Oct, 6, 1900.] 
trance to the harbor. Ill getting clear to run Up the 
river for shelter she had twisted her rudder stocky and 
liad managed to anchor just below the bridge in no 
very sale berth. A heavy roll was wa^ihing up troni 
the Lake, where the surf was a siglit seldom seen on 
Lake Ontario. The pier ends, ten leec above the normal 
water level, were bxuried under solid green seas. 
Onward was safe in a snug berth, but Zelnia had dis- 
appeared. It was afterwards learned that when Norman 
Dick turned oitt he at once decided to make the upper 
river while he had a chance to do' so. Under a shred 
of foresail Zelma drove upstream, narrowly missing the 
railroad bridge, the draw of which was open but be- 
ginning to close as she approached. A vigorous blast 
on the fog horn saved the situation, and then the skipper 
realized that he was scudding up an unknown stream, 
with no light to guide, and no idea of the Avater. After 
a couple of miles he sheered inshore, the water for- 
tunately holding good, and the boat was tied up to 
some bushes. The remainder of the night was spent 
hnaging the galley fire, for the wind and rain made it 
bitterly cold, and all the blankets and cushions were 
ashore. 
Needless to say there was no thought of racing, and 
soon sterner events clahned attention. At 10 o'clock 
in the morning somehting was sighted out in the lake, 
which with a glass was made out to be the tug which 
had cleared the night before, now trying to make the 
harbor with only one barge in tow. It was apparent 
that she was quite unable to handle it, the two. vessels 
tossing about as helplessly and drunkenly as a couple 
of logs, the incessant bursts of smoke from the tug's 
funnel showing how hard she was being fired. 
The barge was cast off to shift for herself, the tug 
making the harbor with a sad tale to tell. All had gene 
well for half the passage, when the gale struck them 
pretty well ahead. They kept on, hoping to make the 
shelter of the north shore, but the gale and . sea in- 
creased until all headway was out of the question. Some 
time before dawn it was decided to turn and run back. 
When the day broke only two barges were found in 
tow, the third having gone down in the blackness of the 
night, no one knew when. A crew of seven men went 
with her. The second barge was settling rapidly so the 
tug cast off and got alongside just in time to save the 
crew, some of them being picked up out of the water, 
a matter of no small difficulty. 
With the remaining barge an attempt was made to 
reach Charlotte, the tow finally becoming unmanageable 
in the sea and going ashore, the crew getting off with 
their lives. No doubt they struck a soft spot, and cer- 
tainly a sandy beach offered more chances than the open 
lake. These barges were nothing but condemned schoon- 
ers, too ripe to sail, hanging together by luck for years, 
until in any unusual strain they opened up all over. 
All day long yachtsmen from wrecked and half-wrecked 
craft straggled into the club house and compared ex- 
periences. A huge fire was lighted in the assembly room 
grate and quickb^ surrounded by soaking togs and wet- 
through men. The place looked like a sailors' retreat 
such as every nautical writer describes sooner or later, 
save that there was nothing stronger to drink than hot 
tea, which some one produced with the help of a yacht's 
stove taken ashore for safety. 
Late in the afternoon the gale moderated. Zelma came 
down the river, and Capt. Wood, of Cinderella, invited 
a party of us to a fine supper of stewed clams — chowder 
he called it— and fried mushrooms, the latter having 
grown in abundance after the heavy rainfall. We were 
a cheerful little party. Outside was a dreary prospect of 
wreck and ruin, sodden ground, leaden skies and a wicked 
sea. Inside was the luxurious cabin of Cinderella, the 
best dinner service set out, the excellent clams and the 
tasty mushrooms — the gift of the storm. We discussed 
the races, and as some of Zelma's crew had been obliged 
to leave for home, Com. White and Mr. Dick agreed to 
allow the challenge to stand until the races could be sailed 
next year. 
But Norman Dick had sailed his last race. He Became 
seriously ill during the winter and never lived to see 
Zelma fitted out again. The challenge was forgotten, and 
except for the interest occasioned by the arranging of bet- 
ter conditions and the proper trusteeship of the Fisher 
cup, the trophy remained in obscurity until the challenge 
of the present year. William Q. Phillips. 
The Seawanhafca Cup. 
Within the thirty days from the date of the final race 
of 1900. the time allowed by the declaration of trust of the 
Scawanhaka International Challenge cup, the present 
holder, the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C, of Montreal and 
Dorval. receiA'Cd three challenges. One of the«e was 
from the White Bear Y. C, of Minneapolis, 'the challenger 
of 1900; another from the Bridgeport Y. C, of Bridge- 
port. Conn., and the third from the Island Sailing Club 
of West Cowes, Isle of Wight. The last challenge was 
first made by cable, and the confirmation by letter onlj^^ 
reached Montreal on the day after the time expired. The 
Royn' St- Lawrence Y. C. was desirous of securing a 
Briti-h challenge, as conducing to the best interests of 
the cup as a truly international trophj^. and notified both 
of the American challengers, who very generously con- 
sen' cd to waive their strict rights in favor of the English 
club. 
This last challenge, like that of Mr. J. A. Brand in 
1S95, the first for the cup, is in a sense a personal one; 
j "'' 'ticp1ly made b}-- an individual who is indorsed by his 
idub. Last year and in the various Seawanhaka matches 
for the cup, the challenges have come actually, as well 
as nominally, from a club which has held trial races to 
select the best boat available. In this case the challenge 
originates with a British yachtsman. Mr. Lorne Campbell 
Currie, who has asked a club of which he is a member to 
indorse his challenge, as required by the conditions, as 
individual challengers cannot be recognized. Under these 
circumstances it really rests with Mr. Currie to say 
whether he will build one yacht himself or 
whether there will be trial races. The probabilities are 
that, like Mr. Brand, he will build but one yacht, and of 
course, come out himself with her. 
Mr. Currie has for some years past resided in TTavre, 
France, and he is a member of the Cercle de la Voile de 
Paris, the Union des Yachts Frangais, Union des Yachts- 
men, Cannes, and the Societe des Regattcs de Havr?» He 
is also a member of the following British yacht clubs: 
Royal London, Royal Northern. Royal S^outhampton. 
Temple, Southampton Corinthian, West of Scotland and 
tlie Island Sailing Club. At present he owns four yachts 
— the steam yacht Cairngorn], 81 tons; the two Sibbick 
boats, Bebelle III. and Skeandhu, and Scotia, designed 
last year by Linton Hope. It will be remembered that Mt. 
Currie challenged last spring for the cup of the Cercle de 
la Voile de Paris, with Scotia, but she was under the 
class measurement, being aesigned for the Mediterranean 
races, and though well sailed by Mr. Hope, she was de- 
feated. It is probable that the new challenger will be 
designed and also sailed by Mr. Hope, which will make 
the races of 1901 very interesting, as he is the strongest 
man in Great Britain in the smaller classes when his skill 
both as a designer and helm.sinan is considered. Mr. 
Currie has agreed to the same conditions as this year, but 
the date and full details have not yet been arranged. The 
races will probably take place in the latter part of July. 
Mr. Currie's racing flag has a field with the upper half 
yellow and the lower half black, the device being a Greek 
cross with the same colors reversed, the upper half black 
and the lower yellow. The Island Sailing Club was 
established in 1889, and now numbers 240 members. The 
officers are: Com., Lord Colville, of Culross; Vice-Corn., 
Philip Perceval, Jr.; Rear-Corn., G. Baring; Hon. Sec'y, 
Herbert Whyatt, club house, Cowes; Hon. Treas., L. J. 
Allan. The burgee has a red field with a yellow castle in 
the center. 
The Inter-Qty Raceabotit Matches. 
On Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday of last week a 
series of races were sailed under the management of the 
Indian Harbor Y. C. between the raceabout Jolly Roger, 
owned by her designer, B. B. Crowninshield, of Boston, 
and three of the New York boats of the class. The races 
were all sailed in light w-eather — so light, in fact, that two 
races were abandoned. The first match was for a cup 
presented by Rear-Com. Alfred Peats, Indian Llarbor Y. 
C. The course was a triangle with three and one-third mile 
sides, starting off Little Captain's Island, Greenwich, Long 
Island Sound. The first mark was the can buoy on 
the Cows, off Shippan Point, and the second was a mark 
boat otn in the Sound off Oyster Bay. The first two 
races were set for Wednesday, a third, if it proved neces- 
sary, on Saturday. Jolly Roger was steered by Frank 
CroAvninshield, with B.. B., Crowninshield and E. Burton 
Hart, of Newf Rochell'e, as crew. Scamp, in the absence 
of her owner, Johnston De Forest, was steered by Allan 
E. Whitman, with B. C. Ball and a professional as crew. 
Mr. Ball was the helmsman of Ethelwynn in her suc- 
cessful races against Spruce IIII. for the Seawanhaka 
cup in 1895, his successful handling alone saving the 
cup when it seemed lost beyond recovery at the end of 
the third race. 
The wind was light from S.E. at the start and the 
course was reversed, making the first leg to windward, but 
it soon shifted to east. Jolly Roger crossed promptly, 
with a lead of 20s., gaining all the way to the outer 
mark, where they were timed : 
Turn. Elapsed. 
Tolly Roper 11 50 35 0 50 35 
Scamp . 11 53 12 0 53 12 
They went across to the Cows with the wind forward 
of the' beam, the two reaching very easily. The times 
•were : 
Turn. Elapsed. • 
Tolly Roger 12 22 46 0 32 11 
Scamp .. 12 53 12 ■ 0 32 12 
They ran in with spinakers to port. Jolly Roger gain- 
ing, the finish being .timed: 
Finbli. Elapsed. 
Tolly Ro!?er 12 50 00 1 58 06 
Scamp .: 1 02 05 1 02 05 
The second race was started at 2:45, the mark being 
set two and one-half miles to windward, the wind still 
light from the east. Scamp crossed first, but with little 
way on; the tw^o made a close race to the mark, where 
Scamp had a lead of 9s. 
Turn, Elapsed. 
acamp 3 22 05 0 37 05 
Jolly Roger 3 22 14 0 37 14 
Once down the wind, a luffing match followed, to the 
profit of Jolly Roger, whose spinaker was first set. After 
running by the lee they had to jibe spinakers, Jolly 
Roger handling her sails the better of the two, as. in 
fact, she did in both races. The end of the round was 
timed : 
Turn. Elapsed. 
Jolly Roger 3 57 53 0 35 39 
Scamp 3 58 30 0 36 25 
On the beat but Jolly Roger showed a small gain, the 
windward mark being timed: 
Turn. Elapsed. 
Tolly Roger 4 38 28 0 40 35 
Scamp 4 :39 23 0 40 53 
On the run in the Boston boat gained nearly 2m., the 
final times being: 
Elapsed. 
Finish. Eeg. Course. 
Tolly Roger 5 21 57 0 43 29 2 36 57 
Scamp 5 25 11 0 45 48 2 40 11 
Two races were arranged for Thursday, one in the 
morning with the Herreshoff centerboard Sis, and one in 
the afternoon, with the Crane Raider. The first race 
Avas abandoned after a couple of hours of drifting. The 
afternoon race was started at 3:10 in a light S,W. wind, 
the course being two and one-half miles to windward and 
leeward, sailed once. With H. M. Crane on Raider were 
C. H. Crane and B. C Ball. The two crossed together 
on port tacl-c, Jolly Roger to windward. Raider tacked 
to clear the mark boat, but the other held on, expecting 
to weather her. When this was seen to be impossible. 
Jolly Roger came about, but Raiders bowsprit touched 
her boom. She at once jibed and recrossed the line, ma- 
Icing a new .start to leeward. Raider luffed and after 
ascertaining that her rigging was all right, continued the 
race. Jolly Roger gradually worked into first place, and 
the mark was timed : 
Turn. Elapsed. 
Tolly Roger 4 07 42 0 57 42 
Raider 4 08 46 0 -58 46 
They ran home under spinakers, jibing several times in 
the light and variable wind, the finish being timed: 
rini.sh. 
Tollv Ro^-ei- 4 41 46 
Ser r,' 147 00, 
Elapsed. 
Leg. Round. 
0 37 04 1 34 46 
0 88 14 1 37 00 
Imniediately after the finish Mr. Crowninshield 
apologized to xMr. Crane for the foul at the start. 
On Saturday morning Jolly Roger and Sis started m 
the postponed race, under the management of the River- 
side Y. C, the same triangle being chosen as on Wednes- 
day, but in the reverse direction, to the Cows buoy first. 
The wind was very light from S.E., and there was a 
roll of sea. The start was made at 10:50, Jolly Roger 
being 55s. late and Sis 20s. astern of her. The keel boat 
did the better work and increased her lead, though the 
wind was very light. Her crew, however, mistook the 
instructions and headed for the buoy in the Sound, while 
Sis made her way along shore toward the Cows. After 
some time she learned of her error from the committee 
boat and withdrew, there being no possibility of over- 
taking Sis. The latter turned the Cows at i P. M., and 
about half an hour later gave up, as she could not cover 
the course within the time limit. She was towed m by 
the steam yacht Kismet, and the match was called off, 
though Mr. Crowninshield proposed that Sis should enter 
with Raider in the afternoon, 
A five-mile triangle was marked and the race with 
Raider was started at 2:35 in a light S.W. breeze. C M. 
Crane was replaced by H. L. Maxwell on board of Raider, 
Jolly Roger crossed a little ahead, but with Raider on 
her weather. It was a reach to the first mark, both 
setting spinakers after a time. They turned the mark with 
a lead of 57s. for Jolly Roger, and on the beat to second 
mark she increased this to 2m. 2s. They ran home with 
spinakers to port. Raider making up 2s. The trnies 
wei^e, start 2 :35 : 
Einisli. Elapsed. 
Tolly Roc-er, B. B. Crowninshield 3 44 04 1 09 04 
Raider, IT. M. Crane 3 40 03 1 11 03 
Though Jolly Roger's victories were all in very light 
weather, there is nothing to indicate that she would not be 
as fast in both moderate and heavy weather. 
Lakewood Y, C. 
CLEVELAND — LAKE ERIE. 
The newly organized Lakewood Y. C, of Cleveland, 
held its first race on Aug. xi, the wand being fresh 
from S.W. with a lively sea. The times were, start 2:20: 
Finish. Finish. 
Gardner 3 .53 00 Corsair Disabled. 
Vinco 4 04 30 Growler 4 33 20 
Restless 4 14 30 y\rgo Not timed. 
Tane 4 15 00 Bessie 4 29 30 
Cyc^net 4 23 00 Meteor Disabled. 
Frolic 4 27 .30 
Corsair lost her gaft', Restless her topmast and Meteor 
parted her main shrouds. The yacht Com. Gardner, E. 
W. Radder, w^on the first leg for the Say When cup and 
the championship fiag in her class. On Aug. 25 the second 
race was sailed in a light but freshening breeze, the times 
being : 
40ft. Class. 
Start. Finish. 
Marietta 10 40 05 12 51 32 
Tane 10 39 25 1 00 30 
Grayling 10 42 15 12 45 20 
Corsair 10 40 lo 12 50 00 
Restless 10 40 00 12 59 40 
35£t. Class. 
Commodore Gardner 10 39 2G 12 41 30 
Meteor 10 39 20 12 4fl 00 
30ft. Class. 
Vinco ^ 10 38-30 12 44 45 
Cygnet Withdrew. 
Frolic -Withdrew. 
25ft. Class. 
Argo 10 38 50 12 53 12 
Gypsey 10 .39 30 1 OS 18 
Growler ^" 
.10 40 05 
1 12 00 
On Sept. 23 a race w^as sailed over a nine-mile triangle 
in a fresh breeze. Commodore Gardner won her fourth 
race, taking the championship, the ensign and jack pre- 
sented by' Capt. McKay, and the cup offered by the Say 
'VNHien. The times were : 
40ft. Class. 
Start. Finish. 
Grayling 10 40 00 12 21 40 
Marietta 10 40 00 12 26 41 
Corsair 10 40 00 12 ;55 00 
B5ft. Class. 
Commodore Gardner 10 40 00 12 18 35 . 
Meteor 10 40 00 12 27 00 
30ft. Class. 
Vinco 10 40 00 12 20 35 
Bessie 10 40 00 Not timed. 
25ft. Class. 
Truant 10 40 00 12 25 00 
Argo 10 40 00 12 45 00 
Gypsey 10 40 00 Not timed. 
Altair, Shark and Hussar IL 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The fall regatta of the Riverside Y. C, which came 
ofl' on Saturday, Sent. 22, was especiallv interesting, is- 
asmuch as it gave the fast new .Sift. R.L. Altair an op- 
portunity to put to her credit a faster race than any she 
had previously sailed over a regular course, and likewise 
an opportunity to give the new centerboarder LIussar II. 
of the same class a much worse beating than in her 
(Altair's) previous best performance. This race like- 
wise enabled Altair -to end her racing for the season with 
a better record by two seconds for a twenty-five-mile 
course than Shark, her sister boat, can show. 
It is exceedingly interesting to find that the very 
best times made by these two t4p-to-date boats in their 
first season agree to the minute and almost to the 
second, thus: 
Shark, Eastern Y. C, July 4 3h, i6m, 43s. 
Altair, Riverside Y, C, Sept. 22 3h. i6m.- 41s. 
In both races the distance was twenty-five nautical 
miles. Thus the best rate per hour for the season 
shown by each of these enlarged and improved editions 
of the famous 20-raters Niagara and Isolde was slightly 
better than seven and a half knots. 
In the Riverside regatta on Saturday Altair beat 
Hussar II. by a margin of 17m. gs. Hussar's best per- 
Tormance for the season was at the rate of about 7 
knots an hour. Jcseph Parker. 
Waverley, Mass., Sept. 24, 
