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sail area should be limited to 906 sq. ft., boats will be 
built with less than 10ft. beam, and the lake yachtsmen 
can get a crack at the cup. If Mr. Faxon challenges be- 
fore April 1, other clubs have the privilege of sending in 
challenges to the Manchester Y. C, which now holds the 
cup, before May 15. 
The South Boston Y. C. has arranged the following 
schedule of racing fixtures for the season : 
May 30, Friday — Club tender race in the morning; Y. 
R. A. open race in the afternoon. 
June 4, Wednesday — Sailing tenders. 
June 28, Saturday — Club handicap. 
July 12, Saturday — Club handicap. 
July 19, Saturday — Club handicap. 
Aug. 9, Saturday — Sailing tenders. 
Aug. 23, Saturday — Club handicap. 
Sept. 6, Saturday — Sailing tenders. 
Frank N. Tandy has sold the 46ft. schooner Bohemian, 
owned by Durbin Horne, of Pittsburg, Pa., to Charles M. 
Bruce, of Boston. 
Hollis Burgess has sold the 30ft. yawl, which has been 
built by Bishop, of Gloucester, for his uncle, Mr. Walter 
Burgess, to Hon. Frank W. Rollins, ex-Governor of New 
Hampshire. 
Crowninshield has an order for a small mail and pas- 
senger steamer for the Fulton Navigation Company, 
headed by Dr. Seward Webb. She will be used on the 
Fulton Lakes. He has sold the raceabout Pompelia, 
owned by Reginald Robbins, to a New York yachtsman, 
and has sold, through the agency of Frank Bowne Jones, 
the steam yacht Cayuga. 
At Lawley's the Lippitt 60-rater is partly plated. The 
interior work on the Lawson 46ft, schooner is being 
finished. These two boats are the pride of the shops, and 
are, indeed, beautiful specimens of workmanship. The 
46- footer designed by Binney for H. A. Morss, is about 
planked. The Foss and Gunnison yawl is being finished 
up inside, and a yawl, by the same designer, for Dr. 
Paton, has been started. The 104ft. steamer is being 
finished up. The Crane 25-footer is about finished, and 
the Y. R. A. 21-footer for Hon. Charles Francis Adams, 
2d, is being painted. A 25-footer for D. C. Percival, of 
Marblehead, designed by Fred Lawley, has been started. 
There was a rumor early in the winter that Mr. Percival 
was going to Herreshoff for his boat, but he decided to 
give Fred Lawley a try at it. 
John B. Killeen. 
Our English Letter. 
The duels between Sybarita and Kariad at the Riviera 
regattas excite very little interest here, and, indeed, the 
Mediterranean season appears to be much less popular 
both ashore and afloat than it was some years ago. The 
regattas so far this winter have been marred by paltry 
airs, and the results are of no value. The report from 
New York that Mr. Pierpont Morgan intends to send 
over Columbia to race in European waters this summer 
has been received with lively interest, although these 
rumors have so often been cabled only to be contradicted. 
No doubt Sir Thomas Lipton will bring Shamrock II, 
across, for she is the only vessel fit to meet Columbia. 
Shamrock I., is, I hear, very far gone in her aluminum, so 
much so that she is hardly worth repairing. If she could 
be put into good order she would make a more interest- 
ing antagonist for Columbia than the newer vessel, for it 
is felt over here that it has been very far fr©m being de- 
cided that the last challenger is the better boat. Apart 
from these two there is no very great inducement for 
Columbia to visit us. If she has to race under our 
measurement- and time scale her chances are not very 
great. Shamrock I., at all events, is hopelessly outruled 
by the new measurement. 
During the past week an interesting little yachting ex- 
hibition has been open at Earl's Court, London. It was 
got up primarily in the interests of the Thames boat 
builders, but it has attracted some yachting exhibits and 
many motors. The American motors play a prominent 
part and have done good business, but there are one or 
two excellent British exhibits, and quite a capital French 
one. This is a movable engine which lies on the counter 
of a yacht, and with a gearing of cog wheels a shaft hangs 
down perpendicularly, the lower end being again geared 
to actuate the propeller. One would think so much gear- 
ing would involve a great waste of power, but the engine 
seems to develop great power, and I have heard wonder- 
ful reports of its capacity in large sized boats. The whole 
outfit is worked with one hand, and it steers, propels, 
and reverses with the utmost ease. At the exihibition it 
it fitted on a Thames pair-oared boat, the maneuvers of 
which are remarkable. It can turn the boat round and 
round in a circle with a diameter of its own length. It 
is made from i$i horse-power to Sj4. For racing yachts 
it should prove of great value. 
A curious launch took place last week from the Ailsa 
Shipbuilding Company's yard, It is a new steam yacht 
for Mr. X- Coats, the owner of the largest schooner 
afloat— Gleniffer— and though the vessel is a steam yacht 
pure and simple, it is Mr, Coats' intention to use her as 
a tender to the schooner, to sail in company and to tow 
the great schooner. This is a somewhat uncommon com- 
bination of steam power with the sailor's love for sail. 
The new yacht is 160ft. over all, 22ft. 6in. broad, 13ft. 8in. 
deep, and measures 340 tons Thames measurement. She 
has a straight stem and an elliptic stern. 
The first motor fishing vessel has made her appearance 
at Lowestoff. Her speed is said to be 7 knots, but I 
understand that the motor has not given entire satisfac- 
tion yet — no doubt owing to faulty management. Mr. 
Linton Hope has designed a nice motor auxiliary of 35ft. 
waterline. She is a beamy boat, with 4ft. 6in. standing 
draft, and is fitted with a centerplate. Her engine is 
to be of 15 boiler horse-power, which ought to get good 
speed out of the craft. Her accommodation is great, there 
being but little forecastle space, because the owner in- 
tends to work the boat himself with a friend. To this end 
she is fitted with a roller staysail set up from the stem- 
head. There is no bowsprit. She is yawl-rigged, and 
has a reefing boom gear. 
The Cunard Company are about to build the largest 
and fastest steamship in the world for the New York 
service. It is significant that, contrary to their usual cus- 
tom, this ship will not be built in duplicate, as it is be- 
lieved that the future of such vessels will be intimately 
connected with liquid fuel, for one change, and turbine 
engines for another. The new ship will cost, it is said, 
three-quarters of a million pounds. 
The morning papers last week reported Mr. Post's 
efforts to arrange matches between Columbia and Sham- 
rock for next season. Unfortunately, not being familiar 
with the gentleman's name in connection with yachting, 
they mistook him for a New York newspaper! The 
visit of Prince Henry of Prussia has been followed with 
interest over here. Its great success, following the by no 
means silly suggestion that Sir Thomas Lipton should 
be appointed British Ambassador at Washington, almost 
seems to indicate that part of the curriculum for the 
corps diplomatique of the future should be "two years 
before the mast." 
At the exhibition to which I have alluded above, 
Messrs. Westmacott, Stewart & Co., St. Helens, Isle of 
Wight, have a stand full of American yacht and boat 
fittings of which they make a specialty. Among these 
are steering wheels for small sailing yachts. It is strange 
to note the dislike our yachtsmen have for these. They 
are infinitely more compact than the tiller, and I can- 
not see why a good steersman should fail to "feel" his 
boat equally well with them as with tiller lines. I do 
not know whether the idea is new, but it would be an 
advantage to have the gearing such as to give two 
powers — one so that a small turn of the wheel would put 
the helm over (for light weather), and the other of 
much higher power when the vessel is pulling hard. It 
sounds so reasonable that it cannot be new. 
As I close this I hear that Mr. Fife has received an 
order to design and build a small schooner of about forty 
tons for Mr. W. G. Jameson. This is the first boat built 
for Mr. Jameson at Fairlie, but the chief interest attach- 
ing to her is the fact that she will be fitted with a petrol 
(gasoline) motor as auxiliary power. It will be suffi- 
ciently powerful to drive the yacht at seven knots. 
Messrs. Fife have of late becorrje quite specialists in smart 
schooners of small size. E. H. Hamilton. 
Seawanhaka Cup News* 
Up to the present time eight boats have been ordered 
which will compete in the trial races for the Seawanhaka 
cup, to be held off Bridgeport on June 30 and July 1, 2 
and 3. Thomas B. Smith, of Bayonne, N. J., has the deck 
beams in the boat he is building for Mr. Charles D. 
Mower and Mr. Albert B. Hunt. She will be ready for 
launching in about three weeks. The boat building by 
L. D. Huntington, at his yard in New Rochslle, for 
Messrs. C. B. Seeley and Wilson Marshall, is nearly com- 
pleted. A syndicate of Bridgeport Y. C. yachtsmen, 
headed by Mr. Thomas B. Macdonald, will have two 
boats, one designed by Mr. B. B. Crowninshield is being 
built by Thomas Smith at Quincy Point, and the other by 
Jones & La Borde, of Oshkosh, Wis. The Crowninshield 
boat is planked and the Jones & La Borde boat is well 
along. Messrs. Hollis Burgess and T. K. Lothrop are 
having Stearns, of Marblehead, build for them a boat 
from designs made by Mr. W. Starling Burgess. A syndi- 
cate of Penataquit Corinthian Y. C. is having a boat built 
by Benjamin Hallock, of Moriches. Gus Amundson, of 
White Bear Lake, is building a boat from his own design 
for Mr. Charles De Hart Brower. A syndicate of 
Bridgeport Y. C, yachtsmen has ordered another boat, and 
Hartley, of Quincy Point, is still in correspondence with 
certain individuals, who contemplate building a boat. If 
this order is placed it will make the ninth boat. With 
eight boats already ordered, the possibility of some very 
lively racing at Bridgeport is assured. 
Yacht Racing" Association of Gravesend Bay. 
The second annual meeting of the Yacht Racing Asso- 
ciation of Gravesend Bay was held on Tuesday evening, 
March 11. The representatives were George Hill, At- 
lantic Y. C. ; John R. Brophy and George B. Water, 
Brooklyn Y. C. ; W. K. Brown and Isaac Snedeker, 
Marine and Field Club; D. B. Goodwell and R. W. 
Spier, New York C. C. There was some dissatisfaction 
shown at the meeting regarding last year's racing 
schedule, because the races were held every Saturday. It 
was finally decided that hereafter races would take place 
every other Saturday. The following schedule was finally 
adopted; 
June 7, Atlantic Y. C; June 21, Brooklyn Y. C; June 
28, New York C. C; July 12, Marine and Feld Club; July 
26, Atlantic Y. C; August 2, Brooklyn Y. C; August 23, 
Marine and Field Club; September 6, New York C. C, 
and September 20. Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 
These races will be sailed under the old measurement 
rule; that is, the square root of the sail area plus the water- 
line length, divided by two. When the Yacht Racing 
Association of Long Island Sound adopted the new 
measurement rule, the Gravesend Bay contemplated 
making the same move, but the latter finally decided to 
await the testing of the rule before adopting it. We pub- 
lished in our issue of last week the standing of the 
Gravesned Bay boats at the end of last season. 
Chicago Y. C. Annual Smoke*. 
Chicago, III., March 15. — Chicago Y. C. held its 
annual banquet and smoker Wednesday evening of this 
week, receiving General Frederick Funston, U. S. A., 
who called late in the evening. E. H. 
Yacht Club Notes. 
The following fixtures have been given out by the 
Race Committee of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C : 
Friday, May. 30 (Decoration Day) — Races for race- 
abouts, Seawanhaka knockabouts and club catboats. Open 
to club members only. 
Saturday, May 31 — Open races for sloops of the 30ft. 
class, racefebouts and Seawanhaka knockabouts. Other 
classes to be announced. 
Saturday, June 7 — Race for Seawanhaka knockabouts, 
for prize offered by Mr. F. G. Stewart. 
Saturday, June 14 — First_ series race for the Centre 
Island cup. The races in this series are open to Seawan- 
haka knockabouts owned by club 'members. 
Saturday, June 21 — Second series race for the Centre 
Island cup and for prize offered by Mr. Johnston de 
Forest, 
Thursday, June 26— First of three days' open races, 
classes to be announced later. 
Friday, June 27— Second of three days' open races, 
classes to be announced later. 
Saturday, June 28— Third of three days' open races. 
Annual race for all classes. The Leland Corinthian Chal- 
lenge cup will be sailed for by Seawanhaka knockabouts 
owned by club members. 
Friday, July 4— Special club races, classes to be an- 
nounced later. 
Saturday, July 5— Third series race for the Centre 
Island cup and for prize offered by Mr. E. I. Low. 
Saturday, July 12— Roosevelt memorial cups, to be 
offered for competition by such classes as may be deter- 
mined upon by the Race Committee; classes to be an- 
nounced later. 
Saturday, July 19— Fourth series race for the Centre 
Island cup. 
Saturday, July 26— Fifth series race for the Centre 
Island cup. 
Saturday, Aug. 2— -Robert Center memorial prizes ; open 
to raceabouts and Seawanhaka knockabouts owned by 
club members. 
Saturday, Aug. 9— Sixth series race for the Centre 
Island cup. 
Saturday, Aug. 16— Seventh series race for the Centre 
Island cup. 
Saturday, Aug. 23— Race for Seawanhaka knockabouts, 
manned with Corinthian crews. 
Monday, Sept. 1 (Labor Day)— Special club races; 
classes to be announced later. 
Thursday, Sept. 4 — Open races for special classes, to be 
announced later. 
Friday, Sept. 5— Open races for special classes, to be 
announced later. 
Saturday, Sept. 6— Annual fall races for all classes; 
races with Corinthian crews. 
Negotiations are now pending for a series of races 
between the raceabouts of the Beverly and Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y. C.s, and also for two series of races be- 
tween the Seawanhaka knockabouts of the Philadelphia 
Corinthian and Sachem's Head Y. C.s and those of the 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
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Some sixty members attended the "fitting out" dinner 
of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. at the Hotel Manhattan, New 
York city, Saturday evening, March 22. Com. Stephen 
Roach presided. At a meeting held before the dinner 
several amendments to the by-laws and constitution were 
passed. The Building Committee reported that the work 
on the new house was progressing favorably, and that the 
building would be finished by June 1. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The bronze cutter building at the Townsend & Downey 
Shipbuilding Co.'s yards from designs made bv Messrs. 
Gardner & Cox for Mr. . George M. Pynchon, will be 
named Neola. She is Sift, on the waterline, 87ft. 6in. 
over all, 16ft. 9in. breadth and 11ft. 6in. draft. 
The following sales have been recently made through 
Manning's Yacht Agency : Steam yacht Mandalay (for- 
merly Columbia), Mr. Montgomery Rollins, of Boston, 
to Dr. F. E. Greene, of Portsmouth, N. H. ; steam yacht 
Spindrift, Maurice S. Wormser to Mr. C. C. Riotte; the 
ce'nterboard auxiliary schooner Laurus, Dr. James C. 
Ayer, of this city, to Mr. Henry G. Bryant, of Pihladel- 
phia; the Soft, power yacht Adrienne, Com. William G. 
Titcomb, to Mr. J. Wichert; the 53ft. power yacht Scimi- 
tar, Mr. William Champion, to Mr. Fred A. Hodgman; 
the 60ft. steam yacht Dirigo, Mr. E. W. Bullinger, to 
Mr. N. L. McCready; the twin-screw power yacht 
Josephine Louise, Mr. Lawrence Jones, to Mr. G, W. 
Goetz ; the 45ft. power yacht Falcon, Mr. J. Wichert, to 
Mr. W. G. Titcomb; the 70ft. power yacht Louise, Mr. 
Fred A. Hodgman, to Mr. James Corrigan ; the 60ft. keel 
yawl Viva, Com. J. W. Bowers, Portland Y. C, to Mr. 
Belden B. Brown, of Stamford,, Conn. 
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The following sales have been made through the agency 
of Mr. A. J. Mcintosh : Yawl Dolawradora, by the estate 
of A. Colbron, to Mr. George J. Jackson; sloop Hit or 
Miss, to Mr. F. O. Ayres; launch Onaway, by Mr. F. N. 
Waterman, to Mr. William Faush ; launch Tayron, by Mr. 
W. H. Watrous, to Mr. W. A. Mills ; launch Nan, by Mr. 
G. W. Cook, to Mr. P. G. Chapman ; launch Sweetheart, 
by Mr. Sinclair Smith, to Mr. William Trand; launch 
Helen, by Mr. Charles H. Thompson, to Mr. C. F. 
Brooks; launch The May, by Mr. J. Scott McComb, to 
Mr. H. Mosher; launch Monks, by Mr. Joseph Hum- 
phreys, to Mr. Henry G. Glesten; launch Adelia, to Mr. 
L. A. Newcomb. 
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The United States Revolver Association met in the Arena, 
New York, on Thursday evening of last week. It was resolved 
that the shooting organizations, in the different sections of the 
country, will be invited to hold their championship competitions 
in' connection with the annual meet at Sea Girt, N, J. Magazine 
pistols will hereafter be admitted on the same terms as military 
revolvers. The 8in. bullseye, American, was recognized as the 
standard. The Executive Committee was empowered to draft rules 
for the championship contests, and to select a target for indoor 
contests. 
The Metropolitan Rifle Club, of New York, held a special meet- 
ing at 513 Sixth avenue, on Monday of this week, at which it was 
decided to hold a free-for-all indoor revolver and rifle contest in 
Conlin's gallery, commencing April 1. Another meeting will be 
held on March 31 to settle upon the governing conditions. A 
committee of five members will arrange the contest. 
In the rifle contest of the Junior Branch of the Sportsmen's As- 
sociation, held in connection with the Sportsmen's Show, in 
Madison Square Garden March 5 to 20, we inadvertently omitted 
to mention that the trophy, the first prize of that contest, was the 
Annie Oakley cup. 
