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country. Away they went up the creek, over the hill, 
across the country toward the railroad, clear out of 
hearing. To follow was suicidal, so myself and Mr. 
Ham just stood still for more than thirty minutes, when, 
"Hush! do you hear them? Hush! they are coming back 
this way. Don't you hear them?" "Yes, I do," says the 
old man, and in less than ten minutes they came in 
sight of us, nearer and nearer, every dog to his work. 
Never was there such wakening times in this woods. 
"Just listen! Don't they run? Here they come! 
Look, old man! Don't let him cross up there! Here 
they come! Here thev come! Here they come!" 
Old man Tucker just over the creek brought a squall; 
but it was too late. Little Gay had nipped the wolf m 
the flank, and the devilish thing turned to retaliate, only 
to face old Drive and two black dogs belonging to 
Ham. I was there myself to see the dogs string him 
out and see the other dogs come in, one, two, three, at 
a time, until all the dogs were there. Every one would 
give the wolf a shake as they came in, by the bme 
they were all through the wolf was quite dead While 
this was going on one man, who had gone up the creek 
to follow the dogs while they were running, dropped 
another wolf, which was trying to steal away from the 
report of so many dogs. The horn was sounded and 
the men all came in to witness what had taken place, to 
the satisfaction of all concerned. UAN ' 
tachting. 
Fixtures, 
AUGUST. 
10 East Gloucester, open, Gloucester Harbor. 
neS^&ard-a Bay. 
13. New Jersey Ath., cup, Newark Bay. 
IS Cohasset, open, Cohasset Harbor. 
13 Baltimore, Rear-Corn, cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
IS! CorinThian Marblehead, open Massachusetts Ba 7 . 
13. Winthrop, evening race, Boston Harbor. 
13. Jubilee, championship, Massachusetts Bay 
13. Burgess, cruise, Massachusetts Bay. 
13. Woods Holl, open, Woods Holl. 
13. American, cruise, NewDuryport. 
13. Taunton, cruise to Newport. 
13 Shelter Island, open, Gardiner s pay. , 
13-U Corinthian San Francisco, cruise. Port Richmond. 
13-18.' Royal St Lawrence, Seawanhaka international cup, Monirea,, 
Lake St. Louis. 
13-14. East Gloucester, cruise, Gloucester, Mass. 
13. Green Bay, annual, Green Bay, Wis. 
18. Miramichi, Stewart pennant, Oak Point. 
18. Plymouth, open, Plymouth, Mass. 
19. Kingston, open. Kingston, Mass. 
20. Huguenot, annual, Long Island bound. 
20 Park City, annual, Long Island bound. 
20! Duxbury, open, Duxbury, Mass. 
20. Quincy, handicap, Boston Harbor. 
20. Winthrop, club, Boston Harbor. 
20. Woods Holl, championship, West Falmouth. 
20. Beverly, seventh Corinthian, Buzzard s Bay. 
20. Burgess, championship, Massachusetts Bay. 
20. Royal Canadian. 27, 22 and skiff classes, Toronto. 
20. Baltimore, McAllister cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
21. Winthrop, cruise, Boston Harbor. 
22-23-24. Quincy, challenge cup, Boston Harbor. 
22. Wollaston, cup, Boston Harbor. 
22. Cape Cod, open, Provincetown. 
22-26. Seawanhaka-Phila. Cor., knockabout mterclub match, Oyster 
23. Wellneet", open, Wellfleet, Mass. 
26. Fall River, open, Mount Hope Bay. 
27 Beverly, club meeting and informal race, Buzzatd s Bay. 
27! Queen City, 27ft. class, Toronto. 
27. Huntington, annual, Long Island Sound. 
27. Douglaston, special. Long Island Sound. 
27 Cor. Marblehead, third championship, Massachusetts Bay. 
27! Woods Holl, open, West Falmouth. { 
27. Shelter Island, special, Gardiner s Bay. - 
27. Taunton, open, Taunton, Mass. « 
27. American, cruise to Squam. j J 
27-28. Corinthian San Francisco, cruise, Petaluma. 
27. Canarsie, Corinthian race, Jamaica Bay. 
27. Baltimore, Withers cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
29. New Jersey Ath., club. Newark Bay. _ . 
30. Taunton, ladies' day, Taunton, Mass. 
31 American, moonlight sail, Newburyport, Mass. 
SEPTEMBER. 
, Savin Hill, open, Boston Harbor. . 
4-5. Corinthian Marblehead, cruise, Massachusetts Bay. 
Woods Holl, championship, Sussett Harbor. 
•4-5. Wollaston, cruise, Boston Harbor. 
. Baltimore, Rear-Corn, cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
Beverly, eighth Corinthian, Buzzard s Bay. 
Cor Philadelphia, fall, Essington, Delaware River. 
' Larchmont, fall, Long Island Sound. 
Norwalk, open, Long Island Sound. 
Norwich, open, Long Island bound. 
Beverly, open, Buzzard's Bay. 
Newport, club, Narragansett Bay. 
City Point, club, New Haven, Long Island bound. 
American, skiff class, Newburyport, Mass. 
Jubilee, championship, Massachusetts Bay. 
Burgess, open, Massachusetts Bay. 
Lynn, open, Massachusetts Bay. 
Quincy, handicap, Boston Harbor. - 
Royal Canadian, Prince of Wales cup, Toronto. 
Pacific, interclub regatta, San Francisco Harbor. 
Beverly, tenth Corinthian, Buzzard s Bay. 
Royal Canadian, skiff class, Toronto. 
Riverside, annual, Long Island bound. 
Hull, open, Boston Harbor. 
Massachusetts Y. R. A., rendezvous, Hull. 
South Boston, handicap, Boston Harbor. 
Winthrop, cruise to. HulL 
Burgess, sail-off, cruise, Massachusetts Bay. 
Woods Holl, open, Woods Holl. 
Taunton, club, Taunton, Mass. 
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14. Miramichi, Watt cup, Chatham. 
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Baltimore. McAllister cup. 
Chicago, fall, Lake Michigan. 
Corinthian San Francisco, regatta, San Francisco Bay. 
. Massachusetts Y. R. A., review, Hull. . 
18 Corinthian San Francisco, cruise, Vallejo. 
, American, cruise to Plum Island. 
Baltimore, Rear-Corn, cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
! Queen City, 22ft. K claw, Toronto. 
Newport, ladies' day, Narrangansett Bay. 
! Miramichi, Gould cup, Newcastle. 
Taunton, ladies' day, Taunton, Mass. 
The certainty of a challenge from the owner of a 
new ooft cutter has put to rest with many others of its 
kind the silly story that the new schooner Rainbow was 
built to challenge for the America Cup. As this came 
from the Boston fiction factory, and had absolutely 
nothing but ignorant conjecture to support it, we have 
never taken the trouble to deny it; but the one fact that 
the new yacht is built to rate 20A1 at Lloyds is enough 
to demolish this carefully constructed fake as thoroughly 
as an American steam yacht would a torpedo boat de- 
stroyer No yacht which is classed at Lloyds can win 
the America Cup under existing conditions, and no 
British yachtsman is such a fool as to try the experi- 
ment. 
On Saturday of this week the first race of the interna- 
tional series for the Seawanhaka cup takes place, on 
Lake St Louis, Montreal; the defender being the Royal 
St. Lawrence Y. C, and the challenger the Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y. C. The former is represented by G. Her- 
rick Duggan, the winner of the cup at Oyster Bay in 
1896, and the latter by Clinton H. Crane, the winner of 
the Seawanhaka trial races in 1896-7-8. The competing 
yachts are not yet known; Mr. Duggan has for the de- 
fense the successful Glencairn II. of last season, and 
four new boats of his design. The third of these, the 
one which he has sailed in the trial races, has just been 
named Dominion by her owner, Com. James Ross. 
She is, from all accounts, a double-hulled craft, a com- 
plete innovation in these races. The final selec- 
tion will be made from the entire fleet, presumably 
one of the three new boats. Mr. Crane has two boats at 
Montreal, Seawanhaka, winner of the trial races, owned 
by the Seawanhaka syndicate, and an entirely new boat, 
just completed by the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat 
Company, and shipped down from Ogdensburg to Mont- 
real, where he has joined the two. The new boat_ is 
owned by him, in connection with his father and a third 
owner. The challenger will be selected from the two 
prior to next Friday night. 
The contest this year promises to be more even and 
more interesting than that of last year; Mr. Crane has 
profited a great deal by the experience of two seasons, 
especially by the actual racing on Lake St. Louis last 
year, and he shows a marked improvement in his work, 
both in designing and handling. Just what progress Mr. 
Duggan has made cannot be known until his new boat 
is on view, as from the reports he has evidently tried a 
radical experiment. 
The races will be sailed under the same general ar- 
rangements and conditions as last year. Yachtsmen who 
may visit Montreal will find the club steamer at La- 
chine, four miles from the city, and easily reached by 
rail; the accommodations at Dorval, nine miles out, are 
limited to the yacht club house, and that will be filled 
by the members and those' immediately connected with 
the races, so that others will have to depend on the 
hotels in Montreal. The trip to Montreal is a pleasant 
one, and those who make it are little likely to be dis- 
appointed; the sailing is even keener in these small 
craft than in large yachts, and from the reduced pro- 
portions of the course the boats may be followed 
throughout every moment of the race, while with a glass 
even the personal work of each member of the crew 
may be closely scrutinized. Only those who have 
watched both understand the added interest in this sort 
of racing compared with that of large yachts, which are 
of necessity seen only at intervals and imperfectly. Save 
in mere area of canvas, the small craft are in every way 
as interesting as the large ones, and even faster in pro- 
portion to their size. 
The Western Sports, of San Francisco, is doing good 
work in the direction of the abolition of time allowance, 
as already accomplished by the Y. R. A. of Massachu- 
setts, and in part by the Y. R. A. of Long Island 
Sound. As a preliminary to this, however, it is ab- 
solutely essential that there shall be some established 
classes under a good measurement rule, to which men* 
can build with some degree of protection from the 
racing machine and immediate out-building. Excellent 
as it is in itself, the mere abolition of time allowance 
has no effect whatever on type or form, and some re- 
strictive rule is necessary unless each class is to be turned 
over to the freaks as soon as the racing in it becomes at 
all interesting. 
Poor Britannia! At his examination on Aug. 1, in 
London, Mr. Ernest Terah Hooley, ex-promoter, testi- 
fied that after he had purchased the cutter Bri- 
tannia from the Prince of Wales for his asso- 
ciate, Mr. John Lawson Johnstone, he had been 
compelled to keep her himself, because she did not 
come up to Mr. Johnstone's expectations; which, it 
has been said by the way, were that she was a steam 
yacht. And yet Mr. Johnstone has figured in English 
journals as a" yachtsman, and even attained the dignity 
of having his biography, with favorable mention of his 
proprietary specific, cabled across the ocean as that of a 
possible challenger for the America Cup. Mr. Hooley's 
revelations as to payment of money to men of all classes, 
from editors to earls, is amusing and instructive as to the 
true inwardness of the up-to-date business man and his 
methods. 
\n unverified report comes from the other side to 
the effect that Mr. A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, who 
has just sold his steam yacht Margarita to the King of 
Belgium, is negotiating for Valkyrie III., with the in- 
tention of bringing her to America. Should there be 
trial races in the 90ft. special class next year, the pres- 
ence of Valkyrie III. alongside of Defender and a new 
defender would add materially to the interest in the 
races, as it was very plain that, as matters went, the 
vacht was never shown at her best in her two trials 
in this country in 1895. At the same time, the mischiev- 
ous Payne bill stands in the way of such an experiment. 
Another report, which is more likely to be true, has it 
that Mr. Drexel will build a still larger steam yacht than 
Margarita. 
The Measurement Rule. 
In the Forest and Stream of July 16 appeared a long 
and interesting criticism of the recent report of the Sea- 
wanhaka special committee by our correspondent Sex- 
tant, whose views on the measurement question are well 
known to our readers. Covering as it does a large num- 
ber of points, this letter is by no means easy to answer 
within reasonable limits of space; and the many de- 
mands on our time during the racing season have thus 
far prevented even the attempt. Without presuming 
to speak in any way for the committee, we shall try to 
make clear some of the views held by those opposed to 
Sextant and Mr. Hill in the matter of the general prin- 
ciples of measurement, as well as some points dealing 
with specific details. 
Near the end of Sextant's letter we find the following, 
by way of summary of the points made by him against 
the report: "The notable omissions in the report are 
the failure to discuss fundamental principles of measure- 
ment, and the absence of any attempt to justify the 
adoption of the proposed formula and to demonstrate 
its usefulness. Yachtsmen are practically asked to adopt 
it on faith, as they have so many others which have 
proved useless." Taking up the first of these points, re- 
lating to the fundamental principles of measurement, 
Sextant will probably agree with us in giving the first 
place to the broad issue between the two types of 
measurement rule: the "old type," such as the Seawan- 
haka and the present Y. R. A. linear rating rules, com- 
posed of variable factors, and the type advocated by him- 
self and Mr. Hill, with arbitrary and fixed limits. 
The consensus of opinion throughout the yachting 
world to-day is so strongly in favor of the former as, 
in the opinion of many, to render any further discussion 
of this question unnecessary. This type of rule has been 
in use from the earliest days of yacht racing, and if Ave 
follow the measurement question back year by year for 
half a century we shall still find the one idea expressed 
by practically all disputants, of measuring the "size" 
of racing yachts by summation of certain variable com- 
ponents. There is no end to the differences of opinion 
as to what should constitute "size" and what the factors 
and constants should be; but there is a general agreement 
on the suitability of this type of rule. 
While this type of rule is in universal use to-day in 
America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, 
Norway, and Sweden, and while nearly all who are 
working for the improvement of measurement rule have 
accepted it as the basis for their investigations, the other 
type, the rule based solely on arbitrary restrictions, is 
not in use as a general rule, nor has it any number of 
supporters. It is true that of late years, and in conse- 
quence of the patent failures of many formulas of the 
old type, numerous classes have been established under 
arbitrary limitations of "one-design," or certain tabu- 
lated restrictions, and with good success in the ma- 
jority of cases. At the same time there is no important 
yachting body which has yet discarded its general 
formula, of the old type, to replace it with a restrictive 
rule, or rather a series of restrictive rules, to cover all 
its classes. Such work as has been done in the direction 
of arbitrary restrictions has been special and supple- 
mentary, and not primary and original. 
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has in the past two 
years encouraged a thorough discussion of the entire 
measurement question at its regular club meetings, at 
special meetings of men known to be interested in the 
matter, by the reports of its race committee and by let- 
ters to different yachtsmen. In this general canvassing 
of the whole subject, bringing out a great variety of 
views, there has been no demand whatever for a change 
from the old type of formula. It may be fairly assumed 
that this fact, with the knowledge of the general feeling 
of foreign yachtsmen, has influenced the late special 
committee in limiting its labors to the field of the exist- 
ing type, of a formula composed of variable components. 
The strongest argument which can be made against the 
formula type of rule and in favor of the restrictive 
type is that the former has repeatedly failed, while the 
latter has in many cases proved successful. This argu- 
ment has been advanced by some of the Boston yachts- 
men, who are opposed to the present Seawanhaka rule, 
as compared with the Massachusetts Y. R. A. rule of 
simple L.W.L., but are willing to consider a proposal 
for the general adoption of restrictive rules. To us it 
is a very weak one, for the two reasons that the cause 
of the failure of the old type of formula is in every 
case so plainly obvious, and the success of the restricted 
classes is under special conditions, which will not exist 
under a general application of the restrictive plan to 
all classes, with no other rule. 
Our correspondent disposes briefly of the matter by 
the preamble, "In view of the failure of all rules of 
the old type," but we would reply that all such rules have 
not failed from the outset, but some of them have 
worked very satisfactorily for years, only failing when, 
through advance in design, construction, etc., they have 
been put to the test of entirely different conditions. 
The Seawanhaka rule, adopted in 1883, was an excel- 
lent rule, and was direct and positive in its results, pro- 
ducing a better type of yacht than either of its immediate 
predecessors, the old New York Y. C. "cubic contents" 
rule on the one hand, and the British "tonnage" rule 
on the other. From 1883 to 1891 its influence was bene- 
ficial; as long as no inducement existed to cut " down 
the area of the midship section while retaining extreme 
dimensions for the sake of the untaxed levers, beam and 
draft. As soon as the fin-keel came in, through causes 
not necessary to discuss at present, the rule failed. The 
reason for its failure was not because it was based upon 
variable factors, or even because false values were al- 
loted to those factors; but because it did not include 
other factors made necessary by the course of designing. 
In the same way the British rating rule was a complete 
success for about five years, and it cannot yet^be said 
beyond question that existing rules, the Y. R.'A., the 
German and French rules, are failures; or that such 
defects as they may have are beyond remedy by a judi- 
cious readjustment of factors and constants. 
To any. one familiar with the progress of measure- 
ment legislation the world over the reasons for the 
failures of formulas in the past must be perfectly evi- 
dent They rest entirely with the yachting public, which 
either has not wanted other than racing machines, has 
not known what it wanted, or when it has wanted the 
right thing has hot known how to get it, or has been 
opposed by vested interests. In too many cases yachts- 
men have wanted absolute speed at whatever cost, and 
have successfully opposed the minoritv, who have seen 
the inevitable result of such a course, the present condi- 
tion of yacht racing in this country. In many cases 
yachtsmen have started out bravely enough to amend 
existing rules so as to produce the muc.h-talked-of 
"wholesome boat;" they have even gone so far as to 
listen carefully to those most familiar with the subject 
and to do some independent thinking, until they have 
