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The Sed-v/arihaka Cup. 
The Montreal corfcspomluttt of the Boston Globe vyrites 
as follows concerning' the negotiations for the Seawanjaak;. 
cup match for 1 899 : 
Only one clause stands in the way at- present of the 
adoption of the agreement of rules to govern the com- 
ing races for the Seawanhaka international challenge cnp. 
This clause was proposed by the Seawanhaka committee. 
Outside of this the two committees who have charge of 
the preliminary arrangements have settled everything 
amicably. To finish matters, however, it will be absolute- 
ly necessary for the Seawanhaka committee to back down 
i"n this, its" last demand. It is to the effect that, for the 
purpose of making the boats very safe and almost non-eap- 
•izable, they be provided with t,8oolbs. of ballast. This 
plan, as far as the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. is con- 
cerned, is utterly impracticable, On Long Island Sound 
boats with a draft necessitated by such an amount- of 
ba!!s.-i vv&Ulcl g> well, bin on Lake St. Louis, which is 
t xircntely siWhuw, deep draft boats are entirely out of 
the q'.ie^ii m. The Royal St. Lawrence committee has 
ma.kd i;-. objections to New York, and there is little 
d h hi U:.t the gentlemen there will, by waiving the clause, 
(.xyedite matters. 
1 , *. uiiing committee ha- n > longer, as in former years, 
i\„ L.tj of the Seawrnhaka cup matter. It has been de- 
1 .,. . that the sailing committee ought to give' in future 
1. i time and energy to the development of the club's 
<. .. .c^tic racing matters, and' for that purpose a small 
i...inmittee of three, with Mr. A. F. Riddell, the vice- 
commodore, at its head, has been selected. 
As to the sailing committee, its personnel has been 
changed entirely, and the chairman, who has taken Mr. 
Duggan's place, is Mr. J. J. Riley, Jr. Mr. Duggan has 
declined all official positions offered him, and so has Mr. 
J. C.. C. Almon, who has been such an efficient secretary 
during the previous international races. The reason for 
this is partly to gain all the time possible for designing 
boats, and partly to give some others a chance to try their 
•hand at officiating. That Mr. Duggan will need all the 
time he can possibly obtain can be imagined from the 
fact that in addition to designing and building a few boats 
for the Seawanhaka races, he has just submitted plans^ to 
the sailing committee for a 22ft. knockabout one-design 
class, which has been adopted, and of which kind about a 
dozen boats will be built next season. These boats will 
be virtually 32ft. over all. Last year he started a 17ft. 
one-design knockabout class, of which about six boats 
were built. Besides this, he has just accepted a commis- 
sion from a syndicate in Toronto to design a 35-footer to 
sail in the trial races which will select the defender of the 
Canada cup. The members of the syndicate had been at 
him for a long time, and although he was not anxious to 
try, on account of the many other orders for small boats 
he' can count upon, and which will have to be attended to 
in his free time, he finally agreed yesterday, at the ad- 
vice of his friends here, who always hope that some day 
he may be induced to design a Canadian boat for the 
America Cup. 
This is not by any means the first time that Mr. Dug- 
gan has designed a boat of the large class, but the first 
time that he has designed one for international competi- 
tion. The boat" will be sailed by Mr. Morse, of the 
Standard Bank, and will cost about $3,500. It was the 
original intention of the Toronto people to have the boat 
built here under Mr. Duggan's personal supervision, but 
here again our shallow water played us false, for if she 
was built here it would be impossible to launch her. 
P'OHkST Akb STREAM. 
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The Canada Cup. 
From all that we can learn, the coming contest for the 
Canada cup, between the holder, the Royal Canadian Y. 
C, and the challenger, the Chicago Y. C, promises to 
be one of the interesting events of the year to yachtsmen 
on salt as well as fresh water, and on both sides of the 
line. The defense of the cup promises to bring out the best 
talent of Canada, and a number of yachts are promised 
for the trial races. ■ It is known that Mr. Duggan will de- 
sign one, while several will be turned out in Hamilton, 
where of late years a fast type of fin-keel has been de- 
veloped, at Kingston, and in other ports. Besides these, it 
is probable that Mr. Fife and some of the English de- 
signers will be called upon for designs. 
On this side of the water active efforts will also be made 
to regain the cup. Chicago will be foremost in these, but 
other ports, Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and 
Rochester are discussing the new class, and some of them 
will send representatives to the trial races. 
The new 35ft. class offers special inducements to the 
lake yachtsmen. In the first place there is a certainty of 
the regular establishment of the class in 1899, with races 
for all who care to take part in them. In the second 
place, while it is impossible to predict with certainty just 
what special type, if any one, will be most successful, 
with the scantling limit to bar the production of flimsy 
craft, and with the possibilities which the rule offers of 
producing a fast and yet really good boat, no one need 
hesitate about building. If affairs are managed properly 
on both sides of the line, the yacht fleet of the Great Lakes 
ought to be richer next fall by a fleet of fine modern 
racing yachts of moderate and wholesome type. 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. has already taken steps to- 
ward one defender of the Canada cup from which much 
may be expected. A syndicate of yachtsmen, including 
-Geo. P. Reid. general manager of the Standard Bank; 
Frank M. Gray and others, has persuaded Mr. Duggan 
to design a 35-footer, the yacht to be built in Toronto. 
Mr. J. Wilton Morse, of Toronto, will be in command of 
the yacht. If the following alleged interview is true, the 
cup may be considered as already safe in Chicago; A. G. 
Cuthbert, the designer and builder, of Chicago, is credited 
with saying: 
"I never was so confident of winning a race as I am 
this one. I have just returned from Canada, and have 
seen the preparations made for the race. My designs, of 
course, while perfected, will not be given out, and the 
house I erect to build the yacht in will be from 5 to 50ft. 
longer than the yacht, so that no one can judge even of 
its length. You can say for me that we will bring back 
I he cup and incidentally win the largest purse ever offered 
for a race of the kind," 
Mr, Ctuhbert Is one of those Amei'it'uns who believe in 
im Payne exclusion bill, and the protection of American 
labor from the destructive competition of imported pro- 
duets, lie hi the son of the late Alexander Cuthbert, of 
Trenton. Ontari". v> well known as the designer and 
builder of the Canadian yachts Countess of Dufferin and 
Atalanta, which raced for the America Cup in 1876 and 
1881. 
Isolde, the Herreshoff 20-rater, sister to Niagara, after 
being laid up ever since the fatal collision with Meteor 
two years ago at Cowes, in .which her owner, Baron Zed- 
witz, lost his life, has just -been sold to an English yachts- 
Corsair. 
The new steam yacht Corsair, third of the name,' built 
to replace the second, sold to the Government last sum- 
mer, and since famous under the name of Gloucester, was 
successfully launched on Dec. ij at the yard of T. S. 
Marvel & Co.. Newburgh. Like the second Corsair, she 
will be the ilagship of the New York Y, C, her owner, 
J. Pierpont Morgan, being the commodore of the club. 
The yacht was designed by J. Beavor Webb, designer of 
Genesta, Galatea, Freda. Tara, Carman, Sultana, Uto- 
wana, Corsair 11.. Sovereign and other sailing and steam 
yachts. The W. & A. Fletcher Co., of Floboken, have the 
contract for the yacht, and will build the machinery, the 
hull work being' done by Marvel & Co. The yacht is 
similar to the second Corsair, but larger, and of course 
finer, in accordance with the greatly increased elegance 
of the modern steam yacht, and the various improvements 
of the past seven years. The hull is of steel, 302ft. over 
all r 252ft. 6in. l.w.l., 33ft. 3m. beam, 20ft. 6im depth of 
hold, and 15ft. draft. She will be schooner rigged, with 
two pole masts. The motive power, designed for a speed 
of nineteen knots, will include two sets of quadruple ex- 
pansion engines, with twin screws, and two large Scotch 
boilers. 
Com. Morgan, with a- large party of friends, arrived at 
Newburgh early Monday morning on a special train, and 
found everything ready^ for the launch, the ship being 
sent off a short time after their arrival. As she started 
down the ways she was christened by Miss Louise Mor- 
gan, daughter of the commodore. The hull has been 
towed to Hoboken, where the engines and boilers will be 
put in, and the other work completed. Capt. C. E. Bailey 
will be in command of the yacht. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The Spaulding St. Lawrence Boat Company is now busy 
with a set of very fine yacht boats, including a 33ft, 
launch, 26ft. gig, 18ft. cutter, and 15ft. dinghy, all of 
mahogany, for the twin screw steam yacht building at 
Chester for A. E. Tower, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from 
Gardner and Cox's design. 
Capt. Charles G. Lundborg, a naval architect, died 
Saturday, Dec. 3, from Bright's disease in the Hahnemann 
Hospital, at -Sixty-seventh street and Park avenue, New 
York. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, seventy-four 
years ago. After graduation from the Naval Academy he 
became a lieutenant in the Swedish navy. When only 
twenty-two years old he taught astronomy in the schools 
of New Orleans. 
He returned to his seafaring life after a few years' ex- 
perience in teaching and became a captain of a sailing 
vessel, and soon held large interests in extensive mer- 
chant marine service. 
Naval architecture subsequently became the specialty of 
the Swedish captain. During the Crimean Avar he was 
sent by a wrecking compairy to Russia to raise the sunken 
ships of the Russian fleet off Sebastopol. Although un- 
successful, the mission won for him a name. Later he 
was a consulting engineer for the American Steamship 
Company. The twin screw, chiefly used by American 
liners, is largely his invention. He planned and draw the 
designs for several of the war ships now in the American 
navy. 
Lundborg lost and won several fortunes in mines and 
mining interests. While employed by the United States 
Government he became personally acquainted with Lin- 
coln. He married in 1870 and soon after became an 
American citizen. He .was a member of the American 
Y. C. 
While on board the Pans last November, bound for 
New York, Lundborg was taken ill. Arriving in New 
York he cabled for his family in Stockholm. He died 
ten days later among strangers. His widow and oldest 
son reached New York on the Germanic yesterday. He 
also leaves a son and daughter in Sweden, — New York 
Herald. 
The Douglaston Y. C, at the meeting of Dec. 12, elected 
the following officers: Com., Clay M. Greene; Vice- 
Corn., Hazen L. Hoyt; Rear Com., William G. Newman; 
Sec'y, Edward M. MacLellan; Treas., George A. Corry; 
Board of Governors, F. E. Barnes, Toseph R- Grismer, 
Harry M. Gillig. L. S. Harway, B. M. Wallace and 
George A. Corry. The club has for several years contem- 
plated a new house, the old floating house being entirely 
inadequate to its needs. Owing to the difficulty of select- 
ing a suitable location on Little Neck Bay, action has been 
deferred from time to time. The gale of last month 
nearly destroyed the old house, making it imperative to 
rebuild it, and the club has decided to make an entire 
change of base, moving to Manhanset or Great Neck Bay, 
the next bay to ■•the eastward. The bay is larger and the 
water is much deeper than Little Neck Bay, and the 
mouth is opposite Hart's Island instead of Throgg's 
Neck, thus opening on a broader part of the Sound. 
The New' York Y. C, through its special committee, E. 
M. Brown, Com. Morgan, Vice-Corn. Ledyard, Sec'y 
Oddie, Treas. Hurst, J. J. Astor and Arthur Ingraham, 
has selected the plans of Whitney Warren for its new 
club house, those of George A. Freeman being the second 
choice. Work is now under way in clearing the site. 
On Dec. 9 the keel of the new yacht for P. A. B. Wide- 
ner was laid at Neafie & Levy's y r ard, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The yacht will be 257ft. over all, 216ft, l.w.l., 30ft. 3m. 
beam. 
Varuna, steam yacht, made but a short stay in port, 
sailing from New York on Dec. 14, with her owner, 
Eugene Higgins, on board for a long cruise. She will 
first visit Bermuda, then Havana, Santiago and other 
West Indian ports, and then proceed to the Mediter- 
ranean, calling at Madeira. 
man. 
The Yonkers Y. C. held its annual meeting on Dec. 13, 
electing the following officers: Com., William J. Bright; 
V'ice-Com., Plerbert James; Fleet Capt., Edward Mon- 
tross; Fin. Sec'y, J. J. O'Leary; Rec. Sec'y, Jerome Ryer. 
Treas., James W. Shaughncssy; Meas., George B. War- 
ren ; Trustees, J. J. Wilner, A. M. Potter, Vv\ J. Lord and 
Thomas J. Shaughnessy; Delegates to the New York 
Yacht Racing Association, Com. Bright, J. W. Shaugh- 
nessy and Herbert James; Regatta Committee, Frank- 
Smith, William Brazier and VV. J. Lord, and Float Com- 
mittee, George B. Warren, Frank Smith, William Brazier, 
Edward Mont ross, Herbert lames, J. J, O Leary and VV. 
J. Lord. 
The annual meeting of the Pavonia Y. C. was held on 
Dec. 13, the following officers being elected : Com.. 
David W. Kohn ; Vice-Corn., William B. Wilson; Fleet 
Capt., John Wright ; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Louis Bowman ; 
Fin. Sec'y, William F. Tobin, Cor. Sec'y, William A. 
Miller; Treas., Louis Mittlesdorf; Meas., A. P. Curtis; 
Board of Trustees, Col. F. G. Agens, Enoch J. Smith, 
John F. McNulty, Garret Van Horn and James Wood- 
ruff; House Committee, Norman L. Rowe, James Morey, 
John A. Zimmerman, William Willis and John W. Tar- 
get. 
Fixtures. 
Dec. 19-23. — Indianapolis, Ind. — Grand Central Handicap; targets 
first day; sparrows two days; pigeons two days. H. T. Hearsey, 
Sec'y. 
Dec. 21 and every Wednesday thereafter till March 29, Feb, 22 
excepted. — Wilmington, Mass. — Prize handicap series of the Bos- 
ton Gun Club; address 23 Elm street, Boston. 
Dec. 22. — Newark, N. J.«-Regular shoot of the East Side Gun 
Club. 
Dec. 26.— Newark, N. J. — Christmas shoot of the East Side Gun 
Club. 
Dec. 27-30.— St. Thomas, Can.— Tournament of St. Thomas Gun 
Club. Jack Parker, Manager. 
Dec. 28-29.— Auburn, N. Y. — Auburn Gun Club; live birds and 
targets. C. W. Tuttle, Sec'y. 
1899. 
Jan. 2. — Newark, N. J. — Annual shoot of the South Side Gun 
Club. I. H. Terrill, Sec'y. 
Jan. 2. — Newark, N. J. — New Year's shoot of the East Side Gun 
Club; live birds; begins at 10 A. M.; main event at 15 birds, $5, 
birds extra. 
Jan. 5. — Newark, N. J. — Tournament of East Side Gun Club; 
main event, match between Morfey and Schortemeier for E. C. 
cup and State championship. 
WESTERN TRAPS. 
Looking East to Elkwood. 
Dec. 16.— In the minds of a great many Western men the 
comment of the Forest and Stream in last week's paper qn the 
orand American Handicap was timely and well considered, and 
its position a just one. The managers of the Grand American 
Handicap have no occasion to be seriously disturbed by any 
newspaper talk looking to the immediate abolishment of the 
event if certain conditions are not immediately complied with. 
There is only one way to run the big shoot, and that is to run 
it, or quit. The shooters of America are entitled to one finish 
event, and at that event only men should come who can afford to 
lose and who can take their medicine like sportsmen. The success 
of the shoot is not a question of size, as has well been stated in 
the editorial above referred to. You may leave out every sorehead 
in America and still have enough sportsmen left to make the 
Grand American Handicap the greatest shooting event of the year, 
The West will send plenty of thoroughbreds, and that may be set 
down as sure. For those who classify less under the latter title 
than the former, it would appear to be the natural and just 
position of the management that, if they wish to stay at home, there 
is a large and resttul vacancy awaiting them in the vicinity of 
their own homes, which it may be well for them to occupy. The 
band can still play on. 
E. Hough. 
1200 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. 
Elliott vs. Smith. 
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 7. — The race between the local crack, Dr. 
Smith, and J. A. R. Elliott, the well-known expert from Kansas 
City, was shot at Dupont Park on the above date. The showing 
of the Doctor was a great disappointment to his admirers, as it 
was only in the early part of the race that he displayed the form 
expected of him after the remarkable score he shot against Dr. 
Knowlton a week ago. In the first string of 25 he. scored 24, and 
led Elliott 2 birds, as the latter scored 22. In the next string 
the score was reversed, so that at the end of 50 birds the match 
was a tie, each having 46 birds to his credit. After this, however, 
the shooting of the local man became very ragged, especially in 
the final string, for in this on two different occasions he lost 3 
birds in succession^ The final score was Elliott 91, Smith 84. 
It will be seen that the Kansas City man maintained the form 
displaved in the commencement of the race. 
Dr. Smith's score of 84 is the poorest he has ever shot on the 
local grounds, and is anything but satisfactory to him. He there- 
fore requested Elliott to shoot him another match. The latter 
stated that his time would be so much occupied until next June 
that he was unable to set any definite date. 
The conditions of the race were 100 pigeons per man, $100 a side, 
A. S. A. rules, loser to pay for the birds. The scores ran; 
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Elliott shot a Winchester repeater gun, Hazard powder in 
Leader shells. Dr. Smith shot an L. C. Smith gun, Du Pont pow- 
der in Trap shells. . 
The weather was clear and cold, and the birds should have been 
very good, Paul R. Litzks, 
Elliotc 
Smith, , 
