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New One-Design Classes. 
Two new one-design classes for the sound are 
to be built from designs by Cox & Stevens. 
One is to be known as the Noroton 
class and the other, for the Stamford Y. C., is 
to be called the Stamford one-design class. 
These two classes of boats are to be practi- 
cally identical in dimensions which are ap¬ 
proximately: Length over all, 22 feet wat 
line n feet 9 inches; beam, 6 feet, draft, 3 feet 
o inches Five of each class have already been 
ordered and are being built by the Milton Boat 
Works and it is expected that at least as many 
more will be built in each class during the wm- 
ter These boats are to be raced by rival or 
ganizations and will meet frequently during the 
fummer. This is another indication of the fact 
that nractically all interest in sailing yachts at 
the present tirJe is centered in small one-design 
Cl These particular boats were gotten up for 
the purpose of securing a good, safe, able craft ^ 
with P a fair turn of speed and as comfortable 
as a boat of the given dimensions can be. Ihey 
are being built in the most approved manner, 
having outside lead ballast, all fastenings to b 
of cooper or composition and a finish of the 
best throughout.They will all be in commission 
by Decoration Day, the work being already 
well advanced. __ 
Model Y. C. Moves. 
The American Model Y. C has moved its 
Quarters from the foot of 32d street to 60th 
street Brooklyn. For twelve years this club 
has been located on Gowanus Bay, but the 
construction of new docks there forced it to 
move and now it is on the water front. The 
club is in a very flourishing condition, and the 
members are looking forward to a very suc¬ 
cessful season next summer . This; clut.was 
organized in 1864 and chartered m 1896. There 
art now fifty-six active and eight honorary 
members on the roll. Among these are some 
of the best known naval architects who have 
designed defenders for the America s Cup, and 
who appreciate the valuable data to be ob¬ 
tained from the close observation of a scien¬ 
tifically-designed model. The officers are. 
Commodore, Joseph A. Weaver; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, George Kelly; Measurer, A Moore, 
Treasurer. A. Schwelzer; Secretary, George F. 
Piggott; Trustees, E. J. Stender, Alvin Stone 
and A. Gille.___ 
Racing Motor Boat in Russia. 
An American consul in Russia reports that a 
shipbuilding firm in his distritt has just com¬ 
pleted a racing motor boat. This is the first 
attempt to construct such a craft in that region, 
and if the boat fulfills expectations more racing 
and probably also pleasure crafts wil be built by 
the concern in question, which might entertain 
offers from American manufacturers of motors. 
The consul states that he has interested a firm 
engaged in the importation of American type¬ 
writers, cash registers, etc., in this line, and it is 
suggested that manufacturers of motor boats 
in the United States send catalogues with quo¬ 
tations and full particulars. 
End of the Schooner Shamrock. 
Frederic Thompson has turned his schooner 
yacht Shamrock over to a wreckmg company, 
and the yacht will be broken up. The wreckers 
will remove the lead ballast and fittings, and 1 
is possible that the hull may be purchased and 
fitted as a house boat. . . , 
Shamrock was one of the trio of 70 *°° te js 
that furnished such fine racing in 1887 and the 
years following. The other two were Titama, 
owned by C. Oliver Iselin, and Katrina, owned 
bv H D. Auchinclos. J. Rogers Maxwell had 
Shamrock built by John F Mumm at Bay 
Ridge. That yard was where the Atlantic x. U. 
had its club house before it moved to Sea 
Gate. When Shamrock was five years old, her 
rig was changed to that of a schooner, and 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
when Mr. Maxwell built Emerald, he sold 
Shamrock to Willard P. Ward, who owned her 
until the yacht was purchased by Frederic 
Thompson in 1907. , , . . „ 
Mr Maxwell raced Shamrock both as a sloop 
and schooner with fair success, and when owned 
by Mr. Ward, the yacht won many races. In 
1907 Shamrock took part in the race to Ber¬ 
muda and made a fairly good showing. Last 
year she took part in the Cape May race of 
the Brooklyn Y. C., and was sailed by Capt. 
Charles Barr to victory. 
The First Steam Whistle. 
The bell of the original Clermont, which was 
placed on her namesake, the little craft which 
was built for the Hudson-Fulton celebration 
recalls the fact that steam whistles had not 
even been thought of one hundred years ago. 
The first device of that kind in fact, it is be- 
lieved, was used on the Liverpool locomotive 
Bury in 1833, and was the invention oi one 
William Stephens, a foreman of the Gallais Iron 
Works, where it was used to call the men to 
work An agent of the Liverpool firm which 
owned the Bury saw it there, made a diagram 
of it. and placed a steam whistle on the loco¬ 
motive, from whence similar devices soon 
found their way on board the steamboats which 
plied on the river Thames. The first steam 
whistle used on western rivers was placed on 
the steamer Revenue, built at Pittsburg in the 
spring of 1844 for Capt. William H. Fulton and 
associates of Little Rock, Ark. It was con¬ 
sidered a great curiosity. This craft also was 
the first on western rivers to be equipped with 
life preservers. 
The introduction of the steam calliope on 
southern rivers was on the Ohio River steamer 
Unicorn, 1855. It made .the darkies fairly hpw 
with delight as they listened to its unmusical 
tones, while the white folks were almost equally 
excited. Although the original Clermont had 
no steam whistle, she was equipped with a 
compass, which was at the time of her inven¬ 
tion already in use for five centuries. To the 
Chinese belongs the honor of its invention, and 
the date given is 1302. The French claim to 
have invented the card attachment. By. what 
name it was known in those early days is not 
on record, but one thing is certain, it was not 
called a compass.—Marine Journal. 
The President’s Yacht. 
[Jan. 1, i 9 10 - 
when there are not enough to man the bona 
fide warships in commission is a profligate use 
of men and means. Besides, the President wil 
not be likely to use the Mayflower again until 
next spring. Of course, it will be argued by 
the department that this vessel is frequently 
used for other purposes. True, but for junket¬ 
ing almost wholly. But why rail about it? The 
navy isn’t in a business that has any relation 
?o economy only when chartering merchant 
vessels to carry fuel or supplies. 
East Greenwich Y. C. Formed. 
The East Greenwich Y. C. has been incor¬ 
porated with Joseph Lawton, Frank C. Church, 
Louis W Dugdale, Melville A. Newcomb, and 
William L. Sharpe named as incorporators. 
The club will be at East Greenwich, R. I. ine 
purpose given in the charter is to encourage 
boating.__ 
Canoeing . 
A Japanese Canoeist. 
New Orleans, Dec. 27.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Klyo S. Inui, a Japanese student, 
arrived in this city during the present week in 
a 20-foot canoe from Lake Itasca, Minn. Mr. 
Inui claims that he traveled all the way from 
the source of the Mississippi River to New Or¬ 
leans, a distance of 4.000 miles, in his small 
canoe. He says that he will go down to the 
mouth of the river, about no miles from New 
Orleans, in order to complete the entire trip. 
He left Lake Itasca on May 30, and arrived at 
Clinto, Iowa in June, where he delivered sev 
eral lectures, and left the latter place Sept. 6 
for this city. He had several companions on 
the trip, but all of them abandoned the journey 
but himself, and he arrived here alone. He 
brought with him a letter of introduction from 
Mayor Bowagann, of Lake Itasca to Mayor 
Behrman, of New Orleans, but the etter had 
not been presented up to the middle of this 
week. Mr. Inui says he is a graduate of the 
University of Michigan and has been thls 
country for eight years. . It may be that he 
will deliver a lecture in this city. I 1 . Lr. u. 
The Presidential yacht Mayflower is one of 
the most luxurious and speedy crafts of her 
kind afloat, says the Marine Journal. I his 
vessel was built abroad for an American and 
purchased by the United States at the outbrea 
of the Spanish-American war. The rooms set 
aside for the President are aft of the mainmast, 
and entrance to them is had through a library 
paneled in mahogany and well stocked with 
books. On the deck above the Presidential suite 
is a mahogany deck house, a lounge in stormy 
weather. All rooms of the Mayflower are 
more luxuriously furnished than most dwellings 
on land. Forward on the spar deck is a smok¬ 
ing room finished in mahogany, and on the gun 
deck are located rooms for twenty guests and 
officers. The dining room extends across the 
entire width of the vessel and will seat comfort¬ 
ably fifty persons. Aft of this room is a recep¬ 
tion hall, also extending across the yacht and 
finished in mahogany. The steaming radius of 
the Mayflower enables her to cruise about 4,000 
miles without replenishing fuel, an unusual 
amount of endurance, but just such a craft as 
the commander-in-chief of both army and navy 
should have at his disposal for recreation or 
^Btrtwhere the necessity comes in for a crew 
of 200 officers and men, seventy-five of whom 
are in her engine room, is a conundrum, this 
vessel as a pleasure craft, where luxury and ex¬ 
travagance held sway, was mannered by fifty 
officers and men all told, and many of them 
were much of the time in each other s way, 
consequently, to have the Mayflower filled wHh 
regular officers and a crowd of men at a time 
A. C. A. Membership. 
new member proposed. 
Atlantic Division.—Walter J. Ebbels, 560 W. 
180th street, New York city, by J. K. Hand. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.— 5924, Louis W. Halk, 68 
Clay street, Hackensack, N. J.; 5925, Frederick 
C. Dunham, 1811 Dorchester road, Flatbush, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
CROW DEPREDATIONS. 
The carrion crow has an evil reputation. It 
is looked upon as the hopeless outcast of bird 
life. But even so, says the County Gentleman, 
it is not every one who is aware that it will, 
or can, kill a full-grown partridge. Yet 
instances have been known establishing P r oo 
of the fact beyond dispute. On a marsh the 
other day some carrion crows were seen to be 
attacking something, and when they were ap¬ 
proached and they flew away it was discovered 
than on the spot lay a partridge, not quite dead, 
but with its breast torn open and partly eaten. 
Beyond a doubt it had been the victim of the 
crows In the same vicinity, on a former oc¬ 
casion, a crow was seen to circle over an ob- 
ject on the grass, which it afterward started and 
gave chase to. The animal came into view of 
the watchers and turned out to be a leveret 
one-third grown. The crow showed the greatest 
activity in circling round it and striking at its 
head (evidently in the endeavor to blind it), but 
the leveret was a bit too old and large, ana 
escaped. 
