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AUXILIARY CRUISING SCHOONER ARIADNE SAIL PLAN DESIGNED BY TAMS, LEMOINE & CRANE FOR H. W. PUTNAM, Jr. 
room. Opening from the passage is the pantry for the 
cabin stores. The pantry is equipped with dressers, 
lockers and shelves, and there is also a sink and an ice 
box. Forward of the pantry is a coal bunker, which 
is slightly smaller than the one on the starboard side. 
Next forward comes a toilet room for the officers. 
The mess room is of good size, and the deck is reached 
by an iron companion ladder. On the port side of the 
mess room are two staterooms, one of which is occu- 
pied by two stewards and the other by the two mates. 
On the starboard side are two more staterooms, one 
of which is for the captain and the other for the two 
cooks. Forward of the mess room is the galley, which 
is of ample size and which extends the full width of the 
boat. In the galley there is every equipment that would 
assist the cooks in their work. The placing of the 
galley between the forecastle and the officers' mess 
room is an excellent arrangement, the food for the 
crew being passed through a small opening into the 
forecastle, and in this way the crew never have occa- 
sion to go into the galley. A door opening into the 
mess "room from the gallej'- allows the officers' meals 
to be easily served, and the officers are thus separated 
entirely from the crew. 
The forecastle has accommodation for twelve men. 
There is a dresser for the china and also a sink. Each 
man is provided with a roomy locker for his clothes. 
Forward is a closet for the crew and locker space for 
boatswain's stores. Below the cabin floor there is an- 
other deck where stores, sails, spare gear, etc., are 
stored. The boat is heated by steam and lighted by 
electricity. 
The sail plan is of good size, and the boat shows ex- 
cellent speed under sail alone. Ariadne's engines were 
built by J. W. Sullivan, and are of the two cylinder 
type, gin. and I9in.-I4in, She has two Almy water 
tube boilers. After two seasons' constant use Ariadne 
has proven herself a very satisfactory craft in every 
particular. 
In a Cornish Lugg'er. 
A FAVORITE dreaiTi of mine has been realized. Time 
after time I had watched the fine Cornish luggers setting 
out for the herring fishery, and vainly longed to accom- 
pany them ; now, thanks to a friend, an enthusiastic sailor 
and lover of the sea, my pet scheme was rendered feasible. 
All arrangements having been made, we presented our- 
selves at the quay one beautiful August afternoon about 
4:30, attired in our warmest clothes, as every one had 
warned us that even in August night fishing was apt to 
chill the unaccustomed landsman. I carried the oilskin 
coat and skirt which accompanied me on all my boating 
expeditions, and long, fingerless, woolen mittens, warmer 
than any gloves. We stepped from the quayside on board 
404 PZ Pride of the Sea, and were greeted bj^ the skip 
per, a gentle-mannered little old man, with raild blue 
eyes and a pleasant countenance. Half ati hour passed 
^]»i!e we waited tiU tH? tide sboul4 serve, and meanwhile 
It 
we were objects of much curiosity and speculation on the 
part of the crews of the other luggers, as to whether we 
were going for a short sail or the whole night. At last 
the foremost boat moved away through the swing-bridge 
ahead of us, then our halliards were manned,- the big 
lug-foresail was mastheaded, the mizzen set, and we fol- 
lov\'ed suit. 
The wind was light, and scarcely filled the sails as the 
little town slowly dropped astern, and we opened out the 
various promontories and headlands along the coast. 
After a couple of hours' sailing we had made an offing 
of five or six miles, and as the sun was just setting, the 
skipper considered that the distance from the land was 
sufficient, and that the nets might be sent overboard. 
Then the night's work began. The hatches were taken 
off and the ■ mass of ■ dark nets was passed along and 
dropped overboard, one man making fast to it small 
tarred barrels, alternately with strings of corks, to act as 
floats. This was the only time that we noticed any dis- 
agreeable smell from the nets, the result of their having 
been shut up in the hold. 
The tall foremast being lowered to an acute angle, in 
order to lessen the rolling, two lanterns were fixed, one 
above the other, in the rigging, and the preparations were 
complete. By this time it was 9 o'clock and quite dark. 
The skipper, the boy, and three out of the four men 
composing the crew went below and turned in, not, how- 
ever, without overwhelming us with offers of knitted 
guernseys, mittens, oilskins, coats, etc., but we declined, 
being already well provided. One man remained on deck 
as lookout, to be relieved by the others in turn. We now 
had to while away four hours as best we might. It was 
a beautiful night, clear, and full of stars, and each little 
sea curled over in a shimmer of phosphorescence. All 
along the coast for miles the lights of the various towns 
and villages shone like clusters of diamonds, and one, 
bigger than the rest, showed where a lighthouse kept 
watch on a rocky promontory', but the loom of the land 
was indistinguishable. Other lights, red, green and white, 
came and went around us, for we were well in the fair- 
way of the North Sea traffic. All this time the boat 
rolled steadily and monotonously, but it was too early 
as yet to be sleepy, in spite of the pleasant cradling mo- 
tion ; so we passed the time in conversation and in watch- 
ing the lookout man fishing, unsuccessfully, alas ! with a 
hand-line for cod. The time had passed so quickly that 
it seemed as if but two hours instead of four had elapsed, 
when the skipper's voice was heard below, "Now, lads, 
time's up," and the crew tumbled up on deck and began 
preparations for getting the nets on board. 
First the steam capstan was set going, and then the 
skipper disposed his forces in the following manner : 
One man was sent into the forehold, and another into 
the hold amidships ; the skipper and a third man stood 
beside the gunwale and hauled in the net, shaking the 
fish out of the meshes on to the deck; the. fourth man 
sat beside us on the opposite gunwale and hauled in the 
slack. And presently the net began to come in, hung all 
over with sjlv^ry herrings ; ;n fapt, it reminded rne of 
nothing so much as a net ball dress covered with silver 
sequins. The men in the hold received it, and disposed it 
evenly, so as to keep the boat in proper trim; they also 
tossed out on to the deck any stray fish that had escaped 
the hands of the skipper and his mates above. Soon the 
deck was a mass of fish, and looked as if it were covered 
with heaps of solid silver. The men worked almost in 
silence, only exchanging a word at rare intervals. Hour 
after hour passed, and still the laden net came in, and the 
stillness was only broken by the purring of the steam 
on the water alongside, the slap of the fish falling upon the 
deck, and the regular creaking of the boat as she rolled. 
More than once my friend and I found ourselves nodding 
forward off the pile of oars and tarpaulins on which we 
were seated, although we never entirely succumbed to 
sleep. \ \ ' 
Gradually the blackness of the sky changed to ash color, 
and away on the dappled surface of the gray water a long 
line of black dots became faintly visible, the barrel- 
shaped floats along the top of the nets. From ash color 
the sky soon turned to a vivid pink, and in the midst 
of this beautiful flush rose the sun. A light breeze .sprang 
up, and numbers of gulls and kittiwakes came flying 
round the boat with shrill cries, looking for their break- 
fast. I glanced dbwn at the hold; it looked nearly full, 
but all the nets were not in yet ; indeed, it was past six 
before they were all stowed away and the hatches put on, 
and a goodly heap of fine herrings showed the result of 
the night's fishing to amount to more than a last (10,000 
herrings),, which the skipper considered a very fair catch. 
Meanwhile, word had been passed below to get the kettle 
boiling, and smoke began to pour from the galley 
chimney. ■ " 
The foremast having been restored to an upright posi- 
tion, the foresail was set, the small riding-mizzen ex- 
changed for a much larger one, and we were once more 
under way for home. Mugs of hot tea were passed up 
to us from below, a welcome sight, though I confess that 
it was not without misgiving that we ventured to taste the 
beverage, as yariis had been plentiful ashore of the Cor- 
nish fisherman's cookery, how plum puddings were occa- 
sionally boiled in the soup kettle, with the soup, bien 
entendu, but experience proved our fears to be ground- 
less. After breakfast, buckets of water were capsized 
over the decks, which were carefully scrubbed wherever 
there was a space clear of fish. Cornish fishermen have 
a deservedly high reputation for the cleanliness and good 
order of their boats, and this boat was no exception to 
the rule. But, alas! our enjoyable trip was nearly over. 
At 7:30 o'clock, fourteen hours after our departure the 
day before, we sailed in between the pier heads and made 
fast to a buoy in the harbor, thus bringing to an end a 
most delightful experience, and one which, as we assured 
the skipper on bidding^ him good-bj'-, we hope some day 
to repeat-^Pall Mall Gazette. 
Mr, HoUis Burgess has sold the 31ft waterline sloop 
Hostess, owned by Mr. J. Murray Forbes, of Milton, 
Mass., to Mr. Robert G. Shaw, of Wellesley, Masi- 
