men to speak of what fie has done or does dr can do; 
and there is not the slightest doubt but what if he knew 
the purpose of the writer to pubHsh this he would 
earnestly rise to object; but as he doesn't know I feel 
safe till we meet. 
B. Waters. 
Points and Flushes., 
"The Dog: Its Management and Diseases," by Wood- 
roffe Hill, Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, has reached its fifth edition. It is a compre- 
hensive treatise. In it is to be found advice and informa- 
tion on every point which is Hkely to arise for the con- 
sideration of the dog owner. From the first chapter on 
general management, which treats of food, exercise, 
washing, grooming, clothing, kennel management, dism- 
fection, administration of medicines, nursing, etc., 
through all the seventeen chapters which follow, and 
which treat of the causes, symptoms and treatment of dis- 
eases, the technical language of the profession is avoided 
as far as possible, and therefore it is intelligible to the 
layman who reads it. The work is nevertheless up to the 
most advanced standards of scientific research and prac- 
tice. It contains 531 pages and is attractively and in- 
structively illustrated. 
The rival schooners Amorita and Quisetta are now 
being overhauled and altered for a lively season. The 
former is at Piepgrass' Yard, City Island, where her steel 
bulwarks will be removed, the upper portion ot the cen- 
terboard trunk will be cut off and a lighter cabin trunk 
will be fitted. Mr. Brokaw will spend the early part of 
the season in Europe, but the yacht will be raced m his 
absence. Quisetta is at the Morgan Iron Works, New 
London, where her fin will be deepened, lowering the 
lead keel a foot, and her sail plan will be considerably in- 
creased. , 
The executive committee of the Y. R. A. of Massa- 
chusetts has decided that the four 25-footers now build- 
ing by Hanley at Quincy Point do not comply with the 
requirements of the rules and are not within the class. 
The measurement of the height of cabin trunk has been 
taken by the builder at the side of trunk instead of at the 
highest point. Consequently the cabin trunks are all 
deeper by the amount of crown than the rule allows. 
A High Speed Yacht's Launch. 
The ordinary service of a yacht's power launch does 
not call for a specially high speed, as this entails a sacrifice 
of several valuable qualities, such a craft being as a matter 
of necessity most frequently used to carry a number of 
passengers safely and comfortably in either rough or 
smooth water at a moderate speed. The launch here illus- 
trated was designed to attain the highest possible speed 
under certain fixed conditions attending her use as a 
part of the davit fleet of a large steam yacht; (1) the 
total weight for hoisting not to exceed 4,ooolbs. ; (2) the 
hull to be strong enough to be hoisted by the ends and 
carried permanently at the davits. The design was made 
by Col. Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, the son and 
nephew of the two original owners of the sloop Maria and 
the schooner America, an amateur whose tastes have kept 
him in close touch with naval architecture and marine 
engineering. 
In order to obtain the necessary strength with the least 
possible weight of construction, the deep and narrow form 
of hull was adopted, giving a maximum of stiffness in a 
vertical direction, the' engine and boiler being placed 
amidships and the hoisting chains being very close to the 
ends in order that the launch might be swung inboard 
at times. The dimensions are : 
Length over all 32ft. 
Breadth- 
Extreme Sft. I in- 
L.W.L Sft. 
Draft ift. 4 m- 
Freeboard — 
Bow 2ft. 4 in. 
Least ift. 8 in. 
Transom ift. ii^m. 
The engine is 4 and Syi x sH, compound, with a 
Thorneycroft launch boiler; a specially designed out- 
board condenser was used, with a Blake combined air and 
feed pump. The launch was used last season, but no 
thorough speed trials were run ; on one occasion _ she 
made a run of twenty-four miles up the Hudson River, 
starting with a young ebb tide, in one and one-half hours. 
From this and such other informal runs as were made, it 
seems probable that on the measured mile she would 
realize over rather than under the speed suggested at the 
outset, of fourteen knots. If built from to a somewhat 
larger size and for speed only without regard to hoisting, 
the lines should give a very fast boat. 
Fleur de Lys, schr., Chas. Smithers, arrived at New 
.York on April 17 3^^"- a cruise of. three months in the 
West Indies- _ _ 
