May 4, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Ticks from the Ship’s Clock. 
At the last meeting of the Long Island Yacht 
Racing Association, William Hallock was ap¬ 
pointed measurer for the association. Mr. Hal¬ 
lock is measurer for the New York _ Y. C., 
Larchmont and American, and his appointment 
to L. I. Y. R. A. is in line with the plan adopted 
by the Boston Y. R. A. of having one measurer 
for all clubs. A note has been sent each of the 
local clubs asking that Mr. Hallock be made 
their official measurer. 
Work is being rushed on the raised deck 
cruiser that is being built at the yards of Julius 
Petersen, Nyack, N. Y., for Mr. H. E. Nichols, 
of Aquada de Pasajeros, Cuba. This cruiser 
will be 35 feet long, 9 feet beam and will draw 
3 feet of water. It is a splendidly finished boat 
and has been designed to be most seaworthy. 
The motive power is furnished by a 20-horse¬ 
power Standard motor. The cabin is finished 
in white enamel with mahogany trim, and there 
are sleeping accommodations for four. The gal¬ 
ley is large and light and the boat also carries 
a 150-gallon gasolene tank and an 8o-gallon 
water tank. 
Nearing completion also at Petersen’s is a 
cruiser for Mr. John Bonney, of New York city. 
This boat is 31 feet long, 8 feet 8 inches beam, 
and will draw only 28 to 30 inches. It is 
equipped with a 12-horsepower Doman motor 
and has a big roomy cockpit aft. All interior 
bulkheads, lockers, etc., are of cypress, and 
lockers have been built under the cockpit seats 
aft, and the fuel tank is also under the aft deck. 
Two _ Koven gasolene tanks of 20 gallons’ 
capacity each will be carried on each side of 
the cockpit under the seats. A special feature 
of this boat will be the installation of two steer¬ 
ing wheels, one on the cabin, bulkhead and one 
inside of the cockpit combing, the owner evi¬ 
dently having an eye to comfort. Mahogany 
trim is used throughout the cabin. 
The French have great faith in the challenger 
being built in France for the British Interna¬ 
tional trophy, which is to be raced for in Amer¬ 
ican waters this summer. The boat is being 
built by Despujols-Tellier for M. Dubonnet, a 
resident of France. This boat will be driven by 
two twelve-cylinder Panhard motors, each 
motor developing 600 horsepower. The engines 
will drive twin screws. 
The Titanic was a British ship, built by a 
British corporation and owned by a British 
corporation. _ She ranked as an auxiliary cruiser 
m _ the British navy. Her officers were all 
British subjects and were in the naval reserve. 
She flew the British flag, she was subject only 
to British law,_ and at the time of the wreck, 
she was in British territory. 
J- Stewart Blackton_ took a trial spin up the 
Hudson last Sunday in his new Reliance, and 
after landing, said he had made better than 40 
miles an hour over part of the course. 
_ As they reverse the English system of read¬ 
ing, the Chinese reverse the order of life sav¬ 
ing. In case of disaster at sea or in fire, the 
men are saved first, then the children and last 
the women, the Chinese theory being that the 
men are most valuable to the State, that children 
will grow up to usefulness and that widows are 
destitute and a care to the community. 
The name decided on for the Chicago Y. C. 
Class P boat, being built for the International 
races on the Great Lakes, is Michikagou, the 
Indian name for Chicago. Her owners have al¬ 
ready issued a challenge to the Atlantic Y. C. 
tor a race for the Manhasset Bay challenge cup. 
the only condition being that the race be sailed 
before July i. 
Commodore Douglass, Boston Y. C., has ap¬ 
pointed Charles W. Cole fleet captain and 
Samuel Crowell fleet surgeon. The Boston Y. 
C. cruise will start July 20. 
The 65-footer Winsome sold by Senator H. 
F. Lippitt to E. T. Hall, of New York, will 
have for a skipper this year Edward Willis, who 
sailed Kestrel, Mimosa H. and Altair in former 
years. _ Chris Christiansen will be skipper of 
Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Aurora. 
Philadelphia Y. C. 
Preparations are being made for the open¬ 
ing event of the season at the Philadelphia Y. 
C., the annual flag day, which will be held on 
Saturday, May 18. The exercises will begin with 
“dress ship” at three o’clock in the afternoon, 
which will be followed by the salute to the com¬ 
modore, the firing to be in order of seniority. 
From 3:30 to 5:00 there will be a series of 
receptions aboard the yachts at anchorage. 
After a collation, served at the club house, there 
will be dancing until ten o’clock. 
The spring cruise will be held on Chesapeake 
Bay, beginning on the morning of May 30. The 
fleet will rendezvous off Ford’s Landing, on the 
Elk River, and runs will be arranged from day 
to day. 
The race committee of the club is: John C. 
McAvoy, Chairman; Thomas W. Boyd and Otto 
R. Heiligman; Fleet Captain, John L. Bromley, 
M.D. 
Demarest Lloyd Buys Nancy 11. 
Heissry a. Morss, of the Eastern Y. C., has 
chartered the 68-foot schooner Muriel, owned 
by Charles .Smithers, of New York. 
Demarest Lloyd has bought the 68-foot 
schooner Nancy II. from Frederic Gallatin, of 
New York. 
The fitting out of W. S. Eaton’s 65-foot 
schooner Taormina and Commodore Alfred 
Douglass’ 6o-foot schooner Shyessa IV. is pro¬ 
gressing rapidly. 
This indicates that the local waters will see 
the most interesting big schooner racing of the 
year. It means that in point of popular interest 
the New York Y. C. cruise will be overshadowed 
by that of the Eastern Y. C., where these 
schooners will come together for the first time. 
A Quarter of a Century Ago. 
The death of “Ned” Brandt, the well-known 
yachting editor, recently recalls a pleasant trip 
made by the writer in company with him and the 
late Roland Coffin, of the New York ’World, 
one of the ablest reporters of yacht races of 
that period, says the Marine Journal. It was 
on board the guests’ boat Cygnus on the oc¬ 
casion of the third annual regatta of the Amer¬ 
ican Y. C., whose headquarters were at Rye, 
N. Y. _ The start was made off Larchmont and 
the finish was to be New London. There were 
entered in the first class two steam yachts, viz.: 
the Atalanta, owmed by Jay Gould, and Yose- 
mite, owned by W. E. Connor. Atalanta won 
handsomely, conned by the late Capt. John W. 
Shackford. The writer was the guest of the 
late John W. Handren with Commodore Chas. 
W. Loring, U. S. N., and Herman Winter. 
“Ned” Brandt and Capt. Coffin were the guests 
of the club representing the Herald and World, 
respectively. The latter, although bred a sailor, 
had mastered stenography and through that was 
able to report the least detail of a race, making 
his report especially interesting. 
An incident in connection with this race will 
never be forgotten by the writer in consequence 
of what occurred that evening. The club and 
its guests were invited to a dance at the Pequot 
House, New London. Not being much of a 
dancer and courting quiet after a rather boister¬ 
ous day with congenial friends on board the 
Cygnus, I happened to remember that ex-Presi- 
dent Chester A. Arthur, then a confirmed in¬ 
valid, was stopping at one of the Pequot cot¬ 
tages. I had known Gen. Arthur when he was 
collector of this port and I had also met him at 
that memorable convention in Chicago that 
nominated him for vice-president and of which 
I was an alternate delegate from Louisiana. 
Gen. James A. Garfield, it will be remembered, 
was the nominee for President. 
I believe that ex-President Arthur would be 
pleased to meet me, so I ventured to call. I 
was politely ushered into his presence by his 
sister, Mrs. McElroy, but was not prepared for 
such a change in his condition, as the last time 
I met him at the White House he was in splen¬ 
did form, stalwart in stature, perfect in figure, 
handsome of face and so genial in manner that 
one was filled with admiration of the man while 
in his presence. Alas! this magnificent speci¬ 
men of a man was a mental and physical wreck. 
He recognized me at first, but very soon 
lapsed into a state of absent-mindedness that 
caused me to realize that Chester A. Arthur as 
I knew him before did not exist. It was a sad 
sight and one from which I withdrew as soon 
as I could consistently. He died that fall of 
Brights disease. 
The American Y. C. was disbanded soon after 
Jay Gould, one of its active organizers, began 
to fail in health and thereby lost his interest in 
yachting. The annual cruise referred to was 
more enjoyable than some I have attended, as 
It was free fiom snobbishness; guests were con¬ 
sidered the equal of the club’s officers and mem¬ 
bers and were treated as such. Groups of ex- 
clusne persons often met on such occasions 
those who cause the atmosphere even to be- 
coine tainted with class and thereby make a sun¬ 
shiny day cloudy were noticeably absent, in fact 
were seldom seen in the American’s club house, 
p Its members were composed of prosperous 
business men who attended to it and had made 
their mark as such. 
Club Elections. 
The_ Casco Y. C. members have elected the 
following officers: Commodore, H. W. Noyes- 
Vice-Commodore, C. E. Brainerd; Secretary, p’ 
C. Bibber; Treasurer, W. H. 'Soule; H ouse 
Committee—C. T. Dillingham, J. P. Merrill and 
b S Soule; Membership Committee, Stephen 
Mitchell, George L. Small, E. A. Runnels. 
The Kalkaska Y. C, of Torch Lake, Mich., 
has elected the following officers: Commodore, 
James Greace; Vice-Commodore, Amos C. 
Beebe; Rear-Commodore, Josh L. Boyd; Sec¬ 
retary, P. W. Pearsall; Treasurer, E. Goodwin; 
Fleet Captain, B. McDermand; Fleet Surgeon 
E. B Babcock, M.D.; Judge Advocate, E. C 
Smith; Trustees—William E. Chaney, George 
F. Bow and William Lewis. The annual regatta 
and club cruise will be held the last week in 
August. 
M©iL©ir B©a{Lmp 
Confusion over Motor Boat Rules. 
The failure of the members of the executive 
council of the American Power Boat Associa¬ 
tion to respond to Secretary Whitaker’s call for 
a meeting on April 23 to clear up the uncer¬ 
tainties regarding rating rules has left the sport 
of motor boat racing in a condition that is very 
unsatisfactory to men who are interested in 
racing, says the New York Times. “There are 
more racing boats under construction at present 
than there has ever been at this season of the 
year,” says one well known racing man, “and 
the motor builders have all the work they 
