April 30, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
705 
Lawley is building an 83-foot cruising yacht 
of Raymond, Swasey & Page designs for A. 
C. Bruns, of New York; a 6o-footer with twin 
screws and 350-horsepower motors for W. F. 
Cochrane; a twin-screw 68-footer with two 40- 
horsepower motors for W. C. Atwater; a 4 °~ 
foot speed launch with 175-horsepower motor 
for William Hoag, all of which will be ready 
early in the season. 
Gravesend Bay motor boat men have or¬ 
ganized, so as to have some races this summer. 
The organization will be perfected at a meeting 
to be held at the Crescent Athletic Club house 
next Thursday. Several cups have been offered 
to induce owners to race their boats. 
Col. William Hester has had plans drawn for 
a 45-foot cruising motor boat by Morgan 
Barney. This yacht will have a Standard motor 
of 25 to 30 horsepower, and will be ready early 
this month. This yacht is to be named Eagle, 
and will take the place of the launch used last 
year by Col. Hester and sold recently to H. S. 
Hutchinson, of New Bedford. 
Atlantic City yachtsmen who believe that 
State laws governing motor boats and other 
craft used in tide waters cannot affect boats 
under Federal control, have secured a decision 
that the, new State law placing a yearly tax on 
pleasure craft cannot be enforced in coast 
waters. According to the decision the new law 
will only apply to boats on inland lakes and 
small streams not subject to tidal flow. 
W. B. Holbrook, of Arlington, is having built 
* a 45-foot cruiser to be fitted with an 18-horse- 
power motor. 
The New England Engine and Boat Associa¬ 
tion has arranged for two regattas this season. 
One will be at Winthrop on Saturday. July 30, 
and the other in the Charles River on Saturday, 
Aug. 20. Last year in the race there were 
thirty-two entries. 
Canoeing . 
An Ozark Canoe Trip. 
Continued from page 266. 
The big spring was now the object of interest. 
In the capacity of guide I led the way. The 
noise of the rushing waters can plainly be heard 
on the club house veranda, six or seven hun¬ 
dred yards away. The spring pool is about two 
hundred feet in diameter, almost a perfect circle. 
The spring proper is at the extreme west end 
of the pool, directly under the overhanging 
bluff. The cave of our friend Oh-se-uhma is 
but a big gash in the side of the cliff, over the 
water. 
It is difficult to accurately describe one’s sen¬ 
sations while viewing this gigantic spring. The 
water is clear, almost blue, very cool, and 
flows at the rate of over four million gallons 
per hour, almost seventy thousand gallons per 
minute. All this water comes out of a hole not 
more than eight feet across, which can plainly 
be seen at the bottom of the pool. It comes 
out, hardly with a roar, but with a noise like 
an exaggerated “sh”. The sight is most im¬ 
pressive, and words are inadequate. Thoughts 
even cease. One seems to be lifted above, out 
of this life, to something greater—to a realiza¬ 
tion of the power behind nature—Oh-se-uhma’s 
Great Spirit. It was with a feeling of rever¬ 
ence that we crawled into the cave and sat 
down, silently, to watch this great wonder of 
nature. A huge cliff, well timbered, runs 
around the south and west side of the pool. 
The lawn and park on the north side extend 
up the valley to the club house. Across the 
lower or eastern end is the old mill dam. Over 
the dam pours a torrent, a foot deep. 1 he 
noise of the water as it fell off the rocks of 
the dam was deafening, quite different from the 
noise of the spring proper. After its tumble 
over the dam the water forms a beautiful stream 
a half mile in length, emptying into the Mera- 
mec, which before the entrance of the spring 
branch is hardly worthy of a more dignified 
name than creek. 
The spring branch is alive with rainbow trout. 
The stream can be waded, and the fish take the 
fly eagerly. In the pool are some enormous 
trout—hundreds of them—very wise fish. The 
women and children - who are guests at the 
club in large numbers during the heated term, 
amuse themselves by throwing large handfuls 
of broken bread into the pool and watching 
these trout come up for it. Many a fisheiman, 
new to the resort, witnessing this, immediately 
changed from fly-fisherman to bait-fisherman, 
and removing his fly, substitute plain hooks 
baited with bread or dough, only to see his 
bait float down and over the dam, untouched. 
I had to demonstrate the wisdom of these fish 
to my companions. I secured a handful of 
bread and broke it up into small bits. Through 
two pieces a short length of light leader gut 
was drawn. The whole lot was then thrown 
into the water at one time. The rainbows rose 
instantly; the bread disappeared as if by light¬ 
ning. All of it? No, indeed; two pieces floated 
down. We ran to the dam and caught them; 
they had the gut attached. Smart fish, eh? 
While we were at the spring, dinner was an¬ 
nounced by the ringing of a huge bell. Our 
appetites had been whetted by the long ride 
over the hills and by our tramp around the 
spring, so we were in position to enjoy the 
dinner of fried t trout, helped out by. more 
chicken, fried as they only who live in the 
Ozarks can fry it—or is the Ozark appetite 
responsible? 
Mr. May entertained the girls after dinner 
by relating some of the past history of the 
place. What is now the club house was at one 
time a very important building in a thriving 
mining community. It is said that the mother 
of William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper 
man, taught school here. The old school built 
of black walnut logs still stands. A dozen 
or more cabins, more or less decayed, still 
dot the hillsides. Of a great number, only 
the fire-places and chimneys are left. 
On the preserves of the Meramec Club, as 
Mr. May calls his place, a preserve, by the way, 
of over fourteen thousand acres, seven miles 
long, wild and primitive, full of game, are 
many poinfs of interest. That afternoon we ex¬ 
plored the iron mines—abandoned with a hun¬ 
dred thousand tons of iron ore in sight. Also 
the ruins of the furnace, a huge stone affair, 
thirty feet in height. The old water wheel is 
a very interesting thing, and it is pathetic to 
see it standing there idle. An extra shaft had 
been cut out of a solid log, and it lay beside the 
wheel. Alas! it will never be used for the good 
purpose for which it was hewn. A fine speci¬ 
men it is, about twenty-five feet long and three 
feet in diameter. It is octagon in shape and 
as perfect as a casting. It now serves the in¬ 
itial cutting fiend, providing a place where he 
can use his weapon, the pocket-knife. Already 
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