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FOREST AND STREAM. 
EUGENIA— DECK, LOOKING AFT. 
6. Submerged breathing contest between South Sea Is- 
landers and any one else who cares to enter. 
Note. — Any contestant remaining under water less than 
five minutes will be promptly tomahawked by the clerk of 
the course on arriving at the surface. 
Members of all canoe clubs near New York are cor- 
dially invited to be present and take part in any or 
all of the events. In order to interest the ladies, a number 
of extra events have been arrangtd to take place during 
the sailing race, and between the regular events, so that 
the interest will never flag during the entire afternoon. 
The usual club dinner Avill be served at 7 P. M. 
Regatta Committee — Barron Fredricks, chairman; R, 
S. Foster, Louis B. Jennings. 
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Fixtures. 
JUNE. • 
Knickerbocker, annual, open. College Point, L. I. Sound. 
Manhansett, opening day, Port Washington, Manhansett Hay. 
Winthrop, hand-sweeps. Great Head, Boston Harbor. 
Manhansett, annual, open. Port VVa,iiington, L. i. Sound. 
Winthrop, hand-sweeps, Great Head, Boston Harbor. 
Burgess, 1st cham., Marblehead. Massachusetts Bay. 
Wiliiamsburgh, sloop class, Long Island Sound. 
Royal St. Lawrence, Yankee-Dominion match, Dorval, Lake 
St Louis. 
Brooklyn, annual, open, Bath Beach, New York Bay. 
Larchmont, spring open, Larchmont, Long Island Sound. 
Morris Yachtsmen, spring open. City Island, Pelham Bay. 
Winthrop, squadron cruise to Nahant, Massachusetts Bay. 
Taunton, club, Taunton. 
Gravesend Bay, annual, Bath Beach, New York Bay. 
Gloucester, spring, Delaware River. 
Old Mill, club, Jamaica Bay. , tt 
Atlantic, annual, open. Sea Gate, New York Harbor. 
New York, annual, open, New York, New York Harbor. 
Seawanhaka Cor., annual, open. Oyster Bay, L. I., S9und. 
Winthrop, club. Great Head, Boston Harbor. 
Morris Yachtsmen, special, City Island, Long Island Sound. 
Burgess 2d cham., Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 
■29. Sea. Cor., cruise to New London and return, L. i. Sound. 
The New Royal Yacht. 
The accompanying illustration shows the new royal 
yacht Victoria and Albert, launched on May 9. In addi- 
tion to the description published in the Forest and 
Stream of May 20, the following particulars are given 
by the Daily Graphic; 
The length between perpendiculars is 380ft., length 
over all 439ft., breadth 50ft., mean draft of water (under 
normal conditiions of loading i8ft., displacement 4,700 
tons, maximum indicated horse-power 11,000. The ves- 
sel will be propelled by twin screws, driven by two in- 
verted vertical cylinder engines, each engine having four 
cylinders, and being placed in a separate water-tight 
compartment. Steam will be provided by eighteen 
water-tube boilers of the most improved Belleville type. 
There are two separate boiler-room compartments, each 
containing nine boilers. Two funnels will be fitted. The 
electric installation will be of a special character. It will 
provide not only for electric lighting of the interior, but 
for other applications of electrical power, including the 
working of lifts, pumps, hoists for boats, ventilating fans, 
the after capstan and heating the principal apartments. 
By using electricity instead of steam for these_ auxiliary 
services, it is anticipated that comfort and efficiency will 
be increased. As compared with the present Victoria 
and Albert, the new yacht has an additional deck, which 
may, for purposes of description, be regarded as built 
above the upper deck of the present royal yacht. This 
increase of the freeboard — from about lift. 6in. to 19ft. — 
was absolutely necessary to provide the desired accom- 
modation as well as to meet the requirements for more 
powerful machinery and enlarged coal supply. 
The state deck of the new yacht is about loft. 6in. 
above water. Between it and the upper deck are situated 
the Queen's apartments and those of the royal family, 
the ..cabins assigned to their suites, and those appro- 
priated to the commanding officer and the principal 
naval officers attached to the vessel. The apartments of 
her Majesty resemble in their general arrangement those 
in the present Victoria and Albert, but they are more 
spacious, and a private dining room has been added. 
Thesp rooms occupy the central portion of the state deck, 
where the minimum of motion in a seaway should oc- 
cuc-i^^Tte apartments of the members of the royal family 
are placed abaft those of the Queen, extending over a 
considerable length of the state deck. These are suc- 
ceeded by the apartments of the royal suite. Rather 
more than half the length of the vessel is occupied by 
these three series of apartments, and a wide corridor 
extends from end to end, with convenient staircases lead- 
ing to the upper deck. Above the upper deck, toward the 
after part, is built a large pavilion or saloon, which con- 
tains the state dining room, which will accommodate 
fifty persons, besides the reception and smoking rooms. 
The top of this pavilion forms a promenade. The grand 
staircase leads down from the reception room to the 
principal corridor on the state deck. Access from the 
upper to the state deck within the royal apartments will 
be obtained by a lift as well as by this staircase. Arrange- 
ments have also been made for entering the vessel at the 
level of the state deck, should that prove more 'con- 
venient, either when she lies alongside piers or when 
passengers embark from boats and ascend accommoda- 
tion ladders. 
The cabins for the royal servants and for the servants 
of the suite are placed on the lower deck, occupying 
about half the length from the stern. On this deck also 
are placed the royal kitchen, pantries, sculleries, hot cup- 
boards, etc., and all the service will proceed at this level 
to the lifts leading to the royal dining rooms and the 
dining room of the suite. Arrangements will be made 
for economizing labor as far as possible by means of lifts 
or other appliances. The officers of the ship have their 
cabins immediately forward of the middle of the ship, 
part on the state deck and part on the lower deck. At 
the higher level a large messroom is built, with all nec- 
essary pantries and fittings adjoining. The crew spaces 
are at the fore end of the vessel, where there are three 
decks, all with natural light and ventilation. Adeciuate 
provision has been made for messing and sleeping, for 
bathrooms and all other requirements. All living spaces 
on the lower decks have special ventilating side scuttles, 
giving light and air under all circumstances, even in bad 
weather at sea. In addition electrical ventilating appli- 
ances win be provided. Great attention has been given 
to the sanitary arrangements. Hot and cold water sup- 
ply will be arranged to bathrooms and to the principal 
sleeping cabins. Electrical heating will be adopted in the 
state apartments, and steam heating elsewhere. In order 
to insure the greatest possible safety against fire the 
wood used in the bulkheads, fittings, and furniture of the 
new yacht has been subjected to a chemical treatment 
which makes it practially non-flammable. An efficient 
fire service of the usual kind has also been arranged for 
delivering water at any point where a fire may take place. 
Probably by the early summer of next year the new 
yacht will be ready for service. Her general appearance 
will somewhat resemble that of the present Victoria and 
Albert, but her greater size and higher freeboard neces- 
sarily involve departures from the earlier vessel. _ She 
will have three tall raking masts, two funnels, a clipper 
bow and an elliptical stern. 
The new vessel was actually commenced on Oct. 25, 
1897, though her keel was not laid until the 12th of the 
following December. She has, therefore, been under 
construction one year and six and a half months. The 
total cost of the vessel will be about £360,000. 
New American Steam Yachts. 
The war of last year has given a stimulus to at least 
one industry, that of steam yacht building, as evidenced 
by the fleet of yachts now under construction to replace 
some of the twenty-seven craft purchased by the Govern- 
ment just a year ago. In most cases, we are glad to 
say, the yacht designer has profited as well as the builder, 
the majority of the new yachts being designed, though a 
few of them have been built haphazard, after the meth- 
od which has produced so many serious failures in the 
past. The firm of Gardner & Cox, the well-known yacht 
designers, have had in hand during the winter four of 
the new steam fleet, the building being done by the Del- 
aware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Co., 
"Roach's Yard," Chester, Pa., of which Mr. Irving Cox 
is manager. Two of these yachts, .Aileen II., Richard 
Stevens, and Eugenia II., J. G. Cassatt, bear the names 
of their predecessors; the first Aileen, now used by the 
Brooklyn battalion of the Naval Reserves, and Eugenia, 
now Siren, of the U. S. Navy. The third, Idalia, replaces 
Illawarra, sold by Eugene Tompkins to the Government. 
The fourth and largest. Alberta, replaces the Watson 
boat, Zara, .sold by A. E. Tower to private ownership 
last winter. The accompanying illustrations show the 
four under construction. Aileen, launched on May 13, 
is shown on the stocks, nearly ready for launching. She 
is similar to Malay and Sylph, built last year at Chester 
from designs by Gardner & Cox, the latter being now the 
"President's yacht." Aileen is 152ft. over all, 125ft. l.w.l., 
20ft. beam and 9ft. draft, with 12ft. depth of hold. 
Eugenia is considerably larger,, being intended for 
ocean cruising. 176ft. over all, 144ft. l.w.l., 21ft. beam and 
Tift, draft. The view shows the deck, with beams in 
place and fastened to the gussets, the steel plates joining 
them to the heads of the frames. The lower part of the 
frames and the floors crossed by the reverse frames are 
also visible. The timbers bolted to the deck beams are 
for the purpose of keeping them in fair line until the 
deck planking is laid. 
A similar view, but looking forward instead of aft, is 
shown of the deck of Alberta; but in this case the 
stringer plate, lying on the top of the beams and next 
to the edge, is in place, also the steel angles on top of the 
plate, to which the bulwarks are riveted. The hatchways 
and the tieplates in the center of the deck are also shown. 
The other view of the yacht shows her on the stocks, 
partly plated and surrounded by the numerous scaffold 
poles supporting the scaffolds from which the work on 
the exterior of the hull is done. The upper strakes of 
plating, up to the deck, and the bulwarks, are not yet 
in place, the deck beams being still visible. The height 
of the main deck is indicated, the archboard showing 
above it at the stern. Alberta is 189ft. over all, 158ft. 
l.w.l., 22ft. beam and loft. draft, and is designed for a 
high speed for her type. 
The fourth yacht, Idalia, is 172ft. over all, 140ft. l.w.l., 
2oft. beam, and 9ft. draft. She is shown on the stocks, 
the hull entirely plated, but the bulwarks not yet in place, 
the main deck is indicated, while the height of the rail 
is indicated by the stem and archboard. The four are of 
steel throughout, and schooner-rigged. 
Douglaston^^Y, C, 
The new house of the Douglaston Y. C, at Port 
Washington, will be formally placed in commission on 
Saturday, June 3. An unusually large attendance of 
members and their friends is expected, due to the club 
location on Manhasset Bay, which has been long known 
to the yachting fleet as one of the best harbors on the 
Sound. 
The house, which is situated directly on the shore, 
fronts the entrance to the bay and was originally a pri- 
vate residence, but has been rebuilt to suit the require- 
ments of the club. On the first floor is a cafe and din- 
ing room, with a locker room and a bicycle room in the 
ALBERTA— DECK, LOOKING FORWARD. 
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