The Waterway League. 
The Waterway League is growing fast. It 
now has among its members more than eighty 
yacht clubs represented, and the commodores 
or presidents of those clubs are vice-presidents 
of the league. The first annual meeting was 
held in Brooklyn last Tuesday, and these officers 
were elected: President, Major Edward R. 
Gilman; First Vice-President, Com. Jos. B. 
Acker; Second Vice-President, Hon. Herman 
A. Metz: Third Vice-President, Jos. W. 
Masters; Chairman Board of Governors. Com. 
Geo. J. Vestner; Secretary-Treasurer, Fred 
Reid; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Geo. W. 
Masters; Recording Secretaries—Robert C. 
Kerr, Jr., Macon A. C.; James Wallace, Jr.. 
Colonial Y. C.; Butler C. Pfeiffer, Morris Y. 
C.; C. M. Strong, Nassau Y. C., and Geo. N. 
Sprague, Ben Machree Y. C. 
An idea of what the league is doing can be 
gathered from the following report issued by 
its Secretary, R. C. Kerr, Jr. 
At the last meeting a vote of thanks was 
tendered Hon. Herman A. Metz for successfully 
terminating the Pelham Bay Park matter. Our 
yacht clubs are still there. 
Captain Chauncey Thomas, U. S. Navy, 
writes: “I am very glad to inform you that the 
Light House Board has approved my recom¬ 
mendations, and the lights asked for by your 
league for Jamaica Bay, Sheepshead Bay, Rock- 
away Inlet, East and West Ways, Belle Harbor 
and Bailey’s Rock, New Rochelle Harbor, will 
be established at the opening of navigation in 
the spring.” 
At the request of our league to be heard in 
opposition to the Humphrey’s bill, H. R. 6865, 
Congressman Wm. M. Calder, one of our mem¬ 
bers, reports that he has seen Congressman 
Humphrey who has agreed not to press his bill 
against motor boats at this session. 
Extract from by-laws: “Members of recog¬ 
nized yacht and boat clubs, upon applying for 
membership, shall be so admitted upon pay¬ 
ment of dues. The Commodore or President 
of such club upon qualifying shall become a 
Vice-President and a member of the Governing 
Committee.” 
Notice.—We need the services of lawyers on 
our law committee. Members of our league 
who are members of the bar, willing to serve 
the league without compensation. 
There are no paid officers to solicit new mem¬ 
bers for this league. Do not wait for us to 
tell what w r e can do for you, but attend the 
meetings and learn for yourself. 
The first annual dinner of the league will be 
held on Saturday, Feb. 26, at Piel’s Hall. 
Liberty and Sheffield avenues. East New 
York. Commodore William J. Moran, of 
the Jamaica Bay Y. C., is chairman of the 
committee in charge of the dinner, and 
it is expected that it will be a big affair. Tickets 
for the dinner are $1.50 each, and can be had 
by applying to Fred Reid, Treasurer, 581 St. 
Marks avenue, Brooklyn. 
The vice-presidents of the Waterways League 
are: Jos. B. Acker. Com., Canarsie Y. C.; 
Herman A. Metz, Larchmont Y. C., Brooklyn 
Y. C. and Bell Harbor Y. C.; Geo. J. Vestner, 
Com., Colonial Y. C.; Wm. A. Strong, Com, 
Nassau Y C.; Jos. W. Masters. Com., Belle 
Harbor Y. C.: Leonard Richards. Com. At¬ 
lantic Y. C.; George P. Sanborn, Com., West- 
hampton Country Club Yacht Squadron: Wm. 
Armbruster, Com., Point Pleasant Marine Club; 
J A. Mollenhauer. Com., Penatacmit-Corinthian 
Y. C.: Wm. S. Braisted. Com., Morris Y. C.; 
Wm. C. Towen, Com., Brooklyn Y. C.; Wm. 
E. Powers, Com.. Old Mill Y. C.: J. E. Schiff- 
macher, Com.. Sheenshead Bay Y. C.; Arthur 
Monro, President, Varuna Boat Club; G. E. 
Conley, Com., Hudson River Y. C.; Joseph H. 
Weaver, Com., American Model Y. C.; Wm. J. 
Moran, Com., Jamaica Bay Y. C.; C. H. 
Phillips, Com., Royal Arcanum Y. C.; E. A. 
Chapman, Com., Bergen Beach Y. C.; P. 
Howard Reid. Pres., Rockaway and Sheepshead 
Ferry Co.; Charles W. Caccia, Pres., Iron Clad 
Marine Club; C. A. Schiffmacher, Com., Key¬ 
stone Y. C.; Geo. J. Harrison, Com., Metro¬ 
politan Y. C.; Frank M. Cronise, Com., Bays- 
water Y. C.; James F. Scully, Com., Home Y. 
C.; Wm. J. Hogg, Com., Stuyvesant Y. C.; 
Arthur Bradley, Com., N. Y. Motor-Boat Club; 
T. W. Sheridan, Com., Sea Cliff Y. C.; Wm. A. 
Lee, Pres., Seawanhaka Club; Robert C. Ferris, 
Com., Lafayette Y. C.; Elbert A. Bennett, 
Com., New York C. C.; J. W. A. Butler, 
Com., Flatlands Y. C.; Frederic Thompson, 
Com., Bensonhurst Y. C.; Robert Edgar. Com., 
Yonkers C. C.; John Wilson, Com., Circle Y. 
C.; Samuel G. Smith, Com., City Island Y. C.; 
A. A. Rayner, Com., Ben Machree Y. C.; Ed¬ 
ward Effinger, Com., Bay View Y. C.; Francis 
A. Deck, Navigator, Ki Ki Y. C.; Charles 
Garzina, Com., Gayety Y. C.; Geo. W. Jarchow, 
Com., Harlem Y. C.; R. B. Stoddard, Com., 
New Rochelle Y. C.; J. H. Curtiss, Com., 
Morrisania Y C.; Francis Holly, Com., Hud- 
sc-n-Fulton Y. C.; John T. Rooney, Pres., Har¬ 
bor Terminal League; Chas. N. Beekman, Com.. 
Yankee Model Y. C.; W. W. Hulse, Pres., In¬ 
land Waterway League; E. J. Wright, Pres., 
Gilbert Rod and Gun Club. 
The chairmen of the committees are: 
Purification of Waters.—T. H. Northridge, 
M.D., Canarsie Y. C., 320 Cumberland street, 
Brooklyn. 
Executive.—L. M. Pearsall, Bell Harbor Y. 
C., 281 Hancock street, Brooklyn. 
Channels—D. S. Van Wicklen, Old Mill Y. 
C . 1473 Pacific street, Brooklyn. 
Legislation.—O. F. Finnerty, President, 
Coney Island Board of Trade, 2957 West Eighth 
street. Coney Island. 
Civic.—Nathaniel H. Levi, Sea Cliff Y. C., 
The “Berlin,” Broadway and Willoughby 
avenue, Brooklyn. 
Press.—George Hopper, Bergen Beach Y. C., 
Bergen Beach, N. Y. 
Membership.—F. D. L. Prentiss, Atlantic Y. 
C.. Sea Gate, Coney Island, N. Y. 
Entertainment.—Harry P. Whiteman, Varuna 
Boat Club. 1619 East Fifteenth street. Brooklyn. 
Water Sports.—Edmund Lang, Belle Harbor 
Y. C., 348 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn. 
Stations—Jos. R. Hodgson. D.V.S., Canarsie 
Y. C., 367 Flushing avenue. Brooklyn. 
Inland Waterways.—Benj. F. Daly. Jamaica 
Bav Y. C.. Hollands, Rockaway Beach. 
Commerce.—Wales B. Lounsbury, Canarsie 
A. C.. 536 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. 
Audit.—Irving T. Warren. Colonial Y. C., 206 
West 106th street. New York. 
The Bermuda Races. 
The Atlantic Y. C. intends to make the sail¬ 
boat race to Bermuda one of its season’s 
fixtures. This race has grown to be one of the 
most important events of the yachting year, 
and the Atlantic Club made it such a success 
last year that Thomas Fleming Day, who 
originated the race has asked that club to man¬ 
age the race again. Horace E. Boucher, chair¬ 
man of the Regatta committee of the Atlantic 
Club, says that he expects this year’s race to 
be even more interesting than last year’s. Five 
yachts started then, and Amorita was first to 
finish. She was beaten on time allowance bv 
the schooner Margaret, owned by George S. 
Rnnk, of the New York C. C. 
The Atlantic Y. C. has decided to start the 
race on June 25. The date is several weeks 
later than has been the custom to start Ber¬ 
muda contests. It is believed, however, that it 
will be more satisfactory to yachtsmen, as it 
has been found that an earlier date is most in¬ 
convenient for the majority of ljoat owners. 
The date is the same as the one set by the 
Motor Boat Club of America for its annual 
power boat race to Bermuda. It is the inten¬ 
tion of the Atlantic Y. C., to offer its dock as the 
starting point for the power boat races, so that 
those interested in the contest may see the 
boats off without the great inconvenience that 
has been experienced at the start of other 
motor boat races to Bermuda. In all prob¬ 
ability the Motor Boat Club of America will be 
glad to accept the offer of the Sea Gate Club. 
Although the conditions of the sailing race 
will not be announced until after the regular 
meeting of the club at the Hotel Astor on Feb. 
14, Mr. Boucher said yesterday that they prob¬ 
ably would be the same as those that governed 
the contest last year. These called for a bona 
fide cruising craft of substantial construction 
and rig, having full decks and watertight cock¬ 
pit. _ The race was open to yachts of any or¬ 
ganization yacht club in the world and the 
boats were divided into four classes. Prizes 
were offered in each division and the time 
allowance was figured 45 minutes to the foot for 
the full course, estimated to be 670 nautical 
miles. There was no allowance for rig. 
Eastern Yachting. 
The Corinthian Y. C., through William L. 
C’arleton, chairman of its Regatta Committee, 
has challenged the Boston Y. C. for a race for 
the Quincy cup, to be sailed next summer, and 
Chairman Bryan S. Permar, of the Boston Club, 
has accepted the challenge. The Quincy cup 
was won last year by C. P. Curtis’s Sonder class 
yacht Ellen. The race will this year be for 
Sonder boats, and it is expected that the East¬ 
ern. Quincy and Manchester clubs will also 
challenge, and it is possible that some club the 
other side of the cape will be represented, pos¬ 
sibly the Bensonhurst Y. C. with Joyette, owned 
by Commodpre William H. Childs.” 
With this race eastern yachtsmen have six 
races_ on hand, two of which are international. 
The international races are those for the Sea¬ 
wanhaka _ challenge cup, and the Sonder class 
with Spain. 
The Seawanhaka cup races will begin off 
Manchester on July 24. The challenging club 
is the Royal St. Lawrence, and it has been re¬ 
ported that the Canadians will send their three 
challengers to Marblehead and try them out 
there in order that they may be" thoroughly 
tested under conditions they will meet in the 
cun races. 1 he Sonder boat races with Spain 
will be sailed in September off Marblehead, and 
trials to select the three American boats will 
be sailed in August. The committee of the 
Eastern Y. C. will shortly issue instructions 
to those yachtsmen who are thinking of partici¬ 
pating in these races. 
There will be two races for the 18-foot knock¬ 
abouts. The Lakewood Y. C.. of Cleveland, is 
to send a new yacht to Marblehead to try to 
win the La Belle cup recently offered by A. B. 
Finlay, owner of Dorchen IT. The Knockabout 
Association recently invited the Narragansett 
Bay Association to send three of their knock¬ 
abouts around the can^ to sail a match race, and 
the challenge, it is said, will be accented. 
The sixth race will be with dories for the 
Knight cun. The Portland Y. C. will try for 
the third time to capture that cup. and will send 
three dories to Marblehead to race against 
three dories of the Massachusetts Association. 
These races will probably be sailed during the 
mid-summer series of the Corinthian Club. 
