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FOFlEST aKD stream. 
[June 5, 18W. 
Iplaya. Being a youthful bachelor, I was somewhat amused 
to be assigned to King Lear. The coffee room is "As You 
Like It;" and allow me to suggest that you investigate an 
apartment entitled "Measure for Measure," which is pre- 
sided over by Miss B., who has a keen appreciation of tke 
fe'^tiirements of Americans. 
Wednesday morning, in attempting to ride to Worcester, 
we were caught in a severe storm. By the time we reached 
Alchester we were literally soaked, and as our baggage lay 
behind us, at Stratford, we were obliged to retrace our way. 
We thought then that our tour was ended, but as the rain 
moderated in the afternoon, we determined to make one 
more attempt, and at 5 o'clock made another start, this time 
toward Birmingham. It had been storming for hours, and 
we started in a soft drizzle, yet the roads, though slipperj', 
were hard. The sensation was exactly the same as riding 
on wet macadam. It was not a pleasant ride, trees and 
hedges were ladened with the rain, a mist hung low over the 
fields, and the effect was dark and dreary. 
We stopped at Henley4n-Arden for a cup of tea, and on 
leaving the inn found the clouds at last breaking away and 
the whole country bathed in the warm evening sunlight. 
■Our spirits rose in proportion and suffered no reaction until, 
■on dismounting at 7:30 o'clock at the Grand Hotel, Birming- 
ham, we suddenly realized that our little cruise was at an 
end. It must be an excellent road from Stratford to Bir- 
mingham, for it was good going even in the wet, but it is 
not particularly interesting. Undoubtedly, the best route 
from Stratford is toward Worcester, where you ride at once 
into a very charming country. 
We spent the night at Birmingham, a most unattractive, 
dirty city, and taking the morning train, on Thursday, were 
able to lunch in London, thus exactly carrying out our plans 
made on starting. 
Wheeling in England is far more pleasant than in this 
country. The roads, to an American rider, appear really 
wonderful, and in our trip ■^pe were never more than walking 
distance from some clean, comfortable inn The English 
method of forwarding luggage is very simple^ and I found it 
more reliable than our express system. All that I ever did 
was to give the boots a sbilling in the morning and tell iy,m 
where 1 wished to find my bag in the evening. ' 
As regards bicycles, it is, in my opinion, a mistake to 
ride too light a machine. I rode a wheel geared to 72in., 
and found it most satisfactory. My tires, however, which 
were light, were entirely used up. 'The roads are very hard, 
and anyone riding for the scenery and not caring to pick his 
way, would do well to use heavy tires, which should alfo 
prove something of a pi ottction against the dreaded black- 
thorn. 
Ic would, of CQurse, be a simple matter to spend a week 
or more on the route that I have given without feeling it a 
waste of time. My only desire is to point out to those who 
have but a limited time at their disposal, that they can ride 
it, with very great enjoyment and without undue exertion, 
in four days. C. A. Lumet. 
THE BARDS AND THE BICYCLE. 
"Bike, and the world bikes with you; 
Walk, and you walk alone," 
sings a latter day poet whose verse finds place in a compila- 
tion of cycling poetry made and published by Mr. Edward 
Redmond, of Rochester. Now that the world is divided into 
those who ride and those who are going to, there is no 
doubt room for such a compilation.. In his preface Mr. Red- 
mond says: 
"Y^, who would have predicted only a little while ago 
that the domain of literature itself would be incidentally 
enlarged and adorned through the coming of the wheel? 
Nevertheless so it is. A new school of poesy has arisen to 
celebrate the tribulations and triumphs of the bicycling 
world. The bards of the bicycle have invaded Helicon in 
force, and have drank deeply from the waters of its sacred 
rill." The compiler says that the bards have taken water, 
but unless we had been so informed we should certainly 
have iinagined that the drink which furnished their inspira- 
tion #as something else. This, for instance, may have been 
composed upon Helicon water, but we doubt it : 
"The high-grade bike Lord Ronald had bought, 
Leapt like a Texas steer. 
It skinned the shins of Lady Clare-, 
And stood her on her ear." 
And then the author goes on to tell : 
"Down stept Lord Ronald from his bike, 
'Oh, Lady Clare, you shame your worth. 
Tour waist is all ripped up the back, 
While you are rooting in the earth.' 
" 'I'm going to ride this thing,' she said, 
4-8 she felt around for her back hair; 
'I'm going to ride the critter, or 
My name will not be Lady Glare.' " 
The poetry certainly has an up-to-date air to it. The piece 
called the "Spinning Wheel" is one of the best characteriza- 
tions possible of a certain kind of femininity very much in' 
(evidence just now. The reference is to the Boulevard girl. 
1776. 
"Beside her wheel my ladye sits, 
And spins the livelong day. 
The drifted wool her fairy touch 
Like magic melts away. 
Certes, she is passing fair. 
Fairer than verse may tell. 
She winds the skeins about my hands, 
And round my heart a spell. 
The sunbeams danciug in her eyes 
Dare me a kiss to steal, 
From gentle Mistress Dorothy 
Beside her spinning wheel." 
1896. 
"Scorching down the Boulevard, 
Chewing gum and pedaling hard. 
Ting-ling ! almost knock me ilat, 
Dizzy tie, Fedora hat. 
Scarlet bloomers: 'Tis a picture, 
Makes my very senses reel. 
'What was that?' I ask. Ob, merely 
Dot astride her spinning wheel." 
From Dorothy to Dot is quite a comedown, but no greater 
than the change from the stately measure of the first verse 
to the tripping, jerky lines of the last. 
Another bard has something more kindly to say of the 
scorching girl. It happens this'is his particular Phillida. 
"She does not show a sign 
Of a wing. 
But her figure is divine; 
And the fling 
Of her abbreviated gown, 
As she flickers through the town, 
Might buy the throne and crown 
Of a king." 
If there is one subject upon which wheelmen are more 
united than any other it is the need of good roads. Phillida 
and Dot could never scorch if they did not have them. The 
reverse of good roads is the most unpleasant subject a true 
cyclist can contemplate. No wonder the author of "Just 
Mud" is sad. 
"Mud, mud, mud. 
As fdr as the eye can see, 
And I'm glad that my tongue can't utter 
The thoughts that arise in me. 
"And the half-fllled carts go on 
With a little jag of a load, 
But oh, just to feel the joy of a wheel 
And a nice, hard, level road. 
"Mud, mud, mud. 
As far as the eye can see, 
But the joy I miss on a road like this 
Can never come back to me." 
In every great upward movement of the human race there 
are always disgruntled individuals who can see nothing good 
in the new order of things. 
Politics and bicycles are two great national institutions, 
yet one of the poets that has been corraled for the compila- 
tion ventures to poke fun at them, and to .=uggest a baby 
carriage fad as a substitute for wheeling. His contribution 
is entitled : 
"lament prom the CRiDM!. 
"Up from the cradle came a wail, 
Al first a pensive coo; 
Into a weird, vociferous wail 
Of mournfulness it grew. 
His sorrow, in a vein prolix. 
He struggled to reveal: 
'My father's talking politics. 
And mother rides a wheel." 
" 'Thej say I'm cross— I'm simply sad 
At being slighted so, 
I wisb the baby carriage fad 
Could somehow get a shosv. 
How can you blame one in my fix 
For setting up a squeal? 
My father's talking politics. 
And mother rides a wheel.'" 
There are 150 pages in "The Bards and the Bicycle," and a 
greater number of subjects. Many of the verses readily adapt 
themselves to popular airs, and such are noted. 
tdchting. 
As the yachting journal of America, the Forest and Stream ts the 
recognized medium of communication between the maker of yachts- 
men'' s supplies and the yachting public. Its vahie for advertising 
has been demonstrated by patrons who have employed its columns 
continuously for years. 
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FIXTURES. 
JUNE. 
Atlantic, Adams cups. New York Bay. 
Buffalo, opening cruise, small cl;isses, Port Albino. 
Brooklyn, annual, New York Bay. 
Atlantic, special. New York Bay. 
Buffalo, pennant. Lake Erie. 
Gravesend Bay, annual. New York Bay. 
Atlantic, annual. 
Corinthian Marblehead, club, Massachusetts Bay, 
Marine and Field, open. New York Bay. 
Columbia, annual, Hudson River. 
Buffalo, ladies' day, Lake Erie. 
Gravesend Bay, cruise, New York Bay. 
Atlantic, Adams cups. New York Bay. 
Brooklyn, first special, New York Bay. 
There is some possibility of Defender being fitted out by 
C. Oliver Iselin and raced this season; but even if the possi- 
bility becomes a certainty there is very little promise of good 
sport in the class. True, both Navahoe and Vigilant will be 
in commission; but even if they were fitted and raced at 
their best it is a foregone conclusion that Defender can beat 
both too easily to make such a contest interesting. Of 
course over some of the regular club courses and on the runs 
of the New York cruise the lesser draft of the centerboard 
boats might give them an unfair advantage, and doubtless 
Defender would be frequently hampered in many ways by 
her great draft. As far as Vigilant is concerned, her owner 
purchased her solely for cruising, in fact he even contem- 
Elated converting her into a yawl for that purpose, she has 
een fitted with a smaller rig, and she is now in no sense in 
the same class as Defender. Altogether the outlook for 
racing in the 90ft. class is by no means encouraging. 
The Boston Herald is still trying, through its Glasgow 
correspondent, to work up a movement in favor of 46ft. l.w.l. 
yachts. According to the Herald's views of measurement, 
such a race should be on the basis of waterline length only, 
with "no restrictions on skill" in the shape of the length 
and sail area rule, American or English. The Clyde yachts- 
men, however well they may deserve the familiar epithet of 
"canny," as yet have not discovered what a race on such 
terms would mean for a British yacht. While the American 
"46-footer," if the extinct class should be resuscitated, would 
be a craft of great power and excessive sail area on a limited 
waterline, an enlarged Wasp, the innocent'Scotch yachtsmen 
are tempted with the idea of racing craft of the British type, 
of the same waterline, but of just about half the power, such 
as Dragon III. or Eucharis. There is no likelihood whatever 
of a contest, but if one were arranged on the proposed plan 
of the Herald, the American designers would merely have 
to go ahead in a line with which they are perfectly familiar, 
while the British designer would be called upon to experi- 
ment in a new and unknown class of yacht. The experi- 
ment of racing the British 20 rater Jessica, a very fine ex- 
ample of Mr. Will Fife's work in this class, similar to Dragon 
III,, against the American 46 footer Wasp, as made here in 
892, shows what a one-sided affair such a contest would be. 
f international racing is to be introduced in the medium- 
sized yachts, it miist be under some fair system of measure- 
ment not widely difl'erent from those now used in America 
and Great Britain, and the class selected must be one now 
in existence, and not one that, has passed away. 
MEMORIAL DAY. 
May 31, 1897. 
Harlem IT. C. Opening Race« 
CITY ISLANO - LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
The regatta of the Harlem Y. C, the first of the Sound 
Y. R. U. races, brought out a goodly number of starters, but 
was marred by lack of wind. The morning was very un- 
promising, with fog and rain, but after the clearing up at 
noon there came a light breeze and the race was started. 
The times were: 
CABIN SL0OPS-43l'T, CLiSS— COURSE, ?0 MILES. 
Length 
Pontiac, H. Hanlein, Jr..,, ,,,.,,,,„,,,,,, ,.40.07 
Mary B., J. K. Gettes. 36. 05 
Mistral, R. Evans 41.03 
White Cap,W. Neely .38.07 
CABIN SLOOPS— 86ft. class -20 MILES. 
J. S. M,, J. N. Fowler,..., .3.3.04 5 3 J 37 
Eeliance, W. P. Schultz 33.09 5 S7 57 
Mignon, 5 18 05 
Millionaire, K. McDonald 36. fO Disabled. 
CABIN SLOOPS— 30ft. CLASS— 20 MILES. 
Petrel. O. C. Eigl.. ...28.08 
Olive L., E. Lange..... , ...25.04 
Una, W. Scardefleld 28.01 
Water Lily, P. Kiernan, Jr, ,....£7 03 
Isabelle, j. F Lalor , 29.05 
Wanderer, W. Strauss , . , 27 . C4 
Poco, J. H. Andrews .25.03 
B,uth, C. Lesser 28.05 
OPEN CATS— 3CFT. class -20 MILKS. 
G, .J. Oakes -i,.25.03 Did not finish 
Elapsed. Corrected. 
5 OS 12 5 07 31 
5 20 00 5 1.3 00 
Did not finish. 
Did not finish. 
5 25 5? 
5 24 18 
5 15 01 
Did not finish. 
5 49 58 5 33 3S 
6 06 32 6 03 17 
5 51 46 5 48 IT 
6 00 31 6 on 31 
6 01 .30 5 59 31 
Did not finish. 
5 50 16 5 47 58 
Lou, 
Camilla, Webber. 
5 48 41 
CABIN CATS— 30pT. class -20 MILES. 
5 48 44 
Unca.«, P H. Berg i8.02 
Lauretta, W. P. Sherer 25.01 
Ann, S. Jacobs 27.03 
Lizzie V., W. P. Vreeland 30.00 
OPEN J B AND MAINSAIL YACHTS— 86FT CLASS— '<0 MILES. 
Cygnet, Com. D. Ryan .32.06 5 40 44 
OPEN JIB AND MAINSAIL - 30FT CLASS— 20 MILKS. 
E. Z Sloat, Hoyt & Parkes 27.052 5 15 Sii 
Delphinne, W. Christie 27.01 5 25 46 
CABIN SLOOPS— 25FT. CLASS -16 MILES. 
Nornen, Did not finish. 
CABIN CATS— 2SFT. CLASS— 16 MILES. 
5 51 08 
6 05 06 
5 53 30 
5 25 37 
5 53 01 
5 51 42 
5 41 IB 
5 S5 37 
5 40 44 
5 15 S2 
5 25 31 
49 40 
S9 5.5 
22 40 
22 25 
84 56; 
.39 38. 
5 26 11 
5 39 33 
5 32 19- 
5 48 89' 
S 06 12 
Oriole, M. P. Lee 5 50 35 
Mabel M., W. A Potter 25.00 5 89 .55 
Satanic, H. Scbneider 22. C6 5 28 37 
Yankee Girl, W. F. Buggle..., 25.00 5 2i S5 
Mohican, J. Bolsen., 31.07 Did not finish. 
Ada, Did not finish. 
Folka, E. L. Felleman.,,,,.. 83.08 5 37 48 
Bertha, J. W. Dwyer 21.06 5 48 22 
OPEN CATS— 25ft. class— 16 MILES, 
Eddies., J Synmers 21.01 5 36 48 
Norman, G. llanson , 23.01 5 39 55 
Willis 5 33 47 
Emma S 5 32 19 
OPEN JIB AND MAINSAIL- 25ft CLASS— 16 SHLES. 
Just Right, E MiUer a3.08 5 49 06 
Zetes, J. A. Kip 24.04 5 05 12 
CABIN OATS— 20ft. class — 16 MILES. 
Creek, H. Zollinger 16.00 Did not finish. 
OPEN CATS— ar FT. CLASS -12 MILES. 
Ellide, W. Valentine 20.00 Did not finish. 
Bubble ...16.06 Not timed. 
Gull, J. F. Proctor 20. CO 4 43 '-8 
Regina, W Scaidefleld 10.03 4 00 00 3 .'iS 16 
Starling, E. F. de Levante 19. C6 4 08 31 4 07 82 
OPEN CATS -1£fT class 12 MILES 
I D. K, T. McLaughlin 13.00 5 39 21 5 29 31 
The winners were Pontiac, Mignon, Olive L., Camilla, Lizzie V., 
Cygnet, E. Z. Sloat, Yankee Girl, Eddie S., Zates, Regina and I. D. K. 
Millionaire, sloop, was in collision during the race with 
the coasting schooner L. L. Hamlin, of Providence, being 
struck by the latter in the attempt to cross her bows. The 
yacht lost her topmast and had her boom unshipped, while 
three men were thrown overboard, but were rescued. 
Atlantic T. C. Opening Race. 
BAY RIDGE— NEW YORK HARBOR. 
The Atlantic Y. C. celebrated the day with a race for the 
regular classes, starting from off the Bell Buoy, Bay Ridge, 
the larger yachts sailing around the Southwest Spit and re- 
turn, the smallerrounding the Bell Buoy in the Swash Chan- 
nel, 19M and 14X miles. The morning was foggy and rainy, 
but some time after noon the sky cleared and the light S.W. 
wind came in, so the race was started. When working about 
the line Feydeh was in collision with Hera, tearing the 
latter's mainsail so badly that she was forced to v^ithdraw, 
Feydeh being uninjured. The afternoon turned out very 
pleasant, the reverse of the morning, and though the wind 
was light the course was sailed, the times being: 
SLOOPS— CLASS J. 
Length. Elapsed. Corrected, 
Eclipse, L. J. Callanan .^5.00 3 41 35 3 41 35 
SLOOPS— CLASS K. 
lola. Cel. D. E. Austin 47.17 3 46 00 3 46 00 
SLOOPS— CLASS L. 
Hydriad, G. R. Brown ., Not limed. 
Eidolon, James Weir, Jr 42.16 3 40 12 3 40 13 
SLOOPS - CLASS M. 
Aki^ta, George Hill 34.75 8 41 55 8 41 E5 
Oanopuf, H. B. Howell 31.48 3 56 50 8 51 03 
SLOOPS- CLASS N, SPECIAL. 
Musme, J. M. Macd enough 30.00 8 40 10 3 40 10 
Wawa, James StiUman 80.00 3 35 45 3 35 45 
SLOOPS— CLASS N. 
Feydeh, E. D. Cowman i9 50 3 16 00 3 16 00 
OATBOATS— CLASS s. 
Dorothy, George Hill.., 2.'<.61 Withdrew disabled. 
Squaw, H. S. Jewell i;:7.88 2 53 OD 2 51 45 
OAIBO ATS - CLASS T. 
Qui Vive, — io.OO 2 59 10 2 59 10 
Uncas, J. S. Negus. ,.,,:,',V.i.ViV<«««"-24.'*l Not timed. 
Ethel, E. J. Bergen 21. 71 3 06 12 2 58 84 
Eclipse lost her topmast, 
Seawanhaka Corinthian IT. C. 
OYSTER BAY. 
Saturday, May 29. 
The Seawanhaka C. Y. C. opened its Oyster Bay station 
for the season on May 29, a number of yachts being at 
anchor in Seawanhaka Harbor and many members present. 
The colors were mast-headed with the usual ceremonies. In 
the afternoon a race for the 20ft. class was sailed in a fresh 
N.W. wind, the starters being Shark, Keneu, Asthore aud 
Dad, 
Asthore led at the line, with Keneu second and Shark 
third, but the latter, with a reefed mainsail, soon took the 
lead. On the last leg of the first round Shark parted her 
bobstay and was compelled to sail under her mainsail for a 
time until temporary repairs were made; these were ineffec- 
tive, and she was finally beaten by Keneu. The times were: 
Start 2 P. M. 
Ist round. 2d round. Finish. Elapsed. 
Keneu, M. Clark 2 38 00 3 15 00 3 36 03 1 3i3 05 
Shark, Rouse & Hoyt ....2 41 50 3 18 00 3 33 00 1 38 00 
Asthore. P. T. Dodge 2 44 57 8 27 45 8 51 00 1 51 00 
Dad,L. D. Huntington, Jr.... 2 50 45 3 39 03 4 06 29 2 06 89 
Dad measures 16ft. K. L. 
