 

 makes 18 clubs now m the Association. Considerable discussion 

 was had concerning tbe cruise of the Association this year, and it 

 was finally decided to rendezvous somewhere on the Sound on 

 July 4, probably at City Island. All the arrangements were left 

 to Pres. Prime, who will act as the admiral of the cruise. After 

 some other miscellaneous business had been transacted the meet- 

 ing adjourned subject to the call of the president. 



THE NEW AMERICAN NAVl^-Up to this point it is to be 

 presumed that the Americans, like other nations, built war ships 

 because they thought them necessary in some way to the national 

 interests, but the outburst of shipbuilding activity which we shall 

 describe in this paper has been occasioned for the very singular 

 reason that they want to spend moneJ^ Happy America! which 

 in this matter presents so great a contrast with the powers of the 

 Old World. We hear of some nations in Europe so anxious for 

 the costly luxury of war ships, that they appear ready to spend 

 their last dollar in armor, and we ourselves never obtain what we 

 think we want, but only what Chancellors ot the Exchequer can 

 afford to give us; the United States, however, has in two years 

 had a "Treasury surplus" of thirty-eight million dollars, and has 

 spent it on ironclads and cruisers, berause it must he spent in 

 some way. We think America may be fairly congratulated that, 

 with such temptations, the surplus has not been in any sense 

 thrown aivay, but has been wisely and judiciously expended.— 

 NautictU Magazine. 



A NEEDED MEASURE.— The following bill wiU be presented 

 to the Legislature of Massachusetts, and it is needless to say that 

 yachtsmen strongly favor it. Resolved, That the board of harbor 

 and land commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to 

 make an investigation, and report to the next General Court such 

 plan or plans as may seem to them feasible for marking danger- 

 ous rocks and bars in the harbors of the Commonwealth in such a 

 way as to secure greater safety to yachts and small boats, and in 

 making said investigation said commissioners may expend a sum 

 not exceeding 181,000, which shall be allowed from the treasury of 

 the (^Commonwealth. Said commissioners shall state particularly 

 in their report the expense of carrying out any plans recom- 

 mended bv them. When an American sloop of46ft. l.w.l draws 

 over lift., or within a couple of feet of the draft of a British cutter 

 ot 90ft., it is time that something was done to mark more nerfectly 

 all obstructions to navigation. 



SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN Y. C.-A special meeting was 

 held on May 13, at which certain changes were made in the de- 

 scriptions of the new courses adopted at the last meeting, in order 

 to conform, with the new numbering of the harbor buoys which 

 takes place this week. Tbe commitiee appointed to consider the 

 question of a station ana club house on ihe water made a very 

 complete report, In which they recommended a site on Oyster 

 Bay, the birthplace of the club, as the most desirable in the vicin- 

 ity of New Y^ork. The report was approved, and the committee 

 instructed to look further into the details of the proposed scheme 

 in order that a definite and complete plan may be submitted to 

 the club. Five new members have been elected by the trustees 

 since the last meeting. 



ATLANTIC. Y^ C. SPECIAL RACES.-The Atlantic Y. C. has 

 arranged three special races tor June 23; one for the 46ft. class, 

 for a handsome cup presented by Vice-C im. David Banks; one for 

 the 3Df t. class, for the Kenyon Cup. presented by Mr. W. W. Ken- 

 yon; and one for tbe new 25ft. centerboard class, presented by 

 another member of tbe Atlantic Y. C. Three yachts must start 

 in a class to make a race. 



GLORIANA,— On May S the new Morgan 46, Gloriana, was 

 launched at Herreshoff's works. Bristol, R. 1. She is painted 

 white, with the green bottom paint carried up to the copper line. 

 Her deck is canvased, a novelty in a crack yacht. Below she is 

 fully fitted up in butternut, with cruising accommodations. Mr. 

 Morgan will sail her in racing, and she will be in the early races 

 at New Y^ork. 



YACHT AND CANOE HARDWARE.— The new catalogue of 

 L. W, Ferdinand & Co., of Boston, is the most complete work ot 

 the kind we have yet seen, containing everything in iron or brass 

 used about a yacht or canoe. Much that is usually considered 

 special work, to be made for each individual boat, is rt'gularlv 

 carried in stock. The firm has also a large line of boats and 

 canoes, being agents for some of the leading builders. 



VIATOR, schr, Mr. W. G. Brokaw, after having a Johnny Dris- 

 coU keel put in her last year at Poillon's yard to replace the 

 original flimsy construction, will be further improved tnis season 

 by the addition of a Louis Seize cabin at the hands of a firm of 

 NewY^ork decorators. The interior will be finished in polished 

 enamel, in ivory and gold. The walls are to be paneled in hand 

 painted gobelin tapestries and mirrors. 

 MASS \OHUSETTS Y. C.-The Massachusetts Y. C. has olneed 



