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HAULING OUT THE YACHTS, 
meny as one or more marriage bells throughout the 
week. 
Camp and Boat Accommodations. 
A very commendable feature of the local arrangements 
is the long row of tents, nearly a score m number, 
which stands under a beautiful row of leafy maples on 
the bank of the lake opposite the startmg pomt. Here 
the visiting clubs have their quarters for crews and 
owners, and this is really the center of affan-s, though all 
the hotels are crowded. Just beyond this comely spot 
are th*e big boat houses of the Geneva Y. C., and here 
there are ample accommodations for all the visitmg craft. 
At the close of each race the yachts are to be brought 
around to this dock, run up on a floatmg track and 
trundled on a truck to a berth for each on trestles, where 
she can be thoroughly inspected alow and aloft, and 
where she is perfectly safe from injury. This work is 
all done by the men employed for the purpose, and the 
skipper and crew after a race have only to get into dry 
clothes and take a rest. In time for the race each 
boat will be put into shape at the dock for the hands of 
her crew, all the hard work being done by the local work- 
men. This relieves the crews verj^ much and is a feature 
which has elicited much favorable comment. 
Officers. 
The following are the officers and members of the 
^ Members of the Association— White Bear Y. C, Green 
Lake Y, C, Delavan Y. C, Pine Lake Y C., Lake 
Beulah Y. C, Fox Lake Y. C, Milwaukee Y. C., West 
End Y. C, Lake Geneva, Wis.; Lake Geneva \. C., 
Minnetonka Y. C. Oconomowoc Y. €., Pistakee \.G., 
Pewaukee Y. C., Oshkosh Y. C, Nodaway Y. C.^Nee- 
nah. Wis.; Oconomowoc Lake Club, Chicago \. C. 
Neenah Y. C Lakeside Y. C, Fond du Lac; S. & C. 
Boat Club, Edgewater. _ , 
Officers— J. W. Taylor, Pres., White Bear Y. C, ad- 
dress Globe Building. St. Paul, Minn.; Benjamin Car- 
penter, Sec'y and Treas., Lake Geneva Y. C, address 
208 South Water street, Chicago, 111. Executive Com- 
mittee: Frank H. Libbey, Oshkosh, Y. C; Henry L. 
Hertz, Pistakee Y. C; Benjamin Carpenter, Lake Geneva 
Y. C. 
Following are the ofiicers of the Lake Geneva Y. C. 
H. H. Porter, Jr., Com.; Byron Boyden, Vice-Com.; 
JuHan Rumsey, Rear-Com.; H. A. Beidler, Sec'y and 
Treas. Executive Committee: H. H. Porter, Jr., Chair- 
man; Benjamin Carpenter, Julian Rumsey. Directors: 
H. H. Porter, Jr.; Byron Boyden, H. A. Beidler, Ben- 
jamin Carpenter. Julian Rumsey. Lawrence Heyworth, 
Wallace Fairbank. Entertainment Committee: J. H. 
Moore, Chairman; H. G. Selfridge, Lawrence Heyworth. 
Press Committee: Lawrence Heyworth, Chairman; H. 
H. Porter, Jr.; Benjamin Carpenter. 
Pfograme and Roles. 
The daily programme, showing the order of the week's 
work, follows: 
Monday, Aug. 20— Lake Geneva Y. C. regatta, open to 
all boats in the 20ft. and 17ft. classes of the Inland Lake 
Y. A. Prizes presented by the Lake Geneva Y. C. 
Tuesday, Aug. 21 — First race in each class for the ig.oo 
championship of the Inland Lake Y. A. 
Wednesday, Aug. 22 — Second race in each class for 
the 1900 championship of the Inland Lake Y. A. 
Thursday. Aug. 23— Third race in each class for the 
1900 championship of the Inland Lake Y. A. The Inland 
Lake Y. A. gives a first and second prize in each class 
for the series. 
ORDER OF R.\CES — TO DECIDE WINNERS. 
The I. L. Y. A. championship cups shall be awarded 
as follows: There will be three races in which all qual- 
ifying boats may compete, then: (a) If the same boat 
wins all three races she shall be declared the winner of 
the cup. (b) If one boat wins two races and another 
boat one race, they shall race against each other until 
one of them has three races to her credit. She shall then 
be declared the winner of the cup. (c) If three different 
boats each win one race, these three shall sail one race, 
the winner of which shall be declared the winner of the 
cup. These rules apply to both classes. Each club is 
entitled to one entry only in each class. 
Friday and Saturdaj% Aug. 24 and 25, will be reserved 
for the sailing off of postponed races, etc. 
COURSES. 
Monday, Aug. 20, in' the Lake Geneva Y. C. regatta, 
the course for the 30ft. boats will b^, ffom.thfe starting 
]jni? off the city of Lak? G'eiieV'at, ground bu'by No. 4, 
the head of the lake, and return. The course for the 
17ft. boats will be from the same starting line, around 
buoy No. 3, between Kave's Park Hotel and Williams 
Bay. 
Tuesday, Aug. 21, Wednesday, Aug. 22, and Thursday, 
Aug. 23, in the races for the championship of the Inland 
Lake Y. A., one of two courses will be determined upon 
bj' the judges on the morning of each race. At their 
discretion both classes may be sent twice around a 
triangle in Geneva Bay, or from the usual starting line, 
once aroimd the buoy No. 3, between Kaye's Park and 
Williams Bay, and return. All buoys must be left on 
the port side. The finish line will be the same as the 
starting line, which will be between the liome buoj^ and 
the judges' boat. 
START. 
A preparatory gun will be fired on the judges' boat 
at 10:45 A. M., and a red flag displayed for ten minutes. 
A warning gun will be fired at 10:55, and a blue flag dis- 
played for five minutes. The starting gun for 20ft. boats 
will be at 11 o'clock, and a white flag shown. At 11:05 
the gun will be given for starting the 17ft. boats and the 
signal of the Lake Geneva Y. C. will be hoisted. If a 
race is postponed until afternoon three guns will be 
fired and a blue flag will be hoisted over a white one. 
In .such event the preparatory gun will be given at 2:15 
P. M., a warning gun at 2:25 and the start of 20ft. boats 
at 2:30. and of 17ft. boats at 2:35. 
Should a postponement until the following day be 
then decided upon, three guns will be fired and a blue 
flag hoisted over a white one. 
STEAMERS. 
The o^TiefS and captains of steam yachts, public 
steamers and all power boats are earnestly requested to 
keep off the course. The yachts Tula, Ethel Mary, Ad- 
miral and Cygnet will act as patrols. These will fly a 
white flag crossed with red. The public will confer a 
favor and aid greatly to make a fair race by obeying their 
instructions. 
The Entry. 
The following boats are Itere, with names of the nom- 
inating clubs shown. In this list are the best boats of 
this year that have come out of the West, as well as the 
standard winners of last year and the year previous. The 
delegations from each competing club are very full, and 
as each boat is well manned and is here to win, there is 
all probability of a very interesting as well as exciting 
week of sport. This is the most typical and valuable 
meeting of yachts and yachtsmen ever held in the West. 
There is a feeling that we are getting close to type in 
the best of the 1900 boats that we have here. Individual 
comment on different boats will be_ more proper later in 
the week: 
2OFT. CLASS. 
1. Oshkosh Y. C, Caroline F. H. Libbey 
2. Fox Lake Y. C, Louise H. D. Ford 
3. Pine Lake Y. C, Aderyn Geo. Brunder 
4. Oconomowoc Y. C, Problem. . .Walter H. Dupee 
5. Milwaukee Y. C, Meteor Robt. Nunnemacher 
6. Green Lake Y. C, Imp C. D. Peacock 
7. Pewaukee Y. C. Argo Giljohann & Starke 
8. White Bear Y. C, St. Paul L. P. Ordway 
9. Neenah Y. C, Anita W. L. Davis 
10. Lake Geneva Y. C, Mahoohoo. . . H. H. Porter, Jr. 
11. West End Y. C, Duchess Hudson & Taylor 
12. Delavan Y. C, Henrietta 
14. Pistakee Y. C, Harriet H Henry H. Hertz 
15. Lake Beulah Y. C, Lassie ...Byron Boyden 
16. Chicago Y., C, Juanita D. B. Southard 
17. Cedar Lake Y. C, Algonquin ..Geo. Braun 
17FT. CLASS. 
30. Fox Lake Y. C, Flying Fox W. H. Lyford 
31. Nodoway Y. C, Tramp C, B. Clark 
32. Neenah Y, C, Sox R. R. Davis 
33. White Bear Y. C, Attila L. P. Oi Iway 
34. Pewaukee Y. C, Serapis J. W. Sheets 
35. West End Y. C, Runaway Girl Mark Healey 
36. Pine Lake Y. C, Fortuna A. H. Vogel 
37. Chicago Y. C, Annie D. B. Southard 
38. Lake Geneva Y. C, Coon Kellogg Fairbank 
39. Saddle and Cycle B. C, Neola G. M. Pynchon 
40. Lake Beulah Y. C, Sakita A. D. Erskine 
The Course. 
The daily course is one of two which are laid out, the 
longer one being up through the narrows of the lake, 
the shorter a triangle laid out in the bay off the town, and 
in view of the boat docks throughout. The longer course 
Was sailed to-day in the open regatta, for the four hand- 
some cups offered by Lake Geneva Y. C, two in each 
class. The outcome of to-day's sailing shows that every- 
thing is practical and very well calculated to bring out 
the actual quality of the entry., ■ 
Monday's Race, Lake Geneva Y. C. Regatta, 
The free-for-all to-day for the handsome special prizes 
offered by the entertaining club was watched with great 
interest, and by none more eagerly than those who are 
concerned with the development of the Western designs in 
these craft. Would the past year, as has so frequently been 
the case, prove as far behind the procession as though 
it were a century ago, or would the best of last year's 
boats prove close rivals of this year's product? There 
were the two new St. Paul boats of Amundson, one for 
each class, the St. Paul and the tidy little Attila, the lat- 
ter a mere shell, whose hull would weigh not over 40oIbs. 
and whose whole lines and finish are of the most cob- 
webby sort. Another by the same designer is the old 
Avis, once owned by Wm. Hale Thompson and now 
sailed as Henrietta, of the Delavan Y. C. This boat 
was good enough to win everything at Oshkosh two sea- 
sons back, but is not thought dangerous now. Then 
from Oshkosh comes the brand new Caroline, two 
months old, a freakish looking thing with forked bow 
and stern, concave under hull and a general half cata- 
maran look, which may or may not prove dangerous. 
Jinimie Jones designed this new and odd one. Davis, 
also a Winnebago builder, is on hand with Aderyn, one 
of his last year's boats, and a good one, and he is also 
the designer of Anita, a new one of this season and 
much liked on the bigger water to our north in Wiscon- 
sin. Mahoohoo is a local boat designed by Mr. H. H. 
Porter. Problem, sailed by Walter Dupee for the glory 
of Oconomowoc, is a 1900 boat, and Gus Amundson, her 
builder, is here to watch her try. It may be imagined 
that it was anybody's book before the start, and the 
results, as reviewed this evening, leave it anj'body's book 
still, for if there are any such things as in-and-outers in 
boat building these twenties show it. 
It was a last year's boat that won the coveted honor 
in the 20ft. class to-day — ^Aderyn, the tried and faithful 
Winnebago craft, whose record of last year is so well 
sustained by this victoiy to-day. 
In the little fellows the march of time in boat building 
was more apparent. It was all Attila, and the fragile 
creature did not give her competitors a look in at the 
proceedings. 
The White Bear pennant received another elevation in 
Problem, which sailed- a clever third next to Mahoohoo, 
the local entry, which was in second place, to the general 
surprise. _ 
In the seventeens first and second went to Neola and 
Sox, both this year's boats, and very likelj^ looking ones. 
Annie, the new Chicago seventeen, capsized and her 
crew had to be picked up, her skipper, D. G. Roblin, 
sticking to the hull for quite a watery wait of it till 
towed in. 
Accidents. 
The wind was fresh and gave some of these lightly 
built craft all they wanted. Caroline, the bootjack from 
Oshkosh, broke a traveler and could not effect any re- 
pairs. Another Winnebago boat to come to grief was 
Anita, which carried away her mast clean and nigh about 
broke the hearts of her admirers, who, however, found 
comfort in the fact that her rival, Caroline, did not take 
the race herself. Algonquin was another to capsize, and 
old Henrietta parted a throat halyard, while Harriet H., 
the Fox Lake boat with the weird history of good and 
bad luck, kept up her record with a jib that went out of 
commission at a very bad time. Mahoohoo could tell 
a hard luck story also, her spinaker boom giving way 
on the run home. In the seventeens the chapter of acci- 
^AKS GENEVA. 
