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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Edward P. Boynton, schooner Magolia, Com¬ 
modore ; Alfred Douglass, schooner Shiyessa, 
Vice-Commodore; J. Fred Brown, schooner 
Mariette, Rear-Commodore; Walter Burgess, Sec¬ 
retary-Treasurer. Executive Committee (for two 
years) : Charles A. French, Charles E. Lauriat, 
Jr., Sumner H. Foster, George G. Williams. 
Membership Committee: Walter C. Lewis, Chair¬ 
man; for one year, Walter C. Lewis, George H. 
Street, L. B. Goodspeed, Arthur Prince Plawes. 
Regatta Committee: Bryan S. Pernian, Chair¬ 
man; for one year, George P. Keith, Frederick 
P. Bowden, David A. Weir, Percy Hodges, C. 
Barton Pratt. 
Boston is to be represented in the 57-rating 
class this coming summer, as Mr. R. W. Emmons 
2d has ordered one of these boats of the Herre- 
shoff Mfg. Co., making the fourth of the class, 
which, it is understood, is to be of one-design. 
If this is so it is a pity, for with a challenge for 
the America’s Cup under the universal rule hang¬ 
ing over us it would not be inadvisable to learn 
fi little about the possibilities of this rule when ap¬ 
plied to the larger boats. Mr. Emmons is a 
well-known racing man whose favorite haunts 
have been in Buzzard’s Bay, where he was very 
successful in the various one-design classes of 
the Beverly Y. C. He owned the Mashnee in the 
30ft. class, and since selling her has owned and 
raced Humma—thus it will be seen that he has 
a strong predilection for one-design Herreshoff 
boats. Then “here’s luck for him” once more, 
and “Johnny Harvard” drinks the toast with 
hearty enthusiasm. 
Class Q stock continues to be quoted firm, with 
.every indication of a rise. ^ In addition to the 
Orestes, Dorothy Q., Sally IX. and the Tillinghast 
boat, there will be one from Mr. F. D. Lawley’s 
design, and orders are assured from Messrs. 
Fabyan & McKee and Mr. Francis Skinner. Two 
.other yachtsmen state positively that they expect 
to build, and as there is every indication that the 
-tide is still no more than at half flood, it is not 
too much to hope for ten boats in this class. 
(Ah! Choimes! Dis is de proud moment of me 
loife—lift agen yer lid an’ con dose woids I rote 
last fall an’ told yer to paste in yer roof to prove 
me proffessies !) William Lambert Barnard. 
At the Huntington Mfg. Co., New Rochelle, 
there is being built for a Pelham yachtsman a 
house-boat 26ft. long, 10ft. breadth and 2ft. 3m. 
flraft. 
Artful. 
By the courtesy of the Gas Engine & Power 
Co. and Chas. L. Seabury & Co., Cons., we pub¬ 
lish the plans and photograph of the power boat 
Artful, which this firm built last year for Mr. 
Payne Whitney, New York Y. C., for use as a 
fast tender about Newport and on the Sound. 
Artful is interesting as being a development of 
the, type of power boat. She is larger than most 
boats which have any pretensions to speed, and is 
very different from the launches of her size, 
which are, as a general rule, more in the nature 
of cruising boats, being heavier in displacement 
to carry the added weight. Artful is very simple 
in design, her form being like that of many of 
the launches turned out at Morris Heights, and 
with a modified torpedo stern, her appearance is 
very attractive. The engines are of the well- 
known Speedway type, and take up the compart¬ 
ment immediately abaft an inclosed cockpit, with 
glass windows which serves as a pilot house. 
Aft of the engine space is located a, toilet room, 
a galley, and a saloon for the owner’s use. 
Artful, on trial last summer, made a speed of 
24.50 miles. She also took part in a number of 
races, among them the race from New York to 
Poughkeepsie and back, in which she performed 
very creditably. 
It is interesting to know that a new boat in 
every way similar to' Artful has been ordered 
from her builders. The new launch, to be named 
There She Goes, is to the order of Mr. Julius 
Fleischman, owner of the Seabury steel steam 
yacht Hiawatha. The new boat is to be used 
about New London, and a speed of 23 miles an 
hour has been guaranteed. The particulars of 
Artful are as follows: 
Length— 
Over all .. 
Waterline .... 
Breadth . 
Draft 
.. 
. 68ft. 
. 8ft. 3m. 
Freeboard— 
Forward . 
Least . 
. 2ft. 6in. 
Aft . 
Speed, on trial .24.5 miles. 
Engines, 2 Speedway, 6-cyl. (180 H. P.) 6pjx8in. 
The construction is of wood. The hull is 
single-planked below the waterline and double 
above; yellow pine and cedar, copper fastened. 
The finish is mahogany. 
The annual meeting of the Huguenot Y. C, of 
New Rochelle, N. Y., will be held at the Cafe 
Martin, Fifth avenue and 26th street, Saturday,. 
Feb 16, 1907. The meeting will be called to 
order at 6:30 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of 
electing officers and the transaction of such busi¬ 
ness as mav regularly and constitutionally be 
brought before it. The Nominating Committee 
presents the following nominations: For Com¬ 
modore : Mr. H. H. Van Rensselaer, cabin 
knockabout Dipoer. Vice-Commodore: Mr. H. 
M. Mvrick, cabin sloop Deitak. Rear-Commo¬ 
dore : Mr. George F. Lewis, cabin cruising launch 
Niagara. Secretary: Mr. S. W. Marvin. 
Treasurer: Mr. Frederick B. Lewis. Trustees: 
Class 1909—Mr. Henry de F. Baldwin, Mr. B. W. 
Wilson, Jr. 
Canoeing . 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—Ames Chipperfield, N. Y. 
city, by J. K. Hand. 
Central Division.—Walter H. Crofts, Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., by W. H. Brown. 
CANOEING NEWS NOTES. 
The Eastern Division of the A. C. A. has 
selected Saturday night, Feb. 23, as the date for 
their annual dinner, which will be held at the 
American House in Boston. Quite a number of 
New York canoeists, as well as the general 
officers of the- association are planning to attend 
it. W. W. Crosby and Dan. Pratt, Jr., are on the 
committee that is engineering the affair, and are 
booming it in fine style. 
^ 
The new racing canoe for Vice-Commodore 
Ohlmeyer, of the Atlantic Division, is entirely 
finished, and will attract a great deal of atten¬ 
tion as soon as it arrives in New York. It was 
designed by Starling Burgess, who is himself an 
enthusiastic canoe sailor, and built by Burgess & 
Packard at their Marblehead works. It is quite 
different in model from the usually accepted 
canoe design, according to Mr. Ohlmeyer, having 
32m. beam, and an underbody rudder, and rigged 
with jib and mainsail for a racing rig, and the 
usual canoe sails for a cruising rim Commodore 
Douglass has promised to try and see it when he 
goes to Boston on the 16th, and write his im¬ 
pressions of it. Generally speaking, it should be 
a fine cruising boat, and if it has speed in ad¬ 
dition, it will be a welcome addition to the 
Knickerbocker fleet. 
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Secretary Furman is busy getting things in 
shape for publishing the Year-Book of the A. C. 
A., and reports that he is meeting with gratifying 
success from the usual advertisers. He expects 
to publish a number of pictures of last year’s 
camp, which, with the reading matter that goes 
in the book, makes a very interesting volume. 
