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Class III. 
Duett, H. E, Nelson 3 19 40 2 21 58 
Edith. E., F. A, Monk. 2 37 49 2 37 49 
the winners of prize cups are as follows : Class C, Chewink IV. 
and W|saka; Class E, Medric arid Clotho; Class I, Dorchen, 
Hayseed, Privateer II., and Aladdin; Class T, Vera II. and Win- 
ryahdm; Dory Class, Pointer II. and Elizabeth F. ; First Class 
Power Yachts. Palmetto, Narcissus and Solace; Second Class. 
Edith M. and San Toy; Third Class, Duett and Edith E. 
John B. Killeen. 
Gravesend Bay Championships. 
When members of the yacht clubs on Grasevend Bay- 
met early in the season to arrange, a schedule of non- 
coriflicting dates, certain races were designated to count 
on the class championships of the year. It was decided to 
award a pennant of little intrinsic value to the winners 
of the different honors which were to be competed for 
on a point system in which a yacht gets one for starting 
and finishing an event, and one for every competitor she 
defeats. This simple pooling of interests replaced the 
more compact Yacht Racing Association of Gravesend 
Bay, which had existed for three previous seasons. 
Championship races of the year were held on June 25, 
under the auspices of the Brooklyn Y. C. ; on July 16 by 
the Bensonhurst Y. C; on July 30 by the Marine and 
Field Club, and on August 20 by the Atlantic Y. C. The 
closing event of the year took place on September 17 
under the auspices of the New York Canoe Club; thirty- 
three different yachts entered the series, in which the 
wmners of first honors were Bagheera, Lizana, Ogeemah, 
Beta, and Martha M. A tie resulted in class M between 
Maydic and Redwing, which is yet to be decided. Kelpie 
led the Marine and Field one-design boats, but champion- 
ships were offered to regular classes only. 
In ;the number of firsts won, Maydic leads in class M 
with 3 ; Bagheera and Bobtail are tied in class N wth 2 
each; Lizana heads the list in class P with 3; and Ogee- 
mah occupies a like position in class Q with 4. In the 
new class R R of the Marine and Field Club, Beta holds 
the proud record of having won every championship race. 
Martha M leads the catboats, being beaten only once in 
five starts. The official records of the season of 1904 
follow: 
Sloops — Class M. 
Starts. Points. 
Maydic, W. H. Childs 4 7 
Redwing-, J. B. O'Donohue 5. 7 
Vivian II., S. E. Vernon 2 4 
Sloops — Class N. 
Bagheera, Hendon Chubb 4 9 
Era, .E. H. M. Roehr 5 7 
Bobtail, E. F. Luckenbach 4 5 
Sloops — Class P. 
l.izana, D. S. Wylie 5 14 
Benito, Haviland Bros 5 11 
Naiad, , Dr. J. B. Palmer 3 8 
Smoke, L. H. Dyer 3 4 
Kate (yawl), J. S. Negus 1 0 
Sloops — Class Q. 
Ogeemah, Alfred Mackay 5 29 
Mary, Max Grunder 5 20 - 
Miss Judy, D. D. Allerton 5 14 
W raith, Calvin Tompkins 3 11 
Trouble, W. A. Barstow 3 8 
Careless, F. J. Havens 2 7 
Karma, J. C. Erskine 3 6 
Cicada, A. D. O'Neil 3 3 
Spots, R. C. Veit 1 0 
Sloops — Class R. 
Sandpiper, W. W. Redfern 3 3 
Sloops — Class RR. 
Beta, Snedeker & Camp 5 16 
Alpha, Holcomb & Howell 4 7 
Gamma, A. H. Piatt 4 5 
Delta, J. J. Mahoney 3 5 
Marine and Field Special. 
Kelpie, W. K. Brown 4 6 
Esperance, T. A. Hamilton 2 3 
Jig-a-Jig, W. A. Hutcheson 1 1 
Catboats — Class V. 
Martha M., Richard Moore 5 17 
Colleen, W. F. Remmey..,.. 4 13 
Orient, Richard Rummell 3 4 
Rascal, D. G. Whitlock .• 4 3 
Boozie, C. D. Durkee 2 1 
Southern Notes. 
The 1901 Canada's Cup 30- footer Cadillac has been sold 
to Mr. S. F. Heaslip, of New Orleans, by a Detroit syndi- 
cate. Last spring Commodore Heaslip purchased Calypso 
from Mr. A. W. Chesterton and brought her here, where 
she won the "Cock-o'-the-Walk" flag in her class in the 
Southern Gulf Coast Y. A. It is quite a coincidence that 
these two celebrated yachts, designed and built by Han- 
ley at practically the same time, should now be owned 
by one man and at such a distance from Boston and De- 
troit, after they had so notably performed missions else- 
where. 
The yachting season just closing was quite notable for 
the large number of sailing yachts brought from the 
North to augment the local fleet, the number of boats 
thus added to the roll number — almost a dozen — included, 
in addition to the three Boston boats before mentioned, 
Alpha Tau, Lucille I. and Lucille II. from Chesapeake 
Bay, and the fast racing machines, Caroline, Moki, and 
Kayoshk, from the ranks of the Inland Lakes Y. A. The 
purchase of these yachts did not start until early spring 
last season, and at this time last year there was little 
thought that so fine an array of pleasure boats would be 
brought here. These importations have opened the way 
for a new and better order of things_ in the yachting line 
for the South, and there is much indication that the good 
work now so well started will be continued until the 
Gulf coast has a fleet to be proud of. 
L. D. Sampsell. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
For advertising relating to this department see pages ii and iii. 
William V. Hanson Dies.— On October 14 William 
V. Hanson, a well known yacht and shipbuilder, died at 
his home in Brooklyn at the age of 85. He was an 
honorary member of the Atlantic Y. C. 
Seawanhaka Cup Challenge Accepted.— The Execu- 
tive Committee of the Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. held a 
meeting on the evening of October 14 and accepted the 
challenge filed by the Manchester Y. C. for the Seawan- 
haka Cup. The races will probably be held next August. 
It will be remembered that the Manchester Y. C. repre- 
sentative, Kuluto, was defeated by Thorella II. in 1903. 
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Schooner for F. F. Brewster. — A short time ago the 
Geo. Lawley & Son Corp. closed a contract for the con- 
struction of a steel schooner for Mr. F. F. Brewster. The 
boat was designed by Messrs. A. Cary Smith & Ferris, 
and is 123ft. 6in. over all, 86ft. 6in. waterline, 25ft. 
breadth^ and 15ft. 6in. draft. Mr. Brewster is the owner 
of Elmina, and he will race his new boat against 
Ingomar. 
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Endymion Run Down by Tug. — The schooner En- 
dymion, owned by Mr. George Lauder, Jr., was run down 
by the tugboat Sallie, of Norfolk, while at anchor in 
Hampton Roads. The yacht was beached off Fort Wool 
on the flats to keep her from sinking. The day following 
she was towed to Newport News, where she was hauled 
out. She was leaking badly, and had a big hole in her 
bottom. Repairs will be made at Newport News. 
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High Island Canoe Camp. 
BY GUY E. MITCHELL. 
Almost within rifle shot of the outskirts of Washing- 
ton, but as secluded as though twenty miles distant, lies 
the High Island Canoe Camp, located on the crest 
of High Island, rising out of the Potomac and over- 
looking its Little Falls. Although an ideal camp site, 
High Island was for years looked upon as an inac- 
cessible camping spot. It rises precipitately out of the 
broad bottom of the Potomac some eighty-five feet, 
SUMMER SCENE AT HIGH ISLAND. 
and until the High Islanders undertook to conquer 
its prohibitive climb, it was shunned by campers and 
picnic parties and never visited except by exploring 
naturalists. Four summers ago seven enthusiastic 
canoeists determined that the knob of High Island 
should form their permanent camp site, summer and 
winter. They constructed; a rope railing to assist in 
the seemingly almost perpendicular climb, and the first 
year saw two sleeping tents and a cooking fly occupied 
until the snow fall of November. But plans had already 
been made for a camp house, and the following year 
CAMP HOUSE OF THE HIGH ISLAND CANOE CLUB. 
building was commenced. Additions have been made, 
until now the house boasts two stories with sleeping 
accommodations for ten men, a commodious kitchen 
and double piazzas on two sides. No week in the 
coldest winter weather has gone by since the shingles 
were nailed down that the smoke, issuing from the 
ample stone chimney, has not attested to the roaring 
open fire of oak and hickory inside, and of late sup- 
plemented by the heat from a substantial cooking 
range In summer gasolene is substituted as a cooking 
fuel. ' . , , 
The house and improvements of the island are a not 
insignificant monument to the energy and industry of 
the canoeists. Every stick and stone has been carried 
to its destination on the shoulders of the boys. The 
steps climbed, even empty-handed, will impress the 
visitor with the tremendous magnitude of the work. 
Not the smallest particle of labor has been hired, nor 
are any of the members of the club men of leisure. 
Even the stones for the chimney and big fire-place were 
collected along the flats of the Potomac in rowboats 
and carried up the steep island side. 
The camp now has a permanent lease of the island, 
the high portion of which does not cover probably more 
than three or four acres. The property is owned by a 
Philadelphia syndicate which contemplates its use in 
the erection of an enormous power dam, with some 
sixty feet fall, which will form a gigantic storage reser- 
voir ten or twelve miles in length. The High Island 
Camp, however, has not slackened its improvements in 
the fear that this project will soon spoil the island as 
a camp site, since the undertaking has large engineering 
difficulties to overcome, as well as to secure the consent 
of Congress to the construction of such a work, which 
might well be looked upon as a possible menace to 
the safety of Washington, since the great dam might 
go out during some of the terrific floods which sweep 
down the Potomac. . 
Well wooded on the crest with white and black oaks, 
hickory and ash, and surrounded with the softer woods 
— sycamore, tulip, sassafras, cedar, etc. — the camp site, 
while well shaded, enjoys any of the breezes which may 
be blowing up or down the Potomac. While it is suf- 
ficiently high to be free from possible miasma, found 
upon the alluvial bottoms, it is also free from flies and 
mosquitoes. 
The present summer camp consists of six tents in ad- 
dition to the camp house. The canoe landing is on 
what is known as the "feeder" of the Chesapeake and 
Ohio Canal, through which the water always races at 
three to four miles an hour. From this landing the 
camp path winds through the dense shade of a hun- 
dred yards of bottom land, crosses a couple of rustic 
bridges and merges into the steps ascending the island 
hog-back. 
The camp boasts at least one strong man, who holds 
the record for carrying up the steep steps a fire-place 
rock weighing 250 pounds, although two other of the 
boys succeeded in negotiating the heavy kitchen range 
up the same route. 
Botanically, the island is known far and wide. The 
plant scientists of the Department of Agriculture state 
that a dozen or more herbaceous plants are found along 
its lower slopes which occur in no other locality near 
Washington, and are, in fact, of extreme rarity else- 
where. Seeds of plants have apparently been washed 
down the river from far western points and have 
found a lodgment upon High Island, their extreme 
eastern habitat. 
" The single real hardship which devolves upon the 
camp is the securing of their drinking water, but this 
•is about to be overcome. At present the water must 
be carried from a spring some distance up on the 
Maryland shore, and fifty or more feet above the river 
level. The Islanders are arranging to pipe the water 
from this spring, across the canal and the feeder, and 
by gravity pressure convey it up the side of the island 
to where an ordinary suction pump will force it directly 
into the kitchen, the highest point on High Island. 
A five-mile trip from the Washington boat-houses, 
several of the members regularly paddle to and from 
their office work, while others walk half a mile to the 
electric cars which traverse the Maryland shore above 
the Potomac. Every Saturday night sees a throng of 
members and visitors to the camp to spend a night in 
the woods and enjoy a cool and quiet Sunday. 
\mtgt md §>dlhrg. 
Fixtures. 
Nov. 8. — Greenville, N. J. — Annual 100-shot championship at 
Armbruster's Park. 
National Rifle Association. 
Washington, D. C. — In connection with the meeting of the 
National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice on Saturday- 
next, to consider prospective legislation for the encouragement of 
military rifle and pistol practice, the board of directors of the 
National Rifle Association will meet here Saturday evening, Oct. 
22, at the Arlington Hotel. At the last annual meeting of the As- 
sociation at Sea Girt, N. J., it was proposed to make the Associa- 
tion a governing body of federated military and civilian associa- 
tions and clubs devoted to rifle and revolver shooting, and it was 
recommended that the annual membership be abolished and the 
rights and privileges now given to such members be extended to 
all members of affiliated organizations. It was also recommended 
that the present annual members be given the privilege of taking 
out a life membership, and having credited against the cost of the 
same the amount of dues paid on account of annual membership. 
It is proposed that in the future the annual directors shall be 
elected by delegates from the affiliated clubs. 
The board of directors will pass upon these recommendations 
and also consider the character of legislation to be presented to 
Congress at the coming session. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association, N. Y. 
This well-known organization held its regular practice shoot at 
the Greenville, N. J., range on Saturday, Oct. 8. B. F. Wilder 
ran a string of 100 shots with the revolver, averaging over 90, 
while several of the members devoted the afternoon to the 200yd. 
rifle range. Scores follow: 
Fifty-yard, revolver: B. F. Wilder 90, 91, 94, 89, 89, 92, 92, 91, 92, 
89; total 909. J. E. Silliman 80, 88, 90, 87, 86, 84; J. A. Dietz 84; 
W. J. Coons 77, 78, 81, 88; C. F. Davis 87, 85, 90, 91, 84, 83, 89, 87; 
H. H. Brinckerhoff 73, 67, 81, 69. 
Two hundred yard, rifle: Dr. W. G. Hudson 219, 229, 229, 229; 
W. J. Coons 197; W. A. Barker 229, 220, 228, 227, 236; L. P. Han- 
sen 217, 221, 214; H. F. Barning 219. 
Miller Rifle Club. 
Hoboken, N. J. — The following scores were made in the gallery, 
75ft. offhand, on the 25-ring target, P. J. O'Hare, the expert mili- 
tary marksman, being high man with the score of 247: P. J. 
O'Hare 247, C. Bischoff 245, H. Bahn 243, R. Goldwaithe 243, D. 
Dingman 242, D. Miller 239, O. Smith 237, O. Burquest 236, F. 
Emme 235, R. W. Evans 234, A. Schwartz 232, C. E. Doyle 232, 
C. Hussel 231, P. Neuner 230. 
