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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 9, 1907. 
FRONT COVER DESIGN. 
Bensonhurst Yacht Club Menu Card. 
The annuel dinner of the Bensonhurst Y. C., 
held at the Hotel Brevoort, on Feb. 14, gave 
the boys a very enjoyable evening. “Mower” 
races were resailed on that night than ever took 
place in one season. Glasses gybed around with 
startling disregard for safety and all hands 
worked like stevedores stowing away the cargo 
of good things listed on the menu. 
Each member with “Child”-like frankness gave 
visable expression to their happiness. 
More Joy was experienced than one could have 
expected. But when “Dick” starts his old 
stunts of stowing baked clay in Martha M, take 
your glasses and carefully scan the sea line, you 
are sure to see coasters clewing up and can ex¬ 
pect a great “blow” out. 
The artist, Mr. F. M. Arnold, has caught the 
TAGE OPPOSITE BILL OF FARE. 
Kaiser like im-twirl to his mustache above the 
handful of brick with camera-like accuracy. 
The last sketch, the race between Trio and 
the club float, illustrates one of the good jokes 
that makes it worth while being a member of 
the Bensonhurst throng. 
The yawl building at Law ley’s, from Crow- 
ninshied’s design, for W. Hamilton Busk, will 
be called Mischief, for the American cup defender 
of 1881, which was owned by Mr. Busk's father, 
Joseph R. Busk. 
Boston Letter. 
The class Q boats are coming along and Sally 
IX. is nearly planked. She resembles Orestes, 
but seems slightly fuller forward (without in 
any way being flat) and has an elliptical stern 
in place of Orestes’ V transom. Her appearance 
is that of a moderately light displacement boat 
to be driven by a small sail area. I o the sur¬ 
prise of many her garboards are rather hollow, 
her sections having practically no> S curve. 
Not a few students of the rating rule incline 
to the belief that a heavy displacement boat with 
a large sail area, slack bilges and but moderate 
breadth, if rigged as a yawl, and built to the 
limit of allowance for rig, would make a very 
gallant fight for championship honors. It is 
not impossible that this belief is held by Mr. 
N. G. Herreshoff, for it is rumored that the. Q 
boat ordered of the Herreshoff Manufacturing 
Co. by Messrs. Fabyan and McKee, of Manches¬ 
ter, Mass., may be seen under the yawl rig. 
Strange rumors, unfounded rumors, concerning 
Herreshoff products are no novelty, but this one 
has some foundation in that the wizard of Bris¬ 
tol is known to have a predilection for the yawl 
rig and has had far more experience with it than 
any other of our designers. It is not impossible 
to” design a yawl that will prove fast in light 
airs, and indeed the form of hull so far pro¬ 
duced by the rating rule is admirably suited to 
that rig. It would certainly be an experiment 
of interest to the onlookers if not to the owners, 
and while I cannot vouch for the truth of the 
rumor it is evident that “We shall see what we 
shall see!” 
The good old Cape cats are not to be left be¬ 
hind in the scramble for fame being made by 
the Q and sonder boats, and class D is also 
to have its impetus of new blood. During the 
winter months the catboat sleuths have followed 
many half-forgotten trails to the former haunts 
of their game, and as a result, at least two 
fast boats will make their initial appearances 
upon local courses in 1907. These two are 
Natice, ex-Elmira, a Hanley creation, purchased 
from Edgartown owners by Mr. Ira M. Whitte- 
more, -who won the class championship in 1905 
and third place in 1906 with Marvel, and 
Emeline, one of Mr. Herbert Crosby’s best pro¬ 
ducts, which has been purchased by Mr. H. H. 
Robbins who has, heretofore, raced Hustler. 
Emeline had a notable career on Narragansett 
Bay and will fit in at the top of the local class 
after a minor surgical operation in which ten 
inches of her stern will be removed to qualify 
her under the maximum over all length limit of 
27 feet. This suggests that before long we may 
hear of Doctors Lawley, et ah, operating for 
appendicitis upon some power boat with acute 
indigestion in her piping. 
A bill now pending before the Massachusetts 
Legislature and introduced in that body by 
William Hoag, Esq., upon the petition of F. W. 
Merrick and others will remedy one of those 
phases of the Sabbath laws that are neither of 
advantage to the community nor fair to the 
many yachtsmen who fit out their own boats. 
Last spring a few meddlesome people who seem¬ 
ingly delight to interfere with the’ innocent pleas¬ 
ures of others egged on the Boston police de¬ 
partment to a threatened prosecution of all who 
should wield a paint brush, scraper or marlin- 
spike upon the Lord’s dav. The sudden virtuous 
inquisitiveness of all officers whose beats ap¬ 
proached the waterfront not only spread conster¬ 
nation in the ranks of Boston yachtsmen, but 
throughout the surrounding towns where con¬ 
stables thrive in proportion to the arrests they 
make. Who could say when the automobile 
traps from yielding but few victims might turn 
a hungry horde of process servers loose upon 
the quietly industrious amateur painters and 
riggers? The result was of course a serious an¬ 
noyance, a hardship in fact, and one that bore 
down only upon those who were unable.to repel it. 
The man who does- all his own fitting out work 
not only secures the cream from the milk of 
yachting pleasures, but by the verv performance 
of his outdoor labors is making himself a more 
self-reliant, healthier and better citizen. The 
great majority of these men have no day but 
the Sabbath in which their time is free for this 
work; and if not then permitted to so labor, 
many of them, because of the expense of hiring 
such work done for them by others, would be 
debarred entirely from indulging later on in 
their favorite sport, a sport that keeps their 
hands ready, their eyes clear, and their bodies 
fitted for the every day works of life. The 
police, of course, are not desirous of prosecut¬ 
ing such men for such trivial offenses, but their 
course is not optional once the I-am-holier-than- 
thou citizen gets in his deadly work. It is 
therefore to be hoped that the yachtsmen in 
general will actively espouse this bill and not 
leave their interests entirely to the unaided ef¬ 
forts of a few enthusiasts. Several yacht clubs 
have already appointed committees to assist 
Messrs. Hoag and Merrick in this movement. 
The others should take similar action, and in¬ 
dividual yachtsmen should urge the passage of 
the bill upon their local representatives if un¬ 
able to attend the hearing, the date of which 
will be advertised by the committee on legal 
affairs. 
Last week in writing of the sale of Medric, 
Setsu and Little Llaste I inadvertently omitted 
mention of the fact that these sales were ef¬ 
fected through the office of Mr. Hollis Burgess. 
BACK COVER DESIGN. 
His agency has also sold the 18ft. knockabout 
Maribou, ex-Piccadilly, to Frank M. Clark, Esq., 
for John S. Farwell, Esq. 
Mr. B. B. Crowninshield has sold through his 
own office his 21ft. knockabout Gael, ex-Bag- 
garah, to Mr. Walter Kelly, who will race her 
in one of the inter club classes. 
As indicative of the value of the semi-occas¬ 
ional yacht designing competitions held by 
Forest and Stream and other publications, in 
addition to the interest which the study of such 
designs has for yachtsmen, it is worthy of 
note that Mr. Ralph E. Winslow, of Small Bros, 
office, has received from Mr. J. J. Bliss, of New 
York, an order for a boat on the lines of the 
prize winning design submitted by him in a 
cruiser competition, while Mr. E, N. McCool, of 
Hawthorne, Ill., is building an 18ft. yawl from 
a design submitted to the same competition by 
William Lambert Barnard. 
The Stamford Y. C. officers for igo7 are : Com., 
Walton Ferguson; Vice-Corn., James S. Herrman; 
Rear-Conn, Richard H. Gillespie; Treas., Herbert 
Lawton; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Dean Foster; Meas., 
Dr. A. H. Scofield: Chaplain. Rev. Frank H. 
Bigelow; Directors, Wallace D. Berkley, George 
C. Blickensderfer, Walter E. Coe, James S. Jen¬ 
kins, Edward E. Rinehart, Jr.. Harold Roberts, 
J. B. Phillips, Dr. Alfred H. Scofield, James D. 
Smith, Lewis B. Moore, Alfred S. Pitt; Nomi¬ 
nating Com., Homer S. Cummings, F. C. Taylor, 
J. Howard Bogardus, John E. Keeler, Joseph R. 
Swan, Wilson L. Baldwin. 
