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[arks. Entertainnteftt Committee: Ernst H. Brandt, 
red Beltz, W. J. L. Davids. Fleet Surgeon, Dr. H, H. 
yson, Jr. Chaplains:, Rev. George C. Houghton, D.D., 
Lev. Charles F. Boylston. Delegates to the Yacht Rac- 
lg Association of Long Island Sound: C. T. Pierce, 
Yank Bowne Jones. 
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The annual meeting of the Stamford Y. C. was held at 
ie Suburban Club in Stamford, on Feb. 4. The follow- 
lg officers were elected for the ensuing year: Com., 
ames D. Smith; Vice-Corn., Walton Ferguson; Rear 
5om., Edward F. Leeds: Treas.. Charles H. Leeds; Sec'y, 
lerbert Lawton; Fleet Surgeon. Frederick Schavoir: 
/leas., I. Franklin Wardwell; Chaplain, the Rev. Charles 
A. Addison. Directors: George S. Hoyt, Schuyler 
vlerritt, Albert C. Hall, Edward C. Hoyt, George H. 
ioyt, H. P. Bartlet, E. E. Braggerhoff, Alfred S. Pitt, 
Frederick M. Hoyt, Walter S. Hoyt. Nominating Com- 
nittee for 1902-3: H. P. Bartlet, Walter D. Daskam, 
tfalcom R. Pitt, Archibald Smith, Walter M. Smith. 
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At the annual meeting of the Stuyvesant Y. C, which 
f/as held a few days ago, the following officers were 
ilected: Com.. William J. Hogg; Vice-Corn., Dr. H. 
Hepner; Rear Com., Granville Stibbens; Treas., C. S. 
Dgden; Sec'v, J. Alfred Smith; Fleet Surgeon, F. Le 
Count Dowe' M.D. Directors: William C Cartwright, 
C. H. Clapper. Peter Barry, Frederick Kleinle, F. C. 
Kaiser. Finance Committee: A. W. Strong, A. Wise. 
Membership Committee: J. Babst, G. Stevens, J. Mc- 
Gregor. Regatta Committee: J. Kraus, G. Wagner, J. 
Muller, S. Wright, H. Merkens. Law Committee: Dr. 
Hall, A. T. McKenzie. 
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The New Amsterdam Y. C. was incorporated in Albany 
on Feb. 7. The club will be located in New York City, 
and the directors will be as follows: A. Hobart Walton, 
lidgewood, N. J.; James F. Holder, Gustave A. Girard, 
New York City; John W. James, Brooklyn, and Thomas 
Buckingham, of Flastbush. 
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Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles, U. S. N., addressed 
the members of the New York Y. C. on "Naval Con- 
struction," on Feb. 6. The two hundred members present 
were greatly interested in the lecture, which was illus- 
trated by stereopticon views. This was the first of a 
series of entertainments that has been arranged for the 
winter. The next will be on Feb. 27, when Rear Ad- 
miral George Melville, U. S. N., will talk of "Arctic 
Experiences." Rear Admiral Charles O'Neil, U. S. N., 
will talk of "Ships, Guns and Explosives" on March 20, 
and on April 10 there will be a musicale. 
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The Canarsie Y. C. held its annual meeting on Feb. 
S. and the following officers were elected: Com., T. H. 
Northridge; Vice-Corn., George H. Matthaei; Sec'y, 
Walter W. Tamlyn; Finan. Sec'y, George E. Winters; 
Treas., J. K. Alexander; Meas., Joseph T. Fletcher. 
Members of Board of Trustees: J. C. Heinemann, 
Thomas M. Mannion, W. G. Herx, C. F. Kalkhaff, 
Charles J. Neilsen, Frank P. Mapes and Daniel J. Brins- 
ley, Jr. The reports of the various officers and commit- 
tees showed over one hundred boats in the club's fleet, 
and the first mortgage on the club's property, which had 
matured, was paid in full. This leaves but a slight second 
mortgage, all held by club members, on the new club- 
house at Sand's Point. It was decided to open the season 
•on Memorial Day with a parade of the club fleet, inspec- 
tion by the Commodore and races in the afternoon. 
During the season the club will hold races each Satur- 
day and holiday. 
I YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The schooner Jennie R. Dubois, the first five-master 
ever built in Connecticut, will be launched on Feb. it 
from the yard of the builders. The Holmes Shipbuilding 
Company, of West Mystic. 
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The Electric Launch Company, of Bayonne, N. J., 
, is building, in addition to some twenty-five launches 
varying from 20 to 45ft. waterline, a cruising keel yawl 
to be equipped with a 6 horse-power Globe engine, for 
a New York yachtsman. She will be 37ft. on the water- 
line, 50ft. over all, 15ft. beam, 5ft. draft, with 2ft. 3in. 
least freeboard. There will be 1,374 sqare feet of canvas 
in her lower sails. On the keel there will be 6,000 pounds 
of lead and 5,000 pounds more inside. The boat will be 
used on Long Island Sound. The launch for Mr. J. D. 
Johnson, of New York City, is finished and has been run 
out of the shop. The boat will be used on Barnegat Bay. 
She is 50ft. over all, 42ft. on the waterline, 11ft. beam, 
2ft. 2in. freeboard, and 3ft. 3m. draft. Her pilot house 
is 8ft. long, the saloon 9ft, the lavatory 3ft, and the 
engine room 10ft. 6in. The forward deck is 10ft. 4in. 
long and the after deck 11ft 8in. A 16 horse-power 
Globe engine will furnish the power and the builder 
.guarantees a speed of nine miles an hour. The tanks 
-have a capacity of 175 gallons, an amount sufficient to 
run 750 miles without refilling. Another boat shop is 
now under proces of construction by the Electric Launch 
Company; this building was made necessary by the large 
amount of work now on hand. 
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Mr. George Robinson, of New York City, is having 
De Witt Conklin, of Patchogue, L. I., build for him a 
boat to race in the 36ft. class on Great South Bay. ■ 
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The Northport Y. C. is to have a class of one-design 
boats next season. Nine clipper dories have been ordered 
from Gerry Emmons, of Swampscott, Mass. These boats 
are 17ft. over all, and carry a leg-o'-mutton sail and a 
small jib. 
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The Daimler Motor Company, of Steinway, L. I., has 
completed plans for a yacht of good size to be propelled 
by gasoline motors. She will be 105ft. over all and 16ft. 
breadth. She will be driven by two 50 horse-power Daim- 
ler motors. The boat will have excellent accommoda- 
tion under a low cabin house. 
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Mr. W. II . Childs, of Brooklyn, has purchased from 
Mr. Henry Hunt, of Boston, the r8ft. knockabout Trou- 
ble. She will be raced in the 21ft. class on Gravescnd 
Bay, Trouble was designed by Mr. Fred D. Lawley, and 
built by the Geo. Lawley & Son Corporation. 
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Captain Charles E. Bailey died at sea on board the 
steam yacht Katoomba on Feb. 1, while making a trip 
to the West Indies. Captain Bailey was one of the 
best known yacht skippers in this country, and was for 
nine years in command of the old and new Corsairs owned 
by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. 
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Thomas Manning, a well known yachtsman and yacht 
broker, and publisher of Manning's Register, died at his 
home in New York City from heart failure on Feb. f. 
Mr. Manning was born in England sixty-nine years ago, 
and ever since he came to this country, in 1873, he had 
been most successful. He was a member of the New 
York, Larchmont, American, Atlantic and New Rochelle 
Y. C's. • 
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Messrs. Read Brothers,, of Fall River, Mass., have the 
yawl building for Mr. A. Homer Skinner well along. She 
will take the place of Penelve sold by Mr. Skinner last 
summer. She is 40ft. long on the waterline and 57ft. 
over all, and will have a 16 horse-power Murray and 
Tregurtha motor. 
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Frank N. Isham, Mystic, Conn., is building four 
launches 36ft. long and 9ft. beam. Each one will be 
equipped with a 10 horse-power motor. 
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At Patchogue, L. I., Gil Smith has the deck frames of 
the 25ft. waterline cutter for Mr. George Trowbridge 
Hollister in place. Mr. Smith is building a catboat for 
Mr. John Masury for use around Moriches. She is 29ft. 
over all and 19ft. waterline. Another catboat is being 
built for Edgar Lynn, for use on Shinnecock Bay. This 
boat is 16ft. waterline and 24ft. over all. Judge Carter is 
having a catboat built identical in design with Mr. 
Masury \s boat. Mr. Smith is building for himself a rac- 
ing catboat to be 35ft. over all, 23ft. waterline. 9ft. 8in. 
breadth, and 2ft. 3in. draft. 
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In addition to the boat Mr. Charles D. Mower has de- 
signed for the Seawanhaka trial races he has turned out a 
number' of others. The largest of them was for Mr. 
William Clements, of West Perth, West Australia. She 
is a compromise keel and centerboard boat 45ft. 8in. over 
all, 28ft. waterline; lift. 2in. breadth and 4ft. 6in. draft. 
She is sloop rigged and carried 1,100 square feet of sail. 
Another boat was for Mr. H. H. Robinson, of New 
Haven, Conn. She is 21ft. waterline, 33ft. 3in. over all, 
8ft. loin, breadth, and 3ft. 6in. draft with centerboard 
hoisted. All ballast is of lead outside, and there is 4ft. 
ioin. headroom in the cabin. There are 500 square feet of 
canvas in the lower sails and a small sprit topsail will be 
carried. Mr. Mower got out plans for a 21ft. racing- 
length sloop for Mr. W. H. Childs, of Brooklyn, to be 
raced on Gravesend Bay, but Mr. Childs did not build 
owing to the change in measurement rules. Mr. W. S. 
Wheaton had Mr. Mower design for him a racing cat- 
boat to be used at Atlantic City, N. J. She is 18ft. over 
all, 12ft. waterline, 6ft. breadth and 6in. draft; 225 square 
feet of sail in mainsail. Members of the Victoria Y. C, 
of British Columbia, are building six boats of Mr. 
Mower's design. They are 15ft. on the waterline, 24ft. 
over all, 5ft. 9in. breadth and 4ft. draft with 1,000 pounds 
of outside ballast. Their, sail, area is 328 square feet, 262 
of which will be carried in the mainsail. 
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The Marine Engine and Machine Company, of Harri- 
son, N. J., has secured an order from Mr. J. Beaver 
Webb for a 26ft. double cockpit tender equipped with a 
seven horse-power alco-vapor motor for the steam yacht 
Isis, owned by Messers. W. S. and J. T. Spaulding, of 
Boston. 1 This firm has shipped to Mr. H. Reginald 
Hunt, of Yokohama, Japan, a 25ft. alco-vapor launch 
fitted with a five horse-power motor. 
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A number of the members of the Shelter Island Y. C. 
have contracted with the Greenport Basin and Construc- 
tion Company, of Greenport, L. I., to build for them a 
number of small sloops. These craft will be identical in 
design and construction with the boats being turned out 
by this company for the members of the Ardsley Y. C. 
The dimensions are as follows: 25ft. 9m. over all, 15ft. 
6in. waterline, 6ft. breadth and 4ft. draft. The boats will 
carry 410 square feet of sail in mainsail and jib, and there 
will be 1,200 pounds of outside lead ballast. 
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At Huntington's yard at New Rochelle the frames of 
the ketch building for Mr. F. T. Hastings are all set up 
and the work of planking will soon commence. The boat 
was designed by W. Starling Burgess and will replace 
the 28-footer Peggy that was 'lost in the storm at New 
Rochelle last November. 
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Down the Danube in a Canadian 
Canoe. — III. 
(From Mactxillan's Magazine ) 
For a long time, strange as it may sound, we had been 
enforced vegetarians and" drinkers of condensed milk. 
We could rarely get fresh milk, though we trudged many 
a mile to farmhouses and inns for it; either it was all 
used for butter, or had already been sent to the towns. 
Of course it would not keep sWeet ui otl'r catioe under the 
blazing heat, and we could only trust to the chance of 
getting it an hour or so before we needed it. But, when 
we were lucky enough to get it, how delicious were those 
messes of boiled bread and milk; meat, too, was hard to 
come at, except at certain hours. The butchers m the 
small towns open their shops at certain times only. NOl 
one of them would ever trouble himself to supply us with 
merely, a pound of meat, and more would not, of course, 
keep fresh. 
We were drawing near Vienna now, but first we passed 
through another fine gorge. It began at Grein (where the 
Duke of Coburg's castle, Greinburg, looks down from 
the heights) and before we emerged breathless at the 
other end we had come through the famous whirlpools 
known as the Wirbel and Strudel. The river, narrowed 
by Half its width, plunged with many contortions round 
sharp corners between high cliffs and past the island 
rock of Worth. Rising in long, heaving undulations the 
water was alive with whirlpools, twisting and sucking and 
throwing us here and there, gushing up underneath us 
with ugly noises and seething on every side. There was no 
foam, no crests, no waves or spray; it was like a mon- 
•strous snake trying to writhe through a hole too small 
for it. The shore raced by at top speed, and steering 
was uncomfortable for a time. In former years these 
whirlpools were a source of great danger to the naviga- 
tion; but in 1866 the Emperor had certain rocks blown 
up and now an inscription on the face of the cliff testifies 
to the thanks of a grateful people. The traveler in a big 
steamer might think this inscription exaggerated. He 
would not think so in a canoe. 
It is impossible to mention, as one would like, all the 
abbeys, churches, monasteries, ruins, islands and other 
points of historic interest that throng the banks. The 
scenery is enchanting as well as enchanted. There were 
some interesting castles in these mountains, and grim 
they still look even in their ruins. Aggstein rose in soli- 
tary grandeur on a peak that commanded miles of the 
Danube in both directions. ' It was built in the twelfth 
century by the Kuenings, a robber race which stretched 
chains across the river, plundered the traffic and drowned 
the owners. We could still see the Blashaus Tower from 
which the sentinel announced the approach of boats. Its 
was a plundering, murdering family, and was finally de- 
stroyed by the great Ulrich von Grafeneck. 
Before Ybbs (the Roman Pons Isidis) we saw the 
wonderful ruins of Diirrenstein where Richard Cceur de 
Lion was imprisoned. Here, on the very spot, it was in- 
teresting to recall how he was recognized when walking 
through the fields at Erdberg (since merged in Vienna), 
captured and handed over to his enemy. Duke Leopold 
of Austria, who. intrusted him in turn to the keeping of 
the Kuenings. They kept him for fifteen months (1193) 
in the great castle of Diirrenstein beneath whose grim 
walls we passed in our canoe. In Austria the story is 
implicitly believed, whatever we may think of it in Eng- 
land. 
The following day we saw the blue hills of the Wiener 
Wald rising behind Vienna, and before long we were 
obliged to don our best clothes, and send a porter down 
from our hotel to fetch the luggage from the bathing 
house, where the canoe lay below the Reichsbriicke. 
We did not stay long in Vienna. Rooms in July seem 
stuffy after a tent, and a fly-spotted ceiling is a poor 
substitute for the stars. 
The canoe was packed full of provisions ready to start 
when our first accident occurred. The river had risen a 
couple of feet and was very swift. My friend had just 
taken off his shoes and placed them on the top of the 
other luggage. Several of the crowd, in the : r misguided 
fashion, were trying to help us, when I stepped into the 
little space vacant for me in the stern. How it happened 
no one knew ; some one let go too soon, and she was in- 
stantly swept out sideways into the current. The next 
second I was dropped out nearly into 5ft. of water, and 
the canoe, settling till only the tops of the luggage re- 
mained in sight, went full tilt down stream. There were- 
50yds. of clear water, and then came a row of barges tied 
10ft. from the shore and leaving an inner channel. Into 
this the canoe luckily was swept ; had she careered off 
into midstream probably we should never have seen her 
again. With boat hooks and poles we ran along the 
banks to catch her before she banged into the barges. 
My friend ran in his socks. The hotel porter, the bath 
house man and a dozen idlers all followed shouting 
different things at once. But the canoe and the mad 
current had the start of us. Crash ! with a sound of 
rending splintering wood she banged into the nearest 
barge and turned completely over. A few seconds later 
the various articles appeared on the surface again, and 
there began a sort of obstacle race that might have been 
highly comical had it not been so serious. Our beds with 
the cork mattresses floated high out of the water. Jumbo 
(a huge kit bag holding our wardrobe) came next, up to 
his neck. A smaller waterproof bag, tied at the neck and 
holding bread and cameras, followed, spinm'ng merrily. 
The provision basket (filled with the morning's careful 
shopping and some tea just arrived from England) 
showed only its nose above the surface. Coats, hats, 
socks, maps, tent poles and tent followed in motley array 
at the end of an idiotic-looking procession. Every time 
an article banged into a barge it went under for a few 
seconds, and meanwhile the canoe was crashing on among 
ropes and poles in the van. The heavy articles defied our 
efforts, and Jumbo pulled one man. bodily into the water 
when he tried to drag it ash' re. 
In the end, however most of the things were saved. 
The men caught the can~e a~ she spun past a barge and 
held her till help came. AH the articles, too, were fished 
out except those that would not float. Thus, we lost our 
lantern, the prop of the kettle, a pair of my friend's shoes, 
an odd one of mine, the ridge pole of the tent and my 
town hat and coat. It was w nderfully little. The bows 
of the canoe, however, were completely smashed in; and 
to make it worse, the ra n suddenly came down in tor- 
rents and a cold wind blew from the north. 
Then a carpenter appeared on the scene and said he 
could mend the canoe and make a new tent pole. The 
people of the bath house took rur things in to dry, while 
we jumped into a closed carriage and drove back into 
Vienna my friend with no shoes on his feet, and I with- 
out a hat on my head. Yet, such \vr bur good luck, that 
three hours later we were spinning: d wn the river in the 
mended canoe; the sun was shin ng brightly, our things 
were dried, we had a new tent pole, Vienna was out of 
