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FOREST AMD STREAM. 
tJAN. 24, 1963. 
YACHT CLUB NOTES. 
, The Nominating Committee of the New Yoi'k_ V. C. 
iias selected the following gentlemen to serve in the 
several ofBces and committees for the coming year: 
Commodore, Frederick G. Bourne; Vice Commodore, 
tlenry Walters; Rear Commodore, Cornelivts Vander- 
fbilt; Secretary, George A. Cormack; Treasurer, Tar- 
i-ant Pmnam; Measurer, Charles D. Mower; Fleet Sur- 
geon, J. M. Woodbury, M. D.; Regatta Committee, 
S. Nicholson Kane, Newbury D. Lawton and Edward 
H. Wales; Committee on Admission — Henry C. Ward, 
Frederic Gallatin, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry S. Red- 
mond and James A. Wright; House Committee, Thom- 
as A. Bronson, Commander J. D. Jerrold Kelley, U. S. 
N., and Henry Sampson, Jr.; Library Committee, 
Lewis A. Stimson, Thomas A. Bronson and Albert 
Bradlee Hunt; Committee on Club Stations. William 
H. Thomas, Henry H. Rogers, F. Augustus Schermer- 
horn, Augustus C. Tyler, Charles Lane Poor, C. L. F. 
Robinson, Harrison B. Moore, Henry C. Ward, W. 
Lanman Bull and J. Rogers Maxwell. 
The annual meeting will be held at the club house 
on Thursday evening, Feb. 12. 
The annual meeting of the Hudson River Y. C. was 
held on the evening of Jan. 7, and the following offi- 
cers were elected: 
Commodore, F. J. McLaren; Vice Commodore, 
Owen Reilly; Rear Commodore, Paul Wetzel; Secre- 
tary, Louis C. Maurer; Financial Secretary, Louis H. 
Schwiers; Corresponding Secretary, C. H. Frerichs; 
Treasurer, L. J. Dirig; Librarian, Louis Adler; Meas- 
urer, John J. McCarthy; Fleet Surgeon, D. Benthman 
Spence, M. D.; Steward, John Wallace; Fleet Captain, 
H. Van Bnren; Trustees, M. R. Ranhoter, J. Har- 
greaves, William H. Donaldson, William Lumbine, 
Charles Whitehouse, O. C. Hoddick, Paul Voegeli, M. 
Friedman, Everett Ryder, and George A. Steigleder; 
Regatta Committee, Henry C. Camenden, R. Entwistle, 
J. W. Smith, C. J. Everett and D. W. Ti'cnifidi. 
At the annual meeting of the Stuyvesant Y. C. the fol- 
lowing officers were elected for 1903 : Com., W. C. Cart- 
wright; Vice-Corn., Robt. Ten Eyck; Rear-Com., J. Mc- 
Gregor ; Treas., C. S. Ogden ; Meas., J. Babst. Board of 
Directors : W. Moeller, chairman ; W. T. Hogg, F. P. 
Buell, H. Mertens, M. Fauth. Regatta Committee: J. 
Kraus, G. F. Zeiler, R. Ten Eyck, J. McGregor, O. 
Arland. 
The Williamsburg Y. C. elected the following officers 
at the annual meeting: Com., William E. Long; Vice- 
Corn., William B. Nallen; Rear-Com., Robert Chapman; 
Sec'y, James Spears; Cor. Sec'y, Thomas H. Doremus; 
Treas., James Schussell; Meas., Henry Schmeider; Stew- 
ard, Edward Padbourg; Sergeant -at-Arms, Ralph Olleio; 
Fleet Captain, Charles Hartman; Trustees, Adolph 
Kling, Henry Schmeider, Paul Schmidt, A. Monroe and 
A. Silk ; Regatta Committee, H. Schmeider, James Spears 
and A. Kling. 
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The following officers were elected for 1903 at the an- 
nual meeting of the Harlem Y. C. held a short time ago: 
Com., John Wimmer; Vice-Com., C. G. Branneck; Rear- 
Com., F. L. Muhlfeld; Treas., T. Benjamin Bates; Fman- 
cial Sec'y, W. B. McAllister; Recording Sec'y, J- Francis 
Proctor: Corresponding Sec'y, S. L. Schider; Fleet Sur- 
geon, George H. Wilson, M.D.; Treas., Emd Miller; 
Chairman of the Race Committee, Edward Hartman ; 
Trustees, Adolph G. Austin, Frank McDermott, L. Bige- 
low William Turner, William Strauss and Walter S. 
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The annual meeting of the Philadelphia Y. C. was 
tield on Jan. 12, and the following officers were elected: 
Commodore, Alexander Van Rensselaer; Vice Com- 
modore, Robert J. W. Koons; Rear Commod(5re, E. 
Walter Clark, Jr.; Secretary, Addison F. Bancroft; 
Treasurer, George E. Kirkpatrick; Measurer, J. Mur- 
ray Watts; Race Committee, Addison F. Bancroft, 
Harvey J. Mitchell, John A. Inglis; Committee on Ad- 
mission. Charles H. Brock, Alexander Van Rennselaer, 
G. Herbert Millet, Frank H. Rosengarten, Brereton 
Pratt; Trustees, to serve three years, Frank H. Rosen- 
garten, Dr. Richard H. Harte. 
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The first meeting of the Indian Harbor Y. C, since 
its incorporation under the laws of the State of Con- 
necticut, was held on Jan. 14, and the f-ollowing officers 
were elected: Commodore, Frank Tilford; Vice Com- 
modore, George Lander, Jr.; Rear Commodore, H. P. 
Whittaker; Treasurer, Richard Cutwater; Secretary, 
Chas P. Geddes; Measurer^ Morgan Barney; Trustees, 
Edwin C. Converse and F. S. Doremus; Regatta Com- 
mittee, Frank Bowne Jones, Charles E. Sims, Thomas 
J. McCahill, Jr., F. Sterne Wheeler and Harry C. Nash. 
The committees of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. for the 
season of 1903 are made up as follows: „ , . 
Regatta Committee, E. M. MacLellan, Robert 
Jacob and Charles D. Mower; House Committee, James 
W Alker, G. Searing Wilson and Roy M. Lincoln; 
Library Committee, James R. Thomson, Bartholomew 
Jacob and Thomas Fleming Day; Law Committee, 
David Provost, S. B. Hamburger and James W. Pryor; 
Art Committee, Robert W. Jackson, Julian Rix and 
Charles A. Harriman; Entertainment Committee, Haz- 
en L. Hoyt, Thomas Wilson, Jr., and Charles H. Hoyt; 
the Finance Committee consists of the Commodore, 
the Secretary and the Treasurer. 
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The Committee on Lectures of the New York Y. C. 
has given out the programme for 1903, which is as 
follows: . . 
Jan. 22— "Recent Improvements m Aid to Naviga- 
tion," Captain William M. Folger, U. S. N., inspector 
in charge. Third Lighthouse District. 
Peb. 5— "Reminiscences of Navigation and Storms 
and the Treatment of Storms," Captain Charles D. 
Sigsbee, U. S. N., chief of Bureau of Naval Intelli- 
gence, Navy. Department. 
Feb. 19 — "Recent Advances in Telescopic Astrono- 
my," Professor G. M. Ritchey, Chicago University, 
Yerkes Observatory. 
March S— "The United States Marine Corps," Major- 
Gerteral Charles Heywood, U. S. M. C. 
March ig— "What the Hyulrographic Bureau Has 
Done for Ouf Maritime and Commercial Interests," 
Commander W. H. H. Southerland, U. S. N., chief 
of Hydrographic Office, Navy Department. 
April 2 — "Field Work of the Peary Arctic Club, 
1898-1902," Commander Robert E. Peary, C. E., U. 
S. N. 
April 16 — "An Evening with a Stereopticon; Yacht- 
ing, Ice Yachting and Hunting Wild Game," former 
Rear Commodore Archibald Rogers, N. Y. Y. C. 
April 30 — "Coaling Stations," Rear Admiral Royal 
B. Bradford, U. S. N., chief of Bureau of Equipment, 
Navy Department. 
May 7 — "Yachting in the Caribbean," former Vice 
Commodore Anson Phelps Stokes, N. Y. Y. C. 
May 14 — Music, "An Evening with the Commodore." 
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Indications point to a great year of yachting on 
Gravesend Bay. It is as yet rather early to learn any- 
thing definite. There is, however, lots of agitation re- 
garding new boats. 
The Brooklyn Y. C. is to have a new house on the 
end of the north pier of the new yacht basin now build- 
ing at a point just below Ulmer Park. The B. Y. C. 
location is some 400 feet out into the bay and should 
prove admirable. 
Work is being rushed on the basin, which is of com- 
prehensive proportions, and this feature is expected to 
help along greatly yachting on Gravesend Bay. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Mr. J. H. Smedley, of Detroit, is having built at 
the works of the Gas Engine and Power Co. and 
Charles L. Seabury Co., from their own designs, an 
auxiliary yawl. The boat, which will soon be put over- 
board, is S7ft. over all, 4rft. water line, 14ft. breadth 
and 4ft. 6in. draft. 
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Rev. Lindsay Parker, Ph. D., of Brooklyn, is having 
a catboat built by J. T. Logan, New Brunswick, Can- 
ada, from designs by Henry J. Gielow. She is 27ft. 
6in. over all, 20ft. waterline, loft. breadth and ig'm 
draft. 
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Vice-Com. Chas. W. Lee, of the Manhasset Bay Y. C, 
has recently placed an order with Huntington, of New 
Rochelle, for a thirt3f-two foot waterline auxiliary cruis- 
ing yawl from designs by Mr. C. D. Mower. The plans 
show a keel boat of moderate draft, good beam and a 
generous displacement with an unusual amount of cabin 
accommodation for a boat of her length. A gasolene 
motor of about 12 horse-power will be installed under 
the cockpit and is expected to give a speed of at least six 
miles an hour under favorable conditions. In order to 
make the motor more accessible, the companionway is 
placed over to one side, an arrangement which is most 
convenient in several ways. The main cabin is about 
8ft. long and has a clear floor space of 4ft. between the 
transoms. Back of the transoms there is a wide berth 
under the deck. Clothes lockers at the aft end of the 
cabin with sideboards and lockers at the forward end 
give an abundance of good stowage room. Forward on 
the starboard side is the owner's berth, and instead of 
making a small stateroom with fixed partitions, heavy 
portieres will be used, so that in the daytime this space 
may be thrown into the main cabin, making it unusually 
large and airy. The toilet room is on the port side op- 
posite to the stateroom. Forward there is a large galley 
under the cabin trunk and hanging berths for two men. 
The cabin will be finished entirely in mahogany and 
handsomely furnished. 
The specifications call for an unusually strong con- 
struction, and the whole design has been worked out with 
the view of making an extremely weatherly and able sea 
boat. The rig is comparatively small, and shows a pole 
mast with small topsail and double head sails. On deck 
she will have wide water ways and a large cockpit. 
The yacht is already laid down and will be in com- 
mission early in the season. 
In addition to the design for Mr. Lee's boat, Mr. 
Mower has turned out plans for a one-design class for 
the Lynn Y. C, a 25ft. waterline auxiliary yawl for a Bos- 
ton yachtsman, a 32ft. cruising launch now building at 
Morris Heights; a 25ft. waterline yawl building in 
Canada for a Toronto yachtsman; a one-design boat for 
Shinnecock Bay, a racing cat to compete for the Sewell 
cup and Barnegat Bay championship, and has an order 
for a boat for the 30ft. class of Great South Bay to race 
againfit Arrow and Electra. 
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Central Shooting Bund. 
St. Louis, Mo.— On the evening of Jan. 10, in Delabar's Hally 
St. Louis, a meeting of the Central and St. Louis Sharpshooting 
associations was held. The object was to ptepare for the national 
shoot scheduled for June, to be held in St. Louis. The two 
bodies combined for the occasion, and elected Robert Bethmann! 
president, and August A. Busch fest president for the ensuing 
year. It was decided that $0,000 will be given in prizes at the 
national meet. 
More than 200 local sharpshooters are represented in the com- 
bination of the two bodies. The union will be known as the 
Central Shooting Bund, of St.. Louis. The national shoot will be 
conducted by the combined bodies, and it is believed that one 
of the most successful meets in the history of shooting can be 
pulled off. 
Besides the presidents of the bund, officers were elected to fill 
the remaining places as follows: Sheriff Joseph A. Dickmann, 
Vice-President; Dr. E. IT. Kessler, Treasurer; Horace Kephart, 
Corresponding Secretary; Adam Fellhauer, Secretary, and Louis 
Schweighoefer was appointed Shooting Master. 
Jacob Frank, C. W. Bauer, Sam G. Dorman, Dr. Kessler and 
Martin Kacer were elected to form a shooting committee, which 
next Monday will decide upon the programme to be followed at 
the shoot, and upon the apportionment of the $6,000 prize money. 
This committee and the presidents will report next Friday the 
progress of the work. Three events will be reserved for members 
of the Central Bund, and the remaining events will be open to all 
visitors. Michael Reinagel resigned as president of the Central 
Sharpshooters to give an opportunity for a joint president of the 
two bodies to be elected. 
Besides Vice-President Dickmann, other vice-presidents will be 
appointed to attend to details of the work, and they will be made 
known at the meeting Friday. The shoot will be held at the 
range in Bobringville, and will be entirely for rifles on the regular 
programme. Revolver events will be scheduled as a side issue, 
in all probability. \ 
All shooting will be done at 200yds. It is thought that the 
event will attract several hundred shooters from all over the 
United States, as the Saengerfest will be in progress here the 
week of the shoot. Resolutions were adopted that the officers of 
the Saengerfest be tendered an invitation to the shoot. 
The event will attract the best marksmen in the country, on ac- 
count of its character and the amount of the prize money offered. 
The institution of revolver shooting is regarded likely to create 
much interest, as many members of the bunds favor this sort of 
work. Capt. Edmond P. Creecy, of the Seventh District, is a 
member of the body, and will likely participate in. the revolver and 
pistol contests of the occasion. 
The annual meeting of the Knickerbocker Canoe 
Club was held at its club house on the Hudson, at the 
foot of One Hundred and Fifty-second Street, the night 
of Jan. 8. Among the new officers elected for the year 
were the following: Commodore, Louis C. Kretzmer; 
Vice-Commodore, Wilbur Andrews; Secretary, Henry 
W. Dempewolff; Treasurer, W. R. Farrell, Jr.; Meas- 
urer, James E. Tavlor. The vice commodore is also 
chairman of the House Committee, the other members 
of that committee being B. Frank Cromwell and R. L. 
Roberts, Jr. While the Knickerbocker is pne of the 
oldest canoe clubs in America, and has had its ups and 
downs, it has acquired much new blood in recent years, 
and now a has a membership which is limited to fifty, 
while its boat room contains forty-eight canoes. The 
members stick to canoes more strictly than in some 
canoe clubs, for at present only one member owns a 
boat larger than a canoe, and that one is a St. Law- 
rence skiff. ' Nearly all of the canoes are rigged for 
sailing, and the majority are decked canoes, there be- 
ing only a few canvas-covered open canoes in the boat 
room. 
Ossining Gon Qufa, 
OssTNiNG, N. y.— Scores made at 75ft., on >4=-inch, 25-riug target, 
possible 250, were as follows: Geo. Tompkins 214; E. F. Ball 223, 
232, 230, 239; Amos Bedell 209. E. F. B. 
The New Jersey State Rifle Association held a meeting recently 
and elected a list of officers, as follows: President, Governor 
Franklin Murphy; First \'ice-President, Major-General P. Farmer 
Wanser; Second Vice-President, Brevet-Brigadier-General G. E. 
P. Howard; Third Vice-President, William Hayes; Treasurer, 
General Bird \V. Spencer; Secretary, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles 
W. Parker; Assistant Secretary, Lieutenant Albert .S. Jones. There 
are 162 members in good standing. 
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aotlce like the followtags 
Jan. 22.— Newark, N. J. — Live-bird handicap. Smith Brothers' 
grounds. 
Jan. 24. — Interstate Park, L. I. — Weekly shoot; main event 100 
target handicap; 16 to 21yds. 
Jan. 24. — West Orange, N. J. — Championship trophy of the 
Mountainside Gun Club. G. F. Ziegler, Sec'y. 
Jan. 25.— Brooklyn, L. I.— Shoot of the Fulton Gun Club. A. A. 
Schoverling, Cor. Sec'y- 
Jan. 26-30. — Brenham, Texas. — Second annual Sunny South 
Handicap; live birds and targets. 
Feb. 3-4. — ^Savannah, Ga. — Forest City Gun Club's invitation 
shoot at live birds. 
Feb. 10-14. — Detroit, Mich.^ — Open tournament under the auspices 
of the Tri-State Automobile and Sporting Goods Association. 
Targets and live birds. John Parker, manager; S. G. Lewis, 
Secretary-Treasurer. 
Feb. 18.— AUentown, Pa. — Two days' target tournament at Duck 
Farm Hotel. Alfred Griesemer, Prop. 
Feb. 20-21. — New Orleans, La. — First tournament of the Missis- 
sippi Valley Trapshooters' and Game Protective Association; Car- 
nival Week, under auspices of the City Park Gun Club; $500 
added. Percy S. Benedict, Sec'y. 
Feb. 23. — Ossining, N. Y. — Ossining Gun Club's Washington's 
Birthday shoot. C. G. Blandford, Capt. 
April 7-10. — St. Joseph, Mo. — Tournament of the Missouri State 
Game and Fish Protective Association. F. B. Cunningham, Sec- 
retary-Manager. 
April 14-17. — Kansas City, Mo. — The Interstate Association's 
fourth Grand American Handicap at targets, at Blue River Shoot- 
ing Park. One thousand dollars added to the purses. Elmer E. 
Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 
April 19. — Springfield, Mass. — Spring tournament of the Spring- 
field Gun Club, Patriots' Day. C. L. Kites, Sec'y. 
May — . — Lincoln, Neb. — Nebraska State Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion's twenty-seventh annual tournament, under the auspices of 
the Lincoln Gun Club. T. E. Mockett, Sec'y. 
May 6-7. — Lafayette, Ind. — Lafayette Gun Club's tournament. 
May 9-10. — Chicago, 111. — Spring tournament of the Grand Cres- 
cent Gun Club. 
May 12-15. — Interstate Park, L. I. — The Interstate Association's 
fifth Grand American Handicap at targets; $1,000 added to the 
purses. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, 111 Fourth avenue, 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
May 19-22. — Wissinoming, Philadelphia. — Thirteenth annual tour- 
nament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association, under 
auspices of the Florists' Gun Club of Philadelphia. V. V. Dorp,. 
Sec'y. 
May 21-22. — Kenton, O. — Shoot of the Kenton Gun Club. A. C 
Merriman, Sec'y-Treas. 
May 27-29. — Fort Wayne, Ind.— Three-day live-bird and target 
tournament of the Corner Rod and Gun Club. John V. Linker,, 
Sec'y. 
May 29-30.— Union City, Ind. — Spring tournament of the Parent 
Grove Gun Club. 
May 30. — Detroit, Mich.— Winchester Gun Club's Decoration 
Day third annual tournament; all day. Rose system and average 
prizes. Sliding handicap, 16, 18 and 20yds., D. A. Hitchcock, 
Sec'y-Treas. 
June —.—Schenectady, N. Y.— New York State shoot, under 
auspices of the Schenectady Gun Club. 
June 3-5.— Parkersburg, VV. Va. — Sixth annual tournament of the 
West Virginia Sportsmen's Association, under auspices of Ohio 
Valley Shooting Association. 
June 4-5. — Greenville, O. — Spring tournament of the Greenville 
Gun Club. 
June 9-11. — Cincinnati, O.— Seventeenth annual target tourna- 
ment of the Ohio Trapshooters' League. Chas. T. Dreihs, Sec'y. 
Tune 16-19. — Warm Springs, Ga. — The Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Meriwether Gun Club. 
Chas. L. Davis. Sec'y. 
June 16-18. — New London, la. — Seventh annual midsummer tar- 
get tournament of the New London Gun Club. 
July 30-Aug. 1. — Viroqua, Wis. — The Interstate Association's 
tournament, under the auspices of the Viroqua Rod and Gun Club. 
Dr. R. W. Baldwin, Sec'y. 
Aug. 19-20. — Ottawa, 111. — The Interstate Association's tourna- 
ment, under the auspices of the Rainmakers' Gun Club. Paul A, 
Selembier, Sec'y. 
