Oct. io, 1908.] 
measure the factor protested, instead of the en¬ 
tire boat, as at present. 
ENTRIES. 
Amend so as to provide that when three or 
more yachts are each entered alone in suc- 
cessive_classes the yacht in the class second in 
size may come up into the first class. 
New House for Brooklyn Y. C. 
The members of the Brooklyn Y. C., at a 
meeting held on Sept. 30, decided to go ahead 
with the plans that had been made to have 
a new home. Commodore W. C. Towen and 
A. C. Soper recently purchased the property 
of the estate of the late Willias West, known as 
Westlawn, which stands at the corner of 
Cropsey and Twenty-second avenues, Bath 
Beach. The grounds of this property front on 
Gravesend Bay, and it was purchased with the 
idea of turning over a part to the Brooklyn Y. 
C. In order to finance the scheme, the Brooklyn 
Yacht Club Realty Company was incorporated, 
and that company took a part of the property, 
having 216ft. of water front and 100ft. fronting 
on Twenty-second avenue. This company was 
to rent the property to the Brooklyn Y. C. with 
the privilege of purchase. 
At the meeting the club ratified the action of 
the committee having the matter in charge, and 
authorized the expenditure of $20,000 to equip 
the new house. The house now standing on 
the land is to be moved to that part held by the 
realty company, and is to be enlarged. On one 
side there is to be a pavilion 90ft. long, having 
piazzas 25ft. wide, and on the other side will 
be a boat house with store rooms. Bowling 
alleys, billiard room, twelve sleeping rooms, 
shower baths, etc,, are to be put in, and it is 
hoped that the new home will be ready for 
occupancy by Jan. 1. The Brooklyn Y. C. 
takes possession on Oct. 22 and work will start 
at once. 
The land held by the realty company costs 
$35,000. This will make a fine place for the 
Brooklyn Y. C., which, by the way, is one of 
the oldest in the country. 
The Brooklyn Yacht Club Realty Company 
elected these officers: President, W. C. Towen; 
Vice-President, A. C. Soper; Secretary, David 
E. Austen; Treasurer, Victor Hugo Koehler; 
Financial Secretary, Leo S. Herzig. 
New York Y. C. Meeting. 
The fifth general meeting of the New York 
Y. C. for this year was held in the club house 
on West 44th street on Thursday, Oct. 1. The 
following nominating committee to select 
officers and members of standing committees 
for next year was chosen: J. Pierpont Morgan, 
; Lewis Cass Ledyard, Frederick G. Bourne, 
Henry Walters, R. P. Doremus, F. H. von 
Strade, Stuyvesant Wainwright, W. Butler 
Duncan, Jr., Daniel Appleton, and Tracy Dows. 
This committee will prepare the ticket which 
will be submitted to the members at the next 
meeting, which is to be held in December. 
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt presided, 
and Charles Lane Poor acted as secretary in 
the absence of George Cormack, who is in 
: Europe. Fourteen new members were elected. 
Manchester Y. C. Elections. 
The members of the Manchester Y. C. have 
elected their officers and committees for next 
year, and among others, have chosen C. 
Howard Clark, who is the Vice-Commodore of 
the Philadelphia Corinthian Y. C., and owner 
of the auxiliary schooner Savarona as vice¬ 
commodore. The officers elected are: 
Commodore, S. Parker Bremer; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, C. Howard Clark; Rear-Commodore, 
August P. Loring, Jr.; Secretary, Arthur M. 
Merriman; Treasurer, Francis W. Fabyan; 
Measurer, David Fenton; Executive Committee 
(for three years)—Alfred C. Needham and 
Gordon Abbott; Regatta Committee—George 
W. Mansfield, Francis M. Whitehouse, Edwin 
A. Boardman, Charles E. Hodges and Augustus 
P. L.oring, Jr. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
One Design 15-Footers. 
A class of one-design 15-footers is now being 
built for members of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. 
Four are building and one of these is partly 
planked. Eight have been ordered and the 
class is limited to ten boats. They are to be 
sailed as a one-design class, and will be man¬ 
aged by a committee of the owners, just as the 
New York thirties were. 
These boats have been designed by Henry J. 
Gielow, who designed Nereid, New Moon, 
Gunda and Blue Bill for Gravesend Bay yachts¬ 
men to race for the Lipton cup last year. They 
are staunch little crafts, able and quite fast. 
They are being built by Robert Jacob at City 
Island. 
Those who have already ordered are James 
W. Alker, Cord Meyer, Edgar A. Sierck, Clark¬ 
son Cowl, David Duncan, J. F. O’Rourke, 
Robert Jacob and W. W. Judson. 
These boats are built to the limit of the class. 
Their dimensions are length over all 27ft. gin.; 
length on the load waterline, 19ft. sin.; beam, 
6ft. 7 in.; draft, 4ft. nj^in. They will spread 
435 sq. ft. on canvas, and the sails are to be 
made by Ratsey of brown Egyptian duck. The 
total cost of these boats will be $1,025 each. 
They will have 2,500 pounds of lead ballast 
on the keel, and be provided with two water¬ 
tight bulkheads and a water-tight self-bailing 
cockpit, so that they will be practically non- 
sinkable. 
Items of News. 
Charles D. Mower has prepared plans of a 
small catboat for a southern yachtsman which 
is to be built. The dimensions are 20ft. over 
all, 17ft. 3in. on the waterline, 8ft. beam and 
i8in. draft. She will spread 330 sq. ft. of canvas 
and cost $400. 
Alexander Stein, of the Indian Harbor Y. 
C., owner of the power boat Veritas, has had 
designs drawn for a fast cruising yacht which 
is to built this winter. 
Work on the 112ft. gasolene yacht at Lawley’s 
is being rushed, as the vessel is to be delivered 
in Florida waters on Jan. 15. 
The exhibition at Monaco will be held on 
March 31 and April x. The launching and trials 
will be on April 1, 2 and 3, and the racing on 
April 3. 
The three masts of the auxiliary schooner 
Visitor II., building at Lawley’s, have been 
stepped. It is expected that this yacht will be 
ready for a trial trip early in December. She 
is building from designs bv Swazey, Raymond 
& Page. 
The sloop Avenger, owned by Robert W. 
Emmons 2d, won twenty-two prizes this season 
and seventeen last season. Mr. Emmons in¬ 
tends to sell the yacht, as he has planned to 
spend next summer automobiling abroad. 
Sloop Mona Burned. 
The auxiliary sloop Mona was burned to the 
water’s edge ofif Thatcher’s Island on the night 
of Sept. 28. She was a 6-ton yacht owned in 
Marblehead. Paul and Albert Osgood, aged 
19 and 24 years respectively, were on board at 
the time. They swam to the dory astern of the 
yacht and rowed ashore. They had sailed from 
Marblehead, intending to go to York, Me. 
When ofif Thatcher’s Island a lamp exploded 
and this ignited the gasolene and the tank ex¬ 
ploded. Both men jumped into the dory as 
the flames enveloped the sloop. It was impos¬ 
sible to save the yacht, so they cut the painter 
and rowed away. The sloop had her sail up 
at the time, and she sailed to the eastward. 
The sight of the burning sloop alarmed the 
cottagers along the Rockport shore, and the life¬ 
saving crew from Rockport, in command of 
Capt. Pearce, started to rescue those who might 
be on board. This crew rowed six miles and 
in the meantime the burning sloop disappeared. 
The lifesavers found a herring fisherman using 
gasolene torches to attract the fish, and think¬ 
ing this had caused the report of a vessel on 
fire, returned to Rockport. 
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