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i^OREST ANDi STREAM. 
{Aug. 4, ipoo. 
American Gahoc Association, J899-J900. 
JCommodore, W. G. MacKendrick, 200 Eastern avenue, Toronto, 
•Secretary-Treasurer, Herbert Begg, 24 King street, Toronto, Can. 
Librarian, W." P. Stephens, Thirty-second street and avenue A, 
Bayonne, N. J. ■ - 
Division Officers. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. ' 
Vice-Corn., H. C, Allen, Trenton, N. J. 
Rear-Com., Lewis H. May, New York. ■ ^ 
Purser, Arthur H. Wood, Trenton, N. J. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., John S. Wright, Rochester, N. Y. 
Rear-Com.. Jesse J. Armstrong, Rome, N. Y. 
Purser, C. Fred "VVolters, 14 East Main street, Rochester, \. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Frank A. Smith. Wercester, Mass. 
Rear-Com., Louis A. Hall, Boston, Mass. 
Purser, Frederick Coulson. 405 Main street, Worcester, Mass. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., J. McD. Mowatt, Kingston, Ont., Can. 
Rear-Com.., E. C. Woolsey, Ottawa, Ont., Can. • 
Purser, J. E. Cianningham, Kingston, Ont., Can. 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Wm. C. Jupp, Detroit, Mich. 
Rear-Com., F. B. Huntington, Milwaukee, Wis. _ 
Purser, Fred T. Barcroft, 408 Ferguson Building, Detroit, Mich. 
Regatta Committee: R. Easton Burns, Kingston, Ont., Can., 
chairman; Harrv Ford, Toronto; D. B. Goodsell, Yonkers, N. Y. 
m. 
Meet of 1900, Muskoka Lake, Aug. 3-17. 
Official organ. Forest and Stream. 
Fixtttres. 
August. 
3-17. A. C. A. meet, .-Muskoka. 
September. 
1-3. Toronto, club cruise. 
8. Toronto, fall regatta. 
15. Toronto, sailing races. ' 
Charles J. Stevens— John Cammeyer Mowbray. 
June J7, 
By a sad coincidence the New York C. C. lost two 
of its most valued members on the same day and of the 
same disease'; though the deaths took place nearly a 
thousand miles part. Charles J. Stevens, the secretary 
and .treasurer of the club from i886 to 1894, died on June 
17 "at Port de Pa'ix, Hayti, of typhoid fever, while John 
WENDER ON BERGAMER MEER. 
C. Mowbray, also secretary from 1895 to 1900, died in 
New York. Mr. Stevens was born in London, Eng., in 
1856, and came to New York in 1880 as the American 
representative of the house of Brooks, Shoobridge & Co., 
cement manufacturers. In 1883 he joined the New York 
C. C. and purchased the big Pearl canoe Tramp, built by 
the writer in the previous year for C. P. Oudin. Being 
unmarried, and with no relatives in this country, and a 
CANAL SCENE IN LEEUWARDEN. 
most enthusiastic canoeist, much of his time was spent 
at the old house of the New York C. C, on the site of the 
present ferry house at St. George, Staten Island. As a 
matter of course, he soon found his way up the Kills to 
Marmalade Lodge, then the home of the writer, and 
became a member of the little fraternity which included 
Vaux, Whitlock, Kirk Munroe and a few others as in- 
timates and most of the canoeists of the time as visitors. 
It is evident that Mr. Stevens lacked some one of the 
many qualities which go to make up the successful racing 
skipper, as he never made a reputation in racing, but in 
many respects his work was remarkable. He always 
knew his boats in every detail, and though not a de- 
signer he gave the closest study to the design and also 
to the construction, understanding every technical point. 
The general planning of a new boat, the sail plan, and the 
details of fittings were his own work, carried out with 
the same earnestness and thoroughness which character- 
the same way, an experimental canoe, with a deep keel, 
and the boat was built by Stevens, of Lowell, no relative 
of either owner or designer. Sailed with a short slide, 
she was at a serious disadvantage beside the long sliding 
seats then in vogue, and her real merits were never fairly 
tested. In 1892 the writer and Mr. Stevens together 
produced Scarecrow, one of the most successful small 
boats ever built in this country, the lines having been 
built from by the score in all parts of the country. In the 
same year Mr. Stevens joined the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Y. C, and though he still kept up his canoeing associa- 
tions he became more deeply interested in yachting. 
When Ethelwynn was designed in 1895 Mr. Stevens 
planned the rig and lent valuable aid in all the work. 
In 1896 Scarecrow was replaced by another joint pro- 
duction, Bogie, also a fin-keel of the 20ft. class. In 1897 
he was elected Secretary of the Seawanhaka C. Y. C, 
which office he resigned last fall, when he accepted a 
FRIESLAND CANAL.: 
ized his business career, and from the first his boats 
were models of neatness and completeness. His personal 
work in rigging and fitting out a canoe or small yacht 
was the best we have ever seen, and such mechanical 
work as he could not do himself he had done by .others 
under his direction, without regard to the trouble and 
expense involved. In his systematic study of the canoe 
and its rig, and the extent of his experiments, he stands, 
with 'Mr. Paul Butler, ahead of all other American 
canoeists. For some years he Avas engaged in the study 
of sails, Avorking in company with Mr. Gilbert H. Wil- 
son, the sail maker, and trying numberless experiments, 
the result being the leg-oVmutton rig used on Ethelwynn 
and many other small yachts. In 1887 he sold the old 
Tramp, whose name had long before this been applied 
to him by his canoeing associates, and the writer worked 
with him on Vagabond, a very successful canoe and a 
model in rig and fittings. In 1880 Kismet was designed in 
position as resident manager for the New York & Boston 
Dyewoods Co. in Hayti. Beyond the bare fact of his 
death, no details of his illness have reached New York. 
He never married, and his only near relatives, three 
sisters in England an one, a missionary, in India. 
That the New York C. C. is not only alive but flourish- 
ing to-day is due mainly if not entirely to Mr. Stevens' 
work in its behalf.- In the ten years after the club was 
driven from its old home by the invasion of the railroad 
and before it found its present location he as both sec- 
retary and treasurer not onlj' managed its affairs with 
the same admirable skill which marked his business, but 
he voluntarily acted as the club's banker, and advanced 
money to keep it going when none could be had else- 
where. While voluntarily holding the difficult and thank- 
less office of treasurer of a poor club for years, he always 
refused to accept the more ornamental and conspicuous 
oflices of commodore and captain. 
A DUTCH RIVER CRAFT (IRON), 
DUTCH BARGE AND WINDMILL. WENDER ON RIGHT HAND. 
