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Yacht Clttb Notes. 
The. third general meeting of the New York Yacht 
Club for the year was held on May i6, at its club house, 
West Forty-fourth street. Commodore Ledyard presided, 
and about lOO members were present. 
The matters of the new station on East River and the 
removal of Station No. i from Staten Island to Bay 
Ridge were referred to the Committee on Uniform and 
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DESIGN FOR A GERMAN SINGLEHANDER. 
F. H. Clerque, James Park, D. M. Owen, Captain Theo- 
dore F. Kane, U. S. M. C; Naval Constructor W. J. 
Baxter, U. S. N.; Rear Admiral John H. Upshur, U. S. 
N.; Rear Admiral J. N. Miller, U. S. N.; James Elverson, 
Jr., Max Fleischmann, Charles W. Lee, Ensign Frank 
W. Toppan,.U. S. N. ; R. S. Hebden, W. L. S. Jackson, 
Captain Seth M. Ackley, U. S. N. ; Regis H. Post, J. 
R. Maxwell, Jr.; Henry L. Maxwell, Joseph C. Willetts. 
Henry A. W. Wood, L. C. Lothrop, William McDonald, 
Lieutenant John A. Tobin, U. S. N.; E. L. Frisbee, Jr.; 
John Dupee, Charles E. Sampson, George S. Terry, Mel- 
ville D. Chapman, James R. Steers, Frederick L. Rode- 
wald, William McClure, William M. Lovering, Henry 
Sampson, Jr.; Dallas Bachc Pratt, Miguel R. Martinez 
and Roy A. Rainey. 
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The Regatta Committee of the Atlantic Yacht Club ha's 
issued the schedule of the rac^s for the coming season. 
The first one, which is for members of the club only, 
will be sailed on Decoration Day and the yachts will go 
over the upper bay courses. The annual regatta will 
take place on June i8, and the annual cruise will start 
on July 6 at City Island and last until July 13. The boats 
in the squadron will make short runs on the Sound, 
ending at Shelter Island. In conjunction with other 
yacht clubs on the lower bay the Atlantics have arranged 
a schedule of races, those to be managed by the latter 
being on June i, 29, Aug. 3 and Sept. 7. 
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Pavonia Yacht Club members formally opened their 
new quarters at the foot of Forty-first street, Bayonne, 
N. J., on May ix. 
The new house is handsome in appearance, and con- 
tains nineteen large room, fitted up with everything con- 
ALVINA — Designed by A. S. Clieeseborough for Charles Fletcher. Photo by C. D. M 
with power to act. The Committee on Uniform and 
Dress reported a change of club buttons for members to 
black and gilt. Rating marks and buttons for sailing- 
masters, engineers and stewards will be silver. It was 
decided to allow retired naval officers to become mem- 
bers of the club. 
Two, challenge cups were presented to the club by the 
Alumni Association of the United States Naval Academy. 
One will be sailed for by schooners, and the other by 
sloops. 
The club presented a club flag to Captain Evelyn B. 
Baldwin, in command of the steamer America, owned 
by Mr. William Ziegler, and now enrolled in the club 
fieet, which flag will be carried by the vessel on her 
expedition to the North Pole. 
The following were elected members: 
Daniel Prentice, Ogden Bachus, M. D.; James A. 
Welsh, J. H. Cockburn, Howard F. Frothingham, Otto 
L. Petersen, Frederick T. Ames, E. W. Fitch, James L. 
Laidlaw, Henry W. Bull, F. D. Mollenhauer, James H. 
Oliphant, William L. Briggs, George A. Adee, Charles 
H. Tenney, William M. Lafifam, John Kerr Branch, 
Warner B. Nash, James B. Tailer, Lieut.-Comman- 
der Alexander Sharpe, U. S. N.; Lieutenant Joseph H. 
Rohrbacker, U. S. N. ; Surgeon Edward R. Stitt, U. S. 
N.; Edward D. Lentilhon, H. Burnside Potter, W. W. 
Anthony, Frederick Bull, Henry Tilden Swan, George 
Joseph Smith, Ensign Thomas Charles Hart, U. S. N.; 
William F. Mohr, James Hart Welch, Arthur P. Sturges, 
W. B. Chisholm, Theophiles Parsons, Henry P. Watson, 
John Seeley Ward, Jr.; Albert Bradlee Hunt, Ensign 
Victor S. Houston, U. S. N. ; E. G. Burns, Lieutenant- 
Commander Henry M'cCra©, U. S. N. ; C. J. Coulter, 
John Aspinwall, Daniel J. Reid, Thomas A. Mcln- 
tyre, Jr.; John C. Sharp, James Warren Lane, George 
W. Ely, Richard King. Charles B. Mason, George J. 
Weaver, John Lorillard Arden, Cyrus Edwin Lothrop, 
J. M. McCarthy, H. F. G. Wey, Charles F. Booker, Elisha 
P. Wilbur, Jr.. Theodore F. Vail, William H. Truesdale, 
Winthrop Rutherford, Alvan Markle, A. W. Hallenborg, 
Elisha Dyer, Jr., Henry Clay Pierce, W. P. Douglas, 
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