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wake the distant echoes. A second rpquest, of "Louder, for the 

 ladies,"' always follows, awaking a response which shakes the 

 whole Point. In the short interv^als during the day in vrhich quiet 

 reigns in this menagerie, a steam launch whicli haunts the bay, 

 and is possessed of a most villainous whis'le, makes itself as much 

 of a common nuisance as possilile by a long-drawn series of dis- 

 cordant shrieks. 

 This year the A. 0. A. has added to its personal property and 

 . available assets the copyright of a "yell" as follows: 

 Ricoty ax. Co ax, Co as, 

 Ricoty ax, Co ax, Co ax, 

 Hi Ro, Hi Ro, 

 Hi Ro. Ho Ro. 

 Whoop Her Up, 

 Whoop Her Up, 

 (Two syllables of club name of "ypRer" repeated.) 

 A. C. A.! A. C. A.! 

 Growl. 



The camp orchestra shows out in gond numbers, over a dozen, 

 and the usual varieties this year, banjoes, guifars, mandolins, a 

 vloliucello, but no bugle. The youthful contingent this year in- 

 cludes three small boys, the bright little nephew of Com. Lawson, 

 the nephew of Vice-Com. Winn 6, and a youngster from Lowell. 



One pleasing feature of camp decoration is missing this year, 

 the club totems and various designs in nebbles and scollop shells, 

 which added so much to the camp of 1890, but the conditions here 

 are unfavorable, apart from the lack of shells. But few attempts 

 at the usual burlesques of street name«, etc., are seen. 



Only one of the regatta committee, Mr. L. B. Palmer, is pre'ent, 

 but the place of Dr. trage is filled by Mr. Palmer, of Lowell, while 

 Mr. R. J. Wilkin takes the place of Mr. W. G. MacKendrick, Mr. 

 McMillan, of tlie Toronto O O. is clerk of the course. The pro- 

 gramme of the races is as follows: 



REGUT.AR EVEKXS. 



No. 1. Paddling and Sailing Combined.— Oue-lialf mile alter- 

 nately, 3 milp.s. 

 No. 3, Paddling. — Half mile straightaway. 



No. 3. Sailing.— Four and a half miles, same rig and ballast as 

 in Race No. 1. (These three races to constitute the record races.) 



No. 4 Trophy Paddling.— One mile straightaway. Exempt from 

 one-man- me-canoe rule. 



No. 6. Unlimited Sailing Race.— No limit to rig or ballast. Time 

 limit, two hoiiTS and a half: 6 miles. Starters in the trophy race 

 to be selected from this race. See Rule 5. 



No. 6. Trophy Sailing.— No limit to rig or balla«t. Time limit, 

 three and. a half hours: 9 miles. Starters to be selected as by 

 Rule a. 



No. 7. Novice Race.— No limit to rig or ballast; distance, 3 miles; 

 open only to men who have not sailed a canoe prior to Sept. 1, 

 1890. 



No. 8. Sailing, "The Pecowslc Cup."— Four and a half miles; no 

 limit t o rig or ballast. Winner of trophy barred. 



No. 9. Sailing, Club Race.— To be sailed on an L course, one leg 

 . a mile and the othtr leg half a mile, to sail twice over the course; 

 distance, Smiles. First three members of any one club to count; 

 no club can be represented unless It enters at least three men; to 

 be called early in the meet. 



No. 10. Cruising Race.— Open only to "General Purpose Canoes;" 

 distance, 6 miles.. Details to be posted. To be held early in the 

 , meet. 



'i OTHKB EVENTS. 



No. 11. Paddling War Canoe Race.— For crews of not less than 

 ten; half raile straightaway. 



No. 12. Paddling Tandem.— Half mile straightaway. 



No. 13, Paddling Club Fours.— Half mile stra'ghtaway. 



No. 14. Sailing Upset and Maneuvering.— Open only to "General 

 ' Purpose Canoes." No special appliances to sails, no limit to bal- 

 last; at signal, throw over and recover paddle; second signal, 

 canoe to be tipped over until top of foremast touches the water. 

 Canoes to be righted and cross finish line under sail. 



No. 15. Paddling Upset.— L^sual conditions. 



No. 16. Hurry Scurry. 



NTo. 17. Gymnastics. 



The buoys for the courses are oil barrels covered with white 

 and red cloth in strips. As they float high they make excellent 

 marks. 



The usual arrangements for entries, starting, etc., are in force, 

 the two regulations for starting and finisMng all races, which 

 were published last week in the Fouest and Stream, being 

 adopted by the committee. Mr. Buddingion's launch serves as a 

 judge's boat, the races being timed from it. 



The first races were called on Saturday, events 7,10 and 15, 

 novice sailing, general purpose sailing and upset paddling. The 

 day was rather cloudy with a little rsin, the wind being very light 

 until late in the afternoon. In the evening an impromptu dance 

 was given in the mess shed, the music being furnished by the 

 Yonkers men and other canoemen. The evening was passed very 

 pleasantly, the party breaking.up about 10:30. . 



During the night a fatal capsize took place at the mouth of the 

 bay, the canoeists fortunately playing only the part of rescuers. 

 Three men, Joe, an Indian who has a tent at Port Kent and sells 

 small canoes, etc., with two white men. Wells and Murpny, 

 started to sail to Willsborongh Point in a small boat owned by 

 the Indian, there being a supply of liquor on board. When within 

 amile of the camp at some time in the evening the boat was cap- 

 sized through the ignorance or carele8.=nessnes8 of the men. They 

 clung to it, shouting for help, one. Murphy, finally sinking. The 

 other two were heard by the Toronto men seme time after mid- 

 night, and they launched and started out. When the alarm 

 reached the main camp a party woo were lingering about a late 

 camp-fire at once manned the Mohican war canoe, some in their 

 excitement jumping in and trying to paddle while the canoe was 

 still on the staging. They finally reached the capsized boat and 

 rescued the two men, both of whom were badly exhausted when 

 taken from the water. From the accounts it would appear that 

 they had been in the water from 7 P. M. until after midnight, but 

 they were neither in a condition, from the fright or liquor, to 

 tell a straight story. The body of the third man was not found, 



Sunday morning dawned as clear and sunny as could be, but by 

 7:30 the lake was black with a rain squall, which however soon 

 cleared away, leaving a perfect day, though with little wind, fol- 

 lowed by a beautiful moonlight night with a very strong north- 

 erly breeze. Early in the morning Vice-Com. Cartright and a 

 party of Puritan men reached camp in the 20ft. club war canoe 

 Goo-goo-zenia, carrying alltlieir tents and luggage. They pitched 

 on the east end of the main line of tents. Services were held in 

 the pavilion hythe Rev. Dr. Neid6, assisted by Dr. Cragge, of 

 Burliagton, a new member; and in the evening a service of song 

 was held around a camp-flre at Squaw Point. During th.e day a 

 number of men came inio camp. 



The racing fleet this year shows comparatively few new craft. 

 Mr. Butler is sailing the Bee, his latest canoe, built last winter. 

 Ford Jones has Canuck unchanged from last year. Knappe has 

 the Rufgles Truant, used by Mr. Elliott last year. Schieffelein 

 still sails the Lieda. The two Swenys. from Toronto, sail their 

 old canoes Christmas and Gwen. Murphy has a new canoe by a 

 Itochester builder of the same construction as the Ruggles boats, 



but much fuller model ar^d inferior flnish. CartrigM is sailing 

 the Imp, used by Forbush last vear; has no canoe present. Whit- 

 lock has Hornet and the new "City of Paris." Quick and Oxholm 

 are using their old boats, Uno and Beta. Among the new Ruggles 

 boats are the handsome Dawn and Tornado, owned by Gessler 

 and Moore, of the Knickerbocker C. O, Douglas is sailing the 

 new Tempest, designed and built by himself, and Palmer has the 

 Ruggles Teaser of last year, re-named Cricket. 



The paddling men are out this year in full force for tlie trophy, 

 wbich Mr. Harry MacKendrick will not defend, being absent. 

 Canada sends a strong paddling contingent, Johnson, the well- 

 known paddler, who has not raced at a meet since 1888; Tiliey, 

 who made such a good showing last vear; Muntz, a new man, of 

 the Argonant Boat Club, of Toronto; while Carnegie, of Coboconk, 

 has a very handsome new boat to lielp him to first place again. A 

 large entry is promised for the paddling races, and the States will 

 also be well represented. The paddling racers are very handsome 

 craft, the old open canoe having given way entirely to finer 

 models. Messrs. Tilley and Carnegie have two speciailv fine 

 boats, designed oy Mr. Tilley and buiU by Rice, of Toronto. The 

 Canadians will use in the paddling races these specially-built 

 racers, while Palmer, Knappe, and probably all the men from the 

 States, will paddle their Ruggles sailing canoes, Cricket, Dawn, 

 and the rest. 



Not enough has been seen of the racers under vyay to show any- 

 thing detinite as to rig, but it may be said that there is nothing 

 specially novel in the shape or rig of the sails this year, while the 

 hoisting rig promises to greatly outnumber the standing. 



The entry list is smaller than last year, including 40 names, as 

 follows; 



The first race called on Saturdav was event No. 7. the novice. 3 

 miles on the Inner triangle, the wind being very light. The win- 

 ner was Hornet, sailed by Mr. Smith, of the Shuh-Shuh-Gah C.C., 

 who has never sailed a canoe prior to coming to camp. The sec- 

 ond race was for the general purpose canoes, sailed on thp outer 

 triangle, 6 miles, :wind light, won by Gwen, Mr. Roy Sweny. 

 The third race, the paddling upse^, was held over a very short 

 course off headquarters dock with 9 starters. Dawn, D. D. Gessler, 

 winning. The men were all very slow in regaining their canoes. 



The first rac« on Monday was thp paddling record, }i mile, in- 

 side cotirse, 19 starters, won by L'Hirondelle, with Iguana sec- 

 ond and Cricket third. The next race, event 8, Pecowslc cup, 

 was started at noon over the outer triangle, 5 miles. Canuck won 

 easily, with Bee second, but Bee fouled the flrst mark. In the 

 afternoon event 5, the unlimited, was started in a light wind, like 

 the preceding race. Bee won by a good margin, with Beta sec- 

 ond, Canuck third, Uno fourth and Lieda fifth. The complete 

 details of all the races will appear next week. 



While watching the Pecowsic Cup race, on Monday, the camp 

 was thrown into a s'ate of wild dismay and consternation by the 

 appearance of a strange fmd horrible monster far up the Bay. As 

 he came down, his eyes flashing fire, his hu^re j%ws clashing to- 

 gether, and his many scaly coils rising above the water, the 

 bravest quaked with fear, and the timid sought the shelter of the 

 woods. As the monster pursued his remorseless way, it became 

 evident that his destination was Squaw Point, in search of the 

 beautiful maidens which all tradition tells us is the chosen food 

 of dragons and sea serpents. 



A few bold spirits courageously manned the battery on the 

 bluff, and a number of shots were fired, but with no apparent ef- 

 fect. As the monster turned to round the point, a forlorn hope, 

 Messrs. Rogers and Kirkpatrick put out from shcre in the old 

 Hiawatha and attacked him with lances and harpoon.^, the gore 

 flowing freely after each determined thrust. The combat was 

 fierce and desperate on each side, and it was not until just abeam 

 of Squaw Point that the serpent, badly wounded but not killed, 

 was taken in tow and safely beached at the pavilion dock. His 

 length is over lOQft.. and he is of the true summer-hotel variety , 

 probably the only one ever captured alive. It is supposed that he 

 has been attracted to Lake Chnmplain by the reports which have 

 reached him of the great number of pretty girls in camp this 

 year. A very funny incident occurred aa his snatseship ap- 

 proached the camp, a small brown dog in the bow of a canoe 

 espied him and at once set up a terrible barking. 



CANOE-YAWLS AND CANOE-YACHTS. 



THE necessity for a class of sailing craft of small size, tut of 

 greater power and stabOitv for sea-going than a canoe, and 

 yet retaining many of the good points of a canoe, tor cruising 

 and handling on water, and for transportation and housing on 

 shore, has for some time past been acknowledged and carried out 

 by canoeists, and has prompted the class known as canoe-yawls. 

 At tlie same time, practicallv the same wants have been asserting 

 their existence, at the small end of yachting, and have generated 

 what is known as the half-rate class, in England. Americans, 

 always awake to improvements, have also caught on to the canoe- 

 yawl type as a useful and probably "coming" class. In both 

 countries, up till quite lately, the class has not been clearly de- 

 fined as to its guiding or eoverning principles, or definition. The 

 result, as might have been expected, is, that in one direction the 

 class has imbibed many of the features of small yachts, and in 

 the other, the equnlly objectionable tendency to develop skim- 

 ming dish form for the =oie purposes of speed. 



The American paper Fobest and Stream very neatly christens 

 the yacht natured craft as "canoe-yachts," defining them thus— 

 "keel craft with a large percentage of outside balJa9i;"and the 

 canoe-yawl as "centerboard craft of moderate draft, and with 

 inside ballast all movable, such boats, as by their draft, model, 

 and ballasling, may be beached and housed;" and, further,it con- 

 siders that the rating rule "seems peculiarly adapted for the class 

 at large." 



That the Y. R. A. rating rule does bring the two types, canoe 

 yawl^ and canoe yachts, very fairly together, in ordinary circum- 

 stances, for racing, by its proportionate limitation of sail area to 

 length, has been amply proved on several occasions this season, 

 where boats of equal rating, but of different type, have met in 

 sailing competition. But, though the sailing power or speed abil- 

 ity may thereby be correctly gauged, and the functions of the rule 

 as a racing gauge fully maintained, there are other features de- 

 manded for special service or utility which no pure racing rule 

 will fully grasp and maintain. 



The truth of this is most clearly and unmistakably exemplified 

 in the feature of depth, i.e., fixed draft versus alterable draft. 

 The rating rule, pure and simple, allows any "draft," hence the 

 ^-rater yacht of the latest pattern has a permanent draft of at 

 least 3ft., in the form of a half ton lead "fin" (in some extreme 

 craft the draft is even as much as 4ft. 6in.), whereas the canoe- 

 yawl type has a draft of from 6in. to about 1ft. 6in., supplemented 

 with a drop-plate keel, whereby the same area nearly of effective 

 lateral resistance may be obtained. But question, assuming the 

 lengths to be equal, do* the sail area of l&7sq. ft. need a half ton 

 l"a,d fln of such depth to carry such sail, except in a half gale; and 

 will n"t the shallower and more useful type of craft, reefed for 

 the breeze, sail equally well? 



The answer from the canoe side of the question is decidedly in 

 favor of the canoe-yawl type versus the yacht type; always, be it 

 remembered, rating being equal. 



Experience may now be called in, and the past week has fur- 

 nished that which we could only speculate upon previously; a 

 canoe-yawl has been at work in the Solent with the ><)-raters and 

 has beaten them, and has also saved her time on the 1-raters. We 

 will give the plain facts as reported, and not claim too much for 

 her or her class even. She herself is of a model we do not believe 

 in for aughi' except reaching speed, and we shall he surprised, 

 possibly agreeably so, if she does not get a bad beating in the flrst 

 meeting with J^-rating yachts, in which there is a beat and run in 

 a sea and strong wind; it should be so— but will it be? 



The Spruce, canoe-yawl, raced at Hamble. Julv 17, in thel- 

 rater class, came in Im. Is. astern of Samoena (l-rater), thus 

 saved her time for first prize and beat all the }^-rater yachts. On 

 the 21st she saiipd in the Castle Club. Southampton, in the 1-rater 

 class against 13 starters; she came in third boat, saving her time 

 for first prize off Samoena (Urater) and Pup (0.9-rater), and beat- 

 ing the next boat (a J^-rater) by 5m. 48=., etc. She sailed again 

 last Saturday against the J^-raters and took flrst prize at South- 

 hampton. 



The general report of her performance, and which we also saw 

 at a distance, being in another race, was that in the beat to wind- 

 ward the }^-raters, especially Bairn, beat her easily, but on the 

 reach she left them easily, and in running they were about equal. 

 —London Meld. 



RED DRAGON C. C— Philadelphia, Aug. 11.— At a meeting of 

 the Red Dragon Canoe and Boating Association, held Friday 

 evening, Aug. 7, the follewing resolution was adopted; Resolved", 

 That the name of this club be changed to the Red Dragon C. C. 

 of Philadelphia. 



A. iS. A. MBMBERSIP.— Atlantic Division: C. Frank Kircker, 

 Paterson, N. J. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



R. M., Mt. Sterling. Wis.— I intend to purchase a 13-gauge ham- 

 mei-less gun. about SJ^lbs. weight, for duck, goose and grouse 

 .shooting. Would you advise 30 or .S2in. barrels? Does the extra 

 2in. perceptibly increase the range? Will a heavier load than 

 can be used in a S^in. shell improve the shooting of a gun of 

 weight mentioned at Img range? Ans. A 32in. barrel will be 

 more satisfactory for long range in such a heavy arm. Use the 

 2%in. shell, and for harder hitting use a sharper grade of powder. 



F. A. S., Seneca Falls.— What is the difference between pickerel 

 and mascalonge? Ans. The name pickerel is often given to the 

 pike. The true pickerels are of several kinds and all of them 

 small, the largest not exceeding 8lbs. in weight. All of them have 

 the cheeks and erill-covers completely covered with scales. The 

 mascalonge grows to a very large size— 50 or 601bs. It has no sca'ea 

 on the lower half of the cheeks and eill-covers. See Forest and 

 Stream of April 2 and 9, and May 14, 1891, for detailed accounts of 

 all these fishes. 



M. C. — I control a natural trout stream whose waters have been 

 largely depleted of trout by persi.stent fishing. The stream is a 

 grand one for breedine and growing trout. It is li4 miles long 

 and is fed by springs at intervals throughout its entire length and 

 discharges not less than half a million gallons of water per day. 

 There is in the stream an abundance of food for trout. I in'end 

 to restock the stream and wish to ascertain: 1. What growth will 

 trout make in their flrst, second and third years? 2. From the 

 above description of the brook, what number of trout of good size 

 (after the brook has become well stocked) should you think could 

 he taken from the brook each year? In other words, what is the 

 producing powers of such a brook when well stocked? Ans. 1. 

 Yearlings will average about 2oz.; two-year-olds 4oz., three-year- 

 olds 8oz. according to Mr. Ainsworth's experience. Sometimes, 

 however, two-year-olds will weigh lib., or stunted individuals 

 only ^07.. No fixed rule can be given; much will depend upon the 

 amount of food furnished and it« quality. 2. It is impossible to 

 tell the producing power of the brook in advance of trial. The 

 best guide known to us is the rep'^rt of the Caledonia station of 

 the New York Fish Commission and that of the Soulhside Sports- 

 men's Club. 



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