Dec. 30, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
At the dinner of the Red Bank Y. C. at the 
Hotel Astor last Saturday night a large oil 
painting of the clubhouse was presented to the 
club by some of the members. Among those 
present were former State Senator Jacob A. 
Cantor, J. Fred Betz, 3d; Commodore John S. 
Dickerson, Henry T. Eschwege, Ashbel P. 
Fitch, John G. Gillig, Alfred P. Hanan, Peter 
Hauck, Jr., J. Christian G. Hupfel, Henry F. 
Mollenhauer, George S. Runk, Jacob Ruppert, 
Jr., Rudolph S. Schaefer and John J. Stanley, Jr. 
Capt. Walter Wheeler and the handsome 
yacht Saranac, owned by Sherman Loomis, a 
wealthy New York lumber dealer, are at the 
Merrill-Stevens shipyard. Saranac arrived re¬ 
cently, after a twenty days’ trip. The yacht 
will remain here until after Christmas, when 
Mr. and Mrs. Loomis and Mrs. Theodore 
Martin will arrive and start for a winter cruise. 
Captain Wheeler has been coming to Jackson¬ 
ville every winter for more than twenty years. 
Itasca II., owned by E. D. Hawkins, a Du¬ 
luth lumberman, and former Minnesota State 
Senator, is also here in charge of her captain, 
N. A. Swonson. Captain Swonson expects 
Senator Hawkins and members of his party 
here in about two weeks, when they will em¬ 
bark for Tarpon Springs.—Jacksonville, Fla., 
Metropolitan. 
A resolution calling for an appropriation to 
provide for a landing place within the Point 
Judith Harbor of Refuge and for the proper 
lighting of the entrance to that harbor was 
passed by the Providence Board of Trade, Dec. 
5, and copies were ordered to be forwarded to 
the Secretary of War, the Commissioner of 
Lighthouses, and the proper committees of both 
Houses of Congress as well as the Rhode 
Island delegation. The resolution was intro¬ 
duced by J. U. Starkweather, chairman of the 
Harbor Committee of the Board of Trade and 
Providence, agent of the General Chemical 
Company, whose barges ply past Point Judith, 
and who in pointing out the work the Govern¬ 
ment was doing at Point Judith in creating 
there a harbor of refuge, urged that the useful¬ 
ness of the same was greatly nullified through 
lack of communication with the shore because 
no landing place had been provided and the 
need of proper lighting to enable vessels in 
distress to make the harbor at night in safety 
as well as in the daytime. 
Edvard Jansen has been promoted to keeper 
of the Lime Rock light station, Rhode Island, 
in place of Ida Wilson Lewis, known to yachts¬ 
men as “the Grace Darling of America,” and 
whose death on Oct. 24 closed more than thirty 
years continuous service filled with heroic 
deeds. Immediately following her death her 
son, Rudolf, was given the post until an ap¬ 
pointment from the Civil Service Register could 
be made. A month later Jansen was promoted 
from the place of first assistant keeper at Sandy 
Hook fog bell station, North Hook beacon, 
New Jersey. 
Experiments with non-sinkable dories have 
proven very successful, it is said, and may soon 
come into practical use. 
The latest invention has four water-tight 
compartments, located under the bow, stern 
and cross seats; there are also receptacles for 
the storage of clothing, food and water. Water¬ 
tight portholes in the tops of the seats give 
access to the interior of the tanks. The bow 
and stern tanks alone are sufficient to keep the 
dory afloat, and at the same time provide re¬ 
ceptacles for the storage of a limited supply of 
dry clothing, while one of the cross seat tanks 
is partially filled with food, and the other with 
water. Most important and ingenious, however, 
are the portholes which give access to the tanks 
through the bottom of the boat, should it be 
capsized. These are set on the flat bottom, and 
unless a sea is continually breaking over the 
little craft, the ports may be unscrewed, one at 
at time, and the food, water and clothing 
reached. The two false keels are provided with 
hand holds as an aid to the men clinging to the 
bottom—Gloucester Times. 
In accordance with Section 5, Article XII.. of 
the by-laws of the club, the Board of Trustees 
of the Corinthian Y. C. of Philadelphia desire 
to announce that they have made the following 
nominations for the various positions to be 
filled by election at the annual meeting of the 
club, to be held on Jan. 12, 1912: 
For Trustees, to serve for three, years, 
Dr. Richard H. Flarte, Edward H. John¬ 
son; for Commodore, C. Howard Clark, 
Jr., schooner Savarona; for Rear-Com¬ 
modore, Robert Toland, sloop Grilse IV.; for 
Secretary, Addison F. Bancroft; for Treasurer, 
Henry S. Jeanes; for Measurer, George Breed; 
for Race Committee, Addison F. Bancroft, 
George Breed, Charles Longstreth. 
Club Elections. 
NEW YORK Y. C. 
In the club house of the New York Y. C., 
Dec. 21, Commodore Blair presided at the sixth 
general meeting, one of the best attended meet¬ 
ings thus far held. The officers and committees 
elected vary but little from those of last season. 
They follow: 
Commodore, C. Ledyard Blair, steam yacht 
Diana; Vice-Commodore, Dallas B. Pratt, 
schooner yacht Sea Fox; Rear-Commodore, 
George F. Baker, Jr., steam yacht Viking; Sec¬ 
retary, George A. Cormack; Treasurer, Tarrant 
Putnam; Regatta Committee—H. de Berkley 
Parsons, C. Sherman Hoyt and J. M. Mac- 
donough; Measurer, William Hallock; House 
Committee—Thomas A. Bronson, H. H. 
Rodgers and Samuel A. Brown; Committee on 
Admissions—Henry C. Ward, Newberry D. 
Thorne, William Butler Duncan, Jr., Henry A. 
Bishop and Claries Lane Poor; Library Com¬ 
mittee—Charles W. Lee, Richard T. Wain- 
wright and Henry B. Kane; Model Committee 
—John Neilson, Frederick M. Hoyt and W. 
Harry McGill. Committee on Club Stations 
and Anchorages—No. 2, New York, foot of 
Twenty-third street. East River, J. Pierpont 
Morgan, Jr.; No. 3. New York, foot of Eighty- 
first street, North River, Robert P. Doremus; 
No. 4, New London, Conn., Vernon C. Brown; 
No. 5, Shelter Island. N. Y., Charles Lane 
Poor; No. 6, Newport, R. I., Maximilian 
Agassiz; No. 7, Vineyard Haven, Mass., Alfred 
C. Harrison, and No. 10, Glen Cove, N. Y., J. 
Harvey Ladew. The nominating commitee was 
composed of J. Pierpont Morgan, chairman; 
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Frederick G. Bourne, 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Arthur Curtiss James, 
Wilson Marshall, F. H. Von Stade. Daniel 
Appleton, Commander J. D. Jerrold Kelly, U. 
S. N., and Grenville Kane, secretary. 
RICHMOND Y. C. 
The Richmond Y. C., at its annual meeting, 
held Dec. 13, in the rooms of the Business 
Men’s Club, elected the following officers for 
the ensuing year: R. S. Christian, Commo¬ 
dore; Claiborne Watkins, Vice-Commodore; L. 
L. Kipps, Fleet Captain; C. L. Cook, Secre¬ 
tary and Treasurer; Board of Governors—W. 
J. Cowardin, S. H. Bemiss, C. P. Harwood, 
W. M. Adams and Commodore Christian, ex- 
officio. 
A committee was appointed to go before the 
James River Committee of the City Council 
with a similar committee from the James River 
Motor Boat Club to urge the dredging of the 
city slip, which is rapidly filling. 
It was further determined to strengthen the 
club wharf with money that is in the treasury, 
in order that the James River steamboats can 
touch at the club house. 
The finances of the club were reported in 
good shape, and plans formulated for the con¬ 
tinued improvement of the club house and 
grounds. 
JUBILEE Y. C. 
John J. Harrigan was re-elected commodore 
of the Jubilee Y. C. at Beverly. The other 
officers elected were: Vice-Commodore, A. R. 
Morrill; Rear-Commodore, Charles L. Benoit; 
Secretary, H. S. Joslin; Treasurer, George A. 
Endicott; Financial Secretary, Amos L. Odell; 
Measurer, Edward L. Pickett; Executive Com¬ 
mittee—John J. Harrigan, George A. Endicott, 
D. Robert Brown, William H. Ropes, Algie M. 
Goodwin; Regatta Committee-—Lawrence P. 
Stanton, Frank Kennison, William Pickett; 
Auditing Committee—H. Towne, Edward 
Pickett, A. B. Morrill. 
CORINTHIAN Y. C. 
The Corinthian Y. C.. of Washington, has 
elected the following officers for the coming 
year; Commodore, Clarence E. Ingling; Vice- 
Commodore, Harrington Barker; Rear-Com¬ 
modore, W. J. Ingram; Fleet Captain, J. E. 
Battenfield; Secretary-Treasurer, William R. 
Adams; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, C. W. 
Bartlett; Measurer, F. E. Symanoskie; Trus¬ 
tees, H. A. Heitniuller and J. P. Welcker. 
LAKE MICHIGAN Y. R. A. 
The Lake Michigan Yachting Association at 
its annual meeting elected Fred D. Porter, of 
the Columbia Y. C., President; John J. Rice, 
of the Milwaukee Y. C., and L. G. Shepard, 
of the Evanston Y. C., Vice-Presidents: Charles 
Scates, of the Macataw Y. C., Secretary, and 
Charles F. Reed, of the White Lake Y. C., 
Treasurer. It was decided to hold the annual 
regatta of the Great Lakes clubs at Chicago 
on July 4 No changes were made in the classi¬ 
fication of the yachts. 
SQUANTUM Y. C. 
The following nominations have been made 
for office in the Squantum Y. C.: Alexander 
Tobin and Eleazor Drew, for Commodore; G. 
H. Bean, Vice-Commodore; H. D. Gearware, 
Rear-Commodore; Arthur B. Hillman. Treasu¬ 
rer; Perley Rogers, Secretary; Frank E. Bader, 
Trustee for three years; Archie Briggs, Meas¬ 
urer; G. H. Bean, James McCarty, Harry 
Hinckley. Perley Rogers and Stanley Ferguson, 
Regatta Committee. 
town Y. c. 
The Town River Y. C., of Quincy, Mass., 
formed in the late summer, formally opened its 
club house last week. Many prominent men of 
Quincy are on its membership list and the club 
has the distinction of having Mayor Eugene R. 
Stone, of Quincy, for its commodore. Plans 
are afoot for the development of several classes 
of small boats for the opening of the season. 
South Jersey Yacht Clubs. 
If the elaborate schedule laid out by the Rac¬ 
ing Association of South Jersey Yacht Clubs is 
carried out as planned, the yachtsmen along the 
New Jersey coast will enjoy weekly regattas 
from June 29 to Labor Day. An energetic 
committee, comprising W. D. Snow, of Ocean 
City Motor Boat Club; A. K. White, Seaside 
Y. C., of Atlantic City, and Joseph Bailey, of 
Holly Beach Y. C., has been appointed to de¬ 
termine a uniform system for starting races of 
the association. 
It is Chairman M. C. Brigham’s idea that the 
association provide starting paraphernalia for 
each club, as well as uniform turning buoys, 
etc. The drawings for race dates follow: 
June 29—Ocean City Motor Boat Club. 
July 6—-Yachtsmen’s Club. 
July 13—Stone Harbor Y. C. 
July 20—Seaside Y. C. 
July 27—Ventnor Y. C. 
