Jan. 13, 1912.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
On Jan. 18, the annual mess dinner of the 
Atlantic Y. C. will be held in Hotel Astor, New 
York city, in honor of ex-Commodore Wm. H. 
Bannard. 
Among the varied types of boats owned by 
members of the Royal Motor Y. C. is a new 
craft in the shape of a motor punt. The de¬ 
scription of the punt should prove of consider¬ 
able interest, as a Thames punt installed with 
a motor is distinctly a “rara avis.” The punt, 
which was built and engined by the Auxiliary 
Motor Installation Co., at Twickenham, is 30 
feet long, 3 feet 8 inches beam, and 2 feet 3 
inches draft, is fitted with a 4k2-horsepower 
Smith and Douse marine single-cylinder engine, 
Gaines gear and reverse Bosch ignition, and 
has a double lever engine control at the stern 
and steering double control with steering wheel 
amidships, petrol tank on the deck aft behind 
the well, and fitted throughout in brass and 
gunmetal. To prevent side slipping an iron 
keel has been fixed, and the top speed is said 
to be ten miles an hour. 
W. Butler Duncan, C. Sherman Hoyt, Joseph 
M. Macdonough and Prof. William Hallock, 
appointed at the last meeting of the New York 
Y. C. committee on revision of rules relating 
to measurement, have had a preliminary meet¬ 
ing at which the conclusion was reached that 
before taking any steps toward changing ex¬ 
isting rules, each yacht club on the Atlantic 
Coast that was a member of the last conference 
on rules be written to, asking their views and 
suggestions on changes and amendments. The 
time required in so thorough a canvass neces¬ 
sarily will delay the committee report until 
late in the spring, or too late to afifect the 
yachts now building or to change the rules for 
the season of 1912. It is hoped such changes as 
are made will be so clearly worded as to enable 
owners, sailors and measurers to understand 
them and be governed accordingly. 
The_ livest yacht club in Southern waters is 
the Biscayne, with club houses at Miami and 
Cocoanut Grove, Florida. The roster numbers 
ninety-five names, of which many are members 
of New York Y. C., this being true of all the 
flag officers. Commodore, Col. Robt. M. 
Thompson; Vice-Commodore, Wm. J. Matheon; 
Rear-Commodore, Lewis Quenten Jones. The 
annual regatta will be sailed Feb. 22. 
Preparations are under way for the first open 
regatta to be held along the South Jersey coast 
under the auspices of the Ocean City Motor 
Boat Club on Saturday, June 29. The regatta 
comniittee looks forward to raising an appro¬ 
priation of $500 for trophies for that occasion. 
Several of the_ club’s officers and board of trus¬ 
tees have designated their willingness to pre¬ 
sent special trophies for the 1912 racing season. 
The regatta committee is making preparations 
for the annual luncheon smoker, to be held at 
the Hotel Majestic, Philadelphia, on Feb. 21 The 
committee consists of H. D. LeCato, E. J. 
Berlet, Maurice Daniels, Samuel Jacobs’ W. B. 
Stanert, Augustus E. Snow and G. Alvin Snook! 
Commodore C. C. W. Wilson has appointed as 
his board of judges, William H. Hurst (chair¬ 
man), J. S. Riddell and Gen. Charles Shaler. 
The _ timekeepers will be Harvey Y. Lake, 
Daniel Clawell and R. G. Weiner. Publicity 
committee is E. J. Berlet (chairman), John 
Clare and A. E. Snow. 
Torpedo boat Wilkes was the first war vessel 
to pass through the inland water route to the 
sea. Wilkes left Norfolk for Charleston. S. C., 
recently and passed through the Dismal Swamp 
Canal, Albemarle, Choatan and Pamlico Sounds 
and the new Beaufort cut recently opened by 
the Government. She covered 205 miles by the 
inside route, and proved that small war vessels 
and yachts can go to sea and avoid the terrors 
of Hatteras. 
The elaborate new club house for the Pequon- 
nock Y. C., Bridgeport, Conn., is practically 
complete and ready for occupancy. Moving day 
from the old to the new is nominated for early 
in the coming week. This is one of the prettiest 
and most complete of the smaller yacht club 
houses on Long Island Sound. 
Ice Yachting on Shrewsbury, 
The two Shrewsberry River clubs, the South 
Shrewsberry and the Long Branch Ice Boat 
and Yacht Club, have perfected arrangements 
for a season of racing. 
The two clubs maintain three clubhouses, one 
at Branchport and a second one at Shallow 
Point, owned by the South Shrewsberry Club, 
while the Long Branch Club’s only house is at 
Pleasure Bay, where it was removed from Shal¬ 
low Point two seasons ago. The clubs have 
upward of 400 members. 
At this week’s meeting of the clubs arrange¬ 
ments were made for many of the big races that 
are to be sailed at the shallow Point course 
just as soon as the ice is fit. The South 
Shrewsberry Club has a new commodore this 
year, Captain Benjamin P. Morris, the owner 
of the fast third-class flier, Mildred, who, after 
several years of retirement, was induced to 
lead the pioneer yachting club in the 1912 races. 
Captain Morris succeeds Charles J. Gibbons as 
commodore. Edward W. Reid, who was com¬ 
modore of the Long Branch Club when it was 
known as the Shrewsbury Club, has been re¬ 
elected, and this season will have a brand new 
third-class yacht on the ice. The new yacht, 
which will take the place of the Commodore’s 
Florence A., has not yet been named. It is 
thought by her builders that she will be very 
fast. 
There has been considerable talk of consoli¬ 
dating the two clubs during the past few weeks. 
The argument set forth is that one big club, 
with 500 to 1,000 members, would have more 
weight than two smaller ones. The proposition 
is still being considered. 
The_ South Shrewsberry Club is the pioneer 
organization. It has been in existence for more 
than a quarter of a century, and among its 
relics _ are many valuable pennants and other 
trophies. Its third-class fleet will number a 
score or more of fast boats, including the X. L. 
N. C., the Mildred, Leroy, lola. Red Rover, 
George 11 ., Baby Ruth, Say When, Princeton, 
Hazel L., Ingenue and Mimattie. 
The first trophy to be sailed for is the Com¬ 
modore’s cup, offered by Commodore Benjamin 
P. Morris. Captain Morris is having Mildred 
rebuilt along modern lines. Mildred will be 
sailed this season by Captain Harold L. Sea¬ 
man. In .1910, Mildred won seven races out of 
twelve, and had a record of never being headed 
in the free-for-all races sailed during the sea¬ 
son of 1909. 
Captain H. H. Munro will appear again this 
season with the Princeton and Say When, two 
of the fastest yachts belonging to the South 
Shrewsbury Club. X. L. N. C.. former Senator 
Henry S. Terhune’s fast flier, which won the 
Board of Trade cup race several years ago, will 
again be seen this winter, as will be former 
Commodore W. R. Joline’s Hazel L., the one¬ 
time winner pf the third-class pennant of the 
world. Captain Taber’s Leroy, one of the heavy 
weather class, is ready for the ice. while Captain 
Charles P. Irwin’s George IP, for many years 
the pride of the North Shrewsburry fleet, will 
sail under the South Shrewsbury Club’s colors 
this winter. 
Many of the yachts are registered in both 
clubs. This is particularly true of the boats of 
ex-Commodore Gibbons, whose craft will also 
carry the colors of the Long Branch Club. 
The crack yachts of the Long Branch Ice 
Boat and Yacht Club this winter include Cap¬ 
tain Walter Content’s’ trio, Isabel, Blanch and 
Clarel. Captain James O’Brien, of New York, 
has two fast boats. Jack Frost and Snowflake. 
These yachts have made records at the New- 
burgh races. Drub, an old-time favorite, owne.d 
by Vice-Commodore Edward Eiedler, of the 
Long Branch Club, will again sail the colors 
of that club. Robert Heitermeyer, of New 
York, appears as a new comer this season. He 
will sail Imp, a new boat designed by the owner 
of Drub.' It is said to be a very fast boat. O. 
M. Roberts, of New York, will sail Rainbow IL, 
a new boat built expressly for speed at Pough¬ 
keepsie. Captain J. E. Green, the fleet captain 
of the Long Branch Club, will sail his 
heavy weather yacht. Eagle. Sweetheart, 
Walter R. Patten’s boat, is on the ice. Bayard 
Dominick’s Harold and Captain E. W. Price’s 
White Devil are numbered among the third- 
class fliers belonging to the Long Branch Club. 
The trophies scheduled to be sailed for by the 
Long Branch Club include Price, Drub, Long 
Branch, O’Brien and Patten interstate cups. 
The biggest attraction, of course, is the race 
for the Board of Trade cup. This trophy was 
first raced for during the season of 1906, when 
it was won by Mr. Terhune’s X. L. N. C. In 
1910 it was won by the Long Branch Club. The 
record showys that Fiedler’s Drub, Content’s 
Isabel and Green's Eagle each have won a leg. 
According to the conditions governing the cup 
it must be won three times by a club before it 
can be claimed. The cup is valued at $150. The 
races are to be sailed over the 15-mile Shallow 
Point course. 
Both clubs have a number of fourth-class 
boats, which were placed on the ice recently. 
62 Fishermen Lost in 1911. 
After a record of seven years, during which 
no vessel left port (Gloucester, Mass.) and 
failed to return, two crafts, engaged in the New¬ 
foundland herring fishery, sailed for their home 
port with cargoes, since which time no tidings 
have been received from either vessel or crew 
Or any wreckage sighted showing their fate. 
The increase in the number of lives lost 
is in part largely due to one other diaster re¬ 
sulting in the loss of a schooner manned by 
Gloucester fishermen on Nantucket Shoals, 
when five, of a crew of men were engulfed by 
the sea and their comrades, these three dis¬ 
asters causing altogether twenty-three deaths 
or nearly as many as were lost from all causes 
last year. 
As usual, the largest loss of life outside of 
these disasters was caused by the swamping or 
capsizing of dories, thirteen lives being lost 
from these two causes, while nine men strayed 
from their vessels in their dories in fog or sud¬ 
den storms and were never heard from after¬ 
ward, only two deaths being reported from this 
cause this preceding year. 
Five men were drowned by their dories being 
run down accidentally by the schooners in at¬ 
tempting to pick up the men. 
The number of men washed from the deck or 
who were knocked or fell overboard was seven, 
the number being trebled from the preceding 
year, while four men died on shipboard or in 
hospitals and one man fell from the wharf in 
boarding his vessel. 
Of the sixty-two men who were drowned, 
twenty-two left widows, while the number of 
fatherless children is over forty, it being diffi¬ 
cult to ascertain the exact number. 
The lost vessels have an aggregate tonnage 
of 623 tons gross and 458 tons net and a total 
valuation with outfits and cargoes of $55,000, 
upon which there was an insurance of $43,148. 
In ipio only one vessel was lost and the num¬ 
ber of lives sacrificed was twenty-five, the 
smallest number of both vessels and men for a 
number of years. The valuation of the lost 
schooners was $12,000, the insurance being 
