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FOREST AND STREAM. 
VICTORIA AND ALBERT— THE NEW, BRITISH ROYAL YACHT. 
rear. The kitchen and steward's quarters are in a sepa- 
rate building, connected with the main house by a cov- 
ered gangway. On the second floor is a large model 
or reception room and two ladies' rooms, the latter being 
entirely separated from the rest of the house. The third 
floor contains seven bedrooms. -\ long-distance tele- 
phone has been installed for the convenience of the 
members. 
Directly in front jof the house is a large timber basin, 
200ft. square, in which the float stage is located and 
which will also be used as an anchorage for the smaller 
boats. On the piers forming the basin a pavilion 24x50ft. 
has been erected, the entire bay frontage of which is 
glass, arranged to open in fine weather and from which 
a view may be had of the entire bay. This pavilion will 
undoubtedly be found to be one of the best shore features 
of the club. 
The North Shore Division of the Long Island Rail- 
road, on which the club is situated, gives the best ser- 
vice on Long Island, which will be augmented by the 
addition of the new club Saturday express train, making 
its initial trip on the club's opening day. By this train 
it will be possible to reach Port Washington from foot 
of Chambers street, in one hour, while the club property 
is only a few minutes from the depot, stages meeting all 
trains" Ample stable accommodation is provided for 
members driving to the club. 
The necessary legal arrangements required for change 
of name to Manhasset Bay Y. C. are now under way, 
but as this will require about two months to consummate, 
the club will remain as of old, until the application for 
change of name is granted by the court. 
Quite a fleet of sailing dories has been purchased by 
the members, and races for this class will be held every 
Saturday during the season, with interclub matches with 
the Huguenot and other Sound clubs. 
The officers of the club are: Com., Clay M. Green; 
Vice-Corn., Hazen L. Ho^^t; Rear-Com.. W. G. New- 
man; Sec'y, E. M. MacLellan; Treas., Geo. A. Con-y; 
Chairman Regatta Committee. Chas. P. Tower; Chair- 
man of the House Committee, E. M. MacLellan. 
ing the deck, polishing the bottom, and sheathing the 
lead keel with bronze plates, about ]/%m. thick, as in De- 
fender. The rudder is not yet shipped, but the bob- 
stay plate is in place, about the fore end of the water- 
line. While the yacht is very nearly ready for launching, 
none but her builders know of the exact date, though the 
tide tables indicate about June 8. 
There has been some uncertainty as to Mr. Iselin's posi- 
tion in relation to Columbia, it is known that he is to all 
intent her owner during the races, and will have entire 
control of her as such, but it has been understood that 
Com. Morgan is the sole legal owner. Within the past 
week it has become known that Mr. Iselin is associated 
with Com. Morgan in the ownership of Columbia, his in- 
terest being stated at some $20,000. 
Royal Canadian Y. C Skiff Races. 
TORONTO — TORONTO BAY. 
Wednesday, May 24. 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. celebrated the Queen's Birth- 
day, May 24, with a race for the 18, 16 and 15ft. classes 
of .skififs," sailed in a light S.E. breeze. The times were: 
15ft. Class— Start, 2:20. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Sigma, R. T Cuff 4 21 30 2 01 30 
Tortoise, H. W. Parsons 4 27 35 2 07 35 
Arc, 11. L. Strange 4 :52 09 2 12 09 
Hilaria. C. W. Wilson 4 33 00 2 13 00 
May Fly. R. L. Lessel 4 43 00 2 23 00 
Marie, W. J. Grifliths 4 45 55 2 25 55 
16ft. Class— Start, 2:10. 
Unknown, R. Osborne 4 11 45 2 01 45 
Unnamed, Wedd & Darrell ..........4 15 00 2 05 00 
Canrice R Slee • 4 16 45 2 03 45 
Kne; F ■child;... 4 19 39 2 09 39 
Spray, Hales & Underwood....-.-,..,. 4 21 54 2 11 54 
18ft. Class— Start, 2:00. 
Nereid, Craig & Greig Did not finish. 
Caprice protested Unknown for an alleged fouling. 
New Rochelle Y. C. Special Race. 
NEW ROCHELLE — ^LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Saturday, May 27. 
The New Rochelle Y. C, opened the season with a 
special race for yawls, knockabouts and catboats on May 
27, the course being from off Premium Point around the 
buoy off Hen and Chickens Reef, around the middle 
ground buoy, off the end of Execution Reef, and to the 
line two rounds making eight and a half miles. 
With a fresh S.W. breeze one and even two reefs were 
in order. The new Herreshoff "knockabout" Oiseau, 
owned bv J. R. Maxwell, Jr., sailed her first race, being 
steered by J. Roger Maxwell, Sr. The times were : 
Yawls— Start, 2:35 P. M. 
Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Veery, H. S. Gibson 36.00 1 19 28 1 19 28 
Possum, W. N. Bavier 33.11 1 24 16 1 22 Oo 
Twilight, E. Lambden 30.98 Not timed. 
Addie, W. L. Diaz 27.40 1 49 00 1 42 33 
Cabin Cats— Start, 2:40 P. M. 
Osage, O. H. Chellborg 23.50 Withdrew. . 
Win or Lose, J. S. Appleby 23.40 4 23 39 1 43 39 
Twenty-five-foot Class, Knockabouts— Start, 2:4o P. M. 
Oiseau, J. R. Maxwell 25.00 4 06 26 1 21 22 
Alyce, W. Hennen 25.00 4 20 50 1 35 50 
Knockabouts— 21ft. Class; Start, 2:50. 
Mongoose II.. Simeon Ford. .21.00 4 18 35 1 28 35 
Kantaka, G. J. Bradish 21.00 4 21 59 , 1 31 59 
Spindrift, S. C. Pirie 21.00 4 18 09 1 28 09 
Seawanhaka— 21ft. Racing Length. 
Thelga, A. P. Thayer 21.00 4 32 35 1 42 35 
The winners were Veery. Win or Lose, Oiseau, 
Spindrift and Thelga. _ 
Columbia and Defender. 
The new steel mast of Defender was stepped on . May 
24, being taken from the shops by the steam lighter 
Archer and carried to the yacht as she lay at anchor off 
the works. As soon as it was in place, the shrouds were 
set up, and the work of rigging and fitting out has gone 
on steadily ever since. Before leaving the shop, the rnast 
was weighted, with the standing rigging on ; the weight 
being 6,229lbs, It is painted to represent wood, aijd might 
easily pass for wood now that it is in place. 
Though the date of the launch of Columbia has been 
given positively as June 8, there is no proof that this is 
authentic or that the progress of the work may not neces- 
sitate a change. Many workmen are now busy on the 
y?icht, finishing the work of riveting and caulking, lay- 
Inter-Lake Regatta. 
Pittsburg, Pa., May 23.— A meeting of the Inter- 
Lake Yachting Association was held at the headquarters 
of the Cleveland Y. C. Saturday evening. May 20. It 
was determined to hold the annual regatta at Put-m-Bay, 
Aug. 7 to II, inclusive, this change being made to per- 
mit the Lake Michigan yachtsmen to join. 
This meet promises to be the largest yet held by the 
Inter-Lake Yachting Association. The entertainment 
committee are making special efforts to make it a mem- 
orable one, and promise some unique features, and a 
better time than ever before. 
The race committee will have their report ready at 
an early day. The programme will be a large and at- 
tractive one^ a large amount being put 'up in purses and 
prizes than usual. Leonard D. Davis,, Secy. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The year book of the Yacht Racing Association of 
Massachusetts, just published under the editorship of 
Sec'y A. T. BHss, is one of the most artistic books of the 
class we have yet met with, including many good photos 
of yachts and bound in an attractive blue cloth coyer. 
The book contains all of the new rules of the Association, 
with list of officers, etc. The Association now includes 
thirty-two clubs from the vicinity of Boston, with twenty- 
four open races scheduled. The prospects for the fourth 
season are most encouraging. 
The racing rules of the Yacht Racing Association of 
Long Island Sound have just been published, uniform 
with the books of previous years, but considerably larger 
by virtue of the additions made last winter. The Asso- 
ciation now numbers twenty-one clubs, covering the 
west end of Long Island Sound from Sachem's Head to 
Hell Gate^ with twenty-eight races scheduled. Copies of 
the book may be had of the printers, Thompson & Co., 
No. 9 Murray street, New York. Price, 25 cents. 
Manning's Yacht Register for 1899, the twenty-fifth 
year of publication, has appeared within ihe past week, 
in time for Decoration Day. The book is in two large 
volumes, one containing the yacht register and the other 
the record of races for 1898 in the United States, Canada 
and Nova Scotia. The list includes 2,041 sailing and 
444 steam yachts. The list of yacht clubs reaches a total 
of i.'55. 
Bonnie Bairn, naphtha auxiliary, designed by C. G. 
Davis and built by Samuel Ayres &' Son at Nyack for 
Malcolm Graham, Jr., was launched on May 22, 
Jule, steam yacht, designed and built by the Fall River 
Iron Works, for B. P. Cheney, the husband of Julia 
Arthur, was launched at East Braintree, Mass., on May 
24. .She is 57ft. over all, 12ft. 6in. beam, and is expected 
to make it knots. 
When work was first begun on the new house of the 
New York Y. C. on Forty-fourth street, it was expected 
that it would be coiripleted before the America's Cup 
races in October. This has been found to be impossible, 
and the present house will be used for the balance of the 
year. 
Aphrodite, steam yacht. Col. O. H. Payne, is still at 
South Brooklyn, the interior furnishings being put in. 
Last week the work was stopped by a strike of the mem- 
bers of the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Dec- 
orators of New York, twenty of whom were employed. 
Nahma, steam yacht, arrived at Newport on May 25 
from Naples, Aaa Genoa, with the body of her late owner, 
Robert Goelet. on board. The yacht proceeded to New 
York, where the funeral took place on May 27, at Wood- 
lawn Cemetery. 
The new steam yacht Kananha II., designed and built 
by C. L. Seabury & Co., for John P. Duncan, was 
launched on May 27 at the works of the Gas Engine & 
Power Co. and C. L. Seabury & Co., Morris Docks, New 
York. The yacht is of steel and schooner-rigged, her 
dimensions being: Length over all, 227ft.; l.w.l., 192ft.; 
beam, 24ft. ; draft, loft., and depth, 15ft. 
Sept. 4.— Sea Girt, N. J.— Meeting of the New Jersey State Rifle 
Association. De Lancy G. Walker, Sec'y. 
Sport in ye Olden Time. 
Gettysburg, Pa. — Editor Forest and Stream: Inclosed yoti will 
find a notice to marksmen for a shooting match held April 17, 
1829. First prize, a bear and second prize a deer. 
This tavern was about seven miles northwest of Gettysburg, 
Pa., on the old Mummasburg Pike, and about one mile from the 
mountains. At that time bear were plenty in the South moun- 
tains, but have been e.xtinct for a quarter of a century. Deer 
were also very plenty, but at this writing have nearly all dis- 
appeared. I spent one week this last winter hunting, and did 
not get a glimpse of one. Rifle shooting has always been a 
practice for the winter months in the vicinity of Casletown, Pa., 
Every Saturday afternoon they will gather at some house for a 
match, the prizes being hogs or turkeys, and the old muzzle- 
loading rifle is still used. F. Mark Bream. 
If you want your shoot to be anaounced here s^id ta 
notice like the followii^: 
Fixtures* 
June 3.— New Haven, Conn.— Yale vs. Princeton. 
June 3-4.— Sheboygan, Wis.— Sheboygan Rod and Gun Club's 
tournament. 
Tune 3-4.— Elgin 111.— Target tournament of the Elgin National 
Gim Club. C. E." Middleton, Sec'y. 
Tune 5-10.— Buffalo, N. Y.— New York State shoot, under the 
allspices of the Buffalo Audubon Gun Club; $1,000 guaranteed; 
over .12,000 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 7-8.— Crawfordsville, Ind. — Indiana Trap-Shooters' League 
tournament, under auspices of Crawfordsville Gun Club. 
June 10.— Princeton, N. J.— Yale 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 tourna- 
ment, under auspices of Bellows Falls Gun Club. C. H. Gibson, 
Sec'y. 
June 14-16.— Cleveland, O.— Cleveland Target Co. s tournament, 
June 14-15.— Lewiston. 111.— Lewiston Gun Club tournament. H. 
H. McCumber, Sec'y. 
June 17.— Hackensack, N. J.— All-day amateur target tournament 
by Bergen County Gun Club. C. O, Gardner, Sec'y. 
'June 20.— Ogden, 111.— Ogden Gun Club's annual tournament. 
Tune 20-22.— Wh'eeling, W. Va.— Third annual tournament of 
the West Virginia State Sportsmen's Association, under auspices - 
of the Wheeling Gun Club, Wheeling, \V. Va. John B. Garden, 
Sec'y. 
June 21-23.— Columbus, O.— Tournament of the Ohio Trap-Shoot- 
er's' League, under auspices of the Sherman Rod and Gun 
Club. J. C. Porterfield, Sec'y, O. T. S. L. 
June 22.— Sherburne, N. Y. — Sherburne Gun Club tournament. 
J. L. Paddiford, Sec'y. 
Tune 27-29.— Altoona, Pa.— Target tournament of the Altoona Rod 
atid Gun Club, Wopsononock Heights. G. G. Zeth, Sec'y. 
Tune ... — Lyndhurst, N. J. — E. C. cup contest for championship 
of" New .Tersey, between T, W. Morfey, holder, and W. H. Huck, 
challenger. 
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