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First Day. — O. Y. C. challenge cup. 
Second Day.- — Green Lake Challenge cup. 
Third Day. — Pabst challenge cup and the Dupee cup. 
Fourth and Fifth Day. — Continuance of the races for 
the cups offered for the first three days. 
Sixth Day. — Open for finals and races postponed for 
reasons such as lack of wind or bad weather. 
On Monday the Country Club will take hold, the pro- 
gramme being as follows : 
First Day. — Men's golf team match, open to teams from 
visiting clubs, 18 holes, followed by medal play, g holes. 
Second Day. — Mixed foursomes, handicap, 18 holes; 
women's putting contest and men's approach and putting 
trials. 
Third Day, — Men's handicap, medal play, 18 holes; 
women's handicap, medal play, 18 holes; followed by 
men's driving contest. 
Fourth Day. — Gymkhana races, open to members and 
visitors; bicycle races, pony races, caddie races, and foot 
races. 
Fifth Day.— Open air horse show, including the follow- 
ing classes : Pony carts, pairs to mail phaeton, spider, or 
pair break, tandems, four-in-hands to coaches or breaks. 
Thomas Clapham, of Roslyn, has just completed a rac- 
ing yacht for the 20ft. class for C. E. Silkworth, of 
Brooklyn, who will name her Spunk. 
The Macatawa Bay Y. C, of Grand Rapids, Mich., will 
build a large club house at its station, on the south shore 
of Beach Lake. The club included members from Chicago 
and Grand Haven. 
The Penataquit Y. C. has announced the following fix- 
tures: May 30, spring club race; July 4, annual club 
regatta; July 15, snipe class race;' July 22, race for half- 
raters; Aug. 5, annual open regatta; Aug. 19, race for 
half-raters ; Sept. 2, race for half-raters ; Sept. 4, fall club 
regatta. In the races of May 30, July 4, Aug. 5 and Sept. 
4, there will be a special class for knockabouts. The re- 
gatta committee includes Messrs. H. C. Hepburn, John 
R. Suydam, Geo. B. Magoun, Alden S. Swan and Chester 
B. Lawrence, 
We stated last week, under the head of "Yacht In- 
telligence,'* that Rainbow, schooner, was a probable starter 
for the Heligoland race, June 19. Her owner, howevef, 
has no idea of competing in that race. Rainbow will be 
raced on the Thames, and go on to. the Clyde for the fort- 
night's racing there. It will be regretted that Gleniffer, 
the schooner building from Mr. G. L. Watson's design for 
Mr. James Coats, who raced Marjorie cutter with such 
success, is not likely to be raced. She is 141ft. on the 
load waterline and 26ft, gin. beam. Her sail spread will 
be about 14,000 sq. ft., or about 500 sq. ft. more than Rain- 
bow has, the latter being 115ft. on the load waterline, with 
a beain of 24fti— The Field, 
The Decoration Day race of the Indian Harbor Y. C. 
will be open to the ^ift. knockaboiit class and the one-de- 
sign dory class, the preparatory being at 2 P. M,, and the 
start at 2:05 for the knockabouts, and 2:10 for the dories. 
Entries must be made by May 29 to F, B. Jones, 29 Broad- 
way, New York. 
Mr. H. C. Roome, New York Y. C, accompanied by his 
wife, has arrived at Williamsport on their novel yachting 
trip through inland waterways to the Mississippi. They 
will proceed to Cumberland as soon as the break , on the 
fourteen-mile level of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is 
repaired. Mr. Roome sailed from Greenport, Long Island, 
on the yacht Waikiki on April 17, passing through the 
Raritan and Delaware rivers and canals to Chesapeake 
Bay and up the Potomac River to Washington, where the 
yacht was transferred to the Cheasapeake and Ohio Canal. 
It is the intention on reaching Cumberland to load the 
yacht on flatcars and transport her by rail to the Ohio 
River, and continue the cruise down that river and up the 
Mississippi and other waterways into Manitoba. In mak- 
ing the cruise on a wager, which he fears he may lose, for 
the reason that the yacht is too large to pass through the 
tunnels on the railroad route to the Ohio. Waikiki is a 
S4ft. naphtha launch of 9ft. beam.— New York Tribune. 
Enterprise, steam vacht, has been chartered by A. J. 
Cassatt to E. T. Hunt, of New York. 
Noumahal, steam yacht, J. J. Astor, arrived at ^Iew 
York on May 21 from her Mediterranean cruise, after first 
calling at Newport. She has been absent since Feb. 4. 
Mr. Astor and his party left the yacht abroad and re- 
turned by steamer. 
It has been announced that Mr. W. G. Jameson was 
the purchaser of the cutter Britannia by private treaty; 
she was consequently withdrawn from Marvin's auction 
sale at the Shipping Exchange, Billiter street. There have 
been many sales of yachts at this exchange, btit prices 
favorable to the vendors have seldom been realized, and 
the sale of yachts on Wednesday last was no exception to 
the rule. The yacht which fetched the most satisfactory 
price was the Red Eagle (lately owned by a French noble- 
man under the name of L' Aigle) . The yacht was built by 
Messrs. Ramage and Ferguson in 1888, and is still classed 
*ioo Ai at Lloyd's. She is of 305 tons, and produced 
£5,800, or about £19 per ton. Formosa, cutter, 102 tons, 
built by Mr. Michael Ratsey in 1878 for Mr. Francis 
Sloane Stanley, fetched £1,100 — sums considerably under 
breaking up price. Feronia. schooner, 50 tons, built in 
1872 by Messrs. Hansen for Mr. F. B. Winsor, went for 
£420; Songstress, 15 tons, £250, and Godiva, 10 tons, £75; 
altogether the six yachts realized £8,745.— The Field. 
Valiant, centerboard cutter, designed by F. W. Mortin 
in 1895, has been rebuilt into a keel boat of 7f*. 6in. draft 
with 2,250 sq. ft. of sail, her new measurement being just 
under 40ft. R. L. She is owned by W. A. Stickney, of 
Sif. Louis, who will sail her from Harbor Point, Mich. 
She is enrolled in the Chicago and Columbia yacht clubs. 
Mystic, steam yacht, was driven ashore on April 6 off 
the Honduras coast, near Lagoon Ceiba in a norther of 
unusual severity. Her party included Augustus A. Yates 
and Thomas J. Allen, of Philadelphia; William Hoik, o 
Michigan; Louis Freiberger. of Chicago, and Dr. and 
Mrs. F. T. B, Fest, of Detroit, with their two children, 
and the crew. All hands reached shore, but found it un- 
inhabited. They walked many miles, suffering for want 
of food, until an Indian village was reached. On the 
way one of the children died from exhaustion. The party 
procured canoes at the villa'ge and paddled to Port Bur- 
chard, whence they took the steamer Foxhall for New 
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The Passing of the Canoe, 
It would perhaps be unjust to the poet, Mr. Albert 
Strange (Cherub), to say that there is more truth than 
poetry in the following lament, which we reprint from 
the Yachtsman. At the same time there is truth enough, 
sad to say, in that the canoe, as canoeists first knew it, has 
passed away, and apparently beyond recall. Wc have 
nothing to say against the craft which have superseded 
it, many of them are superior to the canoe for cer- 
tain popular uses; but we do regret that the old "paddle- 
able" or "paddling and sailing" canoe, and the pastime 
of canoe cruising as introduced by McGregor, arc prac- 
tically extinct in America and Great Britain. 
Mr. Strange has sketched most cleverly, and but too 
truthfully, the course of evolution which has at last 
established the miniature yacht in place of the canoe. 
(With an apology to the Sliade of Longfellow.) 
Sadly mused the old canoeist. 
Sitting in his winter wigwam 
(Wigwam built of bricks and mortar, 
Highly rented, highly rated) — 
Musing, as he read his Yachtsman, 
On the changes time was making, 
In himself — and in canoeing. 
Gone — he mused — the days delightful. 
When we sallied forth with paddle 
(Tiny sail and trusty paddle), 
Apron-mackintoshed and cosy, 
In our dainty Rob Roy cruiser, 
Bound for nowhere in partit'lar, 
Down the rapid, down the river, 
Out to sea — no matter whither: 
When we couldn't sail, we paddled. 
When we couldn't paddle, pushed her 
Over bars, and over sandbanks, 
From the river to the railway, 
From the railway to the carrier, 
Over mountains — over deserts ; 
Nature set no bounds to journeys 
In the dainty Rob Roy cruiser. 
Eastward— on the muddy Himiber, 
On the wild and rapid Humber, 
Where the tide runs like a millrace. 
And the wind blows like the devil — 
Dwelt a man who loved canoeing 
In the dainty Rob Roy cruiser. 
Tried it oft, and found it dampish, 
Found it moist and demn'd unpleasant 
When the wind and tide together 
Struggled, fought and made confusion. 
So he built another cruiser. 
Shorter, deeper, wider, stiffer. 
Called her Cassy — but he guessed not 
That this Cassy made commencement 
Of the end of all canoeing 
In the dainty Rob Roy cruiser. 
On the Mersey, farther northward 
(Mersey, wide, and deep and rapid), 
Where the "Dicky Sains" did gather, 
When from 'Change they were released, 
Sailed from Eastham to New Brighton, 
Round the Rock and into Hoylake, 
Even unto Hilbre Island — 
Unto far-off Hilbre Island, 
In the dainty Rob Roy cruiser. 
Here, as on the muddy Humber, 
Where the winds and tides do wrestle. 
Very lumpy is the water : 
Very damp the Rob Roy cruiser. 
Found the Dicky Sams with sorrow, 
Until Sam, the Vital Sparker, 
Built them something larger, deeper, 
Drove a long nail in, and clench'd it 
In the Rob Roy cruiser's coffin. 
Yet the Thames remained quite faithful 
To the dainty Rob Roy cruiser 
(Altered in some minor, details), 
Faithful in the Putney district 
Or on Hendon's raging waters. 
Now and then they went "below bridge," 
Even went across the ocean. 
To the land of Yankee Doodle 
Went the heavy Rob Roy cruiser. 
Full of centerplates and shot-bags, 
Balance lugs with lots of halyards. 
Stiff and slow and very stately. 
Oh, so slow! The lively Yankee — 
Standing-rigged and sliding-seated, 
Sailed around the Rob Roy cruiser. 
Round the stately Rob Rob cruiser. 
Left her far away to leeward, 
Left her, while her British owner 
(Stiff and slow and very stately) 
Gazed in vide-eyed consternation 
As the Yunkce flyers vanished, 
In the dim and misty distance. 
Still, in spite of demonstration 
By the Cassy, by the Ethel, 
Thirty inches was the limit 
Of the breadth of beam for cruisers, 
Sliding seats were vile contraptions 
Nothing but machines would wear 'em, 
And the honest Rob Rob cruiser 
Only fit for British sailing. 
Notwithstanding pleading, coaxing, 
All the sailors left canoeing. 
Nearly all the cruising sailors 
Went a-yawling, went in "raters," 
And the dainty Rob Rob cruisers 
Slumbered in the dusty boat-house 
All forgotten — disremembered, 
Lost, neglected, out of fashion, t, 
While the waters teemed with Ethels, 
Cassys, Vikings, Tavies, Spectres 
Devas, Cherubs, Daisies, Wa Was, 
Yawls of various sorts and sizes, 
Whilst the dainty Rob Roy cruisers 
Slumbered in the dusty boat-house. 
Only skipper Bartley faithful 
Skipper B. and J. G. Porter, 
Only they remained faithful, 
Even Tredwen built a Bargeyot. 
Then arose the mighty Baden — 
Baden P. the special pleader, 
Known wher-e'er was known canoeing 
He, the author, he the parent 
Of a hundred Nautiluses 
(Gentle printer, mind the spelling, 
Prithee, do not inake it lasses), 
Greatly honored by the nation. 
Clothed in silk — the special pleader — 
Counsel for the Gracious Lady 
Who benignly ruleth o'er us. 
Mighty man with Pen and Paddle, 
Cocksure, like the great Macaulay. 
Fathoms long his disquisitions 
In the Field about canoeing. 
Week by week all special pleading 
For the bantlings of his bosom 
For the many Nautiluses. 
So he rose and took his battens, , • 
Took his splines, and weights, and battens, 
Drew him out a lifting bulb plate 
Yellow metal — most alarming, 
Like the very stiffest problem 
In the Second book of Euclid. 
Over this he drew a sheer plan 
Most unusual in profile 
(Profile made to match the author), 
Threw away the thirty inches, 
Thirty sacred to the Rob Roy, 
Gave her three-foot six for stiffness 
(Just about the width of Cassy). 
Sixteen foot in length he gave her 
With an under-body rudder. 
Simply awful in its cuntiing. 
Sort of thing that wizards play with : 
Waggling fore and aft, and sideways. 
Then he drew a silken sail plan. 
Roller jib and furling topsails. 
Solid silver cleats and fair leads. 
Solid silver (plated) anchors. 
Golden aneroids and watches. 
Nothing less than these would serve him, 
Nothing less than precious metals 
Decked the darling of his fancy 
( Men who can't afford to do it 
In this Very swagger fashion 
Have no right to go canoeing). 
When the R. C. C. were gathered 
Round the glowing winter camp-fire. 
In their wigwam new and spacious 
Somewhere near to Putney Station : 
Forth he drew his rolls of paper. 
Showed the plans of this new cruiser. 
Exercised his wit forensic. 
Dazzling in its flowing beauty. 
Told them she would lick creation — 
Sail, when raters struggled vainly — 
Struggled vainly 'gainst the tempest. 
If they- longed to go a-Waleing 
In the far-off Bristol Channel, 
Where the waves are tetrahedral 
And of magnitudes appalling — 
(If you don't believe this statement, 
See the number of the Yachting. 
Monthly, where the author's picture 
Shows it was on Easter Monday) — 
They could do it in a cruiser 
(Only in this kind of cruiser, 
Not the dainty Rob Roy cruiser). 
So convincing were his statements — 
Statements crammed with special pleading — 
That this gold and silver cruiser 
Seem.ed to them a thing of beauty. 
Even Linton Hope was captured. 
Thought there might be something in it. 
Linton — who designed the Kismet — 
Who designed the flying Kismet — 
Then De Quincey, then the others, 
All were captured by the pleader. 
All but Laws — the unbelieving 
Laws — who didn't seem to see it. 
Thought the Prucas vastly better 
(Though he lost it on the voting). 
. Thus the dainty Rob Roy cruiser. 
At this last and bitter ending, 
Silently received her deathblow 
' From the authors of her being. 
Vanished from all earthly waters 
To the kingdom of the sunset — 
To the kingdom of the shadows- 
Went to join Rob Roy Macgregor 
Sitting in his ghostly wigwam. 
Cherub. 
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