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he Manuel 
Fixtiites* 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Feb. 5.— Greenville, Ala.— Alabama Field Trial Club's fourth 
annual trials. T. H. Spencer, Sec'y. 
Nov. 18.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trial Club's twenty- 
second annual field trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, Greenfield Hill, 
Cpnn. 
To the Memory of Tinker Bill. 
Bawe, Vt.— I was glad to read in your journal the re- 
published sketch of Tinker Bill. 
I have the original article and photograph, also the 
epitaph written in verse, which find inclosed; others may 
wish to read it, if you have space to reprint. 
This takes me back to days spent in and around Spring- 
field in pursuit of Reynard with that once famous hound. 
The late Chas. Bill, his owner, was a rare gentleman, and 
a sportsman of the highest type. He would share his 
best room and costly rugs for the comfort of the old dog. 
He sent me a pup by Tinker, which I broke, and which 
is now owned in this city; although not of the high 
standard of his sire, he has many traits like him. 
B. A. E. 
When friends like Tinker from us go. 
Well may we feel the pangs of grief; 
Well may our hearts keen sorrow know. 
The tears must come to give relief. 
He's gone ! poor dog ! no more he'll break 
The silence of the wooded hills. 
No more the forest echoes wake 
By sound which hunter's bosom thrills. 
From duty's path he never strayed, 
He never showed a coward heart; 
Those trusting him he happy made, 
And always acted well his part — 
And just in this the honor lies : 1 
For sure the proverb Shakespeare sa^a »,4 
To dogs as well as men applies, _ ' • 
And so we honor him, though dead. 
'Tis true a dog's life e'er he led; 
But such a dog's life puts to shame /' 
The life of many a man, that's sped. « 
But neither honor wins nor fame. 
What dignity his life did crown — 
How unpresuming all his ways ; 
He ne'er received his master's frown, 
He e'er deserved his master's praise. 
No sweeter music ever pealed 
• From organ loft or minstrel choir 
Than his loud bay from Becket fiel'' 
Which set the hunter's heart on fr- 
Thy faithfulness we'll ne'er forget, 
Thy spirit somehow seems to be 
Around, about our household yet. 
There never was a hound like thee. 
If souls of good dogs may endure. 
And after this life live again, 
With reason then may we be sure 
'Tis so with Tinker Bill. Amen! 
Springfield, August, 1898. 
Pointers at New York. 
It was resolved at the last annual meeting of the Pointer 
Club of America, to offer a prize of $50 (cup or cash) for 
the best pointer dog or bitch bred in 1898 and exhibited 
at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1900 in 
New York City. To be bred by a member of the club, the 
breeder not necessarily to be the owner at time of 
showing. 
hchting. 
The following, which is but one of various items of the 
same tenor, shows the constant confusion resulting from 
the absurd British custom of giving the same name to 
many yachts : "A. J. Cassatt, President of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad, has sold his steam yacht Josephine to 
Nelson Perrine, of the United Railway Companies. The 
Josephine is one of the finest of the team yachts on the 
Atlantic seaboard. She was built by Lewis Nixon, of 
Elizabethport, N. J., and was completed in June, 1896. 
The rumor that the gunboat Vixen, formerly P. A. B. 
Widener's steam yacht Josephine, is for sale is denied by 
Government officials. The rumor that Mr. Widener has 
decided to part with his Josephine, lately com- 
pleted at Neafie & Levy's yard, is also unfounded." The 
facts are that Josephine I., built by Nixon at Elizabeth, 
is now the U. S. S. Vixen, while Josephine II., built by 
Neafie & Levy last year, is the one reported sold, though 
we understand that this is incorrect. 
The Measurement of Racing Yachts 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
With no disposition to recede from the position taken 
in the columns of your jom-nal some two years ago rela- 
tive to sail area as the ideal measurement of yachts for 
racing purposes, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact 
that practical methods are the only available means of 
attaining desired results, and that the highest ideals can 
never be reached except by the spontaneous co-operation 
of individuals, imbued with these ideals, and acting to- 
gether harmoniously, not with the sole purpose of win- 
ning at all hazards an evanescent contest, but with some 
Jiope of adding to the world's stock of useful knowledge, 
and of gaining one more step toward ultimate and con- 
trolling truth. 
Under the beneficent influence of a water line length 
rule it has come pass that this very waterline is almost 
disregarded, and other features of racing craft receive 
far more attention. , 
The latest development of the racing machine is little 
more than a catamaran, Avith the space between the out- 
side hulls filled in, in order to present the appearance of 
a single-hulled craft, even if every good quality of the 
latter is sacrificed in the search for wonderful speed. 
That these boats are speedy must be acknowledged. But 
so is the catamaran, their prototype, speedy. But the 
catamaran is a dangerous craft. So are these. The cata- 
maran is useless in a heavy sea. So is the small mod- 
ern racing machine. The question is, Do we want them? 
If they give general satisfaction there is no need of 
change. We have developed for a given waterline 
length probably the speediest possible craft. It requires 
a very experienced hand to guide them, and even he 
cannot escape an occasional capsize. Even he does not 
care to venture outside of protecting lands and headlands. 
It is lamentable to conjecture what would happen to the 
occupants of such a craft if caught in the open in a 
strong off-shore white squall. 
But in my peregrinations last summer from port to 
port, as a result of conversing with the representative 
men of nearly every important yacht club in Massachu- 
setts Bay, I am led to believe that there is an overwhelm- 
ing majority against the encouragement and retention of 
these exaggerated, weakly built, oversparred surface 
skimmers, and that if, by the exercise of our ingenuity 
and interest in the matter, we can devise some means of 
rendering the racing yacht a more desirable and lasting 
bit of wood and iron, we shall have accomplished much 
for the general good and may possibly deprive Davy 
Jones of some of his prospective victims. A long step 
toward this much-to-be-desired end will have been ac- 
complished when the yacht clubs can be brought to the 
adoption of a reasonable schedule of graded scantlings. 
This will insure for all at least a strong boat. This sched- 
ule, in the course of time, will have to be extended to in- 
clude metals as well as wood ; but it seems to me a begin- 
ning should be made. Our brothers on the Great Lakes 
are a step ahead of us. 
Excessively long overhangs, both forward and aft, are 
the order of the day. Length unpaid for is thus obtained. 
These overhangs, if flat, in the least semblance of a sea, 
produce effects upon the movements of the craft which 
must be experienced to be appreciated. My conclusion, 
therefore, is, tax overhangs. The one great factor for 
carrying sail has, in this country, from time immemorial, 
escaped taxation, namely, beam. Take, for instance, a 
board placed edgewise in the water. No matter how long 
and deep it may be it has no sail-carrying power. The 
moment you begin to add beam sail-carrying power be- 
gins, and by large additions of beam the sail-carrying 
power is enormously extended. This very potent factor, 
however, has hitherto escaped taxation. It will be found 
that all yachts, which gain a largely increased water Une 
when heeled, have large average beam. My conclusion, 
therefore, is, tax average beam. 
Depth of hull gives internal accommodation — a very 
desirable feature — therefore do not tax it. Depth of metal 
keel gives long range of stabilit}' — a more desirable feat- 
ure — therefore do not tax it. If the hull is taken as the 
basis of measurement, the sail area corresponding to the 
nature of the craft will naturally be made use of. Any 
error on this score carries with it its own penalty. If 
overcanvassed the yacht's speed will suffer in a breeze. 
If undercanvased, she will alike suffer in light winds. 
Therefore do not tax the sail. 
The method that I propose is a tentative one. 
Wherever undesirable excess is found, tax it. We shall 
soon have the designers and venturesome builders cor- 
ralled. 
As an initiatory measure, take the length on l.w.l., plus 
one-third of overhangs, both forward and aft; multiply 
this mean length by the average beam of yacht, the 
measurer taking at least five ordinates, and more, if, in 
his judgment, more are needed, to obtain the required 
average. By taking the square root of this product, or 
dividing same by a constant, to be determined, a 
rating can be arrived at of a sufficient general character 
to properly classifj^ yachts, it being understood that there 
shall be no time allowance, and that each yacht shall be 
considered as at the top of her class. 
Therefore, 
Rating = mean length X average beam. 
I thought T would start the ball rolling, and I hope that 
other views may be promulgated in your journal; and, if 
I may be allowed 10 make the suggestion, I should (in 
conjunction with all the constant readers of j^our valued 
journal) recommend that one summing up article 
be, at the end, forthcoming from the yachting 
editor, than whom I know no more worthy and 
capable inquirer into these questions, which interest us 
all so much, and which, at times, seem so elusive and 
almost unsolvable. 
In introducing the girth rule into this country, it seems 
to me it was a mistake to tax the centerboard at all, un- 
less it were of such a weight as to serve as ballast. 
Isaac B. Mills. . 
Boston, Jan. 18. 
New Yachts. 
Designer Arthur Binney is securing a fair share of 
the orders for new boats which are being placed this 
winter, and has half a dozen designs already in hand. 
As a matter of choice, he has made a specialty of good 
cruising boats in preference to those strictly for racing, 
and lias turned out many comfortable and able, as well as 
by no means slow, craft. His orders include a 30-footer, 
three 2S-footers and a 21-footer, and he has plans for a 
45ft. yawl which will undoubtedly be built. 
The 30-footer is now being built by Lawley for a 
Boston yachtsman, although the contract is in Mr. 
Binney's name. She will be a centerboard boat of light 
draft, with a roomy cabin, and an owner's stateroom on 
the starboard side and a galley on the port side under the 
cabin house, in all of which there will be full head room. 
She will be about 46ft. over all, 14ft. beam and 3ft. draft, 
.carrying 4,ooolbs. of outside lead and about 1,600 sq. ft. of 
sail. 
The yawl is for Fred T. Clayton, who' last year sold the 
4S-footer Alga to W. E. C. Eustis, and will be 70ft. over 
all, 45ft. waterline, 14ft. beam and gft. draft. The model 
shows a full bodied but very clean-lined boat, with a sharp 
floor in the midship section and a long and easy sweep of 
the line of keel and stem from the heel of the rudder post 
to the deck line forward. Her interior accommodations 
are excellent and include a double-berthed stateroom 
aft, with bowl under the companion stairs, a large main 
cabin and a good galley. The companion stairs come 
down between the state room and cabin, and in this space 
there is a chart locker and one for "oilers" on the port 
side, and a toilet room on the starboard. The rig will 
be of good size, since the yawl type can be easily handled 
and the owner wants speed as well as comfort. 
One of the 25-footers is a centerboard knockabout for 
M. S. Stone, to be used in Buzzard's Bay. The boat 
will be 39ft. over all, loft. 6in. beam and 4ft. draft, with 
the centerboard under the floor. She will have full head 
room in the cabin and the usual fittings for comfort. She 
will carry about 900ft. of sail. 
Another of the 25-footers will be a light draft cabin 
boat for F. Apthorp Foster and will be built by C. F. 
Brown, of Pulpit Harbor, Me. She will be about loj^ft. 
beam and 2ft. draft, and in model and interior arrange- 
ment be much like Giralda, designed three years ago for 
George E. Hills. 
Other orders are a 25ft. open launch with an eight 
horse-power Monarch engine for Bancroft Davis and a 
2ift. knockabout for Dr. Weld. The launch will be built 
by Lawley and the knockabout by Brown, of North 
Haven. 
Recent sales by Mr. Binney have been D. O. Earle's 30- 
footer, Chenoden, to Wm. F. Wharton; the 30-footer 
Elf to a Boston yachtsman, and the soft, cabin launch 
Anago, designed last year by Binney for C. B. Borland, to 
Frank W. Hunt, of this city. 
Isolde* 
The only iinportant news of the week is a cable mes- 
sage from London announcing the purchase of the noted 
40-rater Isolde by Com. F. M. Hoyt, of the Stamford 
Y. C. ; the yacht to be sailed across the Atlantic and 
raced here by Capt. Alexander Hogarth, who sailed 
Shamrock last season. Com. Hoyt is prominent as one 
of the most active of the younger racing men, building 
the cutter Norota in 1895, after a couple of seasons of 
racmg in the 30ft. cutter Kathleen. Norota proved a 
success and in turn gave place in 1897 to the 51ft. cutter 
Syce, just sold to Mr. C. F. L. Robinson, New York 
Y. C. 
Isolde was designed and built by Will Fife, Jr., for 
Peter Donaldson in 1895, to the 40-rating class, as it 
then was. She is 7Sft. over all, 6oft. l.w.l., 17ft. beam 
and lift. gin. draft. The hull is of composite construc- 
tion, and the interior is fully fitted up for comfortable 
use m cruising. Successful from the start in the 40- 
rating class, with Capt. Hogarth at the tiller, Isolde has 
held her own with the new yachts since built to the 65ft. 
Imear rating class after the adoption of the girth rule in 
1897, and she is yet by no means outclassed. In this 
country she will have Queen Mab, also originally a 40- 
rater, for a competitor; both will be too small for the 
new special 70ft. class. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The West Lynn Y. C. held its annual meeting at 
Lynn on Jan. 24, the following officers being elected: 
Com., Frank Vallandry; Vice-Com., H. C. Sparks; Sec'y, 
J. P. Linnehan; Treas., Frank G. Olin; Fleet Capt, 
William Forsythe ; Meas., Barclay Spurr ; Directors, E, F. 
Davis, Lewis A. Cann and William Eastham; Regatta 
Committee, William Eastman, H. W. Foster, John Mc- 
Neil, F. T. Pliilbrick and A. W. Forsythe. 
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The Huguenot Y. C, of New Rochelle, will hold its an- 
nual meeting on Feb. 15. The following nominations are 
posted: Com., Henry E. James, launch Maud; Vice- 
Com., W. B. Greeley, sloop Bingo; Rear-Com., J, Nel- 
son Gould, sloop Edwina III. ; Sec'y, G. C. Allen ; Treas., 
L. C. Ketchum; Trustees for two years, W. P. Haines 
and T. E. Kitching. The annual dinner will take place 
after the meeting. 
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The annual election of the New Rochelle Y. C. will be 
held at the Hotel Manhattan on the evening of Feb. 5. 
The following nominations have been posted: Com., 
Charles Pryer; Vice-Com., William N. Bavier; Rear- 
Com., P. A. Meyrowitz ; Sec'y, O. W. Meyrowitz ; Treas., 
C. M. Fletcher; Meas., F. R. Farrington ; Trustees for 
three years, E. T. Birdsall, George E. Edwards and R. 
M. Sayre; Trustee for one year, A. S. Cross; Regatta 
Committee, C. P. Tower, William E. Moore, C. A 
Becker and F. M. Carpenter. A dinner will follow the 
business meeting. 
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Enterprise, steam yacht, ex-Saide, ex- Star of the Sea, 
has been sold by A. J. Carsatt to Nelson Perin, of Balti- 
more. 
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The Atlantic Y. C. will hold its annual election on Feb. 
13 at the Waldorf-Astoria, the nominations being as fol- 
lows: Com., David Banks, schr. Water Witch; Vice- 
Com., Robert E. Todd, schr. Katrina ; Rear-Com., Robert 
Doremus, cutter Uvira ; Chairman Board of Trustees, J. 
Rogers Maxwell; Members of the Board, J. Frederick 
Ackerman, Calvin Tompkins and Harrison B. Moore* 
Sec'y, David E. Austen: Treas., E. B. Havens; Meas., 
George Hill; Regatta Committee, Charles T. Pierce 
Chairman: George McNuIty and A. F. Aldridge. 
Alcaea, schr., has been renamed Sud West by her new 
owner. 
I« »e to. 
The Bunker Hill Y. C. held its annual meeting in the 
