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2S-footers.. An i8-footer, designed by Small, is being built 
by Higgiiis, of Cohasset. 
Crowninshield has an order for five raceabouts of one 
design for S. Wainwright, Trenor L. Park, Oliver Harri- 
man, Jr., Howard Willetts and William H. Browning, all 
of New York. They will be 20ft. loin. waterline, 32ft. 
loin. over all, 7ft. 7in. beam and 5ft. 6in. draft. They will 
have 3,40olbs. of outside lead and will carry 600ft. of sail. 
In all other respects they will conform to the restrictions 
of the Knockabout Association. 
Burgess has an order for a 3Sft. waterline yawl for 
F. S. Hastings, who formerly owned the 28ft. yawl Peggy, 
which was destroyed at New Rochelle in the storm of a 
few weeks ago. She will be built by Huntington. 
At Lawley's the cabin work is being put in the Eaton 
46ft. schooner. The Adams 21-footer has been laid down. 
The keels for a 104ft. waterline steam yacht and a 51ft. 
speed launch have been turned out. Plans have been re- 
ceived for the 46-footer for Arnold Lawson, designed by 
Tams, Lemoine & Crane. She will be laid down this 
week. Last week Geo. Lawley was in New York. He 
figured on a 60-rater, designed by Gardner & Cox. He 
received an order for a 112ft. steam yacht and a launch 
for the Yale crew. Fred Lawley is at work on the plans 
for an i8ft. knockabout for Alfred Douglas and a 15- 
footer for Detroit parties. 
A special meeting of the Burgess Y. C. will be held 
Thursday evening at the club house to nominate officers 
for the coming year and also to consider a proposition 
from the Boston Y. C. The Boston Y. C. has just pur- 
chased a location for a station at Marblehead, and there 
has been talk of the Burgess Y. C. being absorbed by it. 
Starling Burgess is now at work on the plans for a new 
gasolene engine. He expects to have it completed soon, 
and will install it in some of the launches which are 
now building from his designs at Stearns', IVIarblehead 
Yacht Yard. This is not his first departure from the line 
of htxUs . He has. already invented a rapid-fire gun, which 
is claimed to be a very fine machine, and it is said that 
it is to be used by the Government. With such versatility 
of talent, Burgess should in a short time rank high among 
the world's designers. John B. Killeen, 
Victory of the Ann Elba. 
'T SEE," said Cap'n Silas Grindle, as he laid down the 
paper, "I see them rich critters is a-racin' of their yachts 
ag'in, an' it looksi sorter foolish to me. Why? Well, 
'cause they ain't nateral vessils to begin with, an' then 
ag'in, they ain't got no speed nohow. Yes, I've seen 
'em* olt'n Marblehead an' outside o' Brenton's reef, 
switchin' 'round an' monkeyin' with balloon tops'ls 'n all 
kinds o' light kites, with enuff men on deck to eat 'em, 
an' I never yet seen one as 'd keep comp'ny with lots o' 
vessels castin' right outen Bangor — that 's s'posin' they's 
any wind. That old schooner o' Ben Butler's, the 
Ameriky, she was fit to go an' stay outdoors in, but 
she was built on nateral lines, an' was fit to kerry sail 
withous any fins or sech fixin's like they have now to 
hold her up to it Ever see one o' them fancy ones out 
on the railway? Look jest like a swordfish high an' dry. 
Ain't got no body to 'em, but draws much water's a 
man-o'-war. 
"I come near gettin' hauled up oncet all along o' one 
o' them yacht races. Would have been, too, 'f I hadn't 
more speed than anything in the fleet. That was when 
I was in the old Ann Eliza, an' my brother Ed he was 
m one called the Mercury. Used to brag a good deal 
about that Mercury, an' she was a smart vessel, sure 
enutf. My youngest gal, that went to the seminary to 
Bucksport, she said that vessel had a right to be fast, 
bein' named after some critter way back in heathen 
times, as had wings on his heels. Curi's place for wangs 
— hey? But the. Mercury she was a brick scow 'longside 
o' the Ann Eliza, any p'int o' sailin'. Well, 't was 'long 
inter September one year a spell back when the two 
of us, Ed an' me, left Bangor in the same tow an' got 
a good slant to take us outer the bay. Ed he had bricks 
in the hold and fish barrils on deck, an' I was piled high 
with baled hay — both of us bound to Bost'n. 
"Off Marblehead we come up with a slew o' fancy 
sloops an' little schooner-rigged boats, an' steamers with 
yaller stacks, all tricked out with buntin' an' a-blowin' of 
whistles and a-tootin' of horns fit to wake the dead. 
When we was clost up, Ed he hailed me, sayin' : 
" 'It's a yacht race. Si. Let's stan' in an' see it.' 
"I says, 'All right,' an' bein' close-hauled on the star- 
board tack, with the wind southwest, I jibed her over, 
started her sheets an' run in. The Ann Eliza was a good 
vessil on the wind, but you jest give her a free sheet an' 
she was a race-boss — she was, for sartin; that old critter 
'd go hke a ghost. She made consid'able fuss goin' 
through it, but she kivered lots o' water, she did, an' 't 
want no time till we was right in the thick o' them 
yachts. They seeined to be a-gittin ready to start the 
race, for there was a steamboat a-histin' of signals an' 
a-tootin' of her whistle a-layin' to off 'n a booey, an' 
three or four skittish-Iookin' sloops was see-sawin' up to 
v.'ind'ard, ready to skip acrost the line. 
"Wife an' two boys was with me, an' they all wanted 
to see the race, so I says, says I, 'AH right — I'll try to 
keep along of 'em, an' all you got to do is use your eyes.' 
I see the yachts squared away for the start, an' I figgered 
that I'd come about jest as I come up with the stake steam- 
boat an' run down along with 'em. Jest then a little 
coffee-pot of a steamer come hustlin' ©ut to us an' a 
dude in white pants standin' for'ards he sings out: 
" 'Hey, there— you! Where you goin'?' 
" 'Hey, you-self,' says I, 'I'm no farmer!' 
" 'Keep out o' the way,' says he, an' I said I guessed 
I could keep away from anything 'round there. 'Ready, 
about!' says I to the feller at the wheel; 'hard-a-lee!' 
The jib slatted over, an' she filled away on the starboard 
tack ag'in as pretty as a pilot boat, an' down we run, 
right through a clear course they had, with all the yachts 
lined up on both sides to watch the racin' boats when 
they went through. They had the wind on the beam, so 
it was a straight run, an' there was lots o' room for them 
an' the Ann Eliza, too. Well, we hadn't much more 'n 
begun to gather way on her 'fore ti ere was a great 
hoUerin' right astarn of us, an' 1 looked 'round to see 
what was up. Well, sir, I'll be jiggered 'f all the yachts 
