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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 16, 1911. 
celebration are thrown open the yachts and 
yachtsmen of the world will view the sight from 
the beautiful big harbor. Seattle and British 
Columbia yachtsmen are greatly interested in 
the idea and will heartily co-operate in any 
manner possible in order to bring about so 
great a feature to so great an exposition.”— 
Los Angeles Herald. 
A. Cary Smith. 
In the death of A. Cary Smith, which oc¬ 
curred Dec. 8, the yachting world has lost one 
of its greatest exponents. In the past fifty 
years no designer has turned out so many suc¬ 
cessful boats as did Mr. Smith. Thirty years 
ago there was a saying, ‘‘Look out for the 
boats from Newark Bay,” for it was here young 
Smith, for he was then about 20, but his yard 
and was putting overboard wonderful speed 
boats of the sailing type. 
For some three years young Smith gave up 
designing and took up professionally his pet 
divertisement, painting. A number of excellent 
marines resulted from his brush, many of which 
to-day are on the walls of the New York and 
other yacht clubs. When, a few years later, 
Smith returned to designing, he introduced the 
idea of making plans on paper, which earned 
him the title of the “paper boatman.” Up to 
this time boats were built from models 
whittled from blocks of wood by rule of thumb, 
without any consideration of strains and 
stresses, displacement or wetted surfaces.* In 
i860 he designed the sloop Comet, which 
cleaned up every sailing thing among yachts. 
The first iron yacht built in this country was 
designed by this young Jerseyman, for Robert 
Center. She was the Vindex. One after 
another Smith turned out winning boats, 
among them the Mischief, which successfully 
defended the America’s Cup against the Cana¬ 
dian yacht Atalanta. 
Some of his other designs were: Iroquois, 
an iron craft which weathered the blizzard of 
1888; the first Intrepid, the two Elminas, 
Meteor for the German Emperor, Yampa, an 
ocean cruiser; Lasca, which has won races on 
both sides of the Atlantic; the auxiliary Verge- 
mere, Tekla, Azara, Ailsa Craig and Eronel, 
motor boats that won the races to Bermuda, 
and this year the big schooner Enchantress, 
owned by William E. Iselin and winner of the 
King's cup. 
When Herreshoff built the sloop Colonia to 
defend America’s Cup, she was not a success. 
Clarence A, Postley, her owner, turned her over 
to Smith, who changed her to schooner rig, put 
in a centerboard and put her immediately into 
the winning class. 
Mr. Smith did not confine his attention to 
yacht designing, for from his plans were built 
the fast sound steamers Chester W. Chapin, 
Richard Peck, and City of Lowell. 
Pie was an active member of the New York 
Y. C., where his advice was invariably taken on 
subjects referring to racing and measurements 
of yachts. At the time of his death he had 
work on hand amounting to nearly $4,000,000. 
Mr. Smith leaves one daughter, Mrs. Virginia 
Carey Smith Hall. 
Tacoma Y. C. New House. 
The Tacoma Y. C. took the first decisive 
step at a meeting Nov. 26 toward the building 
of its new $30,000 club house when the plans 
prepared by Architect C. F. W. Lundberg 
were accepted. The building, it is expected, 
will be among the best club houses in the coun¬ 
try. The building will contain every con¬ 
venience from a large billiard room for the 
men to a ladies’ parlor. A boat house, garage 
and natatorium are also contemplated, but 
plans for these have not been prepared as yet. 
The club house will have sleeping accommo¬ 
dations for fifty persons and will offer a special 
attraction to members who desire to go camp¬ 
ing and still have the comforts of a home, as 
well as to the members who desire only to stay 
all night at the club house on occasions. Week¬ 
end yachting parties will be a feature. 
The building will be of mission style, with 
red tiled roof, cement walls and side verandas. 
The furniture throughout will be of mission 
design, while all the principal rooms will have 
large fire-places. Circular stairs will lead from 
one floor to the other. The sleeping accommo¬ 
dations will be novel in that they will resemble 
those of a steamer. On the second floor the 
staterooms will have three berths each, while 
on the attic floor there will be one berth to a 
stateroom. One wing of the second floor will 
be for the accommodation of the wives of club 
members. 
Before the club house there will be a long 
sea wall bearing electric lights. A wide walk 
will lead from the float to the porch. 
Directly on entering the front door there will 
be a large lobby, on either side of which will be 
a dining room and assembly room. The lobby 
will be open to the top of the building, the 
space on the second floor being used as a sec¬ 
ond lobby, while that in the basement will be 
used as a model room. Circular stairs will 
connect the different floors. 
There will be separate rooms for the com¬ 
modore, vice-commodore and the rear-commo¬ 
dore, aside from library, smoking rooms, wait¬ 
ing rooms and locker rooms. The committee 
on sites was given additional time in which to 
select a location. 
A barbecue will be held by the yacht club 
within two weeks at the camp of C. A. Foss, 
on Vashon Island. 
The New Year’s regatta was also discussed. 
Club Elections. 
DELAWARE RIVER Y. R. A. 
At the annual meeting, held in Philadelphia 
last week, the following officers were elected: 
President, C, H. Street; Vice-President, E. C. 
Headley; Secretary, H. A. Renner; Treasurer, 
H. B. Hills, and Measurer, H. E. Dantzen- 
becher. 
BAYSIDE Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Bay Side Y. C. 
reports made by the officers and committees 
showed that the club is in a very flourishing 
condition. The treasurer showed that the club 
has a surplus account of $1,505.14. Its total ex¬ 
penses for the season were $5,932.40 and its in¬ 
come $6,670.58, so that its profit for the year 
was $738.18. 
Secretary Jones showed that there are now 
275 members, a net gain of twenty-one during 
the' year. In 1911 sixty-five members were 
elected, thirty-four resigned, three died and six 
were dropped for nonpayment of dues. W. H. 
McGregor reported that twenty-one races were 
sailed at home and eleven in foreign waters. 
The following officers were elected: Commo¬ 
dore, G. Waldo Smith; Vice-Commodore, 
Elmer G. Story; Rear-Commodore, Edwin 
Shuttleworth; Measurer, John E. Hill; Secre¬ 
tary, William H. Johns; Treasurer, Eaton V. 
Reed; Members of the Board of Governors, to 
serve three years—Harvey G. Rockwell and T. 
Sumney. 
pavonia y. c. 
The annual meeting of the Pavonia Y. C., of 
Bayonne, Dec. 6 was marked by a lively con¬ 
test in the election of officers for the ensuing 
year. These were chosen: S. W. Decker, Com¬ 
modore; H. S. Smith, Vice-Commodore; 
Herbert G. Eddy, Rear-Commodore; Frank 
Baker, Treasurer; Dr. George W. Mellor and 
David Woodruff, Secretaries; Dr. S. M. Hatch, 
Fleet Surgeon; Joseph Kelly, Measurer, and M. 
F. Keating, W. M. Rysdyk, William J. Strain 
and Clarence Steinhart, Trustees. 
LARCH MONT Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Larchmont Y. 
C., at the Hotel Astor, New York city, Nov. 6, 
Commodore Leonard Richards presided. The ad¬ 
visability of adopting certain amendments to the 
constitution and by-laws proved the subject of 
a lively discussion. When put to a vote the 
amendments relating to the admission of racing 
and shooting members was lost. That of ad¬ 
mitting women yacht owners as flag members 
with limited privileges was adopted. 
The officers elected for 1912 were: Commo¬ 
dore, Leonard Richards, steamer Carola; Vice- 
Commodore, George M. Pynchon, sloop Ista- 
lena; Rear-Commodore, Francis M. Wilson, 
power yacht Sumida; Secretary, Frank Hardy; 
Treasurer, R. E. Robinson. Trustees, Class of 
1915—R. Floyd Clarke and R. J. Schaefer. 
Nominating Committee for 1912—E. N. Robin¬ 
son, Walter C. Hubbard, Butler Whiting. S. T. 
Hodgman, Harry N. Fletcher, Frederick M. 
Hoyt, W. Harry McGill, L. H. Spence, George 
S. Runk and C. K. G. Billings. 
Those present including Wilson Marshall, 
formerly commodore; Justice R. P. Clarke, 
William Murray, Randolph Hurry, Butler Whit¬ 
ing, James B. Ford, Newbury Thorne, R. L. 
Spotts and Edward Hatch. 
INTERLAKE YACHTSMEN MEET. 
Delegates and members from nineteen clubs 
of the Interlake Yachting Association met in 
Cleveland, O., Dec. 2, for their annual con¬ 
vention. The following officers were elected: 
W. R. Huntington, of Sandusky, Commodore; 
Roland M. Starr, of Toledo, Vice-Commodore, 
and A. J. Prentice, of Lakewood, Rear-Com¬ 
modore. 
COLONIAL Y. C. 
The Colonial Y. C. last week elected the fol¬ 
lowing officers: Commodore, E. P. Pratt; 
Vice-Commodore, H. M. Betts; Rear-Commo¬ 
dore, N. J. Baker; Recording Secretary, Ed¬ 
ward L. Monahan; Financial Secretary, Charles 
F. Stone; Treasurer, F. Gorst; Board of Di¬ 
rectors-—Charles Hilliher, J, A. Donegan, S. 
Cohn, M. Gaillard and M. H. Dyckman. 
BAY HEAD Y. C. 
The Bay Head Y. C., of Jamaica Bay, elected 
T. J. Brennen, Commodore. W. Lockhart was 
re-elected vice-commodore, as was H. B. 
Griffin to the office of fleet captain. B. C. 
Smith and B. L. Bartlett were re-elected treas¬ 
urer and secretary respectively. Charles 
Meyers, of Meadowmere, was chosen the club's 
first year commodore, and F. H. Frohwitter 
was made its first financial secretary. George 
Schaler was re-elected steward. John Hartell, 
J. Weinberg and William J. Moran were re¬ 
elected trustees. 
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