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[May 6, iSgo. 
The Canada Cup, 
The following letter practically settles the date for the 
first race of the series for the Canada cup, as it is under- 
stood that the date is acceptable to the Chicago Y. C: 
Charles H. Thorne, Secretary of Chicago Y. C. — Dear 
-Sir: In reply to your favor of the 3d inst., regarding set- 
tlement of date for Canadian cup races, I am requested 
to inforrh you that our committee this day fixed the date 
of the first race of the series for Monday, Aug. 21, and 
the course to be sailed, south of Toronto Island. We un- 
derstand this decision will be favorable to you, and may 
now be inserted in our respective agreements governing 
the race. The committee begs to apologize for the delay 
in naming the- date, for which, however, they are not 
wholley responsible. F. J. RicADO Seaver, 
Honorable Secretary Royal Canadian Y. C. 
The dates in connection with the entire series of races 
are consequently as follows: Trial races of challenger, 
Chicago, July 4, 5 and 6; trial races of defender, Toronto, 
Aug. 7 and following days; Lake Y. R. A. race week, 
Toronto and Hamilton, Aug. 14 and following days; first 
cup race, Toronto, Aug. 21. The latest news is that 
Arthur E, Payne, of Summers & Payne, Southampton, 
Eng., has designed a 35-footer for the defense, the yacht 
to be built for Toronto yachtsmen. Mr. Payne has scored 
many successes, such as Decima, Penitent, Gloria, Eldred 
and Emerald, the latter a 36-footer, and he is likely to 
turn out, a very fast boat; the only point is that he has 
as yet had no experience in designing for American con- 
ditions. The following yachts propose to visit Toronto 
from Chicago and Detroit: Pathfinder, Com. F. W. 
Morgan, C. Y. C; Sentinel, Thistle and Catherine, steam 
yachts; Siren, Hawthorne, Mistral, Toxteth, Vanenna 
and Challenger, sailing yachts. The city of Toronto has 
appropriated $1,000 toward the racing and the enter- 
tainment of the visitors. 
Forty-two Miles per Hour. 
This is Uie speed promised, according to current re- 
ports for the steam yacht for C. R. Flint, designed by C. 
D. Mosher. This yacht has been in contemplation for 
several years, and the engines are partly built, but nothing 
has been done toward the hull, though it has been stated 
at dif¥erent times that the Lawleys and other builders 
had received the order for it. The contract has finally 
been signed with S. Ayres & Son, of Nyack, builders of 
the fast Ellide. The n.ew yacht is to be 135ft. on l.w.l., 
12ft. 6in. beam and 4ft. draft, with twin screws and quad- 
ruple expansion engines. The hull will be of nickel steel 
and bronze, divided into seven compartments. The yacht 
will be fitted luxuriously for her owner's use, but it is 
proposed to make her convertible to a war vessel in a 
very short time, provision being made for shipping a tur- 
tle-back forward, conning towers, and rapid-fire guns. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The annual meeting of the Royal Canadian Y. C;, of 
Toronto, was held on April 22, the following officers be- 
ing elected: Com., J. H. Plummer; Vice-Corn., Geo. H. 
Gooderham; Rear-Com., C. A. B. Brown; Hon. Secy, 
F. J. Ricardo Seaver; Executive Committee, E. R. C. 
Clarkson, J. E. Robertson. Aemilius Jarvis, G. B. Mc 
Murrich, A. G. Peuchen, F. O. Cayley, Geo. Hargraft, 
W. G: Gooderham, F. M. Gray and F. Campbell. The 
club is now in a very prosperous condition, with a large 
membership and a growing fleet. Several new yachts of 
the 3Sft. class will be added this year. 
The Douglaston Y. C. held a special meeting on April 
19, at which it was decided to change the name to the 
Manhasset Y. C, in consequence of the recent removal 
from Douglaston to the new site on Manhasset Bay. The 
club was organized in 1890. The new station will be 
opened on June 3 and the annual regatta will be sailed on 
June 10. Mr. O. M. Lipton has offered a cup for the 
club's dory class, which has received six new members. 
Red Cross, steam yacht, formerly Admiral, has been 
sold by the Red Cross Society to John D. Crimmins, of 
New York. 
Orinda, cutter originally owned by Dr. W. H. Winslow, 
has been sold by J. W. Tucker to Wm. F. Williams, of 
New Bedford. 
Mr. Isaac B. Mills, of Boston,- the yacht designer, has 
been elected measurer of the Yacht Racing Association 
of Massachusetts. 
Wayward, cutter, designed by Burgess and built by the 
Lawley Corporation in 1890, for David Sears, has been 
converted to a schooner by her new owner, Chas.^ Smith- 
ers. The work has been done at Bayles & Son s yard, 
Port JefYerson, where the yacht has wintered. 
Ramona, schr., recentlv purchased by Rear-Com. B. 
M. Whitlock, Atlantic Y. C, from H. M. Gillig, is at 
Hawkins' yard. Port Jefferson, where she will be con- 
verted into an auxiliary. She is best known as the old 
Resolute, built by David Carll at City Island in 1871 for 
A S Hatch and afterward owned by John E. Brooks. 
She was sold by the latter in 1887 to Com. Postley, who 
lengthened and rebuilt her with the aid of Mr, A. Gary 
Smith, renaming her Ramona. Under the ownership of 
Mr. GiUig she was tor some years the flagship of the 
Larchmont Y. C. 
Nymph, cutter, has been sold by T. H. Pratt to E. J. 
Bergen who sold her again a few days later to J. E. 
Fletcher, of Providence, Mr. Fletcher at the same time 
selling the fin-keel sloop Memory to Mr. Hope Morton, 
of New York. Mr. Bergen has since purchased of Chas. 
L. Poor the schooner Fenella. Mr, Fletcher, the new 
owner of Nymph, was for some time the owner of 
■ Minerva, both of these boats having been previously 
owned by T. C. Zerega. 
The Corinthian Y. C, of SM Francisco, opened its 
season on April 22 with appropriate ceremonies, sailing 
on the following day to Fort Point, where the squadron 
of the California Y. C. was met and saluted. In honor of 
the occasion the C. Y. C. issues a very artistic souvenir 
volume, with many portraits of officers and yachts. 
Intrepid, schr,, E. T, Hunt, under charter all winter 
to E. Clinton Clark, has been purchased by that gentle- 
man on her return from a West India cruise last week. 
Verena, the Burgess 40-footer, practially a sister to 
Nyrnph, has been sold by E. A. Morrison to F. de 
Funiack, of New York, who proposes to alter her great- 
ly. She will be converted to a keel boat, fitted with a 
20-horse power gasolene niotor, rigged as a yawl and 
renamed Foxie. 
Com. Postley, Larchmont, Y. C, has appointed the 
following regatta committee for 1899: John F. Lovejoy, 
chairman; Edward J. Greacen and Howard W. Coates. 
The club features for the season are as follows: Formal 
opening. May 27; spring regatta, Saturday, June 17; an- 
nual regatta, Tuesday, July 4; race week, from Saturday, 
July 15, to Saturday, July 22, inclusive; special races, 
Saturday, Sept. 2; fall regatta, Monday, Sept. 4; special 
race Saturday, Sept. 9. 
Atalanta, schr., has been sold by F. W. Savin to C. H. 
Brock, of Philadelphia, She was originally the schooner 
Calypso, burned and rebuilt by David Carll in 1873 for 
Wm. Astor, and renamed Atalanta. 
Black Pearl, steam yacht, E. B. Sheldon, arrived at 
New York on April 27 from Nassau, after a cruise in the 
West Indies, having sailed from New York on Feb. 22. 
Capt. Eldiidge is still in command. 
Palmer, schr., recently purchased by F. K. Sturgis from 
Rutherford Stuyvesant, is at Poillon's yard, South Brook- 
lyn, for conversion to an auxiliary. She was built for Mr. 
Stuyv^esant by T. Byerly & Son at Philadelphia in 1865, 
and was in her day one of the most noted of the great 
scshooners. 
Viking, schr., J. D. Smith, is at Greenport, L. I., where 
she is being altered to an auxiliary, a gasolene engine of 
32-horse power being installed. 
Sapphire, steam yacht, A. L. Barber, has been sold to 
Harrison L. Drummond, formerly of St. Louis. 
Within the past year the colony of yachtsmen at Chip- 
pewa Bay, on the St, Lawrence River, has taken up the 
2oft. class, and it is now very popular. The class at pres- 
ent includes such well-known boats as Skate, Seawan- 
haka, renamed Flirt, and two boats built last year, Yan- 
kee, designed by Gardner, and Minnetonka, designed by 
H. C. McLeod. Other additions are promised for the 
coming season and races will be sailed weekly. A. T. 
Hagen, Rochester Y. C, has a new boat for the class, 
designed and built by Miller Bros., of Rochester. She 
is 27ft. over all, 17ft. 6in. l.w.l., 9ft. beam and ioin. draft 
of hull, 6ft. draft with board; weight of board, 30olbs.; 
sail area, 500 sq. ft. She will have hollow spars, made by 
the Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Company. 
During the winter L. D. Huntington, Jr., of New 
Rochelle, has designed and built for W. N. Bavier, of the 
New Rochelle Y. C, a keel cruising yawl 40ft. over all, 
30ft. l.w.]., lift. sin. beam and 4ft. 2in. draft. 
The great speed displayed at times last season by the 
Gardner fin-keel Cartoon -in the 2^ft. class of the Y. R. A. 
of Massachusetts, has led to an order for a similar boat 
for the 3Sft. class, the owner being George E. Bruce, of 
Bo.ston, former owner of Mabel F. Swift II. The new 
boat will be built by Embree, of Quincy Point, and will 
be an extreme scow, like Cartoon, practically an en- 
larged Skate, her dimensions being 60ft. gin. over all, 
35ft. l.w.l., 13ft. 2in. beam and ift. gin. draft of hull, the 
extreme draft, including fin, being thus far unknown. The 
fin will be longer and shoaler than in Cartoon, but she 
will have the same scow rudder. The construction will 
be much stronger than in Cartoon. The size of the yacht 
will, in spite of her shoal hull, admit of very good ac- 
commodations, the cabin trunk being i6ft. long, with 5ft. 
11 in. headroom. The space will be divided into a main 
saloon, two after staterooms, toilet room, galley, etc. 
The rig is that of a pole-masted cutter, with topsail, the 
mast being 67ft. long, boom 50ft., gaff 32ft. The contract 
calls for the delivery of the yacht by June 15. 
W. L. Ward, of New York, has now nearly ready at 
Hanley's yard, Quincy, a cruising sloop of 33ft. over all, 
25ft. l.w.l., 12ft. beam and 2ft. draft, with two tons of lead 
in her keel. 
Miller Bros., of Charlotte, N. Y., have on the ways a 
keel sloop for the 25ft. class of the Lake Y. R. A., for 
James C. Dryer, of Rochester. She is intended for rac- 
ing on Lake Ontario. Her dimensions are: Over all, 
32ft.; l.w.l., i8ft.; beam, 8ft. 6in. ; draft, 5ft.; sail area, 650 
sq. ft.; ballast, one ton. She will have hollow spars. 
Regina, yawl, designed by Crowninshield and built by 
Rice Bros, for Hon. W. E. Barrett,' of Boston, was 
launched at East Boothbay, Me., on April 19. She is 
76ft. over all, soft, l.w.l., 17ft. sin. beam, and 7ft. draft 
without board, her outside ballast weighing fifteen tons. 
Below she has a main saloon 12ft. 6in. long, owner's 
stateroom, guest's stateroom, toilet room, etc. The same 
builders have under way two more Crowninshield de- 
signs, for Robert Saltonstall, of Boston, and H. H. 
Bailey, of the South Boston Y. C. Syren, the former, is 
a keel cutter, of 35ft. l.w.l.; Jungfrau, the latter, is a con- 
terboard cutter 35ft. over all, 23ft. 6in. l.w.l., loft. beam 
and 4ft. draft without board. Both are intended for 
cruising. 
A very useful little volume for yachtsmen has just been 
published by the Outing Publishing Company under the 
title of "Yachting Wrinkles." The author is Capt. A. J. 
Kenealy, the well-known yacliting writer, who out of a 
long experience has gathered together a great deal of 
valuable and interesting information about yachts, new 
and old, which is set forth in that easy and familiar style 
for which he is noted. The book is not only interesting 
to the casual yachting reader, but it contains a great 
deal that is of practical value. It illustrated by nu- 
merous pictures and diagrams. 
We have received from the secretary of the Yacht Rac- 
ing Association. B. HeCkstall Smith, Esq.. whose new ad- 
dress is No. 2 Utrecht Mansions, West Kensington, Lon- 
don, W., the year book of the British Y. R. A. for 1899. 
The book contains the complete rules, as recently amend- 
ed, the list of members, allowance tables, decisions of 
council, etc. 
We call attention to the advertisement on another page 
of the knockabout built by the Buzzards Bay Yacht 
Agency. This yachtj which is illustrated in the Forest 
AND_ Stream of March 18, is a thoroughly staunch and 
serviceable craft, well fitted for general sailing and cruis- 
ing. 
If You Want the Whitest and Best 
WHITE LEAD use "ENGLISH B. B." Of all paint dealers and 
of J. Lee Smith & Co., 59 Frankfort street, and F. W. Devoe <& 
C. T. Raynolds Co., 101 Fulton street, New York.— .^di; 
§ma^ing. 
The Board of Park Commissioners of Rochester, N. 
Y., has instructed the Genessee Valley Park Committee 
to prohibit the use of canvas canoes on the waters under 
their jurisdiction, on the ground that such canoes are not 
fit for any human being to ride in. The question came 
up in connection with the lease of the boat-letting priv- 
ilege to a man who proposed to put on twenty-five skiffs 
and some canvas canoes. Such a comprehensive dis- 
crimination as this against all canvas canoes does little 
credit to the committee; if a canvas canoe is unsafe, as 
many of them are, it is not because it is constructed of 
canvas, but because it is of defective design or construc- 
tion, or usually both. There is a class of cheap canvas 
canoe, built by boys with no knowledge of canoeing or 
building, which is highly dangerous; but on the other 
hand, there are canvas canoes without number that are 
cheaper, but fully as strong and safe as anything built 
of wood, if the committee is anxious to protect the lives 
of those desiring to go on the water, it might use a little 
judgment in approving or condemning certain models, 
rather than establishing an arbitrary and absurd standard. 
CANOEING NEWS NOTES. 
There is something suggestive of the good old days of 
canoeing in the copy we have lately received of the by- 
laws and constitution of the Springfield C. C, with the 
familiar totem on the cover. The club is now making an 
earnest effort to restore its old-time standing, and to this 
end it has arranged a series of races and other entertain- 
ments, to run through the season. There will be ten sail- 
ing races for points with two silver cups for prizes and 
pennants for each race, and five paddling races for simi- 
lar prizes. Club runs, evening canoe trips, entertain- 
ments at the club house and similar diversions are relied 
on to renew the interest of old members and to bring in 
new ones. 
At the general meeting of the British Canoe Associa- 
tion, held in London on March 17, it was decided to hold 
the annual meet at Falmouth, beginning on July 29. Mr. 
George Huntley, Redheugh Bridge Works, Gateshead- 
on-Tyne, is secretary of the Association. 
The winner of the ninth of The Yachtsman's designing 
competitions, for a light draft cruiser, is Mr. George F. 
Holmes, of the Humber Yawl Club, an old canoeist, 
well known to our readers through Eel and other de- 
signs. The winning design is of 30ft. over, all length, 
2Sft. l.w.l., 9ft. beam and 2ft. extreme draft of hidl, in- 
cluding an iron keel of just over one ton. The draft with 
board down is about 6ft. The yacht is a double-ended, a 
large canoe yawl, and looks like a very safe and able craft, 
with good lines and quite a nice cabin. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here send in 
notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
May 2-B.— Lincoln, Neb.— Nebraska State Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion's twenty:third annual tournament, under the auspices of 
the Capital City Gun Club; six amateur and four open events 
each day; targets and live birds. R. M. Welch, Sec'y. 
May 6. — Passaic, N. J.— E. C. cup contest for championship of 
New Jersey, between Capt. A. W. Money, holder, and Mr. Fhil 
Daly, Jr., challenger. 
May 6.— Philadelphia, Pa.— Meet of the Intercollegiate Shoot- 
ing Association, on the Keystone grounds. 
May 6. — White Plains, N. Y.— Live-bird handicap. E. G, Horton, 
Manager. 
May 9-13. — Peoria, 111. — Illinois State Sportsmen's Association'si 
tournament. C. F. Simmons, Sec'y. 
May 13.— Dunellen, N. J.— Shoot of the New Jersey Central 
League. 
May 16-19.— Erie, Pa. — Ninth annual tournament of the Penn- 
sylvania State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the 
Reed Hurst Gun Club. F. W. Bacon, Sec'y. 
May 16-20.— St. Louis, Mo.— Tournament of the Missouri State 
Fish and Game Protective Association. H. B. Collins, Sec'y. 
May 17-18. — Oil City, Pa. — Interstate Association's tournament, 
under auspices of Oil City Gun Club. F. S. Bates, Sec'y. 
May 23-25. — Macon, Miss. — Eleventh annual tournament of the 
Noxubee Gun Club; targets and sparrows; $500 in mehchandise 
and cash added. C. M. Scales, Manager. 
May 23-25. — Algona, la. — Tournament of the Iowa State Asso- 
ciation for the Protection of Fish and Game, John G. Smitli 
Pres. 
May 24-25. — Greenwood, S. C. — Annual live-bird tournament of 
the Greenwood Gun Club; 25-bird Southern Handicap. R, G. 
McCants, Sec'y. 
May 26-27. — Tyrone, Pa. — ^Target tournament of the Tyrone Gun 
Club. D. D. Stine, Sec'y. 
May 30.— Rutherford, N. J.^ — Decoration Day shoot of the Boiling 
Springs Gun Club: good prizes. W. H. Huck, Sec'y. 
May 30. — Canajonarie, N. Y. — All-day target shoot at Canajo- 
harie, N. Y. Charles Weeks, Sec'y. 
IVTay 30-Tune 2. — Erie, Pa. — Ninth annual tournament of the Penn- 
sylvania State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the 
Reed Hurst Gun Club. Frank W. Bacon, Sec'y. * 
Tune 3. — New Haven, Conn. — Yale vs. Princeton. 
June 5-10.— Buffalo, N. Y.— New York State shoot, under the 
auspices of the Buffalo Audubon Gun Club; $1,000 guaranteed; 
over ?2,000 in merchandise, and $1,000 added money in open events. 
Chas. Bamberg, Sec'y. 51 Edna Place. 
June 6-9.— Sioux City, la.— Fifth annual amateur tournament 
of the Soo Gun Club. E. R. Chapman, Sec'y. 
June 10. — Princeton, N. T.— Yave vs. Princeton. 
June 13-14.— Grand Forks, N. D.— Fifth annual shoot of the North 
Dakota Association. 
June 14-15.— Bellows Falls, Vt.— Interstate Association's totima- 
ment, under auspices of Bellows Falls Gun Club. C. H. Gibson, 
Sec'y. 
June 14-16.— Cleveland, O.— Cleveland Target Co.'s tournament 
June 20-22. — Wheeling, W. Va. — Third annual tournament of 
the West Virginia State Sportsmen's Association, under the 
auspices of the Wheeling Gun Club, Wheeling, W. Va^ John B. 
Garden, Sec'y. 
June 21-23.— Columbus, O.— Tournament of the Ohio Trap-Shoot- 
ers' League, under the auspices of the Sherman Rod and Gun 
Club, J. C. Porterfteld, SecV. O. T. S. L. 
