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FOREST AND STREAM 
April 13, 1912 
Swedish Fishing and Motor Boats. 
Consul Stuart J. Fuller, Gothenburg, re¬ 
ports: 
The application of 550,000 crowns ($147,400) 
of State funds for loans to.fishermen in the ter¬ 
ritory around Gothenburg for the yean 1912 
has been announced. This represents 130 in¬ 
dividual loans. 
The policy, initiated in 1892, is considered 
very successful and its results valuable to 
Sweden and to tbe district immediately con¬ 
cerned. Its object is to encourage the develop¬ 
ment of fishery and to enable those engaged in 
it, by tbe use of money at low interest and on 
easy terms, to buy boats and motors and im¬ 
prove their equipment and facilities. 
It has tended to keep the industry out of the 
hands of corporations and leave it in the con¬ 
trol of individuals and small groups. The open- 
sea fishing, in the Cattegat and off the Shet¬ 
land Islands, employs over 200 boats with 
crews that total 1,700. The mackerel fishery 
employs some 850 boats and about 5,000 fisher¬ 
men are engaged in the herring fishery. The 
total value of the annual catch will run from 
$1,000,000 to over $2,000,000. 
In addition to aiding the fishermen to hold 
their own in the deep-sea fishing and to extend 
their operations in domestic waters, the expen¬ 
diture of this money locally has made possible 
the development at Lysekil and Gothenburg, of a 
flourishing industry in the manufacture of in¬ 
ternal-combustion motors for fishing boats and 
other rough-service craft. The total annual 
output of the three largest shops in this dis¬ 
trict is estimated at 2,100,000 crowns ($562,800), 
representing about 2,000 heavy-duty motors. 
The engines used in the fishing boats are 
from 15 to 30 or 35 horsepower and are all 
kerosene motors, equipped with hot-surface ig¬ 
nition. Electric ignition is considered too ex¬ 
pensive and not sufficiently reliable for the 
service. The engines and fittings are of heavy 
construction to withstand rough handling, and 
their actual horsepower is generally consider¬ 
ably above the rated horsepower. The con¬ 
struction is simple. Between 600 and 800 of the 
fishing boats are so equipped. 
The importation of petroleum and gasolene 
motors into Sweden is rapidly decreasing. 
Stationary and marine motors are classed to¬ 
gether in the statistics, which show the follow¬ 
ing imports into the entire Kingdom for the 
past five years (figures for 1910 and 1911 are 
estimates, final figures not being available for 
those years): 1907, $77,476; 1908, $66,726; 1909, 
$54,285; 1910, $45,000; 1911, $40,000. The present 
import in so far as marine motors are con¬ 
cerned represents almost entirely gasolene 
motors for pleasure craft. 
Race From Atlantic to Pacific. 
Horace E. Boucher, Henry J. Gielow, 
Morris M. Whitaker, and Charles Mercer, the 
Committee on Course, Rules and Regulations 
for the long distance yacht cruise, from New 
York to San Diego, Cal., via Panama Canal, to 
take place in connection with the San Diego 
Exposition, held their first meeting March 30. 
Among the matters considered were: Restric¬ 
tions as to the least size of yachts which could 
safely be permitted to make the trip, classifica¬ 
tion of yachts; the course with ports or con¬ 
trols en route; handicapping and prizes. 
The necessity of having so many long legs to 
the complete course was considered as sufficient 
grounds on which to eliminate all yachts pro¬ 
pelled by internal combustion motors of a lesser 
over all length than 79 feet, while 50 feet was 
considered as a minimum load waterline length 
for sail or auxiliary powered yachts and a mini¬ 
mum load waterline length of 130 feet was tenta¬ 
tively decided upon as being the minimum for 
steam yachts, fuel carrying capacity necessity 
for the long runs being considered in connec¬ 
tion with yachts already built. 
The long distances between ports will cause 
tbe competing boats other than sail craft to be 
run at such speed as work economy of fuel, 
that they may make longer runs without stop¬ 
ping to take on fuel. 
Classes decided upon were: Yachts propelled 
by internal combustion motors, over all meas¬ 
urements 79 to 90 feet, 90 to 100 feet, and more 
than 100 feet; steam yachts, 130 to 175 feet, and 
exceeding 175 feet, load waterline measurement; 
sail and auxiliary class, load waterline measure¬ 
ment. open to schooners and yawls, 50 to 75 
feet, 75 to 100 feet, and exceeding 100 feet. 
Entries of sloops not to be accepted. 
The route from New York to Beaufort. N. 
C., 500 miles; Santiago, Cuba, 950 miles; 
through the Windward Passage to Colon, 800 
miles; from Colon the yachts will proceed 
through the Panama Canal to Panama. 
The first port selected on the northward Pa¬ 
cific journey is Managua, Nicaragua, 800 miles;, 
Tehuantepec. Mexico, 650 miles; Manzanilla. 
800 miles, and thence to San Diego, Cal., a dis¬ 
tance of 1,200 miles with some stop along the 
Lower California Peninsula at a ^ port to be 
selected, where supplies and fuel may be ob¬ 
tained from a ship sent there for that purpose 
by the San Diego Exposition. The total dis¬ 
tance, according to the route selected, is ap- 
])roximately 5.700 miles, the Atlantic section be¬ 
ing off shore and the Pacific section being along¬ 
shore work. 
At an average speed of 240 miles a day, or ten 
miles an hour, the yachts will take twenty-five 
days to make the trip, exclusive of time allowed 
by rules later decided upon in which the par¬ 
ticipants in the contest may spend in the canal 
zone. No plan of handicapping was decided 
upon, but the committee will later arrange for 
as fair a system of allowances as it can devise. 
It is planned to offer four prizes, one for each 
of the divisions as regards power. In addition 
to these there will be two prizes for each class 
of each division, one each being for the best 
time (handicap considered) from New York to 
Colon and for the best time from Panama to 
San Diego. In the event of three or more 
yachts starting in a class and finishing second, 
prizes will be offered in such classes for both 
the Atlantic and Pacific legs of the entire dis¬ 
tance. 
The owner of every yacht that starts will re¬ 
ceive a suitable trophy, and every man on every 
yacht that completes the entire distance will re¬ 
ceived a memento. 
Entries have already been received from the 
steam yacht Lydonia. William A. Lydon. Chi¬ 
cago, length 216 feet; yawl Polaris, James C. 
Heyworth, Chicago, length 70 feet; power yacht 
Valmore, William Hale Thompson, Chicago, 
length 82 feet; power yacht Paula, J. Stuart 
Blackton, New York, length 98 feet, and several 
others. 
streets, Chicago, Ill., by H. F. Norris. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Eastern Division.-—6376, E. S. Walker, 80 
West School street, Woonsocket, R. I. 
Western Division.—6377, Charles R. Bull, 
P. O. Box 284, Kenilworth, Ill.; 6378. J. Edward 
Forsell, 1635 12th avenue, Rockford, Ill.; 6379, 
W. S. Holly, 1446 Mulberry street, Rockford, 
Ill.; 6380 William W. Hoyt, M.D., 4314 Lake 
avenue, Chicago, Ill.; 6381, F. W. McKinney, 
5720 Woodlawn avenue; 6382, Maynard H. 
Riley, Springfield, Ill. 
SEA GULLS TAMED. 
Sea gulls have been adopted as the special 
pets of an attractive young Long Beach (Cali¬ 
fornia) woman, says the Long Beach Press. 
That sea gulls, the wildest and most timid of 
birds, may be domesticated is being fully demon¬ 
strated almost daily by Miss Mignon LeBrun. 
So familiar have the gulls become with Miss Le 
Brun that they flock about her as she takes her 
morning walk along the beach, and, after she 
has been among them for a short time, some 
of the birds will even perch on her shoulder 
and take food from her fingers. 
Miss Le Brun has been many weeks in over¬ 
coming the fears of the gulls, and her success 
is the marvel of the hundreds who ramble the 
sands during the morning hours. 
The appearance of the young woman, with 
her customary handsful of table scraps of bread, 
meat and vegetables, is hailed with a cry of de¬ 
light by the gulls. Instantly they are in the air, 
deserting their usual feeding places, and hover¬ 
ing over the head and in front of Miss Le 
Brun. Then come a few moments of rare de¬ 
light for the watchers. Poised, ready to dash 
with lightning-like rapidity, the gulls await the 
tossing up of choice morsels. They will dart 
back and forth, catching the food in mid-air, 
until their natural timidity is overcome. Then 
they will drop to the samjs and feed at the feet 
of the young woman as complacently as might 
a flock of pet chickens. Some, bolder than the 
rest, will take particles of food from her hands. 
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A. C. A. Membership. 
new members proposed. 
Central Division.—Grover M. Parker, 785 
Potomac avenue, Buffalo, N. Y., by Edward A. 
Phillips. 
Eastern Division.—Otto C. Schmidt, 19 John¬ 
son street. West Roxbury, Mass.; Alonzo 
Quincy Thayer. 21 Han.'^on street, Boston, 
Mass., Robert F. Kelly, 30 Alaric street, West 
Roxbury, Mass.; Walter B. Buttinger, 74 Weld 
Hill street. Forest Hills, Mass.; Leo Weise, 6 
Germania street, Boston, Mass.; Joseph J. 
Tagen, 12 Gould street. West Roxbury, Mass.; 
William Edward Powers, 340 Baker street. 
West Roxbury, Mass.; Walter M. Whiting, 41 
Hamilton street. West Ro.xbury, Mass,; Emil 
P. Schmidt, and William G. Schmidt, both of 
19 Johnson street. West Roxbury, Mass.; Hugh 
Donald Macpherson, 20 Newburg street, Roslin- 
dale. Mass., and Richard RoMi, 155 Eustis street, 
Roxbury, Mass., all by Fred Brodbeck. 
Western Division.—Ray Fernbach, 1510 
School street, Rockford, Ill., by Joseph W. 
Barker; Thomas C. Angell, and Harry L. 
Boynton, both of Dundee, Ill., and both by J. 
E. Dixon; Albert M. Vilas, Lake and Curtis 
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ARCTIC HUNTING 
For charter, ship fully equipped, specially built 
for ice work, for one or more months’ cruise in 
Greenland or Spitzbergen and Franz Josef’s Land 
waters, will accommodate party of 5 to 15_. Polar 
bear, reindeer, fox, seal, walrus, Arctic birds, 
fishing. 
ARCTIC, 1004 Oliver Bldg., Boston, Mass. 
ARTHUR BINNEY 
(Formerly Stewart & Binnev) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Nason Building, Kilby St.. BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, "Desigrier,” Boston 
COX ®. STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
IS William Street - New York 
Telephones 13?5 and I3r6 Broad 
