[Oct. 31, t^3. 
CONSTANCE AUXILIARY SCHOONER. 
Designed by Small Bros, for W. Amory Gardner. Photo by Willard B. Jackson, Marblehead. 
the club house on Rowes Wharf, Wednesday evening, 
October 28, at 7 -.30, action will be taken on two amend- 
ments to the by-laws. The first is to increase the mem- 
bership of the nominating committee from five to seven. 
The following have been named on this committee, sub- 
ject to confirmation at this meeting: Messrs. Clarence 
W. Jones, John A. Stetson, Jacob A. Barbey, Jr. ; Herman 
W. Friend, Sumner H. Foster, Charles H. Cross 2d, and 
B. S. Permar. The second amendment relates to the 
dues of members of class A, who were members of the 
old Boston Y. C, and under the present by-laws pay $10 
a year, and have the privileges of the City Point and 
Marblehead houses only. One amendment offered is to 
raise the dues to $20 a year for this class, which is but 
$5 less than is paid by members having full privileges.. 
Another amendment fixes the dues at $15. The meeting 
will determine by vote which of these shall be accepted 
by the club. John B. Killeen. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. 
The Country Club, of Detroit, has issued a pamphlet 
which contains a detailed account of the first series of 
races for the Country Club competitive cup held on Lake 
St. Claire on September 9, 10, 12. The little book is 
well gotten up and contains, beside a good account of the 
races, some excellent illustrations. The series of races 
were won by Columbia Y. C.'s representative, Little 
Shamrock. 
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King Edward of England has presented a cup to the 
Club Nautique de Nice which is to be called the King 
Edward VII. Mediterranean cup. The race will be open 
to yachts of all nationalities and be sailed from Nice to 
Gibraltar. 
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• Mr. Edmund Randolph has purchased, through 
Messrs, Tams, Lemoine & Crane, the British built 
auxiliary bark White Heather. She is 220ft. over all, 
i8oft. waterline, 28ft. 6in. breadth and i6ft. 6in. draft. 
Mr. Randolph contemplates making a Mediterranean 
cruise in White Heather, and she will be entirely re- 
fitted under Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane's direc- 
tion. She will receive new decks and a new and 
larger boiler. A cold storage and ice-making plant 
and a ventilating system will be installed, and new 
plumbing will be introduced. The new electric plant 
will be most elaborate, and it will be used for light- 
ing, heating, cooking and all hoisting. 
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The new auxiliary schooner Atlantic, designed by 
Messrs. Gardner & Cox for Mr. Wilson Marshall, and 
built by the Townsend & Downey Co., Shooter's Island, 
S. L, left New York on Saturday, October 24, for the 
trial trip. She will go as far east as Newport, and will 
then return to New York, where her interior fittings will 
he put in place. She is 189ft. over all, 135ft. waterline, 
29ft. breadth and 15ft. draft. She is a centerboard boat, 
and is rigged as a three-masted schooner. She carries 
about t6,ooo sq. ft. of sail. 
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The new schooner Ingomar, owned by Mr. Morton 
F. Plant, is to be raced in English waters next season. 
She will be commanded by Captain Charlie Barr. She 
was designed and built by the Herreshoffs, and is 127ft. 
over all, 87ft. waterline, 24ft. breadth and 14ft. draft. 
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The fifth general meeting of the New York Y. C. 
was held at the club house, West Forty-fourth street, 
New York City, on Thursday evening, Oct. 22. The 
following nominating committee was appointed: Ed- 
ward M. Brown, Lewis Cass Ledyard, C. Oliver Iselin, 
Seymour L. Husted, Jr., Charles Smithers, Philip 
Schuyler, J. Searle Barclay, Charles T. Minton, Robert 
Bacon and W. Butler Duncan, Jr. 
Seventeen new members were elected. 
A club station has been opened at San Juan, Porto 
Rico. This statioit will be in charge of Mr. Regis H. 
Post. 
A committee of seven is to be appointed to revise 
the racing rules and report at the annual meeting, to 
be held in February. Another committee of five is to 
be appointed to draft resolutions of thanks to the syn- 
dicates and managing owners of the Reliance, Consti- 
tution and Columbia, and to the Government and 
naval officers for what they did for the recent races 
for the America's Cup. The reports of the committee 
on Cup challenge and of the Regatta Committee are 
now in the hands of the printer and will be sent to the 
members shortly. 
The regular October meeting of the Yacht Racing 
Association of Long Island Sound will be held at the 
Arena, No. 41 West Thirty-first street, New York 
city, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 1903, at 8:30 P. M. 
Amendments to the rules, providing for restricted 
classes of isft., i8ft., 27ft. and 32ft. load waterline 
length respectively, will be offered. 
Other amendments will be offered as follows: 
Rule II. To strike out the last sentence of the sixth 
paragraph of Section 3, beginning, "should the boom 
when in use," etc. 
To strike out Section 9. 
Rule III. To abolish the separate classifications of 
cabin and open sloops, and cabin and open catboats in 
the 25ft. classes. 
To abolish the distinctive lettering of the catboat 
classes, and reletter such classes with their relative 
sloop classes. 
Section 3. To strike out the words "December i, 
i8g8," and substitute therefor the words "January, i, 
1899." 
Section 5. To insert the words *'or catboat" imme- 
diately after the word "yawl." 
To strike out Section 6. 
Rule XII. To amend by striking out the present rule 
and substituting the following: "Except when other- 
wise specified in the instructions, a race in any class 
in which no yacht has finished at 30 minutes after sun- 
set, shall be declared off." 
Rule XV. To strike out the last paragraph of Sec- 
tion 2. 
To strike out Section 3 and substitute the following: 
"The Race Committee boat when at the finish line 
shall display a red ball. The signal to denote the con- 
clusion of the race shall be the lowering of the red 
ball." 
'io add to Rule XV. a new section providing signals 
for postponing the start for half an hour, postponing 
the race for day, shortening the course, sailing the 
course in reverse direction, etc., etc. (in part now cov- 
ered by Rule XIX). 
To strike out Rule XIX. 
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The new home of the Hampton Roads Y. C, on 
Willoughby Spit, is nearly finished, and it will be 
opened on Nov. 10. Nearly $22,000 have been spent on 
the club's new property, and about $2,000 additional 
was expended in furnishing the building. 
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Captain Charles Barr was the guest of Mayor 
Weaver, of Philadelphia, on Oct. 23. At noon he was 
presented with a loving cup by a number of Philadel • 
phia's business men. 
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Mr. Regis Post has sold his schooner Shawondasee, 
through the agency of Mr. Thomas A, St. Johnston, to 
Mr. James King Clark. 
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Messrs Cousens & Pratt, the well-known Boston 
sail makers, have recently gotten out a very handsome 
little book called "Sail O!" It contains photographs 
of some eighteen successful racing and cruising boats 
for which they recently made sails. Letters from the 
owners of these yachts have been received by Messrs. 
Cousens & Pratt, and in them their work is given the 
most unqualified endorsement. 
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The steam yacht North Star, owned by Rear-Com. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York Y. C, arrived at 
Queenstown on Oct. 25, from New York, after a pas- 
sage of nine days and seventeen hours. She will pro- 
ceed to Greenock, Scotland. 
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Captain Brown, who left Boston on August in the 
little sailboat Columbia III., has reached Funchal, Isl- 
and of Madeira, after a passage of 73 days. Captain 
Brown first put in at Halifax for supplies and left that 
port Aug. 26. On Sept. 6 the craft was capsized in a 
gale and Captain Brown was thrown overboard. After 
hours of hard work he righted the boat and got aboard. 
He had lost much of his provisions and three of his 
four casks of water. The British steamer Greenbrier 
sighted Columbia III. on September 17, and Captain 
Brown was taken on board. After being supplied with 
food, water and his reckonings, lat. 37.21 west, long. 
42.45 west, Captain Brown resumed his voyage. 
The Gardens of the Catibbees. 
Mention was made a short time ago in these columns of a 
new book recently written by Ida M. Starr— "The Gardens^ of 
the Caribbees." It is an account o£ a cruise made on a Ger- 
man steamer in 1901 to the West Indies and the Spanish Main 
while our soldiers were still occupying Cuba and Puerto Rico 
and before the destruction of Martinique by the eruption of 
Mont Pelee. 
The writer addresses the following to the reader: "These 
sketches were written during a memorable cruise to the West 
Indies and the Spanish Main in the winter and spring of 1901. 
There has been no attempt to write a West Indian guide-book, but 
rather to give preference to the human side of the picture through 
glimpses of the people and their ways of life and thought. With 
this idea it was thought best to give attention only to such of 
the ports visited as were full of human interest and typical of the 
life about the Caribbean Sea. 
There was a strong feeling that we were sailing in romantic 
waters, and there has been no desire to eliminate the element of 
fancy- from these pages. 
It may be of interest to remember that at no time since— and 
perhaps never before — could this voyage have been made under 
the same conditions. Since then man and the greater power of 
nature seem to have conspired to make much of this delightful 
region forbidding to strangers. Several ports have become dan- 
gerous because of fever and plague; proclamations in French 
and pronunciamientos in Spanish have adorned West Indian 
street corners ; Haiti has reverted to its almost chronic state of 
riot and revolution; the Dominican Republic has again chosen a 
President whose nomination came from a conquering army; 
Venezuela has been full of alarms and . intrigues ; while already 
the Germans are beginning to show their hand in the Caribbean; 
Martinique and St. Vincent have been desolated by volcanoes 
then thought to be practically extinct; and of delicious St. Pierre 
there remains but a sadly sweet memory." 
The story is most charmingly told, and from the time it opens 
when the writer is leaving New York on the steamer on a cold 
January day, it is full of interest and incident. Haiti is the first 
island visited, and the writer's impressions are delightfully de- 
scribed. After a short stop at Port-au-Prince the writer visits: 
Santo Domingo. San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the next port touched 
at, and it is interesting to learn what great benefit the American 
influence has had on the city and the island. 
After leaving the island of St. Thomas a stop was made at 
Martinique. This was before St. Pierre was wiped out by the 
eruption of Mont Pelee, and one gets a very impressive idea of 
the place and its people. Trinidad is the last place described in the 
first volume of the stor}', which is published in two parts. _ 
Part two opens with a more elaborate account of Trinidad. 
After a trip through the Spanish Main (which is rich in romance, 
the very name suggesting pirates and buccaneers), the main land 
of South America is reached. La Guayra, the famous port of 
Caracas, was the place where the writer first set foot on South 
American soil. From Caracas the country round about was 
explored, and a irip to Puerto Cabello was made. 
The Dutch city of Willemstad, the capital of the Dutch West 
Indies, on the island of Curacao, was found to be a fascinating 
spot, where it seemed as if a part of Holland had been trans- 
planted there, so pronounced was the Dutch feeling. 
Kingston was found to be less attractive and interesting than 
many of the other places, and the writer says it is "dirtier and 
hotter and in every way more dull and uninteresting than Port 
of Spain." After a word about Cuba, the author closes with the 
story of Martinique since its devastation. The place as she saw 
it when it was in the height of its loveliness and as it now is. 
The writer holds one's interest to such an extent that the reader 
feels as though he had actually made the cruise himself. The 
book is very attractively gotten up, and is well bound in green 
cloth. The half-tone illustrations, and there are many of them, 
are particularly good, and most of the photographs were taken 
by the author herself. L. C. Page & Co., 200 Summer Street, 
Boston, Mass., are the publishers. 
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