Feb. 13, 1897.} 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
135. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The report that Will Fife, Jr., was to design and build a 
large racing cutter for A. B. Walker is officially contra- 
dicted. 
The fine steam yacht Eugenia, which was recently built 
by Messrs. Hawthorne & Co., Leith,to the order of Mr. J. 
Gardner Cassatt, of Philadelphia, underwent her official 
trials in the Firth of Forth on Jan. 6. The new boat proved 
herself to be not only a fine vessel, but also an excellent sea 
ship. She is luxuriously fitted up, and is provided with all 
the latest appliances for a vessel of her description. Euge- 
nia has been fitted out for a Mediterranean cruise, at the con- 
clusion of which she will proceed to New York. — Yachting 
World. 
On Feb. 1 the New Rochelle Y. C. held its annual meeting, 
electing the following officers: Com., Henry Doscher, cutter 
Banshee; Vice-Com., Eugene Lambden, sip Twilight; Rear- 
Com,, Joseph Fallert, sip. Wanita; Sec'y, O. W. Meyrowitz 
Treas., B. B. Strong; Meas., E. H. Kingsland. Trustees: W. 
P. Montague and W. N. Bavier (three years), Henry Andruss 
(two years). Regatta Committee: Charles P. Tower, P. A. 
Meyrowitz, J. R. Thomas, A. P. Weston and J. C. Lippen- 
cott. Membership Committee: H. H. Todd, A. S. Cross 
and Philip J. Krackehl. Law Committee: C. W. Voltz and 
J. F. Lambden. Com. Henry Andruss, who has held the 
office for so long,' positively declined a renomination. 
The Staten Island Y. C. held its annual meeting on Feb. 
1, electing the following officers: Com., Chas. F. Hicks; Vice 
Com., William E. Horn; Treas., E. S. Simonson; Sec'y, Ed- 
ward S. Seguine; Meas., Adolph Panick. Trustees: Charles 
Winsch, Matthew Taylor, Jr., and Howard Hitchcock. 
On Jan. 19 the cutter Britannia sailed from the Solent for 
the Mediterranean, . Ailsa following the next day. Ailsa, 
after her experience of last season with the Riffian pirates, 
carries a complete armament of Martini-Henry rifles and 
revolvers, and some 2,000 rounds of ammunition. 
Fra Diavolo, steam yacht, owned by the late Prof. Her- 
mann, in winter quarters at Greenport, N. Y., has been seized 
by United States Marshal Henry I. Hayden, for a claim of 
$604.50 made by Samuel P. Hedges, for supplies and services 
rendered. 
The Gravesend Bay Y. C. has elected the following officers: 
Com., Robt. H. Sherwood; Vice-Com., Edmund J. Bates; 
Rear Com., Herman Heidelberger; Meas., Richard W. Rum- 
mel; Pres., Cornelius Furgueson, Jr.; Vice-Pres., Thomas 
Cleary; Treas. , Lawrence F. Wilson; Rec. Sec'y, James W. 
Wakelee; Fin. Sec'y, Charles W. Kennedy. Trustees: Chas. 
W. Morgan. Constantine Schubert, Walter L. Bryn, Frank 
A. Bolles, William E. Johnson, Henry W. Pfalzgraf, Albert 
A. Ehrlich, William Morgan, J. Hudson Riley, Edward Leh- 
man, and Messrs. Morse and Hamilton. The club now has 
136 members; a movement is under way to build a suitable 
club house before the season opens. 
H. M. Crane, brother of C. H. Crane, of El Heirie fame, has 
placed an order with Lawley for a flu-keel for the Seawan- 
haka 20ft. class. It is understood that she will be tried 
against the centerboard which has already been ordered by 
C. H. Crane, and that the faster of the two will be the one 
to compete in the Seawanhaka trial races, or if the previous 
trials are not satisfactory both will enter the contests for 
the selection of a challenger. The Crane brothers thus show 
themselves wise in not piitting their eggs in one basket and 
in having a fair trial at the vexed question of fln vs. center- 
board. Both boats are sure to be interesting ones, and will 
be closely watched in their performances. — Boston Globe. 
The Stamford Y. C. has elected the following officers: 
Com., Howard C. Smith, steam yacht Halcyon; Vice-Corn., 
Frederick M. Hoyt, cutter Syce; Rear-Com., Walton Fergu- 
son, steam yacht Ava; Treas , Char)e.« H. Leeds; Sec'y, A. 
H. Smith; Fleet Surgeon, Samuel Pierson, M. D.; Meas., I. 
Franklin Wardwell; Chanlain, Richard P. H. Vail, D. D. 
Directors: Henry K. McHarg, Schuyler Merrit, Albert C. 
Hall, Edward C. Hoyt, Malcolm R. Pitt, James D. Smith, 
E. E. Bruggerhoflf, Stewart W. Smith, Alfred S. Pitt and 
Frederick W. Lockwood. 
The annual meeting of the New York Y. C. will be held 
on Feb. 11. 
Mr. Thomas Fleming Day, who has the unique faculty of 
writing technically correct sea poetry, is about to issue 
under the title of "Songs of Sea and Sail" a collection of his 
verse. An extra fine edition, to be sold by subscription only, 
will be printed. The price is $2; orders may be sent to Mr. 
Day at 155 Broadway, New York. 
The Philadelphia Y. C. held its twenty-second annual 
meeting on Feb. 3, the following officers being elected: 
Com., Francis Shunk Brown; Vice-Com., M. R. Muckle; 
Rear-Com., J. J. de Kinder; Secy., A. L. English; Meas., P. 
H. Johnson; Harbor Master, Sylvester Bookhammer- Sur- 
geon, W. Joseph Hearn, M. D. Trustees: Samuel F. Givin, 
J. Lewis Good, William Annear and Robert P. Thompson. 
Regatta Committee: George T. Whitaker, George D. Gideon 
and George W. Fite. The annual regatta will be sailed on 
June 12. 
A yacht club under the name of the Wollaston Y. C. has 
been formed at Wollaston, Mass., the officers being: Com., 
Frank Bnrgess; Vice-Com., A. T. Barstow; Rear-Com., E. 
Hardy; Fleet Captain, Henry Nelson; Treas., Chas. P. Marr; 
^ Sec'y, S. L. Willis; Fin. Sec'y, C. W. Page; Meas., E. W. 
Green. 
Mr. J C. Meyers, American Model Y. C, has submitted to 
the club a model for a 20-footer for the contest already men- 
tioned. The dimensions are: Over all, 32ft.; l.w.l., 19ft.; 
beam, 7ft. 6in.; centerboard, 2701bs. The model is to a scale 
of lin. The club will make an extensive exhibit of model 
yachts at the Sportsmen's Exhibition. 
The annual meeting of the Atlantic Y. C. was held on Feb. 
8, the following officers being elected: Com., Geo. J. Gould, 
steam yacht Atalanta; Vice-Com., Frederick T. Adams, schr. 
Sachem; Rear-Com., Benjamin H. Whitlock, auxiliary 
schooner Hildegarde; Sec'y, David E. Austen; Treas., Geo. 
H. Church; Meas., George Hill; Trustees — J. Rogers Max- 
well, Philip G. Sanford, Alexander P. Ketchum, Newbury 
D. Lawton, Thomas L. Watson and Henry B. Howell; Re- 
gatta Committee— Newbury D. Lawton, David E. Austen 
and George W. McNulty; Committee on Membership — Louis 
F. Jackson, Spencer Swain and Henry W. Banks, Jr. 
The annual meeting of the New York Y. R. A. was held 
on Feb. 3 at O'Neill's, in New York. The following officers 
were elected: Pres., A. J. Prime, Yonkers Corinthian Y. C; 
Vice-Pres., E. Langerfeld, Hudson River Y. C; Sec'y, 
George Parkhill, Columbia Y. C; Treas., Robert K. 
Murray, New York Athletic Club. Executive Committee: 
Alex. F. Roe, Jersey City Y. C; Joseph Ellsworth, Bayonne 
City Y. C; John Kursteimer, Audubon Y. C. ; Thomas -G. 
Roach, Pavonia Y. C, and J. A. Styles, Tappan Zee Y. C. 
The Association now includes the following clubs: Columbia, 
Hudson River, Jersey City, Newark, Pavonia, Tappan Zee, 
Yonkers Cor. , Kill von Kull, Greenville, Bayonne City, Au- 
dubon, Tower Ridge, New York Athletic, Ossining, .Graves- 
end Bay and Yonkers. The following resolution was 
adopted: Rearolved, That Com. A. J. Prime, of the Yonkers 
Cor. Y. C; Com. E. Langerfeld, of the Hudson River Y. C, 
and George Parkhill, of the Columbia Y. C, are hereby ap- 
pointed a committee to confer with the committees of 
other yacht racing associations, with full power to act as 
they may deem best in the matter of forming a national 
yacht racing association, for the purpose of establishing uni 
form rules and regulations. 
