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[Jan. 30, 1909. 
head or clear end of the cavel as the case may 
be at B, and, keeping a good hold of the fall 
with the right hand, place your left hand on the 
two round turns at A over the top of the cavel 
end. Now suppose you want to pay out the 
main sheet. Go down on one knee, and with 
your left hand “slip round” the two round 
turns at A while you ease up the sheet with 
your right hand. You will not find it difficult, 
on a well-worn cavel especially, to ‘slip round’ 
the turns. They must not be taken off the 
cavel in the process of easing sheet. Next if 
.vou are going to haul in the main sheet, cast 
one of the round turns off, but leave the last on, 
at A. Then lead the fall of the sheet along the 
deck, and let as many men as you can muster 
stand by with it in their hands. When they are 
ready to pull and the leading hand cries, ‘All 
ready,’ cast off the last of your round turns at 
A and haul in 
One, two, three, haul altogether with a will! 
“Perhaps if we are short-handed, or it is 
blowing very hard, we may not be able to haul 
in the main sheet, in spite of any amount of 
cheering and hauling. The cheering should not 
be despised, for a man who ‘shouts’ well keeps 
the lads together. However, if the’ job is too 
heavy, there is nothing for it but to make the 
sheet fast again, as described and shown in 
Fig. I or Fig. la, and then bend on a tackle. 
Some yachtsmen are fond of putting the yacht 
about, and while she is in stays taking in the 
slack of the main sheet. We have heard this 
recommended as a smart or easy way to get in 
the sheet. It is nothing of the kind; it is bad 
seamanship. You may depend upon it that ,if 
there is so much weight.in the wind that you 
cannot haul in your main sheet with a good 
steady pull the breeze is likely to be quite 
squally enough to play you a very dirty trick if 
you try to take up the slack of the main sheet 
while she is in stays. At this game, if she 
should fill rather suddenly before Jack has be¬ 
layed, away will go the whole lot like a hurri¬ 
cane, and the boom will fly off to the runner or 
sweep the deck and take charge as it likes. No; 
if you cannot budge the sheet, bend on to it a 
‘luff tackle purchase’ between the point N (Fig. 
i) and the main-sheet block at the horse or 
buffer—of course, for convenience, as far aft as 
you can. A luff tackle purchase is ^hown in 
Fig. 2. Tlie hook H can be hooked on to any 
strop forward on the deck or gunwale, and the 
after end of the purchase is bent on to the 
main sheet. In Fig. 2 the rolling hitch, which 
is the knot used for gripping the sheet, is shown 
loose, before being pulled taut; it is, of course, 
a simple knot, and most yachtsmen are familiar 
with it. Even its use is frequent, and its re- 
procluction may be appreciated by amateurs. In 
getting in the main sheet with the luff tackle 
purchase when the hands haul on the part P 
(Fig. i), the man tending the sheet must main¬ 
tain one turn round the cavel at A and keep 
taking up the slack as the tackle comes home. 
As soon as it is home—that is, when drawn 
close up to the timber head—the rolling hitch 
FIG. 2. LUFF TACKLE PURCHASE BENT ON THE MAIN- 
SHEET. 
must be smartly cast off and rebent again near 
the horse, the process being repeated until the 
main sheet is sufficiently trimmed. Before the 
tackle is slacked up the sheet must be belayed. 
In racing yachts the main sheet in strong winds 
is got in in precisely the same manner by means 
of the tackle as shown in Fig. 2, and the slack 
is taken up round the main sheet cleat on the 
deck.” 
Power Cruiser for A. B. Cartledge. 
A. B. Cartledge, of Philadelphia, is having a 
cruising power boat built from designs by 
Charles D. Mower. This craft is to have twin 
screws, and is being built at Philadelphia. The 
new craft is 70 feet over all. 14 feet beam and 
3 feet 6 inches draft. The model is a very 
handsome one. The sheer is pleasing, and the 
deck houses well proportioned. The accommo¬ 
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forward, and three staterooms, one double and 
two single aft. The engine room is isolated by 
two water-tight bulkheads, and the gasolene 
tanks are also in a water-tight compartment. 
The yacht will carry two boats on her davits, 
one the usual dinghy on the port side and a 
high-speed automobile boat on the starboard 
side. The engines will be two four-cylinder, 
four-cycle motors of 30-horsepower each, and 
these will drive the yacht about 12 miles an 
hour. This craft will be ready for delivery on 
May I. 
A GREAT BEAR FIGFIT. 
In the vicinity of Los Angeles there can still 
be found, occasionally, a pioneer who needs no 
reminder to assist him in recalling the story of 
perhaps the most exciting bear fight that ever 
took place in this “neck of the woods.” It was 
during the winter of 1854 and two of its victims 
were buried in one grave in the old Fort Hill 
Cemetery of Los Angeles. These were among 
the very fii’st burials in that oioneer cemetery 
which has long since given way before the 
march of an encroaching city. It doesn’t de¬ 
tract from the interest of the incident to add 
that one of these bodies was that of the faith¬ 
ful dog who accompanied his master to the 
grave as chief mourner apcl was one of the 
principals in the historic fight. 
The unfortunate hunter, according to the San 
Francisco Call, was Andy Sublette, a mountain¬ 
eer from the Rockies who preceded Fremont 
and the gold crusaders to California, coming 
from Wyoming, where the Sublettes had 
founded Fort Laramie. Sublette and a party of 
friends had gone on a hunting expedition up 
the coast along what is now known as Santa 
Monica Bay. In one of the canons of the 
Malibu, then best known as the Malaga, Sub¬ 
lette and his faithful old dog became separated 
from the other members of the party. Alone, 
they came suddenly upon a great grizzly bear. 
Sublette fired at the beast. Unfortunately the 
bullet did not penetrate a vital part, and before 
the hunter could reload his gun the fierce and 
furious brute charged upon him. The fight that 
followed was to the death, as attested by the 
sight that greeted those who, in search for the 
missing hunter, came upon the duel ground on 
the following day. A trail of blood covering 
many square yards showed that every inch of 
the battle ground had been hotly contested. 
The man and his dog had, for the time, proved 
victors, but Sublette was unconscious. Beside 
him lay the wounded dog, licking the life blood 
as it trickled over his master’s face from 
wounds inflicted by the bear. A few feet from 
them was the bear, a good bear now, stiff in 
death, with a thousand knife wounds penetrat¬ 
ing the hide. 
Man and dog were carefully borne to Los 
Angeles and their wounds were given attention, 
the dog being made comfortable on a rug near 
Sublette’s bed. The wounded hunter made a 
noble struggle for life, but his injuries were not 
such as would yield to treatment, and he passed 
over the range; not, however, until he had 
given to Jim Thompson and other companions 
on'the fatal expedition a graphic description of 
that memorable encounter. It seems from his 
story that as soon as the bear had been 
wounded the beast charged violently at Sub¬ 
lette. whose sole weapon was a hunting knife. 
While the dog was attacking the bear on one 
side Sublette was carving him on the other; but 
meanwhile old bruin with his mighty paw was 
mangling the flesh of man and dog in a terrible 
fashion. At length, through sheer loss of blood 
through the knife wounds inflicted, the bear 
crawled a few feet away' and died, while Sub¬ 
lette lapsed into unconsciousness from ex¬ 
haustion, without having moved from the car¬ 
nage of the last hand-to-hand conflict. 
When death claimed the hunter his faithful 
dog rode to the funeral in the wagon first fol¬ 
lowing the corpse; but when the long box had 
been covered and the earth rounded over it the 
dog whined mournfully and refused to leave the 
spot. Ide would take no nourishment and at 
the end of the third day was found dead, out¬ 
stretched upon the grave of his late master and 
friend. Faithful to the last, he was buried at 
the foot of the grave of his dead companion. 
CAME HERE TO HUNT GOATS. . 
Rigged out in Weberfieldian attire, a short, 
stout German with whiskers on his chin rested 
his trunk-like traveling bag on the pavement 
opposite the West Twenty-third street ferry 
house a few nights ago and introduced himself 
to the crowd of cabmen assembled there as Paul 
Frederick Seigel, says the Times. He ex¬ 
plained that he had just arrived from Wilming¬ 
ton, Del., by way of Philadelphia. The crowd 
was guying him on the fact that his coattails 
trailed on the ground when a policeman ap¬ 
proached and questioned the man. 
“I only rant to find Harlem,” he said. “Vhen 
I am directioned o’n Harlem, I can find myself 
all right cause I lived on Harlem vhen I vere a 
little boy. I come to New York to hunt for 
goats.” 
“What?” exclaimed the policeman, “hunt for 
goafs ?” 
“Jes,” answered Paul Frederick. “I am a 
tannery by trade, und I vorked by a tanneries 
in Vilmington, Delavare. Many are closing up 
now because goats are scarce. Dot is vhat ve 
make morocco leather from—goatskins. But ve 
got not so many goats no more, und pooty 
soon all der tanneries in der United States vill 
stop making morocco. Dot’s vhy I tought of 
coming to New Jork to hunt for goats. Vhen 
I vere a boy ve had so many goats on Harlem 
anybody could get all dey vanted. Now goat¬ 
skins bring by der pound 75 cents, und one 
goatskin sometimes veighs more as a pound 
und a half. I think I get rich vhen I corner 
der goat markets. Vhat?” 
“Probably,” said the policeman, “but the 
goats disappeared from Harlem when the tall 
tenements began to grow.” ' 
“Ach my!” exclaimed Seigel, “dot’s too bad. 
I can sell all der'goats I can catch. You know 
vhat vici kid shoes are made of? Goat skins. 
Veil, der tanneries can’t get no more Indian 
goats, no more Russian goats, China goats. 
Rocky Mountain goats, Yapanese goats, Him¬ 
alayan goats.” 
“And no more Harlem goats,” interrupted 
the policeman. “Why don’t you start a goat 
farm? I saw the other day in a Government 
report that there were less than 40,000 goats in 
the entire country.” 
“Der Philadelphia tanneries could use dot 
many in a month.” replied Paul Frederick. 
“But dey ain’t making morocco no more cause 
dey can’t get any kind of goats. You can’t 
make morocco out of Cashmere shaws because 
dey are too dear. Dot’s vhy I tink I can hunt 
up some Harlem goats.” 
“Since the Subway hit Washington Heights,” 
explained the policeman, “the game laws have 
been changed and goat shooting has been pro¬ 
hibited in the Fifth avenue reserve ever since 
Mr. Carnegie moved up there.” 
“I guess dot is vhy goats are so scarce,” 
answered the goat hunter from Wilmington. 
“Mebbe Mr. Carnegie has organized der goat 
trust und dey are holding goat skins back from 
der tanneries to bloom der price of shoes. 
Shoes have gone up because goats are scarce.” 
After being convinced that goat hunting in 
Harlem these days was very poor, Seigel said 
he would take a Central train to Albany. In 
case he found no goats on the way he said he 
would continue on to Gloversville and go back 
to work in a tannery. 
