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model. And then came Dan, the son of Dan, the 
tenth of a long, long line of Daniels. 
Now this eleventh Daniel was like all the others 
of his hardy, industrious race, like all his neigh¬ 
bors and his neighbors’ kin, save only in one re¬ 
spect-—he was at times a dreamer and his dreams 
were of changes in the established order of 
things. But convention, environment, generations 
of suppressed individuality, restrained Daniel— 
might always have restrained him but for the 
grandmother from whom he had inherited his 
germ of originality, the grandmother who was 
popularly supposed to have “spells,” to be what 
was called a “poor, harmless old woman.” 
Then came the unexpected autumnal gale, a 
freezing, howling tempest that tore Dan’s heritage 
from her mooring and flung her on the beach a 
total wreck, valueless save for her precious fas¬ 
tenings. Better then perhaps than in the spring 
or summer, as a long winter offered the unoc¬ 
cupied time in which to build the new boat, for 
new boat he must have. So through the forests, 
ax in hand, he strode day after day, finding and 
felling the promising oaks and pines, lopping off 
branches, seeking and saving the natural crook 
knees, hewing away bark, squaring the timber and 
hauling all to the little home clearing by the bay 
where the hull would take form and become a 
boat. And always at his work he was bitterly 
reviewing the faults of the only known model; 
too deep, too heavy, too tender, unwieldly, wet, 
slow on the wind, slugerish when running, un¬ 
certain in stays; aye! with three score faults and 
failings. Perhaps he had swelled with boyish 
pride when first he steered her with no- olher 
hand upon the tiller, but no-w—how he despised, 
how- he hated the type since he had come to know, 
from bitter trials, its unfitness for its habitat. 
His neighbors did not think the model slow, un¬ 
handy, unseaworthy; they thought it all that a 
boat could or should be. No- varying models had 
given them, a comparison of results and they had 
not Dan’s dreaming brain to suggest possible im¬ 
provements. Neither had thev his grandmother 
with her unexpected vein of originality, her 
“second sight” and her keen fondness for the 
dreamy grandson. 
At last the timbers were gathered, the fasten¬ 
ings of the old boat all withdrawn and renlen- 
ished with a few gross of nails and bolts fash¬ 
ioned at the village smithy. The time was come 
to sweat out from the timber the keel, stern, 
frames, planking and other component parts with 
ax, adze and plane. The time to commence the 
actual building and to cease mumbling complaints 
and aspirations in the sympathetic ear of his 
grandmother. 
And then old Granny dreamed ; dreamed of a 
strange shaped hull, uncommon wide, uncommon 
broad, uncommon flat, with stem and transom 
plumb as ever but less deep; with b'road, flat 
keel, with accentuated sheer and little forefoot. 
A aueer dream—a yet more queer model. But 
to Dan it came as the first flash of insniration 
which makes the grumbler innovate. With light¬ 
ened heart he set himself to his task, cut his 
keel to fit the dream, worked out a, straneely 
shortened stem and set up moulds that filled the 
village with laughter and the tapping of gnarled 
finger to ancient nose. Thus grew the boat, thus 
grew the villages’ wonderment. Did ever a per¬ 
plexity arise, created by some inability of olden 
methods to cone with construction problems of 
this new model? Straightway Dan abandoned his 
task and spent the evening, the- day, sometimes 
days, describing to his grandparent the difficulty 
that beset him, expounding upon what must be 
done. And then in time, sooner or later, the lov¬ 
ing Grannv was seized with a spell and in her 
trance spoke of the unthought things she saw, 
of the methods of the men whom she then be¬ 
held. And always .were these things, these 
methods, the very means by which to conquer 
Dan’s obstacles. 
There he men'of to-day who - have heard this 
tale and find no originality in Dan. Perhans his 
brain was not creative, but he had the origfnality 
of improvement, the power to seize a shadowy 
idea and give it constructive reality, the ability 
to find value in that which was without prece¬ 
dent. I hold him and his grandmother both to 
be originators, collaborators in the welding of 
thought into the concrete. She it was who 
aroused him in the night to whisper, “I see 
trouble, Danny boy, I see her slide, I see her 
walk crab-wise; she is not weatherly. And now; 
ah! Danny, I see them fix a wing, a fin to her 
belly; a wing, a fin, a something that they slide 
down through her midst. She fore-reaches, 
Danny ! She fore-reaches now !” 
And Dan it was. who with auger and chisel 
cut the long narrow slot through the keel, mor¬ 
tised to it a narrow box in which he housed a 
fin-shaped strip of planks pinned edge to edge 
and pivoted at the forward corner. 
Granny it had been who conceived the un¬ 
usually bluff, flaring bows and extreme tumble- 
home to the wide V-shaped, unduly broad stern- 
board. But it was Danny who translated her - 
vague expression into the finished hull; Danny 
who suffered his fellows’ scorn and derision, but 
clung perseveringly to Granny’s dream. 
And then when the finishing time came and 
Dan paused to wonder how the old rig would fit 
his new craft and whether the old rig itself had 
not been his dearest curse, his grandmother had 
her last, her most peculiar dream. 
“I see her sailing Danny and she looks won¬ 
drous odd. No bowsprit, no jib-boon, Danny, 
one, only one great sail. No, not a lugger,Danny! 
Just a fearful mainsail spread on fearful spars; 
so long, so large—so different, Danny boy! The 
mast is in the very bows, of her, the boom swings 
outboard a third beyond the taffrail, there are no 
shrouds; and yet it holds! it stands! And oh! 
how close she lies, how quick she spins upon her 
heel. She leaves them all, this great sea-gull, my 
Danny.” 
Would you or I, from absolute ignorance, on 
such a gossamer structure, conceive a new rig 
and fashion a novelty? I dare not claim so much 
for myself, dare you? 
But that was all that led Daniel the eleventh 
to make spars of unusual length, of striking 
diameter. That was all that' caused him to cut a 
new mast hole far forward in the deck, to scarf 
a new mast step into the keel and toil long over 
the largest sail that the West Bay of his day 
ever saw on one of its local boats. 
And when the boat was launched and rigged, 
when she first heeled to the southwest breeze, 
gleaming in her coat of soot, lead and oil, with 
a number picked in white on either bow and 
“Granny” painted across her sternboard, then— 
well, need I tell that part of the tale? We all 
know what a Cape cat will do in her home waters 
both to her rivals and to the novice at catboat 
sailing. Danny had his trials, his lessons to 
learn and unlearn, but the result of his experi¬ 
ment is history. 
Doubtless “Granny” would to-day be considered 
queer, crude—impossible. Dan himself improved 
upon her and handed down to his sons who suc¬ 
ceeded to the business of Cape Cod’S first builder 
of boats for profit, a far more refined, graceful 
model than that of his first boat. Daniel the 
seventeenth, the Lumberts, the Crosbys, and the 
Hanleys of the Cape, might not recognize in the 
old hull the acorn from which their rakish pro¬ 
ducts grew. But while “crazy as a coot,” was the 
verdict pronounced on Granny, we say to-day of 
the “Granny’s” progeny, “stiff as a church; steady 
as a clock; quicker than a cat.” 
William Lambert Barnard. 
Atalanta, ex-Lorena. steam yacht, Mr. Geo. 
J. Gould, New York Y. C., arrived from Ber¬ 
muda last week on her way from Europe. Mr. 
Gould and a party of friends joined the yacht- 
at Hamilton, having gone down on the S.S. 
Bermudia-n. Atalanta was built to designs of 
Cox & King, of London, and is the largest tur¬ 
bine yacht yet built. She was built by Ramage 
& Furgusson, of South Scotland. Her dimen¬ 
sions are 252ft. 6in. long, 33ft. beam, 19ft. 
2in. depth, and 19ft. 4m. draft. She is a steel 
vessel, with two decks and six bulkheads, and 
her tonnage is 1,303 net. She is driven by three 
turbine engines, with three shafts and five pro¬ 
pellers, and the nominal horsepower is 650. 
There are four boilers with 216 feet of grate sur¬ 
face and 8,560 square feet of heating surface. 
After an overhaul the yacht will probably sail 
south on a cruise to the West Indies. 
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