June 2, 1894.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



that it will not hold a walirat. If it is very near the spawn- 

 ing season he will find the stomach still more contracted and 

 always absolutely empty, with the exception of about half a 

 teaspoonful of a yellowish, bilious-looking fluid. 



Having noticed the good-natured controversy going on in 

 the sporting papers about salmon not eating in fresh water, 

 I began last fall to examine some of those that were caught 

 at this station (Baird, Cal.), with especial reference to this 

 question, intending at first to try 100 fish. We did, how- 

 ever, examine the stomachs of only 66 and then we stopped, 

 because they were all exactly alike, and I was convinced 

 that if we had tried 100 or 100,000 they would all have been 

 the same. In every one of them the throats were very much 

 contracted, the stomachs very much shrunken and all en- 

 tirely empty with the exception of the yellowish looking 

 fluid just mentioned. As to the throat and stomach, every 

 fish was an exact counterpart of all the rest. 



Here we have another admirable natural adaptation to 

 circumstances. Since the salmon are sent into places where 

 there is no food for them" to eat, nature kindly takes away 

 their ability to eat and also their desire to eat. If it were 

 not for this wonderful adaptation of nature it seems probable 

 that the salmon, retaining their appetites, would become 

 frantic with the ravenings of hunger, and abandoning the 

 mission on which they were sent would, regardless of every- 

 thing else, race back to the ocean to satisfy their hunger on 

 the well-filled stores of food that they undoubtedly well re- 

 member leaving. Then alas for their posterity. There would 

 never be any. 



The most grateful minded man that I ever heard of was 

 one who after he had lost every earthly possession, even his 

 last crust of bread, thanked the Lord that he had not lost 

 his appetite. It seems to me a subject both to ourselves and 

 to the salmon of sincere gratitude that the fish do lose their 

 appetites when they start on their mission through foodless 

 streams to reproduce their species. 



It looks now as if it were pretty well settled that salmon 

 do not feed in fresh water, but when the inquisitors thought 

 they had it all settled about the revolution of the earth by 

 making Galileo retract his statement that the earth moved, 

 the famous astronomer as he was being led away, was heard 

 to murmur under his breath, "It does move," and now that 

 it seems to be all settled so nicely about salmon not feeding 

 in fresh water, I imagine I hear more than one veteran 

 salmon angler say, "They <Zofeed in fresh water." I admit it. 

 I would be the last one to deny it, for not only do I know of 

 enough instances of salmon being caught in fresh water 

 with food in their stomachs, to make it folly to deny it, but 

 I have seen the food in their stomachs myself. Last July in 

 particular (July, 1893), I examined the stomach of a salmon 

 caught in the McCloud River about six weeks before spawn- 

 ing season, which had in it four salmon eggs, and the newly 

 pulverized remains of several insects and larvee. The salmon 

 eggs came, of course, from, the hook that caught it, but the 

 insects it had doubtless picked up from the water in its 

 usual manner of feeding. I must admit therefore that it is 

 undeniable that food is taken by salmon in fresh water. It 

 will be found on examination, however, in every instance 

 where anything is discovered in the stomach of a salmon 

 caught much above tide water, that the food is in very small 

 quantities and composed of very small objects, such as 

 would easily slip down a very small throat and enter a very 

 small stomach, and satisfy only a very small appetite^-not 

 enough by any means to disprove the fact that the salmon 

 might, if necessary, have lived without it, but enough never- 

 theless to prove the fact that salmon do actually feed in fresh 

 water. 



The truth is that the evidence compels us to admit both of 

 these apparently conflicting facts, namely, that salmon can 

 and do live for months in fresh water without food, and that 

 they can and do feed during some of the time that they are 

 in fresh water These two facts are not necessarily conflict- 

 ing, however, though they may seem so at first. The writer's 

 own theory is that as soon as the salmon, coming from the 

 sea, strike fresh water, their appetite begins to weaken, their 

 throats begin to narrow, and their stomachs begin to shrink. 

 This does not at first, however, entirely prevent them from 

 feeding, but it changes them enough to enable them to over- 

 come the temptation to return to their well-stocked feeding 

 grounds in the salt ocean, and the longer they remain in fresh 

 water the greater the changes become, and the temptation to 

 turn back for food correspondingly less. There is probably 

 no one specified time when an abrupt change comes which 

 deprives them in an instant of their ability and desire to feed, 

 but in the writer's opinion, the transformation comes on 

 gradually, increasing constantly day by day from the time 

 that they leave tide water till at the near approach of the 

 spawning season, their throats and stomachs become entirely 

 incapacitated for receiving food, and the desire and ability to 

 feed leave them entirely, but, notwithstanding their scanty 

 supply at first and their entire abstinence afterward, the 

 great reserve of superfluous flesh and blood which they 

 bring with them in their own bodies from the bountiful 

 ocean, enables them with little or no food in their stomachs 

 to keep their vital organs in vigorous activity until their 

 momentous mission up the fresh-water streams is accomp- 

 lished. 



. Allow me in conclusion to make the precautionary state- 

 ment that where the word salmon is used in this paper, the 

 word is intended to refer to only one variety of salmon, 

 namely, Oncorhynchus chouica, commonly known as the 

 Chinook salmon, Columbia River salmon and Quinnat 

 salmon. 



Greenwood Lake Netters Convicted. 



The question which has so frequently been asked of late 

 years, "Why are the fish caught in Greenwood Lake so 

 small?" was satisfactorily answered in the court room of 

 Justice of the Peace George B. Senior, in Paterson, N. J., on 

 Monday, May 21. The case which was being tried was a suit 

 brought by Fish Warden Charles A, Shriner against Gardner 

 and David Storms, the charge being that the defendants had 

 used gill-nets in Greenwood Lake and had had in their pos- 

 session fish unlawfully caught in gill-nets. The two defend- 

 ants and their father, Thomas S. Storms, have for a number 

 of years run a hotel on Storms's Island, which lies in Green- 

 wood Lake near the State line. The elder Storms was con- 

 victed of netting some years ago on complaint of Warden 

 Shriner, on which occasion he stated in court that he owned 

 real estate worth $40,000 and had no debts. It has always 

 been suspected at the lake that the Stormses were engaged 

 in the unlawful taking of fish, and that suspicion was fre- 

 quently confirmed by the wagonloads of fish the Stormses 

 peddled about Warwick and other places in New York State 

 near the lake. Their method of operation was supposed to 

 be the following: They took the fish in gill-nets in New 

 Jersey and at once rowed over the State line, where the fish 

 were dumped into a wagon and then hawked about. They 

 were assisted in their operations by Leonard McCloud and 

 William Ryerson, who commit their depredations in New 

 Jersey at night and then hurry back to their homes in New 

 York; so that all the efforts of Warden Shiner to arrest them 

 in New Jersey have proved unavailing. Finally the warden 

 secured evidence against the two Storms boys and he at 

 once made a complaint. He had considerable difficulty in 

 obtaining the necessary witnesses, some of whom lived in 

 New York State. 



Jacob Ryerson testified to seeing the two defendants 

 taking up a gill net one morning near the Lakeside Hotel; 

 on account of the distance which separated him from the de- 

 fendants he could not tell what kind of fish they caught but 

 he saw dark spots in the net which he took to be fish. He 

 knew that the Stormses were engaged in peddling fish. Mar- 

 tin Hand saw the two defendants one morning about the same 



time— the first of April— taking in a net. He had seen fish 

 with gill net marks in the possession of the defendants. 

 James Ryerson saw the two defendants have in their posses- 

 sion and sell on several occasions fish which bore the marks 

 of gill nets about their necks. Levi Finnegan met Gardner 

 Storms one morning and Gardner told him that he was 

 afraid he would have to pay a fine as Jacob Ryerson had seen 

 him take up a net. The defense was a general denial. 

 Gardner Storms testified on cross-examination that he had 

 on a number of occasions purchased from Leonard McCloud 

 perch and pickerel with gill net marks on them; he knew 

 that McCloud was a violator of the law and that there were 

 warrants out for his arrest, but the fish he unlawfully took 

 were always welcome at the Storms Hotel, where they were 

 bought and then peddled about or sold to fishermen who 

 were not expert enough with rod and line to take a mess for 

 themselves. J ustice Senior found the defendants guilty and 

 imposed a fine of $25 and the costs on each They paid the 

 costs and gave security for the payment of the fine, reserving 

 the right to appeal. 



Justice is frequently puzzled how to deal with violators of 

 the law from Greenwood Lake. On Feb. 9 last Warden 

 Shriner had a case before Justice Senior against two of the 

 "natives" from Greenwood Lake; they were charged with 

 having taken bass out of season, having caught them a few 

 days before their arrest was effected. Being locked up in the 

 county jail, they requested the warden to postpone action in 

 their case from Monday— the day set for trial — to Fridry. As 

 there was no danger of their running away, the warden 

 granted the request. When Friday arrived the two pleaded 

 guilty; they had asked for the postponement in order to have 

 the privilege of remaining in jail for a week more than would 

 have been the case had they pleaded guilty at once. Neither 

 had any money to pay costs or fine. To send them to jail 

 would do them a favor, and so the only method of punish- 

 ment was to take them by the backs of the necks and kick 

 them out of jail, which was accordingly done. The State 

 paid the costs and the laws of the State had been vindi- 

 cated. 



Muscalonge Planted in the St. Lawrence. 



Clattojj, May 19.— As the morning train pulled into the 

 station the genial face of W. D. Marks, Supt. Green's expert 

 assistant, was seen, and in a few moments more your cor- 

 respondent was taking a look at one of the greatest numbers 

 of muscalonge fry ever seen on the St. Lawrence. There 

 were 175,000 of them and had stood without harm the long 

 journey of 28)4 hours between Chautauqua Lake State 

 Hatchery and their destination. They were brought from 

 the Caledonia hatchery to Clayton to be placed in the St. 

 Lawrence. They were taken in charge by G. M. Skinner, 

 representing the Anglers' Association, who consigned 75,00C 

 of them to A. C. Cornwall and W. H. Thompson, of Alex- 

 andria Bay, for distribution in that vicinity. The remaining 

 100,000 were placed in the hands of competent assistants, who 

 carefully deposited them in numerous desirable localities 

 adjacent to Clayton. It is thought by experts that the 

 stocking of the stream will be a grand success. It is under- 

 stood that this is the first lot of muscalonge fry placed in the 

 waters of the St. Lawrence, for which sincere thanks are 

 tendered to the members of the State Fish Commission and 

 their able superintendent, Monroe A, Green.— Watertoivn 

 Standard. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, with an experience of nearly 

 70 years in manipulate graphit» for lubricants as well as for its many 

 other uses, such as lead pencils, crucibles, stove polish, etc., has been 

 induced by requests from dealers and wheelmen to make and place on 

 the market a first-class preparation for lubricating bicycle chains. 



Reierson & Spore, of Houston, Texas, will shortly open an extensive 

 sporting goods establishment in connection with their regular bicycle 

 trade, and wish to come into correspondence with manufacturers and 

 jobbers. They will handle articles for the use of lovers of the rod, gun 

 and dog, as well as athletic goods, and will carry a full line of ammu- 

 nition. At present there is no first-class sporting goods store in 

 Houston. 



Wm. W. Hart & Co. received on May 16 the official report from the 

 Commissioners of Awards, Columbian Exposition, Chicago, stating 

 that they had received the highest award for first-class artistic andlif e- 

 like mounting on North American heads and mammals. 



Lee & Shepard publish a series of essays by Julius A. Palmer, Jr., 

 "About Mushrooms." These are mainly reprints from a long series of 

 articles which the author contributed to various publications between 

 1877 and the present time. Mr. Palmer has made an exhaustive study 

 of edible and poisonous fungi, and as a result shows that only one 

 family causes death, while at least fifty, besides the common or horse- 

 mushroom, are edible. His essays are both interesting and instructive. 



"Seven Strange Stories," by the well-known canoeist and author, J. 

 Wallace Hoff, comes to us from the Brandt Press, Trenton, N. J. The 

 first of these, "Felix Mondet," has been made the subject of ministerial 

 criticism, and has furnished a topic for more than one sermon. The 

 names of the other stories are "Daphne," "Frontier Service in '49," 

 "And This is Love," "Baffling a Conspiracy," ' Little Bell," and 

 "Metempsychosis. ' ' 



" The Practical Angler," by Kit. Clarke, and published by the Ameri- 

 can News Company, is a book with a purpose. It is written, so the 

 preface says, " for the benefit of the man whose angling education, to 

 nis great misfortune, has been neglected, and who desires to acquire a 

 knowledge of the most delightful, health-bringing and harmless re- 

 creation in existence." " The 'old-timer 1 who knows it all," the author 

 continues, "will meet only plainly told, familiar facts. Technical 

 phrases and rhetorical pyrotechnics are studiously avoided, as they 

 are of no use in the practical pursuit of catching fish. The book 

 means business— that's ail." The preface capitally describes the book. 

 It is business from cover to cover and Mr. Clarke has happily suc- 

 ceeded in putting in black and white just what is neccessary to know 

 about various kinds of fishing. Paper oOcts. Cloth SI. 



We have received from the manufacturer, Mr. J. E. Bacon, Clinton, 

 Conn., a set of patent bluefish jigs, which are a novelty for this kind 

 of fishing. The jig is made of wood and metal in the form of a fish 

 and is hollow. It is intended to be filled with bait which will ooze out 

 through holes provided for that purpose and leave a trail to attract 

 the fish when trolling. , 



The well known Philadelphia firm of Jas. W. Queen & Co., manufac- 

 turers of scientific and photographic instruments, has absorbed the 

 business of G. S. Woolman, who will hereafter be the manager of 

 their New York branch. The company is now incorporated as Queen 

 & Co. 



Mr. Chas. K. Reed, the Worcester, Mass., taxidermist and dealer in 

 taxidermists' supplies, has issued a uew catalogue which will be of 

 interest to sportsmen and taxidermists generally. The catalogue con- 

 tains a number of excellent half-tones of mounted specimens, includ- 

 ing birds, fish and big game, as well as descriptions of specialties for 

 which this house is famous. 



We have received a letter from Mr. Jack Hobday, of Portsmouth, 

 Va., dated May 24, '94, requesting us to send him copy of Forest and 

 Stream containing address of the manufacturer of the Thompson 

 hunting shoe and inclosing 10 cents for same, showing that he meant 

 business. We have complied with Mr. Hobday's request, but to do it 

 had to go over our files five years. Such instances of the lasting 

 value of advertising in Forest and Stream are constantly coming to 

 our notice, and they point to a moral that it is the continued advertis- 

 ing that pays best. The advertiser who gets his name known by 

 keeping everlastingly at it is the one who reaps the fruit of his invest- 

 ment. 



"Yes, sir, ever since he married that wealthy heiress he has 

 led a regular dog's life." 



"I hope that will be a warning to — " 



"He has, in fact, nothing to do but to eat, drink, sleep and 

 submit to being caressed."— Xeiseer ZeltuHg, 



Woman leads the world. She used smokeless powder for 

 ages before men ever thought of adopting it.— Tid-BiU. I 



FIXTURES. 



So. Boston, Open, City Point. 80. 



Racine, Opening. Racine, Wis. 30. 



Douglaston, Open, L. I. Sound. 30. 



San Francisco ©or., Annual 30. 



Cruise, Tiburon 30. 



Fall Ri ver, Open Regatta. 30. 



So. Boston, Open, Boston Har, 30. 

 Harlem, Open, L. I. Sound, 



JUNE. 



Canarsie, Opening, Jamaica 16, 



Bay. 16, 



Miramichi, Race, Newcastle to 16, 



Chatham. 16- 

 White Bear, Pen., White Bear 



Lake. 16- 

 Douglaston, Open, L. I. Sound. 



Philadelphia, Opening Cruise, 17. 



Delaware River. 



Rochester, Opening Cruise, to 17. 



Great Sodus Bay. 18. 



St. Lawrence, 18ft. Class, first 18. 



series. 18. 

 San Francisco Cor., Cruise, 



Petaluma Bridge. 18. 



Brooklyn, Ann., New York. 18. 



Atlantic, Ann,, New York. 18. 



New York, Ann., New York. 20. 

 Rochester, Club Sail, Charlotte, 



Lake Ontario. 21. 

 Larchmont, Spring, L. I. Sound 



St. Lawrence, A, 30, 25, 21ft. 21. 



Classes, first series. 



American, Special Class, New- 22. 



buryport. 



San Francisco Cor., Owners' 23 



Day. 23. 

 Atlantic City Cor., Vansant 



Cup, Atlantic City. 23. 



Cape Cod, Club, East Dennis. 23. 

 Douglaston, Open, L. I. Sound. 



Lynn, Expert Cup, Lynn, Mass. 23. 

 Fox Lake, Club, Fox Lake, 111. 



Winthrop, Club, Boston Har. 23. 



Cor. Phila., An , Del, River. 23. 



Columbia, 4th and 5th classes, 23. 



Chicago, Lake Michigan. 23. 



Yorkville, Spring Regatta,East 23. 



River and Sound. 



Philadelphia, An., Del. River. 23- 

 Schoodic, Special Race, Club. 



New Jersey, Ann., N. Y. Bay. 25 



St. Lawrence, 18ft. Class, sec- 26 



ond series. 

 Bay Shore, Open., Bay Shore. 27, 

 Rochester, Ladies' Day, Char- 

 lotte, Lake Ontario. 28, 

 Portland, Annual. 

 American, Ann., L. I. Sound. 30, 

 St. Lawrence, A. 30, 25, 21ft. 



Classes, second series. 30- 

 Cor. Mus. Fleet, Ladies' Day, 



New Rochelle. 30. 



N. Y. Bay, Club, N. Y. Harbor. 30. 



New Bedford, Club, Buz. Bay. 

 HempBtead Bay, Opening. 

 N. Y. Bay. Op'g, N, Y. Harbor. 

 Plymouth, Club.Plym. Harbor 

 Cleveland, Op'g, Rocky River. 

 Staten I'd, Op'g, N Y. Harbor. 

 Minnetonka, Opening, Club, 

 Lake Minnetonka. 



New Bedford, Club Sail, Buz. B 

 i, Knickerbocker, Open, L. I. S'd. 

 , Minnetonka, Club, L.Minnet'ka 



17. San Francisco Cor., Cruise, 

 Sacramento River. 



18. Winthrop, Club Cruise, Mas- 

 sachusetts Bay. 



Manchester, Club Sweeps, Mas- 

 sachusetts Bay. 

 . Oak Point, 3d Ann., L. I. Sound 

 Pavonia, Ann., New York Bay. 

 Beverly, Sweeps, Mon. Beach. 

 Squantum, Club, Squantum, 

 Mass. 



Massachusetts, Open, Nahant, 

 Plymouth, Club, Plym. Harbor 

 Plymouth, Club, Plymouth. 

 Cor. Phila., Jeanes Prize, Hand- 

 icap, Delaware River. 

 Rochester, Club Sail, Charlotte, 



Lake Ontario. 

 Indian Harbor, 21-footers and 

 open cats, Greenwich, Conn. 

 Rhode Island, Spring Regatta, 



Narragansett Bay. 

 Cape Cod, Club, East Dennis. 

 St. Lawrence, 18ft. Class, third 

 series. 



Sea. Cor., Ann., L. I. Sound. 

 Yonkers Cor., Ann., Hudson 

 River. 



, American, Seaver Cup, New- 

 buryport. 

 Douglaston, An. Open, L. I. Sd. 

 Fox Lake, Club, Fox Lake, 111. 

 Winthrop, Open, Boston Har. 

 Lynn, Expert Cup, Lynn,Mass. 

 Columbia, Lake Race, to Michi- 

 gan City, Lake Michigan. 

 •24. San Francisco Cor., Cruise, 

 Sacramento River Return. 

 Eastern, An., Marblehead. 

 29. Indian Harbor, Cruise, L. I. 

 Sound. 



Atlantic City Cor., Trophy 



Race, Atlantic City. 

 Rochester, Club, Charlotte, 



Lake Ontario. 

 St. Lawrence, A, 30, 25,21ft. 



Classes, third series. 

 July 1. San Francisco Cor., 



Cruise, McNear's. 

 Jersey City, An.,N. Y. Harbor 

 Hull, Club, Boston Harbor. 



Southern Yaeht Club. 



New Orleans, May 21.— Editor Forest and Stream: The race for 

 the Commodore Sully Cup for schooners, sailed Saturday, May 19, was 

 one of the most exciting races New Orleans has had in a long time. 

 The course was across Lake Ponchartrain to Mandeville on the north 

 shore, a round trip of 45 miles; starting gun to be fired at 10 A. M. The 

 race was started in a rattling northeaster, the tail end of the fearful 

 gale of Thursday and Friday, which lowered the thermometer 50° in 

 some parts of the country, and which did so much damage in Lake 

 Michigan, and in Illinois and Indiana. The wind blew at the rate of 

 45 miles an hour at 3 o'clock Saturday morning, but diminished some- 

 what with the rising sun, and at 9:30 A. M M when the preparatory gun 

 was fired the anemometwr on the Southern Y. C. house, at West End, 

 registered 30 miles an hour. The wind was puffy, and the gale had 

 kicked up one of the nastiest cross seas that any of the club house 

 gallery old salts had ever seen before. 



The yachts to get ready for the start were the schooners Adrienne, 

 Gordon & Lawrence, owners; Gertie, C. A. Lindaur, owner, and the 

 little New York yawl Presto, Fox & Flasspoler, owners. The other 

 entry, the schooner Viola, a light weather crack, did not start. The 

 three starters had some difficulty in being pulled out of the "pen," ' 

 along the narrow canal and into the lake at the club house in the eye 

 of the wind. All three were snugly reefed down, yet had all they 

 wanted to carry, particularly as they were in shallow water and right 

 on a lee shore. Owing to the stress of weal her the regatta committee 

 were unable to get the stakeboat out far enough from the club house, 

 and as it kept drifting in shore, none of the boats thought for a 

 moment of coming about and running down into shallow water to 

 cross the imaginary line between the stakeboat and the club house, 

 less than a hundred yards on the lee. With no other alternative the 

 three boats held off shore from the mouth of the canal, oh the port 

 tack, for about two minutes, then came about. 



Tne wind was now N.N.E. and the starboard tack took them along 

 by the club house, and at right angles to the imaginary line, but about 

 three boat lengths to windward of the outside end, or stakeboat. 

 The start was hair an hour late. The Presto was the first away, with 

 Adrienne and C4ertie following close. The Presto experienced trouble 

 right away, her starboard main backstay gave awa> ; she went about 

 on the other tack and the portstay did the same thing, and tnen she 

 quit and ran back into the canal tor repairs. The uertie, which up to 

 this time had been sailing splendidly, also met with an accident, the 

 cap of her rudder head twisting off, and she shot up into the wind and 

 then came to anchor. The Adrienne, drawing four feet and a half of 

 v ater, was meantime stirring up the mud-; when she shortly went 

 about and beat out into deeper water she made excellent weather. 

 She was under double-reefed main, single-reefed fore and forestay- 

 sail, which was at times supplemented by a jib. The puffs hit her 

 like a sledge hammer, and two or three of the short cross seas hitting 

 her at once, and breaking all around her sent the spray flying half 

 way up to the masthead Her lee rail was of course out of sight and 

 the water was boiling along half way up the cabin trunk. The crew 

 of fourteen were up to windward with backs humped and heads on 

 breast, taking the dashes of ice cold spray and pnilosophically and 

 metaphorically sawing wood. 



The sky was a bright blue, and not a cloud was to te seen. The 

 wind was steadily increasing, and a man had to shade his eyes to look 

 up to windward. 



Adrienne, eating out to windward like a witcb, held the port tack 

 until well across the lake and within sight of the north draw of the 

 Queen & Crescent H. R. drawbridge. She then tacked and beat up to 

 the westward. Off Goose Point the water was rougher and the puffs, 

 right off the north shore, were harder than ever. The boat behaved 

 nobly and was a revelation to those who had not before been on her 

 in a blow. She had several severe knocks, with the water foamincc 

 over her cabin and into the cockpit; she would go over no further, but 

 with a supreme effort she would shake loose and come up grandly, 

 giving those ot her crew who were down to leeward to their waists in 

 water a chance to breathe, when she was ready for the next one. 

 Down here they say it is impossible to turn a boat like Adrienne or 

 the Burgess 45ft. Nepenthe over. They have good big chunks of lead 

 on their keels, and with their strong cabins well corked up so they 

 won't fill, they go so far and no further— with a good man at the helm. 



Adrienne tacked up behind Goose Point and then on down the shore 

 to Mandeville. The wind had hauled a trifle to the westward and was 

 decreasing. The stakeboat, in charge of the Mandeville Yacht Club, 

 was rounded at 5:20, and the Adrenue was put before the lulling breeze 

 for home. She arrived at West End at 8:10, the race having occupied 

 9h. 40m. 



After making repairs the plucky little yawl Presto started out at 2 

 o'clock; she crossed the line properly this time and behaved splendidly 

 on the beat over. She anchored at Mandeville over night and sailed 

 back to West End Sunday morning. 



After the race was well started the regatta committee held a meet- 

 ing, and considering the stress of weather, and that all three boats 

 had been able to cross the line, it was resolved to count the start an 

 equal and fair start. Adrienne was awarded the race. S. 



The Penobscot Y. C. was organized on May 13 at Rockland, Me., with 

 the following officers: Com., M. A. Rice, Vice-Corn., Clarence E. 

 Meluiire; StC, F, Tuttle; Treas.. D. Fuller; Meas., W. S. Barrett; Re- 

 gatta Committee, M. A. Rice, W. A. Merriam, E. B. Davis and O. E. 

 CopelaEd. 



