April 13, 18»5. 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
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New York Rifle Club. 
New York, April 3.— This club held its regular shoot to-day at 
Zettler's. The following scores were made by the members pres- 
ent. Off-hand. German Rirjg Target. Distance Toft. Any rifle, 
sights and trigger-pull. Two best scores counted: R. J. Young. 
71, 347, 348; A. H. Isbell, 69. 215, 345; D. Crocker, 61, 341, 245; E. B. 
Barker, 58, 238, 240; C. E. Gensch, 66. 
K. J. YOUNG, Sec. N. Y. R. C. 
Dr. Stillman's Marksmanship. 
Syracuse, N, Y., March 30.— I send you a fine score made by our 
crack shot. Dr. A. A. Stillman, of the Tndoor Shooting Club, with 
a 23 cal, rifle, 10 she's, off-hand. 75ft. For a good cluster we think 
it would be a hard one 1o beat. The doctor recently closed a run 
of 31G consecutive bull's-eyes. Score: 
Dr. Stillmaun— 35, 35, 25, 35, 25, 25, 25, 25. 24, 21—248. 
R. RO BOTH AM. Sec. 
National Sharpshooters' Union. 
Tlie following item will be of interest to sharpshooters in every 
part of the Union: "The National Sharpshooters' Union tourna- 
ment, to be held at Glendale, L. I,, from June 30 to July 8, is ex- 
pected to be the largest affair of its kind ever held in this coun- 
try. Plans for this tournament have been making for two years. 
A large fund has been guaranteed to defray the expenses of the 
shoot. All contests will be open to all comers, with the exception 
of the Honor Target competition." 
They Broke the Record. 
New York. April 1.— At midnight last Saturday a notable 15-day 
shooting tournament was concluded at the rifle range of the Man- 
hattan Athletic Club. It will probably go on record as one of the 
famous events of 1895, for it was a closely contested match from 
start to finish, and Captain James S. Conlin, under whose super- 
vision it was shot, declares that the winners of the first and second 
prizes have broken all previous records at the distance, and under 
similar conditions. The conditions of the match were: Go-as- 
you-please competition, open to all; ten shots to a target, 3 best 
targets to win first prize, 3 second best, second prize, 23 caliber 
rifles with globe and peep sights were used. The distance was 
125ft., and the standard decimal targets were proportinately re- 
duced, making it equal to a 200 yard range. In order to fully un- 
derstand what shooting at this distance means, it is well to state 
that to make ten points the rifleman must put his shot inside of a 
circle that a ten-cent piece would cover. To score 90 points, or 
over, every shot must, go within a circle that a fifty-cent piece 
would cover. The prizes— a gold badge to the first, and a silver 
one to th 1 second man are both of the same unique design— a tar- 
get encircled by a wreath, bearing in colors the club emblem on 
its face. It is pendant from a pair of crossed rifles. The bar 
which surmounts them bears the words "First prize" and "Second 
prize," and upon the lower circle of the target the club initials 
' -N. M. A. C." appear. The winner of the gold badge wbs Herbert 
R. Limburger, and of the silver one Captain James C. Summers. 
The six winning targets score as follows: Limburger 94. 95, 97; 
Summers 90, 91, 93. J. S. CONLIN. 
Petty and Paine- 
Messrs. Paine and Petty had a friendly talk with reference to 
their proposed revolver match April 3, at the Manhattan Athletic 
Club. Arrangements will probably be made to shoot the match 
early in Ma/. 
Mr. Paine also broached the subject of a team shoot between 
Boston and New York Marksmen, suggesting five or ten men to a 
side. 
The visit of the English half-rater is now assured, and it only 
remains for the committee of the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. C. to per- 
fect the details of the races with Mi. Brand, a matter which is 
likely to be easily settled. The letters which we have received on 
the subject from all quarters show the widespread interest which 
this new international race has awakened. Mr. Brand's new boat 
will be named Spruce IV.; an error was made in reading his first 
cablegram, the word Minima being interpreted as the name of the 
new boat instead of the club in whose name the challenge would 
be made. 
On Monday of next week a very important gathering of racing 
men will take place at the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. Chouse in New 
York, for the purpose of organizing an association of the Long 
Island Sound clubs. Of the many attempts made in the past for 
the formation of a union of New York clubs, all but one have 
been complete failures; and that, in its six years of existence has 
scored but a moderate success; and has entirely failed in uniting 
other than a certain class of clubs devoted to the racing of open 
boats of the old type. The new movement is started with no at- 
tempt to pass the natural barrier of Hell Gate and 1 he East River, 
but to encourage racing among the rapidly-increasing clubs east 
of the Gate. Thus far the initiatory movement has been well 
managed and has met with general favor, and the meeting next 
week is likely to result in a union on such a basis as may lead to 
permanency. 
In establishing a challenge trophy, the yachtsmen of Sau Fran- 
cisco have encountered much thelsame difficulties as beset the 
special committee of the New York Y. C. in 1889, in drawing up 
the new deed of gift of the America's cup. The San Francisco 
men, however, have dealt with the matter in a broad and liberal 
spirit, calculated to give fair play to both challenger and defend- 
er, and the limits which they propose, for size of competing boats 
and measurement rules to govern the races, will probably result 
in the avoidance of unseemly;disputes in the future, or of the 
practical nullification of the terms in a few years. 
Mr. C. Oliver Iselein has confirmed the report, for sometime cur- 
rent, tha t the new cup defender will be plated with Parsons' Man- 
ganese bronze, the material used bylthe Cramps for propeller 
wheels, but beyond this the dimensions are as yet absolutely un- 
known. It seems probable, however, that when they are known 
the Boston Herald will be able to claim, as usual, the honor of 
having first published them. This enterprising journal has al- 
ready made four different guesses, and there will probably be 
time for half a dozen more before the boat is afloat, and visible to 
other than a select few. The Herald's guesses are as follows: 
Jan. 2S, beam 33ft. 6in.; MarchI16, beam 33ft. ?in.; March 17, beam 
27ft.; April 3, beam 23ft. 3in. 
From the Herald's latest story, it appears that some wicked 
persons in the Herreshoff shops set up a couple of angle frames 
with a "fake" cross spall, showing a breadth of 37ft.; which meas- 
urement was in some way obtained by the Herald, and published 
as authentic. Last week the doors of the shop were opened to 
admit a boiler for a steam ya'cbt, allowing a Herald man an op- 
portunity to spy under a piece of canvas hung over the bows, and 
to see, "by marks by which the beam dimensions could be got at," 
that the boat would be exactly 33ft. 3in. wide. This sounds very 
much as though the Herald has been allowed once more to fool 
itself; a very easy matter for people even less shrewd than the 
Herreshoffs. 
YACHT NEWS NOTES. 
Willoda. cat. has been sold by W. G. Newman to Mr. Pelliam. 
of New Rochelle. ^ 
A regular meeting of the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. C. was held on 
AorilS, with Vice-Corn. Rouse in the chair. Com. Benedict being 
absent on a cruise. On motion of Mr. Wetmore, of the Racing 
Committee, the special committee on uniform racing rules, ap- 
pointed at the previous meeting, was requested to report as soon 
as possible on the desirability of an immediate adoption of a 
classification by racing length. 
A letter was read from the Gas Engine & Power Co., calling 
attention to the proposed bill calling for licensed officers on 
naphtha launches, and the following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved. That any law requiring the employment of licensed 
engineers for the management of naphtha or electric launches 
would be injudicious, unnecessary and oppressive. And be it re- 
solved that a committee of three be appointed by the chair with 
power to make such representations and take such action in the 
name of and in behalf of this club as may to them seem advisable 
a 'id proper to prevent the passage of any act tor that purpose. 
Messrs. J. Langdon Wood, J. F. Tarns and L. F. d'Oremieulx 
were appointed on the committee. Messrs. Sherman and Wet- 
more reported that cable messages had been received from Mr. 
J. A. Brand, sta'ing that he would challenge for the new cup in 
the name of the Minima Y. C. with a new half-rater. Spruce IV. 
Unquowu, steam yacht, has been sold by the estate of the late 
O. B. Jennings to J. H. Hall, of Hartford, Conn. 
The schooner Adrienne, W. A. Gordon, and the sloop Nepenthe, 
C. P. Richardson, of the Southern Y. C, New Orleans, are now in 
home waters after a winter cruise to Nassau and Cuba, respect- 
ively. 
At the regular meeting of the O wasco Y. C. the following officers 
were elected: 
Com., Charles E. Thome; Vice-Corn.. Douglas Beardsley; Fleet 
Capt., Willard E. Case; Meas., Shirley F. Stupp; Sec. and Treas., 
Clarence U. Chedell. 
The appointment of the Regatta Committee was deferred until 
the return of the commodore, who has the appointing power. 
The annual regatta will be sailed on July 4, 1895. 
The club is anticipating a very active season with good racing. 
Its fleet now includes the fin-keels El Chico, Nemad jy and Asp." 
At the annual meeting of the Yapewi Aquatic Club, of Borden- 
town. N. J., the following officers were elected: Pres., Rev. Elvin 
S. Taylor; Vice-Pres.. Robert S. Murphy; Sec, J. B. Reynolds; 
Purser. Charles E. Burr; Capt.. Philip F. H. Brakeley; Mate, 
Louis W. Wiese; Directors, Fred G. Wiese, Fred W. Taylor. H. H. 
Brakeley. E. Haas, Jr. and S. W. Beldon. The latch string is al- 
ways out to visiting yachtsmen and canoeists. 
Early_ next month Harper & Bro. will publish a new hand-book 
of navigation, by Mr. W. J. Henderson, the well-known writer on 
yachting and other topics. The book is designed expressly for be- 
ginners, and covers the whole subject up to "Sumner's method," 
in a plain, concise and practical manner; explaining each step in 
detail. It will be entitled "The Elements of Navigation," and 
will contain about one hundred and fifty pages, pocket size. Mr. 
Henderson, who was formerly yachting editor of the New York 
Times, has devoted much time to the study of na vigation, and the 
result of his labors is likely to prove most valuable to those re- 
quiring an elementary but complete hand-book. 
A Distinguished Visitor. 
There arrived in New York last week, on the Berlin, the one- 
rater Shrimp, designed and built last season by Sibbick, of Cowes, 
for Capt. Orr Ewing. Shrimp was not launched until the latter 
part of August, but in the remaining races of the season she start- 
ed 15 times, taking 13 firsts and 3 other prizes. Her new owner is 
Mr. Chas. M. Pratt, of Brooklyn, a member of the Seawanhaka 
Cor. Y. C, who will race her this season. She is a sister boat to 
the one-rater. Wave, owned by Mr. Barber, and is about l8f t. 6in. 
l.w.l., with 330sq. ft. sail area. 
An Imitation " Fake." 
Those who are familiar with the wonderful and impossible sto- 
ries set afloat by the Boston Herald, and the extravagant and 
boastful style which characterizes all of them, will appreciate the 
following clever skit in which the Boston Globe ridicules the 
Herald's recent achievements in publishing false dimensions of 
the cup defender: 
The balloon and other light sails of the new Herreshoff cup de- 
fender will be of rubber. 
This is the latest development of Herreshoff genius in its search 
for things to beat the wily Englishman or the canny Scot. 
Even more extraordinary precautions have been taken to guard 
the secret at the Bristol rubber works, where the cup defender's 
sails arQ being made, than were taken at the company's shops to 
guard the secret of the design and construction of the boat, yet 
the Globe is able to penetrate that secret and give its readers the 
facts about the sails and the real reasons for having a loft outside 
the shops. 
There was a. tuirglar alarm, but the Globe did not tread on the 
wire, eh, Mr Herreshoff? 
There were watchmen, but they were not "foxy" enough for the 
Globe man. Mr. Designer, how about that? 
The statement bv a contemporary that the hiring of the loft, at 
the rubber works did not mean that the sai s were to be made of 
rubber, was evidently a "blind" thrown out by the Herreshoffs, 
for while it is true that rubber would not be suitable for the sails 
used in going to windward, because it would stretch too much, vtt 
it is also true that this very quality of stretching would make it 
most valuable for the sails used in reaching or in running before 
the wind. 
A great idea, and only a few inches out from your view, eh, Mr. 
Superintendent? 
But poRsihly those few inches may be accounted for by the 
stretching of the rubber. 
All yachtsmen know the value of a big spread of sail in going 
before the wind, and every one who has seen a race has felt the 
effect and appreciated the usefulness as well as the beauty of the 
swelling spinaker reaching from topmast head to tapering end 
of spinnaker boom, and apparently doubling at once the boat's 
propelling power. 
So, too, has admiration been fixed on the bulging expanse of the 
balloon jib-topsail on the opposite side, catching the wind which 
escapes from the spinnaker, and utilizing the last ounce of its 
force. 
How much'more, then, would the usefulness and beauty of these 
splendid sails be enhanced if they could be made of some elastic 
material, which should allow them to increase in area, and, con- 
sequently, in propulsive power, in proportion to the force of the 
wind. j 
Rules for sail area measurement could be laughed to scorn. 
Competitors with old-fashioned sails could be left far behind. A 
good thing. Push it along! 
But what material? l_. 
Let us think. 
Ah! Rubber! The very thing! Make the sails of gossamer 
weight, strong, yet light, and very elastic, rope them stoutly along 
foot, luff and leach, and there would lie wings which would stretch 
to double their ordinary pulling power; which would defy wind 
or water to destroy; which would ensure successful cup defense 
unless, indeed. Lord Dunravenl hould stipulate that all the races 
be wholly to windward instead i simply starting that way. 
Cried the designer, eureka!^: 
Pretty close to your idea, eh,?gentlemen of the*company? Not 
more than plus inches out of the way? 
But, however! These newspaper fellows must "not know. 
Let us think again. 
Ah! again an idea! Hire a loft in the rubber works. Let it be 
understood that it was hired because there was no room to make 
the big sails in our ^own tshops. Make our rubber sails here in 
secret, and let the newspaper -.fellows fool themselves with the 
idea that duck'was really the material. 
Again, eureka! $ ; 
A pretty trap into which the esteemed contemporary appears to 
have fallen in its mention of the foolishness of the report of rub- 
ber sails. 
But the Globe is too smart to he caught in that way, and now 
gives its readers, as it promised, the facts in the matter. 
And in its turn it can confidently cry. eureka! 
If the Herreshoffs have not bad these ideas, and are not now 
making the spinnaker, balloon jip-topsail and an extra club top- 
sail of rubber, then the Globe will patent them as its own. 
The top of the morning to you. Mr. Herreshoff, and may your 
shadow on those rubber sails never grow less. 
One enterprising New York paper was misled into printing the 
above "news" as true. 
Isolde. 
The German fin-keel, 20-rater, building at the Herreshoff shops 
for Prince LeoDold of Hohenzollcrn,;has been named Isolde. An 
attempt to launch her was made on March 30, but she stuck on 
the ways, and the aid of a tug only served to haul her clear of the 
big doors. She was finally launched next day, and will be tried 
this week. Her skipper, Capt. Ben Parker, with Tom Diaper, Jr., 
son of Vigilant's pilot, as mate. Capt. Parker is one of the best 
skippers of small craft in English waters, having sailed Mr. Hills 
30-rater the three Dragons with great success. The yacht will be 
shipped at once to Kiel, but in August she will visit Cowes, where 
she will meet the new Gould 20 Niagara, sailed by Capt. John 
Barr, as well as the British. 20-raters, Isolde's dimensions, as given, 
are: Over all, 65ft.; l.w.l., 46ft.; beam, 13ft.; draft, lift. 
Vigilant,. and Colonia. 
^Vigilant will sail very soon from Southampton for New York, 
with Capt. Chas, Barr in command. She will be yawl-rigged, as 
on the eastward passage, but the centerboard siot has been tem- 
porarily blocked. The new centerboard is now ready at Bristol, 
and will be shipped in the trunk on her arrival at New York. 
The yacht is now the sole property of Com. George Gould, who 
has purchased the half-interest of his brother. Mr. E. A. Willard 
will be in charge of her through the season, and she will be raced 
steadily. 
Capt. Hank Haff has secured twenty-five Americans from the 
fishermen of Deer Island, Maine, as the nucleus of the crew for 
the new cup defender, and next week he will take charge of 
Colonia, fitting her out and sailing her in the earlv races until the 
new boat is ready, when the crew will be transferred to her. 
Capt, James Berry, of Katrina and Wasp, will be first mate on 
Colonia and the now boat. 
A Summer Afloat. 
PART IV. 
(Concluded from Page 277.) 
Af tev dinner we went ashore, leaving our dinghy hauled up on 
the float at. the pier. We took a long walk, turning eastward down 
the road that runs out to Chauncey's Creek. There are any num- 
ber of beautiful views of the harbor from this road, and we were 
impressed with the beauty of the country as well. 
It seemed to us, that in time Kittery was destined to be a very 
popular summer resort. We retraced our footsteps to the post- 
office, then went on to Fort McClary, and spent an hour or more 
in this picturesque old place. 
The government started to build a magnificent stone fort here, 
and the work so far as it has gone is very massive. Huge guns 
lie around on the green grass, and here and there are great piles 
of solid shot and shell. Some of the temporary buildings put up 
for the shelter of the men while at work on the fortifications are 
rapidly falling into ruins. 
The octagonal building, which is so prominent a lanct maik 
when coming up the bay, was built as a citadel, to which the work- 
men and garrison could flee if attacked by a land force before fch« 
fort proper was completed. 
The position' of the fort is a commanding one. and it is well 
worth the climb up to it to get the magnificent view of the har- 
bor, obtainable from the ramparts, i fe- i 
Before going on board again we bought some supplies at the 
stores, but forgot to get bread. I discovered this oversight almost 
immediately after reaching the yacht, and went back alone for it, 
leaving F. on board. 
I had rowed about half the distance from the yacht to the shore, 
when I heard the sailor on the Eda shout, and saw him gesticu- 
lating as though calling attention to something in the water be- 
yond them. I turned and pulled quickly in that direction, and 
learned that a roan had just fallen off from a small sail-boat and 
drowned. It seems he was a lobster man, and had just sold some 
lobsters up the creek, where he also procured some whisky and 
proceeded to imbibe it. He was lying on the rail of the little half- 
decked boat, drifting idly down the harbor with the ebbing tide. 
There was scarcely a breath of air stirring, but the swell of a 
passing steamer gave the boat a sudden lurch and over he rolled, 
sinking apparently without a struggle. 
A number of boats, from vessels in the harbor and from shore 
soon collected, and watched for any appearance of the body, but 
all gave it up after a little while, as the tide was running quite 
swiftly, and there was no chance at all that they could find it. 
We had a quiet night, except that the steamers running from 
Kitterry to Portsmouth ran very close to us and ihe sharp'swells 
they made were very annoying. We made up our minds that we 
would anchor more to the eastward, or about half-way between 
Logy Ledge and Gooseberry Island, if we ever came here again. 
We turned out at five o'clock next morning, and by 6.30 were 
dropping down the harbor on the ebb tide with a very light breeze 
from south-west, which died out almost entirely as we passed 
Whaleback Light and the bell buoy. After rounding the bell we 
laid our course N. N. E. for York River, passing close to- the spin- 
dle on Stones Rocks. The haze of the day before continued, and 
objects on shore, were verv indistinct. 
The sea href ze seemed to be contending with one off from tb 
land, and our sails would draw first on one side and then on W 
other. In half an hour after turning the bell buoy, where we h 
the wind aft, we were running close hauled on the same fours, 1 
The westerly wind finally prevailed, but it was very light till we 
passed Scales Head, when it began to freshen and we tacked up 
the river to Rocks Nose, with our lee rail awash. 
We dropped our anchor in the cove below Rocks Nose at eleven 
o clock, having made but nine miles in four hours and a half. 
After making everything snug on board and changing our 
clothes, we rowed up to the landing near the Marshall House 
pulled the dinghy out on to the float, and walked up the river to 
the old village of York. The sun was very hot. but we enjoyed, 
nevertheless, the mile tramp along the smooth country road to 
Coventry Hall, where we had a good home dinner, a very welcome 
change from our own cooking. 
In the afternoon we lounged under the apple trees smoking and 
chatting, till the lengthening shadows warned us it was time to 
return to the yacht. 
We promised our friends before departing that if the mormw 
should be fair, we would take them all out for a sail, and would 
meet them at the landing with the dinghy at 9 A. M. 
We walked leisurely back to the river, enjoying every step of 
