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," \ fancy — and mention of how often he had been 
chased, 
1 buppose that the deer's safety is provided for by some 
such means as shelters to which it can run, with 
watchers stationed near by to close the door when the 
deer enters the shelter. It is possible that the hounds 
may know the deer so well that they will not attack it 
on overtaking it, although it would seem that in such a 
case the deer would know the hounds also, and would not 
make much of a run, and 1 would very much distrtist 
any hounds when they run into their game after a long, 
heated chase. 
Our old friend, Geo. H. McDougall, wrote me that 
the pack of American bloodhounds at the Deer Lodge, 
Mont.j Penitentiary were very friendly with all the 
"trusties," but when on an exhibition chase after the same 
trusties, got so savage that the trusties finally refused 
to ''run out" for the hounds, and I know that the big 
mongrels of many breeds used with the play of "Uncle 
Tom's Cabin" got so interested in their work, that 
Cassie refused to play until other dogs were procured, 
as a very light slip would have brought the dogs on 
her with murderous intent. Parenthetically, our Southern 
friends are very much astray in blaming Mrs. Stowe's 
novel as the origin of the myth that "ferocious blood- 
hounds" were used to capture fugitive slaves in ante- 
bellum days; that work does not contain any scenes of 
the use of hounds. It seems to be a fact, although not 
commonly known, that there are individuals who leave 
no scent by which they can be trailed. A curious ex- 
periment would be to mount one of these non-scent 
leaving persons on the same bicycle that the hounds had 
previously trailed another person on, and see how long, 
if at all, the bicycle would give out the rider's scent. 
That our native hounds will follow a trail of a rider of a 
bicycle, whose individual scent had been given them, was 
proved beyond dispute at the trials last year of the Amer- 
ican Bloodhound Association, and also that the hounds 
would take a scent, follow it where the person mounted 
a horse, where he had changed horses without dismount- 
ing, and where he dismounted and walked to and 
climbed a tree. Scent problems are utterly puzzling.^ 
It was shown beyond denial in Rod, Gun and Kennel 
some years since that a scent would become indistinguish- 
able when the ground it was made on froze up. and would 
be in full force when the ground thawed. And is it 
exactly correct that scents will not lie on all dry ground? 
May it not be that dry, porous, ground, clay, loam, etc., 
will not hold scent because they occlude it. as does the 
dry earth in the well-known "Mowle" earth closet, or the 
familar instance of burying skunk tainted clothing to 
remove the odor? Is it not probable that scent will lie 
on stone or dry sand? I know that I have many a time 
known hounds to pick up a fox trail on a hard, dry turn- 
pike. 
But where have I got to? What are the facts as to 
that "carted deer"? W. Wade. 
Oakmont, Pa 
Points and Flushes. 
We are indebted to Mr. H. B. Donovan, Secretary- 
Treasurer of the Canadian Kennel Club, for one of its 
new bronze medals, very artistically devised in its de- 
tails and very complete mechanically. The obverse side 
has a blank space for the inscription, while the reverse 
side has a number of dogs' heads, representing various 
breeds, bearing a typical resemblance to the. breeds which 
they represent. 
The Lake Michigan Yachting 
Association. 
2Ife. Walerlinc Knockabout Type Adoj:<ed by the 
Lake MiCQigau Yachting Absocialion. 
At its annual meeting, the Lake Michigan Y. A. adopted 
the foliowmg Umitations for a knockabout class, the iirst 
recognition of this type on the Lake. The yaclits called 
for by the limitations will be superior in many uu- 
portant respects to the various small craft now in use, and 
probably quite as fast. The class promises to become 
popular, and a number of boats will be built in Chicago 
and Milwaukee. 
A boat of this class is intended to be a seaworthy boat 
with cabin house and fair accommodations, with water 
tight standing room, or air tanks of sufficient capacity to 
float the boat when full of water. Rigged simply with 
only mainsail, forestaysail or jib and spinaker. 
The length of the load waterline with full equipment 
shall not exceed 21ft. , „ u 
The beam at the load waterline, in keel boat, shall be 
at least 7ft., and in centerboard boat at least 7ft. 9'". 
The freeboard shall be not less than 20m. on the said 
respective required beams'; a reduction of lin. on me 
freeboard allowed for every increase of 4in. in beam, le- 
spcctivcly. 
The cabin house shall have a length of at least 7ft., and 
a width equal to 60 per cent, of the greatest beam on deck ; 
a height at the forward end of at least 6!^in., and the 
after end of at least gin. above the deck; provided, that 
in case the freeboard exceeds the requirements, such ex- 
cess may . be deducted from the required height 01 the 
cabin house. 
For centerboard boats the draft shall be not less th-an 
3L. for at least 5ft. length of keel ; the total outside fixed 
ballast must be not less than 3,ooolbs. For keel boats the 
draft shall be not less than 4ft. 6in., and shall not e.Kceed 
6ft., and the outside ballast shall be not less than 3.50olbs. 
Certificate of weight of ballast shall be furnishea the 
measurer by designer and builder. The metal hn 
when used shall be not less than ^in. in thickness. 
The keel, stem, frames, house and deck beams shall be 
of oak. or its equivalent in strength. _ , , - 
The frames shall be not less than i sq. m., deck beams 
not less than I 1-3 sq. in. sections, house beams not tcss 
than ^ sq. in. section. _ .. 
The spacing of frames, deck and house beams to-be not 
more than 9111., center to center. 
The planking, including deck and the side of house, shall 
be not less than ^in. thick; the top of house shall be aot 
less than %\n., finished. 
Deck clamps shall run from stem to stern, with a 
minimum cross section of 4 sq. in. foi at least one-half :he 
length; also, bilge stringers of at least 4 sq. in. cross sec- 
tion shall run for at least one-half the extreme length of 
the boat, amidships. Clamps and stringers to be yclljw 
pine or its equivalent in strength. 
The actual sail area shall be not over 600 sq. ft. and not 
more than 480 sq. ft. of actual sail area shall be in main- 
sail. The measurer shall be provided with a correct sail 
plan of any boat to be measured, and previous 10 measure- 
ment the owner shall cause distinguishing marks, satis- 
factory to the measurer, to be placed on the spars as 
follows : 
On the mast at the tack, and at the throat of the main- 
sail ; on the boom at the clew of the mainsail ; on the gaff 
at the peak of the mainsail. No part of the mainsail shall 
be allowed to extend beyond these marks. The marks 
shall be black bands painted around the- Fpars in a manner 
satisfactory to the measurer. The inner edge of the 
bands shall be the limits of the sail. 
The actual area of the jib shall be measured. 
The extreme distance in feet from niast to end of 
spinaker boom when in position as used shall be not 
more than 500 divided by the distance in feet from deck 
to throat of spinaker halliard block. 
No battens over 3oin. in length allowed to be used in 
sails. 
Equipment to include anchor not less than 25lbs. and 
cable of not less than thirty fathoms of 1^4'". rope; also 
bucket, pump, comoass, foghorn, boathook, lead and line, 
lantern and five life preservers. 
The crew is limited to five persons, including the 
helmsman (who mupt be an amateur; not more than one 
shall be a professional). 
Audax, 
The accompanying illustration shows the sail plan of 
Audax, whose lines have appeared in the two preceding 
issues. The rig is simple, easily handled by a small crew 
and it has proved effective. The original sail plan in- 
cluded the regular lug mizzen with yard crossing the 
mast, but after a couple of seasons this was replaced by 
the lug mizzen shown, the yard, which has about oin. 
round, being attached to the mast by a special metal jaw, 
which allows it to hoist almost vertically. The halyard is 
a single part of wire rope running over a sheave iu the 
masthead, with a whip purchase leading to the deck. The 
dimensions of spars and sails are as follows: 
Mainmast — 
Diameter at partners . . . , 
Mizzenmast — 
From stem at waterline 
Deck to hounds 
Diameter at partners . . . 
Bowsprit — 
3ft. 
9 
in. 
29 £t. 
39it. 
8 
in. 
33ft. 
6 
in. 
20 ft. 
5 
in. 
15ft. 
9 
in. 
9ft. 
10 
in. 
5 
iu. 
•7ft. 
4ft. 
3 
in. 
Diameter in gammon iron 
Boomkin — 
Main Boom — 
Length 29ft. 
Diameter 
Main Gaff- 
Length 22ft. 
Diameter 4 in- 
Mizzen Boom — 
Length isft. 
Diameter 3/4'n. 
Mizzen Yard — 
Length 15ft. 
Diameter 3J4in- 
Areas — 
Mainsail 73S sq. ft. 
. Mizzen 221 sq. ft. 
Jib 297 sq. ft. 
Total 1,256 sq. ft. 
Inland Lake YacKting; Association. 
There was a meeting of the Board of- Directors of the 
Lake Geneva Y. C. on last Thursday evening. It vvas 
decided to make arrangements for the meet of the Inland 
Lake Yachting Association for late Augu.st in the com- 
ing year, at Lake Geneva. Wis. The committee are ex- 
pected to hustle, and a grand event will be assured. The 
following are the committee appointments. Chairman 
Regatta Committee. Julian M. Rumsey ; Chairman Com- 
mittee on Arrangements and Accommodations, Ben Car- 
penter, of George P. Camenter & Co. : Executive Cuin- 
mittee, H. H. Porter, Jr., Ben Carpenter and Julian Rum- 
sey. Chairman Press Committee, Lawrence Heyworth. 
. E. H. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The Atlantic Y. C, of Boston, elected the following 
officers on Dec. 17: Com,. Thomas D. Rice; Vice-Coin., 
Walter Delehanty ; Treas., William Caseldt-n; Sec'y. M. 
E. Rice; Directors. Daniel J. Nolan. James Dooley, James 
Hagerty, J. F. Currfin and J. F. Donolme. 
At the annual meeting of the Pavonia Y. of Jersey 
City, Com. D. W. Kohn declined the nomination for a 
third term, and Vice-Corn. Dennin was elected in his 
place, the new officers being: Cora., J. A. Dennin; Vice- 
Corn.. A. C. Muttart; Fleet Capt.. John Wright; Meas., 
W Harding; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. D. Bowman; Cor. Sec'y, 
C H. Benson: Fin. Sec'y. W. F. Tobin; Treas.. Louis 
Mittlesdorf; Trustees, Alex J. Roe, N, F. Roe. E. J. 
Smith C. H. Benson and F. G. Agens. It is proposed to 
sell the club property at Atlantic Htglilands and' to' build 
a club house on Gravesend Bay. 
The Knickerbocker Y. C. held its annual meeting at the 
Hotel Manhat-tan on Dec. 20, the following officers being 
elected : Com., S. H. Mason ; Vice-Com., W. G. Nt-w- 
.man ; Rear-Com., A. E. Williamson ; Treas., George H. 
Cooper; Sec'y, J. O. Sinkinson ; Meas., J, G. Honey; 
Fleet Surgeon, J. B. Palmer, M. D. ; Board of Five 
Directors, F. E. Barnes, Rodman Sands, H. Stephenson, 
L. Lochman, Jr., and H. A. Quackenbush. The club is 
now in a very prosperous condition. The property now 
occupied has been purchased and a fine new club house 
will be built. The club will establish a new class of 
single-hand yachts for racing and cruising. 
'ihe Gas Engine & Power Co. and C. L. Seabury & 
Co. have on tne stocks a composite steam yaciit toi 
Howard C. Smith, of Stamford, Conn., to be named 
Saghaya. She will be 12711. over all, I03tt. l.w.l., 1511. 
6m. beam and 6ft. 6in. dratt, with triple expansion engme 
and single screw, 'the rig will show two pole masts, 
'ihe firm has also an auxiliary 65ft. long for Win. MarKS, 
of Philadelphia, 'ihrough its city office, it has sold the 
steam yacht Jathniel for H. A. Hutchins to Chas. M. 
Pratt, and the steam yacht Elfrida II. for Dr. H. Seward 
Webb to Frank Bement, Corinthian Y. C. of Philadelphia, 
The Morris Y. C, of New York, held its annual meet- 
ing on Dec. 18, electing the following officers: Cun,, 
George R. Moran; Vice-Com., Hugo Eckert; Rear-Com., 
William Neubeck; Fleet Capt., J. Belgard; Sec'y, F. 
Kuzek, Jr. ; Treas., Ralph Kestler. 
Sapphire III., steam yacht, Mr. Amzi L. Barber, sailed 
from New York on Dec. 21 for Gibraltar, where her 
owner will join her for a cruise of several months in the 
Mediterranean. 
Com. J. Pierpont Morgan has declined a third re-elec- 
tion as commodore of the New York Y. C, and it is un- 
derstood that Vice-Com, Lewis Cass Ledyard, schr. Mon- 
tauk, will succeed him. According to an unvermed 
rumor, when Com. Morgan goes abroad next spring, as he 
proposes to, both Corsair HI. and Columbia will be icut 
across, the steam 'yachting convoying the cutter. 
Grayling, schr., L. A.. Fish, has'at la.st been sold to be 
broken up, after being used for several years as a house- 
boat at Greenport. 
Mr. J. H. Johnston, the yacht photographer, died very 
suddenly at Niagara Falls on Dec. 17, from heart discase- 
Mr. Johnston had been in business in New York for 
many years, accumulating a large collection of yacht 
portraits. He also made a specialty of views about the 
city. Many of his pictures have appeared in the FoitciST 
AND Stream. 
Sir Thomas Lipton has been elected rear-commodore 
of the Royal Ulster Y. C. He is now considering his plans 
for a challenge in 1901. 
Mr. Percy Chubb, cutter Vigilant, has been nominated 
to succeed Com. Rouse, of the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Y. C. 
Arcturus, steam yacht, Mr. Rutherford Stuyvesant, has 
.sailed from Southampton for the Mediterranean. 
The large racing yacht which the Hendersons have 
just started from Mr. Watson's designs, for Mr. Whitaker 
Wright, will be yawl-rigged instead of cutter, as first re- 
ported. Her L.W.L. is given as about 85ft. with about 
23ft. beam. 
Lasea. schr., recently sold to Dr. Walter von Bruening, 
sailed from New York for Southampton on Dec. 25 with 
Capt. Leander Jeffries in command. ' ' 
Forett and Stream and Canoeing. 
AaaouuCi rnent. 
To meet the wishes of its canoeing readers, as expressed 
through the officers of the American Canoe Association, 
the Forest and Stre.^m will with the new year inaugurate 
an important change in its Canoeing Department. Be- 
ginning with the issue of Jan. 6, 1900, the first number of 
each month vvill be a special canoeing nulnber, extra space 
being devoted to the Canoeing Department. It is pro- 
posed to publish whatever may be available in the lin<; of 
canoeing news; the official announcements and pro- 
grammes of the American Canoe Assocfation, the . usual 
complete reports of the A. C. A. camps 'and business 
meetings, designs of canoes and camping appliances, canoe 
cruises and current discussion of canoeing matters. 
As a part of this plan, it is not proposed to abandon the 
regular weekly publication of .canoeing news. All official 
A. C. A. notices will appear weekly, as soon as they are 
received, a summary of them being printed in the special 
Candeing Number for the information of those who do 
not see the weekly edition. If sufficient material is obtain- 
able after providing for the special number, the pubiica- , 
tion of canoeing news of all kinds will be carried on 
weekly. 
It is hoped that the Forest and Stream may become, 
as it was in the most prosperous days of. the Association, 
the common bond between the Association and its n>em- 
bers, as well as between the members individually. In 
order that the plan may result in the greatest possible 
benefit to all, it is essential that' it shall receive the general 
support of canoeists, both as subscribers and contributors. ■ 
An experience of twenty years has demonstrated several 
important points in corinectiOn " with" the publication -of" 
canoeing news. In the first place, a live > and reliable.' 
canoeing journal is essential to the success of the spoit, 
as a means of communication between its followers, who 
