set of rules governing the classes of yachts. It is the 
opinion of the delegates that the yachts should have 
greater living .space aboard, and should not be mere 
racing machines. The committee will report at a special 
meeting, to be held at Buffalo probably next month. 
The Union also took up the case of Arthur Pettie and 
James Gore, Detroit yachtsmen, who were said to be 
professionals, sustaining the protests against both. Pet- 
tie was one of the crew of the Cadillac in her races 
against the Canada. Action was taken, however, whereby 
Pettie may be reinstated within a year. 
Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: 
J. Frank Monck, Hamilton, Chairman; John R. Rath- 
bone, Detroit, re-elected Sec'y and Treas. The next an- 
nual meeting will be held at Hamilton. 
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At the annual meeting of the Keystone Y. C. the fol- 
lowing officers were elected: Com., John A. Wells; 
Vice-Com., Frederick K. Walsh; Rec. Sec'y, Dr. E. C. 
Smith; Fin. Sec'y, Gilbert Baldwin; Treas., J. Robert 
Laws, Jr.; Meas., Charles A. SchifTmachor. For the 
Board of Governors for two years the following were 
elected: John A. Wells, J. Robert Laws, Jr., Gilbert 
Baldwin and Justice William H. E. Jay. 
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The Shinnecock Bay Y. C. has filed a certificate with 
the Secretary of State, at Albany, setting forth that it 
has been granted leave by the courts to change its corpo- 
rate name to the Shinnecock Y. C, 
At the annual meeting of the Sag Harbor Y. C. reso- 
tutions and racing rules of the Yacht Racing Association 
of Long Island Sound were adopted, and the club will 
apply for membership in that body. The following offi- 
cers were chosen: Com., James Herman Aldrich, of 
New York; Vice-Com., Addison F. Young, Sag Harbor; 
Sec'y, John H. Hunt, Sag Harbor; Treas., Julien A. 
Udell, Sag Harbor; Regatta Committee, George Kier- 
nan, J. H. Aldrich, Herbert L. La Mont and J. A. UdalL 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Mr. Frank Jay Gould, N. Y. Y. C, has commissioned 
the Gas Engine and Power Co., and Seabury & Co., of 
Morris Heights, N. Y., to design and build for him a 
modern, steel steam yacht. The yacht will be igoft. over 
all, 22ft. beam, and will draw loft. There will be two 
deck houses — one forward and one aft. In the forward 
house there are a smolcing and dining room, captain's 
stateroom, and the steward's pantry. The after house will 
be used as a music i-oom, and a piano and an organ will 
be placed in this apartment. A staircase leads from the 
music room below, where the owner's quarters are lo- 
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cated, which consist of two large, connecting staterooms, 
handsomely furnished with brass bedsteads and the usual 
bureaus and clothes presses. Toilet rooms adjoin both 
these staterooms. Aft of the owner's rooms leads a 
passage, with the guest rooms opening from it. Each 
stateroom has a connecting bath. All the cabinet work 
and other fittings in the cabins will be plain and simple. 
Special attention has been given to the lighting and 
ventilating of the rooms below decks, so that any odor 
arising from the bilge or machinery will not be noticed. 
Electric fans are placed in all the staterooms. 
The officers' staterooms and the crew's quarters are 
forward, and aft of these is the gallery, which is con- 
nected with the pantry in the deck house by a dumb 
waiter. The boiler and engine space is aft of the galley. 
The coal bunkers have a capacity of 100 tons. Ten thou- 
sand gallons of water can be carried in the tanks. 
The machinery consists of a Seabury triple expansion 
engine and two Seabury water tube boilers, which will 
drive the yacht at a speed of about 17 or 18 miles. The 
yacht will be heated by steam and lighted throughout 
by electricity. A 26ft. mahogany launch, a 21ft. launch, 
a 2oft. gig and a 20ft. cutter will be carried on davits. 
She will be ready for delivery about April 15, 1902. 
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The Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding and Repairing 
Co., of Shooter's Island, S. I., have a large amount of 
yacht work on hand. On Oct. 3 the keel of the new 
schooner that they are building for the Emperor of Ger- 
many, from designs made by Messrs. A. Cary Smith & 
Barbey, was laid. Mr. Alessandro Fabbri is having built 
at ^his yard an auxiliary schooner. She will be 77ft. on 
the waterline, and was designed by Messrs. A. Cary 
Smith & Barbey. Mr. Theodore E. Ferris, the well- 
known designer, who has been associated with the 
Townsend & Downey Co. for some time past, has de- 
signed a cruising schooner that will be iioft. on the 
waterline, for Mr. Gibson Fahnestock. This vessel will 
also be built by the Townsend & Downey Co. 
Word has been received from abroad that King Ed- 
ward has purchased the cutter Britannia (formerly 
owned b}' him) from Sir Richard Bulkeley, her present 
owner. 
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The outlook for good yacht racing at Bar Harbor 
next season is excellent. A ntimber of knockabouts will 
be built this winter, and will be added to the already 
large class of these boats. The interest during the past 
season has not been quite as keen as heretofore, and, al- 
though good racing has been had, both at the Bar Har- 
bor Y. C. and the Mt. Desert Y. R. A., still, there was 
hardly as much life in the contests as there was the year 
previous. Under the new condition Bar Harbor will 
find itself with a large knockabout fleet, and the races 
will have a dozen or more entries. W. L. Greene, Edgar 
Scott, A. Y. Stewart, Harry Thorndike, and J. M. Sears, 
Jr., will make over their knockabouts to conform to the 
rules of the 30ft: class, while new knockabouts for this 
class will probably be built by the following gentlemen: 
W. G. Ladd, C. B. Newbold, V. Everett Macy, H. H. 
Sands, E. G. Fabbri, J. C. Mercer Biddle, F. R. E. 
Pinchot, W. B. Trevor, W. C. Allison and General Mor- 
rell. It was voted that the next season the races shall 
be begun July 12, and continue twice a week to and 
including Sept. 13. 
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Mr. Fred S. Nock, of West Mystic, Conn., has fin- 
ished the plans of a 30ft. launch for Mr. D. N. Perry, of 
Wyandotte, Mich.; a 21ft. waterline knockabout for a 
New Haven yachtsman, whose name is withheld, and a 
knockabout 35ft. over all, 2ft. on the waterline, 8ft, 
beam, and sft. draft, that will carry 540 sq, ft. of sail, for 
Mr. Arthur L. Douglas, of Brooklyn, N, Y. Mr, Nock 
has recently sold the raceabout Baby-Roger for Mr. Fred- 
eric A. Chase, of Providence, R. I., to Mr. Geo. Boehm, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the raceabout Mystic for Mr. 
Fred E. Field, of Providence, R. I., to Mr. Sanford L. 
Hotchkiss, of New Haven, Conn. 
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The schooner yacht Fleur-de-Lis, Dr. Lewis A. Stim- 
son, N. Y. Y. C, arrived at New York on Oct. 6, twenty- 
eight days out from Gibraltar. The owner and his two 
daughters were on board, and they have been cruising 
in the Mediterranean for the past six months. 
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The schooner yacht Intrepid has been pnrcliascd bv 
Mr. Edward Bell, N. Y. Y..C. 
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The W. & A. Fletcher Co., of Hoboken, N. J., is 
building a twin sci-ew, steel, steam yacht for Messrs. ■ 
W. S, and J. T. Spaulding, of Boston, from designs made 
by Mr. J. Beavor Webb. The yacht will be T62ft. on the 
waterline, 200ft. over all, and 24ft. 6in. beam. She will be 
fitted with triple-expansion engines, of 1,200 horse power, 
and Yarrow water tube boilers. Fifteen knots speed is 
guaranteed. The yacht will be ready to turn over to the 
owners about May r, 1902. 
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Mr. A. L. Barber, N. Y. Y. C, is having built by 
Messrs. Ramage & Ferguson, of Leith, a large, ocean- 
going, steel steam yacht. She will have an over-all 
length of 300ft. It was originally intended to furnish the 
yacht with two sets of triple-expansion engines, but work 
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