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Bass in Central New York. 
Ithaca, N. Y. — Local anglers report some of the fin- 
est bass fishing thus far enjoyed, the catch per angler 
averaging twenty-five bass per day. The best local bass 
grounds are found along the east side of Cayuga Lake, 
beginning at a point just off shore from the Esty Look- 
out, and running thence north in the direction of Lud- 
lowville. 
At Cayuga, across the lake from Union Springs, 
anglers have been, and are still, taking beautiful speci- 
mens of the pike, pickerel and muscallonge family, and 
now and then an enormous (for Cayuga Lake) small- 
mouth bass. Some very large pickerel and muscallonge 
are taken at Cayuga during October and early Novem- 
ber. Trolling appears to he the favorite method of 
angling for the big fellows at this season of the year. 
M. Chill. 
Nets in Oneida Lake. 
Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 7. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The State Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission at 
a meeting held in Albany yesterday passed a resolution 
permitting net fishing in Oneida Lake until Dec. I next. 
This shows what politics will do. Oneida Lake has been 
ruined — and opening these waters two months to every 
one will clean what few fish are left. One trap net set 
on the bars or shoals will take every bass that there is 
near it. The law giving the commissioner the right to 
grant these licenses should be repealed. I do not think 
the commissioner should have allowed this to be done 
no matter how much influence was brought. L. 
'he Mennd. 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct. 14-15. — Braintree, Mass.— N. E. K. C. open air show. Ad- 
dress Secretary Open Air Show, Braintree, Mass. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 3.— Connecticut Field Trials, East Hampton Conn. En- 
tries close Oct. 29. John E. Bassett, Sec'y, P.-O. Box 603, New 
Haven. 
Nov. 7.— Indiana Field Trials Club's trials, Bicknell, Ind. S. 
H. Socwell, Sec'y. . 
Nov. 11.— Eastern Field Trials Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
S. C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15.— International Field Trial Club's trials, Chatham, Ont. 
W. B. Wells, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15-17.— Central Beagle Club's annual trials. L. O. Seidel, 
Sec'y. 
Nov. 22.— Fourth annual field trials of the Monongahela Valley 
Game and Fish Protective Association, Greene county, Pa. A. 
C. Peterson, Sec'y, Homesdale, Pa. 
Dec. 5.— Continental Field Trial Club's trials, Lexington, N. 
C. W. B. Meares, Sec'y, 
Brunswick Far Trials. 
Roxbury, Mass. — The Brunswick Fur Club will hold 
its tenth annual field trials, Barre, Mass., during the 
week of Oct. ij. 
The club headquarters will be at Hotel Barre. The 
Derby, open to all hounds whelped on or after Jan. 
I, 1897, will be run on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Entries close 
at 10 P. M. on Monday, October 17; the entry fee is 
$2. The club diploma will be given to each of the three 
winners in this stake, and the first prize winner will 
also receive a silver medal and hold the R. D. Perry 
cup for one year. 
The all-age stake will be run on Wednesday, Thurs- 
day and Friday, Oct. 19, 20 and 21. The entry fee is 
$3. Entries close at 10 P. M. on Tuesday, Oct. 18. 
The three winners in the hunting, speed and driving, 
endurance and trailing classes will each receive the 
club diploma. The first prize winners will also receive 
silver medals, and the hound making the highest general 
average in all classes will receive a special prize of five 
dollars and the club medal, and will hold the American 
field cup for one year. The Pope memorial cup will be 
held for one year by the hound showing the best com- 
bination of trailing, speed and driving. 
The trials will be judged by Messrs. S. B. Mills, Eu- 
gene Brooks, W. A. Bragdon, A. B. McGregor, H. J. 
Given and Bradford S. Turpin. 
The trials are open to the world, and all lovers of the 
chase are invited to be present, to enter their hounds and 
enjoy a week of good sport. 
Bradford S. Turpin, Sec'y- 
Points and Flushes. 
Volume 17 of the Greyhound Stud Book contains the 
names, colors, ages and pedigrees of greyhounds re- 
gistered therein up to June 1, 1898, besides a volumin- 
ous collection of other pertinent matter, 356 pages in all. 
The Sanitas have recently brought out a new prepara- 
tion, Sanitas Embrocation, for external application in 
the ills of man or beast. It is commended specially 
for its antiseptic qualities, for family use and for athletes 
and veterinary purposes. 
ffzchting. 
The work of lengthening the ways in front of the 
Herreshoff works, at Bristol, begun several weeks ago, 
will probably be completed before the end of the month. 
There will then be water over the cradle for the hauling 
out of Defender. It is reported that she will be fitted 
out and sailed from New Rochelle to Bristol by Mr. 
Iselin. It is also reported that the contract for a new 
defender was signed on Sept. 28 by the Herreshoff 
Manufacturing Company and Com. J. P. Morgan and 
Mr. C. Oliver Iselin. 
Painting a Yacht. 
A correspondent asks for the best method of paint- 
ing a yacht used in the waters of the Great Lakes; 
whether white lead and oil alone-fire best, or whether 
zinc white can be used to advantage. He also asks for a 
preparation for the seams which will remain hard un- 
der water. Perhaps some of our readers who have 
experimented with paints can aid him, 
Dominion. 
(Concluded from page 296, Oct. 8. 
The "scow" type, as represented by Question, has two 
distinctive points; the first is the material change of 
form, the reduction of midship section and increase of 
effective length at great angles of heel, as already de- 
scribed; the second is the lack of freeboard and the 
absence of sheer, or even a reverse sheer, the middle 
being higher than the ends. The boats having practic- 
ally no depth and no internal space, there is not even 
a cockpit, at most a small opening in which to stow light 
sails, compass and water jug. As a corollary to the ex- 
cessive heeling and gain of actual for a given measured 
great deal of skill, the boat proving very fast on the 
wind and faster than others of the type when free. 
While Mr. Crane was one of the first to appreciate and 
to handle intelligently the opportunity for evading the 
measurement of L.W.L. which the "scow" type af- 
forded, he failed to place a true value upon the ac- 
companying feature of very low freeboard, and gave 
this a prominent place in the design of El Heirie in 
1896, and also of Al Anka and Momo in 1897. Thus 
far there has been nothing in the performance of the 
numerous scows to demonstrate the value of this special 
feature, which has won for them the nickname of 
"barndoor" through their appearance when upright, the 
deck, with its slight camber both fore and aft and thwart- 
ships, being almost flat and awash in a light sea. 
FIG. 3. STUDY OF ETHELWYNN AND GLENCAIRN II. INCLINED. 
FIG. 5. STUDY OF GLENCAIRN TYPE PARTIALLY DEVELOPED INTO DOMINION. 
FIG. 6. STUDY OF GLENCAIRN AND DEVELOPMENT INTO DOMINION. 
FIG. 7. STUDY OF DOMINION'S MIDSHIP AND BOW SECTIONS, INCLINED. 
length, is the possibility of building to a much shorter 
nominal or measured length than in the boats of the 
old type, and of adding to the sail area; and this addition 
is really necessary when it is considered how much 
the effective area of sail, compared . with the measured 
area, is reduced by the angle of heel. As the first 
effort of a young amateur in an entirely new field, with 
nothing in the way of data to guide in what was neces- 
sarily an experiment, El Heirie reflects great credit on 
her designer; but she is marked by the weak as well as 
the strong points of the new type. In the matter of 
proportions of length and sail, with but one boat to 
depend on, Mr. Crane perhaps did well in adhering 
closely to the general proportions of the class, 14 to 15ft. 
l.w.l.; as he had no opportunity for experiment in 
this direction. In his method of handling the lines so as 
to produce a good form w heo h.?eted s h$ displayed a 
In attacking the same problem from the same starting 
point, Mr. Duggan from the beginning rejected the 
"barndoor" model, both in its essentials and in ex- 
ternals, giving his boats a good freeboard amidships and 
a decided sheer, quite as much as in the old type. 
What this amounts to in the way of "bottom to sail on," 
as the old term went in the cutter and sloop days, is 
shown in Fig. 3, the added two or three inches of free- 
board amidships are worth far more as bottom on the 
lee side than they cost in windage on the weather side. 
With this, the two Glencairns and their fellows of the 
15ft. and 20ft. classes are notable for the absence of 
such purely freak features as the bows of El Heirie, Al 
Anka and Momo; and after the essentials are secured 
in the proper shaping of the immersed bilge, the remain- 
ing lines are carried out to conform as closely as pos- 
sible to 'the, conventional yacht shape. The result i$ % 
