Nov. 18, 1911] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
John H. Flagler filed suit on Oct. 9 to re¬ 
cover $25,000 damages from the Luders Marine 
Construction Company. The complaint says that 
Luders held himself out to be skilled in the de¬ 
signing and construction of sea-going gasolene 
yachts and contracted in 1909 to deliver one to 
the plaintiff. 
Mr. Flagler says that neither Luders nor his 
employes had any skill and that they were con¬ 
structing the yacht in an unseaworthy manner 
when he took it away from the defendant to 
have its defect remedied, and was obliged to 
have a large part of the yacht removed. The 
plaintiff says he was deprived of the use of the 
yacht in the season of 1910 and subsequently, 
but had a captain and engineer under pay wait¬ 
ing for the yacht to be built. The plaintiff also 
says he was overcharged both as to the materials 
in the yacht and the time of the workmen. 
The South Boston Y. C. held its forty-third 
anniversary dinner at the Revere- House, on Oct. 
2. Commodore John F. Burke introduced John 
T. Hurley as toastmaster. About 200 members 
were present. 
The George B. Cluett, Dr. Grenfell’s mission¬ 
ary schooner, sailed from Boston on Nov. 12 
under command of Captain Pickles, laden with 
medicines and necessities for Labrador. The first 
stop wiil be made at Pilley’s Island, N. F. 
A letter has been received from Dr. Grenfell 
in which he says a severe storm that swept the 
coast completely wrecked his auxiliary yacht 
Andrew McCosh, which was given to the Labra¬ 
dor mission by Princeton University. Dr. Gren¬ 
fell was not on board at the time. 
Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes, but you can’t 
congeal the enthusiasm of the Great Lake 
yachtsmen. Plans are now being made, for the 
annual meeting of the Lake Michigan Yachting 
Association, which will be held at the Hotel 
Sherman the afternoon of Dec. 9. Following 
the business meeting a dinner will be served at 
7 o’clock at which delegates from the Yacht Rac¬ 
ing Union will be guests of honor. A. Sheldon 
Clarke, president of the L. M. Y. A., has sent 
out invitations to all the local yachtsmen. In 
all probability covers will be laid for 350 guests. 
The motor boat Freva II., built for Frederick 
Haberman, of New York, was launched from the 
yard of the Edgemere Boat Works at Far Rock- 
away on Oct. 2. The yacht is 57 feet long, 13 
feet beam and 3 feet 6 inches draft. She is 
fitted with a six-cylinder motor of 50 horsepower 
which it is expected will drive the yacht twelve 
miles an hour. The yacht was christened by 
Miss Reva Goodman, granddaughter of the 
owner. The interior arrangements include a 
cabin, two staterooms and quarters for the crew. 
The finish of the cabin and staterooms is mahog¬ 
any and the rest of the joiner work is oak. 
A new cruising yacht, after designs by Whit- 
telsey & Whittelsey, has just been finished at the 
Hudson Yacht and Boat Company at Nyack for 
0 . S. Johnson, of Scranton. She is 67 feet 
over-all. 14 feet beam and 3 feet draft. Mr. 
Johnson expects to start shortly in the yacht 
for Florida waters and in the spring the vessel 
will come North again. The yacht has two 
Sterling motors of 40 horsepower each, which 
will give her a speed of twelve miles an hour. 
There is a small pilot house forward with a 
central bridge, and a low house aft. All the 
deck trimmings are of mahogany. The engine 
room is aft of the forecastle, and then comes 
the galley. The saloon is in the middle of the 
yacht. Next aft is a stateroom on the star¬ 
board side, and aft again is the owner’s state¬ 
room. which can be entered from the cockpit or 
afterdeck. The interior joiner work in the 
owner’s quarters is African mahogany. The 
other rooms are of North Carolina pine, painted 
white. The yacht is equipped with an electric light 
plant. 
So many power boat owners on Long Island 
Sound go out every Sunday with guns aboard 
that it seems probable they do not realize that 
duck shooting from a power boat is against the 
law. On Long Island Sound duck shooting from 
a sail boat is permitted, while shooting from a 
power boat is distinctly mentioned in the game 
laws as being prohibited. 
Shooting on Sunday in New York State is 
prohibited. This is not a game law, but a State 
law, and comes under the jurisdiction of local 
police. 
Some City Island yachtsmen are flagrant vio¬ 
lators of the laws in question. 
Larchmont Y. C. has nominated the following 
officers for 1912, to be voted upon at the annual 
election, Dec. 6, at Hotel Astor, New York city: 
Commodore Leonard Richards will remain at 
the head of the organization, while Mr. George 
M. Pynchon has been selected for vice-commo¬ 
dore and Mr. Francis M. Wilson for rear-com¬ 
modore. 
Frank Hardy will remain the secretary and 
R. E. Robinson the treasurer. 
For trustees of the class of 1915 the selections 
are R. Floyd Clarke and R. J. Schaefer. 
Mr. Pynchon, nominated for vice-commodore, 
is the owner of the racing sloop Istalena. It is 
the first time that his name has appeared as a 
yacht club official. 
Mr. anl Mrs. Fred W. Beck, of Deer Isle, Me., 
are in New York on a visit. Mr. Beck is a well 
known merchant on the Maine coast, and had 
much to do in the selection of the Deer Isle 
crew for the America’s cup defender Columbia 
some years ago. 
The auxiliary schooner yacht Utowana, Mr. 
Allison V. Armour, New York Y. C., has gone 
into winter quarters at Marseilles, France, her 
proposed cruise having been abandoned owing to 
the Italian-Turkish war. 
Commodore E. C. Benedict has arranged Jo 
make another cruise to the Amazon River, visit¬ 
ing ports in the West Indies. 
This will be the third cruise the commodore 
has made to the Amazon and 1.000 miles up that 
river. He will leave New York Dec. 15. Lie 
has chartered the ocean cruising steam yacht 
Alvina from Thomas F. Cole, New York A. C. 
This vessel is 214 feet over-all and on the cruise 
the commodore will have as his party on board 
Mrs. Llarmon, his daughter and a number of old 
yachting friends. 
Mr. Benedict’s previous South American 
voyages were in the steam yacht Virginia, and 
though the latter came to temporary grief re¬ 
turning to New York last time, both trips were 
much enjoyed. The Manaos natives are still 
competing for the valuable challenge cups the 
commodore presented the oarsmen there on his 
first visit to the Amazon seven years ago. 
The Fair Haven (N. J.) Ice Y. C., which owns 
a number of smaller iceboats, is getting the fliers 
tuned up for the season. Samuel Hardenbrook 
is building a new ice yacht which he expects to 
enter in the races. 
The season’s reports of California yacht rac¬ 
ing would seem to indicate that Warren Wood, 
Commodore of the South Coast Y. C., had sup¬ 
plied most of the energy, and all of the novelty 
in yacht racing circles on the Pacific Coast. He 
has advanced the interest of small yacht racing, 
the social side of yachting as well as keeping 
up the interest of yacht crews. Mr. Wood de¬ 
serves more than passing credit for his uplift 
in yachting on the Pacific Coast. Incidentally 
the Southern California yachting season, just 
ended, was the most successful thus far re¬ 
corded. 
A. C. Bostwick. 
Albert C. Bostwick died Nov. 10 at the home 
of his mother, 800 Fifth avenue. His own resi¬ 
dence was at 801 Fifth avenue, adjoining. Mr. 
Bostwick was well known to yachtsmen and was 
one of the first in this country to use high speed 
automobile engines in a motor boat. At one 
time he was commodore of the Larchmont Y. C. 
Lie had been a member of the New York Y. C. 
since 1899. Mr. Bostwick’s father was Jabez 
Abel Bostwick, who was a leader in the forma¬ 
tion of the Standard Oil. In 1866 he married 
Helen C. Ford and their family consisted of 
three children, Albert Bostwick and two daugh¬ 
ters. 
Albert Bostwick was the owner of the Limited, 
a 46-foot steam yacht and Vergemere, a 315-foot 
auxiliary schooner. 
He was a member of the Automobile Club of 
America, the New York Athletic Club, the Metro¬ 
politan, the Union League, the New York Riding 
and Driving, the Apawamis and the Knollwood 
clubs. 
He leaves a widow who was Marie L. Stokes. 
From San Pedro to Honolulu. 
The South Coast Y. C., of Los Angeles, will 
hold another trans-Pacific yacht race in 1912, 
starting on July 4. The club has issued the fol¬ 
lowing invitation to the yacht clubs of the 
world: 
“Ihe South Coast Y. C., of Los Angeles, Cal., 
offers two valuable cups for an ocean yacht race 
from San Pedro, Cal., to Honolulu, Hawaii, 
starting July 4, 1912, conducted under the joint 
auspices of the South Coast Y. C. and the 
Hawaii Y. C. 
“This race is open to all yachts of not less 
than 40 feet waterline length belonging to any 
regularly organized yacht club, of any country, 
without restrictions as to rig, number of crew 
(professional or amateur) or sails, but no 
motive power other than sails shall be used. 
Time allowance will be given, based on one- 
half hour per foot of racing length for the en¬ 
tire distance, racing length to be the load water¬ 
line length plus one-halt the length of the over¬ 
hang. 
“All the conditions surrounding such a race 
as the one proposed are ideal, strong, steady, 
fair winds, without gales or fog, being the al¬ 
most invariable climatic condition at that 
season. 
“Entries or requests for information should 
be sent to the secretary.” 
The secretary is Mr. Harry W. Wyatt. Mer¬ 
chants’ Trust Building, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Llollis Burgess yacht agency has made 
the following recent yacht sales: 
Fifty-foot cabin motor boat Brunhilde, owned 
by Stephen R. Dow, of Boston, to Commodore 
Ervin A. Clark, of the Portland Power Boat 
Association. 
Herreshoff 30-foot sloop Chewink IV., owned 
by Frank Gair Macomber, Jr., of Boston, to 
P. W. and Joseph B. Jacobs, of Boston. 
Thirty-five-foot auxiliary yawl Dorette, owned 
by J. H. Robinette, of Baltimore, Md., to Dr. 
Mefford Runyon, of South Orange, N. J. 
Sixty-foot motor boat Spartan, owned by J. W. 
Morse, of Bath, Me., to C. A. Phelan, of Charles¬ 
town, Mass. 
Twenty-five-foot boat Gossip, owned by Homer 
B. Richardson, of Boston, to Rodney F. Hemen- 
way, of Boston. 
Eighteen-foot knockabout Aspinquid II., owned 
by Ralph C. Crocker, of Toledo, Ohio, to George 
S. Smith, president of Boston Chamber of Com¬ 
merce. 
Twenty-six-foot sloop Kit. owned by Hollis 
Burgess, of Boston, to I. H. King, of New York. 
