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eoiniDg She kept just ahead of me, and led me about 100 
yards, alongside of a branch covered with brambles, to a 
crossing place, crossed over, and then back on the other side 
about twenty yards, where the pup Ponto was pointing. On 
am sorry 
walking up to him a covey of partridges got up. I 
to say that I did not do as well as the dogs, for I only bagged 
one. Poor old Meg ! She now lies buried in my lawn, under 
the shade of some fine oak trees. Since that time Ponto has 
very often returned to me after finding a covey of birds and 
finding that I could not make him out. He is not a field trial 
dog, but for a man who wants to have sport in the field, he 
cannot be beat-at least, that is what all my friends say who 
hunt with him. Yours truly, Cnis. E. Coffin. 
■ «r 
i D° g s of Killing Chickens. — A correspondent 
kindly sends us the following: “Take the chicken that has 
been killed by the legs, and, after beating the dog with it, 
pass the legs each side of the dog's neck and tie the feet to- 
gether, so that the chicken hangs securely fastened to his 
neck. After carrying the chicken around for a day or two 
the dog will be so thoroughly disgusted with chicken that he 
will not be apt to trouble them again. O. K. 
Whelps— Claremont, N. 27., April.— Mr. W. Jarvis' im- 
ported Irish setter Rose (champion Palmerston's Flora) has 
seven puppies — five bitches, two dogs — by Elcho. They were 
born April 5, 1878. 
Boston, April 12.— T. T. Sawyer, Jr’s, black and tan bitch 
Nelly, presented to him by the Massachusetts Kennel Club, 
has whelped nine puppies, by Allen's Reuben, he by cham- 
pion Lang out of Ruin ; six dogs and three bitches. Nelly is 
by Stoke’s Shot, out of Major Elwon’s bitch of old champion 
Reuben stock, and was brought to this country by T. 11 
Scott, Esq. 
—The Nebraska State Association will convene May 21, 
sitting two days^An effort is being made to inaugurate a dog 
show at the same time and place—' Fremont. Bon WniTE. 
The Baltimore Dog Show. —The list of entries reached 
over 600 several days ago. There are many new exhibitors 
and much fine stock never before entered. 
The Tiffany Chp for the Baltimore Show.— This cup 
arrived too late to be included in the printed list of special 
prizes, but the club have decided to take entries for it on the 
first day of the show, and to give it to the best setter or 
pointer exhibited. 
§aijJititig <md posting. 
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DOINGS AMONG THE YACHT CLUBS. 
Yachting matters in New England are very brisk, and the 
outlook for the season a most promising one. The Boston 
Yacht Club, the oldest organization of the kind in the East, 
was organized in 1866, incorporated 1868. There have been 
added to the fleet this year : Sloops Adrianne, Comfort, Ri- 
viera, Undine, Seabird, and new schooner for Mr. John B. 
Meare ; also the catamaran Tarantula. The squadron com- 
prises seventy-seven sail, fifteen schooners and sixty sloops, 
including two steamers ; number of members, 250. The 
spring regatta has been fixed for June 17, the fall regatta 
some time in September. The opening cruise, a very com- 
mendable feature of the club's programme, takes place June 
13. Officers of the club for 1878: Commodore, F. H. Pea- 
body ; Vice-Commodore, Nathaniel Wales ; Rear-Commodore, 
Andrew Robeson, of Fall River ; Secretary, Thos. Dean ; 
Treasurer, Aug. Russ ; Measurers, D. J. Lawlor and J. B. 
Smith -, Trustees, Hon. Benjamin Dean, Wm. B. Merrill, E. 
B. Phillips; Regatta Committee, F. E. Peabody, Clarence 
W. Jones, Wendell Goodwin, W. H. Bangs, Jr., and W. W. 
Kellett. 
—The Eastern Yacht Club has a membership of 250, and a 
fleet of twenty-nine schooners, fourteen sloops and one 
steamer. Among its craft are the largest in Eastern waters, 
as well as many belonging to New York and Brooklyn. It is 
to Boston what the N. Y. Y. C. is to the metropolis. Enter- 
prise, keel-cutter. Undine and Ariadne, sloops, have been 
added to the lists this year. The club’s regular matches are 
to take place in June and September. Officers for 1878: 
Commodore, T. D. Boardman; Vice-Commodore, C. W. 
Emery ; Rear-Commodore, David Sears ; Secretary, Henry 
B. Jackson ; Treasurer, Pat. T. Jackson ; Measurer, Clarence 
W. Jones ; Regatta Committee, Wm. Whitney, John Jeffries, 
R. F. Clark, R. H. Stevenson and R. Rollins Morse. 
— The Beverly Yacht Club was organized 1872, and has 
now sixty-one boats flying its pennant. The membership is 
over 100, all active sportsmen, and practical bands at sheet 
and tiller. Their regattas have been fixed for the following 
dates: At Nahant, July 6; off Swampscott, July 27 ; off 
Beverly, Aug. 37 ; at Cotuit, Aug. 3; and again off Nahant, 
Sept. 7. Officers: Commodore, Arthur Burgess; Vice- 
Commodore, Geo. A. Goddard; Secretary and Treasurer, 
W. Lloyd Jeffries ; Measurer, H. H. Buck ; Regatta Com- 
mittee, Wm. D. Hodges, G. P. Gardner, J. G. Minot, P. Grant, 
Jr ; and W. L. Jeffries. 
—The Dorchester Yacht Club has its club house at Com- 
mercial Point on Dorchester Bay. The club numbers 125 
bands, and owns ten schooners and forty-seven sloops. It 
will hold its spring regatta off Nahant, June 17. Commo- 
dore, F. E. Peabody ; Vice-Commodore, 8. P. Freeman ; 
Secretary, O. II. L. Sharpe ; Treasurer, Coolidgo Barnard ; 
Fleet Captain, Geo. F. Clark , Measurer, H. Davenport ; 
Trustees, C. E. Folsom, W. T. Adams, W. H. L. Smith ; 
Regatta Committee, Coolidge Barnard, H. S. Mann and P. 
Dexter. 
— The South Boston Yacht Club will hold a grand union 
regatta on Fast Day afternoon, open to yachts of all clubs, 
another on May 30, and on June 17 a match race to Marble- 
head. The club was organized in 1868, incorporated in 1877. 
Its members number 133 ; its fleet counts one steamer, seven 
schooners and tliirty-nine sloops. Judges for union regattas, 
Wm. Morris, J. M. Flynn and Chas. Griffin. Officers for 
1878 : Commodore, M. J. Kelly ; Vice-Commodore, L. S. 
Pond; Fleet Captain, Wm. McCormack; Secretary, Wm. 
Morris ; Measurer, T. Christian ; Trustees, J. H. Giblin, W. 
II. Latield, Dr. R Disbrow ; Regatta Committee, M. J. 
Kelly, Wm. Morris, J. G. Chambers, F. Copeland, H. P. El- 
well, F. G. Cooley and J. Reagan. 
— The Quincy Yacht Club is in a flourishing condition, and 
its prospects for a lively season are good. At a recent meet- 
ing the following gentlemen were elected : Commodore, H. 
A. Keith ; Vice-Commodore, W. H. Nicholson ; Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo. W. Morton ; Fleet Captain, Joshua Bin- 
ney ; Measurer, Peter B. Turner; Regatta Committee, B. F. 
Bass, Geo. W. Morton, Jas. T. Penniman and E. B. Souther. 
— The East Boston Y r acht Club has its headquarters at 
Island Ward and numbers about sixty members, with twenty- 
one boats. Preparations for the season are actively going on. 
— The Portland Yacht Club, it gives us pleasure to an- 
nounce, shows renewed signs of vigor. It has been incorpo 
rated recently, and a new club book is about to be issued 
which will show a creditable condition of the club’s affairs. 
The squadron consists of ten schooners, fourteen sloops and 
two steamers. The annual club cruise is to come off in June. 
At Custom-House Wharf the club house has been refitted and 
renovated all through. Officers for the year : Commodore, 
J. P. Thomas; Vice-Commodore, H. K. Paul; Fleet Cap- 
tain, John E. Bradford; Secretary, W. Winthrop Root; 
Treasurer, F. H. Jordan ; Measurer, A. K. P. Cobb; Trus- 
tees, J. P. Thomas, C. W. Goddard, A. M. Smith, W. W. 
Goold. Regatta Committee, J. P. Thomas, J. H. Boyd, B. 
J. Willard, E. F. Willard, Th. K. Jones. 
— The Atlantic Yacht Club has adopted the following clas- 
sification of yachts for the coming year : Class A, schooners 
over 75ft. long; Class B, schooners under 75ft. ; Class C, 
cabin sloops over 45ft.; Class D, cabin sloops under 45ft.; 
Class E, cabin sloops under 35ft.; Class F, open sloops ; Class 
G, cat-boats; Class H, catamarans. In classes A and B, 
when not more than two yachts are entered for a regatta, or 
do not put in an appearance at the starting line, all schooners 
shall sail in one class, except in pennant or challenge races. 
Only fore-and-aft sail will be allowed, as heretofore custom- 
ary. Y'achts will give and take time according to length of 
measurement ; this to be taken from a plumb at intersection 
of stem and water line to the extreme after end of counter or 
overhaDg. With the new rule in force, poor Orion and other 
craft of the fan-tail persuasion will pay dearly for their bustle 
attachments. 
—The Williamsburg Yacht Club enters upon the present 
year’s sport with a future full of hope and expectations. At 
the last meeting held in the club’s snug boat-house, at Pottery 
Beach, Greenpoint, L. I., the question of prizes for last year’s 
racing came up for final action. It was voted to expend $60 
in the purchase of suitable presents to the victorious skippers. 
The following yachts were declared entitled to the prizes : 
Nettle, Cricket, Pluck and Luck, Rosina and Mary Gibson. 
The proposition to bold this season’s matches on the 4th of 
June was accepted by the yacht owners, subject to ratifica- 
tion by the club. The course will be from the club house to 
Stepping Stone's Buoy and return. The Regatta Committee 
is to be appointed next meeting, and a full attendance is sure 
to call forth the best efforts of Mr. John C. Van Brunt, the 
club's very able president, who has parliamentary law at his 
tongue’s end, and who is quite equal to keeping within bounds 
any superabundant enthusiasm likely to develop in half a 
dozen members or more under exciting influences. The mem- 
bership of the club is ninety-seven, fortunate in not owing a 
dollar, their financial craft with decks clear for action in '78. 
The club house, large and commodious, is built upon a scow, 
and is composed of a two story building, the lower deck being 
devoted to lockers and storage, the upper to the debating- 
room. The latter is handsomely fitted up, and contains many 
pictures in oil and water colors, representing deeds of derring- 
do of many a famous clipper with the club's burgee at the 
peak. Near headquarters, the smooth, sandy beach of the 
cove, running aloDg for nearly a mile, gives all that a yachts- 
man can desire for hauling out his boat, while the handy 
shops of “ Jake ” Smith are equal to any kind of a job on 
hull or spar Only recently his famous turnout, Pluck and 
Luck, was bought for her speed and sent to Southern seas to 
weave new wreaths of victory around her builder’s brow in 
contests with smart ones of Bella's stripe, who have hitherto 
had things too much their own way down on Crescent City 
waters. The lists show the following .yachts enrolled 
in the Williamsburg Yacht Club : Sorceress, 34ft., Commo- 
dore Goodenough; Julia G., 42ft., T. Merritt, Esq.; Melvina, 
42ft., A. Barker, Esq.; Nettle , 26ft., A. Pannock, Esq.; En- 
deavor, 27ft., Smith & Billard, Esqs.; Rosina , 19ft., G. Bar- 
ker, Esq ; Inspector, 24ft., Wm. O. Davis, Esq.; Martha M., 
24ft., Geo. Munn, Esq.; Pigeon, 2lft., Peter Luth, Esq.; J. 
N. Manfield , 22ft, A J. Brush, Esq.; Kaly, 23ft., Vice- 
Commodore Coleman; Maggie, 28ft., G. W. Forbes Esq.; 
Gilbert J. Orr, 18ft., W. O. Davis, Esq.; Jane, 16ft., Chas. 
Bulk, Esq.; and several new craft to be added. The club 
colors consist of a triangular burgee, blue ground, red border, 
and white star in blue field. 
Columbia Yaoht Club.— On North River, at the foot of 
86th st. , the Columbia Club is busily engaged preparing their 
fleet for all business in the way of speeding that may come 
along. The members propose to meet amolffe themselves 
some time between the 15th and 22d of June and take a com- 
petetive spin over the usual course, clubhouse to Yonkers and 
return, a distance »of 23 miles. Their aonual regatta is an 
event looked forward to with happy anticipations by society 
in the neighborhood, the day of the match being to the fami- 
lies and friends of the members a red-letter day of the year. 
The club-houBe has been built on a stone pier jutting out into 
the river about 100ft. The pier belongs to the city, but the 
right to use it has been granted the Columbias by the Dock 
Department, and a finer location for them it would be difficult 
to find. The house is a two-story frame structure, 36x22ft. 
The lower floor is occupied by lockers and storage room, the 
upper being set apart for meetings and the ladies. It is tastily 
furnished, the ceiling frescoed and walls decorated with yacht- 
ing pictures. Among the latter is an English lithograph dat- 
ing back into the thirties, representing a match between two 
olden-time cutters, with their bluff bowsaud square tucks and 
counters, a reminder of the sport in its most youthful duys, 
and a relic as suggestive as it is valuable. A balcony tuds 
across the front of the building, affording a fine view of the 
eutire course and a breezy retreat warm summer evenings 
where to spin yarns without end on the inexhaustible topics 
so dear to sporting amateur tars. The officers elected for 
1878 are : Jerry S. Baker, Commodore ; R. McWhinuy, Vice- 
Corn.; L. Wigman, Acting Secretary; J. A. Weaver, Treas.; 
J. Greason, Measurer, and Ph. Houseman, Steward. The 
fleet includes the cabin sloops Emma T., flying the Commo- 
dore’s broad pennant ; Emma and Clara E., and the Open 
boats Lilly, Journeyman, carrying the Vice-Commodore's 
signal; Nettle, Laurel, Lydia T., Au Revoir, J. McCrcady, 
Gem and Columbia. Among them several well known crafts 
will be recoguized. Emma T. is a speedy boat, and can hold 
her own with most anything of hei size, while as a cruiser and 
sea-boat she leaves nothiug to be desired. Her skipper has 
been reducing her spars this spring, but it is to be hoped that 
this is not intended as equivalent to the withdrawal of his 
racing colors from the line of starters in his club. Her hull 
will remain as before, and is not undergoing alterations as 
previously reported. Journeyman, one of the fastest of her 
class, is receiving her third suit of canvas, and her owner 
expects to put her through a course of lively doings in the 
next few montbB. This famous boat, though iu her seventh 
year, has preserved her lines perfectly, and her ikiu and 
seams are as fair and smooth as when she first left the ways 
at Richard Wallen’6. Her length is 28ft. 8in., and beam lift. 
Gin. The new rig will consist of jib and mainsail, length on 
boom, 35ft.; bead, 17ft.; hoist, 24ft.; jib, 22ft. Gin. on leech 
and 42ft. on luff. Eight ounce duck, double-bigkted, will be 
used, making the bights about 8in. apart. Journeyman lias 
a fine record, and her plate locker contains among many 
others the club prizes for 1873, ’74 and ’76. Last year she 
was beateD owing to carrying too much ballast, which 
she was obliged to lug over the course in accord with one of 
the sailing rules, allowing no dumping of ballast after the 
starting gun. Usually she stows away about 1,400 pounds in 
her floors for cruising purposes, aside from shifting sand bags. 
Ex-Com. Nobles may give Journeyman and others some tough 
work ere long with the new flyer Wallen has in hand for him, 
for the latter has a wholesome looking form and ought to be 
a good one in a breeze and the short lop of the Hudson. The 
Laurel is new likewise, and though a handsome piece of 
workmanship, it remains to be seen what speed she will show, 
her great beam rendering her chances for a cup somewhat 
questionable. Nettle was built by Wallen, South Brooklyn, 
and measures 24ft. lOin. The club's burgee consists of a 
swallow-tail with blue triangular field at mast and two similar 
ones in red forming the tails and a white star in each field. 
—The Empire Yacht Club met at their club-house, foot of 
104th street, Harlem, and settled upon June 19 for their an- 
nual regatta. Thirty-five sail will enter for this race. The 
course will be from the club-house around the spindle buoy 
off Throgg’s Neck, and return. 
—The Brooklyn Yacht Club, at its last regular meeting, 
elected Mr. R. K. Huntly, of the sloop Niantic, their Rear- 
Commodore, in place of J. B. Norris, deceased. Mr. H. H. 
Lamport, Vice-President of the Continental Insurance Com- 
pany, was elected a member, and ex-Commodore G. L. Haight 
was chosen an honorary member. The location of the new 
club-house was referred to the trustees, with power. Section 
8, of the sailing regulations, was amended to read: “The 
allowance of time for second and third class boats to be based 
on length only, one-half of overhang aft included in measure- 
ment.’’ The majority of clubs seem to be laboring heavily 
under the task of settling upon a clear, concise and equitable 
rule for measurement, for at every other meeting the matter is 
brought up by some member. A desultory discussion ensues, 
and those present are only too glad to get the whole subject 
off their hands by consenting to the proposition made and al- 
lowing the too inquisitive member to have his way — anything 
to keep the thing quiet and to save too much headwork. It 
not our purpose to enter at lgogth upon this very protract 
question, but a fl long as a club has fixed upon length as t' 
btfsis of measurement, it seems very simple to arrive at tb 
only system which will really represent the length of a yacht 
and that is the plan which does not result merely in giving 
time on any one particular length, but on the average length 
of the boat in all respects, keeping in view the only plea 
upon which mere length measurement is admissible — that of 
simplicity. To attain the average length, no matter to what 
class a yacht may belong, add the length of load line to that 
over all and divide by two. That is the whole operation in i 
nutshell. If the question arises as to what constitutes lengt. 
on load line or overall, the answer is as readily given, admit 
ting of no circumvention or doubt. Length on load line is 
the length on the normal line of flotation, from forward side 
of stem to after side of stern-post or counter, if immersed. 
Length over all includes the distance from forward side of 
stem, at deck height, to extreme after end of yacht, be it rail 
or counter or dech. Half the sum will represent about as 
fair an estimate to grant time on as such a crude and bap 
hazard system will admit of. We hope, however, that tin 
day is not far distant when a little more equitable and rational 
rule of measurement will be^snforced. At present each club 
follows its own particular bent, with nine out of ten of them 
all at sea. 
Royal Halifax Yaoht Club.— Our Canadian friends, 
short as their season is, so near the Frigid Zone, manage to 
get a good deal of sport out of their craft, and it gives us 
pleasure to announce an increase to their membership and sail. 
The following officers have been elected for this season: Com. 
His Excellency the Earl of Dufferin, K. P., 1C. C. B , P. C., 
Governor-General or Canada. The Commodore will hoist his 
colors at l he masthead of the Dauntless, cutter. Vice-Com- 
modore, S. A. White, Esq., of the Kestrel, yawl ; Rear Com- 
modore, J. W. Stairs, Esq., Torpid, schooner; Secretary, F. 
C. Sumichrast, Esq., of the Mystery , sloop ; Sailing Commit- 
tee, Flag Officers and Secretary ex officio, Lt. Col. Clerke, D. 
Cronan, Esq., of the Albatross, schooner, G. A. Black, Esq. 
of the Petrel, sloop, G. E. Capel Cure (Twentieth Reg.) and 
L. Briand ; Measurers, J. E. Butler und W. H. Throop. The 
following are the fixtures of the club : Opening cruise, June 
15 ; spring match, June 21 ; harbor cruise under Flag Officer, 
