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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. 30, 19x1. 
Women as “Flag Members.” 
The decision of the Larchmont Y. C. at its 
recent annual meeting to permit women owning 
yachts to become “flag members” of the club is 
additional evidence that the example set by the 
New York Y. C. in this particular is gradually 
being followed by the yachting organizations of 
the country. 
For some years the Eastern Y. C. of Marble¬ 
head, has permitted women to become “flag 
members,” as has the Boston Y. C., and the 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C., at Oyster Bay, 
L. I., invites women through its Board of 
Trustees to become “associate members.” 
The popularity of the Larchmont Y. C. will 
attract the women yacht owners of the country, 
but the entire number of these owners to-day 
in all the clubs mentioned is limited. There are 
not twenty in all. Still, the list found in the 
New York Y. C. book contains prominent 
names, and the vessels which they own make 
up a fleet of representative steam and power 
craft. 
IN THE NEW YORK Y. C. 
Fourteen “flag members” belong to the New 
York Y. C. Mrs. Lucy C. Carnegie, who was 
elected on May 17, 1894, is the first, and she has 
the honor of being the first woman to be thus 
elected in any of the yachting organizations. 
Mrs. Carnegie owns the steam yacht Skibo, and 
its hailing port is Dungeness, Fla. Once in a 
while Skibo comes north, but her sphere of 
service has been generally confined to southern 
waters. 
Mrs. Robert Goelet, the owner of the steam 
yacht Nahma, is the second of the New York 
Y. C. flag members. She was elected on Aug. 
3, 1899. Nahma of late years has been cruising 
in foreign waters, and at this time is being re¬ 
fitted on the Clyde for a Mediterranean cruise. 
Miss Atala W. Thayer, of New York, follows, 
and was elected on Feb. 12, 1903. She owns the 
steam yacht Zoraya, which is in commission 
every season and seen on Long Island Sound 
and in eastern waters. 
Mrs. Charles L. F. Robinson, the fourth on 
the New York Y. C. list, owns the old schooner 
Dauntless, the glorious old Dauntless, full of 
racing honors, but retired long ago. The 
schooner is moored in the Connecticut River 
near Hartford. 
Mrs. Alexander Pendleton, the owner of the 
steam yacht Vega, hailing from Fisher’s Island, 
came next. During the season this vessel is 
familiar to all cruising yachts men about New 
London, Newport and further to the eastward. 
Occasionally Vega visits the western end of 
Long Island Sound. Mrs. Pendleton was 
elected on June 28, 1906. 
Mrs. Theodore D. Buhl, next in order on the 
list, is a western yachting woman. She owns 
the steam yacht Anona, whose home port is 
Detroit. Anona is in commission every season 
and cruises on the lakes. Mrs. Buhl was elected 
June 27, 1907. 
ON ALL THE CRUISES. 
Mrs. Robert C. Black, the owner of the 
steam yacht Repose II., hailing from Pelham 
Manor, N. Y., is the seventh on the list. Mrs. 
Black’s yacht is in commission early in the sea¬ 
son and is always to be found in the squadron 
during the August cruises, and the entertain¬ 
ments on board are numerous and pleasant. 
She was elected May 21, 1908. 
Mrs. Horatio N. Slater, of Boston, owns the 
steam yacht Bellemere, and is next on the list. 
Her election took place on Dec. 17, 1908. 
Mrs, John Stewart Kennedy, of New York, 
follows. She is the owner of the steam yacht 
Cherokee, which is well known in home waters. 
Mrs. Kennedy was made a flag member on 
Jan. 20, 1910. 
Miss Helen Woodruff Smith, the owner of 
the auxiliary schooner yacht Viking, was elect¬ 
ed March 24, 1910, and is the tenth on the list. 
Viking’s home port is Stamford. Conn. 
Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, of Newport, R. 
I., follows. She is the owner of the twin-screw 
power yacht Akabohdi, which is well known in 
eastern waters. Mrs. Brown became a flag 
member June 23, 1910. 
Mrs. W. Harriman, of New York, is the 
owner of the steam yacht Sultana. She was 
elected on Oct. 6, 1910. Sultana was in com¬ 
mission last season and present at many of the 
New York Y. C. regattas and was on the club 
cruise. 
Mrs. Henry C. Tinker, of New York, the next 
on the list, owns the power yacht Mahany. 
Her election was on March 23, 1911. 
Mrs. Juliana A. Ferguson, of Halesite, L. I., 
was elected on June 23, 1911. She owns the 
power yachts Ostris and Mermaid. 
The privileges of flag membership in the New 
York Y. C. are the right to fly the club burgee, 
to have private signal registered with the sec¬ 
retary, to enter yachts in club races and the 
use of club stations and floats. The flag mem¬ 
bership continues only during the period of 
yacht ownership. 
WITH OTHER CLUBS. 
Turning to the Eastern Y. C. book, there are 
found the names of Mrs. A .C. Wheelwright, of 
Boston, who owns the auxiliary schooner 
Hesper; Miss E. G. Loring, of Beverly, who 
owns in part the sloop Ladrone, and Mrs. 
Horatio N. Slater, the owner of the steam yacht 
Bellemere. The Eastern Y. C. privileges for 
flag members are the same as those of the New 
York Y. C., with the addition that the club 
house at Marblehead may be used by them “as 
prescribed for ladies.” 
The Board of Trustees of the Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y. C. has the power of inviting “any 
lady owning or chartering a yacht to become 
an associate member for the current year.” The 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C.’s year book gives 
the names of Mrs. Jefferson Coddington and 
Miss A. W. Thayer as “associate members” 
during 1911. 
The Boston Y. C. book of the year does not 
contain the names of any flag members. 
The number of flag members in the yacht 
clubs naturally increases slowly. But whenever 
a woman in the country comes into possession 
of a yacht of sufficient size and prominence she 
at once seeks the privilege of carrying the New 
York Y. C. burgee, known and honored on 
all the waters of the world.—New York Herald. 
Bunker Hill Y. C’s Age. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 23 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Dec. 16, I find the fol¬ 
lowing: “On Nov. 30, the Bunker Hill Y. C. 
was forty-two years young, and not a rat 
escaped from the hold, for while this club is 
third oldest on the Atlantic Coast, it shows no 
signs of sinking. It is as young and lusty as 
any on ’em.” 
Now, I rejoice in the youth and prosperity 
of the Bunker Hill, and wish them still greater 
success, but I take exception to the statement 
of its being “third oldest on the Atlantic Coast.” 
If the above is otherwise correct, then Nov. 
30, forty-two years ago must have been Nov. 
30, 1869. In September of that year, I became, 
and still am a member of the Atlantic Y. C., of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. The Atlantic Y. C. was or¬ 
ganized in December, 1865, and some of its 
charter members, I think a majority of them, 
came out of the Brooklyn Y. C., which had 
then been organized for several years. Every 
old yachtsman knows that the New York Y. 
C. was organized as early as 1844. 
Now I don't mean to say that the Atlantic 
Y. C. is the third oldest on this coast; it may 
be, but I think there were still others; at any 
rate, one thing is certain, that the New York 
Y. C., the Brooklyn Y. C. and the Atlantic Y. 
C., as above stated, all of which are still in 
existence on this coast, outrank for age the 
Bunker Hill Y. C. J. L. Marcellus. 
Yacht Transfers. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the auxiliary yawl Polly, owned by Dr. George 
Woodward, of Philadelphia, to Dr. E. M. Mont¬ 
gomery, of Boston, who will use her in Maine 
waters next season. “Polly is a fine cruising 
yacht, 61 feet over all, 43 feet waterline, 16 feet 
beam and 6 feet draft, designed by the late A. 
Cary Smith. She has a large cabin with two 
staterooms, and is equipped with a 12-horse¬ 
power Boothbay engine. 
The same agency has also, sold the yawl Gin 
Rikki for J. B. Ricketts, of Boston, to Harry J. 
Russell, of White Plains, N. Y., and the racing 
22-foot sloop Marie L, owned by Hollis Bur¬ 
gess, to Walter L. Alley and Robert H. Sibley, 
of Boston. 
The New Speed Boat. 
Speed boats, like automobiles, get nearer and 
nearer the price suited to the pocket of the 
average waterman. The innovation of the New 
Year along these lines will be Dixie Jr., de¬ 
signed by Tams, Lemoine & Crane, of New 
York city, with a guarantee of thirty-five miles, 
or better, per hour. The price has been kept 
down to $4,500. 
Dixie Jr. has been built to satisfy the demand 
for small racing hydroplanes and high speed 
yacht tenders. This boat embodies all the im¬ 
provements based on the experience gained by 
Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane in the design 
of the numerous famous high speed boats, 
which have been built from their plans. Be¬ 
ginning with Vingt Et Un and Challenger, 
world famous boats in their day, they have been 
intimately connected with the advancement of 
motor boat racing, Dixie IV., fastest boat in 
the world, being their latest craft of this type, 
and Dixie Tr.’s model being the result of the 
experience gained from the actual performances 
of her predecessors and the recent exhaustive 
model tests conducted by them in the Govern¬ 
ment tanks at Washington, and a guarantee of 
thirty-five miles an hour goes to every pur¬ 
chaser of a Dixie Jr. 
The construction of the boat is substantial 
throughout, strength not having been sacrificed 
to attain speed, and only the best of material 
and workmanship has been used. 
Frames and floors of elm, yellow pine plank- 
sheer, selected mahogany planking, copper 
fastened, three double planked bulkheads. 
Carries twenty-five gallons of gasolene. Pro¬ 
peller shaft and wheel of Tobin bronze, the 
wheel having been specially designed by C. H. 
Crane. Metal fittings throughout of brass or 
bronze. The Staten Island Ship Building Com¬ 
pany, who built the hull of Dixie IV., are the 
builders of the hulls of Dixie Jr. 
The motor is a six-cylinder, 45-65 horse¬ 
power Sterling. 
The equipment will include lights, oars, row- 
locks, canvas cover, boat hook, whistle, life 
preserver, fog horn, fenders, cushions, rubber 
floor mat, etc. 
The arrangement of the boat has been very 
carefully worked out. Forward, there is a 
small turtle-back deck. Directly aft of this is 
the helmsman’s cockpit, in which are two com¬ 
fortable seats. The throttle, clutch, spark, etc., 
are arranged as in an automobile, so as to in¬ 
sure perfect control by the driver at all times. 
Aft of this cockpit is the engine compartment, 
the motor being under a hood; all parts are 
easily accessible. There is an engineer’s cock¬ 
pit directly abaft the motor, followed by a small 
after deck. The helmsman being forward of 
the motor, does away with the objectionable 
gases and noise. Her flare forward is sufficient 
to throw the spray well aft of the man at the 
wheel, assuring him a dry, comfortable place. 
Motor Boat Show. 
The exhibition committee of the New York 
Motor Boat Show, to be held in Sixty-ninth 
Regiment Armory, New York city, in February, 
reported excellent progress to the executive 
committee last Friday night, at the first meeting. 
The chairman of the committee, Henry R. 
Stuphen. said all available space on the main 
floor and on elevated promenade had been sold, 
