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[June 27, 189fj. 
ing the 30ft. class and the 15Et. class, with 10 and 11 starters respec- 
tively, there remains a fleet of 39 yachts divided among 16 classes, or 
an average of less than 3 yachts to a class. One contributory cause 
of this is the multiplication of special classes, such as the special Sift., 
special "34-rating," special 30ft., etc. 
It is not easy to suggest a practicable remedy capable of immediate 
application, but there is one line of action which, if consistently fol- 
lowed by all clubs, will help matters very much. This is the direct 
encouragement of a smaller number of regular classes and, so far as 
possible, the discouragement of intermediate classes and of yachts 
not built to any class. 
The special class has probably had its day and served its purpose; 
we hope that before many seasons some amendment of the measure- 
ment rule will be possible which will place further restrictions on the 
building of machines and encourage a more usable type of yacht in 
all classes, thus obviating the necessity for the special restrictions 
outside the rule itself. A movement in this direction is now under 
way in the rule adopted last year in Great Britain. Should such a 
change of the measurement rule be put into effect as would increase 
the accommodation and decrease the draft, then the next step would 
be to select a certain range of classes fewer In number than at present, 
to which men might build under the new rule. All the legitimate de- 
mands of yacht racing might be met by classes as follows: Schooners, 
95ft. upper limit; 75ft. upper limit; cutters, sloops, yawls and cat- 
boats; upper limits of classes, 70ft„ 5lft., 36ft., 30ft., 25ft., 20ft. and 
15ft. The classes from 30ft. down would be doubly sub divided, first 
as to rig, sloop or cat; and second as to open or cabin boats. This 
would reduce the total number of classes necessary from 30 to about 
17. With regular building to these classes from year to year, the 
racing would be far better than as at present, where competition in 
any one class is often limited to two or three yachts. In England, 
where yacht racing as a system has attained a far higher degree of 
perfection than in this country, comparatively few classes have 
proved necessary: the 60-rating, 40-rating, 20-rating, 10-rating, 5-rat- 
ing, 2J^-rating, 1-rating, and 0.5-rating. 
It would be an excellent thing in every way if the present system of 
measurement and classification in this country could be remodeled by 
a change of the form of the rule and the introduction of an entirely 
new term to denote the unit of measurement, something like "rating," 
*'ton," "racing length, 1 ' etc., but more exact and definite. With such 
a unit, and starting with the smallest regular class, the 15ft. as meas- 
uring 1, the 20ft. for instance as 2, the 25ft. as 5, etc., the existing 
complexity and confusion, the use of numerals and high numbers 
absolutely meaningless in themselves to indicate the size of the class, 
would all disappear and a yacht would be definitely described by the 
one term similar to 1-rater, 5-rater, etc. 
The annual regatta of the Seawanhaka O. Y. C. will be sailed on 
Saturday, June 27, over the regular club courses off Oyster Bay. The 
race will be sailed under the rules of the Y. R. TL, and prizes will be 
given in all of the classes, regular and special. Full details as to 
courses, entry, etc., may be had of the secretary of the race commit- 
tee, Ohas. A. Sherman, 67 Leonard street. New York. 
Seawanhaka C. 7. C. Trial Races. 
OYSTER BAY— JUNE 22, 23, 24. 
One extreme of international racing was witnessed last year in the 
building of a single craft, at enormous expense, with the practical cer- 
tainty that, good or bad, she was to be the defender. This year the 
other extreme has been reached in the construction of a fleet that is of 
unknown numbers, all types being represented, and from some thirty 
or forty of which the defending boat will be selected after a series of 
trial races. Certainly such a unique fleet as that seen this week at 
Oyster Bay has never been brought together in the annals of yacht- 
ing • so many craft of one measurement, but differing in every detail of 
design, construction and rig. The programme of the races and chart 
of the courses were published last week. The yachts, as officially en- 
tered, are as follows: 
Manowtasquok Regis S. Post. .....Great South Bay. 
Florence E. Oohen. Tappan Zee. 
In It F. M. Randall Atlantic. 
Kittie V Hazen Morse Huguenot. 
Ideal H. O. Havemeyer, Jr Seawanhaka. 
Die Hexe S. C. Blaisdell Knickerbocker. 
Two Step , W. H. Jennings Indian Harbor. 
Glance F. L. Downing 
Maudeen R. B. McManus Harlem. 
ITlBiec W. W. Howard Am. Canoe. 
*Isabel J. R McQuade Tappan Zee. 
Gnome F. M. Hoy t .Seawanhaka. 
Julie. , , J. Brown ,N. Y. Canoe. 
Willada ., W. G. Newman.. Douglaston. 
Saghaya Howard C. Smith Stamford. 
Paprika.. , C. Sherman Hoyt Seawanhaka. 
Question L. T. Huntington, Jr Huguenot. 
Columbia F. T. Wood Fall River. 
Terrapin W.8. Peters N. Y. Canoe. 
Tornado F. C. Morris... N. Y Canoe. 
El Heirie. OH. Crane Seawanhaka, 
Defender W. G. Brokaw Larchmont. 
Nike ..F. W. Meeker Seawanhaka. 
Trilby... G. G. Tyson Indian Harbor. 
Sola C. T. Wills Indian Harbor. 
. Nit W. W. Murray Conanicut. 
Hope. Arthur Iselin Huguenot. 
Riverside Riverside Syndicate Riverside. 
* Now Defender II,, W. G. Brokaw, Larchmont Y C. 
One looks in vain through the list for the name of the successful de- 
fender of the Seawanhaka international challenge cup last season, 
when it was first raced for, Ethelwynn, the winner of the three trial 
races and of three out of the Ave cup races. Late last season the 
yacht was sold to the Leonard Brothers, two young yachtsmen, who 
proposed to make certain necessary changes and to race her in the 
class this season. She was sailed down from Greenwich to South 
Brooklyn, and stored in one of the warehouses of Manning's Basin. 
There she still lies, dusty and neglected. One of her new owners is 
abroad, the other is in the West, and no effort has been made to race 
her. There is good reason to believe that with a new center board and 
rudder, and larger sails, all of which were defective last year owing to 
the late date at which she was begun, and sailed by the Ball Brothers, 
who won the last two of the international races, she would still be a 
dangerous boat. The model will be represented in the trial races by 
two similar boats of Mr. Stephens's design: one, Two Step, built 
from the same mould and fitted with the same sail plan ; the boat 
shown by the Spalding-St. Lawrence Co , at the Sportsmen's Exhibi- 
tion. Tnough out very early in the season, the boat has been kept at 
her owner's home, Southport, Conn., and has had few opportunities 
for trial with others of the class She has come up the Sound on 
three different occasions to meet the fleet and has been defeated each 
time. Since the last race her owner has replaced the original Scare- 
crow rig with the boom and gaff. The other new boat is of similar 
model, but a couple of inches wider, with a little less draft and water- 
line and proportionately more sail. She too was built by the Spald- 
ing-St. Lawrence Co., and the pair are among the handsomest or the 
fleet, both in graceful form and in construction and finish. Ideal has 
the same rig as the others, the leg o' mutton. She was only launched 
on June 11, and though she has sailed in two races there has been no 
time for careful tuning up; in fact, in the trial races she will be 
handled by a helmsman who has never yet seen her. 
Of the old boats of 1895, Question and Trilby are both entered, the 
former unchanged from last year. Trilby has a new rig and some 
minor changes. Another old boat, the Herreshoff Olita, has been 
materially altered this season and sailed in the races of the class, but 
with poor results, in spite of the skill of her helmsman, L. B. Hunt- 
ington, Jr., the winner of the helmsman's prize in the trial races last 
year. She was not started at Larctimont on Saturday and will not 
enter the trial races, but Mr. Huntington will sail Paprika, with her 
owner, Snerman Hoyt, as crew. 
The latter boat has shown remarkable speed in a fresh breeze, as in 
the Knickerbocker and Douglaston regattas, and so far is the most 
promising of the fleet, she having been out for some time and winning 
tiiree out of the five races in which she has started. She, with her 
sister boats, Hope and Willada, have already been described. She is 
unlike them in having a round bilge and side, with a distinct tumble 
home at the deck.. 
The new boat Ulmec will appear in the trial races under the name 
of Defender H., given to her by W. G. Brokaw, who last week pur- 
chased her from W. W. Howard. Mr. Brokaw has the promise from 
Mr. Iselin of the loan of the Yellow Dog by way of mascot, provided 
that the consent of the race committee can be obtained. In the Larch- 
mont race of Saturday, Defender II., without the canine appendage, 
was sailed by two strangers who failed to get her to windward— a dif- 
ficult enough matter for her owner, who was very expert in her. In 
the races she sailed thus far both helmsman and crew have used toe 
straps to hold the feet when hiking out, a proceeding essential to the 
keeping of her mast up and keel down. Her centerboard is of alumi- 
num. Wilson & Griffin will make her a new mainsail with a reason- 
able amount of peak. 
In some cases it may be difficult to draw the line between the so- 
called "honest boat" and the freak. In this purely racing class there 
is no assumption that the yachts are to serve as models for larger 
craft, that they are to make homes for their ownprs, or that they are 
anything but racing toys. At the same time there is a wide distinc- 
tion between such little ships as the Herreshoff bulb-fin Trust Me and 
the Sibbick bulb-fin Microbe on the one hand, and some of the slabs 
and packing cases that the class has produced. Some of the yachts, 
like the two bulb-fins, are little ships in which a man can at least sit, 
stand and move about, eat his meals, shift his togs, and enjoy a cer- 
tain change of position. Others of the class, however, are for one 
cause or another fitted for nothing more than a short race or sail, the 
crew lie flat on deck in cramped and uncomfortable positions, or even 
if the yacht boasts a well, her peculiarities of model are such that she 
cannot be sailed along easily and comfortably, but must be watched 
all the time, and handled with exceptional care to prevent a cap- 
size. 
Whatever question may exist as to where to draw the line between 
the two classes, there are two boats that are most certainly on the 
wrong side, being freaks in all that the name implies to the nautical 
mind. These two, In It and Kittie V., are designed on the same prin- 
ciple, or lack of principle, to be more accurate. The controlling idea, 
as stated before in describing the former, is to have a sort of double 
hull, the lower one to be measured and the upper one to do the sailing 
on. Just how this is to be accomplished we cannot clearly under- 
stand, the changes being, as it seems to us, that the proposed rule 
cheater must either be too small or too large in the underwater body. 
From the first view of the pair in the Larchmont regatta, with smooth 
water and a very light breeze, it would seem that one has failed on 
one side and the other on the reverse. 
In It is owned by F. M. Randall and sailed by T. F. Day, being de- 
signed and built by the Crosby Co., of which Mr. Randall is secretary. 
She has been hastily put together; the frames steamed and bent into 
place, those at the ends being canted, to save beveling; the planking 
is white pine in a single thickness, with no attempt at tight seams, a 
covering of canvas being stretched over it to make it tight. There 
are no bulkheads, but the boat is open from end to end below, witha 
large well— a bad arrangement in rough weather. The rig is light in 
the extreme, with small, Bolid mast and boom and a trussed gaff of 
light strips. The rudder is of the balanced type and the centerboard 
is of wood. The name is contrived to meet all possible contingencies 
at small expense; it is now IN IT; in the event of her being chosen to 
defend the cup, she will sail as the WIN IT; and in the not impcEBlbla 
contingency of a complete failure she will go into history as the 'N IT. 
Kittie V., as her name indicates, is the successor to Kittie IV., toe 
fast catboat of the last two seasons, now sold to go to Galveston. 
She was designed and built by Thos. Webber for Hazen Morse, owner 
of the former Kitties. In appearance she is strongly suggestive of a 
raft built of clapboards as a last resort in a freshet; she is long and 
wide and carries her breadth from end to end; the sides are very low, 
she is built of white pine, the bottom lapstrake and the decks flush 
laid, and as she is innocent of paint or varnish, with no finish to the 
natural wood, the effect is not unlike a pile of common pine clap- 
boards afloat. From all reports the keel contour is similar to that of 
In It, but as sailed at Larchmont she was evidently badly by the 
head, bo that she had little freeboard forward and nearly all of her 
fore overhang waB immersed. Like the other, she has a rig more ap- 
propriate to 19ft. waterline than 15, but hastily fitted and rough; in 
spite of a long bowsprit, she is practically cat-rigged, with a very 
large mainsail and small jib. She is an ordinary wooden board, very 
long and weighted with lead. 
So far as can be judged on the showing in their first race, while in the 
Randall craft tne under boat^too large, in the Webber boat it is too 
small. In It, with but the ligntest of breezes, floated high, showing 
indeed a short waterline, but staggering around as though the short 
lower boat were tired, and refused to carry the big upper boat. With 
a little wind she lopped down on her side, but still failed to show an 
immersed line of pnenomenal length; and she certainly can never sail 
fast in such a position. In Kittie V., on the other hand, the lower 
boat was evidently too small— in fact, refused to carry the upper one 
even for the brief period necessary to hoodwink the eyes of the official 
measurer— and to the eye showed very little fore overhang, coupled 
with but a moderate amount aft; and a correspondingly long water- 
line that would throw her out of the clas3 unless her sail area were 
reduced to a fraction of its present dimensions. She did, it is true, 
obtain the great length when sailing that is one of the two, points 
claimed for the class, and with it and her large sail plan she reached 
very fast; but she is plainly a very great way from fulfilling the other 
essential condition ot measuring into the class. There will probably 
be fun should a good puff strike this happy pair in any of the races. 
The fun will be limited to the spectators, and not distributed among 
the thirty other members of the fleet whose safety is threatened by 
the sharp bowsprits that are running about wildly with no control 
from the rudders. 
While the Larchmont race was by no means a conclusive test of the 
fastest boat, or even of the probable winner in a series of weekly 
races about the Sound, such as those already sailed by the class, the 
conditions were very close to those too frequently met on the other 
shore of the Sound, aa in all the trial races of last year— smooth 
water, light winds and flat calms. Under these circumstances the 
success of the Boston boat, El Heirie, makes her a very dangerous 
competitor. She is the work of an amateurr designer, D. H. Crane, 
and the hull, built by Lawley, 1b a very neat piece of work, with 
mahogany planking and white pine deck. In general type she may be 
claused with Ethelwynn, having about the same over all and waterline 
length, S!3ft. 3in. and 14ft. 4in., a straighter side, with less flare, the 
beam being but 5ft. 6in. instead of Oft. extreme and 5Ct. at the water- 
fine, the draft of hull being about 5m. and with board down 5f fc. The 
centerboard is of J4in. plate, of the Linton Hope pattern. The sheer 
is quite straight and the fore overhang is longer and the after shorter 
than in Ethelwynn, the general appearance trom abeam being more 
like the Dyer boats. The rig has a boom and gaff mainsail well 
peaked. The boat made a well judged start; keeping to leeward of 
the pack and entirely clear of all blanketing, she moved off very fast 
in the light wind ana continued to gain all day. As seen afloat, she is 
a moderate boat, well proportioned and with no freak features, and 
'should be good in a sea and breeze as well aB in light weather. 
MONDAY, JUNE 22— FIRST TRIAL RACE. 
On Saturday and Sunday 15-footers of all types were coming into 
Oyster Bay, and by Monday morning a motley fleet was assembled off 
the club station. While the number was not as large as anticipated— 
only twenty-six yachts actually starting, with several more about the 
harbor— the fleet was a unique and interesting one. The morning was 
clear aud bright, with a light west wind and a smooth sea. The fleet 
waB off the Center Island Buoy at noon, the start being given exactly 
at 12:30. The triangular course was sailed, the easterly leg first. The 
starters are as in the final table. Ideal was steered by H. B. Duryea, 
with W. I Zeregajas crew; Riverside, by her designer, Chas. Ojmstead ; 
El Heirie, by Messrs. Crane; Two Step, by Herbert Jennings; Hope 
was steered by Mr. Howard, with L. B. Huntington as crew ; Triloy 
was steered by F. B. Jones ; Paprika, by L. D. Huntington, Jr., wltn 
her owner, Sherman Hoyt, as crew; Vesper, by Paul Butler, with But- 
ler Ames; Gnome, by F. M. Hoyt and F. Whiting; Kittle V., by Hazen 
Morse; Die Hexe, by Mr.Wyckoff ; Yola had Thomas Olapham as crew ; 
ColumDia was steered by her designer, F. T. Wood; In It, by T. F. 
Day; Tornado, by F. C. Moore and H. H. Smythe, and Defender 11., by 
Al. Camaoho. 
Apart from one or two unimportant fouls, the fleet made a good 
start from the gun at 12:30. Mr. Duryea had Ideal over first, with 
Terrapin close to her. El Heirie made a very good start, and River- 
side, Two Step, Paprika and Hope were among the first; beyond thiB 
it was impossible to keep track. With spinakers to port they ran off 
slowly, Two Step taking the lead, the first four being Two Step, 
Gnome, Nit and Ideal, unome had her boom on the wrong side and 
was obliged to gybe. The first mark was not on its proper bearings, 
but further off shore, upsetting the calculations ot some. As the 
times at the first mark show, the fleet ran very evenly down wind 
Manowtasquot, sailed by her owner alone, with no crew, very soon 
dropped out. The leaders at the mark were Gnome, Riverside, Ideal, 
Two Step, Kittie, Nit. Barely 5 minutes separated the first and last. 
After luffing around the mark the leaders trimmed for what proved 
to be but an easy reach; but Paprika, Vesper and several others at 
once went on starboard tack, sailing far out of their course. El 
Heirie took the lead within the first mile, the order then being, after 
her: Riverside and Gnome in close company, Hope, Kittie, Ideal, Two 
Step, Trilby, Die Hexe, Defender H , etc. 
A lew minutes on the wind put Gnome out of the fight. Ideal soon 
went up to tnird place, and the big fleet began to scatter. El Heirie 
held the lead for some time, nut near the end Riverside passed her to 
windward and weathered the buoy, the other having to tack for it. 
Ideal oame along in second place. Hope had done very well off the 
wind, but was now down to leeward with Gnome. Trilby was doing 
yery good work and turned in fourth place. Two Step was hanai- 
capped by a new rig, a boom and gaff mainsail, and a larger jib with 
a club on the foot, in place of her original Ethelwynn rig, and got no 
better than fifth place. Only the leaders were timed in the table. 
II Riverside was slow with her epinaker, while Ideal's was smartly 
handled, as was El He trie's. Downwind Riverside made a gain on 
Ideal, and Two Step passed Trilby, the order at the end of the first 
round being: Riverside, Ideal, El Heirie, Two Step, Trilby. 
The wind was now north of west, making a beat on the second leg 
instead of the usual reach, which was much to Ideal's liking. She 
closed up the space between her and Riverside, and after a mile was 
on the latter's weather beam, which finished the race so far as first 
place was concerned. In the beat of 2 miles she made 2m. 14s. on 
Riverside. The final leg was now a free reach, in which Riverside 
picked up a few seconds, the order at the finish being: Ideal, Riverside, 
El Heirie, Two Step, Hope, Trilby, Paprika, etc., as in the last column 
of the table. Mr. Duryea Bailed Ideal under a serious handicap, as he 
had never seen the yacht before boarding her just prior to the start. 
While the weather was very light and more wind is hoped for in the 
other races, it was the average summer weather, in which most of the 
races, as last year, will probably be sailed. The new Butler boat, 
Vesper, was at a great disadvantage, having never been floated until 
she reached Norwalk the day before. 
The boats were timed as follows: 
Riverside 4 07 06 Die Hexe 4 37 36 
El Heirie 4 11 21 Yola 4 38 03 
Columbia 4 88 14 
In It 4 38 41 
Saghaya 4 40 20 
Cyclone .... .4 40 54 
Willada 4 43 13 
Tornado 4 46 50 
Finish. 
Two Step 4 22 19 
Hope 4 25 41 
Trilby 4 29 48 
Paprika 4 30 12 
Vesper 4 30 43 
Gnome 4 34 48 
Kittie V 4 86 32 
SUMMARY. 
Start. 
Ideal 12 30 00 
Riverside 12 30 00 
El Heirie 12 30 00 
Two Step 12 30 00 
Hope 12 30 00 
Trilby 12 30 00 
Paprika 12 30 00 
Vesper 12 30 CO 
Gnome . 12 80 00 
Kittie V 12 30 00 
Die Hexe 12 30 00 
Yola 12 30 00 
Columbia 12 30 00 
In It 12 80 00 
Saghaya J 12 30 00 
Cyclone 12 80 00 
Willada 12 30 00 
Tornado 12 30 00 
The following did not finish: Maudeen, Isabel, Glance, Manowtas 
qupt, Terrapin, Nike, Question, Defender II., and Nit. 
05 00 
07 06 
11 21 
2a 19 
25 41 
29 48 
30 12 
4 30 43 
4 34 43 
4 36 32 i 
4 37 36 
4 38 03 
4 38 14 
4 38 41 
4 40 23 : 
4 40 50 
4 48 13 ' 
4 46 50 
New Hanley Yachts. 
From the Boston Globe. 
The boat which Hanley has been building in his shop at Monument 
Neck is no longer a "dark secret," and the design which for the past 
few months has excited the curiosity of yachtsmen has been given 
out by Mr. Hanley. 
The boat measures 32ft. over all and 23ft. on the waterline, but the 
most remarkable feature is that she only draws lOin. of water. She 
combines the racing qualities of the old square stern boats with the i 
modern overhanging bow and it is predicted that she will show re- 1 
markable speed. 
The boat is fitted with a bronze centerboard, and will have cross- 
cut sails with a spread of about 1,000yds. She is also fitted with cabin 
furnishings, so that ehe may come under the requirements of the 
Larchmont Y. C. ruleB. She has two rigs, either cat or sloop, as de- 
sirable. 
The cockpit is roomy, while the cabin is large enough for a half • 
dozen persons to live in it with comfort. 
The new boat has been named Volsung, and was built for the De 
Forest Brothers, of New York. She will sail in the second clasB and < 
her maiden race will be on June 17, in the Beverly Y. O. regatta, off i 
Wing's Neck. 
In the same class will sail Bernice, Surprise, Linnotte and others of 
last year's racing fleet, and the contest in this class will be certainly < 
interesting. 
From here Volsung will go on to New York In season to enter the | 
races of the Larchmont Y. C., and from there she will be sailed to 
Bar Harbor, and when the racing season is in full blast will be sailed i 
to New York, entering all the regattas between Bar Harbor and her: 
destination. 
The new boat will be given several trial spins in addition to those i 
which have already taken place, and Hanley feels confident that she 
will make a new record on the occasion of her maiden race, 
Hanley is building a boat of the 17ft. class for himself, which will be 
finished in time for some of the races. 
The new boat for the Parkinson boys, which Hanley built, has 
proven in the trial spins to be a very fast sailer, and the new boats * 
from across the bay, which have been built for Winship and Whitte- 
more Brothers, will meet a dangerous rival in the 15ft. class or half- 
raters. 
The big Eustis boat is now in racing trim, and will be on hand to 
compete with Ashumet for honors in the 34ft. class. 
Little Peter, which made such an enviable record IaBt year, Willi 
also be entered in the opening race. 
Important, if True. 
There is a possibility that Chicago may furnish the yacht to defend 
the America cup. Growing out of a jocular remark made by Theo-i 
dore Poekel is a plan for the construction by Chicago men of a yacht) 
to sail in the New York trial races as a candidate for the defense of 
the trophy won by America. 
Two or three weeks ago a party of Chicago yachtsmen was in the 
works of the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company, watching with 1 
critical eyes the progress of E, C- Berriman's yacht Vencedor. It was 
about the time of the announcement that Emperor William would 
send Meteor to sail for the America cup. One of the party was Theo- 
dore Poekel, designer of Vencedor and formerly for the Herreshoffa 
of Defender. 
"I can build a yacht that will beat Defender," said Theodore Poekel. 
"If you can do that," replied one of the men of the party, "I will 
furnish the money to build It." 
"You will not furnish it at all," said another of the Chicago yachts- 
men, "for I want to do that part myself." 
It was then agreed between, two of the party that in the event of a> 
challenge by the Emperor or by any other yachtsman for the America 
cup they would bring out of the Racine yards a yacht to sail in the* 
preliminary heats under the auspices of the New York Y. C. 
The offer of the Chicago men was made in good faith, and they 
have gone as far in the matter as is possible until a challenge for the, 
America cup has been received by the New York Y, C. After the; 
receipt of the challenge, nine months must elapBe before the prellmi-' 
nary races, giving ample opportunity for the construction of an 
adequate boat. A race for the cup will not be possiblf then till the 
spring of 1897. It will be necessary for one or more of the owners of 
the Chicago boat to become members of the New York Y. C. Several 
Chicago men are already enrolled in its membership. 
The men who are back of the proposition prefer to remain in ob- 
scurity for the present at least, till their mettle is tested by a chal- 
lenge for the cup. Their offer is said not to be conditional on a chal- 
lenge by Emperor William, but to be open in the case of a challenge 
by any other reputable owner. 
The mere possibility of the construction of a yacht on fresh water 
for the defense of the cup is sufficient to cause a stir among yachting 
men, the designing of fast boats having been confined to the seaboard. 
According to E. C. Berriman, there is nothing improbable in the idea 
of the construction of a winner on a fresh-water shipyard. The con-. 
ditionB of sailing are somewhat different, but there is no reason why 
a cup defender should not be built on Lake Michigan.— Chicago Tri- 
bune. 
A Stray Shinplaster 
Comes to us once in a while for a copy 
of "Game Laws in. Brief;" but shin- 
plasters nowadays are scarcer than Moose 
in New York; and 25 cents in postage 
stamps will do just as well. 
