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The Kingston (Mass.) Y. C. has elected the following 
officers: Commodore, Capt. John C. Danes; Vice-Commo- 
dore, Capt. Nathan B. Watson; Fleet Captain, Capt. Justus 
A. Bailey; Secretary, Henry M. Jones; Treasurer, Lemuel R. 
Ford; Measurer, Edward A. Bansom; Regatta Committee: 
Commodore John C, Danes, Philemon W. Maglathlin, Wal- 
do S. Cole, Harrison I. Cole and Edward A. Ransom; Execu- 
tive Committee: Commodore John C. Danes, Alexander 
Holmes and Charles H. Drew. Dr. Wendell H. Adams was 
appointed fleet surgeon. The club has voted to join the Y. 
R. A. of Mass. and chosen Vice-Commodore N. B. Watson 
as its delegate. The club has a membership of 271. 
The steam yacht designed by Watson for John E Brooks, 
of New. York, was launched at the yard of the Ailsa Ship 
Building Company, on the Clyde, on Feb. 18. being christened 
Andria by Mrs. Brooks. The yacht is of 440 tons, 16lft. long, 
23ft. 6in. "beam and 14ft. Sin. depth. When completed, Mr. 
and Mrs. Brooks will sail on a long ocean voyage. 
The regular February meeting of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 
was held on Feb. 23, the following amendments being passed: 
To add a new Chapter V., to read as follows, and to change 
the numbers of all succeeding chapters: Chapter V.— A 
signal officer shall be appointed bj^the commodore, and shall 
have charge of making and returning colors and making and 
returning salutes and signals from the flagstaff at the club 
house at Center Island, and shall rank as captain. The 
amendment of the regulations on club uniforms will be 
moved as follows: Under the heading of "Full Dress Sleeve 
Ornaments," after the words "fleet captain," insert the words 
"signal officer." Under the heading of "Gap Ornaments," 
after the article on "fleet captain," introduce new article to 
read as follows: "Signal officer. Same device as for fleet 
captain, substituting the letters 'S. O.,' in silver, for the let- 
ters 'F. C" 
B. B. Crowninshield has established hims'?lf in business 
as a yacht designer and broker, with an office at 81 State 
street, Boston, and already has several orders placed and 
others in prospect. One of the orders is for a racing knock- 
about, and after his experience in Vishnu Mr. Crowninshield 
should be able to turn out a fast one. The knockabout is 
for A. D. Irving, of New York, who spends his summers at 
Marblehead Neck, and will race the boat in Marblehead 
waters. She will not be a wide departure in any respect 
from previous models, but will be fined away to the limit, 
and will be of light construction. Her lead keel will not be 
bulbed, and her metal rudder will be hung on the sternpost 
in the same manner as Vishnu's. The model shows clean 
lines and a very easy form all around. Robert Saltonstall 
has ordered a 17ft. centerboard knockabout for use at Man- 
chester. She will be designed solely for afternoon sailing. 
For Horton Bros. Mr. Crowninshield is designing a "sjjlash- 
er," for racing with the Nahant Dory Club. She will be 
23ft. overall, 18ft. waterline, 7ft. beam and 9in. draft, with 
a big rig. Mr. Crowninshield has sold the sloop Vandal to 
C. F. Ayer. Also the 18ft. cat Elsa, built by Lawley last 
year for Sidney Burgess, to Charles Sargent, Jr. It is pos- 
sible that Mr. Crowninshield will have a boat for his own 
. racing in the knockabout fleet.— iJostow Globe. [Mr. Crown- 
inshield did his early sailorizing on the cutter Witch, whose 
lines were published some years ago in the Forest and 
Stream, an excellent little boat in her day. We wish him 
all success in his new venture.] 
The Roberts safety water tube boilers, after thorough 
trial, have found favor with the United States Government, 
as is shown by the following list of vessels in which they are 
now used: Snag boat Mandan, on Upper Mississippi River; 
dredges Ohio and Oswego, on Ohio River; Commandant's 
barge Minnie, Brooklyn Navy Yard; torpedo planter Dyne, 
Whitestone Station; revenue cutter Penrose, Pensacola Sta- 
tion; revenue cutter Tybee, Savannah Station; revenue cutters 
Scout and Guard, Puget Sound Station; revenue cutter John- 
son, Detroit Station; War Department steamer Reid Whit- 
ford, Georgetown Station; War Department steamer Angler, 
Savannah Station; War Department steamer Gen. George 
Thomas, Newbern Station; U. S. Harbor Supervisor's steamer 
Scout, New York Station; U. S. Harbor Supervisor's steamer 
Alert, New York Station; U. S. Harbor Supervisor's steamer 
Active, New York Station; U. S. Harbor Supervisor's 
steamer Argus, New York Station. Roberts boilers are also 
used in the New York city police boat Inspector, the New 
York city dumping boat Cinderella, and the Quarantine Com- 
missioners' steamer State of New York. 
The Rev. F. L Humphreys, Morristown, N. J., has ordered 
of the Daimler Motor Co. a large auxiliary yacht. She will 
be 83ft. 6in. over all, 60Et. 9in. l.w.l., 13ft. lOin. beam, 3ft. 
6in. draft. Two Daimler motors of 24 H. P. each are located 
abaft the midships, driving twin screws. Forward of the 
engine room is the main saloon, toilet roon, one stateroom 
and pilot house. Aft is a galley and the smoking room. 
The yacht will be schooner-rigged. A smaller yacht f or F. 
Skinner, of Boston, is under way at the Daimler works. She 
will be 57ft. over all, 44ft. l.w.l., 9ft. beam, and 3ft. 9in. 
draft. She will have a Daimler 16 H. P. motor and will he 
schooner-rigged. 
making. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1896-97. 
Commodore, John N. MacKendrick, Qalt, Canada. 
Sec'y-Treas., John R. Blake, Qalt, Canada. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne, N. J. 
PUBSKRS. 
Atlantic Division, H. W. Fleischman, 1611 N. Slat St., FhUa , Pa. 
Central Division, Laurence O. Woodworth, Gouverneur, N. Y. 
Eastern Division, F. J. Burrage, West Newton, Mass. 
Northern Division, Francis H. Macnee, Kingston, Canada. 
Annual dues, $1 ; initiation fee, $1. 
WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895-96. 
Commodore, C. F. Pennewell, Detroit, Mich. 
Vice-Commodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago, 111. 
Bear-Commodore, E. H. Holmes, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Sec'v-Ti-eas., W. D. Stearns, Detroit, Mich. „ . . 
Executive Committee: R. M. Lamp, Madison, WiB.; C. J. Steadman, 
Cincinnati, O. ; F. W. Dickens, Milwaukee, Wis. 
This year the officers of the Atlantic Division propose 
to profit by the numerous disastrous experiments car- 
ried out by their predecessors in the form of division 
meets. In place of a fixed camp site and arrangements 
which were always expensive and usually very faulty, a 
cruising party wUl spend a week on the Delaware River, four 
days of cruising, ending with two or three days in camp at 
one spot. The novelty of the cruise should attract men to 
it, and we hope that the efforts of the officers will meet with 
the appreciation which they deserve. There must be still 
some cruising canoes in the varioiis club houses, with the 
dusty remains of canoe kits and cruising duffle. Now is the 
time to get them out and overhaul them; the rendezvous at 
Easton is easily reached from New York and Philadelphia, a 
short trip by rail, and the river offers an easy course dowri 
stream. The most enjoyable canoe meets ever held in this 
country were those primitive and informal camps at Plum 
Point in lSS4r-85, camps which cost nothing to the general 
treasury, but which were successful both in attendance 
and in the true camp life which characterized them. With 
proper support from the members of the division, a similar 
meeting may be had this Bpring. 
The North Shore Canoe. 
The Rice Lake canoe has become so widely known, and 
is in such general use, that it has usurped the name Cana- 
dian perhaps without just right, for there is another Cana- 
dian canoe which I think was developed long before the 
Rice Lake and which is a typical boat of the great river of 
Canada, the St. Lawrence. 
Above the Long Sault the pleasure boats of the river are 
the St. Lawrence River skiffs, as built at Clayton, Ganan- 
oque, Brockwell, Kingston, and a modification of the Bice 
Lake canoe — ^boats developed by the English-speaking people 
who live upon its shores. 
Below the Long Sault the boats are those of a simpler 
race, who "hold by the right of birth" to a degree that the 
English speakers do not, for the French-Canadians are by 
length and purity of descent more truly American than any 
other European people upon this continent. 
The Rice Lake canoe, T am confident, has been developed 
not from the birch canoe, but from the log. This is a matter 
of dispute, I know, but I have traced the descent of the built 
boat of practically the existing model directly from a log 
canoe, have traced the history of that individual canoe and 
obtained the evidence of the oldest white settlers of the 
Trent districts. The Trent canoe would be a far more cor- 
rect name for the boat in question than any now used, and I 
have no doubt whatever that the prototype of the Rice Lake 
canoe was the log canoe and no other. 
There is, however, among the typical boats of the St. Law- 
rence a canoe that has been developed from the birch bark, 
and the best of the birch barks, and this craft is the North 
Shore canoe. The North Shore is that great stretch of wild 
north land that lies beyond the St. Lawrence from below the 
island of Orleans to the gulf, where it merges into Labrador. 
Below Quebec there is a fringe of farms and villages on the 
river's bank, but gradually they thin down, until the ancient 
wilderness is only broken by isolated fishing stations, and 
nowhere is the wilderness very far away. 
This wilderness, a stern north land, but not a barren, has 
been from time immemorial the country of the Montaignaics, 
the most easterly branch of the great Algonquin people; and 
the Montaignaics, like all their kin, are clever workmen and 
great hunters and trappers. Their canoes, in particular, are 
the best birch barks made— graceful, strong, seaworthy, and 
fairly well modeled. The French-Canadians, to a greater ex- 
tent perhaps than any other of the European settlers of 
America, were content to learn of the Indians. It is prob- 
able, I think, that their hold on the soil, their prosperity in 
the face of adverse circumstances, and their astounding 
fecundity, particularly during the first quarter of this cen- 
tury, has been in great measure due to this. They adopted 
the birch bark canoe as their own from the first, and they 
have used it ever since, and continue to use it. 
I would like to discover whether the white man has ever 
learned to build the bark, or has ever built it in any num- 
hers. It would seem as if he never had, for as soon as the 
Indians begin to fall back before the clearing and birch barks 
begin to grow scarce, the white man seems to replace them 
with built boats. It was so on the North Shore at all events, 
but on the North Shore the built, boats were as close a copy 
■of the bark canoe as the builders could make them. This is 
the origin of the North Shore canoe. 
The North Shore canoe is used principally of course on its 
native waters, from Quebec to Tadousac and beyond. And 
there it carries the mails, is surf boat, pleasure boat, fishing 
boat, everything and anything and a little more. Its lines 
are not ungraceful, but its construction is, and in this respect 
it is much inferior to the Rice Lake. The boats are clinker 
built, but the lands are not thinned down and the work is 
very coarse. They have about five streaks a side. Kin. stuff, 
and the timbering is heavy. The paddle is not relied on, as it 
is in the Rice Lakes, the pin oar being generally used. 
A good many of these boats have drifted up the river, and 
they are so strong, stiff and seaworthy that they stand an 
xmlimited amount of abuse. They are generally about 14ft. 
long by 83in. beam, but as each builder doeth what is good 
in his own eyes, and the use of a foot rule is not compulsory 
on the Shore, they are about any dimension, and might be 
classified in "fathoms" like a bark if they were built in large 
Retaw. 
sizes. 
Tonkers C. C. Dinner. 
The members of the Yonkers C. C. celebrated the eleventh 
anniversary of the organization of the club by enjoying a 
dinner at Bardin's Hotel, South Broadway, Yonkers, on 
Wednesday evening, Feb. 17. There were about forty pres- 
ent, including guests from the New York, Knickerbocker, 
Brooklyn and other clubs. 
The menu cards were the work of the club artist, Mr. W. 
G. Wood, representing the Y. C. C. house, the A. C. A. and 
Y. C. C. flags, canoes and various emblems of the sport, to- 
gether with an enticing list of good things. 
Mr. Wood also painted little canoeing scenes in water color 
on the designation cards at each place. Beside each plate 
was a package of cigars and cigarettes, held together by a 
rope grommet. The Roman punch was served in the shape 
of canoes with a little Y. C. C. flag stuck in the end of 
When cigars were lighted Com. Paul B. Rossire opened 
the speech-making in an appropriate manner, and then 
called upon Everett Masten, who told of the "Early History 
of the Club;" P. F. Hogan, of the Brooklyn C. C, who gave 
his version of "Jonah and the Whale;" Jas. K. Hand, of the 
Knickerbocker C. C, spoke of "The 1897 Meet;" Rev. W. M. 
Gilbert, chaplain of the club, told what he thought of canoe- 
ing, the club and its members; Gabriel Reeves, an ex-com- 
modore, responded to the "Ex-Members." Mr. L. W. Sea- 
vey, of the K. C. C, spoke of his early canoeing; Mr. T. S. 
Oxholm told what he thought of the ladies; and Mr. H. 
Lansing Quick, Mr. Louis Simpson, Edwin A. Quick, F. W. 
Retter (president of the Palisade Boat Club, of Yonkers) and 
D. B. Goodsell were not outdone in eloquence by any of the 
others. 
The speeches were varied with songs by Mr. Frank Taylor, 
of the Newburgh C. C, and instrumental duets by Messrs. 
Taylor and Hale. 
The other diners were: Robert Peebles, of the K. C. C; S. 
L, Cooper, C. C. Rossire, W. R. Haviland, Louis Hunter, 
Edward MuUer, E. M. Underhill, C. B. Carling, A. D. Bal- 
lard, B. F. Barnes, J. J. Lawrence, Robert Edgar, W. R. 
Simpson, Samuel Raynor, E Russell Coles, Elliott Hol- 
brook, J. E. Humason, G. I. Eddie, J. W. Fowler, Leo Shire, 
W. G. Wood, A. M. Reese, W. J. Moore and W. N. Mc- 
Vicar. 
The arrangements showed that the dinner committee, con- 
sisting of Messrs. Hale, Quick, Holbrook and Fowler, had 
been selected because of efficiency. 
The present officers of the club are: Com., Paul B. Rossire; 
Vice-Corn., Thos. Hale, Jr.; Sec'y, D. B. Goodsell; Treas., 
Everett Masten; Capt., Elliott Holbrook; Lieut., J. W. 
Fowler. 
The Atlantic Division. 
The executive committee of the Atlantic Division, Ameri- 
can Canoe Association, has decided in place of the regular 
Division meet to hold a combined four-days' cruise down the 
Delaware River, from Easton, Pa., and three-days' meet at 
Delanco, N. J., at the end of the cruise. The programme is: 
May 27, rendezvous at Easton, Pa. ; May 28, down the Dela- 
ware to Frenchtown, N. J.; May 29, to Trenton, N. J.; May 
30, to Arlington, N. J.; May 31, to Delanco, N. J.; June 1 ta 
3, meet held at Delanco, N. J. 
Washington Canoe Association. 
The Washington Canoe Association held its eleventh an- 
nual dinner on Feb. 23, many members and guests being: 
present. Mr. E. S. Hubbard gave an exhibition of lanterm 
slides. The officers are: Com., E. S. Bxley; Vice-Com., R. J. 
Whitton; Sec'y, Dr. Charles A. Davis; Treas., I. P. Libbey. 
The association has a membership of 97. Some time in the 
summer a meet will be held down the Potomac, lasting sev- 
eral days, with races for canoes and yachts. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
Applications for membership may be made to the purser 
of the division in which the applicant resides on blanks fur- 
nished by purser, the applicant becoming a member provided 
no objection be made within fourteen days after his name 
has been officially published in the Forest and Stream. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Name. Residence. 
Will K Park Philadelphia, Pa. 
E. W. Crittenden., Philadelphia, Pa. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
A. B. Cunningham Kingston 
Cluh. 
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Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 14.— Nocwith.staDdinp a steady drizzle, 
there was a good attendance to-day at llie medal shoot of the Colum- 
bia Pistol and Rifle Club. The records made were; 
Eifle, 200 yards, i-e-entry marches, F. H. Bushnell medal, 3 shots. 
Scores: A. H. P^pe 10, F. O. Young 10, Dr. L. O. Eodgers 13, D. W. 
McLaughlin 18. 
William Glindermann military medal, 10 shots CCreedmoor count) : 
F O Ynung 47, F H. Busbn-^ll 47, E Jaccbsen 44. C. F. Waltham 41 
F. O. Young rifle record medaJ, 10 shots: F. O Young 65, A. Gehret 
74. D. W. McLausrhlin 75. F. E. Mason 63, V. J. Lamott 171. 
Class medaN for members only, 10 .sho's: 
Champion Class— A. H. Pape 5fi. F. O. Young 60, Dr. L. O. Rodgers 
76, F. E. Mason 94, D. W. McLaughlin ^04. 
First Class— H. J. Wicker 57, O. A. Bremer 61, E. Jacobsen 87. A. 
B. Dorreli 88, L. Barrere £6, C. M. Daiss 100, H. Hillberg 109, A. Geh- 
ret 113. 
Second Class— J. E Gorman 93, G. Schultz 107, F. H. Bushnell 113,- 
G M. Barley 135, M. J White 16a. 
Third Class- G. F. Waltham 9i, A. Hinterman 145, A. Kennedy 166, 
W. J. Unfred 205, V. J. Lamoit 133. 
Pistol, 50yds., class medals for members, 10 shots: Champion 
Class— C. M Daiss 43, J. E. Gorman 49, F. O. Young 54, Ed. Hovey 
56, A. B Dorreli 63, A. H. Pape 65, L. Barrere 110. 
First Class— Dr. L. O. Rodgers 55, M. J. White 6i, F. E. Mason 67, 
D. W. McLaughlm 75, E. Jacobsen 101, Captain J. E. Klein 109, A. 
Gehret 132. 
Second Class-F. H. Bushnell 72, G. M. Barley 73, O. A. Bremer lOB. 
Tbird Class-C. Robens 64, Mrs. M, J. White 68, C. F. Waltham 113, 
W. .1. Unfred 116, A. Hinterman 140, V. J. Lamott 183, R. W Fores. 
202. 
A)l-comei's' re-entry matches— Diamond pistol record medfil, 10 
shots: F. O. Young 51, Ed. Hovey 52, A. B. Dorreli 61, J. E. Gorman 
64. 
Gordon Blanding, 3-shot scores— A. B. Dorreli 7, F. O. Young 8, J, E. 
Gorman 10, F. H. Bu.shnell 14. 
Howard Oarr, any-revolver medal, 6 shots -A. B. Dorreli 43,38; 
C Roberts 45, 47. ' 
Achilla Roos, .22cal. rifle medal, 5 shots— Ed Hovey 10, A..B. Dor- 
reli 12, 12. BOEEIi. 
Carleton Rifle Association. 
Carleton, Mich., Feb. 16.— The Carleton Rifle Association held its 
regular shoot to-day on its range near this city. Tcese shoots are 
held twice a month, on the first and third Tuesday -■. To-day there 
was a good attendance of shooters and .some capital scores were made. 
Below are some of the best scores made on the 200yds. range, stand- 
ard target, Sin. bullseye: 
Members' Record Rest Match 
J Orion 32 11 11 12 9 10 9 10 12 12-108 
10 9 16 12 9 10 9 IS 12 10-103 
James Oshorn H 11 9 7 9 12 10 12 9 7- 97 
9 9 tl 7 9 9 9 10 11 9- S3 
John Cole 10 12 8 13 9 9 10 9 I'l 7- 96 
9 13 12 7 9 8 10 11 9 9- f6 
L Richards 9 9 9 10 11 10 12 9 9 95 
9 9 7 6 9 10 12 8 8 11— 89 
OrvaHarwood 9 11 8 9 U 7 8 8 8 II— SO 
All-Comers' Ofl.'-Hand Match. 
H Williams 7 3 B 6 8 6 8 7 4 5- 55 
JoeFoye ..... 8 7384744 3 6- 54 
The Carleton Rifle Association has received a proposal from the 
Idaho Springs Rifle Club, of Idaho Springs, Col., to shoot a series of 
three or five match shoots under the following condiiious: siiOyd.s,, 
ofC-hand, standard target, teams to consist of six or eight members, 
each team to shoot at its own range, scores ana targets to tie ex- 
changed. The proposal will be accepted by our club. J. Ubion. 
Small Calibers at the Sportsmen'is Exposition. 
The programmes for the rifle tournament, to he held in Madison 
Square Garden during the weeli of the Sportsmen's Exposition, 
March 18-20, are ready formaiiing, and will be sf nt to parties desiring 
sameon appUcation to J. A H Dressel. seerelary-lreasurer Spor s- 
men's Association, Room 1,009 No. 3 7-379 Broadway. New York; or 
to Edward Banks, secretary Tournament Committee, care of Forest 
AND Stream, 346 Broadway, New York. 
There is no change in the official programme from that published 
last week in these columns, wiih the exception of a note at the con- 
clusion of the conditions of the Individual Chan plonshlp match, 
whicB states that entries may be made to either of tbe above-named 
officials, or to any member of the Tournament Committee. 
Toe conditions of the Individual Cbampionship match give tho en- 
trance fee for the 100 shots as $5, including season ticket of ad- 
mission to the Garden during the entire week o£ the Sportsmen's 
Exposition. Any person who is alreaiy a memberof the Sportsmen's 
Association, and who is therefore possessed of a season ticket as 
above, will be entitled to compete in this match on payment of the 
entrance fee less the price of such season ticket. 
Tbe ranges will be open for shooting from 3 P. M. to 11 P. M. on 
each day of the Exposition, with the exception of Saturday night, 
March 20, when all shooting will close at 9 P. M. Competition on ihe 
bullseye target closes on Friday night, March 19. 
Revolver Shooting in England. 
London, England, Feb. 12.— The English National Rifle Association 
has just issued its report of the Bi-^ley meeting for 1896 The revolver 
competitions seem not to have been (juite as popular as in 1895. 
There were 3,379 entries as compared wich 3,952 in '95, a decrease of 
573. 
The chief falling off was in the two series 3, the rapid-flnng ones 
for military and "any" revolvers. These dwindled down from 560 
and 7.i8 respectively to 137 and 315, less than half of former entry 
hsrs. Mr. Winans has by practice become so expert at this that it is 
a foregone aonclusion that he will come out on top as soon as he 
begins shooting, and this is most likely the reason other shooters 
have become discouraged. As this is, however, the most practical 
set of series for revolver shooting of the lot, it cannot well be dis- 
pensed with even if it is uripopular, as all difficult things generally 
are. Where the greatest increase in entries came in was at the dis- 
appearing series, which is too slow, and consequently easy. O. 
