Oct. - 3 , 1908 .] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Lipton and Want. 
It was said recently in Forest and Stream 
that yachtsmen “were waiting for Lipton.” It 
was pointed out, too, that much of the coming 
season depended on what Sir Thomas intended 
to do, and that, according to reports, the mem¬ 
bers of the New York Y. C. realized that to 
boom the sport in their club a race for the 
jj America’s Cup would be a good thing. The 
Yachtsman, of London, quotes from that article 
and then goes to bygone years and says that 
Forest and Stream then said an America’s 
Cup race was detrimental to American yacht¬ 
ing. 
A race for the America’s Cup would give the 
New York Y. C. a very busy season, and the 
trial races and later the International match 
would furnish lots of interesting races, but ex¬ 
perience in the past shows that a cup race year 
is not a good one for the sport generally. As 
a rule, in a cup race year yachtsmen do not 
build, but prefer to watch the races between 
the big boats, and so the racing in the smaller 
classes suffers considerably. The Yachtsman 
says: 
“It is somewhat strange to read in the Forest 
and Stream of 5th inst. a leading article en¬ 
titled, “Waiting for Lipton,” in which the 
writer suggests in no uncertain way that the 
success of next year’s yachting season in 
America depends in a great measure on another 
challenge for the America's Cup. We say that 
this is strange, for in bygone years the same 
; journal was at pains to tell us that nothing was 
more detrimental to American yachting as a 
whole than a challenge for this coveted trophy. 
We, our side of the Atlantic, might head an 
article dealing with the future of the 23-metre 
I class in Europe, “Waiting for Plant,” for it is 
tolerably well known that Mr. Morton T. 
Plant some few weeks ago entertained the idea 
; of intrusting Herreshoff with an order to 
design and build a 23-metre yacht for racing 
in this country. This, however, does not appear 
to have come to the knowledge of our American 
contemporaries, and, of course, Mr. Plant may 
have abandoned his intension. Let us, however, 
suppose that he finally determines to join the 
European 23-metre class next season with a 
Herreshoff boat; surely Sir Thomas Lipton 
would be better occupied on this side of the 
Atlantic in racing his crack yacht Shamrock 
against her, under terms of absolute equality, 
than in attempting once more the impossible 
task of beating the same designer, in his own 
waters, with a vessel which must of necessity 
suffer from being of heavier construction than 
the machine which would inevitably be turned 
: out from the Rhode Island yard. This seems 
reasonable enough, but it is just the sort of 
1 argument that always escapes the observation 
! of our trans-Atlantic cousins. 
“Moreover, the Forest and Stream is none 
too certain that another challenge under the 
. ‘Universal’ rule would meet with a better fate 
than the blank refusal given to the last, but, 
1 as it naively hints, yacht racing this year has 
been very bad in the States, and there is now a 
considerable section (how great or how in¬ 
fluential is uncertain) of the New York Y. C. 
who would be willing to permit Sir Thomas to 
race for the cup under the club’s own measure¬ 
ment rule. As a matter of fact, we believe this 
has always been the case, and that the decision 
of the committee to refuse a challenge under 
the ‘Universal’ rule was regarded with displeas¬ 
ure by none more than a large body of the 
N. Y. Y. C. members, but that does not alter 
the fact that the challenge was refused, and we 
cannot see that the lapse of a year has in any 
way altered the situation. To be sure, a chal¬ 
lenge under the ‘Universal’ rule would certainly 
prove the means of securing a very consider¬ 
able addition to the racing fleet of the New 
York Y. C., as we pointed out when Sir Thomas 
issued his last challenge, and it would therefore 
be expedient to accept it; but things are altered 
in this country also, since then. Now he is the 
owner of the fastest cutter in England, and 
there is every probability that she will be re¬ 
quired next year to meet one or more foreign 
yachts of her own class, even if we hear no 
more of Mr. Plant’s projected Herreshoff 
cutter. 
“It would certainly be most interesting to see 
what Herreshoff can make of the International 
rule. He is a pastmaster both in designing and 
construction, and though his hands would be 
fettered to a great extent in the last-named 
particular, he would beyond question turn out a 
vessel that would keep Shamrock busy through¬ 
out the season. No doubt Mr. Plant’s first duty 
is to support yacht racing in his own country, 
if he builds a racing yacht at all; but it seems to 
us that he could not do so in a better way than 
by carrying ‘Old Glory’ into European waters. 
He would assuredly have plenty of sport, and 
every race won in the 23-metre class by a new 
Herreshoff boat next year, might fairly be 
counted as a double win, for the class will be at 
least as strong as it was this year, and it would 
be no easy task even for a superlative well- 
designed and well-sailed vessel to beat Sham¬ 
rock, Brynhild and White Fleather. 
A Yacht Club’s Lighthouse. 
A lighthouse maintained by a yacht club 
is the latest that yachtsmen are doing to assist* 
in navigation. The lighthouse is on Lake Cob- 
bosseecontee, near Augusta, Me., and it has 
been found to be a necessity, because of the 
constantly increasing number of power boats 
in those waters. The Boston Globe says: 
“The latest addition to the lake’s equipment 
to aid the inland sailors is a well-built light¬ 
house, constructed after the style of the govern¬ 
ment lighthouses on the coast, on Ladies’ De¬ 
light Island, the central point of a large section 
of jagged reefs, which extend over a space of 
several acres just below the surface of the water. 
“The most dangerous points in the reefs have 
for some time been buoyed, and channels be¬ 
tween them marked, so that the motor boats 
might with safety enter the harbor of East 
Winthrop to the left of the little island, going 
up the lake, or to lay their course for Ham¬ 
mond’s grove to the right, in which direction 
is Island Park, an amusement resort. These 
improvements were all made by the Cobbossee- 
contee Y. C. 
“During the past two years the theatre at 
Island Park attracted so many power craft to 
that end of the lake from all other sections, at 
night, that it was necessary for the safety of the 
boats to have some light fixed to mark the 
reefs. Early this year a common lantern was 
placed upon the island, but this was not satis¬ 
factory, and work was soon begun in construct¬ 
ing a real lighthouse. The work was com¬ 
pleted about two weeks ago, and now Cobbos- 
seecontee is one of the few inland lakes in the 
United States, not navigable to large steamers, 
to boast a real lighthouse. 
“The island where the light has been built is 
long and low, being nearly all under water when 
the water- is high in the early season, and is 
situated a mile from Island Park. A seawall 
has been constructed, and the lighthouse has 
been built in the middle of that plot. The stone 
work of the tower is about 16ft. high, upon 
which is the lantern, with framework of wood 
adding about 9ft. more to the hight of the 
tower. 
“The tower is gft. across at the base and 7ft. 
at the top. It is built on a concrete base, 4ft. 
deep. The stonework is white, while the lantern 
is painted black. 
“Frank Morse, of the office of the U. S. 
Lighthouse Commissioners at Boston, designed 
the lighthouse. Around the outside of the 
lantern there is an i8in. wide balcony. En¬ 
trance is gained to the lighthouse through a 
doorway at its base, above which is engraved 
noon a block of granite and inserted into the 
side the monogram of the yacht club which built 
it and the date. 1908. A window is located half 
wav up the tower. 
“The cost of the lighthouse was $400, and 
$100 was the expense of building the seawall. 
Mrs. Catherine L. Farr, wife of Dr. Clifford B. 
Farr, of Philadelphia, was the owner of the little 
island upon which the light is situated, but upon 
condition that the Cobbosseecontee Y. C. should 
maintain a light upon it during the summer 
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