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Tuesday, Aug. 10, and Wednesday, Aug. ii.— 
Squadron run. Vineyard Haven to Rockland, Me. 
Thursday, Aug. 12.^—At Rockland. Races for 
Owl and Gamecock colors in afternoon. 
Friday, Aug. 13.—Squadron run, Rockland to 
Bar Harbor. 
Saturday, Aug. 14.—Squadron will disband at 
Bar Harbor. 
Maryland Y. C. 
The Maryland Y. C., organized in i860, has 
ceased to exist, and its property has been pur¬ 
chased by'James King, of IBaltimore, who will 
turn it into a summer resort. 
This property consists of '53 acres, and has 
a mile of w'ater front along Middle River and 
Dark Head, known as Cow Creek, 
The yacht club property adjoins Kingston, 
Mr, King’s country estate on Middle River, of 
which there are 17 acres and 1,000 feet of water 
front. The property is ii miles from the city. 
The old club house of the Maryland Y. C-, 
which is still standing, and which has been 
used for the past few years as a summer hotel, 
will be continued for this purpose. From the 
front veranda of the club house a magnificent 
view of Tonchester Beach is afforded. 
The Maryland Y, C, was a famous institution 
in its day. It was organised about i860, and at 
one time a great many promenent men of 
Maryland and Virginia were included in its 
membership. To-day, all except two or three 
of the members are dead, and the club has 
ceased to exist. The property was bought by 
Mr. King from the Louis Sinsheimer estate, 
the transfer being made on April i. The en¬ 
tire water front of the property is beautifully 
shaded with groves of oak. chestnut and locust 
trees, and the interior of the tract is well 
adapted for golf links, tennis courts and play¬ 
grounds. The surrounding w'aters are noted for 
their bass and pike fishing, and at present there 
are several fishing clubs located on the water 
front. 
There is hardly a more delightful spot in 
summer around Baltimore than this neck of 
land, which nature seems to have intended for 
a summer colony. The bungalows and cottages 
sitting among the trees and overlooking the 
water dotted \vith yachts, sailboats and small 
craft of all kinds, look very enticing now that 
the balmy spring sunshine gives a foretaste of 
approaching summer, and the convenient loca¬ 
tion of the property, close to the city and prac¬ 
tically on the car line, yet far enough removed 
to give privacy, is one of its strong points. 
American Power Boat Association. 
A SPECIAL meeting of the American Power 
Boat Association is to be held at the Waldorf 
Astoria next Monday evening for the purpose 
of considering some proposed amendments to 
the articles of the association. These amend¬ 
ments will, if adopted, give the association much 
more power because it will enable it to extend 
more and to take more clubs and associations 
into its ranks. One suggestion is to organize 
local sections. Any five or more clubs located 
in one section may, with the approval of the 
association, form a local section and that local 
section will have power to adopt such local rules 
and regulations as its officers and committees 
may see fit. The local section will elect a chair¬ 
man and other officers and its chairman will be 
a vice-president of the association and as such 
be a member of the council. 
Clubs having a membership of twenty-five or 
more can join the association and one represen¬ 
tative is allowed each club for each hundred 
members or fraction of one hundred, but no 
club can have more than five representatives. 
1 he dues are five dollars for each representative 
and_ one-half of these dues wdll go to the asso¬ 
ciation and one-half to the local section if the 
club belongs to a local section. 
The powers of the association are advisory 
and no club is_ bound by the action of the asso¬ 
ciation except in the settlement of questions and 
disputes relating to racing until it has ratified 
such action. 
NOVEL FISHING BOAT, 37 FEET LONG. 
The American Power Boat Association has 
grown wonderfully in the last year. It has ex¬ 
tended all over the country and it is thought 
advisable, as this country is extensive, to or¬ 
ganize these local sections so that the welfare 
of the sport and other objects for which the 
association is organized may be better accom¬ 
plished. 
Novel Craft for Fishing. 
Capt. Charles N. Solheim, at Great Kills, 
has built a motor launch which is to be used 
for fishing parties, and which should be an ideal 
boat for such w'ork. It is 37 feet over all, 35 
feet on the w'aterliiie, 9 feet beam and 3 feet 
draft. The trunk cabin is carried aft on a line 
with the forw’ard deck and is high enough to 
make a comfortable seat for those on board 
who may fish and thus does away with the 
litter on deck caused by camp chairs or other 
movable seats. 1'here is 5 feet 10 inches head- 
room in the cabin, and the yacht, which is 
named Aurora, is driven by an 18-horsepower 
motor. 'File frames are of oak 2^2 by 2 j 4 
inches. The planking is of yellow pine 
inches thick. The keel, stem and stern are of 
oak and the finish of the cabin is white pine 
with oak trimmings. This craft can accommo¬ 
date twenty to twenty-five fishermen. 
Yachting in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., April 2.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Although the yachting season has 
not been formally opened in the vicinity of San 
Francisco, the'devotees of the sport have been 
out for the past two weeks taking advantage of 
the fine weather to test their new sails and get 
into trim for the regular season that com¬ 
mences soon. From present indications the 
season will be a very lively one for all the old 
boats are being made ready again and a num¬ 
ber of new ones will be added to the local fleet. 
Among the new yachts that will be prominent 
in this season’s racin.g will be Marion, a 
splendid craft of the shooner type which was 
launched from the shipyards of Stone & Van 
Bergen, at Harbor View, on March 20. The 
launching was made quite an event in yachting 
circles, and the owner, A. L. Meyer, enter¬ 
tained quite a crowd of amateur yachtsmen at 
the yards. The boat was christened by the 
little daughter of William Stone, and the event 
passed off without an accident or delay of any 
kind. The schooner was fully rigged and ready 
for the seas as soon as she touched the water, 
and an hour later the owner with a jolly party 
enjoyed a fast sail out beyond the heads and 
return. That evening Meyer gave a banquet 
to a number of his friends at Harbor View and 
issued a large number of invitations for the 
many cruises he has already planned for the 
immediate future. Marion is declared by the 
experts who have examined her to be one of 
the finest craft of her kind on the bay. She is 
large and capable of braving the heaviest seas 
and is built more for comfort than for extreme 
speed, but still is expected to be able to hold 
her own with most of the other craft on the 
bay. Although the launching and first day’s 
trial of Marion was a great success, a trip 
undertaken the next day came nearly being dis¬ 
astrous. Heavy winds prevailed the preceding 
night and the outer bay was in a rough con- 
d'ition in the morning, but this did not deter 
Marion from starting out upon another trip, 
and this time she was accompanied by Fulton 
Berry’s yacht Nixie. Small launches were en¬ 
gaged to tow the boats outside the heads, but 
caught in a strong ebb tide, the power boats 
were not equal to the occasion and the yachts 
drifted across the bar where they encountered 
the storm-lashed waters of the outer bay. 
Marion was caught in a powerful eddy and was 
in grave danger several times of being carried 
ashore near Baker’s Beach. Nixie lay in close 
to the other shore of the straits and was in 
less danger of being damaged. At no time was 
there sufficient wind to allow of the proper 
handling of the yachts, and the launches could 
do but little. As darkness was coming on 
rapidly, and the heavy seas were not abating, 
one of the launches braved the roughness of 
the bar again and came back for assistance. 
-A small tug brought the yachts and launches 
safely into the smooth waters of the harbor. 
A. P. B. 
A Tax on Steam Yachts. 
If the Senate bill revising the tariff becomes 
a law those yachtsmen who have been in the 
habit of having handsome yachts' built in for¬ 
eign yards and then having all the privileges of 
a vessel built in this country will have to pay 
more for their yachts. It is proposed to levy 
a duty of 25 per cent, .on foreign built yachts 
and that duty is to be paid when they first touch 
an American port. For a long time wealthy 
Americans have been ordering yachts built on 
the Mersey, Clyde or other of the best British 
yards. They get a vessel much cheaper than 
they could if it were built in this country and 
as it is generally figured that labor on this side 
of the Atlantic costs about 25 per cent, more 
than it does abroad, the proposed duty of 25 
per cent, will put the British builders on an 
equality as far as price is concerned with the 
American builder. 
It seems strange that there should have been 
a duty of about 40 per cent, on all materials and 
fittings used in yacht building to bring them into 
this country and yet the yacht complete, with all 
fittings and furnishings, should have been ad¬ 
mitted free of duty. 
Merchant vessels may not he built abroad and 
obtain an American registry, and it seems un¬ 
fair that a pleasure craft should be allowed to 
enjoy all the privileges of a home built vessel. 
A yacht is a luxury and those yacht owners 
who prefer to have their vessels built abroad 
can well afford to pay the duty. There may be 
some objection to protection, but when it is 
applied to one class of vessels it should be ap¬ 
plied to all. 
