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FOREST AND STREAM. 
March 16, 1895. 
B. Waters, Richard V. Fox, Ohas. Heath, Harry Dutton. P. T. 
Madison, Capt. E. 8. Gay, Major J. M. Taylor, Major J. B. Down- 
ing, W. W. Peabody, Jr., John S. Clark, J. C. Freeman, R, L. Shan- 
non. George J. Gould, George T. Baker, Chas. D. O'Connell, J. S. 
Anderson. George H. Hill, A. G. Spalding & Bros.. Edward A* 
Burdette, John L. Barker, J. J. Case, Jr., H. R. Edwards, Dr. J. 
R. Daniels. W. H. Ehrrnan, F. H. Perry, A. M. Young, Chas. I. 
Engel, Dr. George Gladden, J. Shelley Hudson, Davis Bryson, Dr. 
L. C. Sauveur, J. L. Adams, Jos. H. Hunter, C. A. Pratt, Gus 
Pabst, P. Lorillard, Jr., E. Huidekoper, George H. Ewing, W. H. 
Beazell, James Mortimer, G. Muss Arnolt, W. H. Colcord. J. E. 
Isgrigg, Montgomery W ard & Co., A. Cramer. Frank F. Bock, 
Henry F. Bechrnan, J. B. Turner, J. Tredwell Richards. J. L. 
Balnior, E. O. Damon, Dr. P. S. Danatelle. W. B. Wells, Daniel E. 
Stern, J. R. Oughton, L. Rausch, R. F. Merrill and others, mak- 
ing a total of 68 who are charter members, and there are more who 
have announced their intention of joining. This is the largest ana 
most influential membership ever seen in one field trial club in 
America, and the holding of successful trials is assured at the 
outset 
The Metropolitan Kennel Club- 
New York. — Pursuant to a resolution carried at an informal 
meeting of exhibitors, held at Madison Square Garden. Feb. 22, 1, 
chairman pro tern., was instructed to appoint a committee of 
five to select names to be notified of a meeting to be called at an 
early date, for the purpose of organizing a Metropolitan Kennel 
Club, wherein the dog owners in and about New York may find a 
common interest. I have selected to aid me upon this committee 
Messrs. Thos. H. Terry, A. P. Yredenburgh, H. G. Trevor and Jas. 
Mortimer. H. T. FOOTE. □ 
DOG CHAT 
The Duquesne Kennel Club's premium list is now ready for 
distribution. Mastiffs and St. Bernard's have $12 and $0, first 
and second in challenge classes; in open classes, $10, $5 and $3; 
puppies and novice respectively $5 and $3. Pointers, English 
setters, Irish setters, Gordon setters and collies have $12 to first 
in challenge classes; open classes, $10, $5 and $; puppies, $5 and 
$3. Other breeds have $10 to first, or $10 and $5, first and sec- 
ond in challenge classes, and, in open classes, $10 and $5, or $10, 
$5 and $3. The club offers $40 to the handler showing the larg- 
est number of prize winning dogs, and $25 to the handler show- 
ing the next largest number the kennel specials vary from $5 to 
$15. There is quite a long list of special prizes. Entries close 
April 1. Entry fee, $3. The show will be benched and fed by 
Spratt's patent. Address W. E. Littell, Secretary, Pittsburgh. 
The result of the bull terrier cropping trial in London, alluded 
to in our issue of Feb. 2, was that Carling and his wife should 
be committed to prison for one month in default of paying a 
fine. The case has served the purpose of drawing greater 
attention to the cropping question and the collapse of the Bull 
Terrier Club's defense of cropping has impelled that body, at a 
meeting of the club at Liverpool show, to petition the English 
Kennel Club to enact rules forbidding the cropping of bull 
terriers after a certain date. In this age of cocaine, it is amus- 
ing to read "Our Dogs' " column article on the heinousness, on 
the score of cruelty, of the hitherto winked-at practice of crop- 
ping. That cropping is a useless cruelty and a mere fad is a 
fact borne out in the case of Irish terriers. Since the edict 
went forth that they must not be shown cropped at Kennel 
Club Shows after a certain date, breeders set. out at once to 
breed a good drop ear on their terriers, and while some old- 
timers may sigh for the old style, it cannot be gainsaid but 
that a nice button ear on an Irish terrier is an added attrac- 
tion, and one already by no means rare. The same change may 
be carried out with bull terriers, black and tans, etc. Consid- 
ering the trouble and difficulty in getting a good crop, breeders 
snould hail with delight an edict that will put every one on the 
same basis and do away with cropping altogether. As long as 
the fasnion of cropping bull terriers was an accepted one by the 
majority of judges, exhibitors and the Kennel Club, it seems 
rather rough on Carling and his wife that they should be made 
to suffer imprisonment for the want of a few pounds to pay the 
fine. Some one higher up in the scale should have been selected 
to make the test case upon. 
As soon as Messrs. James Taylor and S. and E. S. Woodlwiss 
who composed the English contingent at the late New York 
show, arrived in New York they set out for Niagara Falls, 
being absent most of the week previous to the show. During 
the show there was very little opportunity to get their views on 
dogdom in general over here and the W. K. C. show in particu- 
lar. Both Mr. Taylor, the judge, and Mr. E. S. Woodiwiss 
expressed themselves as delighted with the way the show was 
managed, and the completeness of the whole affair, and their 
reception by exhibitors and the managers of the show. They 
were also surprised at the uniform good quality in many of the 
breeds, though Mr. Taylor had a bad quarter of an hour with 
the Great Danes. Messrs. Woodiwiss were unfortunate in hav- 
ing their dogs arrive too late for regular judging, and much 
sympathy was expressed for them in the unsatisfactory out- 
come of such enterprise and sportsmanlike courage as we 
should like to see become an annual occurrence. The W. K. 
C. will, we believe, do all in their power to encourage these 
International exhibits at future shows. 
The daily New York papers devoted themselves without stint 
to exploiting the W. K. C. show, the Herald being conspicuous 
in this regard. This influential paper advocated a Ladies' 
Kennel Club during the show and has devoted a column every 
day to interviews with leading society women who all seem to 
be delighted with the idea. It is proposed to form an associa- 
tion on the lines of the new English club, which has enrolled so 
many of the nobility in its membership. The main object of 
the club, if it is formed, will be to advance the interests of dogs 
as pets and also to hold shows, the proceeds to be devoted to 
charitable purposes. The ladies interviewed express themselves 
as tired of Church fairs, Dorcas meetings and so forth and 
think that more money can be raised by giving bench shows 
under their immediate auspices, throwing around the affairs 
that flavor of social patronage that, in a city like New York, 
generally brings financial success in its train. The idea is a 
good one and should be pushed. 
A new kennel journal made Its appearance during the New 
York show. It is the kennel Nev s, published in Chicago by 
Mr. Frank S. Anderson, who owned the St. Bernard, Aristo- 
crat, Collie Toronto Wonder, and other good dogs and is also 
active in the Great Dane fancy. Mr. E. Bardoe Elliott has 
assumed the editor's duties and is working hard for eventual 
success. 
Southern Travel. 
(Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch, Sunday, Feb. 24, 1895.) 
Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 20. — Florida is of peculiar interest as the 
modern Mecca of the capitalist, the tourist, the pleasure and the 
health-seeker. Notwithstanding the many arrticles which have 
been and are still being daily written upon its charms, it can never 
be fully understood or appreciated until visited. And now that it 
bas been rendered so easily accessible from all points North, East, 
South and West by the completion of "The New Short bine" via 
the Southern and the Florida Central and Peninsular Railways, 
it will soon become the one great winter resort of America. The 
approach now, no matter from what direction, is one not only of 
convenience, but of positive luxury. 
The Southern Railway, that superb and colossal company whose 
tracks grid-iron the region south of Washington, has brought the 
Southernmost coast of the Peninsula within a short distance of 
New York and other Eastern cities. The traveler may leave the 
metropolis after the day is nearly done and he transported by the 
magnificent "Florida Limited" to Jacksonville — the gateway by 
which the throngs that visit Florida every winter enter the State 
— in time for dinner the following evening.— Adv. 
FIXTURES. 
APRIL. 
19. Mosquito Fleet Open regatta, Boston Harbor. 
MAY. 
0. South Boston"Open,"Boston Harbor. 
JUNE. 
8. Knickerbocker annual, L. I. 17. Massachusetts open, Nahant 
Sound. 33. Douglaston annual L. I. 
Atlantic Annual, N. Y.Bay. Sound. 
Larehmont spring regatta, 23-28. Seawauhaka Cor., annual 
L. I. Sound. race, to New London. 
Philadelphia annual, Dela- 29. New Rochelle annual, L. 
ware River .1 Sou nd. 
r-TUL'. . 
Indian Harboi special, L/I. 10. Huguenot special. b. I 
Sound. Sound. 
Seawauhaka Cor., ;[anuual 12. Larehmont 34 ana 2i-foot 
L. I. Sound. w classes, L. I. Sound. 
Seawanhaka Cor., .race to 13-21. Larehmont oruise, L. I. 
Larehmont.^ Sound. 
Larehmont annual, L. I. 13. Hempstead Harbor annual, 
Sound. _ L. I Sound. 
American special, L. I. 15. Savin Hill open, Boston Har- 
Sound. bor. 
Riverside annual. L.] I 29. Sea Cliff annual, L. I. Sound. 
Sound. 37. Indian Harbor annual, L'J. 
Seawanhaka Cor.'special, L, Sound. 
I. Sound. 27. Quincy, Boston Harbo: 
Horseshoe Harbor special, L 
I. Sound. 
AUGUST. 
11. 
15. 
It. 
3. 
3. 
10. 
10. 
13. 
15. 
17. 
Monatiquoit open, Boston 
Harbor. 
Shelter Island annual. 
Larehmont 34 and 21 foot 
classes, L. I. Sound. 
American annual, L. I. 
Sound. 
Winthrop open, Boston Har- 
bor. 
American open, Newburyp't. 
Sea Cliff, L. I. Sound. 
Huguenot annual, L. I. 
Sound. 
17 Corinthian open.Marblehead, 
19. Manchester open, Manches- 
ter. Mass. 
24. Squantum open, Squantum, 
Mass. 
21. Horseshoe Harbor annual, L. 
I. Sound. 
21. Norwalk, L. I. Sound. 
31. Larehmont 34 and 21-foot 
classes, L. I. Sound. 
31. Huntington annual, L. I. 
Sound. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Lynn open, Nahant. 
New York Y. R. A. annual, 
York Bay. 
Larehmont Fall Regatta, L. 
I. Sound. 
7. America's Cup, first race 
New York. 
7. Revere, open. 
7. Larehmont, cabin cats. L. I. 
Sound. 
Larehmont 34 and 21-foot 12. Sea Cliff, L. I. Sound, 
classes, L. I. SouDd. 14. Larehmont schooner race, L. 
I. Sound. 
From the following, it would seem that the Field is under the 
impression that two Cup defenders are now building, which is a 
mistake. Only one boat is under way or likely to be built, the keei 
craft designed by N. G. Herreshoff and building at Bristol for 
Messrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, CO. Iselin and E. D. Morgan. The 
Cup committee is interested in no other boat. "The experience of 
Mr. Herreshoff and Mr. Iselin last season in yacht racing in Brit- 
ish waters appears to ha ve led them to the conclusion that a keel 
boat of 17ft. or 18ft. draught of water is, taken all round, a more 
effective craft for racing than any kind of centerboard craft. At 
any rate, it is announced that the Cup defender which the Cup 
committee are about building is to be a fixed keel craft over 17ft. 
draught of water; it is also said that this keel is to weigh close 
upon 70 tons, which is much the same weight as the lead keel of 
the Herreshoff craft building for the Iselin syndicate. This yacht 
is also credited with 17ft. draught of water. This is a come round 
the whole sweep of the circle to British ideas. The latest an- 
nouncement in connection with the America .Cup is that the 
number of crew or persons on board is to be limited to three for 
every 5ft. of corrected racing length. This appears to be an 
absurdly liberal allowance, as it is estimated it will allow the new 
Valkyrie to have sixty-two persons on board." 
The America Cup Committee is now in communication with 
Lord Dunraven over the matter of a limit of crew, his Lordship 
preferring only such a number as is necessary to work the boat 
properly, or about 40 in all. No final decision has been reached. 
Our remarks of last week are emphasized by the present condi- 
tion of affairs, the advent of a new and dangerous adversary and 
the delay on the Cup defender. It is more than ever imperative, 
for the successful defense of the Cup next September, that there 
should be plenty of boats, and especially plenty of keen, well- 
contested races during June, July and August, All of the boats 
now available should be fitted out in the best possible shape, if 
necessary altered to 90ft. 1. w. 1., making a strong racing class. 
While all. Vigilant, Jubilee and Colonia, are capable of improve- 
ment, it is hardly probable that either of them will defeat a newer 
boat of 90ft. 1. w. 1., if the latter is well worked up; but such work 
lug up can only come through persistent racing with other dan 
gerously good boats. Through Mr. Gould's liberality, "vigilant 
will be raced, and possibly altered; there is a chance that Jubilee 
may he rebuilt and raced by somo Boston yachtsmen, and there 
should be men in New York who would take and race Colonia. 
Within the past week a movement has been started in Boston to 
purchase Jubilee from IGen. Paine by popular subscription, to 
lengthen her and race her in the 90ft. class this season. Messrs. 
Augustus Hemenway, C. H. W. Foster and Samuel Warner are 
at the head of the scheme, and Mr. George H. Richards, Gen. 
Paine's business partner, and sailing companion oil Puritan, May 
flower. Volunteer and Jubilee, has consented to undertake the 
management of the boat; while Capt. Henry Newcomb, for many 
years skipper of Fortuua, will sail her. We hope that the attempt 
may be successful, and that Jubilee may have a new trial under 
more favorable conditions than in 1893. 
At the same time there is a report that Vigilant will be length- 
ened 90ft., either by the Herreshoffs or by other builders. Colonia 
is capable of improvement by deepening, if not by lengthening 
as well, and there is yet time to have these three boats in racing 
trim by the middle of June. It is a serious question whether the 
90ft. class this year is to be represented bv Navahoe, Vigilant and 
the new boat in a few races in August, or whether there is to be a 
fleet of five or sis vessels, Navahoe, Vigilant, Colonia, Jubilee, 
Volunteer and the new boat, all ready in good season and sailing 
frequently together until each is at its best. 
The victory of Ailsa over Britannia in their first race; of a new 
and untried craft fresh from the ways, just off a hard ocean voy- 
age, and with sails and gear unst.retched, and with skipper and 
crew new to her, over one in perfect racing form after two suc- 
cessful seasons, has created much comment on this side of the 
Atlantic. While we cannot find out that the New York Y. C. is 
in any way committed to the acceptance of Ailsa in place of 
Valkyrie III., should the former prove the faster, the impression 
12 generally prevalent here that the faster of the two may and 
will be selected to represent the Royal Yacht Squadron next fall 
in the Oup races. 
Whether or no the New York Y. C. may finally agree to this^ 
the very promising debut of Ailsa must be most encouraging to 
British yachtsmen. It shows that the deductions of one of the 
two great Clyde designers have not been astray, and at the very 
least it insures a second good trial boat, in addition to Britannia, 
!f h working up of Valkyrie III. in her home races. In every 
ay t°e chances of the challengers are improved by the very 
hie showing of the big Fife cutter. 
The latest news from Bristol is encouraging so far as the safety 
of Mr, Hereshoff is concerned, and there is no reason to believe 
that he is in any serious danger. At the same time there is every 
prospect that he will be able to do no more work in Cup defense 
for a very long time. He is still so ill that all advice and consul- 
tation over the new boat is utterly out of the question, and the 
main factor in the recovery of his health is a complete rest from 
the thought, and worry which are inseparable from yacht design- 
ing. It is quite unlikely that he will be able to resume work for 
some weeks, and he may even be compelled to go away entirely 
for an indefinite time. Just how far the work had advanced 
when he was forced to abandon it is yet unknown outside the 
works. It is probable that the lines and specifications were en- 
tirely completed, and the bills of material ready; but even if this 
much were done, there still rema'ned innumerable details to be 
worked out by him alone. From the latest reports it would seem 
that just now the work is going very slowly; though this is not 
unusual in metal construction at this particular stage. It is to be 
hoped that as soon as sheets and angles are on hand and the 
ii ames bent, the hull will go together with the regular rapidity of 
^all-metai construction. 
Yampa's Voyage. 
The following particulars of the voyage of the schooner Yampa, 
Mr. R. S. Palmer, f roni New York to Gibraltar, are from a letter 
written by one of the yachtsmen who made the passage in her. 
About 9 A. M. on Thursday, Jan. 17, we were taken in tow by the 
tug Atwood off the. foot of Twenty-sixth street. East River, New 
York, and started down the river for our long cruise. Good-bye 
was said onlv by the policeman on the pier and a solitary figure on 
the U. S. S. New Hampshire. It was a long pull against the tide, 
down the Bay, around the Southwest Spit and to the Scotland, 
where the tug dropped us, and coming alongside took off Mr. Pal- 
mer and the two or three who had spent the night aboard. The 
wind was N. W., and we hoisted our new sails for the first time, 
first the foresail, then the forestaysail, then the mainsail; and, 
when all were well sweated up, we up helm and let her go about 
S. E. bv S., wind about W. N. W., fired our gun and put out the 
log. The Atwood waited until we were some miles away, and then 
turned back toward the dinners and dances. 
About 3 P. M. the wind shifted to N. W., we took in the foresail 
and set squaresail, a big sail mostly bonnet. Strong breeze and 
plenty of sea. 
Jan. 18. During the night we entered the Gulf Stream, and it 
warmed up considerably; water in the morning, 70 degrees. Dur- 
ing the evening the wind, which had shifted to W., came out 
strong, and we two-reefed the mainsail and single-reefed the 
foresail and took the bonnet out of the forestaysail. One hundred 
and ninety-nine miles. 
Jan. 19. The same, only worse, but at all events the wind was 
fair, and although putting us too far to the soutn'ard, was bring- 
ing us at the same time into warmer weather, In the afternoon a 
sea boarded us and stove our nice new lifeboat, but not very 
badly. At 6 P. M. we had run 500 from the Scotland. Stowed 
mainsail and set main trysail during the night. Two hundred 
and forty-six miles. 
Jan. 20. A full gale and still scudding before it. The mate 
wanted to heave to, but the skipper said, "No; let her go on and 
we will soon run into fine weather. ' At 11:30 put out oil-bag on 
the weather (port) cathead, boat being much more free of water 
afterward. About noon, sighted a bark bound west under low 
topsails and forestaysail only. Two hundred and sixty-one miles. 
Jan. 21.— Weather somewhat more moderate, able to show a 
little more sail during the day, but reefed down again as night 
came on. About noon showed our ensign to a tramp who hoisted 
answering pennant and red ensign in reply. At 7:20 P. M. had 
run off 1,009 miles. Two nundred and seventeen miles. 
Jan. 22. Weather decidedly better, but sea so bad that we did 
not dare set mainsail, so shook reef out of foresail and set topsail 
over it. Later on. we lowered trysail and set a reefed mainsail 
again. Had run so far south that the course was north of east, 
and with the wind N. W. could not set squaresaiL In afternoon 
wind hacked to W.; down foresail and set- squaresail again with- 
out bonnet. Two hundred and seventeen miles. 
Jan. 23. Wind still W. and under double-reefed mainsail and 
squaresail only. Squaresail chafed a hole by grinding against the 
forestay, so lowered and patched it; set trysail instead or two- 
reefed mainsail for the night. One hundred and ninety-six miles. 
Jan. 24. Again lowered squaresail to mend it, another hole hav- 
ing chafed through during the night. Lost rotator of patent log, 
bitten off. During the eveningwindwent to N.N. W. took in square- 
sail and set foresail, staysail and jib. Beautiful weather. One 
hundred and seventy-nine miles. 
Jan. 25. Whole sail this morning, mainsail, foresail, staysail, jib 
and both topsaiis; wind N., a nice breeze. Boat making from 12 
1-2 to 13 knots quite easily. Saw a whale at noon, quite close 
aboard. From noon to 8 P. M. ran 100 1-2 knots. Clewed no fore 
and main topsails at sundown. At midnight took in mainsail, 
which was only slattine in a calm, and set trysail. Wind shifting 
around to N., then to N. E., and falling very light. One hundred 
and sixty-one miles. 
Jan. 26. Wind N. E. and light, but heavy swell from east'd. 
Little or no progress. Two vessels in sight, square-riggers bound 
E. One hundred and forty-nine miles. 
Jan 29. Wind still from east'd, no progress. Wind ' freshened, 
stowed trysail and set two-reefed mainsail, shaking out the reefs 
after a while and setting topsails. Wind working around to S. E., 
so we are on starboard tack. Stowed topsails, as usual, at sun- 
down. vSlow progress all night. Fifty-nine miles. 
Jan. 28 Heayv sea this morning, ym i. Hinder lower sails. Main- 
sail slatted, so turned in double reef at 9:30. The course has 
brought yacht further north than she should be. and going further 
all the time; but not enough to pay for tacking. Squally and 
raining all night. One hundred and fifty-miles. 
Jan. 39. Shook out reefs this morning, and are now under plain 
sail except that, we have not used our flying jib yet, it is still in the 
locker. Early in the afternoon the wind shifted to S. W. light, 
but we are now on our course. Stowed mainsail at sundown and 
set maintrysail; at 10 P. M. lowered and stowed foresail. Heavy 
sea and no wind. Yacht tumbles about a good deal, and her sails, 
trysail and two headsails, do not steady her much. One hundred 
and twenty-three miles. 
Jan. 30. Wind around to N. W., light. All sail set again, includ- 
ing topsails, but making only two to three knots; 2 P. M., wind 
backed to S. W. and came in a good breeze; sea smoothing down 
some. Ten knots now. Wind increasing, between 7 and 9 P. M. 
reeled off 20 1-2 knots. At 10 P. M. clewed up and furled topsails; 
wind increasing all the time and sea getting up astern. At mid- 
night double-reefed mainsail. Fifty-nine miles. 
Jan. 31. Wind still S. W., but a little more moderate. Under 
two-reefed mainsail, foresail, forecopsail, fore staysail and jit), 
and making fine time. Maintopsail got loose during the night and 
slammed around some, but was finally lashed down outside the 
lee rigging. Repaired clewline, which had parted, in the morn- 
ing, and furled ^ail down in its proper place. Abreast of Pico, 
At 2:30 wind shifted from S. W. to W. Furled jib to keep it from 
slatting to pieces. 5 P. M.: clewed up foretopsail and took bon- 
net off forestaysail. Azimuth for compass this afternoon, for 
first time; compass correct. Rigged out starboard chain' and 
anchor. At sundown shifted mainsail for trysail, as we must 
heave to soon or overrun our port. Hove to at 10:30 on starboard 
tack under forestaysail (no bonnet), double-reefed foresail and. 
no trysail. Wind shifted during the night to N. N. W., coming 
in hard with plenty of sea. Barometer sliding down like a tobog- 
gan. This weather. N. N. W., is bad, for the islands; and is s;en- 
erally accompanied by heayv rain squalls, as in our case. Two 
hundred and forty-six miles. 
Feb. 1. 4 A. M. Wore around and headed for our port, which 
bore N. by E., so we are on port tack, within 5 points of the wind, 
and doing some tall jumping. About 8:30 stghted the highlands 
of the islands, and after a time made out St. Michaels right over 
