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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 14, 1911. 
New York Y. C. 
Commodore C. Ledyard Blair presided at the 
fifth general meeting of the New York Y. C. 
for the year, held Oct. 5, at the club house, 
West Forty-fourth street. The attendance was 
representative among the twenty or more yacht 
owners responding to their names, being Vice- 
Commodore Dallas B. Pratt, Rear-Commodore 
George F. Baker, Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leo¬ 
nard Richards and E. W. Clark. 
Only routine business was transacted. Eleven 
new members, six navy and five regular, were 
•elected. 
A nominating committee, composed of the fol¬ 
lowing, was also elected: J. Pierpont Morgan, 
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Frederick G. Bourne, Cor¬ 
nelius Vanderbilt, Arthur Curtiss James, Wilson 
Marshall, F. H. von Stade, Colonel Daniel Ap¬ 
pleton, Commander J. D. J. Kelley, U. S. N., 
and Grenville Kane. 
Five of the committee are yacht owners and 
five non-yacht owners. The officers and stand¬ 
ing committees which the committee shall nomi¬ 
nate must be posted on the bulletin board at 
least thirty days before the meeting of the club 
at which action shall be taken thereon. 
Lloyds’ Harbor Clambake. 
Annually Long Island Sound yachtsmen 
gather in Lloyd’s Harbor, one of the finest an¬ 
chorages on the Sound, for a clambake and gen¬ 
eral letting out of reefs. This year’s soiree took 
its place as the biggest and most successful event 
in the class yet recorded. The fleet race from 
the New Rochelle Y. C. to the bivalve barbecue 
was won by Spindrift, of Albany Y. C. Next 
followed C. W. Voltz’s Muskegat, with Eileen, 
■of W. S. Creeney, next in line. The sailing 
race went to E. H. Tucker’s Romallah. Water 
sports drew much attention (from those not pre- 
fering water as a chaser in cabin) and G. A. 
Bragdon, of the Harlem Y. C., further exhila¬ 
rated the efforts by offering a handsome prize 
for rowing contests. Clarence Krauss rowed 
away with first prize, while Stanley Wilde and 
'C. A. Marsland finished in the order mentioned. 
Miss Lucille Krauss won the women’s rowing 
race. There were foot races, altitudinous 
spheroid contests, and there was no call for the 
■overhead straps indigenous to the Larchmont 
Y. C. cafe. 
To describe it briefly the Lloyds Harbor clam- 
fest was a success. 
Colonel Green Buys Yacht. 
Colonel Edward M. R. Green, son of Mrs. 
Hetty Green, the wealthiest woman in America, 
has purchased the steam yacht Crescent, one of 
the finest steamships of her size in these waters. 
The yacht has been the property of Ernest 
Rudolph, of Brooklyn, a coal dealer. She meas¬ 
ures 135 feet over all. Before cold weather sets 
in the yacht will steam for Galveston, Texas, 
where her owner resides during the winter 
months. 
Eastern Y. C. 
The Eastern Y. C. has closed for the season 
at Marblehead, and the beautiful harbor is 
nearly deserted. The season, in spite of the fact 
that there have been no international races this 
summer, has been a successful yachting season. 
One new problem, the liquor question, stares 
the members in the face for next season. The 
Law Enforcement League’s efforts have hurt 
North Shore clubs, which will probably adopt 
the locker system for liquor such as is used at 
the Cumberland Club in Portland. 
Columbia Y. C. 
Members of the Columbia Y. C. met in their 
house at the foot of West Eighty-sixth street 
and Hudson River on Oct. 3 to select their 
nominating committee. By unanimous choice 
Walter Luttgen, J. W. Jacobus, Andrew J. Mc¬ 
Intosh. H. L. Freeland and John M. Wright 
were elected to select men for the various 
offices and three trusteeships. 
Upon the suggestion of J. W. Brainard, it 
was decided to hold a special speed power boat 
race to decide the club championship on Satur¬ 
day, Oct. 14. 
High Speed by Torpedo Boat. 
In the teeth of a heavy gale, which kicked 
up tremendous seas, the torpedo boat Mayrant 
went through her final speed tests and made 32^2 
knots an hour for four hours. 
In her initial trials Mayrant did 33 knots, 
which stamped her as one of the fastest boats 
of the navy. The showing under adverse cir¬ 
cumstances was declared by naval officers to be 
remarkable. 
Hartford Y. C. 
With exquisite yachting weather, a dozen of 
the snappy little motor boats in the Hartford 
Y. C.’s fleet sailed alongside the club’s float 
here last Saturday afternoon to get handicap 
figures for a race to Rocky Hill and back. 
G. F. Barker’s Spitfire did the run in the 
shortest time, allowing for handicaps while 
Pauline A., winner of the last race and the first 
boat to start, was the first in. 
H. D. Olmstead was the starter. There was 
a good sized crowd at the club to watch the 
finishes, several of which were exciting. Be¬ 
fore the race, Fox, owned by George Malley, 
had an accident and couldn’t go into the contest. 
The boats made the run, allowing for handi¬ 
caps, as follows: 
Spitfire, G. F. Barber. 1 09 01 
Luzette, R. and C. M. Spencer. 2 06 42 
Winifred A., W. J. Furnace. 2 35 33 
Breezy, H. L. Huntington. 2 39 53 
Pauline A, B. M. Adams. 2 45 02 
Marathon, Fred Innes. 2 50 48 
Genevieve A., C. H. Olander. 2 58 48 
Alfreda, John McIntyre. 3 36 11 
Gotell, owned by W. J. Crossley had an acci¬ 
dent near this end of the course and didn’t finish. 
Motor Boats to Hunt Turkey Gobbler. 
Several months ago, when Turkey placed an 
order for twenty-two armored motor patrol 
boats, it was little thought they would be used 
for game hunting purposes. Nevertheless, we 
now find them being used to hunt the turkey 
gobbler. 
New Motor Yacht Nemaha. 
The motor yacht Nemaha made her official 
trial trip recently, leaving the Nilson Shipbuild¬ 
ing Company’s wharf, Baltimore, at I 145 F. M. 
The specifications called for four hours’ trial, 
and to average fourteen miles an hour. The 
trial showed her capable of making more than 
fifteen miles an hour. 
Nemaha was built for Capt. Huston Wyeth 
from designs by Daniel H. Cox, of Cox & 
Stevens. She is 98 feet long, 16 feet beam and 
has a draft of 4 feet, which will enable her to 
cruise on the inland waterways of Florida, for 
which purpose she was built. She is the first 
of three similar boats to be finished, and is the 
largest and most complete motor yacht to be 
built south of New York, having four state¬ 
rooms, with running water in each, two bath¬ 
rooms and every convenience possible in the 
home. She also has large and comfortable 
quarters for the crew. 
FAR FETCHED. 
A mysterious fire took place recently at a 
country house, and upon investigation, it was 
found that the fire had started under the roof 
in a spot where there was no flue or chimney 
near. But just where the fire broke out a hole 
was found under the eaves, and it had been 
remarked that some starlings had built a nest 
in that spot. The conclusion arrived at was that 
a starling had picked up a smouldering cigarette 
—probably gold-tipped, as these birds are at¬ 
tracted by glittering objects—and conveyed it 
to the nest, where it presently set fire to the in¬ 
flammable rubbish. It seems a bit far-fetched, 
but it stands until a better guess is made.— 
Shooting Times. 
FOIN FISH. 
Irish Boatman (surveying the solitary result 
of the day): “It’s a foin fish for the size ’av 
ut; them’ll run about three to the pound.” 
Angler: “Hardly that, I should say.” Boat¬ 
man: “Well, maybe the other two’d be a bit 
bigger.”—Punch. 
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