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without an angle in about tHe same way that the bilge 
rounds into the floor. 
Ponipano should gain sufficient stability from her in- 
creased beam to .more than offset the removed weight of 
her fin and lead, while, at the same time, she has a longer 
and more natural side on which to sail when heeled. Her 
■ centerboards are so placed as to be in the direct line of 
her forward motion when well heeled out, and are worked 
by a device of Mr. Eustis' own invention. The two rud- 
ders assure control of the boat at all times regardless of 
. her angle of heel. She should be a decidedly faster and 
more dangerous competitor than last year, when she was 
not in proper shape owing to the necessity of removing 
fully half her original lead to enable her to measure into 
the class. Her owner has tried her under a small rig in 
Buzzard's Bay, and feels that she is a different boat. He 
will have her racing rig on before long, and will bring 
her around the Cape in good season for the races. 
The work of changing Pompano was cleverly done by 
Howiand at his Monument Beach shop, and she is stronger 
and tighter than before. Longitudinal strength was 
originally given by a single truss in the center. In cutting 
the boat apart a cut was made on each side of this truss. 
The new frames and deck beams were let into the truss 
so that it is again the backbone of the boat. Additional 
strength has been given by a longitudinal truss in each 
bilge, and it is believed that the boat will show no tendency 
to drop at the ends, even in being towed around the Cape. 
New Rochellc Y. C 
New York Y. C 
The third regular meeting of the New York Y. C. was 
held on May 17, Com. Ledyard presiding. The following 
cablegram, received during the day, was read : 
- London, May 17. — Com. Ledyard, New York Y. C. : As 
an honorary member of the club, I would be delighted if 
the committee would accept a $500 cup or check for the 
same amount, as a prize for competition during the coming 
season, in whatever class of yachts the committee might 
decide upon. Thoma.s Lipton. 
The offer was accepted and the question of the class in 
which the cup should be given was referred to the Re- 
gatta Committee. The following amendment to the racing 
rules was adopted : In Class G, change 70ft. racing length 
to 80ft..; in Class H, change 70ft. and 60ft. to Soft, and 
70ft.-, respectively, and insert between new Class H and 
present Class J, Class I, not over 70ft. and over 60ft. racing 
length. The draft limits were also amended to conform 
to the change in class limits. The following resolution 
was adopted : 
Resolved, That the Regatta Committee be authorized 
to give races and offer prizes for the 30-footers any time 
-during the season that may be deemed expedient. 
Com. Ledyard was authorized to appoint a committee 
to procure a suitable testimonial in the form of plate for 
ex-Com. Morgan, as a recognition of his numerous gifts to 
the club. The following members were elected: Mc- 
Laurin J. Pickering. J. L. Lockwood. George W. Vrenden- 
burgh, Thomas A. Ennis, S. O. Richardson, Jr., Elbert M. 
Wilev, Carleton W. Nason, Lieut. Herbert O. Dunn. U. S. 
N. ; Jesse H. Metcalf , Henry C. Tinker, Joseoh T. Bailey, 
Alden Freeman, F. B. Tilghman, W. P. B. Weeks, Lieut. 
H. H. Ward, U. S. N. ; F. S. Smithers, William J. Curtis. 
James Hude Beekman, George D. Provost, Roswell 
Fldridge. W. H. Smith. Jr., Lieut. John B. Blish. U. S. 
:N. ; Tames I^wrence Bfeese, Arthur T. Kemp, Edward 
H. Snvder. Robert Kemp Wright. Charles A. Starbuck, 
Cant. Frank Wildes, U. S. N. ; George B. Wilson. Hugo 
R. Johnstone, Henry C. Frick and Joseph B. Wainwright. 
It is reported that the numerous Navy members of the 
club are taking steps to present two cups, for schooners 
and cutters. 
Huguenot Y» C. Special Race. 
NEW ROCHELLE — ^LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Saturday, May 19. 
With half a gale from E.N.E. and rain falling by the 
bucketful, the opening race of the season on Long Island 
Sound narrowly missed a postponement. In spite of the 
bad weather, a number of yachtsmen were on hand at the 
Huguenot Y. C. house, New Rochelle. on Saturday after- 
noon, and the colors were hoisted. The committee would' 
have been willing to declare the races off, but four yachts 
were present and ready to sail. Mr. S. C. Pirie had 
come from across the Sound in the raceabout- Spindrift, 
and Mr. Hazen Morse was ready to meet him in Kittle 
IIIIH, while Mr. C. D. Mower was out in a new sloop of 
his own design, with Crony. H. A. Walsh, as a competitor. 
The -course was a 3-34-mile triangle, sailed twice, from 
off Whortleberry Island to windward to the Hen and 
Chickens Buoy, then around Execution Black Buoy and 
home. Kittie carried whole sail, the others one reef. The 
start was made at 3 -.30. The times were : • 
Uaceabout.s. 
First Round. Finish. Elapsed, 
Spindrift. S. C. Pirie 4 16 00 4 58 25 1 23 25 
Kittie, Hazen Morse..... 4 22 00 5 07 59 1 32 59 
Sloops— 25ft. Class. 
Crony. H. A. Walsh... 4 21,00 5 04 50 1 29 50 
Jessica 4 23 20 
The race committee included Vice-Com. J. Nelson 
Gould, H. C. Ward and E. Hanford Sturges. 
Harlem Y. C Open Regfatta. 
The principal race of Decoration Day on the Sound will 
be the open event of the Harlem Y. C, under the Sound 
Y., R. A. rules. Prizes are offered for races in the Si, 43- 
36, 30, 25 and 2ift. classes of cutters, sloops and yawls; 30 
and 25ft. classes of cabin catboats; 30, 25, 21 and i8ft. 
classes of open catboats, and 25ft. jib and mainsail yachts. 
The start will be made at noon from off Belden Point, 
City Island. All yachts of 30ft. racing length and over 
will sail over a 20-mile course going to Matinicock and 
Parsonage points; the 25ft. catboats and 2it't. sloops will 
sail, over an 18-mile course going to Matinicock and De- 
lancey points ; the 21 and i8ft. catboats will sail over a 13- 
mile course going to Old Hen Buoy and Delancey Point. 
•The finish for all classes will be off Belden Point. The 
• steamer Glen Island, chartered to follow the yachts, will 
leave the foot of East Twenty-first street at g o'clock 
on the morning of the race, from the foot of East T20th 
street at 10. .o'clock, and from the, Town Dock, City Island, 
on the arrival c>f-tl^ ^raw frofiR ;?9tb street. 
A SPECIAL regatta will be given by the New Rochelle 
Y. C. on Saturday, May 26. There will be races for the 
following classes : 
Cutters and yawls of the 43 and 36ft. classes, for yachts 
built previous to 1894; raccabouts, 2ift. load waterline 
class, and sloops, 25ft. class, and yawls under 36ft. 
The total distance of the courses to be sailed by the 
43 and 36ft. sloops, cutters and yawls will be fourteen and 
two-thirds miles. ■ and of the other classes, twelve and 
three-quarters miles. 
J. D. Sparkman, chairman ; C. P. Tower, F. M. Carpen- 
ter, O. M. Becker and W. E. Moore, Regatta Committee. 
at Essington and dressed ship, and a reception was held on 
board the flagship May, Com. Alex Van Rensselaer. A 
luncheon was set in the club house and there was music 
from 4 to 6. Altogether the occasion passed off pleasantly 
in spite of the superflous moisture in the atmosphere. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The first completed of the two 51-footers building at 
Bristol. Altair, owned by Cord Meyer, Jr., made her trial 
trip on May 17. Capt. Lem Miller is in command. The 
second boat, for which the name Sirocco was proposed, has 
been named Shark. Her mast was stepped on May 16, and 
she will soon be ready for her 'trial trip. She is owned 
by F. Lothrop Ames. 
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Syce, cutter, has been resold by Rear-Com. C. L. T. 
Robinson, N. Y. Y. C, who purchased her during the 
winter, to Henry S. Redmond, N. Y. Y. C, who will refit 
her for racing. 
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Southern Cross, schr., has been sold by John F. Phillips 
to Edward T, Cole, of Waterbury, Conn., owner of the 
schooner Woodmansie. 
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Satanella, steam yacht, under charter to the Earl of 
Warwick, arrived at New York on May 16 from Punta 
Gorda, Fla., with Capt. Fred L. Siemon in command. 
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Hirondelle, .steam yacht, C. G. Evans, has been sold to 
J. F. Zimmerman, of Philadelphia. 
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The following dispatch from San Francisco to the 
New York Sun gives the latest news of the fortunes of 
the notorious "Com." Weaver. It is to be hoped that his 
swindling cruise has at last been brought to and end : 
Com. N. J. Weaver, who has been cruising about for 
two years past in his yacht Noma, and who has had a 
number of unpleasant experiences, has lost his boat, and it 
has reverted to a San Francisco woman. 
Starting from New York with the handsomely equipped 
Norna, Weaver cruised from island to island and from 
mainland to mainland. Weaver liked to play poker, and 
there has usually been talk of high play on Norna wherever 
she touched. Sometimes Weaver found it difficult to raise 
funds, but he managed to travel around the world. 
When Norna was at Honolulu papers of that city got an 
inkling of Weaver's record. He had borrowed money 
from people there and some trouble was cau.sed for him. 
His yacht was attached for $6,000, but he gave a bottomry 
bond for the amount and sailed for the Samoan group. 
At Samoa Weaver is said to have, borrowed money on 
some scheme, and the lenders sent letters of inquiry to 
this city. Before a reply was received Norna sailed. On 
her arrival at Auckland Weaver entertained a gathering of 
notables, but a few days later Mrs. Hattie Wallace ap- 
peared to lay claim to the yacht and to let the colonials 
know of Weaver's ways. 
Mrs. Wallace is a widow of means who is traveling for 
recreation. When Weaver was at Honolulu, she says, she 
loaned him $6,000 on the yacht on his representation that 
he was commodore of the Atlantic Y. C. of Nev/ York 
and a man of wealth and station. She had been enter- 
tained on Norna by Weaver and his wife and had been 
thoroughly convinced that he was financially responsible 
and suffering from only a temporary embarrassment. The 
Auckland judge heard the testimony, and after taking 
the case under consideration ordered Noma sold. Weaver 
went to Sydney to raise money to pay off the debt, but 
had failed to secure funds up to the time that the steamer 
Alameda left there. 
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Oneida, steam yacht, E. C. Benedict, is now in the West 
Indies, Mr. Benedict laeing accompanied by ex-President 
Cleveland and Dr. Joseph Bryant. 
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Capt. Jack Parker, of Itchen Ferry, with a crew of 
eleven men, arrived in New York last week on the steamer 
St. Paul from Southampton, and at once went to Bristol to 
join the new 70-footer Rainbow, owned by Cornelius Van- 
derbilt. _ _J 
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At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Quincy 
Y. C. it was voted to give two invitation races to the 25- 
footers, besides the September race, which was scheduled 
last February. These extra races will be held June 16 and 
July 4. The prizes will be $20, $12 and $8 for each 
race, provided more than four boats start ; under four 
starters, $20 and $10. A boat, in order to win a prize, must 
defeat a competitor. Possibly a championship prize for 
the series will be offered. The challenge for the 21ft. cup 
from John S- Lawrence, Harvard Y. C, has been accepted. 
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The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. has established a new 
class, the 13ft. single-hand class, similar in model to the 
22 and 17 footers, but 21ft. over all, 13ft. l.w.l., sft- 3in. 
"breadth and carrying 175 sq. ft. of , sail, in mainsail and 
jib. without bowsprit. The St. Lawrence Boat Company 
will turn out the boat for $100. The class is intended for 
■the younger members of the club. Three new 17- footers 
have been built this season, being launched on May 12; 
Doris, Fred Barlow; Aline, Morley Holland, and Kitti- 
wake, Ernest Bolton. There are now nine boats in this 
class, giving very good class racing. 
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The Corinthian Y. C. of Philadelphia, opened the season 
on May 19 as per programme, in spite of a half gale from 
N,1S, with heavy- fain, Tb? fleet was ready-i« the harbor 
8ft 8ft 8ft 
Chas. D. Mosher, the engineer and naval architect, is 
devoting all his time to the design of the new Mosher 
patent automobile, which he expects will create as great a 
sensation in its line as the Buzz did among fast steam 
yachts, several years ago. Mr. Mosher will use common 
kerosene oil for fuel in his new vehicles. He will test 
the first of his automobiles by a run of i.ooo miles, up 
hills and down valleys.- — American Shipbuilder. 
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The three schooners of the Atlantic Y. C, Vesta, Maj. 
J. T. Ackerman; Ramona. Gen. B. M. Whitlock, and 
Glendoveer, _ Malcolm Graham, all fitting out at Port 
Jefferson, will sail a private sweepstakes on May 26 from 
off Port Jefferson to Whitestone. Vesta is the old 
schooner which took part in the Atlantic race of 1866, and 
Ramona is the old Resolute, once equally well known. 
Glendoveer is a newer and much smaller boat. 
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Ivanhoe, schr., has been sold at auction for $2,600 to 
New London owners. 
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Hugo Stockbredt, steward of the cutter Mira, C. L. 
Poor, was badly burned by the explosion of a vapor stove 
while the yacht was at anchor off City Island on May 18. 
He was taken to Fordham Hospital; the fire was ex- 
tinguished without damage to the yacht. 
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According to the custom which it was the first to 
establish, the Atlantic Y. C. will celebrate the formal open- 
ing of the season on Decoration Day. There will be 
races for all the club yachts, the divisions and courses to 
be as follows : First, all schooners and the Soft, and Class 
H of cutters, 21^ miles; second, Classes J, K, L and M of 
cutters and all classes of yawls, 19 miles; third. Classes 
N and P of cabin sloops and S and T of cabin cats and 
raceabouts, 16^ miles ; fourth, Classes P, Q and R of open 
sloops, and Classes T, V and W of open cats, 14 miles. 
No limit to crews. Entries may be made with Charles 
T. Pierce, No. 170 Fulton street, not later than May 28, 
or at the club house. Sea Gate, Coney Island, not later 
than noon, May 29. Rejratta Committee — Chas. T. Pierce, 
chairman; Geo. W. McNulty, A. F. Aldridge. 
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The Farfagut Y. C, of Hastings, has elected^ the fol- 
lowing officers: Com,, John Rowley; Vice-Corn., L. 
Trigg; Rear-Com., Edward Cook; Sec'y, F. H. Cornelius: 
Treas., John Brittain; Meas., Edward Gorlich. 
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The representatives of the Lipton Loving Cup Commit- 
tee, Messrs. John N. Beach and Edwin P. Benjamin, 
sailed from New York on the Oceanic on May 16, carrying 
the cup with them. Two other members of the com- 
mittee, Messrs. John D. Crimrains and Judge Morgan 
J. O'Brien, are now in Rome, but will join them in 
London. 
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Kismet, steam yacht, J. Roger Maxwell, has goiie to 
Boston for the new 25-footer built at Lawley's from 
Crowninshield's design, and Snapper, the 21-footer built 
at Stearns' from Pardon's design. She will tow them to 
New York. 
Fiztufcs* 
INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENTS; 
May 23-24.— Richmond, Va.— Interstate Associs.tion's tournament, 
under the auspices of the West End Gun Club. W. H. Colquitt, 
Scc'y. 
June 11-15.— Interstate Park, Queens, Borough of Queens, L. I.— 
Interstate Association's Grand American Mandicap tourn^iment; 
11,000 added. Edward Banks, Sec'y. 318 Broadway, New York. 
July 11-12.— Narragansett Pier, R. L— Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Canonchet Gun Club. Fred 
C. Serenson, Sec'y. . . 
Aug. 7-8.— Newport, Vt.— Interstate Association s tournament, 
ander the auspices of the Newport Gun Club. J. R. Akin, Sec'y, 
Sept. 12-13.— Salemn, N. Y.— Interstate Association's tournament, 
under the auspices of the Osoma Valley Gun Club. 
May 23.— Newcastle, Pa.— One-day tournament of the Newcastle 
Gun Club. Henry P. Shaner, Sec'y. . „ „ , . 
May 23-24,— Alcester, S. D.— South Dakota State Sportamen'a As- 
sociation's annual tournament 
May 23-24.— Eaton, O.— Tenth annual tournament of the Ereme 
County Gun Club. S. C. Hunt, Sec'y. 
May 23-25.— New Jersey State Association s target- tournament; 
two days at live birds; one day at targets. ... 
May 23-25.— Dallas, Texas.— Texas Sta:te Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion tournament: two days targets; one day live birds; }500 added. 
V. C Dargan. Sec'y. 
May 23-25.— Elwood, Ind.— Zoo Rod and Gun Club's tournament 
J. M. Livingston, Sec'y.' . , 
May 24. — Westmount, Canada.— Annual tournament of the West- 
mount Gun Club. F. J. Elliott, Sec'y ^ ^ . >, ^, ^, 
May 24-25.— Upper Sandusky, O.— Upper Sandusky Gun Club s 
tournament. . , 
May 25.— Dexter Park. Brooklyn.— Lebohners Dexter Park 
spring tournament; live birds. L. H, Schprtemeier, Mgr. 
May 29,— London. O.— Cast iron medal contest between R, O- 
Heikes, holder, and Mr. T.. A. R. Elliott, challenger. 
May 30.— Cana]ohuci«. N. Y,— Annual target tournament of the 
Canajoharie Gun Club. Charles Weeks, Sec'y. 
May 30.— Palmer, Mass.— Shoot of the Massachusetts Shooting 
.J^ s socisti OH* 
May 30 -^Alto>^na, Pa.— Target tournament of the Altoona Rod 
and Gun Club. G. G. Zeth, Sec'y. 
May 30.— WarWjcfe N.. Y.— All-day target shoot; open to all; 
Rose svstem. „ . . , , t>.t 
May 30.— New Haven, Conn.— Decoration Day shoot of the New 
Haven Gun Club. John E. Bassett, Sec'y. . ^ . 
May 30.— Newark, N. T.— All-day Decoration Day shoot of the 
Forester Gun Club. John J, Fleming, Sec'y. , . .. 
May 30.— Brooklvn, L. L— All-day target shoot and handicap 
shoot. Decoration Day, of the Fulton Gun Club, East New York. 
May 30.— Fitchburg, Matss.— All-day shoot of the Fitchburg Rifle 
and Gun Club. I, O. Converse, Sec'y. , ^ „ 
May 30.— Canajoharie, N. Y.— Annual target shoot- of the Can- 
aioharie Gun Club. Charles Weeks. Sec'y. " , . . 
"May 30.— Palmer, Mass.— Ma.ssachusetts Amateur Shooting Asso- 
ciatinti shoot H. B. Perrv. M.D.. Pres. 
May 30-Tune 1.— London. O.— London Gun Cliab's tournament. 
May 31-'Tuoe 1.— Huntington, In(?,— Erie Gm Clwh's tournamep.' 
Georj^ Rfeytoold*', See>, 
