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[March 12, 1910. 
at the time. Had there been but a single perch 
possessing this characteristic, it might have been 
explained as due to some injury. The fact, 
however, that two of the smaller perch, each 
about five inches in length, possessed the same 
trait, seemed to preclude such a possibility. In 
the larger fish the under jaw projected fully 
half an inch; in the others about three-eighths. 
Is it possible that these three representatives 
had perpetuated or reproduced some peculiarity 
—a possible injury—of one of their progenitors, 
the beginning as it were of some varietal trait? 
Or is it more rational to suppose that in their 
early days all three had been subjected to some 
similar injury? That certain characteristics may 
be acquired, developed and perpetuated is well 
known, but in the present instance where such a 
trait would be harmful rather than beneficial, 
impairing as it no doubt did the ability of the 
fish to secure a living, one would look for its 
loss if only through the subsequent death of 
the individual rather than its survival. 
Any observations of a similar character would 
prove of interest. 
Philip F. Schneider. 
The Anglers’ Club of New York. 
New York City, March 3.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: At the monthly meeting of the Ang¬ 
lers’ Club of New York, held on March 1, G. 
M. L. LaBranche was selected as the club’s mem¬ 
ber of the executive committee of the National 
Association of Scientific Angling Clubs and Dr. 
R. Johnson Held as the delegate to the annual 
business meeting. 
The tournament committee reported that the 
spring tournament would be held on April 7, 8 
and 9, the events to be decided on later; and the 
house and grounds committee that it was busy 
getting everything in order at the club house at 
Lackawaxen for the opening of the season on 
April 15. Edward Farnham Todd, Sec’y. 
Economic. 
After weeks of waiting and longing, Binks 
made eager preparations for a week’s trout fish¬ 
ing. The young wife, smiling joyously, hurried 
into the room, extending toward her husband 
some sticky, speckled papers. “For goodness 
sake,” he exclaimed, “what on earth are you do¬ 
ing with those old fly-papers?” “I saved them 
for you from last summer, dear,” she answered. 
“You know you said you always had to buy flies 
when you went fishing.”—Bedford Circular. 
Designed for Finland. 
Dr. Lennart Peterson, of Helsingfors, Fin¬ 
land, recently commissioned Cox & Stevens to 
design for him a sloop to race in the 5-metre 
class to take part in contests sailed at St. Peters¬ 
burg, Stockholm and Helsingfors. The boat will 
be equipped with American made sails, but will 
be built in Finland, the designs having been for¬ 
warded to the owner. 
The particulars of this boat show that she is 
quite similar in size to the Jewel Class, also 
designed by Messrs. Cox & Stevens last year and 
which proved very popular on the sound last 
summer. The new boat is slightly smaller, her 
dimensions being, length over-all, 29 feet; water¬ 
line, 18 feet 3 inches; beam, 6 feet 6 inches; 
draft, 4 feet 7 inches. Her sail area is 410 
square feet. 
A careful comparison of the Jewel Class and 
this new boat show that the latter has propor¬ 
tionately slightly longer ends and is somewhat 
finer in her entrance. She should prove a fast, 
able boat and her performance will be noted 
with great interest, as she will be in competition 
with a large number of similar vessels by other 
designers. 
The construction called for is of the very 
best throughout, her planking being of mahog¬ 
any, keel and deadwood of oak as are also the 
frames, the fastenings all being of copper or 
composition. In order to give rigidity to the 
deck, tobin bronze deck straps are worked, in¬ 
tersecting just forward of the mast, and a large 
number of knees are used, properly disposed. 
All the deck fittings are bronze. The rigging 
will be of the highest grade of plough steel and 
hollow spars will be used. The completed boat 
will be in every particular as fine a vessel as 
can be constructed. 
Sybarita Broken Up. 
The British-built yawl Sybarita, well known 
on both sides of the Atlantic and last owned 
and raced by W. Gould Brokaw, has been sold 
to a firm of wreckers to be broken up. The 
yawl is at Jacobs’ yard. City Island, where the 
work of demolishing the yacht is going on. 
The fittings, furnishings, rigging and spars have 
been removed and will be sold to yachtsmen as 
they are wanted. The mainmast has been pur¬ 
chased bv the town authorities of Montclair 
and will be used as a flagpole on the hill. The 
lead will be cut up as disposed of. Lead is always 
marketable, and the rest of the vessel will go 
to the junk heap. 
Sybarita was built at Glasgow for Whitaker 
Wright in 1900 from designs by the late George 
L. Watson, and was one of the fastest yawls 
ever built. In her first year she made a very 
creditable showing in the Mediterranean, at 
Kiel and in British regattas, and the next year 
sailed a race with the cutter Kariad, which will 
long be remembered as one of the most remark¬ 
able races ever sailed. The match was for 
$5,000 a side. It was blowing a gale when the 
yachts started out, the strength of the wind 
being given as 70 miles an hour. Topmasts were 
housed and double reefs put in the mainsails 
Sybarita won, after allowing Kariad 8 minutes, 
by 2 minutes 55 seconds. Sybarita reached a 
speed of 14.5 knots at one time, and the strain 
was so great that the copper was stripped off 
her port bow for seven feet, and on the star¬ 
board bow it was also torn away. 
Myles B. Kennedy purchased the yacht in 
1901 and raced her very successfully. In 1904 
the yacht was sold to be broken up, and Mr. 
Brokaw purchased her for a song and brought 
her to this country. She met the yawl Vigilant 
in a few races and won some races. She was 
not raced very much, and of late years has been 
mostly at anchor off Mr. Brokaw’s summer 
place at Great Neck. 
New Interclub Class. 
The 1910 inter-club one-design class, which 
has been organized for racing on Long Island 
Sound, will be a success this year. _ Nine boats 
have been ordered and are being built at Jacobs’ 
Yard at City Island. It is possible that the fleet 
will be larger, as some yachtsmen have not yet 
made up their minds about building, but they 
must do so within the next ten days to ensure 
delivery in time for the season’s racing. These 
boats have been designed by William Gardiner. 
They are 33 feet 7 inches over all, 21 feet 4 
inches on the waterline, 7 feet 9 inches beam, 
5 feet draft, have 1,900 pounds of lead ballast 
and carry 500 square feet of sail. The price of 
each boat is $1,000. These boats will be owned 
mostly by member of the Larchmont and Indian 
Harbor yacht clubs. 
Flanders Y. C. 
The Flanders Y. C., of Brooklyn, has been 
organized with thirty-five members, the officers 
being as follows: Herman Vossnack, Jr., Com¬ 
modore; George G. Worthley, Vice-Commo¬ 
dore; A. J. Keogh, Rear-Commodore; Max P. 
Miller, Secretary; J. H. Hanan, Treasurer; 
Cantain Nathaniel B. Hallock, Steward. A 
building committee has been appointed to make 
suitable arrangements for the erection of a club 
house at Flanders, L. I. 
Canarsie Y. C. 
At the annual meeting of the Canarsie Y. C. 
these officers were elected: Commodore, 
Joseph R. Hodgson; Vice-Commodore, Avylin 
H. Brook; Recording Secretary, J. Halstead 
Pntterson; Financial Secretary! George E. 
Winters; Treasurer, J. P. Sparr; Measurer, 
Herman K. Green; Trustees—For two years, 
Joseph B. Acker, John Dewes, George W. 
Masters; for one year, E. H. Taylor. 
