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HUNTRESS - TWIN SCREW AUXILIARY KETCH-INBOARD PROFILE, BEAM PLAN AND SECITONS. 
Designed by Henry J. Gielovv for Dr. R. V. Pierce. 
The sail and cabin plans, with a description, appeared last week. 
to visit Boston. The latter graciously intimated 
that he would he pleased to do so. Thereupon 
Mr. Alderman telegraphed Mayor Fitzgerald, 
suggesting that he send Sir Thomas a formal in¬ 
vitation, which the Mayor promptly did; for he, 
too, saw in the incident another opportunity to 
face the limelight of publicity and to court the 
suffrages of a new class of voters. For, be it 
understood, that if there is an Irish vote, a 
German vote, and a laboring vote, there must 
also be a yachting vote; and votes transform the 
meanest clay into aldermen and mayors. 
Things having reached this joyous pass, Mr. 
Alderman sped home to inform Mr. Mayor that 
Sir Thomas desired certain of his Boston friends 
placed upon any committee that the Mayor might 
appoint to entertain him. And among those 
friends was one. who, like Abou Ben Adam, led 
all the rest—Winfield M. Thompson. He is the 
yachting editor of the Boston Globe and, 
through his notable articles in that paper and 
the Rudder, has become known and admired 
throughout the yachting worlds of America, 
England and the Continent. But Boston yachts¬ 
men .honor him most, because he is a genuine 
sailor-man and a true sportsman. All these 
qualities, and the request of Sir Thomas pass for 
naught, however, with Mr. Mayor, for, lo! 
Thompson is no politician, and so the committee 
holds no place for Thompson. Neither is there 
a place for Mr. Alderman; the bell that tolled 
so well has tolled in vain. But that is another 
story. The Mayor is a Democract; Mr. Bell is 
a Republican, a frequent thorn in the Mayor’s 
path and must be flouted. Score two for the 
Mayor at the expense of Sir Thomas. 
Meanwhile the Boston Y. C., seeing in the 
visit of the donor of the Lipton cup for class Q 
only its true significance—a prominent yachts¬ 
man coming to a prominent yachting port—de¬ 
termined to welcome him upon that footing. Its 
executive committee promptly met and ap¬ 
pointed as a committee to entertain him. Com. 
Edw. P. Boynton. Vice-Corn. Alfred Douglass, 
ex-Com. B. P. Cheney, Winfield M. Thompson, 
Louis M. Clark, Sumner H. Foster, J. J. 
Souther, W. C. Lewis, C. E. Lauriat, Jr., and 
Chas. P. Panning. A telegram inviting him to 
be tbe club’s guest at a large yachting dinner 
was sent Sir Thomas, and has been accepted by 
bim. 
