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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 15, 1901. 
"The 90-footers will be started fifteen minutes after the 
others have been sent away. Their sailing directions will 
be issued later." It is not believed, however, that any of 
the nineties, or Cup yachts, will be present, but there is 
just a chance that Constitution and Columbia may be 
around, and hence the Regatta Committee want to be 
prepared for them. 
Entries for the Glen Cove cups must be made in the 
same way as those for the annual regatta, and will close 
before 5 o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, June 24. 
The Regatta Committee is composed of Mr. S. Nichol- 
.•^on Kane, Mr. Chester Griswold and Mr. Newbury D. 
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YACHTING NWS NOTES. 
The Duke of Sutherland's steam yacht Catania has been 
chartered through the agency of Messrs. Gardner & Cox 
to Mr. R. A. C. Smith. N. Y. Y. C. She is a single screw 
yacht of 668 tons, and is 222ft. over all, 193.45ft. on the 
waterline, 26.7ft. beam and i5-35ft. deep. There is 9ft. 
headroom in her cabins. Catania was designed by Mr. 
G. L. Watson and was built by Messrs. D. & W. Hender- 
son Co., in 1895. The yacht has a spar deck with deck 
houses of teak, the forward one containing the dining 
saloon and the other containing the owner's sitting room 
and library. On the lower deck/ there are six guests' 
staterooms and two bathrooms. A passageway connects 
the forward part of the boat with the after part between 
decks. The owner's stateroom is forward, and connecting 
with it is a large bathroom. Catania has triple expansion 
engines. She carries a crew of thirty men. 
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The ketch rigged yacht Taormina arrived at Newport 
on June 6 in a strong southwest breeze. She has on board 
three lieutenants of the Austrian navy, who are making a 
year's cruise in the Atlantic. Since leaving Austria they 
have visited Gibraltar. Trinidad, Martinique, La Guayra, 
Virgin Island, St. Thomas, Porto Rico, Baton, Baltimore, 
Annapolis, New York and several places along Long 
Island. They went up the Orinoco River for a distance of 
230 miles. Thev expect to cruise to the eastward, and 
hope to be in this country for the Cup races, after which 
they will return to Austria by steamer. Taormina is 
74.6ft. long, 15.8ft. beam and 97ft. deep. She was de- 
' signed by J. P. H. Payne, and built by A. Payne & Sons 
at Southampton in 1877. She is owned by Count Collo- 
redo-Mannsfeld. 
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Mr. Walter Jennings, N. Y. Y. C, has chartered through 
Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane, the English-built 
auxiliary steam yacht Cuhona, owned by Mr. H. A. Camp- 
bell, Mumford, England. She has three masts and is 
rigged as a barkentine. She was built under special sur- 
vey, and has a rating of 100 A i at Lloyds. Her dimen- 
sions are: Length, B. P., 163ft.; beam, 26.1ft., and i^-S". 
depth of hold. 
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The 75ft. schooner Muriel, owned by Mr. Charles 
Smithers, N. Y. Y. C, has been launched from the yard , 
of her builders, the Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding 
Co., of Shooter's Island, S. I. She is built of steel, 68ft. 
on the waterline, 99ft. over all. 20ft. beam and 12ft. draft. 
She was designed by Messrs. Gary Smith & Barbey, 
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Mr. Charles R. Flint, N. Y. Y. C, has chartered the 
steam yacht Artemis from Mr. Frederick G. Bourne, _N. 
Y. Y. C, through the agency of Messrs. Tams, Lemoine 
& Crane. Through the same agency Mr. J. A. Garland, 
N. Y. Y. C, has chartered from Mr. E. E. Morse the 
schooner Kiwassa, formerly Viator. 
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Gunilda, the English steam yacht chartered by Mr. 
Henry A. Hutchins, N. Y. Y. C, arrived from Southamp- 
ton and St. Michaels on June 5 at New York. She earned 
a crew of twenty-five men, and reports a good trip with 
fresh westerly winds during the last part of the passage. 
She is rigged as a schooner, and has a sail area of 4,620 
sq. ft. Her dimensions are: Over all, I77ft-; waterline, 
166.5ft. ; beam, 24.65 ft., and draws 14.15ft. 
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■ The Bath Iron Works closed a contract with New York 
parties a few days ago for the construction of a steel 
yacht to cost $200,000. The owner's name has not been 
made public. _ 
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The auxiliary yacht Lady Godiva, chartered by Mr. H. 
C Rouse, arrived at New York from Cowes last week. 
She sailed on May IS, and touched at Hamilton, Ber- 
muda, where she coaled and left on June 3. 
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It is stated that the King of Portugal will order a yacht 
with which he will try to win back the Vasco de Cana 
cup, which was lately won by Mr. Guinness' Leander. 
The cup is in possession of the Royal Yacht Squadron. 
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Preparations are being made for an ocean yacht race 
during the summer from Southampton to Lisbon. Several 
English boats are expected to compete. 
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A copy of the Yacht Register for 1901, published by 
Lloyds Register of Shipping, has been received at this 
office. The space devoted to particulars of American 
yacht clubs has been increased from two to eight pages, 
much information on the date of establishnlent, entrance 
fees and annual dues of American yacht clubs and a list 
of officers being given in addition to the clubs' burgee. 
There is also a very accurate list of American yachts of 
30ft. over all length and upward. This book has become 
such a complete and elaborate work that it is indispen- 
sable to every yachtsman and every club library. We con- 
gratulate the publishers on the excellence of the book. It 
is superior to any work of its kind yet published. Copies 
may be secured from 2 White Lion Court, Cornhill, Lon- 
don, E. C. 
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We are indebted to the Secretary of the Hull-Massa- 
chusetts Y. C. for a copy of their- club book. It is well 
bound in brown canvas, carefully printed and contains 
much valuable information. 
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The year book of the English Y. R. A. is now in circu- 
lation. The book is larger than in previous years and 
contains much interesting matter. 
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Messrs. Gardner & Cox, of this city, have made the 
following sales: Steam yacht Seneca, sold by Charles 
Fletcher, of Providence, to Theodore R. Hostetter, of 
Pittsburg; steam yacht Washita, sold by H. W. Putnam, 
Jr., to James Sherman, of Port Henry, N. Y. ; catboat 
Ethel, sold by A. B. Boyd, to W. T. Fames, and W. R, 
Frj', of Sewaren; catboat Themis, sold by R. H. Eggles- 
ton to James T. Graff, of Philadelphia ; knockabout Argo- 
naut, sold by A. O. Von Kilch to R. Floyd Clarke ; launch 
Seawanhaka, sold by Frank Nitteberg to George Beebe; 
steam yacht Toinette, owned by E. E. Sm'athers, char- 
tered to Frank J. Gould. 
The Battle of the Yatches. 
The following doggerel was printed in Cruikshank's 
Comic Almanac for 1852, the year following the original 
race for the America Cup: 
A truly affecting copy of verses, made by a British tar 
in Spithead last August, and corked up in a bottle, floated 
to the end of Herne Bay pier last week'. The bottle was 
speedily uncorked, in a vague expectation of cognac; but 
the finders, discovering that the only spirit which it con- 
tained was the spirit of the verses, magnanimously sur- 
rendered the whole to the Board of Admiralty, as justly 
and legalljr appertaining to the body. The Board, having 
sat upon the bottle (and broken it), rose as soon as pos- 
sible, after instructing the First Lord to transmit to us 
the poetry, with a polite note stating how they had come 
by it, and lamenting that the poet should have so obsti- 
nately adhered to his peculiar mode of spelling the word 
"yacht." 
O weep, ye British sailors, 
Above or under hatches. 
Here's Yankee Doodle's been and come. 
And beat our crackest yatchesl 
They started all to run a race, 
And were well timed with watches; 
But, oh! they never had no chance, 
Had any of our yatches. 
The Yankee she delayed at first. 
Says they, "She'll never catch us," 
And flung up their tarpaulin hats — , 
The owners of the yatches! 
But presently she walked along; 
"Oh! dear," says they, "she'll match us!" 
And stuck on their tarpaulin hats, 
The owners of the yatches! 
Then deep we plows along the sea, 
The Yankee scarcely scratches. 
And cracks on every stitch of sail 
Upon our staggering yatches. 
But one by one she passes us, 
While bitterly we watches, 
And utters imprecations on 
The builders of our yatches. 
And now she's quite hull down ahead. 
Her sails like little patches; 
For sand barges and colliers we 
May sell our boasted yatches. 
We faintly hears the club house gun — 
The silver cup she snatches — 
And all the English clubs are done. 
The English clubs of yatches! 
They say she didn't go by wind. 
But wheels and springs and ratches: 
And that's the way she weathered on 
Our quickest going yatches. 
But them's all lies, I'm bound to say— 
Although they're told by batches — 
'Twas build of hull and cut of sail 
That did for all our yatches 
But novelty, I hear them say, 
Some novelty still hatches! 
The Yankee yatch the keels will lay 
Of many new club yatches. 
And then we'll challenge Yankeeland, 
From Boston Bay to Natchez, 
To run their crackest craft ag'in 
Our spick and span new yatches. 
A new industry has been brought into the United States 
during the past two years by the introduction and ac- 
climatization of the little insect which fertilizes the 
Smyrna fig in Mediterranean countries. The dried-fig in- 
dustry in this country has never amounted to anything. 
The Smyrna fig has controlled the dried-fig markets of 
the world, but in California the Smyrna fig has never 
held its fruit, the young figs dropping from the trees with- 
out ripening. It was found that in Mediterranean regions 
a little insect known as the blastophaga fertilizes the 
flowers of the Smyrna fig with pollen from the wild fig 
which it inhabits. The United States Department of Agri- 
culture in the spring of 1899 imported successfully some of 
these insects through one of its traveling agents, W. T. 
Swingle, and the insect was successfully established at 
Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. A far-sighted fruit 
grower, George C. Roeding, of Fresno, had planted some 
years previously an orchard of 5,000 Smyrna fig trees and 
wild fig trees, and his place was the one chosen for the 
successful experiment. The little insect multiplied with 
astonishing rapidity, was carried successfully through the 
winter of 1899-1900, and in the summer of 1900 was pres- 
ent in such great numbers that it fertilized thousands of 
figs, and fifteen tons of them ripened. When these figs 
were dried and packed it was discovered that they were 
.superior to the best imported figs. They contained more 
sugar and were of a finer flavor than those brought from 
Smyrna and Algeria. The glastophaga has come to stay, 
and the prospects for a new and important industry are 
assured.— Everybody's Magazine. 
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Fixtttfes* 
July 14-23.— San Francisco, Cal.— National Schuetzenbund of 
North America's annual tournament in Shell Mound Park. Off- 
hand, 200yds. 
Aug. 6-7.— Taftsville, Conn.— South New England Schuetzen- 
bund s annual festival and prize shoot. 
Rifle at Shell Moond. 
San Francisco, Cal., May 27.— Yesterday at Shell Mound 
range was gloomy and wet. but the shooting stand was filled with 
marksnien. 
In the semi-monthly event of the Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol 
Club J. E. Gorman surpassed his own world's record for fifty 
shots with the small arm at fifty yards. Gorman's record at this 
distance was 471 points out of a possible 500, which had never 
been beaten, though it was tied by Anderton, the crack pistol 
shot of Boston. Yesterday Gorman entered for fifty shots, but 
found himself in such good form he shot the full 100. His score 
for the second fifty was 474, beating the world's record three 
points. 
Gorman's detailed score follows: 
10 9 10 10 8 10 9 10 10 8—94 
in 10 9 10 9 9 8 10 8 9—92 
9 9 9 10 10 9 9 10 8 9—92 
10 10 10 9 10 9 9 10 8 10—95 
9 9 10 10 10 10 8 10 10 9—95 
10 10 9 9 10 10 9 10 10 8—95 
10 10 9 9 10 9 9 10 10 9—95 
9 10 10 10 7 8 10 , 8 8 10—90 
10 9 10 9 10 10 10 10 10 10—98 
10 10 10 9 9 10 9 10 9 10—96 
The results of the shoots of the various organizations were as 
follows :^ 
Semi-monthly shoot of the Golden Gate Rifle and Pistol Club, 
pistol section, gold medal— J. E. Gorman, 95, 98; W. F. Blasse, 
85, 84, 84. Silver medal— F. S. Washburn, 90, 88, 86: Ben Jonas, 
78, 73. 
Rifle section, handicap— C. M. Henderson, 216, 213, 221, 223, 
217; A. D. Dorrell, 217; H. M. Pope, 221; D. B. Faktor' 227 
219; O. Boehmer, 210, 213, 211; A. Gehret, 227. Silver medal— 
W. F. Blasse, 182, 190, 189, 212. Gold medal— B. Jonas, 202; W. 
F. Blasse, 206, 200; J. F. Bridges, 214, 222; H. Hinkle, 210; D. 
B. Faktor, 231. 
San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, regular bullseye shoot— Prize 
winners: F. Brandt, A. Pape, R. Stettin, L. Ritzau, F. Atzeroth, 
William Goetze, Capt. J. Thode, D. B. Faktor, F. Rust, Charles 
Thierbach, Dr. F. H. Cranz, Henry Meyer, John Gefken, August 
Meyer, D. Dunkel, Henry Zecher, Otto Burmeister, Andrew 
Mocker, Otto Bertelsen, Henry Huppert. 
Germania Schuetzen Club, monthly bullseye shoot— F. P. 
Schuster. 251; E. H. Frost, 278; W. Doell. 532; G. H. Bahrs, 
540; F. Brandt, 556; Dr. E. O. Rodgers, 633; R. Stettin, 900; H. 
Huber, 905: C. M. Henderson, 910; F. Rust, 998. 
Red Men's Schuetzen Club, monthlv medal shoot — Champion 
class, P. H. Rulfifs, 386; first class, Ca'pt. H. Grieb, 357; second 
class, J. A. Mohr, 356; third class, H. Schult, 326; fourth class, 
D. Tamke, 263; first best shot, J. A. Mohr, 25; last best shot, 
H. Schult, 21. ROEEL. 
Columbia Pistol and Rifle Clob. 
San Francisco, June 2.— We had one of California's loveliest 
days, which brought many visitors to the range, and among them 
were many ladies, who always bring good luck, good wishes and 
good looks. Even the surly face of some shooter who makes a 
miss changes into broad smiles when he turns and faces the misses • 
or mistresses, for we have several of the latter now. Several new 
members were added to-day, among them Alex Pape, brother 
of A. H. Pape. Alex is the champion sculler of the Pacific 
coast. Mrs. A. H. Pape has also joined our ranks, and tried her 
husband's big rifle to-day. Pape rolled up the fine score of 38 
to-day in honor of her first appearance, and Young beat the 
revolver record here for 50 shots, while Brannagan slammed in 
two scores of 40 with his revolver, after having aired it at the 
small game and coyotes in his country trip. Hovey showed up 
with a new .38 Winchester rifle and shows he has not lost his 
hold yet. Capt. Kuhnle, our old veteran, led the boys on the 3 
shot match. He is practicing for the bundfest. Scores, offhand, 
Columbia target, rifle, 200 yds.: A. H. Pape, 38, 59, 59; G. M. 
Barley, 55, 71; Ed Hovey, 57; C. M. Davis, 57; Capt. Fred Kuhnle, 
62, 68, 71, 74; H. Hinkel, 67, 84; G. Mannel, 75; Alex Pape, 87, 
119; E. A. Allen, 103. 147; Dr. J. F. Twist, 135, 135; F. L. Pape, 
144, 169, F. Page, 146; Mrs. A. H. Pape, 194. Pistol, 50 yds.: F. 
O. Young, 42; Dr. Twist, -55, 62, 64; Dr. H. W. Hunsaker, 60, 
74; G. Mannel. 68; Mrs. G. Mannel, 76, 79. .22 rifle 50 yds.: F. (J 
Young. 25, 26; Horace Stevens, 30, 33, 36: E. A. Allen, 34, 39; 
C. -Bachman, 37, .38, 40, 42, 44; A. Emich, 41. Revolver. ,50 yds.: 
F. O. Young, with revolver ammunition, made 57, 56, 52, 50, 63; 
then, in a 50 shot match with Brannagan, in which he shot Peters 
Russian model .44 factory cartridges without any sighting shots, 
in his .44 Smith & Wesson revolver with 4 pounds pull of trigger 
and blowing in barrel, made the following, viz.: 
Young 9 9 4 7 6 6 6 5 1 5— 58 
2 5 42855156— 4.3 
473236343 3— 38 
3262266938— 47 
492 5 73235^ 44 
Total 
.230 
Fifty shots m 9 inch ring; 46 shots in 8 inch ring; 44 shots in 
7 inch ring; 35 shots run in 8 inch ring; 49 shots run in Blunt 
bull; 457 count on Standard target. This may never have been 
beaten under conditions; has it? 
A. J. Brannagan f.38 Smith & Wesson, Laflin & Rand pow- 
der). 40, 40, 51,; P. A. Becker 49, 60, 70; S. Carr 56, 79; F. W. 
Page 69. 76, 77, 81, 85; Dr. W. F. Browning 106. ■ 
Rifle 3 shot match, 200 yds.: Capt. Kuhnle 12, 15, 20; G. Man- 
nel 14, 15, 16; C. M. Davis 15, 18, 19. 
Fred O. Young, 
Recording and Corresponding Secretary. 
Cincinnati Rifle Associatioa. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. — The following scores were made in regular 
competition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading road, June 9. Conditions: 200 yards, off- 
hand, at the German ring target. Payne was declared champion 
for the day with the good score of 225. Weather fair, thermom- 
eter 76, wind 11 to 2 o'clock: 
„ Honor. 
Payne 225 220 216 214 213 22 23 25—70 
Nestler 224 202 198 196 197 12 19 19—50 
Gindele 221 220 217 215 213 21 22 21— '"1 
Strickmier 221 213 206 206 206 24 21 25—70 
Roberts 219 206 200 199 ... 24 21 23—68 
Hasenzahl 218 218 214 213 207 19 23 21—63 
Trounstine 216 202 188 187 185 
Bruns 214 184 LSI 176 175 20 13 17—50 
Speth 212 212 210 210 206 19 23 24— €6 
Drube 206 204 201 193 176 23 16 24—63 
Uckotter 203 193 190 190 184 16 14 13—43 
Weinheimcr 200 196 188 188 178 17 20 18—55 
Hofer 200 192 191 191 187 21 21 12—54 
Lux 198 197 195 191 190 21 17 18— .56 
[onscher 192 191 187 187 182 20 17 22—59 
topf 184 181 180 176 170 21 16 11-^8 
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