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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 23, 1907. 
or the Pyp. 
BY CG DAVIS. 
be built from designs by George Owen, and will 
be called Sinbad. She is not yet under construc¬ 
tion. 
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At the annual meeting of the Corinthian Y. 
C., James H. Ferris was elected Commodore. 
Other officers elected were: Vice-Corn., Mans¬ 
field Toms; Rear-Corn., W. J. Berges; Sec’y, 
Edgar Johnson; Treas., O. J. Stewart. 
Among the people who set up in business years 
ago at the edge of high tide on the shore of 
Gravesend Bay was a Swede by the name of 
Sam who knew just enough about boat building 
to run a small shop. 
With the Brooklyn club below him and the 
Gravesend club above at Ulmer Park, Sam flour¬ 
ished for a while by hauling out and repairing 
their yachts. 
Adjoining Sam's was a combined bar and hotel 
run by a Mr. Hogan, and highly colored but 
crude pictures of the Yellow Kid adorned the 
bar, nicknamed Hogan’s Alley. 
Hogan sold liquor and chowder and rented 
skiffs from a long shaky pier that ran out to 
an old sunken canal boat. 
How it came about history fails to tell, but 
the Swede and Irishman worked in harmony. 
One hauled the boats out, the other stowed away 
all the dunnage, so the owner had two to settle 
with before he could get his boat off the beach. A 
good arrangement, so long as new men kept 
coming. 
Boats, like chameleons, seem to adapt them¬ 
selves to their surroundings; all the yachts here 
hauled out had the same woe-be-gone appearance 
as the houses, the men, the dry parched grass 
and half nourished trees. 
At the brow of the sand hill in front of the 
house and commanding a view off over the broad 
waters of the lower bay stood a white flag pole 
with an old army cannon, mounted on .wheels, 
one side of it and an empty beer keg mounted 
on two barrel heads for wheels in rough mockery 
of it on the other. 
That the latter was the more formidable 
weapon was apparent by the pile of empty kegs 
that stood against the house ready for reload¬ 
ing. 
A person sitting on Hogan’s porch looked 
across a clearing of sand to a bank of tangle 
grass and pines where, leaning over on their 
sides one behind the other as if still engaged in 
racing, were two little cutters. 
The name Iere was painted in small, white 
letters on the narrow overhang of the leading 
boat, while on the slanting transom of her pur¬ 
suer were the tarnished brass letters Pup. 
Iere had a shoal hull with a deep skeg of 
wood and a cast iron keel bolted on it. Her 
hull was built of narrow slats of wood not over 
an inch wide, edge nailed together, and the 
broken remains of a small bulwark and cap rail 
showed whoever built, her had gone to some little 
trouble to make a neat finish. 
Pup was a regular V-shaped cutter with a 
heavy lead keel cast to her shape, had double the 
bulk and room of Iere, but like her the deck was 
sadly the worse for the wear and tear of the 
elements and abuse from curious people who 
stumbled over this interesting couple. 
Time and time again had Mr. Hogan told all 
he knew of these boats to inquisitive visitors, but 
not even he nor his oldest customer knew the 
full history of that pair whose race on the sand 
hill had lasted now two years or more. 
People who knew anything about boats smiled 
at them, while those who knew less called them 
skates, pumpkin seeds, would-be’s, etc., and hop¬ 
toads made their homes in the accumulation of 
sand and dead leaves that filled the insides of 
them. 
One warm day. in the latter part of September, 
1897, when Sam was busy hauling out a yacht 
and Hogan sat tilted back in a chair on his porch 
smoking a cigar, his youngest son, a bare-legged 
little urchin, called his attention to two men ap¬ 
proaching the house by the long board walk lead¬ 
ing in from the road. 
Years of experience behind a bar had put a 
purplish tint on Hogan’s nose and cheeks and 
a paunch that rendered him unfit for hard work, 
but it also had sharpened his knowledge of 
human nature. One look and he pronounced 
them ready money. He could tell a cigar or 
beer agent from a customer at a glance. 
Like hundreds had done before them the two 
men, one quite tall and thin, the other short by 
comparison, waded through the soft, dry sand to 
inspect the two little cutters. 
“Sure dey don’t wan to buy dat t’ing,” re¬ 
marked one sponee who could leave a saloon 
door only to satisfy his curiosity as to the 
strangers. 
“I don’t blame ’em for lookin’ at ’em,” replied 
Hogan ; “everybody does that.” 
"Who owns that little cutter, the Pup?” the 
tall man asked after inspecting her a while. 
“Don’t know,” was the reply. “Wan’ na buv 
a boat?” 
“Why, yes, but I kind o’ like that little cutter.” 
; “Well, I got a catboat that’ll make four o’ her. 
I’ll sell you cheap; want to see her?” and Hogan 
hoped to make a sale. 
“No, I don’t want a cat; I got one now, but 
I kind o’ like that cutter.” 
“Well, you’ll have to see that feller over there 
about her,” and Hogan pointed to Sam who with 
a couple of other men and an old horse was 
hauling out a yacht. 
[to be continued.] 
Swimming in March. 
Two venturesome members, of the New 
Rochelle Y. C., went sailing a week ago in a 
small dory,and were capsized off Larchmont. 
I o. swim ashore in the icy water and wade 
dripping through the marshland and cranberry 
patches back to their homes was no joke on a 
cold March day. 
Capt. Webber was telephoned to and he res¬ 
cued the dory and towed it back to the club 
with his launch. 
Canoeing . 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—V. T. Davis, Beverly, N. 
J., by F. P. Jones, Jr.; A. Rivers Genet, Jr., and 
George E. Bruce, both of Ossining, N.. Y., and 
both by A. R. Genet. 
Eastern Division.-—L. D. Sherman, Andover, 
Mass., by H. A. Bodwell. 
Western Division.—Peter Berkey, Jr., St. Paul, 
Minn., by Jack DeG. Berkey; Dr. F. M. Owens, 
St. Paul, Minn., by John A. Berkey; A. E. Corn- 
stock, St. Paul, Minn., by John A. Berkey; Sher¬ 
man H. Mason, St. Paul, Minn., by A. E. Niel¬ 
sen; Fred W. Bock, St. Paul. Minn., by A. E. 
Nielsen; G. T. W. Leavitt, Milwaukee, Wis., by 
John A. Berkey; Fred. N. Sanders, Milwaukee, 
Wis., by W. C. Rhode. 
APPLICATION FOR REINSTATEMENT. 
Atlantic Division.—3073, Walter F. Smith, 
Trenton, N. J. 
NEW LIFE MEMBER. 
No. 76 (A. 1605) March 2, 1907, Fred L. Met¬ 
calf, Plainfield. N. J.; March 18, 1907, No. 77 
(A. 5088) Edwin A. Quick, Yonkers, N. Y. 
THE PUP. 
The Cause of all the Trouble. 
Mr. Lewis Nixon is at the head of a new boat 
building concern that evidently intends to go into 
the motor boat business on wholesale lines, if 
the size of the property recently acquired is any 
indication thereof. 
The site for the new ship yard is on Staten 
Island at the northern end of Tottenville, on the 
Arthur Kill. 
***** 
Charles F. Tillinghast’s class Q racer will 
Canoeing News Notes. 
The regatta committee of the New York Canoe 
Club have sent out a letter to all the members 
Saturday before Decoration Day. This is an un- 
nouncing that the first races will be held on the 
Saturday before Decoration day. This is an un¬ 
usually early start, but it is only an indication 
of what the coming season promises to be, and 
is a good idea to give the members a trying out 
before the races of the Atlantic Division, which 
will be held the following week. The club is 
planning to make arrangements for getting 
canoes of the members up to the Division Meet, 
which will be held at Hermit Point on the Hud¬ 
son River, for four days, commencing on Decor¬ 
ation Day. 
The committee also announce that they will 
be at the club house on Sunday afternoon, next, 
March 24, and glad to meet any of the members 
who want any information regarding racing- 
matters. 
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The Knickerbocker Canoe Club expects to 
start work on their new club house, which will 
be located at Fort Washington Point, about the 
first of April. When this house is completed, 
which will be about the middle of May, they 
will nave one of the best appointed club houses 
of the character in this vicinity. ‘This club has 
had a number of additions to its racing fleet 
since the close of last season, and will be able to 
turn out one of the largest and best squads of 
racing men of any of the clubs in New York. 
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The new trophy for open canoe sailing, which 
has been announced by the American Canoe As¬ 
sociation, is causing a good deal of interest and 
speculation among the clubs around New York, 
for there are some of the best sailors of this 
class to be found in their ranks, and there will 
be keen competition to win it for the first time, 
f he New York Canoe Club has made a specialty 
of this class of canoes for the last couple of 
years, and their members won the majority of 
the races for open canoes at the meet last sum¬ 
mer. They will naturally make every effort to 
annex this attractive prize to their winnings of 
the season, and will give their members plenty 
of practice in races all the early part of the sum¬ 
mer. The concerted action of clubs and com¬ 
mittees is very promising for good results in 
racing all along the line. 
