HOUSE-BOAT DESIGNED BY SADLER, PERKINS & FIELD FOR A CONNECTICUT YACHTSMAN. 
Mr. Hueston Wyeth, of St. Joseph, Mo., has pur- 
chased the auxiliary schooner Edris. The new owner 
is now making a Southern cruise on the boat. 
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The South Coast Y. C, of San Pedro, Cal, is in a 
very prosperous condition. The club already has a 
membership of loo. Seventy-five hundred dollars' worth 
of bonds have been issued by the club. These will be 
taken up by the club members and the money thus 
raised will be used in building a new club house. The 
site is one that overlooks the outer harbor and the 
ocean. Plans for the new building have already been 
submitted. Comfort and convenience will be first con- 
sidered in arranging the house. The building will be 
large and commodious, with a large veranda running 
nearly all the way around it. The lower floor will be 
given over to an assembly room, a glass inclosed read- 
ing room, billiard room, grill room and shower baths. 
On the second floor will be sleeping apartments and 
baths. It is the intention to make the house one where 
members can live and do business in Los Angeles. 
In front of the club house the bluff will be terraced 
and at the bottom will be the locker house. The pier 
will extend 300ft. into the outer harbor waters. 
Mr. Hollis Burgess has sold the 37ft. waterline sloop 
Valhalla II., owned by Mr. J. Arthur Beebe, of Bos- 
ton, to Mr. N. A. Willis, of Boston, and the i8ft. 
knockabout Crow, owned by Messrs. Foster Hooper 
and Charles E. Lauriat, of Boston, to Mr. Frank W. 
Atwood, of Winthrop, Alass. 
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There is building at the yard of the Ailsa Shipbuild- 
ing Co., Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland, a large steam yacht 
for Mr. F. W. Vanderbilt. She was designed by Mr. 
G. L. Watson, and is to be 239ft. waterline, 32ft. 6in. 
breadth and of 1,200 tons register. She will have twin 
screws, which will be driven by two sets of quadruple 
expansion engines of about 2,700 horse-power. She 
will be launched some time in December and may be 
named Conqueror. 
C. Allison Godshalk, of Philadelphia, says the 
Record is having built a boat which will be in some 
ways one of the most remarkable small vessels in the 
world. It is to be what is known as a power launch 
(propelled by gasolene) that will eclipse the speed of 
the fastest ocean liner and equal that of the majority 
of torpedo boats. To achieve this single desired re- 
sult of celerity nearly every consideration that enters 
into the construction of pleasure crafts has been sacri- 
ficed, and even the builders have frequently protested 
at the radical, not to say revolutionary, features which 
she will embody. But Mr. Godshalk is a thorough 
student of his hobby, and after giving the plans his 
closest personal attention, has no doubt of the ulti- 
mate triumph of his ideas. 
The launch will be of mahogany a quarter of an inch 
thick, 40ft. long and only 4j^ft. wide. With a 70 horse- 
power engine, and with it she is expected to develop 
the really phenomenal speed of 25 knots an hour. 
Should the boat, which will probably be called Zip, 
realize her owner's expectations, she will be sliipped 
to England next summer and entered in the Thames 
races for the celebrated Harmsworth Cup. 
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At the annual meeting of the Old Mill Y. C, held on 
Nov. 8, at the club house on Jamaica Bay, the follow- 
ing officers and committee were elected: Com., John 
May; Vice-Com., C. J. Mehrtens; Rear-Com., Charles 
Cooper; Cor. Sec, Edward Ferry; Fin. Sec, Adam 
Breitrack; Rec. Sec, Joseph Buehler; Treas., Harry 
W. Walker; Measurer, William Meyers. Board of 
Trustees : George McLean, Dave Van Wicklen, Otto 
