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ington to 8an Francisco, his place has been taken by Naval Con- 
structor Francis T. Bowles, now in charge of the Brooklyn Navy 
Yard. The cfflcial address of the society is 12 West Thirty-first street, 
New York. 
Model Yachting. 
The officers of the Wave Crest M, Y. C. and those of the American 
Model Y. C. met at the club rooms of the latter club to decide upon 
the committee to manage the race f"r the A. M. V. C perpetual chal- 
lenge trophy, to be raced for on July 4, off the club station, foot of 
Thirty -fourth street, South Brooklyn. Mr. E. B. Hopkinson, Wave 
Crest M. Y. C, was chosen, and Frank Nichol3, A. M. Y. C. It now 
devolves upon these two gentlemen to name a referee, and in all prob- 
ability Mr. Frank Mitchell, of the Philadelphia Model Y. C.. will be 
chosen. 
A very friendly feeling was engendered by this meating of the two 
clubs and no doubt will continue. The following are 'he names of the 
gentlemen who were present: Wave Crest: Com. E. E Flynt, Treas- 
urer A. Anderson, Fleet Capt. W. M. Thompson and Secretary E. B. 
Hopkirson A. M. Y. C: Com. J. H. Lane, Vice-Corn. C. Van Ness, 
Treasurer G. W. Townly, Secretary Q. F. Pigott and Measurer Frank 
Nichols. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The regatta committee of the Indian Harbor Y. C, of Greenwich, 
Conn., has announced the following programme for the season: Open- 
ing day, May 30, race for yachts enrolled in the club. No special en- 
try necessary. The committee is also endeavoring to arrange a race 
for the new 30-footers on that day. If this can be arranged further 
notice will be sent to the members. Ppecial race, Tuesday, June SO 
(second race of Yacht Racing Union circuit). Classes: 30-footers, 34- 
footers, 21-footere, half-raters, all cabin catboats under 30ft , all open 
catboats, sbiftable ballast; all open sloops, sbiftable ballast. Eighth 
annual regatta, Saturday, Aue. 1. Open to all classes. Special race, 
Saturday, Sept. 12. Classes: 30-footers, 34-footers, 2i-footersand half- 
raters. The committee, however, may hereafter decide to open this 
race to other classes. Several cups have been donated by members of 
the club to be raced for during the season. The classes to which these 
cups will be allotted will be announced by the committeee in a circu- 
lar, which will be issued previous to each race. Ail the races given by 
the club will hereafter be sailed under the rules recently adopted by 
the Yacht Racing Union of Long Island Sound. The tables of time al- 
lowance adopted by the Union in 1895 will also be used. All members 
desiring to race their yachts should at once notify the chairman of the 
regatta committee, sending him a full description of their yachts, in 
order that they may be allotted permanent racing numbers under the 
rules which have been adopted by the Union. The committee requests 
the cooperation of all mem hers to make this season the most success- 
ful in the history of the club. George E. Gartland, chairman, 11 Wall 
street, New York; Charles E. McManus, D. Willis Merritt. As it will 
be impossible for the club to complete its proposed new house in time, 
the adjoining property, the Hasell place, has been leased and fitted up 
with restaurant, sleeping apartments, and all conveniences for mem- 
bers and guests. Among the prizes offered by officers and members 
are thr^e cups for the 30ft. class by Com Wills, cups for the cabin cats 
by Vice-Corn. Higgins, a cup for the 21 -footers by Rear-Corn. Tyson, 
one for the 34 footers by J. Kennedy Tod, one for the 15-footers by E. 
C. Benedict, and one for open cats by Percy Stewart; these first prizes 
-being supplemented by the club by second prizes if the Dumber of 
starters demand it. 
The Chicago Y. C. announces the following events for the season: 
Saturday, June 20— Michigan City race; start at 1 P. M. sharp; 
judges 1 and guests' boat will leave the club house at 12:40 P. M. 
Saturday, June 27— Regatta for fourth and fifth class open yachts; 
start at 2 P. M. sharp; judges and guests will leave the club 
house at 1:40 P. M. Saturday, July 18— Dinghy race (sailing); start 
from club house at 3 P. M. Saturday, July 25— Club regatta for all 
classes; start at 2 P. M. sharp; judges and guests will leave the club 
house at 1:40 P. M. Saturday, Aug. 1— Dinghy race (rowing); start 
from club house at 3 P. M. Saturday, Aug. 15— Club race and cruise 
to Menominee, Mich,, to be run on points between ports; start at 3 P. 
M. sharp. Saturday, Sept. 12— Open regatta; start at 2 P. M. sharp; 
judges 1 and guests' boat will leave the club house at 1:40 P. M. 
We have received a copy of the official book of rules of the Yacht 
Racing Association of Great Britain for 1896, the usual neat little vol- 
ume in blue. It contains the sailing rules, measurement rule, list of 
members and minutes of meetings, with the decisions of the council 
in a number of protest cases submitted to it by local committees. 
The new rule has recently been given In full In our columns. The al- 
lowance table Is new. having been made to suit the rule. The list of 
yachts with their cfflcial measurements is no longer published in the 
book, though such a list is very useful for reference. The book is 
published and supplied to the clubs and individuals by Harrison & 
Sons, St. Martin's Lane, London. 
Com, Rouse, Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, will this season test a 
novel combination of naphtha and electricity on the flagship Iroquois. 
The yacht's naphtha launch, one of the regular boats built by the Gas 
Engine and Power Co., will be fitted with a special dynamo that can 
readily be shipped aboard and connected to the engine. When the 
launch is not in use during the day, and lying at the boat boom, the 
dynamo will be put aboard and connected and the engine started' up, 
the wheel revolving in the water. The electric current will be used 
to charge the storage batteries aboard the yacht which supply the 
electric lights with which she is fitted throughout. When not in use 
the dynamo will be stowed below on the yacht. How the arrange- 
ment will work in practice is yet to be proved. 
The New Rochelle Y. C. will open its season on May 23 with a race 
open to yachts of the club only in the regular classes; a special prize 
of a silver cup being also offered for the 15ft. class, open to yachts en- 
rolled In any organized yacht club. A second prize will be given if 
five yachts start. The races, which will be under Y. R. U. rules, will 
start at 2 P. M. Entries should be mailed to the Rpgatta Committee, 
New Rochelle Y. C, P. O. Box 735, New Rochelle, N. Y., in time to be 
received by the committee not later than noon of Thursday, May 21. 
Full instructions as to starting signals, course, etc., together with a 
chart of the course, will be mailed on receipt of entry, and may be 
had on application to the committee. Regatta Committee: Chas. P. 
Tower, Chairman; W. N. Bavier, Paul A. Meyrowitz, J. R. Thomas; 
A. P. Weston, Secretary. 
The new 16-footer designed and built by the Herreshoffs for F. M. 
Hoyt Is similar in model to Ollta, with a long, low bow and no after 
overhang, and of very light construction. She will be rigged in 
English fashion, and a very good idea of her sail and sheer plan may 
be obtained from the cut of the canoe yawl Nautilus in the Forest 
amd Stream of last week. With the counter cut off square at the 
mark indicating the after end of the waterline and the piece added to 
the fore overhang, and the tack of jib carried forward, the Nautilus 
would resemble closely the new boat. The majnsail is Identical, a 
lugsail with battens, 
Yampa, schooner, R. S. Palmer, arrived at New York on May 6 
with her owner in command, accompanied by Messrs. T. C Zerega, 
George A. Cormack and Cambridge Livingston. The yacht has visited 
the principal ports of the West Indies since she sailed from Boston 
last February. 
A yacht club has been organized in Kingston. Ont., under the name 
of the Kingston Y. C, Starting with 110 members. The officers are: 
Com., W. F. Strange; Vico-Com., H. Richardson; Rear-Corn., Dr. 
Clarke; Sec'y, J. H. Macnee; Treas., W. C. Kent; Meas., H Cunning- 
ham; Committee— Dr. Black, R. G. Burns, E. Gildersleeve, F. H. Mac- 
nee and J. Fisher. 
The club book of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club for 1896 contains 
a list of forty-three yachts and sixty members. The club, whose sta- 
tion is at Hyde Park.was founded in 1895. The officers are: Com , 
Archibald Rogers; Vice'Com., Norman Wright; Sec'y-Treas., John 
Hopkins; Treas., Thos. Newbold. 
The first race of the season at Atlantic City was sailed on May 7 in 
a fresh S. W. breeze, the course being four miles to leeward and re- 
turn. The small craft were from the Corinthian Y. C. and the Mus- 
quito Fleet. The corrected times were: No Name, lh. 30m, 503.; Ivy, 
lh. 34m. 278.; I Don't Think, lh. 35m. 6s. ; Vixen, lh. 39m. 7s. ; Nit, lh. 
40m. ; Siren, lh. 42m. 32s. 
Owing to some dispute between her new owners, Ethelwynn was 
advertised at sheriffs sale on May 6, at Manning's Basin, where she 
has been stored during the winter. The sale was postponed for a 
month. Thus far there is no indication that the yacht will race under 
present ownership. 
Black Pearl, steam yacht, E. R. Sheldon, has returned to New York 
after a cruiBe of two months in the West Indies. She will refit at 
Fletcher's yard, Hoboken. 
The Philadelphia Y. C. will sail its annual regatta on June 13, and 
the cruise will begin on June 26. 
The racing about New York will begin on next Saturday, May 16, 
with the open race of the Huguenot Y. C, of New Rochelle, for five 
c asses: Cibin sloops, 21ft. clas3, cabin cats, open cats and 15ft. class. 
The latter class promises to be the most interesting, as several new 
boats will make their first race. The race will start at I P. M. over 
the club's four-sided courses. 
Those young tars who are going afloat this season for the first 
time will find much that is useful to them in a little book entitled "The 
Amateur Sailor," by Alex. I. McLeod, a Detroit yachtsman. The 
book treats in a plain and practical manner of the rudiments of sail- 
ing and yachting usage; and while intended mainly for the less ex- 
perienced yachtsmen, it has many little points that will repay the 
older hands for a perusal. It*is published by E H. Gilman, Detroit, 
Mich. 
We have received from the secretary, Dr. Ed. Pilatte, the annual 
book of the Club Nautique de Nice, the first of the nautical societies 
of Provence and the vicinity of Nice, organized in 1833, sines which 
time it has taken a prominent part in the advancement of yachting 
and yachting organizations in the Mediterranean. 
The Pacific Y C , of San Francisco, has elected the following 
officers: Pres., John H Dickinson; Vice-Pres , Hugo D. Keil; Com., 
John D. Spreckels ; Vice-Corn , Martin B. Roberts; Meas., Alec. Svenson. 
Directors— John H. Dickinson, Charles H. Crocker, Hugo D. Keil, 
Will A. Powning, John T. Dare, F. Hohweisner and J. D. Maxwell. 
The house of the Corinthian Y. C , of New York, located originally 
at Bechtel's Basin, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, where It was built by 
the Spawanhaka Cor. Y. C. in 1883, and afterward moved to the 
basin beside the steamboat dock, has been sold and moved to Atlantic 
Highland*, where It will be used as boathouae. The Corinthian Y. C, 
organized in 1886, has ceased to exist. 
Phantom, schr., H. L. Parmele, has been entirely rebuilt for the 
second time. She is one of the older yachts, having been built in 
1865. 
§anoqing. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895. 
Commodore, Win. R. Huntington, Rome, N. Y. 
Sec'y-Treas., Thos. H. Stryker, Rome, N. Y. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. 
PURSERS. 
Atlantic Division, H. M. Da+er, 307 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, N Y. 
Central Division, Geo. E. Keyes, 193 Front street, Rochester, N. Y. 
Eastern Division, R. H. Hammond, Worcester, Mass. 
Northern Division, Dougkvs H. McDougal, Toronto, Canada. ^3 
Annual dues, $1; initiation fee, $1. 
Annual meet, Aug. 14-28, Grindstone Island, St. Lawrence River, jag 
WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895-96. 
Commodore, O. F. Pennewell, Detroit, Mich. 
Vice-Commodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago, III. 
Rear-Commodore, E. H. Holmes, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Sec'y-Treas., W. D. Stearns, Detroit, Mich. 
Executive Committee: R. M. Lamp, Madison, Wis.; C. J. Steadman, 
Cincinnati, O. ; F. W. Dickens, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Central Division. 
Mb. George E. Keyes, 193 Front street, Rochester, N. Y., has been 
elected, by a mail vote of the Division executive committee, to fill the 
vacancy caused by the death of Purser W. H. Martin. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
Applications for membership may be made to the purser of the 
division in which the applicant resides on blanks furnished by purser, 
the applicant becoming a member provided no objection be made 
within fourteen days after his name has been officially published in 
the Forest and Stream. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Name. Club. City. 
Seymour P. Hubbell Buffalo, N. Y 
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THE ART OF PISTOL SHOOTING. 
Everything is difficult before 'tis easy, says an old 
adage, and the effort to become proficient in the use of 
the revolver is no exception to it. The art is acquired 
only by earnest study and effort. 
It is not an art of mystical methods, nor is there any 
royal road to it. Regular practice and intelligent obser- 
vation of causes and effects are factors in attaining prac- 
tical skill as they are in all other arts. Indeed, of all the 
arts it may safely be said that that of revolver shooting 
is the most exacting considering it in its highest perfec- 
tion, for it requires faithful practice, a clear mind and 
good physical condition, which can only be established 
by abstinence from alcoholic stimulants, from tobacco, 
and by regular habits in general. So much for the per- 
fection of the art. However, with a reasonable degree of 
application fairly good results may be obtained. 
The intelligent effort to learn the art of shooting is 
opposed more or less to a popular fallacy that the skill- 
ful pistol shot is born, not made. The comparative ease 
with which the expert makes difficult shots, and the 
difficulty which the novice encounters in making any 
shot with any degree of precision, prepare the' latter for 
ready acceptance of such fallacy. It then seems so self- 
evident that no investigation is considered necessary. 
Marvelous skill and its results are accepted as being 
a "gift," a capability born with its possessor. It is true 
that men excel in the art of shooting, but such is like- 
wise true of men in all arts. In the art under consider- 
ation, the patient investigation, laborious and arduous 
practice in private which developed skill, not being 
directly in evidence, are not considered as having been at 
all. Yet, whatever one's natural capabilities may be, 
patient study and practice are necessary, though, as in the 
acquisition of all skill which requires profound effort, 
natural aptitude, resolute persistency and sharp intelli- 
gence will make more direct and fixed progress than can 
be made without them. But, as intimated before in this 
respect, the art of pistol shooting in its acquisition in no 
wise differs from that of all other arts. In every voca- 
tion and avocation in life there are men whose ability 
and industry distinguish them pre-eminently among their 
fellows. Again, as in all other arts, while all cannot 
devote the time, practice and study necessary to attain 
the skill of a specialist, nearly all can acquire a useful 
and reasonable knowledge of the theory of the art and a 
corresponding degree of proficiency in its practice. 
There are a few men who are always awkward 
in anything which they attempt if it requires manual 
dexterity. They cannot jump off a car without tangling 
their legs or pitching about; they cannot drive a nail 
without hitting their fingers or breaking something; they 
cannot row, nor crack a whip, nor cast a fly, nor handle a 
cue, nor bowl, nor pitch quoits; in short, they seem to be 
left-handed all over. With this reservation, it is fair to 
encourage all in the possibilities of attaining skill in the 
art of revolver shooting. 
Handling the Pistol. 
The mere handling of a pistol with safety to one's self 
and to the bystanders requires a certain amount of train- 
ing if it be done properly. There is one general rule 
which should never be ignored, that is, never for a mo- 
ment point the pistol toward any one. The novice always 
grasp3 the pistol awkwardly, and the direction in which 
the barrel is pointing is a matter he rarely considers. 
Being ignorant of the workings of a revolver, he cannot 
have the necessary forethought in handling it. 
A novice should never handle a pistol as a matter of 
idle curiosity. If he handle it at all, he should learn the 
simple matter of handling it right. Yet the handling of 
a pistol seems to have a strange fascination for the most 
ignorant. 
The pistol is a deadly weapon, and from its short barrel 
and ready working is one of the most dangerous. Make 
it an invariable rule never to have the barrel pointing 
toward any person. When not actually firing it, keep it 
constantly pointing in the air when there are bystanders 
about, whether it be loaded or not. By persisting in this 
practice it will become a habit in time, and then will be 
observed constantly without any thought. Such careful- 
ness will avoid any occasion for rebukes, will relieve 
friends of much alarm and anxiety, and will avoid 
the possibility of deplorable accidents. Were these sim- 
ple rules observed, the fatal accidents which are an annual 
certainty would never occur. With the most vigilant and 
painstaking care, there will come a time when the pistol 
will be discharged accidentally, and then the habit of 
guarding against accident will come in good service. The 
unloaded weapon should be handled with the same formal 
care as if it were loaded. Above all, never permit your- 
self to indulge in the brutal sport of aiming a pistol at 
any one. The terror inspired is a poor means of obtain- 
ing amusement. The victim cannot know whether or 
not the weapon is loaded, and whether he can or not, it is 
a gross abuse of others and an unlawful act to point it at 
any one. 
In handling deadly weapons there are thus important 
matters of training in respect to what should not be done 
as there are to what should be done. 
Also, when handling a revolver or other pistol in the 
presence of others, it is always prudent to unload it, par- 
ticularly if it is to be handled by men who are ignorant of 
its proper handling and who are idly curious. The man 
without a purpose is often the most dangerous to have 
about and is always the most annoying. 
Timidity. 
The fright or timidity or gunshyness which many be- 
ginners exhibit in their first attempts at tiring a pistol is 
obstructive to progress. 
When the shooter flinches when he pulls the trigger, 
or at the same time shuts his eyes or turns his head, the 
matter of correct aiming for the time being is at an end. 
To overcome his timidity, he should handle the pistol as 
much as possible. He should aim and snap his unloaded 
pistol in his room or elsewhere as often as opportunity 
offers, till he becomes so familiar with it that he can 
handle it fearlessly and without unpleasant apprehension. 
In his first attempts he should shoot light loads till full 
confidence it established. Once the habit of flinching at 
the moment of firing is acquired, it is not easily curecj. 
