[April 17, 1909. 
624 FOREST AND STREAM. 
Militia crews (one crew from each State). 
5. Motor boat races (except very high power 
boats), in five classes, or more if necessary. 
6. inter-ship pulling races, between crews 
from various vessels of the Revenue Cutter 
Service. 
7. Canoe races (paddling), short races in 
four classes. 
The tentative schedule for races and prizes 
at Yonkers are as follows: 
1. Rowing races, between crews of rowing 
clubs in about nine classes. 
2. Motor boat races, between very high 
power boats. 
The tentative schedule for races and prizes 
at Newburgh are as follows: 
1. Sailing races in seven classes for 30- 
footers find under. 
2. Motor boat races in seven classes. 
Manhasset Bay Y. C. Schedule. 
J.^MES W. Alker, chairman of the regatta 
committee of the Manhasset Bay Y. C., has an¬ 
nounced the schedule of races for the season, 
which is as follows: 
May 22—Inter-club race between the one- 
design classes of the Bay Shore Y. C. and 
iManhasset Bay Y. C. 
May 31—Races for one-design class, morn¬ 
ing and afternoon. 
June S —Eleventh annual regatta. 
June 12—One-design class. 
June 19—One-design class. 
June 26—Race around Cornfield Lightship 
and return for Howard Gould trophy for boats 
up to 38 rating. 
July 17, Aug. 14, 21 and 28, Sept. 4 and ii— 
One-design class. 
Sept. 17—Championship club race, open only 
to yachts enrolled in the clubs. 
Sept. 19—Fall regatta. 
Sept. 25—One-design class. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The following yacht transfers are reported 
by Hollis Burgess: 
The Herreshoff Buzzard’s Bay 30-foot sloop 
Quakeress II., sold by Walter C. Lewis, of 
Boston, Mass., to Vice-Commodore Wm. L. 
Barnard, of the Hingham Y. C. Mr. Barnard 
has re-named the yacht Footpad, and will prob¬ 
ably change her to a yawl rig. 
The cruising 21-foot knockabout Spray, sold 
by Walter Burgess to Ernest L. Ipsen, oi 
Boston. 
The 21-foot cruising yawl Sassoon, sold by 
W. L. Barnard, of Boston, to blorace Mann, ot 
Milton, Mass. 
The 21-foot raceabout Scapegoat, sold to 
Clinton D. Merrill, of Portland, Me. 
Hollis Burgess has purchased the 22-foot 
racing sloop Chief, owned by Clinton D. 
Merrill, of Portland, Me. Chief is a very able, 
beamy boat, 38 feet over all, 10 feet 6 inches 
beam, 6 feet draft, and was designed and built 
by Lawley at South Boston, Mass., in 1902. 
She carries 900 square feet of sail. Mr. Bur¬ 
gess has re-named the boat Marie, after his 
wife, and will use her for cruising and racing 
at Marblehead. Narragansett Ba}' and other 
nlaces along the coast. Mr. Burgess will bring 
her to Marblehead, from Portland, the first week 
in May. 
Inter-State Dory Race. 
The Massachusetts Racing Dory .Association 
has accepted a challenge from the Portland Y. 
C. for another series of races to be sailed by 
dories representing the States of Massachusetts 
and Maine. In challenging, the Portland Club 
suggested that not less than three dories shou-ld 
represent each State, and that the number of 
boats and dates of the races should be agreed 
on before July i. President J. Samuel Hodge, 
of the Massachusetts Association is in favor of 
having five boats selected to race in the final 
events, and these races will in all probability 
be sailed during midsummer week at Marble¬ 
head in August. 
Fourteen Sender Boats. 
The German-American race committee of the 
Eastern Y, C. has been informed that Chicago 
will send a boat to compete in the trial races 
of the Sonder class oft' Marblehead in August. 
J'hese trials are to be sailed for the purpose of 
selecting three boats to meet the German boats 
in the same waters the first week in September. 
The Chicago boat has been ordered by E. M. 
Mills. Vice-Commodore of the Chicago Y. C., 
who is well known as a yachtsman on the Great 
I.akes. Mr. Mills is a friend of Vice-Commo¬ 
dore F. Lewis Clark, who is vice-commodore 
of the Eastern Y. C. 
The committee hopes that Baltimore and 
New Orleans will be represented in these races, 
and with these two cities having entries, there 
will be sixteen new boats taking part in the 
trials in addition to some of the older ones. 
Canoeing. 
Detroit to New York by Canoe. 
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After prevailing on a nearby farmer’s wife 
to give us something to eat, we hired the boy 
of the family, at an advance salary, to help us 
pick up what we could of our belongings. We 
soon realized that a great many things were 
lost. First our cushions, then our back rest, 
worst of all, my trousers with all my money. I 
was wearing my bathing suit at the tirne. If 
these had not been the only pair I had with me, 
I would not have cared so much; but what 
would I do in the next town without any 
trousers. Worst of all, our pennant was gone; 
and as it was attached to a brass rod, the 
chances for its recovery were very remote. 
'I'liis we were very sorry to lose, and as a last 
resort we offered our young friend a whole dol¬ 
lar if he would look for it after we had gone 
and return it to us. He must have looked every 
day, for, about six weeks later, we were very 
much surprised to receive at our Detroit ad¬ 
dress a fine souvenir of the trip, our flag. “De¬ 
troit to New York or Bust,” somewhat dilapi¬ 
dated but still legible. 
Before leaving the point to continue our 
voyage, my trousers waslied ashore, right in 
full view of us, and all my belongings in the 
pockets, excepting my watch, which had 
dropped out and broken the chain by catching 
on the rocks. 
We arrived at Port Maitland at 7 P- M. At 
this place the Welland Canal starts. Had we 
been continuing with Sugar Island on the St. 
Lawrence as our destination, we would have 
left Lake Erie at this point. As it was, we con¬ 
tinued on our way in the morning and began 
to feel very anxious to reach Buffalo and leave 
Lake Erie behind us. We could not travel fast 
enough, and were even contemplating going 
without dinner, so as to get into Buffalo about 
noon. Hunger got the best of us, however. 
and we decided to run ashore in a sheltered bay. 
It was well we did, for here happened one of 
the most pleasant experiences on the whole 
trip. Quite by accident, as we had let the wind 
carry us in, we tied up to what we soon found 
to be the Buffalo Canoe Club. Never shall we 
forget the kind treatment we received. Noth¬ 
ing was too good for us. While their boatmen 
spread out our clothing in the sun on their 
spacious dock, we were taken through the club 
and furnished with white sailor suits while our 
clothes dried. A fine dinner was served us, and 
we were beginning to feel very much at home, 
when we were obliged to leave. 
We felt that membership in the A. C. A. ac¬ 
counted for much of the courteous treatment we 
received at this and other yacht clubs further 
on. Alt we had to do was to say the magic 
words “A. C. A.” and we were surrounded with 
the best class of the canoeing fraternity, who 
took a friendly interest in us at once. 
On leaving the canoe club, we made for Nig- 
gerhead Light, and from there laid our course 
for Buffalo Harbor Lighthouse. At the club they 
had cautioned us about the heavy back-wash 
from Buffalo breakwater walls, but we did not 
think much of it until we began to feel that 
dangerous back sea. It knocked us about like 
a chip of wood, but we made our way through, 
feeling certain that it was entirely too late for 
old Lake Erie to get the best of us at the last 
minute. 
We pulled into Buffalo Y. C. at 5 o’clock 
Friday afternoon, counting just five and one- 
half days actual time. Once at Buffalo, we Rlt 
safe, as the rest of the trip would be compar¬ 
atively easy and give us more of a chance to 
enjoy the scenery. We had a good night’s rest 
at the Hotel Niagara, and after stocking up on 
necessary clothing, including white duck trous¬ 
ers—seeing we were in civilization again—we 
started down the Niagara River in great 
style. 
The swift running, together with our efforts at 
the paddle, soon carried us to Tonawanda. 
Here we entered the Erie Canal, of which we 
had heard so much, with its famous canal boats 
with mule power. Passing several boats, 
brightly painted in various gay colors, we 
noticed entire families living in small quarters 
in the rear of the boat, and great was our sur¬ 
prise to find the mules in a similar shelter in 
the bow. 
It seems that some of the boats belong to 
private individuals, whose boats constitute 
their entire stock in trade. Here they live with 
their families, plying between Buffalo, towns 
along the way, and New York. Two sets of 
mules complete the outfit, one shift working 
eight hours, while the others rest. The drivers 
take the same shifts, walking along behind their 
teams, the entire distance of 352 miles to 
Albany. From here the boats are towed by 
tugs, five or six at a time, down the Hudson 
River to New York. The drivers of these mule 
teams at length acquire a certain monotonous 
step, which never leaves them. 'We got so we 
could pick them out in the different towns we 
stopped at. by their peculiar walk; X. M. D.’s 
AMONG FRIENDS. 
