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VERITAS.— LOWER LEVEL LINES AND LEAD KEEL. 
1. Coaling Vessels at Sea. By Spencer Miller, Esq., 
associate. 
2. Causes for the Adoption of Water-Tube Boilers in 
the U. S. Navy. By Engineer-in-Chief Geo. W. Melville, 
U. S. N., vice-president. 
3. Suggestions as to Improved Appliances for Launch- 
ing Ship's Boats. By John Hyslop, Esq. 
4. The Electric Plants of the Battleships Kearsarge and 
Kentucky. By Naval Constructor J. J. Woodward, U, S. 
N., member. 
5. The Increasing Complications in Warships, and How 
Simpler Arrangements Might be Adopted. By Geo. W. 
Dickie, Esq., member of council. 
6. Beam Formulae Applied to a Vertically Stiffened 
Bulkhead,, with Some Results. By H. F. Norton, Esq., 
member. 
7. Notes on Sheathing the U. S. S. Chesapeake. By 
Naval Constructor Lloyd Bankson, U. S. N., member. 
8. System of Work in a Great Lake Shipyard. By W. 
I. Babcock, Esq., member. 
p. Overhead Cranes, Staging and Riveter Carrying Ap- 
pliances in the Shipyard. By James Dickie, Esq., member. 
lo. Designs for the Denver Class Sheathed Protected 
Cruisers. By Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn, Q. S, 
N., vice-president. 
rr. Novelties in Ship Fittings. By Ass't Naval Con- 
structor R. M. Watt, U. S. N., member, 
12. Progressive Speed Trials of the U. S. S. Manning. 
By Prof. C. H. Peabody, member of council. 
13. Tactical Considerations Involved in Torpedo-Boat 
Design. By Lieut. A. P. Niblack, U. S. N., associate. 
14. On the Action of the Rudder, with Special Refer- 
ence to the Motion of the Ship While the Helm is Being 
Put Over. By Prof, Wm. F. Durand, member of council. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The annual meeting of the Lake Michigan Y. A. was 
held in Chicago on Nov. 11, the following officers being 
elected: Prest., W. R. Crawford, Chicago Y. C; Vice- 
Prest., Alex Mather, Milwaukee Y, C; Sec'y, H. P. Fin- 
ney, Chicago Y. C; Treas., W. S. Bougher, Columbia 
Y. C. The details of a proposed knockabout class were 
discussed, and a meeting will be held on Dec. 9 to take 
further action in the matter. 
On Nov. 7 the charges against Capt. Theodore Heil- 
bron, of the steam yacht Vamoose, were heard before 
the local board of steamboat inspectors. Capt. Heilbron 
was charged with taking his vessel within the patrol lines 
on the second race between Shamrock and Columbia.^ It 
was proved that permission had been given by an officer 
of the guard fleet for Vamoose to speak the committee 
boat, as she was attempting to do when stopped. The 
case was dismissed, there being no evidence against Capt. 
Heilbron. 
On Nov. IS the will of William H. Webb, the ship- 
builder, was filed for probate in the Surrogate's office. 
The value of the estate is placed at $600,000, which does 
not constitute nearly all of the fortune, as Mr. Webb 
owned much real property in other parts of the country. 
To his widow Mr. Webb bequeaths all of the contents of 
his late home, at 415 Fifth avenue. She is also to receive 
$5,000 for her immediate personal use, together with the 
income of 250 shares of stock of the Third Avenue Rail- 
road Co. and of a trust fund of $30,000. The will further 
transfers to her several pieces of property in the vicinity 
of Tarrytown and the leases of three parcels of real estate 
at Forty-second street and Fifth avenue. A trust fund is 
created for the benefit of the son of the testator, William 
E. Webb. The fund includes 625 shares of stock of the 
Pennsylvania Coal Co. and 200 shares of stock of the 
Third Avenue Railroad Co. Upon the death of both Mrs. 
Webb and her son the trust funds are to go to Webb's 
Academy and Home for Shipbuilders. Besides this, the 
academy receives an oil painting of Robert Fulton and 
several other works of art. To the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art Mr. Webb bequeaths several paintings, including 
one entitled "Columbus Unveiling America to the Rest 
of the World," and a statue of Venus. Numerous be- 
quests are made to relatives and the widow is the resid- 
uary legatee. — New York Times. 
At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Y. C. on Nov. 11 
the following Sailing Committee was elected: F. J. 
Campbell, W. H. Parsons, G. A. Macrae, ./Emilius Jar- 
vis, J. S. McMurray, F. M. Gray and J. W. Rutherford. 
Mr. H. C. McLeod, designer of Minota, was elected a 
life member. The club will present Mr. McLeod with a 
loving cup. No action was taken toward challenging for 
the Canada cup. 
The Spalding St. Lawrence Boat Co. is already very 
busy with new work. Mr. W. H. Post, of Ogdensburgh, 
whose steam yacht Vailima was sold last summer, will 
replace her with a larger yacht, designed by C. H. Crane 
and built by the company. She will be Soft. long. The 
firm is also building a 42ft. electric launch for George B. 
Bidwell, of New York, from designs by Gardner & Cox; 
a 30ft. racing launch for Harry Scullin, of its own de- 
sign, and ten electric launches for the Electric Launch 
Co., of New York. It is also building from Mr. Crane's 
designs four racing sloops for the 19ft. class of the Lake 
St. Regis Y. C. and a set of davit boats for the steam 
3'acht Virginia. 
The Gas Engine & Power Co. will launch the U. S. 
torpedo boat Bailey on Dec. S at its yard at Morris Dock, 
N. Y. A special train has been provided for the guests 
of the company. 
American Canoe Association, J 899- 1 900. 
Commodore, W. G. MacKendrick, 200 Eastern avenue, Toronto, 
^^'cretarv-Treasurer, Herbert Begg, 24 King street, Toronto, Can. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Thirty-second street and avenue A, 
Bayonne, N. J. 
Division Officers. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., H. C. Allen, Trenton, N. J. 
Rear-Com., Lewis H. May, New York. 
Purser, Arthur H. Wood, Trenton, N. J. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn.. John S. Wright, Rochester, N. Y. 
Rear-Com.", Jesse J. Armstrong, Rome, N. Y. 
Purser, C. Fred Wolters, 14 East Main street, Rochester, N. Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Frank A. Smith, Worcester, Mass. 
Rear-Com., Louis A. Hall, Boston, Mass. ; 
Purser, Frederick Coulson, 405 Main street, Worcester, Mass. 
1» ' - NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Cotn., tl-'McD. Mowatt, Kingston, Ont., Can. 
Rear-Com.. E. C. Woolsey, Ottawa, Ont.. Can. 
Purser. J. E. Cunningham, Kingston, Ont., Can 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Wm. C. Jupp, Detroit, Mich. 
Rear-Com,, F, B. Huntington, Milwaukee, Wis. . 
Purser, Frederick W. Dickens, 1306 Grand avenue, Milwaukee, 
Wis. 
Regatta Committee: R. Easton Burns, Kingston, Ont., Can., 
chairman; Herbert I5egg, Toronto; D. B. Goodsell, Yonkers, N. Y. 
Meet of 1900, Muskoka Lake Aug. 3-17. 
Official organ, Forest and Stream. 
A. C. A. Membership 
Application for membership may be made to the purser of the 
division in which the applicant resides on blanks furnished by 
Ijnrsei-, the applicant becoming a member provided no objection 
be made within fourteen days after his- name has been officially 
jniblished in the Forest and Stream. 
Initiation, $1. Annual dues, $1. 
Muskoka. 
August 3 to i7, J900. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have spent the evening sitting in my den, toasting my 
feet at a cheerful grate fire, ruminating on some things 
that have come to my notice since starting at holding 
down the job of commodore to that large aggregation of 
canoeists and kickers known as the A. C. A. 
The evening and my third cigar \yere pretty well spent 
when I reached the conclusion that the chief thing that 
the A. C. A, members lacked was canoeing news to keep 
up their interest in the sport from one meet's end till the 
next one came around. 
It has come as a surprise to me to find how very few 
members of the executive committee take or see the 
Forest and Stream at all regularly, and our executive 
committee is usually composed of the most active canoe- 
ists. What then must be the condition of those mem- 
bers who do not take such an active interest in the sport? 
It is quite probable that this lack of news is due to the 
fact that A. C. A. members do not now write to the 
Forest and Stream as much as they did years ago, and 
I should like to take some means to stir up their interest 
to the pitch that was in vogue from 1884 to 1890. Throw- 
ing the butt of my third cigar into the grate I surprised 
my better half by jumping up with the remark that "I 
guessed I had better set them a good example." 
Turning to a scrap book which I keep as a memento 
of the days when I was an active canoeist — '84 to '90 — I 
found columns of Forest and Stream items to which 
are appended such names as Retaw, Dot, Snake, Cruiser, 
Mac and numerous others. Where are they now? If 
there had been a sailors' union in those days the chances 
are that one Dot would unanimously have been given the 
post of chief kicker; but old members will remember that 
while we did a power of kicking when the draft regatta 
programme was posted, etc., we had little or, if memory 
serves me aright, no kicking at the meet. 
Pei-liaps many are like the writer, whose efforts to 
keep "my then boarding missus" from seizing my trunk 
and later in endeavoring to keep the bailiff out of my 
own back yard has kept me so engrossed with chasing the 
nimble dollar that beyond paying my annual dues I have 
not kept track of canoeing matters since '91. 
As I sat in my easy chair my mind drifted back to a 
trip taken to that canoeist's and fisherman's paradise, 
Muskoka, on Oct. 13 to try and locate a site for next 
year's camp, and it crossed my mind that it might make 
interesting reading for A, C. A, members. 
I had passes for two from the Grand Trunk Railway 
Co., but after asking six different men to go up and find- 
ing them all too busy, we started ("me and my raincoat") 
at 8 A. M., and reached Muskoka Wharf about ii A. M. 
The Muskoka Navigation Co. has steamers meet the 
trains and running to the three large lakes which are 
connected with each other. In the season one boat runs 
to different points in Lake Muskoka, which we will call 
Lake No, i. Ano'ther boat takes the shortest cut through 
Lake Muskoka to the lock at Port Carling and then 
makes calls at the different points in Lake Rosseau — No. 
2 — stopping at the private wharves erected by the cot- 
tagers when they have passengers or freight. A third 
boat runs through Lake Muskoka, skirts the lower end 
of Lake Rosseau and stops at all points in Lake Joseph. 
We got off the boat at Beaumaris, which is situated 
about half way up Lake Muskoka, and is surrounded by 
dozens of cottages, Owned mostly by people whose win- 
ter homes are in Pittsburg, Pa. We put up at the Beau- 
maris Plotel, a temperance house, about 2 P. M., rented 
a rowboat and headed for Grand View Island, the lower 
part of which had been offered to the Association for a 
camp. The island is nicely situated, with a splendid shel- 
tered channel alongside, a mile long, while the lower end 
of the island commands a magnificent view of several 
miles of open water. After climbing through and all 
over the island we found it so rough that for an A. C. A. 
camp it was out of the question unless some one would 
donate a large supply of dynamite. About 6 P. M. we 
rowed back to the hotel, accompanied by a pair of wet 
feet, mementoes in the way of burrs in our trousers, and 
a row of blisters on the palm of each hand; not to men- 
tion an appetite that mine host Prouse successfully satis- 
fied with sundry portions of a toothsome turkey. 
The following morning Mr. Gill, of Pittsburg, took 
us out in his fast steam launch, picking up Mr. Wilmott, 
the game warden of the district, and Hugh Neilson, 
skipper of the old Boreas from '83 to '86. We ran across 
the lake to a site near Balla offered by Mr. Smith and then 
to Butler's Bay, where we spent some time, but had to 
hurry back for lunch. 
We started out after .lunch in a rowboat, the owner of 
which predicted a big storm; but as it was only a fifteen 
minutes' row to Mr. Neilson's island we chanced it and 
got caught in a thunder storm. The raincoat kept every- 
thing dry execept boots and hat. , These received atten- 
tioji in front of Neilson's grate fire. When the storm 
blew over we started again for Butler's Bay to see if we 
could find a suitable place for Squaw Point, did not find 
it. but learned that we were as far from Beaumaris as 
from Port Carling, where we wished to see a site next 
morning. Placing a map of the lake on the floor of the 
boat we started for the latter port, a six-mile pull, just 
to freshen up the blisters a bit. In the channel of the 
river we were practicing the Cambridge stroke, about 
thirty-five to the minute, when something struck the 
bow of the boat, throwing the oarsrrtan into the bottom 
thereof. We were somewhat surprised to see that it was 
only a loin. spar buoy which marked the steamer channel. 
After checking it off we;' continued the trip with one eye 
