Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. 
The annual meeting of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, 
of Montreal, was held at the Windsor Hotel on Feb. 5, 
the following olhcers being elected: 
Hon. Corns., Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, James 
Ross; Com., H. Markland Molson; Vice-Corn., A. Haig 
Sims; Rear-Com., W. Kavanagh; Hon. Sec'y, J. J. Riley, 
Jr. Lxecutive Committee, Messrs. G. Herrick Duggan, 
W. A. C. Hamilton, A. S. Finley, Piers Davidson, C. 
Routh, J. S. Buchan, Q. C; A. C. Mitchell and W. S. 
Laflamme. 
The club has now five members in or on the way to 
South Africa— Messrs. N. J. S. Leslie, A; T. Ogilvie, J. 
P. Rae, H. C. Woodhouse, G. R. Lightbound and F. H. 
Mitchell. 
At the beginning of the meeting special mention was 
made of them and the national anthem was - sung. The 
following letter was read and laid on the table, to be dealt 
with by the new executive committee : 
Nov. 28, 1899.— Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, Montreal, 
Canada: Gentlemen.— We have to acknowledge receipt 
of a communication from your assistant secretary,, under 
date of Nov. 17, 1899, acknowledging receipt of our letter 
of Nov, I, 1899, and we beg to advise you that, at the 
November meeting of our club, the correspondence be- 
,twee.n us and your sailing committee, and the reports 
made to us concerning the match of 1899. were submitted 
and discussed, and a resolution was unanimously adopted 
ratifying and approving our letter of Nov. i, 1899, and 
our action and the action of the representatives of the 
club in connection with the match of 1899. 
Respectfully yours, 
C. W. Wetmore, Ch n S. C. Y. C: 
It was announced that five yachts were building for the 
defense of the Seawanhaka international challenge cup 
in the coming match with the White Bear Y. C, the own- 
ers being: Com. H. M. Molfon, J. Malcolm Mclntyre, 
Hon. Com. James Ross, Vice-Com. A. Haig Sims, Lake- 
side Syndicate and the Lake of Two Mountains Syndi- 
cate. 
On motion of Mr. J. J. Riley, Jr., seconded by Mr. 
R. R. Stevenson, the absent club members in the_ Trans- 
vaal were granted an extension of full membership priv- 
ileges for the next year. 
The sailing committee and associate cup committee was 
announced as follows: 
Messrs. G. Herrick Duggan (chairman), Prof. S. H. 
Capper (secretary); D. Hersey, Lachine; E. Boulton, 
Pointe Claire; D. ETemsley, Lakeside; T. Gillespie, Lake 
of Two Mountains, and S. A. Finley. Associate cup com- 
mittee, Messrs. A. L. Drummond. A. Shearwood and J. 
J. Riley, Jr. 
The following amendment, by Prof. S. H. Capper, sec- 
onded by Mr, James Paton, was adopted: 
That the club membership consist of senior, interme- 
diate and junior members; that the limits of age of inter- 
mediate members be twenty-one and twenty-five years, 
and that their annual subscription be $5, and the entrance 
fee $3: that intermediate members be entitled to serve 
upon the sailing committee, if so nominated, but other- 
wise to have only the privileges of junior members. 
During the past few months a number of members of 
the club, including Vice-Com. Barclay W. Stephens, Prof. 
Capper, Messrs. Duggan, Riley, Kavanagh, Routh, Paton, 
Molson, Morris, the two Messrs. Hamilton and others, 
have organized a stock company with a capital of $5,000 
to manage the shop at the Dorval station. This com- 
pany has contracted with the Davies Drydock Company, 
of Kingston, for a steam yacht of 65ft. length, 13ft. beam 
and 2ft. draft, which will be chartered to the club for a 
committee boat and steam tender to the fleet. The 5'acht 
was designed by Mr. Arthur Drummond, a member of 
the club, and designer of several 15 and 20-footers ; she 
will have power to tow a fleet of small yachts and accom- 
modation for a party of fifty. Owing to the shoal water 
immediately in front of the club station, the draft, includ- 
ing the propeller, has been limited to 3oin., the after 
body of the yacht being divided to form a channel in 
which the screw is placed, the latter beinc^ only partly sub- 
merged. The yacht will be ready early in the summer. 
The Lipton Cup, 
Royal Kennefceccasis Y, C. 
St. John, N, B. — The annual meeting of the Royal 
Kennebeccasis Y. C, of St, John, N. B., was held on 
Tuesday evening, Feb. 6. 
The secretary's report fully covered all events of the 
previous year, and showed an increase in membership 
from 116 to 166 of members in good standing, the 
squadron list during the same period increasing from 
33 to 49, a growth of nearly 50 per cent., and one augur- 
ing well for the future of the club. 
The Lords Commissioners of Admiralty were gracious- 
ly pleased to greet the club in February, 1899, permis- 
sion to fly the blue ensign of Her Majesty's fleet, an 
honor possessed by only three other clubs on this con- 
tinent. 
A very large number of members were present at the 
annual meeting and the greatest enthusiasm exhibited 
over arrangments for the coming season. 
An important step in advance was made by the club in 
deciding to have no time allowance in classes, the fleet 
now being strong enough to permit this action being 
taken, which,_ in addition to lending interest to racing 
events, will, it is hoped, cause yachtsmen intending to 
build to select their class and build to its limit. 
The tax on spinakers and club topsails was also re- 
moved. The yachts are classed by the usual 
Vs. A.-L L W.L. 
= R.L. 
The officers and committees elected were: Com., Fred 
S. Heans. yacht Canada; Vice-Com., Frank Whelpley 
yacht Thetis; Rear-Com., Sydney L. Kerr, yacht Wind- 
ward ; Secretary, F. Herbert J. Ruel ; Treasurer, Robert 
Jardine; Measurers, C. Fred Langan and Wm. Holden 
Executive Committee— George B. Hegan, Harrv Gilbert 
Jr., W. J. Stratton, Peter Sinclair, R. S. Ritchie'. Sailing 
Committee— Louis Munro, W. J, Wetmore, E. Harring- 
ton, A, B. Bums, F, S. Murdoch, George Heans. 
The idea of presenting a loving-cup to Sir Thomas J. 
Lipton seems to have sprung up so spontaneously that it 
is difficult to locate its origin. Upon the completion of 
the contest for the America's Cup, the press of New 
York, simultaneously with the announcement of the re- 
sult, published a circular letter signed by fifty representa- 
tive citizens proposing that a loving cup be presented to 
Sir Thomas in token of the high esteem in which he was 
held in this country. This letter read in part as follows: 
"Sir Thomas J. Lipton has lost the race, but he has 
won the admiration of the American people. Both in 
his negotiations prior to his arrival in this country and 
in his conduct since he has been with us, he has shown 
himself to be a true lover of sport. Alive to every sug- 
gestion that promised to aid him in his cherished object, 
he was at the same time an open and candid competitor, 
devoid of jockeying and scornful of trickery. Having 
spent a lifetime in meeting success after success with 
equanimity, he has seized this opportunity of showing 
the world he can meet defeat with similar grace, 
"He has a manly, frank way with him to which the 
American heart is quick to respond; and his oft-ex- 
pressed wish that if he failed to carry back the cup he 
v/ould at least take our esteem is more than realized. 
"As an evidence of the comradeship and good feeling 
of the American people toward him and his country, it 
is proposed that a loving-cup be presented to him with 
all that the name implies." 
This proposal met with a ready and hearty response, 
and the following named gentlemen were requested to 
act as a committee to take charge of the matter: William 
L. Strong, chairman; John N. Beach, vice-chairman; 
Frederick B. Schenck, secretary; Howard Carroll, John 
D. Crimmins, Cornelius N, Bliss, Fred W, Haynes, 
George Fred Victor, William F. King, Seth M. MiUi- 
ken, Rtifus B. Cowing, Horace Russell, James J. Belden, 
Edwin P. Benjamin, George M. Hard, Richard Deeves, 
Albert M. Thorburn, John Claflin, John U. Fraley, A. D. 
JulHard, Charles H. Webb, Chauncey M. Depew, Bourke 
THE LIPTON CUP. 
Copyright by the Gorham Company, 1899. 
Cochran, Isaac Stern, Henry Siegel, Richard Harding 
Davis, John T. Terry, D, Le Roy Dresser, Elverton R. 
Chapman, Horace J. Morse, Francis C. Moore, Andrew 
H. Kellogg, Francis M. Bacon, Hugh O'Neil, J. H. 
Walbridge, Uzal H. McCarter, John E. Borne, Adrian 
Iselin, Jr. 
Contribtitions, wholly voluntary, came pouring in so 
freely that the project was practically assured in a day. 
The chairman of the general committee, ex-Mayor 
Strong, appointed the following sub-committee, to make 
selection of the cup: J. N. Beach, John D. Crimmins, 
Edwin P. Benjamin, Howard Carroll, Fred W. Haynes. 
The massive loving-cup, of i8-karat gold, is I4in. 
high, and stands on a green marble base of sin. making 
a total height of i9in. It was made by the Gorham 
Co., at a cost of $5,000. 
The treatment throughout is in the modern Matele 
fashion. Three graceful mermaids form the handles, 
from which run sprigs of shamrock, rose and golden- 
rod, emblems respectively of Ireland, England and the 
United States, these flowers being treated in green, red 
and yellow gold. There are three panels on the body, 
which are outlined by rich chased scrollwork. 
The subject of the first panel. is an allegorical seated 
figure of "Welcome" extending her arm toward a yacht 
approaching from the distant East, S3'mboli7.ed by the 
rising sun, whose rays, with the reflection on the Avater, 
form a decorative background. At the top is an Irish 
harp. At the lower edge of this panel is a ribbon bear- 
ing the appropriate inscription, "Amicus Amico" (friend- 
ly to a friend), the motto of the family of Bellingham. 
In the second panel are the figures of Britannia and 
Columbia extending hands in the grasp of friendship, 
with a lion and eagle in attendance, while' the sun in 
the zenith typifies the meeting of East and West. 
The third panel bears the inscription chased in relief 
in flowing lettersi as though floating in the water: "To 
Sir Thomas Lipton, from His American Friends, 1899," 
and supplies the motive for the whole treatment. The 
upper part of this panel is decorated with seaweed, with 
mermaids playing upon harps. 
At the foot of the cup the decoration includes dolphins, 
seaweed, shells, etc., with wreaths of oak and ivy. and the 
arms of Great Britain, Ireland and the United States. 
Every detail unites to express the idea of friendship and 
cordiality. , 
The Measttfemeat of Beam, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The rule of measurement proposed by Mr. Mills m 
your issue of Feb. 3, is a vast improvement over the one 
he considers the ideal rule, namely, sail area. His ideal 
rule would be an excellent one for racing canoes, but it 
would reduce yachts to the canoe type by leading the 
designer to think only of producing a body that could 
be driven with the least possible sail. 
However, we need not consider that now, but may 
deal with his proposal to tax beam, one of the chie'f 
factors that gives power to carry canvas. I can speak 
on this with some experience as a basis, because the 
yacht club to which I belong, the Miramichi, has meas- 
ured beam during all the years of its existence. The re- 
sult so far as can be judged from this experience, is 
good, as the yachts that win most of the races are of 
a wholesome all-round type that are safe in any weather 
—yachts of moderate beam, draft, ballast and sail spread. 
Light-draft beamy boats have been invariably beaten in 
cur races. The two— Oriana and Maude— that have for 
three or four seasons monopolized first and second prizes 
are good cruising craft, fit to cross the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence. 
The rule that has worked so well with us is simpler 
than the one Mr. Mills proposes. The racing length 
IS found by adding the extreme beam to two-thirds of 
the load line length. It is usually the broad, shallow 
boat that has excessive overhangs, and such boats have 
not been successful here under this rule. It does not 
seem necessary, therefore to tax overhangs, which are 
certainly not objectionable when not excessive. It would 
be better to allow moderate overhang— say an amount 
equal to the beam— to go untaxed, and tax the excess, 
than to take a percentage of the whole. 
I am strongly under the impression that our rule would 
not stand the strain of a fin-keel test, but this has not 
been tried here. A boat of moderate beam, getting 
power from a fin-keel to carry a big sail spread, would 
probably beat the rule. 
I have had experienc'e which confirms Mr. Mills' 
dictum about sails and speed. The yacht I sail was very 
badly beaten in all the races of her first season, and I 
cut down her mast and sail 10 to 12 per cent, and have 
won a large percentage of the races since. The great 
improvement is in her windward work. 
J. L. Stewart. 
Chatham, N. B,. Feb. 8. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Columbia II.. steam yacht, E. R. Ladew, sailed from 
Jacksonville on Feb. 6 on a cruise through the West 
Indies. 
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The annual meeting of the New Rochelle Y. C; was 
held on Feb. 5 at the Hotel Manhattan, New York the 
following officers being elected: Com., Charles Pryer 
sloop Eurybia; Vice-Com., William N. Bavier, yawl Pos- 
sum; Rear-Com.. W. Lopez Diaz, vawl Addie; Sec'y O. 
W. Meyrowitz; Treas., Charles M. Fletcher; Meas., F. R 
Farnngton. Trustees, for three years, George E. Ed- 
wards, R. M. SavTe and George W. Sutton; for two years. 
A. S. Cross. Regatta Committee, Charles P. Tower W 
E. Moore, J. D. Sparkman, C. A. Becker and F. M Car- 
penter. Law Committee, C. E. Keene and John F. Lamb- 
den. 
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William Meyer, of Milwaukee, will sail in an aquatic 
novelty next summer, having ordered a yacht which will 
be built of aluminum. The new craft is now in process of 
construction at Racine, and will be completed in about 
two months, at a cost approximating $600. Mr. Meyer is 
confident that he has solved the question of yacht con- 
struction for inland lake usage, and his experiment will 
be watched with a good deal of interest by yachtsmen. 
Mr. Meyer says he expects to have a yacht which will be 
considerably lighter than if constructed of wood, and will 
not increase in weight as the season progresses owing to 
an immersion in water. — Boston Globe. 
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The annual meeting of the Gravesend Bay Y. C. was 
held on Feb. 6, the following officers being elected: 
Com., Charles W, Morgan; Vice-Corn., Edward P. 
Morse; Rear-Com., George B. Waters; Meas., Alfred 
Mack.?y; Pres., Cornelius Furgueson; Vice-Pres., A V 
B. Voorhees, Jr.; Treas., Henry W. Pfalzgraf; Sec'y, 
James W. Wakelee; Fleet Surgeon, George G. Cochran, 
M.D.; Trustees, John E. De Mund, M.D., John A. Voor- 
hees, M.D., W. C. Bolton, Charles P. Roseman, Sidney 
Grant, Charles W. Kennedy, F. A, Bolles, Robert H. 
Sherwood, William J. Berg, Nelson T. Cory, John L 
Corish, M.D., and Richard W. Rumncll. 
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The annual meeting of the Stamford Y. C. was held 
on Feb. 6, the following officers being elected: Com., 
Frederick M. Hoyt; Vice-Com., Walton Ferguson; Rear- 
Com., John T. Williams; Treas., Charles H. Leeds; Sec'y, 
Charles H. Leeds; Fleet Surgeon, Frederick Schavoir; 
Meas., Franklin Wardwell; Chaplain, Richard H. H. 
Vail; Directors, Henry K. McHarg, Schuyler Merritt, 
Albert C. Hall, Edward C. Hoyt, George H. Hoyt, James 
D. Smith, E. E. Bruggerhoff, Stewart W. Smith, Alfred 
S. Pitt and Howard C. Smith. 
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Twelve hungry New Yorkers, representing the New 
York branch of the Yacht Masters and Engineers' Asso- 
ciation, alighted from the Fall River train in the South 
Station this morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, and pro- 
ceeded directly to the dining room of the station, to break 
their fast. It was the original intention of the Boston 
members of the Association to take the visitors by a spe- 
cial car for a trip through the subway, but owing to the 
lateness of the Fall River boat and the subsequent delay 
at this end of the line, the trip was postponed. After a 
light lunch the party proceeded directly to South Bos- 
ton, where a bowling match on the Cogan alleys was on 
the programme. A handsome silver challenge cup was 
offered for the winning team. The three strings resulted 
in close scores. Boston's picked team captured the first 
string, but the tables were turned in the second, when 
