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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 23, 1911. 
Pritchard; Alternates, Eric C. Moore, Wilson H. 
Cross and M. T. Dailey. 
SOUTH COAST Y. C. 
The South Coast Y. C. at a meeting held in 
San Pedro on Dec. 2 elected the following officers 
for the ensuing term: Commodore, Warren D. 
Wood; Vice-Commodore, C. E. W. Hubbell; 
Rear-Commodore, Dr. Albert Soiland; Directors, 
Harry Mellen and Harry W. Wyatt. 
HAMPTON ROADS Y. C. 
The stockholders of the Hampton Roads Y. C. 
held their annual meeting on Dec. 5. The chief 
business before the meeting was the naming of 
officers for the ensuing year. The result of the 
election follows: Commodore, B. F. Mitchell; 
Vice-Commodore, Dr. H. B. Webster; Rear- 
Commodore, L. G. Fowler; Secretary, John N. 
Woodside; Paymaster, F. H. Smith. On the 
board of governors are Charles McDermott, W. 
E. Cook, Dr. R. M. Barrett, A. L. Jones and 
W. M. Jones. 
Commodore R. A. Dodson, who has been a 
most efficient commander-in-chief of the club 
for three years, refused to be re-elected to that 
office. 
The day for the annual meeting of the stock¬ 
holders of the club was changed from the second 
Tuesday in November to the second Tuesday in 
September. The meetings, as heretofore, will be 
held at the club building, Willoughby Beach. 
LYNN y. c. 
By its action in adopting a new constitution 
and by-laws on Dec. 6, the Lynn Y. C., of Lynn, 
Mass., passes into control of a board of nine 
governors after the January election of officers. 
The present system of a board of six directors, 
which includes three club officers, will be aban¬ 
doned. This is the chief change of interest in 
the new constitution, which was adopted. 
The meeting was one of the longest in the 
history of the club. Adjournment was not 
reached until 12:10 a. m. Refreshments were 
served at intermissions. For some time the board 
of directors has been working out details of the 
new constitution, which brought out much dis¬ 
cussion before its adoption by unanimous vote. 
Commodore Robert A. Armstrong has made 
appointments to the nominating committees as 
follows: Oliver Vanier, Daniel Blondell, William 
Tillotson, Lincoln Coffin and Warren Thurlow. 
A committee of five to make nominations for the 
January election was also named from the floor. 
Submarine Motor.Salvage Boat. 
Considerable attention has recently been di¬ 
rected to the features of a novel vessel which is 
practically a motor car designed either to float 
or to run on the bottom of the sea. The inven¬ 
tion, which it is suggested would prove of use 
in salvage and pearl fishing operations, is the 
work of E. H. Crossley, who has already in¬ 
vented a useful wreck finder. The plans of the 
craft show her to be a steel barrel, 15 feet long 
by 6 feet in diameter. She is fitted with wheels 
to enable her to be driven along the floor of the 
sea, and has a propeller to send her through the 
water. Glazed port holes that will enable the 
men inside to see in every direction are provided, 
and there is a double bottom which, when the 
crew wish to sink the vessel, they can fill with 
sea water by means of a hand pump. Two air 
tubes are attached. 
The strangest features of the craft are sev¬ 
eral steel rods with ends shaped something like 
human hands, which project in various direc¬ 
tions. These, by an ingenious contrivance, are 
worked from within the barrel, so that they can 
be turned at various angles to pick up anything 
from the bottom of the sea. Other rods are 
fitted with drills designed to bore through rock 
or armor. 
The vessel is contrived so that once it reaches 
the bottom it can, if the ground be level, travel 
on its wheels, the electric motive power being 
transmitted from the ship. If any considerable 
obstruction is met, the crew can lighten the 
vessel so that it floats, and then set the propeller 
going. If it is desired to lift anything, the rods 
with hand-like terminations can grasp an object 
or attach grapplers to it. If the iron or wooden 
sides of a sunken vessel cannot be broken, the 
rods with drills will bore holes in them and other 
rods insert explosives, which can afterward be 
fired from a distance by electricity. Another 
feature of the invention is an air-lock, through 
which, if necessary, a diver equipped with ordi¬ 
nary dress can step out on to a wreck.—Shipping 
Illustrated. 
Club Elections. 
FLAT ROCK M. B. C. 
The Flat Rock Motor Boat Club, of Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., held a meeting at the Delight Club 
when the question of permanent quarters for the 
club was settled. This progressive young organi¬ 
zation went along all last season without a club 
house, but the members propose to have one of 
the finest club houses along the Schuykill River 
next summer. 
Arrangements have been completed for leas¬ 
ing for a twenty-year term a piece of ground 
just above the Flat Rock dam, with a 6oo-foot 
river front. A committee was appointed to se¬ 
cure plans for the erection of a club house not 
to exceed $2,000 and to be completed by the time 
of the annual meeting in May. 
The Building Committee is Charles Schofield, 
Chairman; Dr. Eugene Swayne, George Kruzen, 
John Field and T. Sheldrake. 
New York C. C. 
New York City, Dec. 15. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The fortieth annual meeting of the 
New York Canoe Club was held at the Hotel 
Astor on Thursday evening, Dec. 14. A very 
good attendance was present and the reports of 
the various committee’s showed the club was in 
splendid condition. The following officers were 
elected to serve through the ensuing year: Com¬ 
modore, R. de F. Bayley; Treasurer, H. M. 
Humphryes; Captain, Chas. L. Pultz; Secretary, 
Ed. R. Patrick; Trustee (to serve for three 
years), Frank C. Hoyt; Trustee of Sinking Fund, 
J. W. H. Bergen; Auditing Committee, Chas. 
Gould and R. J. Oakes. 
F. C. Hoyt. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Eastern Division.—Harold C. Paul, Woon¬ 
socket, R. I.; William H. Harpin, 44 Social 
street, Woonsocket, R. I.; Albert Morrill 
Fletcher, 454 Winter street, Woonsocket, R. I., 
and Frederick L. Lamontagne, 105 Clinton street, 
Woonsocket, R. I., all by C. Strawson Barning- 
ham. 
Western Division. — Sherman G. Spurr, 3745 
Main street, Kansas City, Mo., by A. W. Friese. 
WHY HE LOVED VENICE. 
A young lady who had returned from a tour 
through Italy with her father informed a friend 
that he liked all the Italian cities, but most of 
all he loved Venice. “Ah, Venice to be sure!” 
said the friend. “I can readily understand that 
your father would like Venice with its gondo’as 
and St. Mark’s and Michael Angelos.” “Oh, no,” 
the young lady interrupted, “it wasn’t that. He 
liked it because he could sit in the hotel and fish 
from the window.”—Catholic News. 
OLD SPORTING TERMS. 
Any sportsman would be highly amused at 
the ignorance of his questioner if asked to ex¬ 
plain what was meant by a “covey” of par¬ 
tridges. Most of this same sporting brother¬ 
hood would promptly correct a speaker who 
started to talk about a “walk” of snipe, instead 
of a “wisp,” although they would not be justi¬ 
fied in doing so. A very few might be able to 
say, after some head scratching, that a “bevy” 
of quail is the proper sporting term to use for 
a flight of these pugnacious, but tasty, little 
denizens of the rice fields of India and Egypt. 
It may be something more than chance which 
caused these epicurean delicacies to be ranked, 
side by side, with a “bevy” of female beauty, a 
regular hackneyed expression. 
But these are only a very few of the old col¬ 
lective terms used in sport and venery, and, in¬ 
deed, in every day life, to denote a number or 
collection of any particular type of birds, beasts, 
fish, or even human beings. It is not generally 
known, for instance, that it is as correct to talk 
about a “gaggle” of women as it is about a 
"gaggle” of geese, an old sporting term mean¬ 
ing a flight; but let us hope that it was not the 
likeness in characteristics which caused the sim¬ 
ilitude of name. 
All kinds of animals, wild and tame, had 
“collective” names allotted to them. Who ever 
hears now of a “pride” of lions, a “lepe” of 
leopards, or a “sloth” of bears, all common 
words for a collection of these various animals 
in bygone times. Again, a “singular,” of boars 
and a “sounder” of swine, two terms which are 
still familiar to the pig-sticking fraternity of 
India, and elsewhere, join with a “route” of 
wolves, a “harrass” of horses and a “rag” of 
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