in 
of a waiver as above siaSted, shall not deprive such divi^ 
sion of its right to a Commodore in its regular turn; 
Sec. 4: If the oflice of a Gommodore becomes vaea-ri* 
the same shall be filled by the senior ranking officer of 
the division from which the Gommodore was elected. 
Sec. 5: Nomination of Commodore — The Executive 
'Committee of the division entitled to the Commodore fof 
■the following year shall nominate a candidate for the 
'office, and present the same to the General Association, 
Executive Committee, at the A. C. A. meet. 
vSec. 6: The Nomination of Secretary-Treasurer and 
Librarian-Custodian— These officers shall be nominated 
by the Association ICxecutive Committee at the A. C. A. 
nicet, who shall consider the wishes of the division 
nominating the Commodore in their choice. 
Sec. 7: In case of vacancies in the office of Secretary- 
Treasurer or Librarian-Custodian, the Executive Com- 
mittee of the division from which the Cornmodore is 
elected shall elect new officers for the unexpired terms, 
but the Purser of that division shall act as Secretary- 
Treasurer till another Secretary-Treasurer has been 
elected as above stated. 
Sec. g: Divis'ion Officers — The officers of each division 
shall be a Vice-Commodore, Rear-Commodore and 
Purser. 
Sec. 10: How Elected — The Vice and Rear Commo- 
dores and Pursers shall be elected by the members of 
their respective divisions, Y their annual division meets 
or at the general meet of thi- Association, or as otherwise 
provided herein. The term of all division officers and 
division executive officers shall begin the first day of 
October and last until the first day of the following Octo- 
ber, or imtil their successors qualify. 
Sec. 11: How Nominated — The Vice and Rear Com- 
modores, Pursers and Executive Committee of each divi- 
sion shall be nominated by a nominating committee com- 
Ijosed of representatives of the members of the same divi- 
sioiU, one representative being allowed for each six 
A. C, A. members who are members of a represented 
club. A. C. A. members who do not belong to any repre- 
sented club or who belong to clubs having less than six 
A. C. A. members, may combine and secure one repre- 
sentative for each six members thus combined, provided 
they have notified the Purser of their division of the fact, 
so that he received the notification one day before the 
nominating- committee meeting. A. C. A. members 
belonging to more than one represented club shall be 
considered for the purposes of representation, only as 
members of the club first printed opposite their names 
in the Association year book, unless the Purser of 
their division receives notification in writing one day 
before the nominating committee meeting, that they 
desire to- be considered as representing sotne other club. 
The bases of representation shall be the representative 
list as published in the same year's Association year 
book, or if that has not been issued, the bases shall be 
the purser's list, subject, however, to correction one day 
before the date of the meeting, as above stated. 
Sec. 12: Vacancies in the Division Officers or in the 
DiA'ision Executive Comrhittees — In the event of one of 
the division officers being chosen to fill the position of 
Commodore, or of vacancies for any cause, the vacancies 
.so called shall be filled by the Division Executive Com- 
mittee from members of their own division, and the 
vacating officers may vote on this and other questions in 
their Division Executive Committee until their suc- 
cessors are elected. 
Sec. 13: All officers and members of Executive Com- 
;nittees shall be elected by ballot. 
.\rticle VI., Sec. i: Insert the word "Association" be- 
fore the words Executive Committee, in the first line. 
Sees. I2 to 8 renumber as Sees. 3 to 9. Insert the follow- 
ing new Sec. 2: "Special Association Executive Com- 
mittee Meetings — A special meeting of the Association 
Committee may be called by the Commodore, and shall 
be .called by the Secretary-Treasurer, at the request of a 
inaj^fity of the committee, and a vote by mail may be 
called iov by the Cotnmodore, and shall be called for by 
the Secretary-Treasurer, at the request of a majority of 
the committee." 
Article IX., Sec. 2: Insert on the fifth line after the 
wdiil ''elected," these words: "And by January first or 
by such later date as desired by the Secretary-Treasurer 
shall send him the number of A. C. A. members each 
club has and the number of representatives each club is 
entitled to, on the division nominating committees, for 
publication in the Association's year book." 
Eenumber Articles X. to XIII. as XI. to XIV., and 
insert as Articles X. General A. C. A. Meets: "The divi- 
sion from v\rhich the Commodore is chosen shall hold 
tbe general A. C. A. meet, but may hold it in any other 
division, if desired." 
BY-LAWS. 
Article VII. Insert after the word "canoes" on the 
fourth line, these words, "and a list of the numbers of 
A- C. A. members each club has, and the number of rep- 
resentatives each club is entitled to, on- the Nominating 
Committee, as sent by the Pursers." 
An English View of It. 
The London Field has this to say of the A. C, A. racing 
tiiles and their amendments: 
The American Canoe Association has settled the 
.•mendment of its racing rules for the coming year. In- 
stead of launchmg out into a new line, based on the 
experiences of the timeis and on the example of over-sea 
riuccesses, thd Association ha.s simply gone in for a severe 
-jli-round use of the pruning knife, and in the result a 
mere stalk is left standing over the roots of the once 
flourishing tree of canoe sailing. 
•'As you were" seems to be the policy aimed at, or at 
ieast such a stjtte of things has now been obtained. Canoe 
sailing, between fifteen and twenty years ago, in the 
States, was carried on. in canoes of about isft.' or i6ft. 
length, by 3oin. beam, with limited sail area, no sliding 
deck seats, and light metal center plates. The rule was 
relaxed as to sail area, the sliding seals came in, and the 
racing machine was evolved; the machine was perfected 
Ibv reducing displacement to the smallest proportions, the 
fiinisiesi: of structure, the largest of standing unlowerable 
sails, and the longest sliding seat capable of being 
handled by an expert acrobat. Racing entries declined, 
sailors went away from canoeing into boats and yachts, 
and canoe sailing, as a sport, fairly arrived at death's 
door. The faults being clearly seen, the remedies well 
known, and the whole matter freely ventilated in the 
sporting press, at least wc expected to see some attempt 
made in the direction of betterment. Even though the 
defaulting racing machines had been pruned a bit and 
left to take their chance, it might have been expected 
that a new class would have been put on in the hope, the 
almost certainty, of keeping sailing men within the limits 
of the grand old sport. But no, the clipped racer, in more 
dangerous garb, is all that is given to the American canoe 
men for the coming year 1901. 
Let us take first the useful amendments; fixed deep 
draft rudders are no longer allowed; there must be 
lifting ability, so that "when drawn up, the rudder shall 
be above the fair line of the keel." No standing sail is 
allowed, that is the sails shall be "hoisting and lowering 
sails" (a very good rule and much wanted). "A canoe 
must use the .same set of sails in all races at any one meet, 
except where owing to accident the committee allows 
otherwise" (again a good rule, preventing men from 
bringing an expensive fitout of, say, half a dozen com- 
plete suits of sails, just to fit the particular weather). 
Next we take the retrograde amendment; "No deck- 
sliding seat shall be used in any race," ''she shall have 
a cockpit not less than 6ft. between bulkheads, with 
coamings 4k. 6in. by i6in.," "the Pail of a decked canoe 
shall be limited to 130 sq. it.," and "she shall be of 
a minimum weight of Sslbs., exclu.sive of ccnterboard 
and steering gear" (which possibly includes rudder). 
Under this la&t batch of amendments the following racing 
machine is possible and probable: A canoe of i6ft. by 
30in. beam, with a hull of the most flimsy structure, viz., " 
861bs. total weight, the lightest spring brass center plate 
and for so small a hull, the gigantic rig of 130 sq. 
ft. of sail. This is for a canoe which is bound to have 
a well 6ft. long, with coamings not less than 4ft. 6in. by 
i6in., but may have a canvas bucket well fitted, 4ft. long. 
Now, canoes of these dimensions and fittings, except as 
to sail area, used to be built and raced, but they were 
limited to 112ft. of sail, and, even under close reefs, they 
used to capsize and fill up, and become waterlogged if 
manned by any but a fly-weight man; the lee bilge and 
side deck was not buoyant enough to keep the coaming 
out of the water when the man retained his weight on 
the upper side of the canoe; and so it would be with 
canoes complying with the above rule, but with the addi- 
tional mover of 130 sq. ft. of sail to insure frequent cap- 
sizes. 
The general type of canoe is not bettered by these 
amendments, and the acrobat still holds the pull string. 
The sailing man, who wants the pleasures of scientific 
sailing, finds no neat sailing, but a constant fight to keep 
the canoe's bottom in the water. The sailing man will 
keep away; the racing man, barred of his sliding balance 
seat, will go away; then who will remain to carry on 
canoe sailmg? Far better would it have been to settle 
the existing canoes down by a complete short crop of 
sail to, say, 80ft,, and the abolition of slide seat; leaving 
the well to be anything that could be managed; and then 
to have superadded a new class of larger and more gener- 
ally useful canoes. The intention of the reformers in the 
above amendments was evidently to secure the old t3'pe 
of small but useful canoe; but so far as we can gather no 
provision has been made that the center plate case may 
not obstruct the cockpit, and we know that in nearly all 
the modern American canoes the center plate comes right 
amidships in the position of the Avell or cockpit. 
The really astonishing thing is the death blow to slid- 
ing seats, unless there has been a misprint in the report 
that "the amendment was carried," and the word not has 
been accidently left out; we mention this because the 
report we had, and also that in Forest and Stream, 
gives all the amendments and simply places to each 
"This was carried" or "This was not carried." We feel 
astonishment at the move, because everyone looked upon 
the slide seat as a fixture forever in America, whatever 
might be done to the other fitments of the canoe. The 
new rules will leave international racing as far from possi- 
ble as ever. We have no class in England anywhere 
near the Sslbs. hy T3oft. sail semi-open shell; such a craft 
must be main and mizzcn rigged, of the large mizzen 
type, say Soft, and 50ft. respectively. Had the beam 
been mcreased, say, to 4oin., sufficientlv to allow a buoy- 
ant bilge and side deck, so that the craft could capsize 
with comparative impunity, and the well kept clear of 
centerboard case, and a fairly heavv total weight of hull 
and gear insisted on, the class might probably fill the 
bill or pave the way to resuscitating the sport of canoe 
sailing. 
So far has the American Canoe Association gone. Now 
what will the Canadian Canoe Association do? Will 
Canada give up the slide seat? Hitherto the two coun- 
tries have been under the one Association, the America;!; 
but lately a Canadian Association was started, and no 
doubt with the intention of not being too closely bound 
by American legislation; and we may hope that Canadia. 
with its grand sailng waters, will take up the more sensi- 
ble line of liaving two classes, one the nearest reasonably 
possible to the -American class, but with ample beam al- 
lowed ;_ in short, a useful, cheap, handy and comparatively 
light little canoe, a traveling canoe; the other a larger 
and more perfect sailing canoe, fit for the large, open 
waters which abound all over Canada. For such work 
the cruiser class of the R. C. C. cannot be beaten; the 
limitations are so precise that no schemer can slip in 
with a freak or racing machine. 
But for sound advancement in: the sport the sliding 
seat must go; so long as it is retained, unless other re- 
strictions are placed in the class, the acrobat's boat will 
flourish, to the utter exclusion of the ordinary sailor. 
In the R. C. C. cruiser class at first the sliding seat was 
allowed, but it was soon found that this seat, perched on 
so high built a hull, enforced by the depth requirements, 
was almost useless, and it was universally abandoned 
long before it was struck out of the rule. Seeing that 
American canoe sailing holds out no probability of any 
international competition, many eves are now turned to 
Canada, but the only craft that would be likely to journey 
over from England would be some of the latest additions 
to the R. C. C cruising class, and, of course, only if such 
a class, similar in all points, existed on the St. Lawrence,, 
1 he splendid sailmg, camping and fishing obtainable on 
the St. Lalvrence, once tested, will always be wanted; but 
the greatest attraction to English canoemen would un- 
doubtedly center in the meeting- between the Empire 
cousins and under ofte flag, and therefore in interclub 
rather than international racing. 
Eastern Division A. C vA. Pttrser^s Report. 
Balance from W. W- Crosby...;)...; ;$79 86 
n"-"^^' lnn«-' 6.00 
Dues. 1900. 328.00 
initiation fees 82 00 
$495.86 
Expenditures. 
tixpenses executive committee to meetings $38.50 
btationer3^ printing, postage 65.91 
Thirty per cent, collection 124.80 
Prizes, Division meet 1 63 00 
Expenses of meet $266.05 
Less amount collected 160 85 
e t- . • 45,20 
bubscription to Iorest an-d Stream : 3.00 
Postage and express on Year Books 16.35 
Expense of Division at Muskoka 2.00 
Balance 137.10 
■ ■ $495.86 
Membership. 
Membership Oct. 1, 1899 320 
New members, 1900. -. 82 
Reinstated , 23 
425 
Resigned 9 
Died 1 
Transferred ,,,,,, 1 
Dropped ...,86 
97 
MembersHp Oct. 1, 1900 325 
Fred Coulson, Purser, E. D- 
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Nov. 29.— Milwaukee, Wis.— South Side Gun Club's tournament. 
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Nov, 29.— Newarjc, N. J. — ^Thanksgiving Day shoot of the 
Forester Gun Club; live birds and targets. John J. Fleming, 
Sec'y. 
Nov. 29.— Sing Sing, N. Y.— Thanksgiving Day shoot of the 
Ossining Gun Club; live birds and targets. 
Nov. 30.-Dec. 1.— Omaha, Neb.— Kansas City-Omaha ten-men 
team race, 50 birds per man. 
Dec. 5-7.- Gait, Ont.— First annual shoot of the Newlands' 
Shooting A.ssociation ; targets and live birds; added money. 
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Dec. 8.— Wellington, Mass.— All-day shoot of the Boston Shoot- 
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H. M. Federhen, Jr., Pres, 
Dec. 11-13.— Brantford, Ont., .Gaii.^Annual tournament of the 
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C. J. Mitchell, Secy. 
Dec. 11-14.— Watson's Park, Burnside Crossing, 111.— Annual live- 
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Newark, N. J.— South Side Gun Club, target shoot every Satur- 
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Chicago, 111.— Garfield Gun Club's trophy shoots, second and 
fourth Saturdays of each month; live-bird shoots every Saturday,. 
Grounds, West Alonroe street and Fifty-second avenue." 
1901. 
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annual tournament; live birds and targets; .open to all. H= 
Graham, Sec'y. 
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Nebraska State Sportsmen's Association, under the auspices of the 
Lincoln Gun Club. W. D. Bain, Sec'v. ' 
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League. G. R. Haswell, Sec'y. 
June —.—Columbus, Wis.— Tournament of the Trapshooters" 
League of Wisconsin. First week in June. 
CONTESTS AT INTERSTATE PARK. 
Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28.— Interstate Park.— Live-bird championship; 
25 birds; handicaps 25 to 33yds.; $10 entrance, birrt* extra; sweep 
optional; open to all; money instead of trophy. 
Nov. 22.— Interstate Park. — Medicus Gun Club's live-bird shoot; 
open to all. 
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open to all. 
Dec. 5.— Shoot-off of the winners of the November events, with 
$20 in gold to the winner. 
Interstate Park, Queens, L. I.— Two miles beyond Jamaica, on 
L. I. R. R. Trains direct to grounds. Completely appointed 
shooting grounds always ready for matches, club shoots or private 
practice. Cafe and hotel accommodations. 
Monthly contest for the Dewar trophy till June, 1902; handicap; 
25 live birds; $5 entrance. First contest took place June 20, 1900. 
Interstate Park, L. I. — Fountain Gun Club's regular monthly 
shoots, the third Thursday of October, November and December. 
Interstate Park, Queens. — Weekly shoot of the New Utrecht Qua 
Club— Saturdays. 
1901. 
April 1-5. — Interstate Park, Queens, L. I., N. Y. — The Intcf- 
state Association's ninth annuaT Grand American Handicap Tour- 
nament at live birds. 
June —.—Interstate Park, L. T.— Forty-third annual tournamenr. 
of the New York State Association for th'' protection ol Fish and 
Game. 
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