662 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. 23, 1912 
Bayside Y. C. 
Closing the year with a fleet of 107 boats, 
money in the treasury and perfect amicability 
among the members, the Bayside Y. C. held ifs 
annual meeting on Nov. 10. G. Waldo Smith 
once more honors and accepts honors as commo¬ 
dore of the club, this being his eighth term in 
office. William H. Johns, whose efforts and in¬ 
terest have done so much toward placing the 
Bayside Y. C. on the yachting map, and keeping 
it there, was re-elected secretary, while the fol¬ 
lowing also reaccepted their former offices: 
Elmer G. Story, Vice-Commodore; Archibald 
Nesbett, Rear Commodore; Frederick Floyd 
Jones, Treasurer; Joseph E. Hill, Measurer; 
William Teller, James Nash Webb, C. W. Ber¬ 
gen and Russell A. Field, Governors. 
A number of innovations were in order, 
among them the adoption of a junior member¬ 
ship, boys under twenty-one being eligible at 
nominal dues of $10 a year, while dues were 
raised for regular members. 
“Bayside Butterflies” will help the “Birds” 
keep up small yacht supremacy of the club. 
Yacht Cacique Sold. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold 
the big auxiliary yawl Cacique, owned by E. E. 
Conway, of Boston, to John S. Curtis, of Boston, 
a member of the Eastern Y. C. Cacique is one 
of the finest cruising j^achts afloat and was for¬ 
merly owned by Lawrence Armour, of Chicago. 
She is 80 feet long, 17 feet wide, with a 40 
horsepower auxiliary motor. She has a very 
large cabin and four staterooms. Cacique is 
now in New York, but will be taken around 
the Cape to Boston next spring. 
The same agency has sold the 35-foot water¬ 
line auxiliary yawl Rebecca, owned by John S. 
Curtis, of Boston, to a prominent member of 
the Boston Y. C.; the 40-foot water line sloop 
Hera, owned by Oscar M. Angier, of Dorchester, 
Mass., to F. L. Eno,- of Boston, and several 
small boats to the Herreshofif Manufacturing Co., 
Bristol, R. I., for use on the famous Herreshofif 
racing schooner Westward, which sails for 
Europe shortly. 
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Through the Delaware and Chesapeake 
Canal. 
BY STEPHEN C. SINGLETON, JR. 
On July 9, 1911, the majority of the mem¬ 
bers of the Delaware Canoe Club, and not a few 
guests, assembled at Delaware City, the eastern 
terminus of the canal, prepared for a week’s 
trip through the canal out in into the Chesa¬ 
peake Bay, and return over the same route. The 
men went from Wilmington to Delaware City 
by launch, taking the canoes in tow, while the 
women and guests went to Delaware City by 
trolley. 
As the trolley party arrived first, the ladies 
supplemented the commissary department. Soon 
the party was on its way to Summit Bridge, 
our favorite camping spot. We reached there 
about 7130 o’clock and hastily made camp, sup¬ 
per being prepared by the ladies, while the men 
put up the tents. There were nine canoes and 
thirty people. 
The next day we were off early, and taking 
our time arrived on the lower shore of the 
Bohemia around 5 p. m. Here we made camp 
for the night, and as it was scorching hot, no 
one slept very soundly. 
The following day we proceeded to Pond’s 
Neck, about six miles above Betterton, on the 
Elk River. Here we stayed for about three days. 
Two days hotter than blazes; one day pleasant. 
MAKING UP TOWS AT DELAWARE CITY. 
The second day the river was so warm that it 
was no relief to go in for a swim. At night 
one could discern several of the canoes silently 
glide with their crews out unto the bosom, of 
the river in hopes of finding relief from heat 
and mosquitoes. 
The last night about midnight a crowd of 
youngsters took some of the blackened embers 
from our camp-fire, and silently and stealthily 
swimming out to those slumbering in their 
canoe, blackened their faces so softly that they 
woke not during the performance. In the morn¬ 
ing there was a considerable disturbance from 
the region of the river-rocked sleepers, for each 
one upon waking and seeing the face of his 
partner let out an uproarious laugh, and then 
commenced to see if his own face was the same, 
which of course it was. 
The next day we proceeded on into Chesa¬ 
peake City, and after getting grub and papers 
to go through the canal, entered the lock. We 
were lifted sixteen feet into still water, where 
it was easy paddling to our camping place at 
the bridge four miles and a half away. This 
being our last night in camp, the bunch of black 
faces declared that no one was going to sleep 
that night. But fate plays tricks sometimes on 
the tricksters. Several of the older men as¬ 
sembled in the next tent to them, and singing 
all the old and new and otherwise songs, sang 
them to sleep. 
This was the last day, and as usual every¬ 
one was loath to break camp, knowing that it 
would not be pitched again for weeks, maybe 
months. 
The tows were made by taking a length of 
three-quarter inch hemp rope long enough for 
three canoes, and to this fastening the canoes 
about twenty-five feet apart by means of a tow¬ 
ing cradle. The latter is made with two pieces 
of rope, three-eighths of an inch or one-half 
inch, tied so as to form a “Y,” the knot being 
placed against the keel of the boat and the two 
upper ends fastened to the front of the 
seat and the single end being fastened to the 
tow line. By thus having them tied to each 
other, strain upon any one canoe was avoided. 
The lock was now full and the three strings 
of three canoes each were towed into it, and 
the gate put into place. When the water had 
been lowered to that outside in the river, the 
outer gates were opened, and when the canoes 
gracefully slid out of the canal, we knew our 
cruise was at an end. 
For the benefit of those who may wish to 
know how much grub it required, and the ex¬ 
pense per capita for such a trip, I give the fol¬ 
lowing : 
Grub bought at Delaware City, going down $1.65 
Grub bought at Chesapeake canal going down .81 
Milk .;.61 
Salmon, canned .40 
Eggs .94 
Beans, baked .15 
Bread and hardtack . 1.61 
Beef .45 
Vinegar .08 
Chickens, two . 1.00 
Lemons .20 
Potatoes .20 
Cakes .53 
Matches .05 
Rusk and cinnamon buns .16 
Tomatoes .48 
Sugar .30 
Oranges and bananas .18 
Grub, Chesapeake canal, coming up.58 
Tolls, two canals at $1.50 . 3.00 
Towing charges, Wilmington to Delaware 
Cit y . 2.35 
$10.73 
Lunch, Delaware City . $1.40 
Corn .10 
Peas .12 
Coffee, tea, cocoa .50 
Rice .10 
Bacon .46 
Butter .,.40 
Ham .19 
Lard . 21 
Coal oil and alcohol (for stove).25 
Squashes and other vegetables .54 
$1500 
As there were five of us carrying expenses, 
it made the share three dollars a piece for grub 
and necessary expenses, not counting carfare for 
same from Wilmington to Delaware City and 
return, which amounted to sixty cents, making 
a total of $3.60. 
