Deo. 26, 1896i 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
01^ 
Brunswick Fur Club. 
The pijr'bth annual winter meet, of the Brunswick Yar Club 
will be held at Bruoswiok, Me., during the week of Jan. 10, 
1897. 
Tbe annuq] tnretiDg wilJ he held qa Mohday eve'ning, Jan. 
11, at the Ton lice Hotd. 
Mr. R D. Pen-y ofEers a handfomf prize for the best hunt- 
ing story told during the meet. Foxes are plentiful and all 
sportsmen are cordially in vi led to be p 'es'-nt and to bring 
their best hounds. Bradfoud S. Ttjbpin, Sec'y. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
Corrections in tbe judores' as'iirnrnoDts at Boston show, as 
mentioned m Pobest and Stream last week, are as follows: 
Mr. Cba'bs H Mison j idges poodles and miscpUaneons 
classes; Mr. .James Monimfr judges B^sion terriers, Old 
English sheep dog«, French buli doi»s and B <8S(^t.s; Mr. Jotin 
DividsoD judges Chesap ake B.iy days; Mc T. Farrar Rack- 
bam j'jdgts puffS Thi's^e are io add tiou to ihe classes men- 
tioned last wetk as being af^s'gued to the judgss. J 
Mr James Taylor died at bis home, D whurst, Rockdale, 
England, on Dto. 5, ag d fifty years. He was enoioent and 
popular in tie canine ffO'ld as exhibitor, judge and journal- 
ist through a long t< rm o£ years, he bmig ideutitied with 
the canine fancy Irom hi« youth tUl his lite ended. 
Winter Cyclinsr. 
The first snow, as a rule, pu's an end to the bicycling sea- 
son, and tboueb whetls may be brought out on nleasant days 
forshoit spins, the majcricy of rideis arfe content to store 
them away till the ad v nt of wai m wealhpr again. There 
are eome cyclists, however, who will lide all through the 
winter, and who rarely mi^s a day even when the snow is 
on the ground In Haitfi rd, Sprinsfield and other New 
England cities that aie blesstd with good streets and numer- 
ous tro'ley lines it is no uncommon thing to see wbedmen 
closely following the electiic street sweepers while the snow 
is still falling, and when the depth is not greater than 3m. 
they seem to get along nicely. They spptar to have no 
difiiculty in keeping ahead of tbe trolley oars on such days. 
Winter weather ctrtainly would not be cbosen for cycl ng, 
and in the couniry when the roads are frozen it is out of tbe 
question; but urder certain limitations the sport may be en- 
joyed by people w bo live in or about cities. The heavy 
trafBc soon wears the rough edge off the dirt roads, and mac- 
adam or asphalt are good at auy time except when covered 
with water. • 
The rider need not encumber himself with much extra 
clothing, provided his hands and ears are well protected, for 
lheexerci.se is warming and there is danger in becoming 
overheated. It the d-^y is not too windy, and if ordinary pre- 
cau'ions agaiuit chdl are observed, wmter cyclin!^ i-j equal to 
summer cycling. T/ue, its scope is more limiltd, and one is 
deprived of the pleasure of country runs; but on tbe other 
hand there is more snap and life in the air, and its exhilar- 
ating effi cts are doubled. It is a pity that winter cycling is 
not more popular. 
The Art of Ridini?. 
Some able-bodied persons lose the benefits and pleasures 
of cycling because they thmk themselves incapable of learn- 
ing to ride. They class bicycle riding on a par with tight- 
rope walking, and say that the nica delicacy of balance ne- 
cessary to maintain a bicycle in a perpendicular position is 
quite beyond their capacity to acquire. 
Yet these people have already mastered a much more 
complex feat of balancing, beside which bicycle riding sinks 
into inf-ignificance. 
A bLi ig who has learned to walk erect on two legs should 
find no difficuliy in controlling a bicycle, for in walking he 
has three sets of joints to manage — at thigh, knee and ankle 
—while in bicycle riding he lias only one, in the steering 
mechanism. 
A man when walking can fall over in any direction, sub- 
ject to the laws of gravity, as is amply demonstrated when 
he steps on a banana skin, but the bicycle rider has only to 
guard against going over sideways. 
Bicycle riding is walking sitting down. Any one can 
leain to nde. 
About the time that the Forest and Stream is on its way 
through the printing presses on Tuesday night, the New 
York Y. C. will be busy with one of the most important 
questions outside of international racing which has ever 
come before it. The subj ct, which is of very recent orisin, 
having only withir three weeks been mooted amcng Nevp 
York yachtsmen, is fully recounted in the call for a special 
meeting is!-ued-.hy Commodore Brown, at tbe request of 
Messrs. Dickinson, Maxwell and Postiey, to consider the fol- 
lowing motion : 
That a committee of five, one of whom shall be the C ^m- 
modore, be appointed by the chair, with power to call a 
convention of dtlegate< from such yacht clubs in Ameriea 
as they may ile t, for the purpose of considering the advisa- 
bility of organizing a yacht racing league, tbe object of 
which hague shall be to estabhib uniforui cooperation on 
measurtmenl, clas-sification and raciug rules; the promotion 
of yacht builaing; tue encouragement and elevation of the 
sport, and the preservation of yachting history and racino- 
records. And that tnis committee havu power" to enter this 
club in such league, said entrance to brcome complete and 
operative upon this club's ratification thereof by subsequent 
constitutional ami ndment. 
Tht; rapio grovvth of local organizations and of harmoni- 
ous intercourse between different oifianizati .ns points out as 
inevitable tbe ultimate fo-matioa of a national association 
of yachtsmen. Wuile it is but fitting that the larger and 
older clubp, the New York Y. C above all otters, should 
lead in such an enterpiifC, the attitude of these clubs thus 
far has in most cas.s been distinctly hostilt; to the work of 
uniim and organizition begun I'y" smaller clubs in various 
lochliiies. Tue strength aud importance of ihenewmovf- 
ment ba« been fuliy appreciated liy many of the members of 
the New York Y C, and the proposed national league is an 
effort to place the club where u siiould be, not only in defer- 
ence to it*, present position and rcspousibd.iies as tbe great- 
est of Aifterican yacht clubs, but because the work which is 
certain to be done in any event can be done far more speed- 
ily and efifectuaby urder its leadetship than in the face of its 
opnnsitiou, pHi-f-ive or active. 
The details of the scheme as already arranged promise an 
oraaniz ti n that will be of inestimable benefit to yachting 
throughout the entire country, the plan as outlined being 
most libe-'ial and connpreheusive. Although it will meet with 
some strong oppos-tion on Tuesday night, we hope to be able 
to announce wiih our lirst number of tiie new year that what 
the Forbst and Strisam has so long labored for is at least 
in a fair way to become an accomplished fact. 
SHORTr.Y before roidoight on Dec 18, 1896, in one of the 
parlors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New Yoik, there passed 
away quietly and peacefully a historic feature of American 
yachting, Though the enci was in no way sudden or unex- 
pected, no friend was near to cheer the final moments, and 
alone among a heartless and iudiffirent throng the Amfri- 
can sandbagger dumped its bigs overb >ard for the last time, 
and gave up a struggle that has long been hopeless Among 
the nuaiber present, probably every one of whom Lamed 
hisyachtinji on the weather rail with his lao full of sand- 
bags, not one raised a von e in behalf of his old ally, and the 
motion to amend the rule was passed as a matter of course 
by a unanimous vole 
We d>j not prop <se to write the obituary of the sandbag- 
ger; we have in the past written too many obituaries of its 
victims. Granted that it was atone time a necessity, and 
that tho'e who survived to graduate from its severe cur- 
riculum have been a credit to it as a ti acher of snilor men, 
the haim that has bi^en done to American yachting by the 
long and close arihe eoce to sandbjg models and sandbag 
mi ihods, Io say nothing of the direst loss of life, is even yet 
felt in yachting Th least we can siy by way of epitaph is 
to quote the word^ of "the noble lord high executioner," 
"It never will be missed." 
Tlie Lake ITachfc Racias UAion. 
Editor Forest nmd Stream: 
lu r fer»inc° to toe rHmarks in my letrf'-et' oE Deo 5, which were In- 
tenrif 1 to Deir u iqvl ttie aoti 'a oE thti Uaioa of tbe Great, Latces iti 
leivitiz ouL tae 2JtC. claA«, will you allow m'> to explaia tha.c up to 
th'' dale of my I'ls' letier I stiired the genei-al impr-ssion that 
the rules of the Union were a! -iO to govern tbe local assioittions. 
SmueThHQ, Mioug:h the dojum-iiit is dited Nor 27. the proposed rules 
for ihe L. Y, R. A. have been sent oat, and if adopted today at 
Rochester, the Si-footer will still be recoenizad — at horn"— but when 
the others seelr for ^lo'-y atiroad it must .stay, and I suppose attend 
to the ladies. Perhaps tnis i-i riKhr, but it is gill aud worm wood to 
the men who Siil toeiu thus to tie told that they are not fit to t^lie 
equal chance's in a pis.^a^e ^' ith the ^T-footers in the bit of weather 
s jmeiimes to be met veith during a suaamer cruise. 
No V, .vir. Eiitor. I ani looiria? for a co-itrosfersv, or I should 
tackle sooae oae easier; hut there are a couple of things in your cooa- 
m-^nts wbioh without a litila t irther light I cinnot, to my regret, see 
eye to ej-a "V^itn von. Yon say yoa fail to see what effect a limita- 
tion ot the coefQjiBnt to .35 per C3ut. as proposed can have on the 
issue t)=<tvveea keel and centerboard, the former having, under present 
canditions driven out the latter. Assuming that this rrtoiark in- 
cludes the i7f t. class, it becoons necis-^ary to consider the type of 
centerooard driven oat. The knotty point with me is: S pposing it 
to oe settled (as you admit) that a -S.t per cent, keel will have less 
speftd th m a modern bulo-fl j, aad supposing: (as many believe) that 
it IS a m oteJ q i-stiou as to whether i he balh-flu or an enlarged and 
perhaps mo Jifie I (JlenciirQ is i.h8 faster up to this size, whit chance 
his the dec jO:; tfotci'ig S5 per cent, cutter, the tin being barred, 
aarains: the ceoterooird ac half the m juey ? JTor speed we must have 
wuen races are lo bs won. 
Your ia^t pi"agraoh with regard to the liarring of Canada also 
floors m« some'vhxt, for I cannot anywhere in the rules find any- 
thmg to keeo her oar; but if, \a the fa ^e of a rule that is prac ically 
a deed of gift to h*^r of all she enters for, her owners nave voluntarily 
wilhQrawu ht'r from tbe racing, they are certainly to be credited 
with a spi'-it of selE-abuegatioa such as one seldnrii hears of even 
among yach'sine". Fin (db Sieolb). 
Toronto, Dec. 19, 
We heve not yet heard the result of the meeting of the L. 
Y. R. A., but the proposal wns to except the 22ft class 
from the limitation of midshio section, in other words, to 
admit the bulb fin. Tbe new Y. R U rul s wUl, if adopt- 
ed, govern on all the lakes; the local rules, as in the pro- 
posed L Y R A. changes, being altered to conform to 
them; but there is no reason why some latitude may not be 
allow d in classes too small for interlake work, though we 
should prefer to see all classes included by the Union 
As to the 23ft. class, we -cannot understand our corre- 
spondent's ground of complaint; the class is open to fin- 
keels, and if they choose to incur the labor and risk they can 
follow tbe races from lake to lake; no doubt some provision 
will be made for the class, if owners desire, in interlake 
events At the snne tim-j the class is entirely too small for 
an interlake, c icidt 
We are not fully informed as to the 27-footer Hiawatha 
mentioned by our correspondent last week, but we under- 
stand that she is the old centerboird boat Maud B., with a 
wooden fin and iron shoe bolted on; if she represents the 
vested interests of the fia type in tbe 27ft, class, the proposed 
limitation can work small injustice to such interests 
The "decent jog trolline cutter" of our correspondent may 
at the same time be a very fast and up-to-date yacht; in fact 
Zelma, five years old, is entirely too good" for tuch a 
designation. We do not consider that the Glencairn 
type is a possibility in the 27ft. class, even with 
mot:iiti''-ations, and we can see nothing in her success 
that bears on the keei centerboa'd tjueUion in lake 
racing in tbe 27ft. and larger c]a.sses This is merely a 
matter of oainion, and perhaps worth no more than the 
counter opinitm of our correspondent; but there is little li^k 
of the lakes being swept by a big Glencairn next season. If 
it has come to the q lestion of extreme speed on tne lakes, 
then 'he iiviividual yachtsmen who have built up the sport 
on Laka Ontaiio must give up racing and content them- 
selves, as so many old yachtsmen of JN^ew York and Boston 
do, by going oS on steamboats to watch duels between 
symlicate fin keels. 
Wij have baen informed on good authority that Canada 
cannot race in her class under the proposed new rules, and 
the rules themselves would indicate that this is the case. 
THE SEAWANHAKA CUP. 
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, after a conference 
with Messrs. Duggan and Hamilton, of the Royal St. Law- 
rence Y. C, two weeks &idg \ as already reported, has finally 
completed the conditions for the races of 1897, and has pub- 
lished th- m as fol o a s. As the trial races for the selec ion 
ol a defendt r vi-iil be open to all Ami rican yacuts, the condi- 
tions are of far more than local iutu'est, and we publish thtm 
in full. 
Tbe Seawanhaka international challenge c'lp for small yachts has 
pas-i d mio ihe custooy cf tbe Royal St La ^reuce Y. O.. of Mon- 
treal, C "uada, the match tner for iiaving ueeu won by Glencairn 
again-t El Eeire at Oys er Eay in July last. 
The Seawannaka ijurinihia'a Y.O. has challenged for a match in 
the season of IbS?, aud the challen^ ha? been accepted for the 20ft, 
cla'8, Seawatibaka measurement! tbp match will be aalled In August 
next on tbe waters of L^ke St. L mis, near Monireal, 
The Seaw8nh.^ka Club in this effort 'o resBln the cup earnestly in- 
vites from other yscht cl bs of the United States toe cooperation 
which for the last two seasons has been so generously exte tided to its 
defense, a- d therefore proposes to held open trial races for th« 
purpose of selecting 1(8 represeniq.dve yacht on July 12, 1.3 and 14, 
189"?. 
Kor the information of any who may he interested fn the subject, 
and esp^'cialiy for the guidance of those who m y contemplate mak- 
ing en ries in the trial r.ces, tber-ce committee announce the fol- 
lowing general conditions g iverning the cup, which are extracts 
from the declaration of trust execited by the Seawanoaka Club, and 
tbe folloi^ing general regulations for the control of the match, which 
have been agreed upon with the challenged club, 
CONDITIOiVS QOVBRNINQ THE CUP. 
Aktiole I —The cup shall be known as the ''Seawanhaka Interna- 
tional (.;halleoge Oup for Small Yachts," and shall be preserved as a 
perpetual challenge cup for friendly competition between foreign 
countries. The term ''foreign," as used in this instrument, shall be 
.so construed as to permii contests fi-r thft cup between any country 
and its colonies and dependent;ies and between such colonies or de- 
pendencies themselves. 
Article II.— any organized yacht club in good standing of any 
count y, foreign to the couutrv of the yacht club in whose custody 
the cup may oe, snail always have the right <o challenge for the cup 
and to sail a match therefor, p'OTided that such challenge sbaJI be 
made and sucn match be sailed in accordance with tne terms and 
proPii^iof'S of tt is instrument 
ARTICLE III. — Matches tor the cup .shall be limited to yacht.", pro- 
pal ed bv sails only, whose racing measurement or siz > shall not ex- 
ceed ihe niHsnnum limi' of t ,e so called " Twenty-Hve foot Racing 
Length Class" or fall below the minimmn limit of the so called '•Fit- 
teetj-Foot lla'dng Length Class" if rhe S^awanhaka Club, as such 
classiflcalion exists at the date of this instrument, or whose racing 
measurement or ^ize. according to the rules nf the club having at the 
time of coalienge the custody of the cup, fall ■> within limits of size 
substantially c.orre p nding to the limits above specifled. 
Article IV.— All matches shall be sailed between a single yacht on 
bebkir of the challenging club iind a single yacht on behalf of the 
challenged club. Nei hercluo shall be req ilrnd to name its repre- 
sentaiive yacht in ad^ancp of the racef, but tne match shall oe sailed 
to a conclusion between theyachis selected for or sailing the first 
race thereof, and no substitution of oney^cht f r another shall be 
permitted after the preparatory hignal of tne first race has been 
givt-n. 
Article V.— A match shall beconstituted of not less than three nor 
more toau live race-, and shall be awarded to the club whose repre- 
sentative yacht shall win a majority of.such rafea. 
Articlk VI.— The reprejeutative yacois of tbe challenging and 
challenged olubs nmst be ooasiructed in tbe respective countries of 
.such clubs. Centerboard-i or plates or sliding keels shall always be 
permitted in construcn'oo and no restriction snail be placed upon 
their ii^e. All ballast hjust be fixed. 
Article X.— Ihe helmsmen sailing the representative yachts in 
the mttcn must bs amtteurs and must be residents of tne countries 
of th^ir respective cluos-. The challenging and challenged clubs must 
name in i*-ritlng, each lo tbe oi her, or to chei respective representa- 
tives, at lea-!t tweniy four hours before the day appoiiitad for the 
fl'-si rac4 the helmsmen who will sail their represent itive yachts, 
and such hsUnsmen snail sail such yachts in all the races of the 
ruaico unless prevented bv illn ss, or other substantial cause, in 
Which pvr'ht substitutes will be allowed. 
Articlk XL— Toe challenging and the challenged clubs may by 
mutual agieeuient fix a d decide all the terms and conditions of the 
match, whether relaung iodat> s, courses, rules of measurement, sail- 
ing reguliiions, notices or any other matter whatsoever pertaining 
to the match or preliminary thereto, and luav also by mutual agree- 
ment waive for such mdtcb -uch of the provisluns of this instrument 
as would otherwise govern the match or the preliminariei thereof; 
provided, however, that ttie limit of the racing length cr the size of 
the competing vachts shall in no event exceed the maximum limit 
as esiabiisheo by tnis instrument in Article III. thereof, unless the 
consent in writiug of the SeaAanhaka Club to so increasing such 
limit shall fh'st have been ootained. 
GENERAL BESULATIONS GOVERNINa THE MATCH FOB 1897; 
I. The courses Shall consist of a triangular course and a course 
to wiudivard or leeward aud return. Jiach leg of the triangular 
course shall be 2 nautical miles in length and shall be sailed over 
twice, making a total of \i miles. The course to windward or lee- 
ward and return shall be )l nautical milfs to each leg and shall be 
saded over tnree times, maUing a total of li miles. 
II. The start shall be a one-gun flying start, with a preparatory, 
signal. 
III. The races shall be sailed witho'it time allowance. 
IV. Yacuts must not exceed 20ft. racing length (S C. Y. C. meas- 
urement). 
The formula for determining racing lengKi under S. C. Y. C. rules 
is as follows: 
L.W.L.-|-*'sailarea. „ . ^ 
=Raemg Length. 
V. A yacht's draft of hull or keel shaU not exceed 5ft., and with 
the centerooard down shall not exceed 6ct, Draft shall be deter- 
mined wh-!n yachts are in trim fur measurement. Centerboards shall 
be so constructed that they cm be wholly housed without leaving 
any projection below ite hull or keel. 
VI. Y'd,chts shall be me isnred without crew on board, but instead 
thereof a dead weight of 4 Olbs. shall be carried amidships, substan- 
tially at the center of biioyaucj', during measurement. 
Vli. Shifting ballast shall not be allowed. (Weighted eenterboards 
shall be considered affixed ball>4St.) 
VIIC. No ontrig'^er or oiher mechanical device for carrying live 
ballisr outboaid shal be allowed 
IX. The factor of sail area, used in determining racing length, 
shall be a^cer^ained by adding to the actual area of the mainsail, 
computed from it- exact dimensions, the area of the fore triangle. 
The hoiat of the mainsail when measured shall be plainly marked on 
the mast, and its "Uter points on the boom and gall or other spars 
used to set the sail, and ihe sail shall not be set Beyond these limit- 
ing points Tne fore triangle shall bs de'ermined by the following 
points: (1) The point of intersection of the fi^restay with he line of 
the forward side of the mast. (3) The point of intersection of the 
foresiay with the bowsprit or hull. (3) The point of intersection of 
the Lor ^ard side of the m^ist with the line of the deck. 
Any jib, when set, must not extend beyond the upper and forward 
points above defined. 
Sails shall De limited to mainsail, jibs and spinaker. The total area 
of the mainsail and fare trliugle snail not exceed 500sq. tt. The area 
of the mainsail alone shall hot exceed 80 per cent, of the total area. 
The area of the spinaker. measured as a triangle whose base is the 
length of the spinaker boom measured from its outer end, when set, 
to tne center of the mast, and whose perpendicular is the distance 
from the deck a the foreside of the mast to the spinaker halyard 
block, shall not exceed twice the area of the fore triangle. 
X. The spinaker boom when used in carrying sail shad not be lashed 
to the nowspnt or stemiiead. 
XL The helmsman and crew shall be amateurs, and the total num- 
ber of persons on ooard shall be limited to three. 
TRIAL RACES. 
Tbe race committee also anoounce the following programme for 
the trial races, sucjeCD to cnange, of which due annoimcement will 
be made; 
TO BE HELD AT OVSTER BAY, JULY 12, 13 AKD 14, 1897. 
Courses.- (1.) The course for the first and third trial races shall be 
triangular wnd sliali be as follows: 
(2 ) The course for the second tiial race shall be a course to wind- 
ward or leevva' d and return. 
Triangular Course - From a line between Center Island Buoy off 
the entrance to Oyster Bay, Long Island Sound, and the committee 
steamer anchored S.E of the same. 
E. by N, }^N.— Two miles around a mark bearing a red ball, leaving 
it on the pore hand. 
N.W.— Two miles around a mark bearing a red ball, leaving it on 
the port hand. 
s. by W. 14 W.— Two miles to the finish line between Center Island 
Buoy and the committee steamer anchored N.W. of the same. 
Course to oe sailed over twice; total distance Vi nautical miles. 
On tbH second round yachts will leave center Island Buoy on the 
port hand. 
Note — The race committee may, in its diFcretion, direct the course 
to be saili d in thH reverse oirection, leaving buoy and marks on the 
st-rboarti hand, and tbe Fignal for such reve^^ai of course will be the 
anclioring of the commiitee steamer at the start to the N.W, of 
C<-nier Island Buoy, In his ca^e (he commitiee steamer will be 
ani'h. reo S.E of Center L-,iana Buoy at the finish. 
Windwaru and Leeward Course. — Prom a lii.e between CenlPr 
Island Buoy and the committee 8Lec.mer around a mark bearing a 
red ball, leaving it (in he staro ard hind; distance i miles and re- 
turn; cour-e 10 be sailed over three times; toial distance 13 nautical 
miles. The oirection will be sign-jlea by the general yacht eignal 
codp from tue comraiitee steamer at least 15 rhmutes before th* - 
preparatory signal. 
Start and Signals.— The start will be a one-gun flying start with a 
1. 
