Aug. i$, 1898.] 
has continued so much longer there that there is a 
large supply of trained hands from which to pick a crew. 
The New Deed. — In spite of Sir Thomas Lipton's 
statement that he will agree to any terms, the first 
point to be decided between the New York Y. C. and 
the Royal Ulster representatives is likely to prove a 
difficult one. No one knows to-day just what the new 
deed of gift does or does not mean, or on what terms the 
last matches were sailed, and as far as we can see the 
whole question of interpretations and concessions must 
be gone over anew before anything approaching an 
agreement can be reached. Thanks to the good work 
done by Lord Dunraven in behalf of the New York Y. 
C prior to the last match, British objection to the new 
deed is now well broken down, and the holders of the 
Cup are in a position to dictate any terms to would-be 
challengers. 
The Payne Exclusion Bill. 
We republish with pleasure the following from the 
Paris Edition of the New York Herald: 
One result of the war will be the increased demand 
that is sure to be made upon the shipbuilding resources 
of the United States when peace is concluded. 
It is certain that orders will then flock to America 
from Europe. Builders in the United States have proved 
they need fear no competitors. Their work has with- 
stood the test of battle and that is the severest it could 
be subjected to. 
It is therefore time that the Payne bill were repealed. 
Such a step would be a sign of friendliness, as the act 
was originally aimed at handicapping the shipbuilders in 
Great Britain. 
The moment has come when the United States should 
throw off the shackles of old-fashioned ideas and enter 
the lists upon the merits which the present war has 
shown to be so strong. The repeal of the Payne bill 
would show that the United States knew their power — 
that they had confidence in the excellence of their men 
and the work they could turn out. 
It would also be quid pro quo for England's attitude 
toward the United States. If she had only held up a 
hand, Europe's back would have been stiffened for inter- 
ference, and the United States would have had to fight 
down cis-Atlantic opposition. 
England's firmness has materially helped the United 
States and has won for her the hearty dislike of Europe, 
A friend in need is a friend indeed. England has proved 
her sympathy by her action, and the United States ought 
to show that they appreciate the service rendered them. 
American shipyards will have more work on hand 
than they can do when peace is made. Many of the 
owners who have sold their yachts to the United States 
Government will want new ones when hostilities cease. 
They will not feel like waiting as long for their craft as 
they will have to do while American yards are all occu- 
pied with turning out warships for England, Russia, 
France, Germany, Japan, China and other nations who 
will want to have their navies put upon the same footing 
of superior effectiveness that the United States marine 
has proved to be. 
The Payne exclusion bill is a blot upon the long and 
honorable history of shipbuilding in America, a con- 
fession of cowardice, incapacity and narrow prejudice, 
which is totally at variance with the honorable record of 
marine triumphs now covering well nigh a whole cen- 
tury. Unable, through causes for which they alone were 
to blame, to compete in a fair field with British designers 
and builders, the American builders went before Con- 
gress, unfortunately with successful results, with a cow- 
ardly petition for the protection of their own faulty work 
by the complete exclusion of the work of their more 
skilful competitors. The bill, as finally passed, suggests 
in its rigid provisions the customs regulations of Spain 
and China rather than of free and progressive America, 
providing for the complete exclusion from American 
waters of yachts of foreign build. 
Though directly intended to apply to steam yachts, 
the bill also covers sailing yachts, and makes it impossible 
for an American to bring to this country a foreign yacht 
for trial with the home-built craft, as was done with such 
good results to sport and to the home builders in the 
cases of Maggie, Ulidia, Jessica, Minerva and Clara. 
The bill is thoroughly bad in its effects upon yachting 
as a sport, and it works additional harm, in that the 
American builder, free from all fear of competition, is 
under no necessity to improve his work, but the owner, 
after paying the highest price, must put up with such 
defective craft as are floated each season. The worst 
feature however, is its evident animus of open hostility 
to other nations, especially to Great Britain. 
There has never been a time in the history of this 
country when, if fairly put to the test, Americans have 
failed to defeat all competitors on the seas in fair com- 
petition. It was so of old in the early naval Avars, later 
on the same story was repeated with the clipper ships, 
and to-day the new vessels of the American navy are 
bringing fresh laurels to their builders by their good 
work under severe conditions of actual war. That such 
results have been reached in our war vessels is due to the 
fact that the American Government at the outset bought 
its designs in the open market and placed the American 
builder under the absolute necessity of producing some- 
thing better in order to win the heavy premiums paid 
for special excellence. As soon as the builders awoke 
to the condition of affairs they met them by throwing 
into the work that energy and inventiveness which is the 
national characteristic. To-day no Payne bill is needed 
to protect the warship; on the other hand, our builders 
are busy with contracts for foreign powers. 
In steam yachting a very different condition of affairs 
has existed, and is yet by no means a thing of the past. 
The average steam yacht owner, with an ignorance of 
yachting which is proverbial, knows nothing of what he 
proposes to buy except that she is to be larger, faster or 
more magnificently furnished than some yacht which he 
has seen. The many important details which in the 
case of a house he would settle personally in frequent 
conferences with a high-priced architect are ignored 
entirely by him; and his dry nurse, the captain, who 
has probably instilled in him a contempt for ahd distrust 
of the professional yacht designer, is given carte blanche 
to negotiate with such a builder as he may select. What 
wonder is it that Under stick circumstances the builder 
does the very least he possibly can for the money, patch- 
ing up some old blue prints for the hull designs, and 
some old patterns from the loft for the engines? It is 
this sort of work which, though not universal, is kept 
constantly before the yachting public in disputes be- 
tween owner and builder over the final completion of 
contracts, or through the rebuilding; of yachts before 
the first coat of paint has worn off the bottom, which the 
Payne bill was designed to protect. Those American 
builders who are doing honest work in the careful and 
systematic designing of yachts, and m building for a 
reputation instead of for the immediate return alone, 
know perfectly well that they have nothing to fear from 
foreign competition, and that as long as yachting is 
popular they will have orders to build. 
At the present time there is, even from the narrow and 
selfish point of view of the American builder, no neces- 
sity whatever for the Payne bill. lie can be reasonably 
sure of all the work his stocks can accommodate, and 
much of it more profitable than the yacht trade. Of the 
latter there is likely to be more than enough for the 
yards for some time to come, everything points to a gen- 
eral revival of business that will make yachting possible, 
and of a revival of the sport for its own sake. Con- 
sidering the hostile feeling awakened by the Payne bill 
on its passage, there is probably nothing which would 
serve as well at the present time, when the shipbuilders 
of America are enjoying a well-deserved victory through 
their battleships, as the frank and voluntary repeal of 
the obnoxious measure. 
is a good old adage, and all that he has since dono can- 
not wipe out the work of Lord Dunraven toward the 
recognition and restoration of the new deed of gift. 
The Tail Wags the Dog. 
The following is a characteristic sample of those 
broad and liberal views on yachting which are the pride 
of the Boston Herald. Speaking of the coming races 
for the Seawanhaka international challenge cup, it says: 
Some writers call the boats "20-footers," thereby giv- 
ing the impression that the above length is that of their 
waterline. They actually measure about 17ft. 3m., and 
carry about soosq.ft. of sail, which ratios, according to 
the Seawanhaka rule, make them "20ft. racing length" 
under a rating rule. It is fairer to the public, in order 
that the length of the boats racing in Canada be known, 
to call them 17ft. waterline length, with a restricted sail 
area of 500.sq.ft. The class lengths' governing the rac- 
ing in the M. Y. R. A. are made on waterline lengths, 
and not on a rating rule, consequently our yachtsmen 
will not be benefited by the Canadian racing so far as 
the development of fixed waterline length boats goes. 
It is quite true that the boats are called "20-footers," 
not only by "some writers," but by all yachtsmen, that 
being their official designation. The standard of "cor- 
rected length," as it was formerly called, or racing meas- 
urement, as it is now officially designated (length and 
sail area by the Seawanhaka rule); is now the recognized 
yacht measurement of America, formally adopted by the 
Atlantic coast clubs, all the clubs of the Great Lakes, the 
clubs of the inland lakes and on the Pacific coast. It is 
the one rule of the New York, Eastern, Seawanhaka, 
Larchmont and Atlantic clubs, of the Y. R. U. of N. A., 
the Lake Y. R. A., and the Sound Y. R. A. The one 
exception to its recognition is the Y. R. A. of Massa- 
chusetts, which, after various experiments with length 
measurements, now has under trial the plain L.W.L. 
measurement. 
To say that a yacht is a 15-footer, a 20-footer or a 51- 
footer conveys to any well-informed yachtsman but one 
idea, that the figures relate to her measurement by the 
Seawanhaka rule. This goes without saying, but if any 
other rule is meant, it must be specifically stated. It is 
safe to assume that the public, with better and more re- 
liable sources of information at hand than the Boston 
Herald, knows exactly the meaning of the term. The 
Y. R. A. of Massachusetts has, for reasons which seemed 
proper to it, adopted a different measurement from that 
in general use, but at the same time it has made no such 
claim as that of the Herald, that its rule, a purely local 
one, is the sole standard of American yachting. 
" Dunraven Influence/' 
The daily papers, in connection with the new chal- 
lenge, are devoting much more space than it deserves to 
what they call "Dunraven Influence," and which they 
assume will be a powerful factor in discouraging the 
negotiations for a match. The following, from the last 
issue of the Yachtsman, is cabled across as an example 
of "Dunraven Influence": 
That the challenge is to be unconditional, and that 
Sir Thomas only wants the better yacht to win, shows 
that the challenger has but a nebulous idea of how 
the America Cup races are arranged. Without condi- 
tions, that is to say, by some variation of the new deed, 
the better boat, if she be challenged, has a very scant 
chance of winning. 
So long as he gets the races arranged, the knight is 
content that the objectionable new deed should be forced 
down British yachtsmen's throats, and all the crooked 
conduct of the New York club in that matter is a thing 
of no moment to this latest aspirant for notoriety. 
The challenger himself is the authority for the state- 
ment that he has no regard for the very important ques- 
tions of principle involved in the long dispute over the 
new deed and the accompanying actions of the New 
York Y. C, and that he is willing to compromise the in- 
terests of those yachtsmen, British or American, who 
have opposed both as a discredit to the noblest of sports. 
So far from being at variance with Lord Dunraven in 
this, he is following directly in the steps of the noble 
earl. It was "Dunraven Influence," exerted persistently 
from 1889 to 1895, that removed the once formidable ob- 
jections of the Royal Yacht Squadron to the new deed 
and put the New York Y. C. again in possession of a 
challenge from the squadron. "Give the devil his due" 
New Steam Yachts. 
Within a very short time the fleet of converted steam 
yachts now in service will be sold by the Government; 
only a few, in particular Mayflower and Gloucester, be- 
ing retained in the navy. It is quite probable that all 
of the yachts offered will find a ready sale, of course at 
moderate prices, as much work will be required to refit 
them as pleasure craft. At the same time, yachtsmen are 
already placing orders for new yachts to replace those 
sold in this way. The big steam yacht for Com. J. Pier- 
pont Morgan, N. Y. Y. C., designed by J. Beavor Webb, 
is now well under construction. The owner of Aileen, 
Richard Stevens, has placed an order with the Delaware 
River I. S. B. & S. E. Works, Roach's yard, for a steel 
steam yacht 150ft. over all, designed by Gardner & Cox. 
It is reported that P. A. B. Widener, former owner of 
Josephine, now Vixen, will have a 250ft. steam yacht, to. 
be built at Harlan & Hollingsworth's yard, Wilmington. 
C. L. Seabury & Co., the builders ol the steam yacht 
Kanawha, recently sold by John P. Duncan to the Gov- 
ernment, have an order from that gentleman for a twin 
screw steel yacht of 225ft. over all, 192ft. l.w.l., 24ft. beam, 
14ft. 6in. depth, and JOt't. draft. A speed of twenty 
miles is guaranteed for a run of two consecutive hours. 
She will be schooner rigged, with three masts and leg 
o'-mutton sails, with a squaresail on the foremast. Her 
power will include two triple compound engines, 14., 
2334, and 43 by 24, with four Seabury water tube boilers. 
She will be constructed under the rules of the U. S. 
Standard Association, and in addition to a very con- 
venient arrangement of space she will be fitted with a 
complete outfit of auxiliaries, electric plant, ice and 
condensing plants, etc. 
The Cruise of the May. 
The steam yacht May, Com. Alexander Van Rens- 
selaer, has neither been sold to the Government nor laid 
up, her owner apparently finding ample use for her even 
in war times. In the last days of July she was at Oyster 
Bay, with Com. Van Rensselaer and the race committee 
of the Corinthian Y. C, of Philadelphia, on board, to 
arrange the details of the interclub races of the knock- 
about fleet, beginning Aug. 22. She returned to Phila- 
delphia on Aug. 2, where sixty tons of supplies, includ- 
ing provisions, surgical instruments, shoes, hammocks, 
liquors, pipes and tobacco, American flags and other 
articles, were shipped as speedily as possible. On Aug. 
6 she sailed for Porto Rico, where the supplies will be 
landed for the use of the troops. Com. Van Rensselaer 
a short time since offered the yacht to the National Re- 
lief Commission, free of all expense, to carry supplies 
to Porto Rico, and on the offer being accepted at once 
proceeded with the necessary arrangements. He sailed 
on the yacht, accompanied by Mrs. Van Rensselaer and 
her daughter, and three of his associates on the Relief 
Commission, Messrs. William Porter, Louis Vanuxem 
and G. G. Groff. The May is the Watson yacht brought 
to this country by E. D. Morgan before the passage of 
the Payne exclusion bill. 
Imqe and %nlhtQ. 
Rifle at Shell Mound. 
San Francisco, July 25. — A fair number of marksmen appeared 
at Shell Mound yesterday. Conspicuous among those present 
was D. W. McLaughlin, who has just returned Irom New York, 
where he won medals and coin galore at the triennial Schuetzen 
Bund festival. Through the efforts of California representatives 
the next meet of the Bund will be held in San Francisco. 
At the monthly bullseye shoot of the Germania Schuetzen Club 
prizes were awarded on the following scores: John Gefken 232, 
Louis Haake 320, D. B. Faktor 646, D. Salfield 69?, H. Zecher 735, 
A. Jungblut 897, H. Lilkendey 941, F. P. Schuster 962, John 
Tiedemann 1,091, F. Rust 1,135, C. Nobmann 1,357. 
The following scores secured prizes at the monthly bullseye 
shoot of the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein: J. Beuttler 232, 
Otto Burmeister 470, A. H. Pape 543, H. Stelling 577. William 
Ehrenpfort 711, Henry Meyer 801, Tohn Gefken 929, H. Lilkendey 
934, J. C. Nobmann 938, F. P. Schuster 975, Otto Lemcke 1,001, 
Tohn Horstmann 1,126, Frank Koch 1,134, Tohn Tiedemann 1,158, 
Louis Haake 1,173, J. W. Gietze 1,339, John de Wit 1,434, D. B. 
Faktor 1,496, F. L. Pape 1,520, Henry Zecher 1,538. 
At the monthly medal and class shoot of the Columbia Pistol and 
Rifle Club the following scores were recorded: Members' rifle 
medal— A. B. Dorrell 48, 60; M. Carillo 121. Bushnell military 
rifle medal — A. H. Pape 47. All comers' rifle medal — A. H. Pape 
54, 57; Dr. Rodgers 60. Columbia target, open to all comers, 
pistol, Siebe medal — J. P. Cosgrave 58, 64; G. M. Barley til. 
Twentv-two caliber rifle, 50yds., Roos torphy for ladies— A. B. 
Dorrell 18, 20, 22; Mrs. G. Mannel 31, 34; Mrs. M. J. White 38, 40. 
ROEEL. 
Colombia Rifle Club. 
Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 2. — At the club's range in the Reynold's 
Arcade, the scores below were made to-day in the regular shoot 
of the Columbia Rifle Club : 
McChesnev 22 23 24 24 24 24 24 24 25 25—239 
Willard .'. 19 20 22 23 23 24 24 25 25 25—230 
Gifford 21 22 22 22 23 24 25 25 25 25—234 
McCord 23 24 24 24 24 24 25 25 25 25—243 
Andrews 20 21 22 23 23 23 24 24 25 25—230 
Gliddon 20 21 21 22 23 14 24 25 25 25—230 
Hendrickson 23 23 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 25—239 
Fredericks 20 20 22 23 23 23 24 24 25 25—229 
Compton 18 21 22 23 24 24 24 25 25 25—231 
Candee 19 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 24 25—219 
Joslyn 20 21 22 22 23 24 24 24 24 25—229 
Wray 19 23 24 24 24 25 25 25 25 25—239 
Clark IS 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 25 25—226 
Mosher 21 21 22 23 23 22 24 2t 25 25—230 
Hawks 21 23 23 24 24 24 24 24 24 25—236 
Osborne 20 21 21 22 22 23 24 24 24 25—226 
Ingersoll 19 21 22 22 22 23 23 23 24 24—224 
Kershner 20 22 23 23 23 24 24 25 25 25—234 
Zettler Rifle Club. 
Brooklyn, Aug. 6. — The members present shot three strings of 
10 shots, off-hand, 200yds., at Cypress Hill Park to-day. Mr. 
Fred C. Ross, the famous rifleman, did some very steady, regular 
shooting. The scores : 
F C Ross 225 225 224 674 
H Holges 225 223 219 66T 
R Busse 229 222 215 666- 
I Martin 229 217 218 664 
B Zettler 212 210 208 630' 
A Kronberg 221 203 201 625. 
C G Zettler 209 208 207 624 
G Krauss 196 185 187 568 
G Bruckelheimer 157 142 J42 441 
