Feb. 4, 1899.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
9a 
United States Field Trials, 
The Champion Stake. 
West Point. Miss.. Jan. 25. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Champion Stake had only four starters. Pin 
Money and Rowland were the first brace down Monday 
morning. The weather conditions were not favorable; 
there were showers occasionally on ground that .was al- 
ready well soaked. Pin Money started out at her usual 
great speed. She let up considerably in speed before the 
iieat was over. On bird work she must have been off 
nose ; she hesitated and was undecided on point work 
she did do; and failed to take advantage of game she 
ought to have pointed. She found three bevies and did 
some single bird work. Rowland was slow in getting up 
to his speed, but he maintained a uniform rate of speed 
and made up in judgment what he lacked in speed, as he 
found five bevies to Pin Money's three, and made more 
points on single birds than she. He handled his game in 
great shape. Rowland's strong forte is bird sense 
and finding and handling game. No dog he ran with 
(and he ran with the best) found more bevies than he, or 
made more points on single birds. While not as speedy 
as others that ran, he makes his speed count. 
Joe Cummins and Dave Earl were the second brace. 
They were put down in quite a rain, that let up, but it 
showered more or less all the time they ran. The dogs 
found birds plentifully, and did good work on game. 
Both dogs made a flush or two on bevies that was excus- 
able under the circumstances. On single birds Dave had 
some advantage, on bevies there was nothing to choose 
between them. Joe had the most speed and range when 
they quit, Dave showing the best judgment in hunting 
out the grounds. The work of the dogs was so nearly 
equal the judges wanted to see them down again when 
conditions were more favorable. 
Three dogs, Joe Cummins, Dave Earl and Rowland, 
were left in second series. 
Joe had a rest of over two hours, and went down at 
4 P. M. against Rowland. Joe had some advantage in 
speed and range, and did some the best on game, though 
the bird work was close between them, 
Joe proving the best, left him and Dave to go down on 
Tuesday morning. Instead of weather conditions im- 
proving, they were worse than when the dogs had met in 
first series. A downpour Monday night made the already 
wet grounds wetter. The wind had increased to a gale, 
and a fine cold rain fell most of the time. Joe pulled up 
very lame, and one of his forefeet and his ankle were 
very much swollen. Tviesday morning when called on to 
start he looked a 100 to i shot. Joe ran as tliough his 
life depended on the race, and made the best race he ran 
in Champion Stake, and was awarded the championship. 
- P. H. Bryson. 
Alabama Field Trials. 
Birmingham^ Ala., Jan. 20.— Editor forest and 
Stream: I hand you herewith Derby and All-Age entries, 
to the Alabama Field Trials Club: 
Derby. 
Fergy — G. B. Tyler's b., w. and t. setter bitch (joe 
Dortch— Gyp Tyler). 
George Dewey— T. H. Spencer's b. and w. pointer dog 
(Von Gull — Cameo). 
Judge — John Fletcher's liv. and w. pointer dog (Love's 
Kent— Brook's Belle). 
Trib's Tony — J. E. Cox's liv. and w. pointer dog (Kent's 
Tribulation — Byrne). 
Alabama Boy— H. H. Mayberry's b. and w. pointer dog 
(Von Gull— Balsora). 
Gullena — T. T. Ashford's b. and w. pointer bitch (Von 
Gull — Palsora). 
Vor Rick — T. T. Ashford's liv. and w. pointer dog 
(Vow Gull — Balsora). 
Tna B. — B. Brook's (agt.) liv. and w. pointer bitch 
(Love's Kent — Brook's Belle). 
Alix — Dr. R. S. Henry's liv, and w. pointer bitch (Jingo 
— Ripo). 
Jewell — Dr. G. Chisholm's liv. and w. pointer bitch 
(Von Gull — Cameo). 
Rap's Pax — ^Judge Tell Gaston's liv. and w. pointer 
dog (Rip Rap — Croxie Kent). 
Glory — Dr. Geo. Eubank's b., w. and t. setter bitch 
(Tony Boy — Fanny Moore). 
Froso — Mrs. Norma Allen's b. and w. pointer dog (Von 
Gull — Cameo). 
Wheeler— R. S. Munger's b. and w. pointer dog (Tick 
Boy's Mack— Brook's Belle). 
Jim O. — W. B. Townsend's liv. and w. pointer dog 
(Rip Rap — La Rosa Elgin). 
All-Age. 
J. J, O. — W. M. Hundley's liv. and w. pointer dog (Rip 
Saw — Crickett). 
Kent Elgin H. — W. B. Townsend"s liv. and w. pointer 
dog (Kent Elgin — ^Julia Paine). 
Hessie D. — ^J. Thad Mullen's liv. and w. pointer bitch 
(David of Hessen — Fritz's Fay). 
Lady Clio — W. T. Johnson's b. and w. pointer bitch 
(Cresswell's Frank— Lady May II.). 
Tony Dick — T. H. Spencer's b., w. and t. setter dog 
(Tony Boy— Blue). 
Nat — A. J. Odom's w. pointer dog (Von Gull — Hessie 
D.). 
Greenbrier Rose — J. J. Odom's b. and w. pointer bitch 
(Rip Saw — Crickett). 
Von Gull's Rube — Henry Arrington's liv. and w. pointer 
dog (Von Gull— Hessie D.). 
Gullena-— T. T. Ashford's b. and w. pointer bitch (Von 
Gull— Balsora) , 
Pot Metal— F, M. Stich's b, and w. sette:r dog (Tony 
Boy— Blue). . - 
Mack B. — B. Brook's b. and w, pointer dog (Tick Boy 
—Ruffle). 
Dot — ^Judge Tell Gaston's lem. and w. poiijter bitch 
(^Aito— McKemie's Grip), 
Rap's Pax — ^Judge Tell Gaston's liv. and w. pointer dog 
(Rip Rap — Croxie Kent). 
Love's Kent — W. L Love's b. and w. pointer dog (Kent 
Elgin — Mack's Juno). 
Jingo's Light— Jno. B. Rosenstihl's lefli. and \v. pointer 
dog (Jingo — Rose Le Ucssen). 
Lou — B. Brook's (agt.) lem. and w. pointer bitch ( 
Maceo — Syd. Moore's liv. and w. pointer dog (Von 
Gull — Hessie D ). 
Hamp — C. F. Easthani's liv. and \v. pointer dog (Von 
Gull— Flake). 
Spotty M. — T. W. O'Byrne's lem. and w. settei; dog 
(Doncaster Sport — Fanny Mack). 
Blue Dash — Dan Jenkins' b., w. and t. setter dog 
(Harry Blue — Kate Gladstone). 
T. PL Spencer, Sec'y and Treas. 
Westminstef Kennel Club Prizes. 
New York. — The donor of the Dunollie cup [or best 
Great Dane bitch in the show will not be a competitor. 
The conditions of the Tommy Tickle Challenge cup for 
bull terriers are identically the same as those governing 
the Dunston & Kennelly cup, as published in our premium 
lists. I have just received notification from Mr. John H. 
Matthews, acting secretary of the Bull Dog Club of Amer- 
ica, saying that the special prizes offered by the Bull Dog 
Club of England are as follows : Silver medal for best 
dog, Silver medal for best bitch. Bronze medal for best 
dog bred by the exhibitor. Bronze medal for the best 
bitch bred by the exhibitor. These will take the place of 
the two specials published in our premium list, as offered 
by the Bull Dog Club of England. Mrs. Francis Hen- 
wood offers, through the American Spaniel Club, the 
Premier Challenge Puppy Bowl for the best cocker 
spanial puppy exhibited by a member; to be won three 
times before becoming the absolute property of the win- 
ner. 
The Swiss Mountain Kennels, Germantown, Pa., offer 
the Swiss Mountain Kennel Trophy for the best trio of 
cocker spaniels owned by one kennel or exhibitor. The 
trio to consist of one black, one red and one parti-colored 
cocker spaniel. 
The American Spaniel Club offers sih'^er medals as 
follows : For the best Clumber, field and Irish water 
spaniel opposite in sex to the winner of the Field Spaniel 
Trophy; best field spaniel with one of his get; 
best brood bitch with two of her produce; best field 
spaniel other than black; best black cocker opposite 
in sex to the winner of the Cocker Trophy; best black 
cocker with one of his get; best black cocker brood bitch 
with two of her produce; best cocker (any solid color 
other than black) opposite in sex to the winner of the 
Saybrook Cocker Trophy ; best cocker (any solid color 
other than black) with one of his get ; best cocker brood 
bitch (any solid color other than black) with one of her 
produce ; best parti-colored cocker ; best parti-colored 
cocker with one of his get; best parti-colored cocker 
brood bitch with one of her produce. The get and pro- 
duce only to be considered in the prizes offered for stud 
dogs and brood bitches. . / >r.. 
James Buckley Locherty, Esq., offers $20 for the best 
exhibit of four Chesapeake Bay dogs owned and ex- 
hibited by one kennel or exhibitor. W. Gould Brokaw. 
Esq., will offer a Breeders' Challenge Cup for pointers, 
conditions of which I hope to be able to wire you in time 
for next issue. 
Class 286, ruby spaniels, will be divided by sex. 
The Butterfly Bench Show Association, of Grand 
Rapids, Mich., offers a silver medal for the best St. Bev- 
nard in our show. 
O. P. Amend, Esq., offers $10 for the best exhibit of 
four dachshunde, owned by a member of the Dachshund 
Club of America. James Mortimer, Supt. 
Ripse . 
This liver and white pointer bitch, whose portrait we 
publish in this issue, is famous in the competition of the 
Eastern Field Trials Club, she having captured first honors 
in a strongly contested Members' Stake two years in suc- 
cession, 1897 and 1898, the first time in a field of four- 
teen starters, of which Mr. Lorillard's setter dog Ro- 
land was one, and the second time she defeated a field 
of eight. In form, she is symmetrically and substantially 
built, as her portrait shows. She works very pleasingly 
to the gun, and her work in pointing and locating is 
very clean, quick and accurate. Her position in the por- 
trait was sketched from an actual point, made on the 
E. F. T. Club's grounds, near Newton, N. C, in No- 
vember last. In breeding, she is by the famous Rip Rap, 
out of Dolly D. (A., 36,837, vol. xii.), she thus being a 
sister to India and Nabob, both famous in field trial an- 
nals. 
As the yachting journal of America, the Forest and Stream is 
the recognized medium of communication between the maker of 
yachtsmen's supplies and the yachting public. Its value for ad- 
vertising has been tiemonstrated by patrons who have employed 
its columns continuously for years. 
The plajis for the new house of the New York Y. C. 
were placed on view at the club house last week and in- 
spected by many of the members. The design selected 
by the committee is the work of Mr. Whitney Warren, of 
the firm of Warren & Wetmore, New^ York. Mr. War- 
ren has succeeded admirably in planning a house fitting 
to the needs of the club, and to- its position; as the build- 
ing, when completed, will be far ahead of everything of 
the kind in existence. It is impossible to convey any 
adequate idea of the design, short of a lengthy descrip- 
.tion, accompanied by illustrations, for which space is lack- 
ing at the present moment. The old buildings on the site 
have been demolished, and the work on the foundations 
will shortly be started. Thus far the club has received 
nearly fifty thousand dollars in voluntary subscriptions 
from members toward the construction of the house,, and 
a very large portion of the cost will be met in this vfay, as 
the sum is steadily increasing. 
Mr. W. E. C. Eustis, of the Beverly Y. C, has chal^ 
lenged for the Quincy cup, and will build a 21-footer tor 
the races. Mr Eustis is well known in connection with 
the racing of the Beverly Y, C. on Buzzard's Bay, both as 
a skillful .sailor, and as a careful and thoughtful experi- 
menter in designing. His yachts Grilse, Capelin, Sailmon 
and Cero have all been noted for the work he has (done 
with them. 
After alterations in the melting pots, the lead keel of' 
the new defender was cast on Jan. 24, and on Jan. 37 the 
mould and the earth temporarily surrounding it were re- 
moved, and the casting was finished off by planing. Ma- 
terials for the new yacht are arriving almost daily at 
Bristol, the frames have been bent, and the work of erec- 
tion will begin as soon as the bronze keel plate is bolted 
to the lead keel. 
AccoiiDiNG to reports from the lake papers, the Toledo 
Y. C, after preparing to build two yachts for the trial 
races of the Chicago Y. C, has decided to abandon the 
project, in view of the third clause of the conditions of 
the trial races, as published in the Forest and Stream 
of Jan 21, Objection is made to the reservation by the 
challenging club of the right to select other than the 
winner of the trial races as its representative in the cup 
races. 
In so doing, the Chicago Y. C. has only followed a 
long established precedent in international racing, the trial 
races for the America Cup, and in the Seawanhaka and 
other smaller cups being conducted on this basis. 
The object of such trial races is to enable a challeng- 
ing or defending club to select the best possible yacht for 
certain other races, perhaps in another locality and under 
very different conditions from those of the trials. It is 
quite possible that a really superior boat may make an jn- 
different showing in the trial races through causes which 
are apparent and capable of remedy before the main races; 
and again, though a yacht may win the trial races on 
her merits, it may be evident that she is really less 
fitted than some other of the fleet for the final races at a- 
distant point. The selection of a representative is often 
a difficult matter, throwing a heavy responsibility on the 
committee, and unless the boat chosen has Avon every 
trial race, there are almost always complaints of favorit- 
ism. 
In the present case tlie trial races will he held on Lake 
Michigan, at Chicago, while the final races wnll take place 
on Lake Ontario, "at Toronto. The main object of the 
racing is to win the Canada cup at the latter place, and 
it rests with the Chicago Y. C. to make the fairest and 
wisest selection from the whole showing of the trial 
races, and not from the actual record of wins in the 
series. 
The Steam Yacht as a Naval 
Auxiliary. 
BY W. P. STEPHENS. ESQ., .ASSOCIATE. 
Copyrighted by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Eng;ii!«eta 
Published by permission. 
. The conditions under which the members of this so- 
ciety meet for this, the sixth time, are very different from 
those of former years, and of such a nature as to test, in 
a measure, the value of the work thus far accomplished; 
Heretofore both papers and discussions have been largely 
of a theoretic and speculative character; far removed from 
war in the past, and with no immediate indications of it 
in the near future, the great problem of naval warfare has 
of necessity been treated almost from an academic stand- 
point. In describing and discussing the vessels, armor., 
and guns of the new navy, the most that has been possi- 
ble was to conjecture what they might do if put to trial. 
To-day we are in a position to discuss what they have 
done, to test by the practical work of the last six months 
the theoretic work of this society for the previous five 
years. It is interesting to note that the weakness of our 
navy, the imperfect preparation for such an emergency 
as is likely at any time to confront the most peaceful na- 
tion, the imperative necessity for work in various lines of 
defense, that have only recently been realized by the na- 
tion at large, have been among the most prominent topics 
of discussion at all the meetings of the society, coupled 
with many practical suggestions and urgent demands for 
action. 
The subject of this paper is but one of many that have 
already come before the society in their theoretic aspects, 
and now, when tried by practice, it presents results which 
seem to be both definite and conclusive; and from which 
some useful lessons may be drawn. 
The work of reconstruction which has been under way 
in the United States Navy for the past fifteen years has 
been limited almost entirely to the strictly fighting arm 
of the service — the battleships, cruisers and torpedo craft. 
Indispensable as they are, these of themselves do not con- 
stitute a perfect navy; in fact, they are of comparatively 
little use without a large attendant fleet of auxiliary craft; 
transports, colliers, water boats, repair ships, supply 
ships, hospital ships; and small craft for various uses. 
The condition of the Navy at the outbreak of hostili- 
ties between the United States and Spain may be briefly 
summed up as strong in its personnel ; comparatively 
strong in fighting vessels, guns and armor ; and absolutely 
unprovided with auxiliaries of all kinds. Of all the ur- 
gent work demanded both ashore and afloat, nothing was 
more immediate and pressing than the creation of an effi- 
cient fleet of auxiliaries. 
Among the numerous classes coming under this gen- 
eral head is one that is hardly accorded the distinction 
of a specific title in naval programmes, but which, in the 
present case, was needed for three important uses, as 
follows: 
First — For sea service as tenders to the blockading 
fleet, and general service in the shoal harbors and rivers 
of the West Indies, where the war vessels were barred 
by their draft. 
Second — For picket duty offshorej constituting the 
^'second lijie of defense," 
