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FOREST AND STREAM. 



PIAECH 16, 1892. 



"ISALO" SHARPIE CANOE. Designed by G. U, Laws fob R. W. McKenzie, 1893. 



Comanche, steam yacht, H. M. Hanna, arrived at Nassau from Jack- 

 sonville on March 1, and Sagamore arrived on Feb. 28 and sailed on 

 March 6 for Havana. 



Mr. Royal Phelps CarroH's challenge for the Royal Victoria Y. C. 

 cup, which was sent by Mr. Carroll personally with the resolution of 

 the New York Y. C, was received by the club on March 2. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

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

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

 the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are requested to 

 forward to Forest and Stream their addi-esses, with logs of cruises, 

 maps, and information concerning their local waters drawings or 

 descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating to the sport. 



FIXTURES. 



JDKB. 



3. Red Dragon, Delaware River. 17. New York Ann., Bensonhurst. 

 10. Brooklyn Annual, Bay Ridge. 24. Marine and Field Club, Bath 

 13. Atlantic, An., New York Bay. Beach. 



JULY. 



I- 15. At. Div. Meet, Captain's Island. 15-30. W. C. A. Meet, Ballast Island. 

 29. Red Dragon, Delaware River. 



AUGUST. 



II- 26. A. C. A. Meet, St. Lawrence River. 



SEPTEMBER. 



16, Red Dragon, Delaware River. 4. Holyoke, Fall, Holyoke, Mass 



British "Sharpie" .Canoes. 



The accompanying illustration, which we reproduce from the Model 

 Yachtsman and Canoeist, shows a very curious type of canoe and 

 canoe-yawl which has come into use in England within the past three 

 years, and which is obviously of American origin so far as the govern- 

 ing principle of the design is concerned. This canoe and others of her 

 type, though differing in details, are very similar to the Red Jacket 

 which Mr. Clapham took to the :1886 meet at Grindstone Island and 

 used in connection with his weather grip. The Red Jacket was wider, 

 about 5ft. beam to 16ft. length, and she had only about half as much 

 dead rise, but with her nearly vertical sides, each of a single planlc 

 and her rounded bottom she was essentially sifliilar. In the following 

 year Mr, Paul Butler had several craft of hke model but of canoe 

 dimensions at Bow- Arrow Point, and the "Vesper men brought others 

 to Lake George in 1888, but though they made very cheap and good 

 canoes, they showed no phenomenal speed, and have disappeared of 

 late years. Some of the British sharpie canoes, oif. the contrary, have 

 shown great speed compared with other types of small craft, and the 

 type is now an established one. The present boat, Isalo, is one of two 

 built last year by H. Finn, of Isleworth-on-Thames, her dimensions 

 being 16x29J^X10. The weight of hull is 801bs., centerplate 251bs., 

 rudder 71bs. She has a sliding seat which when closed does not extend 

 beyond the beam of the canoe. 



A Model Tracer. 



sized cross sections, I spaced them lin. apart, making the canoe only 

 16in. long. The water lines obtained in this way were without lumps, 

 and though of most extraordinary shape were "fair." W. E. P. 



Canoe- Yawls and Canoe- Yachts. 



Mb. W. Baden-Powell has begun in the Meld what promises to be a 

 very interesting series of articles on the canoe-vawl proper, as distin- 

 guished from the canoe-yacht with fixed keel and ballast. The first arti- 

 cle gives the lines of the canoe-yawl .Teunie, built by Tui-k and lately 

 purchased by Mr. Coddington, of Philadelphia. She is a sturdy, pow- 

 erful craft of 18ft. over all and 4ft. 6in. in l.w.l., with llin. draft of 

 hull and 2Et. lOin. with her plate down, the plate weighing l^cwt. She 

 has one objectionable feature, an excessively ugly "ram" stem, giving 

 the impression that at one time or another she has been in collision 

 with a stone wall. Apropos of the term canoe-yawl, Mr. Baden-Powell 

 makes the following pertinent remarks: "The term yawl has nothing 

 to do with rig; it is an indefinitely old sea term for a sea-coast model 

 of boat which was of long form and light construction, used for both 

 saiUng and rowing, without fixed baUast; such boats to this day are 

 the Yarmouth yawls, the Norway yawls and the coble. A work on 

 naval architecture of 1793 describes the 'yawls' carried then on men- 

 of-war, 'for saihng and rowing,' as practically of a form we should 

 now call whaleboats, i. e., sharp at each end; and further, the same 

 authority says of the Norway yawl: 'Of all such boats this yawl seems 

 best calculated for a high sea; it will venture out to great sea dis- 

 tances when a stout ship can hardly carrj' any sail.' 



"In modern times, whatever 'yawl' may strictly mean, it has come 

 unintentionally into a sort of international marriaee with the word 

 'canoe' (the above-mentioned old book gives the French equivalent of 

 yawl as 'canot;' so the term 'canoe-yawl' may be taken as a fairly good 

 blend). The Vildngs' swift sea-going craft were yawls and were sharp 

 at each end and of a distinctly canoe type." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I recently had occasion to make several designs for canoes of un- 

 usual dimensions, to meet conditions not often, if ever, found in pre- 

 vious practice. Finding it necessary to make a large number of 

 designs in a short time, I soon discovered that to lay down in the 

 ordinary way was out of the question, I therefore adopted the follow- 

 ing combined system, which, so far as I can learn, is new, and which 

 may be of interest to your readers. Familiarity with tools, and the 

 ability to work quickly in wood, turned my attention at once to the 

 iise of full models, which, when completed, would enable me to make 

 actual tests under various conditions in the water. Knoiving the im- 

 possibility of judging by the eye, a perfect fairness in lines upon a 

 model, some means of correcting these inaccuracies became neces- 

 sary; and, having used the pantograph extensively, it naturally sug- 

 gested itself as a means for taking any desired fine from the model 

 and tracing it on paper. 



The instrument was modified in various ways, and finally became, in 

 its simplest form, and for the most hurried work, a simple tracer with 

 a handle 30in. long. At right angles to this was a tracing point distant 

 from the axis 2in. In the axis the point of an artist's screw pencil 

 was placed and on the other side, an inch and a half away, was a pro- 

 jection upon which the outer end of the head rested, putting a round- 

 headed tack in this projection, formed a bearing surface. Placing the 

 model on the paper and bringing the tracing point (which was only a 

 small round-headed nail), against the side of the model, it was pos- 

 sible, by taking hold of ttie handle and drawing it along parallel to the 

 keel, to trace any line directly on paper. This was the simplest form 

 of tracing apparatus which 1 used, and though it is capable of intro- 

 ducing errors when not properly and carefully used, it will put upon 

 paper a line which does not vary from accuracy more than one-fiftieth 

 of an inch. "With care even this variation may be made smaller. 



The practical working of this was simple and satisfactory ; after 

 making a templet midship section and working the model to this, the 

 lines were gradually worked out fore and aft, and when apparently 

 fair to the eye, the tracer was used; generally revealing lumps which 

 had escaped the eye. The model was left \Wth a wood top or block, 

 by which it could be placed on the drawing board, and by blocking it 

 up, or by inclining it at an angle, all the waterhnes and diagonals 

 could be obtained. For taking off cross sections, the simple tracing 

 stick will not answer, but I found after completing the model in this 

 way that the lines were perfectly fair by laying down. Using fuU- 



A. C. A. Membership. 



The following gentlemen have applied for membership in the A. C. 

 A.: Eastern Division— Alfred E. Chasmar, South Norwalk, Conn. 

 Northern Division— Geo. E. Ii-eland, Kenneth M. Ireland, Kingston, 

 Can. 



CANOE NEWS NOTES. 



The Mahn-a-wauk C. C. of Milwaukee, held its annual meeting on 

 March 6, the following officers being elected. Com., Geo. P. Mathes; 

 Vice-Com., "V?. A. Quaw; Sec.-Treas., A. P. Chapman; Directors— F. "W. 

 Dickens, Geo. R, Nash, E. H. Holmes and R. MerriU. Com. Mathes 

 has appointed a regatta committee consisting of A. W. Friese, C. J. 

 Allen and Guy F. Gregg. FoUowmg the meet of the "W". 0. A. at Osh- 

 kosh last year, there is a strong interest in sailiag among the club 

 members, new boats are being built and rigs fitted, and the club is 

 working to make a record at the coming Ballast Island meet. 



Emil C. Knappe, of the Springfield C. C, and members of the regatta 

 committee of the Springfield Boat Club held- a conference on March 5, 

 at which Mr. Knappe made a proposition that the club be allowed to 

 hold a big canoe regatta in connection with the New England Amateur 

 Rowing Association's event. The project was favorably considered 

 by the boat club, and if the matter is arranged satisfactorily the canoe 

 races wiU be held on the morning of July 4, the rowing regatta taking 

 place in the afternoon. 



The Holyoke C. C. held its annual meeting on March 7, the following 

 officers being elected: Capt., J. "W. Dickinson; 1st Lieut., F. H. Mef- 

 caLE; 2d Lieut., E. T. Newton; Purser, J.L. "Wycoff'. Trustees— J. H. 

 Cook, A. H. Hitchcock and "SV. D. Judd. The club has now a member- 

 ship of 50, with 40 canoes. At the meeting a subscription was started 

 for the famihes of those of the life saving crew who were lost at 

 Cuttyhunk. The club will hold a regatta on Sept. 4. 



New York. — Editor Forest and Stream: If C. J. L., Detroit, -n-ishes 

 to take one of the finest canoe trips in this country, let him put his 

 canoe on the M. C. R. R. train to Grayling, and launch in the Au Sable 

 River. He can spend three w^eeks floating down stream to the mouth, 

 or go to the forks and up the south branch to Roscommon. He will 

 get fishing, shooting and the scenery he so much desires. He asks the 

 question in Forest and Stream of Feb. 2. — H. N. Botspobd. 



Students of ethnogi-aphy will be interested to hear that Dr. N. B. 

 Emerson, of Honolulu, is preparing a full account of the Polynesian 

 canoe. In a communication printed in the new number of the journal 

 of the Polynesian Society he points out that the various migrations of 

 the ancient Polynesians and their progenitors, from whatever sou 



deiived, must have been accomplished in canoes or other craft, i 



that the waa, the pahi, etc., of to-day, however modified they may be 

 under the operation of modern arts and appliances, are the lineal 

 descendants of the seagoing craft in which the early ancestors of the 

 Polynesians made their voyages generations ago. His holds, therefore, 

 that a comparative study of the canoes cannot fail to shed light on the 

 problems of Polynesian migrations and relationships, — JSFa ture. 



Zettler Rifle Club. 



The weekly practice shoot of the Zettler Rifle Club was held at 

 their headquarters on Tuesday evening, March 7. The result of the 

 evening's practice shows to a remarkable degree what can be done 

 with the little .22cal, when it is properly handled. The rule of the 

 Zettler club, in their weekl3^ shoots, obliges the members to shoot 

 their official scores on the practice days without any previous practice 

 shots. The offleial scores, as taken from the club's bulletin, for this 

 week shows that M. Dorrler made in his four entries, all of which 

 were shot consecutively without previous practice, 10 shots to each 

 score, possible 250: First, 247; second. 249; thu-d, 246; fourth, 245. 

 Henry Holges. first, 247; second, 245; ttiird, 847; foui-th, 246. M. B. 

 Engel, first, 246; second, 247; third, 245; fourth, 246. The single best 

 score of the other members competine are as foUows: C. G. Zettler 

 246, B. "Walther 245, F. Schmitt 245, Bt Zettler 2J3, H. Strate 243, F. C. 

 Ross .342, H. Hintz 213, G. Krauss 231. J. Michelbacher 223. Plaisted. 



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208—1929 



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307—1896 



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179 



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Societa Tiratori Italian!. 



The banquet of the Itahan Shooting Society C'Societa Tiratori 

 Italiani") was held on the evening of the 11th at their headquarters at 

 Riccadonna's, No. 43 Union Square. To the Italio-American this is 

 next to his church in his affections, for it was here that the Italian 

 colony, years ago, received and ejitertained that grand old soldier and 

 patriot Garibaldi, and it is hardly a twelve-month since these same 

 premises resounded with the bravos of an enthusiastic assemblage of 

 Italian citizens in entertaining the worthy son of this illustrious sfre. 

 The societj' was organized in 1893, and its membership comprises 

 many of the leaders and more promhient citizens of New York's 

 Italian colony. Up to the time of the organization of this society the 

 bulk of New York's shooting fraternity had been drawn from the 

 ranks of the German- American and native population, with here and 

 there a Franco-American and a small contingent from the Swiss, Tjto- 

 lese and Celts. The Italians as a class had not been represented 

 among our army of sportsmen as adepts in the use of the rifle or shot- 

 gun. 



To be sure they have had for years their battalian of Garibaldi 

 Guards and other organizations of a semi-military nature with their 

 annual parades in honor of Garibaldi; but as marksmen, to use that 

 trite expression, they have never "been in it" with the other element* 

 of our mixed population. 



The banquet was for a twofold purpose, first, to receive from the 

 ladies of the society a most beautiful stand of colors, Italian and 

 American, the result of many months' hard labor on the part of the 

 matrons and daughters of the society, and also to confer upon those 

 members who had made the highest scores in the last season's prac- 

 tice shoot the class medals in their respective classes. The result of 

 the season's practice with the rifle for the most points made on the 

 nine practice days, will be found appended below: 



tunti riportati nellb leziom di tiro a segno. 

 Prima Categoria. 



Gerbolini* 206 210 207 217 237 218 



Abaro 216 210 232 210 205 216 



Navoni 210 200 206 213 216 217 



Reali 214 209 201 215 223 209 



Marzorati 208 198 205 218 230 216 



Bencetti 198 170 163 187 198 181 



Franchi 146 186 209 189 IRH 308 



ComoUi 164 2li8 185 217 224 317 



Seconda Categoria. 



Selvaggi* 149 200 207 211 230 210 



Rizzo 167 194 189 204 218 214 



Zigliani 158 169 191 126 170 170 



Tagliucca 191 153 201 161 135 148 



Guida 163 211 205 193 199 197 



Schierano 310 190 194 198 196 206 



TaH 155 119 177 146 170 186 



* Medal winner. 



Upon Miss L. Conteneini, the beautifiil daughter of Gen. ConteneiDi, 

 was conferred the honor of presenting the colors. 



After the ceremonies accompanying the presentation of the colors 

 were through, President A. Marzorati, in a neat and happy manner in- 

 vited his guests and members of the society to partake of the good 

 things that were at this point being brought forward. 



The seat of honor was occupied by Miss Conteneini, to her right 

 Gen. Conteneini, on her left Mr. A. Marzorati, the president of the 

 society. The next in order came the Chev. Cesare Poma, the Itahan 

 Vice-Consul; Dr. Lugi Roersi, the chief editor of the Froyreso Italio- 

 Americana, a daily paper published in New York; Chas. Barsotti, the 

 proprietor of the same journal ; Petei- Anito, the business manager of 

 the paper Cliristoforo Columbn, also published in New York; Louis 

 "V. Fugazy, the banker; E. M, Franchi and Mrs. Franchi, Mr. B. Zucca, 

 Mr, Bonanus, Mr. Arata, Mr. Cocci, Mr L. Reali, Mrs. Sapre, 3Iis3 Sam- 

 bruna, Miss Sauti, Mrs. Pasqualo" Seloagg, Mrs. Gibella EmOia. Mr, 

 Frank "\'olenti, Mr. Philip Rossi, Mr. Abarno, Mrs. C. Comotti, Mr. A. 

 Narvoni. There were in all one himdred guests and members of the 

 society. 



As the last course was remoyed from the tables the most interesting 

 part of the evening's pleasures was at hand. The president called 

 the assemblage to order and in a neat speech gave a history of the 

 work done by the members in their practice with the rifles the past 

 year. Mr. F. Gerbolini was then called up and decorated with the first 

 class medal, having made the most points (1,957;) in his class. Mr. B, 

 Selvaggi in turn was decorated with the second class medal, having 

 made the most points (1.865) in his cla,ss. Then the presir'ent called 

 up Miss Augusta Sambruna, J\Irs. Angiolina Seyere and Mrs. Mary 

 Franchi, and decorated each of them with a medal for having been 

 the most successful in collecting money for the purchase of the colors 

 presented to the society during the evening. 



At this point Dr. Lugi Rovergi was called upon for a speech to 

 which he responded in a masterly manner, giving his hearers a suc- 

 cinct history of the Italians in America from Columbus to the present 

 day, calling upon his fellow countrj'men to exert themselves in order 

 to secure political and social advancement in this land of liberty. Dr. 

 Rovergi was followed by Chas. Barsotti, Gen. Conteneini and several 

 other gentlemen who were each in their turns given generous ap- 

 Ijlause. 



As the last speaker brought his remarks to a close, the room was 

 cleared of tables and chairs, and the merry dancers took possession of 

 the banquet hall. Plaisteo. 



Milton Rod and Gun Club. 



"Wilmington. Del., March 8.— Editor Forest and Stream: The fol- 

 lowing gentlemen have been elected officers of the Wilmington Rod 

 and Gun Club: President. Chas. Fehrenbach; Vice-President, Lewis 

 Fox; Secretary, C. C. Km'tz; Financial Secretary, "W. H. Hartlove; 

 Treasurer, John R. Marr; Captain, R. H. Stout; Quartermaster, James 

 Deighton. The club will give its third grand tournament on April .35-37, 



