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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[SbpT. 5, 1886 
Judge Thompson, of Louisville, Ky., recently rendered 
the following decision in the case of a wheelman arrested 
for riding on the sidewalk where the street was in bad 
condition. He said: 
"In these cases the burden is on the defendants to prove 
that the road is actually in such condition as to render it 
unsafe for his bicycle to pass; this is not in justification, 
but in mitigation of the offense, for even where such con- 
dition exists it gives him no legal right to ride on the 
sidewalk except by rule of necessity, which must be justi- 
fied in each case by the fact, and then it does not author- 
ize him to ride at all if the sidewalk is occupied by pedes- 
trians; he should dismount and pass the obstruction on 
foot wherever the sidewalk is frequented by pedestrians. 
In the business part of the city — crowded thorough- 
fares — ^he has no right whatever to ride on the sidewalk 
at any time, nor for any purpose. 
"Women and children, and old and infirm per- 
sons, have a right to pass along the sidewalks not only 
free from danger of collision with bicycles, but free from 
apprehension from such danger. 
"The proof, I think, shows conclusively in these cases 
that the roadway was in an unsafe condition for bicycles 
to pass, by reason of its being out of repair and being 
deluged with water so as to render it dangerous, even im- 
passable, to this vehicle, and that the neighboring streets 
were in no better condition, and it does not appear at 
what rate of speed the defendants were riding, nor 
whether the sidewalk was or was not occupied by pedes- 
trians: under these circumstances I think it would be un- 
just to assess a fine in this case, and they are dismissed. 
"I think it the duty of the city to regulate the sprink- 
ling of the screets so as to keep them reasonably safe for 
the passage of this vehicle, as well as others," 
WHEEL ON THE BRAIN. 
"Mr. Starr," said the manager, "you positively must 
quit letting your mind dwell so much on your wheel." 
"Eh? Why?" asked the tragedian, 
"Perhaps you are not aware of it, but in the third act, 
where you should have cried, 'Ye gods, I am stabbed!' 
you shouted, 'I am punctured.'" — Cincinnati Enquirer. 
THE FAIR SCOKCHER. 
A willowy form, 
A steed of steel, 
A firm control 
Of the whirling wheel. 
A glint of ribbons, 
Of hose, of lace, 
A healthy glow on 
A pretty face. 
A graceful movement, 
A bewitching smile — 
And the girl is down 
The road — a mile. 
Salt Lalce City Herald, 
FIXTURES. 
S Indicates races sailed by the Yacht Racing Union of L. I. Sound. 
M indicates races sailed by the Yacht Racing Ass'n of Massachusetts, 
SEPTBMBER. 
8 5. Stamford, An., Stamford, L. I. Sound. 
5. Larchmont, special, Larchmont, L. I. Sound. 
M 6. South Boston, open, City Point, Boston Harbor, 
5. Beverly, 4th open sweeps, Buzzard's Bay. 
6. Winthrop, sail, Great Head, Boston Harbor. 
7. New York Y. R. A., An., New York Bay. 
7. Beverly, open, Buzzard's Bay. 
7. Larchmont, fall regatta, Larchmont, L. L Sound, 
M7. Lynn, open, Lynn, Boston Harbor. 
M7. Old Colony, open, Nahant. 
8 7. Norwalk, open, Norwalk, L. L Sound. 
7. Hempstead, open. 
7. Toledo, open, Toledo, Lake Erie. 
10-13. Cleveland, open regattas, Cleveland, LakelErie. 
12. Beverly, 5th cham,, Buzzard's Bay. 
12. Hull, club, Hull, Boston Harbor. 
8 12. Indian Harbor, special, Greenwich, L. I. Sound. 
12. Larchmont, special, Larchmont, L. I. Sound. 
8 12. Sea Cliff, special, Sea Cliff, L. L Sound. 
12. Squantum, Burkhardt cup, Squantum, Mass. 
18. Chicaero, open, Chicago, Lake Michigan. 
16. Atlantic City, mosquito class, Atlantic City. 
18. Hempstead, closing day. \ 
19. Eastern, knockabout class, Marblebead. 
8 19. American, fall regatta, Milton Point, L. I.' Sound. 
26. Hull, club, Hull, Boston Harbor. ' ' 
8 26. JKlverslde, special. Riverside, L. I. Sound. •• 
26. Squantum, Burkhardt cup, Squantum, Moss, 
OCTOBKR. 
Cor. Atlantic City, mosquito class, Atlantic City. 
A NEW CLASS OF SAILING CRAFT. 
The steam or power craft is displacing the sailing yacht 
more rapidly each year, and it is hard to say where the in- 
jury to yacht sailing is the most felt, in the abandonment in 
favor of steam yachts of 500 to 1,500 tons of a compara- 
tively limited number of large yachts, such as the schooners 
Intrepid and Lasca, or in the rapidly increasing use by 
yachtsmen of limited means of small power craft such as 
the naphtha, the alcohol and the kerosene driven launches 
and even cabin yachts. In the case of the very large craft 
there is a certain compensation, small, it is true, but still bet- 
ter than nothing, in the prevailing fashion of carrying a fleet 
of small sailing craft at the davits; the large English steam 
yachts are all thus pquipped, and the fashion is likely to be- 
come popular in this country as well. It is a good thing ia 
that it at least keeps up a love of sailing and adds to the rac- 
ing fleet in the smaller classes. Several yachts of this type 
have been seen here in tbc last two years, notably the Payne 
prater Sagamore, earned by the yacht of thaf name; the 1- 
rater Wave, carried at the davits of Sapphire, and tne l-rater 
May, both built by Sibbick, that swung from the davits of 
White Ladye last year. 
The 8palding-St. Lawrence Boat Co. have now nearly 
completed a sailing yacht that will have her mooring.s at 
the davits of the steam yacht Intrepid as soon as her owner, 
Mr Lloyd Phoenix, returns for his Mediterranean cruise. 
The yacht, which was designed by W. P. Stephens, ia in- 
tended for afternoon sailing, fishing, etc , when the steam 
yacht is at anchor, and will not be raced, but the dimensions 
are fitted for the 20ft. racing length class. She is 19ft. on 
the waterline, with 3ft. overhang forward, giving a hand- 
tome stem of the Queen Mab style, and 4ft. aft, making 
26ft. over all. The beam is 7ft. and the draft of hull llin. 
The lines are round and full, but very fair throughout. At 
the expense of the extreme lightness considered necessary 
for a racing craft, the hull has been made specially strong, 
as it will swing from davits, the links being of necessity 
very near the ends; and every effort baa been made to finish 
the yacht in a style that will fit with her larget consort. The 
hull is double planked, the bottom jiainted white above the 
water and green below; the planksheer, wales, transom 
and deck fittings are of teak, the wales ornamented 
with trailboards and geld stripe. The deck is of white 
pine, laid after the Scotch fashion, with seams payed 
with marine glue. There are two watertight bulk- 
heads, both double-skin, spaced 7ft. apart; with deck 
hatches to the end compartments. The frames are of oak 
crooks with intermediate frames of steamed rock elm. The 
centerboard, of the knife pattern, is of fin. Tobin bronze 
weighing about IGOlbs. and the rudder is of the same mate- 
rial. The yacht will be sloop rigged, with 380sq. ft. of sail, 
or considerably under her allowance for racing at the top of 
the class. A short bowsprit is carried, the inboird end se- 
cured by a handsome casting of manganese bronze, forming 
bitts for the anchor line and also carrying the forward lift- 
ing eye for the davit hook, all in a single piece. The spars 
are hollow, mast 20ft. deck to hounds, boom 21ft. 6in., gaff 
13ft. 6in., bowsprit 3ft. outboard. The sails are of 5oz, cot- 
ton. The backbone of the boat consists of an edge keelson 
extending as far fore and aft as possible and deep enough to 
form the greater part of the trunk, there being a mortise 
through it for the centerboard. In addition the oak keel is 
specially stiffened in the wake of the lifting links at each 
end, and numerous small braces are used, from the bilge 
clamps to the deck beams, making a very strong hull. The 
rig, boom and gall mainsail and jib, is fitted to unship and 
stow quickly, the mast being stepped in a tight copper tube. 
The builders have exerted themselves in turning out a spe- 
cially fine piece of work both in general construction and fin- 
ish. 
Canada-Vencedor Matches. 
TOLEDO, LAKE KRIB. 
Aug. 3U-S5-36. 
Thrice this year has Canada met the representatives of the States 
on the water, and thrice has she proved the victor. This reversal of 
the usual order of things in international racing between the United 
States and the British Empire is not only far from gratifying to the 
national pride, but in all three contests of the 15tt. class for the Sea- 
wanhaka cup, in which Qlencairn was the Victor; in the sailing races 
of the A. C. A,, in which the honors of the year went to the Canadian 
canoe Mab, and in the race of last week at Toledo between the yachts 
Canada and Vencedor, the superiority of Canada, either in boat. In 
handling or in both combined, has been so plainly manifest as to 
leave no grounds for cavil or complaint. Added to this, the three 
series of races have been carried through with the best possible 
feeling on both sides; there have been no protests, no fouls, the 
labors of the committees have been of the lightest; and there is 
no reason to fear that either of the three defeated contestants 
will next winter inflict their woes on an innocent yachting pub- 
lic in the form of pamphlets. So far as the principals and 
yachtsmen generally are concerned, the various contests have passed 
off without the smallest shadow of trouble. As is usual, some of the 
journals on both sides, both log and technical, have endeavored to 
provoke international ill feeling by empty boasting and groundless 
complaints; but thus far with no success, as they have apparently 
failed to waken a responsive chord in the hearts of yachtsmen. 
The history of the match, which was decided last week, has been 
told in detail throughout the year in the Fobkst and Strbam, and need 
only be recapitulated here. The Racine Boat Co. is a new concern, 
recently started in Bacine, Wis., that city of numerons but short- 
lived yacht building companies. The new concern has been managed 
with considerable energy from the start, and early in the year 
engaged as its superintendent and designer Theodore S. Poeckel, a 
German who had been in the employ of the Herreahoffs for some 
years. One of their first orders was from Messrs. Edward C. and 
Matthew Berriman, of the Lincoln Park Y. C. of Chicago, former 
owners of the centerboard cutter Valiant, Messrs. Berriman decided 
in building the first yacht of the extreme bulb-fin type on the lakes, 
practically a copy of Howard Gould's 20-rater Niagara. The design 
was made by Mr. Poeckel, the leading dimensions being 63tt. over all, 
45tt. l.w.l, 12ft. beam and 10ft, draft; the hull being shallow, with a 
very deep fin. 
After the yacht had been commenced on this basis, Com. Berriman 
and the Lincoln Park Y. C. opened negotiations with the Royal Cana- 
dian Y. C. of Toronto for a series of matches between Vencedor, the 
new Chicago yacht, and a yacht of the R. C. "i: . C. fleet. The R. C. Y. C, 
after carefully considering the challenge, replied in substance that, 
wliile willing to race, it had in its fleet no yacht of sufBcient size to 
meet Vencedor, and that it was not willing to build for one special 
match a yacht which from her size would have no class in the Lake 
Ontario racing, and fmm her draft could not be used at all on the 
Lake. It offered, however, to make a match with a yacht of its 
largest existing class, 42ft. racing length, provided the measurements 
of the challenging yacht were limited. The Ohicaeo yachtsmen ac- 
cepted this compromise in a very liberal spirit, and finally a meeting 
of the joint committee of the two clubs was held at Detroit on May 9, 
at which the following agreement was drawn up: 
1. L P. Y. C.'s Representative.— The Vencedor, representing the 
Lincoln Park Y. C, is to be the boat spoken of in the negotialiona 
for the race, and referred to in the recital of conditions as to the 
size in the letter from the R. 0. Y. O. to the L. P. Y. 0., dated Feb. 
S8, 1896. 
2. R. C. Y. C.'s Representative.— The boat which shall be chosen to 
represent the Royal Canadian Y. C. shall be either the yacht Zelma, of 
Hamilton, or a boat of a similar size now under construction, but not 
yet named, the name of the yacht selected to be communicated to the 
L, P. Y. 0. at least one week before the race. 
3. Size of Vencedor.— The Vencedor's length on l.w.l shall not be 
less than 43ft., and her corrected length— to be ascertained as herein- 
after mentioned— shall not exceed 45rt. ; but should it be ascertained 
on measurement that this length is exceeded, double time allowance 
shall be given on such excess, but in no event shall such excess ex- 
ceed 3^f t. 
4. Size of B. C. Y. C. Representative.— The boat which shall be 
selected by the B. C. Y. C. and its representative shall if possible not 
exceed 43ft. c.l., but in no event shall it exceed 42J^ft. o.l. 
6. Sailing Rules.- The sailing rule« and table of time allowance 
shall be those of the New York Y. C, 1895, except where herein other- 
wise specified, 
6. Place and Date.— The races shall be sailed on Lake Erie, off To- 
ledo, O., the first race to be sailed on Monday, Aug. 24, 1896, 
7. Number of Races.— The match shall be decided by the winning 
of two out of three, or three out of five, races, as may be agreed upon, 
the number of races to be determined before June 1 next. 
8. The races shall take place on succeeding days, Sundays ex- 
cepted. 
9. Courses.— First and third races, equilateral triangle. Second, to 
windward or leeward and return. Third, to be either triangular, or 
windward or leeward and return, as shall be determined by the toss 
of a coin, and in the event of only three races being sailed the course 
for the third race shall be determined in the same way, the length of 
the course to be logged in the presence of the scrutineers. 
10. Length of Course. — The triangular races shall be twice round a 
12'knot course, making 24 knots, and the windward or leeward races 
shall he 5 knots to windward or leeward and return, twice round, 
making 20 knots. The boats shall be s«nt round the triangular course 
in such a way as to give one leg to windward. All buoys to be left to 
starboard in the windward and leeward races. 
11. Mode of Starting.- All races shall be started at 11 A. M., and 
the start shall be a flying one. At 10:30 A. M. a time gun shall be fired 
and an American ensign hoisted on the committee boat, which shall 
display no other flags than signals to the yachts. At 10:50 A. M. a 
preparatory gun shall be flred and the American ensign lowered. At 
this gun a blue Canadian ensign shall be hoisted in the triangular 
faces if all buoys— including the starting buoy — are to be kept on the 
starboard hand, and a red Canadian ensign hoisted if all buoys are to 
be kept to port. In the windward or leeward races the blue Canadian 
ensign shall be hoisted if the first course is to windward, and the red 
Canadian ensign if the first course is to leeward. At the expiration 
of ten minutes exactly the Canadian ensign shtill be hauled down and 
a third gun flred as a signal to start, from which gun the time of both 
yachts shall be taken. No time to be allowed for crossing the line. 
Should the gun miss fire tlie lowering of the flag and one lone blow of 
the whistle shall be the signal, 
13. Recall.— A yacht crossing the line before the starting signal is 
made will be recalled by five short blasts of the whistle and the hoist 
ing of her national flaer. 
13. Time Limits.— Any race not sailed in five and one-half hours by 
the winning yacht shall be resailed. 
14. Racing Committee.— A racing committee of three— none of 
whom shall be interested in either yacht — shall be appointed on or 
before July 10 next, and they shall act as judges and timekeepers and 
settle all disputes. 
15. Protests.— Protests shall be made to the racing committee in 
writing within six hours after the finish of the race. 
16. Postponements.- The racing committee shall have power to 
postpone any race and may do so whenever in their judgment the de- 
mands of fair play shall make it seem right and proper. 
17. In case of an accident to either vessel prior to the preparatory 
signal she shall immediately signal to the racing committee, who shall 
have the power to postpone the race if the accident is in their opinion 
sufliciently serious to warrant such a course, or if an accident occurs 
during a race slie shall have sufBcient time to make repairs before 
being required to start in the next race. 
18. Scrutineers. —A scrutineer shall sail on board each yacht repre- 
senting the other competing yacht, and said scrutineers must be mem- 
bers in good standing of some recognized Great Iiake yacht club and 
must not exceed in weight 1751bs. 
Each scrutineer shall make a declaration of the saUing of the yacht 
upon which he is placed within twenty-four hours- of the termination 
of a race, which report shall be rendered to the racing committee. 
Scrutineers shall be chosen by the three members of the joint commit- 
tee acting for each of the clubs represented. 
19. Crews.— This clause to be completed not later than July 10, 1896. 
20. Measurement.- The measurement of the rules for racing length 
to be made in the manner set forth in the rules of the Lake Yacht 
Racing Association for 1895-1896, these measurements to be made not 
more than two days before the race by the scrutineers representing 
the competing yachts, who shall jointly certify to the measurement 
of each yacht. A report of the measurement of each yacht shall be 
made to the racing committee at least twelve hours prior to the sail- 
ing of the first race. 
21. Measurement Protest.— If through protest the measurement of 
any yacht be called in question, the racing committee shall remeasure 
such yacht, and the result as ascertained by it shall be final. 
23. Charts of Course.— Charts of the course and instructions shall 
be given to the competing yachts not later than 7 o'clock on the morn- 
ing of the race, 
23. Sails.— The rule of the New York Y. 0. as to sails shall not be 
taken to exclude clubtopsails. 
24. Boats.— No boat need be carried on decks. 
25. Alteration to Measurements.— If any yacht by alteration of trim 
or immersion by dead weight increase her load waterline length or in 
any way increase her spar measurements as they were taken, she 
must obtain a remeasurement before starting in the next race. 
26. Mutual Agreement.— These conditions may be altered or 
amended by mutual agreement at any time. 
Clause 19 was finally settled by limiting the crews to ten each, of 
whom eight must be Corinthians. 
The racing committee as finally chosen included Messrs. Oliver E. 
Crnmwell, of the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. C., New York; H. C. McLeod, 
Minnetonka Y. C, of Chicago, and B. H. Ambrose, Royal Victoria Y. 
C, of Hamilton. Mr. Cromwell, one of the older members and once 
the secretary of S. C. Y. C.,has had a long experience in yachting, 
both in racing and in committee work; being chairman of the race 
committee of the club In 1895-96, which had charge of the establish- 
ment of the Seawanhaka cup and the arranging and carrying out ol 
the races with Messrs. Brand and Duggan. It would be hard to find a 
better man for a position of this kind. Mr. McLeod is an old yacht 
sailor and racing man and a very clever amateur designer; when re- 
siding in Halifax some years ago his name was familiar to our readers 
through the yacht Lenore, designed and successfully raced by him. 
Residing now in Chicago, he has a new yacht on Lake Minnetonka, 
built this year by the 8palding-St. Lawrence Boat Co. from his own 
designs. E. H. Ambrose is a young lawyer of Hamilton, Ont,, a pupil 
of Mr. Jarvis in the old White Wings, and for some years a hard 
worker on the committees of the Royal Hamilton Y. C. and of the 
Lake Y. R. A. The scrutineers, a Western term unknown on salt 
water, the representative of one yacht aboard another in a race, were 
for Vencedor Ben jamin Carpenter, of Chicago, and for Canada George 
E. Evans, of the R. C. Y. C. one of Toronto's best sailor men,, long 
time secretary of the Lake Y, R. A., and one of the founders of that 
organization. The timekeeper, Joseph Ruff, is an old Chicago yachts- 
man, who has acted in that capacity in innumerable races. 
The first step of the R. C. Y. C. was to form a syndicate, which in- 
cluded .^milius Jarvis, stock broker, of Toronto; George Gooderham, 
president of the Bank of Toronto, and head of the firm of Gooderham 
& Worts; George H. Gooderham, son of George Gooderham, a mem- 
ber of the firm of Gooderham & Worts; J. H. Plummer, general man- 
ager of the Bank of Commerce; James Ross, of Montreal; F. J. Phil- 
lips, of the Canadian Manufacturing Co. and the Consolidated Plate 
Glass Co. ; S. F. McKinnon, wholesale merchant and an ex-president 
of the Toronto Board of Trade. 
Mr. Jarvis has long shared with Mr. Allan Ames, of Oswego, the 
honor of being the best amateur skipper on Lake Ontario; in fact it is 
doubtful whether the Lakes from the St. Lawrence River upward can 
produce Itheir equal, either professional or Corinthian. Mr. Jarvis, 
while a skillful helmsman and a clever hand on deck or aloft, per- 
haps excels as a disciplinarian and a manager of his crew, a point to 
which in no small degree the success of Canada is due. His races in 
the old Whistlewing and White Wings were won with yoimg Corin- 
thian crews, often against men of far greater age and experience. 
The latter yacht, during his ownership one of the most successful in 
the history of Lake Ontario yachting, was raced by a crew of young 
men who at the start knew next to nothing about yacht racing. Her 
waterline was 43ft. Oin. and she carried one paid hand as boat keeper. 
She was in commission as soon as the ice was out of Burlington Bay 
in the spring, and out for a sail every day after business hours, her 
mooring being within easy reach of the center of the city, Hamilton. 
She sailed back and forth about the Bay, her crew being drilled in 
reefing, setting and taking spinaker, topsails and jibtopsails, and aU 
the maneuvers of racing until every man knew wbat his work was 
and just how to do it. By the time the Lake races began this green 
crew, of which Mr. Ambrose was a member, was ready to fa«e any 
crew on the Lake. 
No designer has been held in higher favor on Lake Ontario than 
Will Fife, Jr., and his work in the old Cyprus and newer yachts down 
to Yama, Zelma, Vox and Vedette gives good grounds for this high es- 
teem. Very naturally Mr. Jarvis, to whom the management of tke de- 
fense was almost wholly in trusted, went at once to him with an order for 
a racing cutter of Yama's and Zelma's class. The new yacht Canada, 
f uUy described and illustrated last week, was turned out with unusual 
expedition, considering the character of the work, the special racing 
build of hull and spars. The frame was got out at Fairlie and set up 
under the designer's eye, shipped to New York and then to Oakville, 
near Toronto, and set up anew on the lead keel, already cast and 
awaiting it. The work was hurried, but not at the cost of quality, and 
though begun long after Vencedor, Canada was ready before her. The 
new firm encountered the usual difllculties and delays, and as the 
resu.t Vencedor was unable to sail any preparatory races, and came 
to Toledo an untried boat, and with a crew able enough in its individual 
components, but lacking the necessary training. Canada, on the other 
hand, sailed several trials with Zelma, an excellent trial boat, and also 
made the round of the Lake Erie regattas on her way to Toledo. 
The crews of the two yachts were: Vencedor— Com. E. C. Berri- 
man, Capt. I. G. Barbour, John Connors, Lewis Bernard, Ralph Hoag- 
land, Ed. Andrews, Al. Johnson, R. D. Potter, William Miller, Henry 
Miller. 
Capt. Barbour was last year one of the quartermasters on De- 
fender. Mr. Potter is the owner of the fast Lake Erie yacht Sultana, 
Messrs. Miller hail from Rochester and own the 25-footer Nox, buUt 
by themselves from a design by Will Fife, Jr., and successfully sailed 
by them for several seasons. The renowned Kid Wilds and another 
crack sailor were originally on the crew, but were debarred as pro- 
fessionals imder clause 19. 
Canada— Com. iEmilius Jarvis, Q. D. BoJton, W. H. Parsons, J, H. 
Fearnside, Sydney Small, W. S. Clouston, W. J. Moran, Ed. Roach, W. 
M. Fertile. 
Mr. Clouston, owner of Ohaperone, haUs from the Royal St. Law- 
rence Y. C, of Montreal, and Mr. Fearnside from the Royal Hamilton 
Y. 0. 
The prizes for the race were a $500 cup made by Tiffany & Co. and a 
purse of $1,500 contributed by the citizens of Toledo, It was agreed 
before the race to divide the purse, the winner taking 60 per cent, and 
the loser 40 per cent. 
After careful preparation in the dock both yachts were measured 
by the scrutineers on Aug. 23, the result being: 
Vencedor. Canada. 
Feet. Feet. 
Length over all , 62.73 55.31 
Length on waterline , 48.00 37.04 
Boom 46.90 42.85 \ 
Gaff 37.80 24.42 , 
Hoist 26.80 24.65 
Racing length j,,., .....45.33 41.78 
Allowance Allows 4m. 453. 
Safl area (sq. ft.) .'.•........i. 3,273 2,164 
Vencedor's sail area includes lier large clubtopsail. 
The first race was set for Monday, Aug. 24, by which time 
Toledo was filled with a crowd of eager yachtsmen from New 
York, Chicago, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Racine, Montreal and 
ether cities on the lakes and seaboard. The steam yacht Sigma 
