Oct. 12, 1901.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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landing at tliis stage was an operation requiring great 
care, and one both difficult and dangerous, as the banks 
for the most part were overgrown with overhanging 
trees, whose drooping branches projected far out into the 
water, which rushed through them with a force which was 
certain to swamp a canoe if caught in among them. 
We found, to our relief, that while the water rushed 
over Goode's dam in a horrible flood, which was certain 
to swamp our canoes in spite of closed hatches and aprons, 
the water flowed over the famous shoot, up under the 
left bank, in a long, smooth tongue, which promised us a 
free, safe passage, so, returning to our canoes and push- 
ing out into the flood again, carefully avoiding the water- 
logged trees and bushes, we dropped down close along 
the bank and made the shoot without wetting our decks. 
Our old Cedar Point camp ground was a mile below this 
,dam, and, as it was 2 o'clock, we slipped in cautiously 
among the trees and made a landing here for lunch. Our 
usual camp ground was some 6 or 8ft. beneath our keels, 
as we paddled over it, but the bank rose steeply up be- 
hind it in a high bluff, and a good, clear, dry landing 
was readily found. 
"I say," exclaimed Lacy, with his mouth full of ham 
sandwich, while he shucked a hard-boiled egg to keep the 
sandwich company, "what's the matter with camping 
here? There's no rush; we've made a good day'.s rim to- 
day, and can easily make Riverton by the middle of the 
afternoon to-morrow on this water, and it has been rather 
crampsome, sitting in the canoes all morning." 
"Well, it suits me well enough." said George. 
"I think it a capital idea, myself." I added. "In fact, it 
will be hard to find a good camping place for to-night 
below. All of our old camping places are under water, 
and I really cannot think of any place else for to-night, 
and I expect we had better not pass here." 
"I think you are right." George assented. "The river's 
still rising rapidly — it has risen over a foot since we 
landed here, less than an hour ago," consulting as he 
spoke a mark he had improvised, in the shape of a stick 
driven into the ground at the water's edge, which now 
stood some 3ft. or more out in the water, which was 
climbing up it at a rapid rate. "This place is both dry and 
safe, with this bluff behind us," he continued, as he re- 
sumed his seat on his camp stool. " We can put the canoes 
well up the bank out of reach of the water, and we can 
tie the up-stream painters to the trees, and even if the 
water does reach us, which isn't at all likely, we will 
simply float alongside of the bank until morning." 
The canoes were in due time carried well up on the 
side of the high bluff, which here rises in a steep hill, to 
the height of a couple of hundred feet or more above 
the river, and the tents erected over them. 
Frankie was still leaking a little, and before making 
my tent up for the night, I turned her bottom upward 
and an examination showed that the little cut I had daubed 
with asphaltum up at the Columbian Falls camp was still 
leaking. A good, substantial patch was carefully plas- 
tered on in the regular manner, and I experienced no 
further trouble on this score during the remainder of this 
cruise. 
We were well acquainted here. Mr. Fleming's house — 
a large, two-story frame structure, quite above the aver- 
age of farmhouses — occupies a commanding position on 
the summit of the high bluff. After supper we all went 
up there, and George borrowed Mr. Fleming's cellar for 
an hour, while he changed his glass plates and kodak 
rolls. 
"I wonder what's become of the Commodore?" mused 
George, as we were seated around a little blaze of a camp- 
fire, enjoying our evening smoke, after returning to our 
camp. 
"Who's the Commodore?" asked Lacy, removmg his 
pipe from his lips and blowing the smoke in a long, spiral 
curl from one corner of his mouth, which he watched 
lazily, as he spoke. "I thought there was but one Com- 
modore ?" 
"So did L" I replied, laughing, "until I found out differ- 
ently. You see, on our cruise of a couple of years ago 
George and I camped here ; our tents were right down 
there at the foot of this bluff " 
"Six feet under water," observed George, paren- 
thetically. 
"I was sitting there early in the morning startmg a 
fire in the camp stove, and George had climbed the moun- 
tain to the house for a bucket of water, when I heard a 
hail from the other side of the river. It was repeated 
again and again, but, beyond looking up and observing a 
group of three or four men on the other side, apparently 
anxious to get across the river, I paid no particular atten- 
tion to it, and went on with my breakfast preparations. 
Finally one hailed. 'Oh, Commodore!' 'Hello!' I an- 
swered promptly, dropping the potato I was peeling and 
springing to my feet, while a gratified feeling of merit 
recognized in being so widely known crept over my in- 
ner consciousness. 'Hello! What's wanted?' I cheer- 
fully hailed in replv. 'Bring the boat over, and set us 
across,' was the answer. Now it didn't suit me to leave 
my camp stove and breakfast preparations, but, being will- 
ing to oblige. I scrambled down to the water's edge and 
inspected, one after another, two or three big. heavv, half- 
sunken, wooden punts lying moored to the trees. 'I can't; 
they're all locked !' I shouted, after ascertaining this fact 
by personal examination. 'Well, can't you go up to the 
house and get the key?' was the somewhat peremptory 
rejoinder. 'Well, ves, I can, I suppose, but I don't have 
to,' I replied, as I resumed my seat and my half-peeled 
potato, not relishing the style of the request, and feeling 
that, while it was flattering to be so widely known, per- 
haps there was such a thing as being too well and 
familiarly known " 
"Yes," said Lacy, "particidarly as the house is about 
2oovds. away and almost straight up." 
"Just at this juncture." I resumed, "an old fellow carne 
down the hill, and without a word to me, or to the waiting 
men across the river, he stepped infS one of the boats, 
scooped the water out of it with the end of a board, un- 
locked it and paddled across the river, presently returning 
with the men. They landed, and. as they passed, stopped 
to look admiringly "at the camp outfit, the stove, cooking 
utensils, mess table, etc., coming in for a share of their 
questions and comments, not to mention the pretty, at- 
tractive-looking, little tents, which were still standing over 
the canoes. After the usual qtsestions had been asked, -and 
due answers returned, the men started on up the hill, when 
one of them suddenly stopped, transfiy.ed. "Well, I'll be 
hanged I' he exclaimed, 'if there ain't the boats under the 
tents !' It was even so, as closer examination on the part 
of the entire party proved. I suppose they at first thought 
we were running the river in one of the heavy, wooden 
boats moored at our camp — a not unreasonable supposi- 
tion. The old man who had ferried them across remained 
after the others had started up the hill. He informed me 
that he was the man of all work about the place above, 
and that, from having formerly been to sea, he was 
familiarly known as the Commodore. He and his wife 
lived in a little cabin half-way up the hill. He went up 
and presently returned with the old lady, to whom he 
showed the wonders of the camp, with a pride and self- 
complacency in his superior knowledge of boats quite 
amusing, giving her little bits of second-hand informa- 
tion about the construction or use of this, that or the other 
thing, which he had obtained from us but a few minutes 
before, with an air of pride, as though he knew it all 
himself, and to each and every article shown and ex- 
plained, from the camp stove to the canoes, the old lady 
reioincd with an amazed, "Well, u-pun my word an' 
honor ! I never saw anything like that in my life before,' 
and " 
"Did he lift the canoes to show their weight?' asked 
Lacy, refilling his pipe from a little bag of tobacco, which 
he took from" one of the pockets of his canoe, within reach 
of which he was sitting. 
"Oh. ves !" I replied, laughing. 
"Of all the exasperating things." said Lacy, throwing 
the tobacco bag carelessly back into the canoe and striking 
a match on a -rock at his feet, "which camp visitors do" 
(applying the match to his pipe) "picking up a canoe by 
one end to feel its weight" (puff, puff) "after you have 
gotten it carefully balanced and propped for the night" 
(puff, puff, puff) "is, to me. the most exasperating" 
(puff, puff). "You have to go to work, and adjust it all 
over again" (throwing the match away) "and then " 
"Yes," said George, with a laugh, "it is provoking, and 
there is always danger that the sharp-pointed pieces of 
wood, under the gunwales at each side, which are stuck 
in the ground to hold the boat in position, will pierce 
through the canvas when the canoe is let down again, for 
it is generally dropped heavily. I once had a hole punched 
in my boat that way, in one of our cruises. The river is 
still 'rising," he continued, as he knocked the ashes out 
of his little, double-decked meerschaum and sauntered 
over to his tent, and prepared to turn in. ^ 
"Yes," I replied, as I stepped down to the water's edge 
and took a look, "it has risen several feet since we ar- 
rived here, but I hardly think it will reach us, and it will 
be falling by morning." 
"How much of a rise has it been. Commodore, do you 
think?" called Lacv, from within his tent. 
"Well, from 16 to i8ft.. I should judge," I replied, as I 
fixed my lamp ready for reading, and snuggled into my 
blankets. 
[to be continued.] 
The tremendous effort which Sir Thomas Lipton has 
made on two separate occasions to win the America's Cup 
has given us something of an insight into this gentleman s 
character. He has been a most successful merchant, and 
he attributes his progress in life to his untiring energy 
and persistency. No such word as fail is to be found in 
his vocabulary, and he plays as he works, with never a 
thought of anything except that of winning. His defeat 
in the second attempt to carry back home with him the 
much-coveted trophy, instead of discouraging the man, 
seems to have stimulated his efforts to make a third trial, 
and it is stated that there is already a possibility of his 
challenging again. He is certainly the most graceful loser 
and has shown so much enthusiasm that we could have 
wished he might have won at least one race. 
In the event, however, of Sir Thomas concluding not 
to make a further attempt, there will be other challengers, 
it already being rumored that Mr. Peter Donaldson, the 
well-known Scotch yachtsman, is at the head of a syndi- 
cate which stands readv to build a challenger. This would 
afford that capable designer, Mr. William Fife. Jr., an- 
other opportunity to regain his laurels, as Mr. Donaldson 
has always sailed and thoroughly believes in Fife boats. 
Rumor has it also that the Emperor of Germany may 
forward a challenge, in which case the interest would be 
intense. A Canadian syndicate is also in the field, so that 
at this writing it does not seem as though we would be at 
a loss for challengers, and there is now a possibility of a 
race during the comiug year. 
We were much surprised to see the following article in 
that unusually accurate and splendid publication, Out- 
look, in its issue of Oct. 5 : "It would be hard to imagine 
a closer race or a more exciting one than that of last 
Saturday for the Queen's Cup, or. as Americans prefer to 
call it. America's Cup." The Cup in question was sub- 
scribed for by the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron 
and presented to the schooner America as the prize in a 
race around the Isle of Wight on Aug. 22, 1851. It is 
sometimes known as the 100 Guinea Cup. 
A s.VD accident occurred on Thursday to one of the 
crew of Mrs. Robert Goelet's steam yacht Nahma. The 
man's name was Hector Hewitt. He was at work with 
several of the men putting the quarter deck awnmg in 
place, when he fell overboard and was drowned. It is 
thought that Hewitt was struck by one of the propellers 
of the Chester W. Chapin, which was closely following 
the Nahma, as the body was not seen afterward. Not a 
moment was lost in the effort to save Hewitt's life. A 
gig which hung from the davits on Nahma's port quarter 
was instantly lowered, and in charge of an officer and 
three men went to the place where the man fell. There 
was no excitement, and this was due in no small degree 
to the splendid discipline that is always noticeable on 
ships that are manned by English crews. The accident 
brought to light the fact that Hewitt could not swim, and 
it is a well-known fact that nearly all sailors are deficient 
in this most important part of their training. Hewitt 
was t%venty-five years old and a native pf Essex county, 
England • ' - • 
A"Sttmmary Jof theL'^CuplRaces.j ^ or 
t90U 
The races for the America's Cup for tae season of 1901 
are now over, with the splendid record of three straight 
in favor of the American boat, Columbia. It is not in a 
boasting spirit that we say three straight, because every 
race was closely contested over the entire course from 
start to finish. It is conceded on every hand that never 
before in the history of yacht racing have there been 
such splendid contests. The two boats were most evenly 
matched, and while there was a dissimilarity m their ap- 
pearances, yet from the fact that but 43s. time allowance 
had to be conceded by Shamrock, it can be seen that the 
boats were quite a little alike. It seems astonishing that 
after many trials during the long period of fifty years 
American boats have proved themselves better m most 
every way than anything that Great Britain has produced, 
and yet, although Shamrock II. is a wonderful craft, Co- 
lumbia was even better. The contests were closer than 
ever before, and for that reason were intensely interesting. 
In no race held during the last half-century was the 
margin of safety so small as it was in the recent races, for 
it must be admitted that the Cup was really in danger of 
being lost. 
The first race, or, rather, the first attempt, as the race 
was unfinished on account of lack of breeze, gave an op- 
portunity to compare the relative speeds of the two boats 
for the first time. Capt. Barr got the best of the start, 
which was not altogether surprising, when it is considered 
that Capt. Sycamore had not been in a race for many 
weeks, and was therefore a little out of practice. The 
breeze was fluky and Columbia was favored, and hasty 
conclusions were reached on all sides to the detriment of 
Shamrock. These deductions proved wholly inaccurate 
two days later, when slie gave Columbia a severe tussle 
in a fifteen-mile to windward and leeward race. The 
result of the first attempt was unsatisfactory, there being 
no race, 'although Columbia was well in the lead when 
the time limit expired. This proved nothing, as the ad- 
vantages she had gained had been due to her being favored 
by the fluky breeze that prevailed. On the windward 
leg of this race Shamrock footed faster than Columbia, 
but did not point as high, and the extra speed did not 
offset the leeway she made. 
In the race on Saturday, the second time the boats 
met and in a finished contest. Shamrock's perfromances 
won the respect of everybody who witnessed the race. 
Her windward work was most surprising, and the show- 
ing she made going down the wind as disappointing, for 
it was on this point of sailing that it was thought that she 
would be far superior to Columbia. This race was indeed 
a close one. Shamrock got the best of the start and held 
her lead all the way to the weather mark, beating Co- 
lumbia to this point by 39s. When Shamrock rounded 
the outer mark in the lead, it was generally thought that 
the race was hers, because her larger spread of canvas 
would naturally take her down the wind fast enough to 
make the winner. But Capt. Barr had no idea of losing, 
and he astonished every one, working Columbia to the 
front and beating his adversary on the run home, and 
finished a winner by im. and 20s. The performances of 
these boats in the windward leg were the reverse of 
Thursday, Shamrock pointing higher and footing almost 
as fast as Columbia. This day's racing demonstrated that 
there was but little to choose between the two boats on 
windward work; in fact, Shamrock seemed an almost 
perfect match for Columbia on every point of sailing. 
When the first race was called off by the Regatta Com- 
mittee. Columbia was in the lead, but on Tuesday, under 
similar conditions, when that race was abandoned, Sham- 
rock was well in the lead, thus showing of what little 
value conclusions are when reached under such circum- 
stances. 
On Thursday, when the second finished race was sailed, 
the conditions were most satisfactory for the racing of 
modern boats. A strong, steady breeze prevailed through 
the entire day, and sent the boats over the triangular 
course in record time. Columbia, however, proved her- 
self a better boat than Shamrock, to the satisfaction of 
all. It was a reach to the first mark, and although Co- 
lumbia got the poorest position, at the start, she gained 
22s. on this leg. On the second leg, which was also a 
reach, with the wind on the starboard beam, she gained 
30s. From the second mark to the finish line it was a 
beat, and Columbia started on this leg to leeward, but 
slowly and surely worked out to windward and into the 
lead. On this leg Columbia gained 2m., and again finished 
a winner by 3m. and 35s., showing conclusively that un- 
der the existing conditions of wind and sea she was 
Shamrock's superior. 
The race of Friday was the last and deciding one of the 
series, and was indeed a rare one, the entire credit of 
^^•hich should go to Capt. Barr. Shamrock outfooted 
Columbia down the wind, and led at the outer mark. It 
was at this point that Barr displayed his wonderful skill 
as a skipper. After a long, hard fight he finally worked 
his boat to the edge of the better breeze along the Jersey 
shore, and brought Columbia to the front, notwithstanding 
the fact that Shamrock had crossed the finish line by 
2s. in advance of Columbia, the latter winning on time 
allowance by 41s. The close finish of this race made a 
fitting ending for the greatest contests that have ever been 
sailed in defense of any cup. Columbia's uniform suc- 
cess was largely due to the ability of Capt. Charles Barr 
and to the wisdom of Mr. E, D. Morgan in not inter- 
fering with the sailing master's work. A word of praise 
is also due to Columbia's crew. It has been said that the 
men were the equals in discipline and seamanship of the 
crew of Britannia, the cutter formerly owned by the 
Prince of Wales. 
Probably no feature of Shamrock's performances 
elicited more admiration than did her windward work, 
which left nothing to be desired. In a strong wind and 
smooth sea she pointed well and footed very fast. Off 
the wind, however, the results were disappointing. Her 
sail area was much greater than that of Columbia, and it 
is therefore difficult to understand why she did not make 
a better showing. One thing could have been done that' 
would have helped her very materially, which was that 
when running her crew should have been placed about 
the mast instead of way out on her stern, the result being 
ifi^t the boat seenje4 to dr^g }\fr stem and to cock VfQ 
