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in the third handicap and Mignon in the fourth 
handicap. 
In the New Rochelle class Virginia went 
after LaRochelle and evened up for Saturday’s 
trimming. The Star class furnished an interest¬ 
ing race and once more a strange bit of the 
firmament put one over on the heretofore in¬ 
vincible George Corey and his Little Dipper. 
Dates for the America's Cup. 
The first race will be sailed on Thursday, 
Sept. 10, 1914; the second, Saturday, Sept. 12, 
and the third on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The match 
is for the best of five races, and in case of post¬ 
ponements further races are to be sailed on each 
following Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday until 
finished. 
The conditions of the match are practically 
the same as those governing previous races, with 
the exception that they are under the present 
racing rules and rule of measurement now in 
force in the New York Y. C. 
It is believed that in accepting the challenge 
the New York Y. C- will give Sir Thomas Lipton 
the privilege of towing his boat over. This per¬ 
mission was given for the second previous chal¬ 
lenge, and before the last race the Irish Baronet 
took this as a precedent and also towed over 
Shamrock III. The deed of gift provides that 
the challenger shall cross the ocean on its own 
bottom. 
The British challenger, Shamrock IV., will 
be a 75-foot sloop, and as under the conditions 
of the other races, the New York Y. C. will re¬ 
serve the right to build a defender from 68 to 90 
feet long, as provided under the deed of gift. 
Shamrock I. was designed by William Fife, 
Shamrock II. by George L. Watson, and Sham¬ 
rock III by Fife and Watson jointly. All three 
were* towed partially across the Atlantic. 
Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
Only three boats sailed at the Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y. C. on Saturday. Imp, owned by 
S. L. Landon, won from Iris and Tamale in the 
15-foot class. 
Guardian, with Commodore Aemilius Jarvis, 
of the Royal Canadian Y. C., at the wheel, won 
the free-for-all handicap race for the Winton 
trophy, which started from Rocky River Harbor, 
at Cleveland. Crusader, sailed by George La- 
mont, finished second; Psammiad II., owned by 
George Prentice and Commodore Alexander 
Winton, of the Cleveland Y. C., was third. 
Nine Yankee sonder yachts have entered for 
the American trial races beginning Aug. 16, at 
Marblehead. Three of them will be selected to 
defend the President Wilson cup. The boats 
were designed three each by Edward A. Board- 
man and W. Starling Burgess; C. D. Mower two 
and John R. Purdon one. 
Mitt III., owned by J. Harold Hayden, will 
defend the gold challenge cup for the Thousand 
Islands Y. C. in the races to be held July 31, 
Aug. 1 and 2. In the elimination races Mitt III. 
easily finished first, a half mile ahead of P. D. Q. 
III., owned by A. Graham, of New York. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The continued active demand for pleasure 
craft of all sizes and types is shown by the re¬ 
cent sales reported through the office of Stanley 
i\I. Seaman : 
The 50-foot power cruiser Sim Too, sold 
for ex-Conunodore A. C. Soper to Dustin 
Farnam, et al. 
The 50-foot power cruiser Santee, sold for 
Francis L. Field, of the New York Y. C., to 
Commodore William W. Brooks, of the Jeffries 
Y. C., of East Boston. 
The 72-foot auxiliary yawl Sivad, sold for 
Dr. F. T. Rogers, of Providence, R. I., to James 
W. Stevens. 
The 59-foot sloop Adyta II., for Dr. Richard 
von Foregger to Lowell M. Palmer, Jr., of New 
York. 
The raised deck cruiser Ruth II. for Remsen 
S. Mills, of Brooklyn, to Arthur M. Grant, of 
the same place. 
The auxiliary sloop Dorothy for E. M. 
Wright to Rudolph Oelsner, of New York. 
The 35-foot launch Idarim for George S. 
Evans, of New York, to the Southern Paper 
Company, Pascagoula, Miss. 
The knockabout Mic Mac II. for Frederick 
Gade, of New Rochelle, to li. H. Lewis of New 
York. 
The 30-foot launch Mercedes for Paul 
Grout, of New York, to Charles Ward Hall, 
of the Larchmont Y. C. 
The 35-foot launch Alogy for S. A. French, 
of New York, to H. H. Lewis, of New York. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold 
the 22-foot Lawley-built sloop yacht Marie, 
owned by Herbert H. White, of Cambridge, 
Mass., to William Dillon, of Brookline, Mass.; 
the 42-foot motor boat Ruth, owned by W. R. 
Sears, of Cohasset, Mass., to C. H. W. Foster, 
Rear-Commodore of the Eastern Y. C.; and the 
German built sonder boat Hevella, owned by C. 
H. W. Foster, of Boston, to W. R. Sears, of 
Cohasset, Mass. 
The same agency has chartered the 40-foot 
water line auxiliary schooner yacht Baboon, 
owned by Harold B. Boyd, of Jamaica Plain, 
Mass., to Charles F. Ayer, of Boston, who will 
use her at Isleboro, Maine. 
Belle Harbor Y. C. 
The race week began here to-day with a 
new record for entries. Surprise won among the 
Class E sloops and Sis captured first prize in 
Class EE of the same type. Vitesse, among the 
Class L catboats, and Lucia, in the other division 
of cats won also. Argo was the first home of 
the power cruisers and Muskingun won the prin¬ 
cipal prize in Class A of motorboats. Alene won 
in Class B, and Class C was captured by Demi 
Tasse. Sabot led home the semi-speed class, and 
Maybe won among the power tenders. 
THE DIFFERENCE. 
When a man’s single, his money he’ll jingle; 
He carelessly squanders his rocks. 
He buys lovely collars and spends many dollars 
On white vests and delicate socks. 
When a man’s married he’s worried and harried; 
He wants things that will not show dirt. 
His wife takes his money and buys for her honey 
A forty-cent mud-colored shirt. 
—Pittsburgh Post. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—Fred W. Wright, Cald¬ 
well, N. J., by Robert Sealy, Jr., and L. S. 
Stockwell. 
Central Division.—Guy L. Baker, 134 High¬ 
land avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., by L. T. Coppins; 
Gerald H. Griffin, 138 College street, Buffalo, 
N. Y.; Ford N. Crown, 23 Livingston street, 
Buffalo, N. Y.; William Tyler, care of Taylor 
& Crate Lumber Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; R. C. Long, 
658 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.. and Samuel O. 
Flail, 401 Delaware avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., all 
by J. H. Teach. 
Western Division.-—Laurence A. Horswell, 
Kenilworth, Ill., by F. B. Huntington; William 
Henry Righter, 425 Livingston street, Peoria, 
Ill., by U. P. Miller; Harold Arthur Brown, 
Dundee, Ill., by W. R. Petersen; Sheldon Dickin¬ 
son, Dundee, Ill., by T. C. Angell; Moritz F. 
Petersen, Dundee, Ill., by Henry C. Morse. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—624, C. J. Albert, 32 
West End avenue, Trenton, N. J.; 6725, Paul R. 
Rose, West Bridge street, Morrisville, Pa.; 6726, 
G. Ryland Newell, 305 South Clinton avenue, 
Trenton, N. J.; 6727, George T. Latimer, 219 
West I42d street, New York city, 6728, R. W. 
Muckley, 396 Broadway, New York city. 
Central Division.—6721, Russell Kief, 242 
Virginia street, Buffalo, N. Y.; 6722, Clifford 
Smith, 163 Fourteenth street, Buffalo, N. Y.; 
6723, George A. Thurston, 208 Rich street, Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y.; 6729, Harris S. Williams, 43 Cleve¬ 
land avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.; 6730, Sheldon 
Thompson, Jr., 514 Ellicott square, Buffalo, N. Y. 
The Manufacture of Imitation Pearls. 
U. S. Consul-General Frank H. Mason, 
of Paris, France, says: 
As the real pearl comes from the oyster, 
so to a large extent is the manufacture of arti¬ 
ficial pearls dependent on a certain species of 
fish. The complete processes are of course trade 
secrets, but it is of interest to note that it is 
from the brilliant scales of the ablet, or blay, 
that essence d’Orient is produced, and it is with 
this essence that imitation pearls are manufac¬ 
tured. The blay is described as “a small fish 
with a green back and a white belly,” and the 
essence is obtained exclusively from the white 
scales which are covered with a pigment of 
metallic appearance. They are first treated with 
ammonia and then with fish glue, a powder being 
first obtained and then a paste _ which can be 
easily spread on glass. 
In the early stages of manufacture, about 
1656, this essence d Orient was applied to little 
balls of plaster, but the temperature and the 
damp heat of the human body modified the ad¬ 
hesive qualities of the pearly matter and caused 
changes of color. It was in 1680 that a Parisian, 
named Jacquin, invented a method of covering 
small glass balls with the same essence d’Orient, 
thus producing the first practical artificial pearls. 
In the north and east of France and in 
Germany, blay fishing is actively pursued. About 
4,000 are required to produce a pound of scales, 
which in turn gives a quarter of a pound of the 
essence. The price of the scales varies between 
twenty and twenty-four francs per kilo ($1.75 
to $2.10 per pound). 
