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FOREST AND STREAM. 
A Practical Application of the New York C's New Rule, 
We publish herewith a table which was made up for 
a C(jinparison of resuUs of the old New York Y. C. 
measurement rule and the new one recently adopted. 
The table shows the practical application of the new 
rule, and as the race was sailed in a true, steady and 
strong bree;;e, it affords- an excellent test. All the 
boats sailed in one class for the Rear Commodore's 
Cup, the schooners being rated at eiglUy-hve per cent, 
of their measurement. The time allowances under the 
new rule are figured with the sixty per cent, increased 
to eighty per cent., as provided for in the amended 
rules: 
Smith; Law Committee, Henry de Forest, William A. 
W. Stewart and William G. Low, Jr. 
Elapsed. 
Time. 
Rainbow 4 17 .51 
Yankee 4 14 17 
Elmina 4 40 45 
Muriel 4 40 59 
Neola 4 31 50 
Isolde 4 5G 20 
Eelin 4 53 27 
Weetamoe 4 30 03 
Altair 5 07 11 
Humma ,...4 58 14 
Eflfort 5 03 51 
THE RE.-\l?-COMMOnORE'S CUr. 
Glen Cove, Sept. 11, lfJ02— 30 Miles. 
-Old Measurement 
Racing 
Measurement. 
7(5.79 
70. 7S 
62.02 
Gl .9.S 
00.74 
fiO.55 
00.49 
00.04 
51,58 
51.47 
42.01 
Time 
Allowance. 
Allows 
Corrected 
'time. 
4 17 51 
0 13 55 
0 13 55 
0 15 22 
0 15 2f) 
0 15 30 
0 10 11 
0 27 08 
0 37 15 
0 11 39 
14 17 
20 50 
27 04 
16 28 
40 51 
37 51 
13 52 
40 05 
4 30 59 
4 22 12 
Racing 
Measurement. 
90.7 
90.7 
•65.5 
05. 5 
73.0 
61.0 
61.0 
73.0 
02.5 
62.5 
50.0 
-New Measurement- 
Time 
Allowance. 
0 28 36 
0 2S 36 
0 17 31 
0 33 21 
0 33 21 
0 17 31 
0 31 00 
0 31 00 
0 52 27 
Corrected 
Time. 
4 17 51 
4 14 17 
4 12 09 
4 12 23 
4 14 19 
4 22 59 
4 20 06 
4 12 32 
4 36 U 
4 27 14 
4 11 24 
The smoking room wall paneling is of teak framing, 
with soft, green-stained wainscot panels, the frieze be- 
ing of tinted carved wood on a field of soft bluish- 
green. All the staterooms, passages and bathroom 
are designed in the same character as the public rooms, 
the paneled walls painted an ivory tint, w-ith the furni- 
ture in hardwoods to haimionize. Electric lighting and 
bells are flitted throughout. 
"The vessel has three sets of turbine engines, three 
shafts, and five manganese bronze pi opellers— one pro- 
peller on the center shaft and two each on the side 
shafts. All these have been supplied and fitted on 
board by the Parsons' Marine Steam t urbine Com- 
pany, Limited, Wallsend-on-Tyne. The hull has been 
specially strengthened to prevent any vibration in the 
structure, owing to the great speed at which the shafts 
will revolve. In the engine room, beside, the 'three 
turbines, with their condensers and the ditplicate elec- 
tric lighting machinery, there are a large number of 
auxiliary engines of all kinds. The main boiler, which 
is of very large diameter, is fitted with Howden's feed 
draft. The yacht is being fitted out in the most com- 
plete manner, and when rigged with her two long 
masts and thin spars she will have a fine appearance. 
The ceremony of naming the Emerald was performed 
by Miss Furness." 
Agatha. 
Agatha was designed and built by tlie Marblehead 
Yacht Yard in 1900. She is 60ft. over all, 39ft. 9in. 
watcrline, 13ft. breadth and 8ft. Sin. draft. Agatha is 
now owned by Mr. C. W. Sherburne, of the Hull, 
Massachusetts, Y. C. 
YACHT CLUB NOTES. 
The Philadelphia Y. C. will hold a meeting at its 
clubhouse, Tinicitm, Delaware County, Pa., on Wednes- 
day. Jan. 14, 1903. for the purpose of nominating flag, 
officers and trtVstees for the ensuing year. 
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The annual meeting of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Y. C. will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the city 
clubhouse, 12 West Forty-fourth street, at 8:30 P. M. 
The following gentlemen have been nominated to serve 
during the coming year: 
Commodore, Arthur Curtiss James, auxiliary brig- 
antiue Aloha; Vice Commodore, William J. Matheson, 
steamer Laverock: Rear Commodore, Frank S. Hast- 
ings, yawl Peggy; Secretary, Francis G. Stewart; 
Treasurer, Frederic P. Moore; Measurer, John Hyslop; 
Fleet Surgeon, N. Bowditch Potter, M, D.; Fleet 
Chaplain, Rev. George R. Van De Water, D. D.; 
Trustees. Colgate Hoyt, Franklin A. Plummer and 
Henry H. I^andon: Race Committee, Johnston de For- 
est, Charles W. W'etmore, Clinton H. Crane, Daniel 
Bacon and John R. Maxwell, Jr.; Committee on Lines 
and Models, John Hyslop, A. Cary Smith and St. John 
AGATHA, 
Pesigned and built hy tlie Marblehead Yacht Yard, 1900. Photo by Willard B. Jackson, Marblehead. 
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A Nation of Marksmen. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the days of Agincourt and Cressy those victories 
were the fruit of the marksmanship of the English bow- 
men The archer with his long yew bow and cloth 
yard shaft made the English army what it was— in^ 
vincible. 
rhe French had good reason when singing their lit- 
any m church to include in same, "From the arrows of 
llie English may the good Lord deliver us." 
History is repeating itself once more, and the battles 
ot the future upon land will be won by the men behind 
the rifles. Close formation and point blank volleys are 
things of the past. Smokeless powder and long dis- 
tance rifles become of no immediate practical value in 
the hands of the inexperienced soldier. 
The English grew into the use of the long bow as 
did our Minute Men and Green Mountain" Boys grow 
into the use of the rifle, but under differing surround- 
ings. The English boy was at an early age through 
the stimulus of prizes, encouraged to shoot with the 
bow at a niark erected on the village green. Days of 
merry-making always included the sport of archery upon 
the programme, and even was the practice at archery 
made compulsory by law. 
Our forefathers virtually plowed with one hand and 
h.eld a rifle with the other. The seal of Minnesota 
shows a husbandman at the plow, his rifle and powder- 
horn upon a nearby stump and skulking redskin in 
the distance. It was force of circumstances that made 
marksmen of our forefathers, defense against the In- 
dians and wild beasts, and the necessity of supplying 
the larder from the forests. During our Civil Wai% 
soldier for soldier, we had no such marksmen in the 
ranks as in the Revolutionary Wark. Times had 
changed, men were recruited from the city and the 
workshop, and not as of yore, from the frontier, where 
stood a rifle ready for instant use behind each door. 
The late Boer war was an illustration of pitting men 
unused to a rifle against those who understood the arm 
and were as familiar with it as a schoolboy with his 
jackknife. 
Now, as a general rule, a few days' hard drilling will 
turn an awkward squad into some semblance to a mili- 
tary company in carriage and step, but it means months 
of incessant labor to make marksmen of those unfa- 
miliar with the rifle. 
Compulsory practice with the rifle has been success- 
fully carried -out in Switzerland, but it would not apply 
to the United States. The love of the rifle must be 
brought about in some other way. 
Now, as a suggestion. Make a reward sufficiently 
inviting and there are those who will strive for it. 
Let us suppose that a yearly distribution of, say, $100,000. 
were made in prizes; $50,000 to the marksmen of the 
year; $25,000 to the second best; $15,000 to the third, 
and $1,000 to the next ten in rank. Whether the amount 
of $100,000 per year was made up out of the United 
States Treasury or came from other sources, makes no 
difference. The question is, what would the effedt 'be 
upon the country after ten consecutive years of such 
prize offering? 
I think every village in the countiy would have its 
rifle range, and few of the youths who could give the 
time to practice but would become applicants and con- 
testants for the prize. 
The primary contests would be shot at the home vil- 
lages or cities. The winners would in turn contest 
among themselves within a certain district, and the suc- 
cessful one in each district be delegated to the final con- 
test, to be held at some central point. Here, under 
conditions that could admit of no charge of partiality, 
would the final contest be held. Targets at fixed and 
unknown distances, moving objects, etc., would call into 
practice the very highest skill of the marksmen. The 
prizes would certainly be more tempting than a marks- 
man's badge or a silver cup. In these days of $1,000,000 
salaries and "melon-cutting" dividends in Wall street, 
perhaps a $50,000 prize might not tempt some of our 
gilded youth to forego the golf stick and the tennis 
racquet for the rifle. Yet, when you come to think 
of it, there are those who, with perhaps a little truck 
farming to help out, might worry along peacefully with 
a prize of $50,000 in cold cash to their credit in the 
bank. So the grand prize of $50,000 with the great ma- 
jority of young men might be considered a tempting 
prize, enough so to Avarrant an investment in a rifle 
and ammunition and the giving over of a part of Satur- 
' day to the weekly practice. 
There is many a "hundred thousand" that goes to 
make up the quota of a "billion-dollar Congress" that 
is .spent for purposes far less meritorious than prizes 
for rifle proficiency among the youth of the country. 
W^hat would be the effect of a plan of this kind being 
carried out after say, ten or fifteen years? That's the 
question. We hear of Peace Congresses, International 
Arbitration, Total disarmament, etc., etc., but we see no 
diminution of the standing armies and navies of the 
world. Improvements in war materials go on. We no 
sooner improve the unpenetrability of armor than some 
new shell is perfected with superior penetrating powers; 
and so the race goes on. Guns that carried 12 miles 
now carry 21. Not content with fighting above the 
water, the sea warfare of the future seems destined to 
be fought out beneath the waves. Rifles of greater 
penetration and carrying power are being successfully 
put forward. All this would seem to prove that for 
some years to come the theory will be held that the 
one best equipped on a war footing in time of peace will 
be virtually guaranteed from neighborly interference. 
And if all this be so, this country must keep abreast 
with the times. Her ships must be second to none, and 
while our standing army need be kept to a minimum, 
yet like the Spartans, every man in the Republic should 
