form or cockpit is fastened on tbe crossbeams, and may be of 
any degree of simplicity or complexity. Tbe cross beams and 
bulls are kept in shape and strengthened by diagonal rods of 
iron. Tbe mast is held upright by stays, three on each side. 
Nautzoub. 
YACHTING NEWS. 
Knickerbocker Yacht Club.— This club will bold its 
spring regatta at their club house, Port Morris, May 30. Boats 
will be started at 2 p. m. Tbe club reports to us a flattering 
condition of its affairs, and many accessions of yachts and 
members to its list. Their burgee is a red triangular flag, 
white cross and blue star in centre of cross. 
Pavonia Yacht Club. — The following officers have been 
elected for the season. Commodore, Edward A. Davis; Vice- 
Commodore, Theo. Crumenauer ; Rear-Commodore, William 
Taylor; Secretary, Alexander W. Murray ; Treasurer, Harry 
H. Holmes; President, John G. Northrup; Steward, James 
Dainty; Measurer, Walter G. Moulds; Sailing Master, 
Charles W. Wild. The Board of Trustees consists of J. JL. 
Kreymayer, H. H. Holmes and Otto Orumenauer. 
Newbubyport Yacht Club. — The old club at Newhury- 
port, Mass., has beeu brought into life again under the fol- 
lowing board of officers : Commodore, F. H. Boardman ; 
Vice-commodore, Win. C. Thompson; Captain, Benj. P. 
Davis ; Secretary and Treasurer, Edward A. Williams; Re- 
gatta Committee, Captains W. A. Davis, Thomas McKinney, 
and Daniel Pierce. 
Delaware River Yaoht Club. — The date fixed for their 
match is May 20. Start from Market street wharf, Camden, 
around red buoy at Chester and return. There will also be 
an open regatta June 10, Vice-Corn. Paul Klotz in charge, on 
the Delaware, from Chester round the Cherry Island buoy 
and return, distance 22 miles. 
Sbawanhaka Yacht Club. — Under the auspices of this 
club, the Eighth Corinthian Match will take place June 15, 
for second class schooners and first, second and third class 
sloops. Race open to yachts belonging to any recognized 
club and governed by sailing regulations of the Beawanhaka 
Yacht Club. Second class schooners comprise all whose areas 
are 1,950ft. or less; first class sloops, all whose areas exceeds 
900ft. ; second class sloops, all whose areas are between 900ft. 
and 550ft. Four prizes, one In each class ; two to start or no 
race. Yachts must be manned by amateurs exclusively to the 
satisfaction of the regatta committee. They will he allowed 
one man for every Oft. of length on deck, and one for every 
additional fractional part of Oft. Sailing master, pilot and 
cook not allowed to interfere with management of boats, and 
each yacht to be steered and sailed by her owner. Only 
plain, working soils permitted. The start will be a flying one 
from club steamer, and the course to and around buoy No. 
10, on Southwest Spit, keeping it on port hand, thence to and 
around Sandy Hook Light-ship, keeping it on starboard, and 
return over same course. Yachts must keep to the eastward 
of buoys 9, 11 and 13, on the west bank, and outside buoy 5^, 
on Sandy Hook Point. The Regatta Committee consists of 
Messrs. Rosevelt, Schuyler, J. H. Elliott, C. Wylly, S. Betts, 
Henry De F. Weekes and L. P. Bayard. 
Yaohtinq at Halifax, Nova Sootia. — The Nova Scotia 
Yacht Squadron had fixed the 15th of Juno for their opening 
cruise. Several yachts are already in commission. The 
schooner Sea Foam , Captain Lurcom, R. A., has, indeed, been 
in commission all winter, and her owner and some friends en- 
joyed a midwinter cruise in search of sport. They got plenty 
of wind and sea ,and little else. The Phantom , sloop, former- 
ly owned by Mr. H. E. Billing, has passed into the hands of 
Lt. Hammersley, 20th Regt., who commissioned her about a 
month ago. She has proved herself a very stiff, powerful, 
handy and speedy craft, but has not yet been tried in a regular 
race. The Hebe, sloop, Mr. J. E. Butler, was the next out. 
She was the champion yacht last season, and will no doubt give 
a good account of herself this year, She has a new boom and 
is fitted with lazy crails instead of the single topping lifts she 
carried last year. Lt. G. E. Capel Core, 20th Regt., who 
sailed the little Muta last season, has become the owner of the 
Psyche, sloop, built by Mr. Butler in 1876. She will cut out 
work for all her rivals, as her owner sails her hard. She is in 
commission, as is also Lt. Groves’ (97tlx Regt. ) Little Annie. 
Mr. E. Moseley, Dartmouth, has put his sloop Squirrel into the 
water after exteusive repairs, including new keel and floors, 
new cabin, skylight, etc. She has shortened her top-mast 
four feet. She will not fit out for some time yet, her owners 
being busy building a steamer for the War Department. The 
Mystery, sloop, Messrs. F. C. Sumichraat and W. H. Troup, is 
being titled out rapidly. She has had a new must put in and 
a new running top-mast, being the only craft on the station 
re-rigged. Bhe bus had a thorough overhaul, new wire stand- 
ing-rigging, and is to have more bullast. Her owners use her 
principally for cruising. The Osprey schooner, a comfortable 
and staunch cruiser, has been purchased by Captain Cantley, 
97th Regt., who put her in commission about a month ago, 
and has already tested her sea-going qualities. Her cabins 
have been altered and improved, and with the addition of a 
jib-boom and flying-jib she will travel well. The Albatross, 
schooner, Mr. D. Cronan, is fitting out ; she is a fast and 
handsome vessel of her class, and often bothers sloops even 
turning to windward, her owner sailing her with remarkable 
skill The Spray, sloop, Mr. II. St. G. Twining, will shortly 
fit out. She had a complete overhaul lust year, and is now in 
good order. The Kestrel, yawl, Vice-Commodore White, will 
probably not fit out until the return of her owner, who is now 
in Europe. The Nymphia, yawl, Mr. C. E. Brown, will fit 
out in June, af er the first glory of the salmon fishing is over, 
her owner being as enthusiastic a fisherman as lie is a skilled 
yachtsman. The Kate , sloop, Mr. W. II. Brookfield, has been 
In commision since the end of April. Her owner went to 
Prince Edward Island in her last summer, 
American yachts are always welcome in Halifax harbor, and 
the Hon. Secretary of the Nova Scotia Yaoht Squadron, Mr. 
G. C. Sumichraat, will, if required, take charge of letters and 
papers and have them delivered on board yachts on their ar- 
rival, and give any information and assistance in his power to 
yachtsmen. 
Quaker City Yacht Club. — This is now the most promi- 
nent club on the Delaware. It was organized in Philadelphia 
in February, 1876. At first it was intended to include only 
the larger class of cabin yachts, but this season a class has 
been made for open yachts between twenty and thirty feet in 
length. The membership of the club numbers eighty-three, 
wiih a fleet of thirteen cabin and three open yachts. The 
officers of the club for 1878 are : Commodore, A. F. Bancroft; 
Vice-Commodore, L. Coleman ; Rear Commodore, Paul Klotz, 
of Chester; President, N. B. Boyd; Treasurer, Robert 
Baird ; Secretary, Oharles S. Salin ; Assistant Secretary, J. J. 
Baughman ; Measurer, Captain John Vanderslice; Regatta 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Committee : Commodore A. F. Bancroft, John E. Pomeroy, 
Robert Baird, L. Coleman, Charles S. Austin, Paul Klotz and 
John M. Seigel. The third annual spring regatta takes place 
May 23. Course from Laurel 6treet wharf, Philadelphia, to 
Chester red buoy and return. The George W. Barrow Chal- 
lenge Cup will be awarded to the yacht making fastest time. 
The other prizes consist of marine glasses, cabin lamp, yacht 
ensign, and kedge anchor. The following programme has 
been arranged for the coming season : Opeuiug Review and 
Harbor Cruise, May 12 ; Annual Spriug Regatta, May 23 ; 
Chester Regatta, June 10 ; Review uud Harbor Cruise, June 
23; Corinthian Regatta (yachts to be sailed by their owners, 
and crews to be composed of amateurs, for prizes offered by 
the flog officers) July 4 ; Review and Harbor Cruise, July 14, 
and August 4 ; Annual Cruise to the Delaware Bay, August 
17 to 31 ; Fall Regatta, September 19 ; Closing Review Sep- 
tember 29. The Corinthian races and the club cruises arc 
most commendable features of this organization, and we hope 
they will be strictly carried out as per programme. 
— Owing to want of space a number of communications 
nd other matter has been unavoidably deferred. 
yaohtino dbift. 
1 i. re will not be many big schoonors in commission this 
year. Most owners have gone to Paris, but tilings will bo 
veryliv lv among the smaller craft SeaioUch, ex-Corn. F. 
H. Stott, 1 as been on a cruise. Her owner is a thorough 
yachtsman i.ed a professional salt Cornithian races are be- 
coming more popular, also yachts of a size suitable to such 
sport Time allowance of the Sewanhaka Club is based ou 
area obtained by multiplying extreme beam aud meuu of 
lengths on water-line and over all New Orleans parties are 
forming a new yacht club Seven cabiu and twenty open 
boats have entered for the South Boston Yacht Club race. 
Keels and centre boards will be raced in one class. This is as 
it should be. No reason at all for giving each a separate 
class Undine, of New York, is in the hands of abuildcr at 
Cohasset, Mass Keels and cutters are coming more into 
fashion ; so much the better for seamanship aud cruising 
Mr. A. Cary Smith is designing a thoroughbred keel cutter 
Ballust on keel and garboarils is also coming into vogue. 
About time, too Commodore Peabody's uew cutter is at- 
tracting much attention in Boston waters ; this was to he ex- 
pected, but why ou earth has he got tarred rope ?— hemp, 
perhaps— for running gear ? We give him just four weeks to 
reeve off au entire new batch of manilla instead Hutchins 
and Pryor, well known in Boston as builders of fast jib-and- 
mainsails, have launched eight boats last week Two suici- 
dal individuals are going to cross the wide, wide seas from 
Boston to Europe in a 19-ft. dory called the Nautilus. Their 
venture is as stale and second-bunded as the name of their 
coffin Commodore West, of tbe Madison Yacht Club, is 
working hard to get up a tine June regatta on Fourth Lake, 
Win He has matched his Whisper against Lulu of Geneva 
Lake Mr. Colgate, of the Idler, has returned to the N. Y. 
Y. C- the Brenton’s Reef Challenge cup as required by the 
conditions governing it, as he will not commission his schooner 
this year. The race for this cup will take place June 27, from 
New York to Newport and return, outside course. Will aDy 
one come to the line for this event ? It seems doubtful 
Wanderer, Mr. Stillman owner, is another of the big ones that 
will not show up this year. 
THE OAR AND PADDLE. 
College Prospects. — A t Williams the racing will not be 
extensive this year. The course will be improved to a mile 
and a half in length on the Hoosac with the appropriation of 
$5,000 presented to the college by Cyrus W. Field. Cornell’s 
spring regatta will lie rowed on Cayuga Lake, June 17. All 
classes but the freshmen will furnish a six-oared crew, and 
there will be a race of sixes between the crews of the Tom 
Hughes and Sprague clubs, composed of members of all the 
classes. At Brown College the three lower classes will come 
together, the seniors having withdrawn, June 14. Tbe fresh- 
men will pull against the Narragansett crew on the Seekonk 
River in six-oared shells, three miles with a turn, on May 30. 
At Bowdoin the juniors, sophomores and freshmen will row 
for the champion cup in four-oared gigs with coxswains, 
probably on June 8. At Philadelphia the University of Penn- 
sylvania will have a four-oared crew at the Schuylkill Regatta. 
The juniors have also accepted a challenge from the freshmen 
for a six-oared race, to take place May 24, aud the freshmen 
have a similar contest in prospect with the sophomores. At 
Princeton, boating matters seem at a low ebb, the expected 
contest of their freshmen with those of Columbia having 
fallen through. At Michigan University there is next 
to nothing doing. Marietta College, Ohio, is the 
only one in that State that will muster a racing 
crew, though no fixtures have as yet been settled upon. 
California University being high and dry in a desert, its 
students can only indulge in hoeing potatoes for a wager, aud 
shell boats and sculls to them must ever remaiu a mystery. 
Rutgers has men in training, but no definite races in view. 
We6lyan oarsmen are quiet. Columbia has given an account 
Of herself on the Harlem, and the public will watch with eager- 
ness the doings of the brave four that go to Henley. 
Hanlon-Plaistbd Race. — A s expected by all who had wit- 
nessed the two men at practice, Hanlon easily beat Plaisled, 
the race being pretty much of a wulk-over for the Canadian. 
It was pulled at. Toronto, May 14, the course being from 
Gooderham’8 to Queen’s Wharf, and the weather and water 
fair. No coaching was allowed, aud suspicious persons were 
not allowed to accompany the oarsman. Stephen Roberts, the 
Harlem boat builder, was referee. Hanlon turned the scales 
at 1631 pounds, his adversary weighing 3} pounds less. The 
former pulled in a shell by Elliott of Greenpoint, L. I., the 
latter in a paper boat by Waters & Sons, of Troy. At 6h. 
8m. the word “ go” was given. Plaisted took the water first 
and started off with a stroke of 34, taking the lead for a short 
distance. Hanlon’s long, steady swing of 28 soon told, how- 
ever, for in less than three-quarters of a mile he had distanced 
the New Yorker by a length. He then rowed leisurely with 
two lengths between the boats. Finally tbe Canadian won in 
13m. 40s., three lengths and a half ahead. In connection 
with the race it is to tbe credit of American shell builders and 
of Judge Elliott, of Greenpoint, in particular, that Hanlon 
gave a decided preference to his Long Island boat over several 
imported from England. Col. Shaw, the popular American 
Consul, was the backer of Hanlon. Let us have no more such 
one-sided races for the championship, but let those interested 
trot out make Courtney, the best man in America, who will 
it warmer for the Kanuck than any other man we know of. 
The Edrekas. — F or the Newark Regatta the Eureka Club 
has the following powerful four : AucKman, stroke ; George 
Clark, bow ; P. Young ond Wm. Flavell in the waist. They 
are said to have made better time recently than ever hefore. 
The entries for the Passaic River Amatsur Rowing Associa- 
3QS 
tion Regatta will close June 14. Mr. Young’s absence will 
prevent the Eurekas from attending Watkins, but he will re- 
turn in time for the Passaic regatta. 
Yale Spring Regatta.- -The Yale navy mot on Lake Salton- 
stall during a drizzling rain May 15. The first event was a race 
betweeu the Juniors and Sophomores. The former had made 
the beet time on record for two miles, and when the Sophomores 
showed up first at the finish the surprise was great, for they 
had actually eclipsed the Juniors' wonderful time. Distance, 
two miles ; time, 12m. 57 Js. In the second barge race between 
the academic and scientific freshmen, the latter made a fine spurt 
toward the finish and wou in 13m. 431s, In the Junior scull 
race B. S. Keaton easily beat G. M. Edwards and A F. Jones 
in 15m. 154s. In ibe senior scull race E. P. Livingston won 
m 15m. 13s., defeu ig H. H. Donaldson. 
rowing kippi.es. 
Great preparations are being made by the Schuylkill clubs 
for the regatta, June 10 .Pennsylvania Bargo Club has re- 
ceived a new four for a crow averaging 170 lbs The Uu- 
diucs, of Philadelphia, are after the Crescents The latter 
have the heaviest tour, the Ridgeway crew, on the Schuyl- 
kill Ellis Ward, now peruianontly locatcd in the Quaker. 
City, wants to take the sliiue out of Flick or Kilsbyiotho 
tune of $200, or will pull a pair with his broiher Gilbert 
against the two Hiawatha is the name of a new club just 
organized in Philadelphia Hanlon is going to Pittsburgh 
At lastl Freucliy Johnson has found a backer uud ho is 
prepared to tackle Reagan, of Boston. Tho Plaisled. Reagan 
race is off, the latter not haviug come to time ; probably tho 
best thing he could do, for his frionds would have lost their 
money Tho Quincy Rowing Club hasorgamzed in Quincy, 
Mass Pool law in force in Canada. Only privutc bets 
hereafter among our friends across tho border Hanlon 
says he likes his Greenpoint boat better than nuy other 
Tbe Union Boat Club of Boston has a flue four composed of 
Peabody, stroke, Williams, Haugliton and Jones. Peabody 
rowed iu one of tho Oxford crows, also at Henley. Williams 
2d. is coxswain. They pull 38 strokes, English style 
Plaisled workB with liis arms to much, in tho old New York 
Battery style, now happily dying out. Tho jerky stroko 
never could do anything alongside of the 'steady; English 
swing. 
M ew ^tibliculwiil 
Modern Observations on Rifle Shooting, with Improved 
System of Score Book and Silicate Slate for Use on the 
Range. Second edition. Edward A. Perry, Editor and 
Publisher. 
It Is illfflcnH to Imagine how tn s moro compact ond convenient form 
tho author of this scoro book could have embodied so maujr useful fust* 
la rogard to rule practice. It Ib by uo menus a simple score book, but 
contains all the Information tho beginner In rlflo practice can requlro 
It Ls quite a (HMeratuni with ouo who commences to understand clearly 
what tools ho may want aud Mr. I’erry glvos In dotnll all tho requisites. 
How to core for a rlflo, bow to clcua It, how sliellB should bo preserved, 
how powder should be bandied and all that Is known of bullets aro to 
lie found lu the book. When It comes to tbo more delicate manipulation 
of tho rlflo, the precautions to be taken, as to light uud wind, tho book Is 
particularly excellent. Allowances for elevation are minutely given and 
nothing Is noglectud. The chapter entitled " Kentons tor Failures 1 ' Is 
very much to tho polat and really explains many of tboso puzzling 
points whloh set tho tyro at eoa when unacquainted with tho mysteries 
of rifle shooting. The wholo system of team shooting Is explained. 
When we etato that to ull tills ls added the rales and regulutlous of riae 
associations our roadors can understand that nothing Ima been left out. 
When we come to the method of targets, with tho sllloato slate— s blot- 
ter In fact, for uso In tbo Hold— Into which the scores can bo copied for 
future and permanent reference, Mr. Perry's System Is absolutely per- 
fect. Wo havo, since the boo . hus boon on onr shelf, frequently used 
11 for reference, havo recommended It and have uo hesitation In advis- 
ing all tboso using rifles on ranges to purohaso Perry's book at It Is tho 
beBt for tbo purposes Intended that has yet come under oar nollos. 
Woodland, $irm and garden. 
THIS DEPARTMENT 18 EDITED BY W. J. DAVIDSON, BKO. N. T. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
BEAUTIFUL NATIVE PLANTS. 
T HE following list of native plants was exhibited by 
Messrs. Woolson & Co., Passaic, N. J., at tho last meet 
ing or the New York Horticultural Society. It whs a very 
interesting and instructive exhibit, and, in connection with 
the group of hardy flowering plants, but seldom cultivated 
and exhibited that they should be better known, were of as 
much interest to many, as the rare and choice orchids Bbown 
by Messrs. Such, Bennett and Buchanan : Bcrbcris vulgaris, 
var. purpurea ; Cercls japonica ; Euonynus latlfolius, very 
fine in fruit; Exocborda grandiflora; Halesia tetraptera 
Kerria japonica var., usually kept as a greenhouse plant, but 
perfectly hardy with US; Loniccro ltuprechtii , do. Tartarian, var. 
grandiflora; Nevinsia Alabumensis, one of the rarest American 
shrubs, with fruit like Clematis ; Rhodolypus kerrioides, a re- 
cent introduction from Japan and very showy. 
The following is tho list of native (North American) plants, 
forty spcciesand varieties : Amsoniaclliata ; do. Tabermcmon- 
tana; Andromeda polifolia ; Aquilegia Cttmlca; Aquilegla 
Canadensis; Aquilegia Canadensis, var. flavn; Brodafia grandi- 
flora • Cainassia csculenta ; Clematis Douglasii ; Cypripedium 
arietinum , Cypripedium pubescens ; Dicentra exirnla;Geum 
triflorum; Iris cristata ; Iristcnax; Dayia platyglossa ; Liod- 
biemeriatoxana; McrtcDflla Ianceolota ; Mertenaia vlrglnica; 
Phlox amocna; Phlox divoricata -. Phlox, stolonifera ; Podo- 
phyllum peltatum ; Polemonium replans ; Bedum obtUBatuni ; 
8edum tematum; Seuhertia laxa; Sileno Pennsylvanlcum ; 
Smilacina stellata ; Spigelia Marilandica ; Teliima p irvi flora ; 
Thaliclrum anemonoidea ; Trillium erectum, var. album; 
Trillium grandiflorum ; Uvularia perfoliata ; Cvularla scssill- 
folia; Viola Canadensis ; Viola pedata ; Viola pubcscen* 
Wolds teiuia fragarioides. 
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