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FORES r AtfD STREAM. 
Boston Letter. 
Boston, June 9.— This will be the best season in years 
for the Eastern Y. C, according to the programme issued 
by the Regatta Committee. Advance programmes for the 
season's events have been issued. The visit of the New 
York Y. C. fleet will be the feature of the year, not only 
for this club, but also for all Massachusetts yachtsmen. 
For the entertainment of the New Yorkers, Fleet Capt. 
Oliver Ames, Sec'y George Atkinson, Mr. H. K. White, 
Mr. Henry Howard, Mr. Gordon Prince and Mr. Gor- 
don Dexter have been appointed a committee to make all 
arrangements. For the cruising races to be sailed on 
June 21, July 12, July 26 and Aug. 16, the classes will 
be divided as follows: 
Schooners— Class A, all over 53ft. waterline ; class B, 
all 53ft. waterline or under. 
Sloops— Class A, all over 40ft. waterline; class B, all 
40ft. waterline or under, and not less than 30ft. ; class C, 
all over 24 and not over 26ft. waterline. 
Other classes will be admitted on request, and at the 
discretion of the Regatta Committee. 
The prizes will be pewter tankards or mugs, one for 
each class. The start on each day will be made off buoy 3 
at the entrance to Marblehead Harbor, and the finish will 
be made off Ten Pound Island buoy in Gloucester Har- 
bor. There are no restrictions as to course between the 
starting and finishing points. On each day the prepara- 
tory signal will be given at 2:30, and the start will be 
made five minutes later. Eugene Tompkins has invited 
the Eastern Y. C. yacht owners and their guests to a re- 
ception and entertainment on the Idalia at Gloucester 
after the races on June 21 at 8:30. The entertainment will 
be in the hands of a special entertainment committee, con- 
sisting of Vice-Corn. F. Lothrop Ames, Stephen W. 
Sleeper and Arthur Wainwright. 
For the special race for the Commodore's cups, on June 
27, the following classes have been provided : 
Schooners — Class A, all over 53ft. waterline. 
Class B, all of 53ft. waterline or less, and not less than 
30ft. 
Sloops — Class A, all over 53ft. waterline. 
Class B, all over 40 and not over 53ft. waterline. 
Class C, all over 35 and not over 40ft. waterline. 
Class D, all of 30ft. waterline or over, and not over 
35ft. 
Com. A. S. Bigelow has offered as prizes three cups, 
one for each class of schooners and one for class D sloops. 
Beside these, the following cash prizes will be given for 
sloops: Class A, $100; class B, $50; class C, $35; class 
D, second prize if five or more yachts start, $25. A third 
prize of $15 will be given in the same class if seven or 
more yachts start. There will be five courses for the 
schooners, and classes A and B, sloops, ranging from 
30 to 42 miles. For classes C and D, sloops, six courses 
have been arranged, ranging from 24^ to 2554 miles. 
The start will be made at 11:15, with course numbers 
shown at 11 and warning signal at 11 :io. 
For the special open races on June 24, July 4, July 5 
and Sept. 5, 6 and 8, in which the Y. R. A. boats have 
been provided for, the classes and prizes are as follows : 
Class D— Y. R. A. 25-footers, prizes $30, $15 and $5. 
Class S — Y. R. A. 21-footers, prizes $25, $10 and $5. 
Class I — 1 8ft. knockabouts, prizes $20, $10 and $5. 
These prizes are offered for each race, it being under- 
stood that second prizes will not be given unless five or 
more yachts start in a class, and third prizes unless seven 
or more yachts start. Vice-Cem. Ames has offered three 
championship cups, one cup to be awarded the winner in 
each class. With the exception of Sept. 6, all races for 
these classes will be started at 2 in the afternoon. On 
Sept. 6 the race will be started at 10 in the morning. In 
this case it may be possible for the yachts to attend both 
the races of the Quincy Y. C. and the Eastern Y. C. 
Courses have been provided, ranging from six to eleven 
and a half miles. All classes may be sent over the same 
course or they may be divided, according to conditions. 
Arrangements have been completed for the annual cruise 
to Bar Harbor, commencing June 28, the following runs 
having been scheduled : 
June 28 — Marblehead to Isles of Shoals. 
June 29 — Isles of Shoals to Wood Island. 
June 30 — Wood Island to Boothbay. 
July 1 — Boothbay to Islesboro. 
July 2 — Islesboro to Bar Harbor. 
There will be two divisions of schooners and sloops. 
The first division of the schooners will be all over 53ft. 
waterline. and the second those 53ft. and under. The 
sloops will be classed all over 40ft. waterline and all 40ft. 
or under. Cups will be awarded in each division of 
yachts for each day's race. It is understood that no yacht 
of less than 30ft. waterline can be enrolled in the club. 
Corn. Simon Goldsmith, of the South Boston Y. C, 
through Fleet Capt. J. H. Corrigan, has issued orders for 
a cruise to Marblehead and Hull, commencing Sunday, 
June 15, and ending Tuesday, June 17. For the winners 
of the three days' racing runs, cups have been offered 
by Com. Goldsmith, Vice-Corn. Edwin S human and Rear- 
Com. D. N. Palmer. These cups are said to be the most 
elaborate ever offered for any event in the club. 
The Jeffries Y. C, of East Boston, will hold its an- 
nual cruise on Saturday, June 14, the first run to be made 
to Hull, where the remainder of the cruise will be 
arranged. 
There is wailing and gnashing of teeth among some of 
the owners of the new Y. R. A. 21-footers. It is all be- 
cause some of them are said not to fit in the class. 
Down in Manchester, Little Haste, Pilot and Opitsah IV. 
have been hauled out. The reason given for this hauling 
out at a time when valuable cups, presented by Com. B. 
P. Cheney, of the Boston Y. C, were being raced for, is 
given that they all want to get into condition for the 
Boston Y. C. cruise, which commences Saturday. It is 
understood, however, that they have been hauled out, so 
that they might be made to fit the class for the Y. R. A. 
open race of the Hull-Massachusetts Y. C. on Tuesday, 
June 17. Katherine, another of the 21-footers, was in 
Lawley's basin last week, and it has been rumored that 
she is as much as 15m. outside the class on waterline 
length. She took part in the Boston Y. C. race on Satur- 
day, but went in the handicap class, for the reason, it was 
stated, that she did not have her new sails, AU this may 
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