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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 5, 1908 
the collier’s deck upon arrival at the port of 
destination without any injury. 
The membership of the society on Nov. 1, 
1908, was 766 as against 801 for the correspond¬ 
ing date last year. 
The society elected as members of council the 
following: Cecil H. Peabody, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass.; James 
E. Denton, Stevens Institute of Technology, 
Boston; Ira N, Hollis, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Mass.; Harold C. Norton, Bureau 
of Steam Engineering, Washington, D. C.: 
Herbert C. Sadler, University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, Mich.; Horace See, 1 Broadway, New 
York. Associate members of council—H. L. 
Aldridge, 17 Battery place, New York; Harvey 
D. Goulder, Rockefeller Bldg., Cleveland. Mr. 
George E. Weed was elected member of council 
to fill the- vacancy caused by the promotion of 
W. M. McFarland to member of council. Mr. 
J. R. Andrews was elected member of the execu¬ 
tive committee to succeed Mr. Harrington 
Putnam. Mr. Eugene Tyler Chamberlain, Com¬ 
missioner of Navigation, was elected an hono¬ 
rary associate and Frank L. Fernald, Stevenson 
Taylor and Walter M. McFarland were elected 
vice-presidents. 
Brooklyn Y. C. Notes. 
Secretary Fatst, of the Brooklyn Y. C., has 
sent out these notices to members: 
On Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 8 P. M., the annual 
meeting of the Brooklyn Y. C. will be held at 
the Hotel Marlborough, Broadway and 36th 
street, Manhattan. 
In addition to the election of officers, the 
following proposed amendments to the by-laws, 
approved by the Board of Governors, Nov. 5, 
1908, will be acted upon: 
ARTICLE VI. 
INITIATION FEES AND DUES. 
Sec. i. To read: “There shall be an initiation 
fee of fifty dollars, which must accompany ap¬ 
plication for membership, unless such initiation 
fee shall be suspended by action of the Board of 
Governors.” 
Sec. 2. To read: “For the maintenance of 
the club each member, excepting life members, 
shall be assessed fifty dollars annual dues pay¬ 
able semi-annually, on the first days of January 
and July in each year.” 
Sec. 3 To read: “Persons elected after the 
first of January or July shall pay pro rata dues 
for balance of year.” 
ARTICLE VII. 
PENALTIES. 
Sec. 1. “Any member whose dues remain un¬ 
paid for a period of three months shall be 
deemed to be in arrears; his name shall be 
posted on the bulletin board, and shall be de¬ 
barred from all privileges of the club, and a 
notice to that effect sent him. If such dues are 
not paid within thirty days thereafter his name 
shall be dropped from the rolls of the club.” 
Enclosed ticket is suggested by the Nominat¬ 
ing Committee. Commodore Towen requests 
the presence of all members. 
Commodore—William C. Towen. 
Vice-Commodore-—Thomas A. Nevins. 
Rear-Commodore—Leo. S. Herzig. 
Secretary—John G. Faist. 
Treasurer—Willard Graham. 
Measurer—Edson B. Schock. 
Trustees (for three years)—A. C. Soper, V. 
Hugo Koehler, Wm. P. Kiggins. 
Trustees (for two years)—David E. Austen. 
Trustees (for one year)—Neptune B. Smyth, 
Edward Hassett. 
Regatta Committee—William H. Griffin, Wm. 
P. Kiggins. A. C. Soper. 
Membership Committee—James S. Bradley, 
Conrad R. Schmitt, Maurice Deiches. 
Nominating Committee—Walter D. Haviland, 
E. M. Youmans, Geo. Gattel. 
Notice is given that the use of the old club 
buildings has been discontinued, and the new 
club house and grounds will be opened to mem¬ 
bers, guests and ladies, during the winter sea¬ 
son. 
The steward is prepared to serve you in the 
new home. 
On Saturday, Dec. 5, an informal reception 
and dance will be held. Table d'hote dinner 
7 P. M. 
Electric-Gasoline Charging Launch. 
The Electric Launch Company has just com¬ 
pleted a gasolene and electric charging launch 
for use in southern waters as an auxiliary to 
Benjamin Douglass, Jr.’s electric yacht Casca- 
pedia. The new yacht is named Kilowatt and is 
35 feet long, 9 feet beam and 2 feet draft. The 
hull is of very substantial construction, having 
heavy oak frames, selected southern cedar 
planking, copper fastened throughout; heavy 
oak guards protected with galvanized iron and 
oak decks. The cabin house is built of oak in¬ 
closed with plate glass drop windows and brass 
hinging ports. Aft of this is a good deck space 
surrounded with a brass railing. The steering 
wheel is on the after deck. 
The unique part of the boat is her power 
equipment which consists of a 40-horsepower, 
six-cylinder gasolene engine with mechanical 
reverse gear connected to the propeller shaft. 
The engine drives a 30-horsepower electric 
dynamo which is directly connected to the for¬ 
ward end. It is so arranged that electricity can 
be generated when the yacht is under way or 
lying at anchor. A slate switchboard located on 
the port side of the cabin with the necessary 
instruments and switches distributes the elec¬ 
tricity from the dynamo to the electric plant for 
recharging the batteries, the plant having a 
capacity for recharging the yacht’s batteries in 
three or four hours. 
With Kilowatt as an auxiliary the electric 
yacht Cascapedia is not dependent upon elec¬ 
tricity ashore for recharging her batteries. On 
one charge the yacht has a capacity of 200 miles, 
but in connection with the auxiliary launch 
Kilowatt, her radius of action is unlimited. 
The auxiliary launch carries 400 gallons of 
gasolene, enabling her to be operated at full 
power for 100 hours, in which time she could 
recharge the electric yacht ten or twelve times 
and enable Cascapedia to cover 2,000 miles be¬ 
fore the auxiliary launch would have to take on 
a fresh supply of fuel. The charging launch has 
a speed under her gasolene of nine miles an 
hour. 
This is the first electric auxiliary boat ever 
built, and it will help solve the question of the 
use of electricity in large motor yachts. The 
advantages of electricity for cruising boats is 
well known; absence of noise, heat or vibration, 
absolute safety while afloat, no danger of fire 
or explosion and ease of control. 
Club Elections. 
This is the time of year when yacht clubs are 
busy holding annual meetings, receiving reports 
from officers and committees and electing 
officers who are to manage affairs for the com¬ 
ing year. Several meetings have already been 
held. 
The Motor Boat Club of America held its 
annual meeting last week and elected these 
officers: Commodore, Joseph H. Hoadley; 
Vice-Commodore, Wilson P. Foss; Rear-Com¬ 
modore, H. R. Sutphen; Treasurer, Charles 
Francis; Secretary, Walter M. Bieling; Board 
of Governors—J. M. Shaw. M. D. Chapman, 
Lewis Newmann, E. J. Steiner, James Craig, Jr., 
F. H. Ray and Charles P. Tower. 
The new officers of the Arlington, N. J., 
Motor Boat Club are: Commodore, Harry 
Riley; Vice-Commodore, George Nutting; Sec¬ 
retary, George C. Carter; Treasurer, Arthur C. 
Riley; Trustees—Edward von Staig, William 
Middleton and Samuel Oldfield. 
At its annual meeting held recently the Chi¬ 
cago Power Boat Club elected these officers: 
Commodore, James Alexander; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, Joseph Thompson; Treasurer, J. Brady; 
Secretary. C. V. Strohm; Judge Advocate, H. 
De Moulle: Trustees (for two years)—B. E. 
Strohm and J. T. Counsell. 
The election of officers of the Toledo Power 
Boat Club resulted as follows: Commodor 
Orion M. Nelson; Vice-Commodore, Fred 
Miller; Rear-Commodore, John S. Osgooc 
Secretary, Lyman C. Mason; Treasurer, R. ] 
Mathias. 
The annual meeting of the Rhode Island 
C.. held at the Pawtuxet House, resulted in tl: 
election of these officers: Commodore, Williai 
O. Todde; Vice-Commodore, Clarence M. Dm 
bar; Rear-Commodore, George E. Phillip; 
Secretary-Treasurer, Frederick A. Barnes; D 
rectors—Henry B. Wright and Howard I 
Barlow. 
The officers of the Jacksonville Power Bo; 
Club are: Commodore, A. D. Stevens; Vici 
Commodore, W. F. Coachman; Rear-Commc 
dore, S. B. Hubbard, Jr.; Fleet Captain, Charle 
A. Clark; Treasurer and Recording Secretar; 
W. A. Kay; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. W. M. Stinsor 
Corresponding Secretary, L. A. Mitchel 
Measurer, Frank Brock; Board of Governor: 
R. M. Call, E. G. Trenholm, G. P. Hall, W. P 
McGuff. G. H. Mason. Dr. T. Sheridan, G. I 
Richards and W. M. Angas. 
A New Sketch of N. G. Herreshoff. 
Yachtsmen generally will be very much in 
terested in the following sketch of Captain Na 
G. Herreshoff, which was printed in The Chan 
tauquan: 
“Captain Nat. Herreshoff, the builder of rac 
ing yachts, is one of the most notable example 
of the blind man of genius. A familiar picttir 
of this yacht builder shows him carefully ex 
amining the keel of a vessel in dry doc! 
Slowly, but surely he is searching out with hi 
sensitive fingers every line and curve in th 
structure and is unerringly estimating the fric 
tion of the water upon every point. Mr. Her; 
reshoff has built ten racing yachts, and to hi 
genius is due the fact that the America’s Cir 
is now in America and not in England. H 
gained his first fame as the designer of th 
Gloriana, the first perfected center boat, a forty 
six footer. That was in 1890. Since that dat 
the American public has gloried in the triumph 
of the Vigilance, the Reliance, and the De 
fender, boats whose keels and sails the Englis' 
could not match. 
“Nat. Herreshoff was graduated in the Bos 
School of Technology and served an apprentice 
ship in the Corliss Iron Works. Since child 
hood he has been designing boats. His firs: 
love was the swift sailing steam yachts, and h 
built a number of small steam yachts that heh 
the world’s record. He built the twenty-thre 
knot Cushing torpedo boat and his genius ha 
set the pace for the building of fast boats th' 
world over. This blind boat builder is a grim 
silent man. He seldom speaks to his closes 
friends and he has only this one passion—th« 
building of fast boats. He is now sixty-on* 
years of age.” 
It might have been a little more interesting 
if the writer had told how Capt. Nat couh 
handle a big yacht in a race and how carefulb 
he tends to the trim of the yacht sails, and hov 
cleverly he can take the wheel of a big boat am 
turn her to windward and sail away from hi: 
rival. 
Unfortunately for the story, Capt. Nat is noil 
blind, and the writer got confused with J. B L 
Herreshoff. the president of the Herreshoff! 
Manufacturing Company, and his brother, Capt | 
Nat. who is the designer and the genius of the 
well-known firm. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division—Frank Mcllvaine, Beverly 
N. J., by Edward K. Merrill. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Eastern Division—5623, George M. Ludlow, 
316 Warwick avenue, Lakewood. R. I. 
Western Division—562a. J. G. Roberts, Ii£ 
Maple square. Chicago, Ill.; 5625, A. F. Fylpas, 
1123 North Clark street, Chicago, Ill.; 5626, 
LTarry MacKenzie, 424 East North avenue. 
Chicago, Ill. 
