FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 27, 1906. 
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Before these steps had become generally 
known, our agile Mayor, seeking to -throw a 
sop to the yachtsmen, requested Mr. Charles 
Francis Adams 2d to serve upon his committee 
and to oversee the distribution of 100 tickets to 
the municipal dinner among prominent yachts¬ 
men. Misled by the Mayor’s statements, Mr. 
Adams accepted his offer, although modestly 
disclaiming any right to represent yachtsmen in 
general. Hardly had he left the Mayor, how¬ 
ever. before Mr. Adams learned of the Boston 
Y. C. dinner and discovered the true situation. 
Unwilling to have any part in the Mayor’s at¬ 
tempt to use Sir Thomas to advertise John F. 
Fitzgerald, Mr. Adams at once informed Mr. 
Mayor that his services had been enlisted by a 
failure to fully apprize him of the facts, and de¬ 
clined to serve on the committee. But Mr. 
Mayor, dauntless as ever, announced his com¬ 
mittee with Mr. Adams as a member. Que.le 
dclicatcsse! 
Next scene: A meeting of the Y. R. A. “Hie 
acriter pugiiatum est.” Desiring to honor Sir 
Thomas, the Y. R. A. also proposed a dinner.- 
In order to insure satisfactory arrangements, it 
was wisely decided to collaborate with the 
Boston Y. C.. But a suggestion that ,the dinner 
be held “at the convenience of Sir Thomas 
Lipton and the Mayor of Boston” was promptly, 
unanimously and scornfully amended by omit¬ 
ting all reference to the Mayor. “What the 
devil,” cried the yachtsmen, “is the Mayor to us? 
This is to be a yachtsmen’s dinner — not a Ward 
Six chowder party!” 
And so the story goes! There will be two 
dinners. The one, an official, municipal dinner; 
the other, a truly joyous affair, one of enthus¬ 
iasm, of yachting flavor, where the feeling of 
camaraderie will prevail. This dinner, the din¬ 
ner, will be tendered to Sir Thomas at the Al¬ 
gonquin Club on Nov. 1. Invitations have been 
extended to the flag officers and delegates of 
the Y. R. A. clubs, to the flag officers and com¬ 
mittee men of the Eastern and Corinthian yacht 
clubs, and to all members of the Boston Y. C. 
None but yachtsmen will be tolerated. The 
banquet hall of the Algonquin Club will only 
seat 300, and it is felt that many more than that 
number will wish to attend and make the even¬ 
ing a notable and vociferous one. So possibly 
there may be one or two yachtsmen at the 
municipal dinner — but not from choice. 
A new and unexpected international ' yacht 
race is now in the wind, and will undoubtedly 
be arranged. The local racing dories have been 
invited to compete next summer with those at 
Shelburne, N. S., and it is proposed to send the 
two best to compete with Shelburne’s fastest 
pair. The proposal comes as a fitting climax to 
a very successful season for the Racing Dory 
Association. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
Four steam launches are being built at the 
works of the -Electric Launch Co., at Bayonne, 
for the account of the Quartermaster General, 
United States Army. The boats will be fitted 
with steam engines, and are 60ft. long, 10ft. 
breadth, on a draft of 4ft. The- hulls are of 
wood with steel bulkheads. The cabins will be 
simply finished. Engines will be compound and 
a speed of 12[4 miles is expected. 
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Laid up at the plant of the Electric Launch 
Co., Bayonne, N. J., are the following boats: 
Dixie, Mr. E. J. Schroder; Standard, Mr. Price 
McKinney; Skedaddle, Messrs. B. N. and H. N. 
Baruch, and Beat It, Mr. William M. Fleitmann. 
Revonah, Mr. F. W. Wurster; Enaj. Mr. T. G. 
Bennett; Delilah, Mr. Anderson Gratz; Zorayda, 
Mr. E. Barnett; Wyandance, Mr. James B. Baker; 
Alma, Mr. H. H. Cheney; Katrina I., Mr. Geo. 
M. Boardman; Maid, Mr. C. E. Topping; 
Wazzie, Mr. A. G. Van Nostrand, and Chinchilla 
and Express, Mr. George B. Wilson. 
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Stuyvesant Wainwright, of the New York Y. 
C., has sold his 30-footer Cara Mia to Mrs. E. 
M. Scott, of Great Neck, L. I., through the 
office of Stanley M. Seaman. Mrs. Scott ex¬ 
pects to use the yacht for racing and cruising 
on Long Island Sound next year. 
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Robert Treat Paine 2d has bought from 
Robert W. Emmons 2d, of the Eastern and 
Beverly yacht clubs, the fine 44ft. waterline rac¬ 
ing cutter Humma, built in 1901 by the Herres- 
hoffs. It is the purpose of Mr. Paine—who is 
known among yachtsmen as the owner of the 
handsome little Fife schooner Barbara—to bring 
the Humma around from Buzzards bay. where 
Mr. Emmons has kept her, and make Marble¬ 
head her hailing port. She will be a fine ad¬ 
dition to the local fleet. Mr. Paine will give 
her an interior overhauling and add a couple of 
staterooms to her rather meagre cabin equip¬ 
ment. 
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Macconnell & Cook report the following sales: 
The auxiliary yawl Kate, sold by J. S. Negus, 
of the Atlantic Y. C., to H. F. Holbrook, of 
the New York Y. C., who has changed the name 
of the boat to the Rebel. 
The power boat Pioneer, sold by Robert E. 
Wilson to the Commercial Lumber Company, 
of Venezula, to be used in South American 
waters. 
The yawl Hyperion, sold by Com. F. W. Raus- 
knlb. of the South Poston V. C., to William B. 
Young, of the Brooklyn Y. C. 
tit et s» 
The auxiliary schooner yacht Vergemere, Mr. 
A. C. Bostwick, N. Y. Y. C., has been-on the 
dock at Morse’s, South Brooklyn, for slight re¬ 
pairs,- which were made under the supervision 
of Messrs. Cary, Smith & Ferris, the designers 
of the yacht. Vergemere will be placed in com¬ 
mission early next spring. 
The schooner yacht Elrnina, Mr. F. F. Brew¬ 
ster, N. Y. Y. C., is in winter quarters at Green- 
port, L. 1 . Her owner is in the West. 
The famous old cup defender Volunteer, which 
defeated the Scotch cutter Thistle in 1887, has 
been put on the sales list. This boat has sailed 
as a sloop, then as a schooner and later again 
as a sloop, and was last owned by the late J. 
Malcolm Forbes, and has been held by the 
estate of that yachtsman since his death. She 
is now laid up at Fairhaven. 
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Mr. Chas. D. Mower reports . the following- 
orders: A 35ft. waterline auxiliary yawl for 
Lake Michigan; a 33ft. waterline auxiliary ketch 
for a Milwaukee yachtsman; a 50ft. over all 
shoal draft, pole-mast schooner for Barnegat 
Bay; a 52ft. over all power cruising boat, with 
auxiliary-sail plan, for a Philadelphia yachtsman, 
and a 20ft. racing length jib and mainsail boat 
for Barnegat Bay. Mr. Mower is at work on 
a 70ft. waterline steel schooner, for cruising and 
racing; a new class Q boat for Gravesend Bay, 
and several small boats for one-design classes. 
This report points very much to what many are 
realizing that next year is going to be a good 
one in yachting—it’s a fine sport. 
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Messrs. Burgess & Packard, of Marblehead, 
who late in the summer received an order for 
six one-design boats for use at Bar Harbor next 
year, have already finished one of them, and 
within two weeks will be tried out. We hope 
to publish some drawings and photographs of 
this- class. In view of the tact of the winning 
of the Q championship by Orestes, both in 
Boston and New York waters, having been 
designed by Mr. Burgess, the new Bar Harbor 
boats will be very interesting, though they do 
not, unfortunately, comply in all respects to the 
Q class under the universal rule. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
JVanJal Architects and Hr offers. 
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Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
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