Sept. 30, 1899.] 
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sentatives to our meets, and do all they can to keep back 
the "bums." 
Those who were not at the meet for 1899, and previous 
ones, may not quite understand what has catted forth this 
communication, and the writer will attempt to give the 
reasons : 
Sunday, Aug. 6, rowdyism began to play its part and 
continued through the week. Complaints were made 
to the writer daily, but nothing could be done to stop the 
usual course of events outside of our programme. 
It was reported that early in the morning boats would 
be seen putting off from yachts, bringing women ashore. 
Only a very few yachts were implicated, but they were 
enough to reflect on the entire fleet. . During the nights 
dinghys would be cut adrift from yachts and theywouid 
be blown on the beach and rocks. Oars were stolen, 
rudders were stolen, flags were stolen, drunken crews 
were coming and going, shouting all the vile language 
they thought of. If ladies came aboard any of the yachts 
they were looked upon by the crews of some neighboring 
3'achts as the butt of rowdy jokes, and at nearly all times 
the anchorage was uncomfortable for ladies to be near. 
After a few days of stealing, drunkenness, running 
around with questionable company, and doing all they 
could to give our Association a bad name, the climax 
was reached by a report of the attempted outrage of two 
girls. The writer tried to get some information on the 
subject as to who the m.en were. This could not be stated 
positively, but "two yachtsmen" were blamed for it. and 
the Interlake Yachting Associatiori has to stand the im- 
putation. If the members of our Association want it to 
live and prosper, they must weed out the drunken, dis- 
orderly element in their clubs, and so keep that element 
away from our meets. If yacht owners must have, hired 
crews, get decent ones. Set the example to them for good 
behavior and all will go well. If possible, yacht owners 
should make up crews of their friends, and in this way 
a part of the low element might be eliminated. The 
writer does not lay all our trouble to hired crews by any 
means. Owners of steam yachts and large sailing yachts 
who used to attend our meets have ceased doing so, on ac- 
count of the vile actions and language of the. crews on a 
few of our yachts near which they were anchored. All 
true friends of our Association should take this matter 
up. Of course the rowdy element will object, but before 
it is too late each club should do their utmost to get rid of 
the few who each_ year disgrace them and the Interlake 
Yachting Association. 
In your minds, run over the members of your clubs and 
you will have no trouble in settling on the few disturbers 
at all of our meets. These disturbers should be made to 
realize the fact that they are being watched by their 
clubs and criticised by the publicT and it is hoped that be- 
fore the meet in 1900 they and their "bum boats" will have 
dropped out of sight. 
It is hoped that this communication will start a storm 
of criticism from all members of the Association, and so 
aid. in bringing our small rowdy element into a prominent 
and most unenviable position This excitement will cer 
tainly be for the lasting good of the Interlake Yachting 
Association, and if individual clubs on Lake Erie take 
parts of this communication to themselves, it will not be 
regretted by our hundreds of true, clean yachtsmen. 
Before closing, the writer wishes to thank the officers 
of the Association, the secretary, and members of the dif- 
ferent committees for the effectual work they did in mak- 
ing our meet for 1899 a success, and suggests, to insure 
smoother committee work, that different clubs be given 
entire committees. For example : Let Toledo have the 
regatta committee, Detroit the entertainment committee, 
etc, 
Geo. T. Bliss, Com. 1. L. Y. A., 1899. 
Jamaica Bay Y. C. 
ROCKAWAY — JAMAICA BAY. 
Saturday, Sept. 16. 
The Jamaica Bay Y. C. closed its racing 
Sept. 16 with a special race for catboats in a 
breeze, the times being: 
Sart, 2:40. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Selfish '. 4 48 15 2 08 15 
Aurora 4 50 15 2 10 15 
Katherine .......4 53 20 2 13 00 
Alice-May 4 56 30 2 16 30 
Mavourneen 4 58 00 2 18 00 
Coquette 5 03 00 2 23 00 
Uneeda 5 04 00 2 24 00 
Mildred-Myrtle 5 05 00 2 25 00 
Madelaine , ....Withdrew. 
Emma S Not tiflsed, 
season on 
light S.E. 
Corrected. 
2 08 00 
2 10 05 
2 12 53 
2 16 30 
2 18 00 
2 20 50 
2 24 00 
2 24 20 
