Feb. 21, 1903^1 
POTEST AND STREAM. 
22-FOOT WATERLINE CENTERBOARD BOAT SAIL PLAN DESIGNED BY EDWIN A. BOARDMAN, 1903. 
had examined their boat with deep interest. This time 
it was the white man's turn to view the novel craft as 
it passed down, while the slaves were compelled to stay 
back and attend to their work. This circumstance 
shows that the centerboard was unknown in Dela- 
ware previous to this voyage. We have shown that 
it was not invented in Chesapeake waters, while Chap- 
ter 1. disposes of the claim of New York and New 
England. H. L. Shaw. 
Philadelphia, Feb. 16. 
New York Y. C. 
The annual meeting of the New York Y. C. was held 
at the club house, West Forty-fourth street. New York 
City, on the evening of Thursday, February 12. Commo- 
dore Lewis Cass Ledyard presided and a large number of 
members were present. The various officers and commit- 
tees submitted their reports and some were read. The 
secretary's report showed the club now had 2,054 members 
and 520 boats in the fleet, making a total tonnage of 
66,000, 
After the reports were read several amendments to the 
constitution were passed for the first time; before they 
become operative they will have to be passed again at an- 
other meeting. One of these was to make the fleet sur- 
geon an appointive instead of an elective office, and a com- 
mittee of measurers instead of a single measurer as in the 
past. Dr. John McGaw Woodbury is the candidate for 
fleet surgeon and Mr. Charles D. Mower for measurer. 
Both these gentlemen will be appointed as soon as the 
amendment is finally passed. The following officers were 
unanimously elected: Com., Frederick G. Bourne; Vice- 
Com., Henry Walters ; Rear-Com., Cornelius Vanderbilt ; 
Sec'y, G. A. Cormack; Treas., Tarrant Putnam. Regatta 
Committee: S, Nicholson Kane, Newbury D. Lawton 
and E. H. Wales. Committee on Admissions : Henry C. 
Ward, Frederic Gallatin, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry S. 
Redmond and James A. Wright. House Committee: 
Thomas A. Bronson, Commander J. D. Jerrold Kelley, 
U. S. N., and Henry Sampson, Jr. Library Committee: 
Lewis A. Stimson, Thomas A. Bronson and Albert Brad- 
lee Hunt. Committee on Club Stations : -William H. 
Thomas, Henry H. Rogers, F- Aug. Schermerhorn, 
Augustus C. Tyler, Charles Lane Poor, C. L. F. Robinson, 
Harrison B. Moore, Henry C. Ward, William Lanman 
Bull and J. Rogers Maxwell. 
The following members were elected : George A. H. 
Churchill, George Elder Adams, Lieutenant Commander 
George H. Peters, U. S. N. ; James Averill Lawrence, 
James King Clark, Lieutenant Henry T. Baker, U. S. N. ; 
Lindley Murray Roe, Paymaster A. F. Huntington, U. S. 
N. ; Albert V. de Goicouria, Horace Gallatin, Commander 
Charles A. Adams, U. S. N. ; Thomas E. Hardenbergh, 
Granville W. Garth, Cyrus Edson, M.D. ; Frank Merrill, 
Charles Henry Butler, Rear Admiral Charles S. Gotten, 
U. S. N. ; Edward L. Ryerson, Rennie Pierre Schwerin, 
William B. Davenport, John Howard McFadden, Ryley 
Miles Gilbert, John G. A. Leishman, Jr. ; Percival C. 
Smith, R. M. S. Putnam, Naval Commander David W. 
Taylor, U. S. N. ; Albert Gallatin, Herbert Noble, 
Richard Mortimer, Lieutenant John S. Bates, U. S. M. C. ; 
Herbert H. White, H. Hayden Sands, Paymaster Henry 
T. Skelding, U. S. N. ; Frederick Hegel, Alfred C. Chapin, 
W. Frazier Harrison, George L. Duval, Charles H. 
Thorne, William F. Wall, Edward S. Isham, Lieutenant 
John M. Hudgins, U. S. N. ; Gustav H. Schwab, John B. 
Trevor, S. B. Stevens, Lieutenant Alfred A. Kethan, U. 
S. N. ; Lieutenant Albert W. Marshall, U. S. N. ; Arthur 
Keeler Bourne, Frederick E. Ballard, Howland Pell-Hag- 
gerty, Charles M. Billings, Franklin A. Batcheller, W. J. 
Gordon, B. Drake-Smith, Edmund L. Baylies, Alexander 
R. Peacock, Timothy L. Woodruff and Commander 
Robert E. Peary, U. S. N. 
Flag members : Miss Atala W. Thayer and Mrs. Henry 
de Blois Gibson. 
Honorary members: His Imperial Higness the Ger- 
man Emperor and His Royal Highness Prince Henry of 
Prussia. 
A portrait of the late F. W. J. Hurst, who was fourteen 
years the treasurer of the club, has been given to the club 
b> his daughter. A committee was appointed to frame 
resolutions regarding the death of Dr. Morris J. Asch, 
for many years fleet surgeon. 
House-Boating on Lake Worth. 
From the Florida Times-Union, Feb. 11. 
Palm Beach, Feb. 10. — Beautiful Lake Worth at any 
moment during the day presents a pretty sight with the 
many electric launches swiftly sailing in all direc- 
tions, and with a half dozen houseboats moored along 
the channel of the lake. At night these boats, with their 
electric lights and the distant lights of West Palm 
Beach add greatly to the charms of a walk along the 
lake front avenue. Surf bathing, fishing, golf, tennis, 
boating, hunting and the other many diversions attract 
with increased enthusiasm on the part of the devotees 
of these various forms of amusement. 
T. A. Snider's big houseboat. Buckeye, which has 
been swinging at her cable for a week or two, near 
the Hotel Royal Poinciana wharf, has been chartered 
until the first of May by Col. Robert M. Thompson, of 
New York, who has for some time been a guest at the 
Hotel Royal Poinciana. The houseboat was tied up at 
the Florida East Coast Railway dock at West Palm 
Beach, laying aboard supplies for the trip. Colonel 
Thompson left with the Buckeye Sunday night for the 
foot of the lake, from which an early start was made 
