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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 21, 1910. 
Block Island Races. 
The Block Island races of the New York A. 
C. will be started on Saturday, June 25. The 
sailing craft will be started in the morning and 
motor boats in the afternoon. The sailing race 
is for cruising yachts 32 feet and under on the 
waterline and they must be deked or cabin 
cruisers. All crews must be amateurs and there 
are no restrictions as to number or manner of 
carrying sails. The allowance is based on the 
over all length and is ten minutes a foot. Yawls 
and auxiliaries get an additional 5 per cent. 
There are five prizes in the open event with a 
special for the handicap class and a special for 
the best time. 
Last year there were forty-two starters. Com¬ 
modore H. A. Jackson, Jr., who is chairman of 
the committee, hopes that there will be at least 
fifty this year. Entries will close on June 20. 
The motor boat race is for vessels 25 to 40 
feet long and the prize is a Thomas Fleming 
Day cup. 
Kaiser’s Cup for Sonder Boats. 
The German Emperor will give the prize for 
which the American and German Sonder class 
yachts will compete at Kiel next year. Three 
yachts are to represent each country and the 
conditions will be same as governed the races 
sailed off Marblehead last September, when Joy- 
ette won the Taft cup. The Eastern Y. C. an¬ 
nounces that trial races to select the three 
American yachts will be sailed off Marblehead 
in September about two weeks after the series 
with the Spanish yachtsmen has ended. Those 
yachtsmen who are willing to take their yachts 
to Kiel only will be allowed to compete in these 
trials. 
Burgess <0 Race 30-Footer. 
Hollis Burgess has purchased of Victor I. 
Cumnock, of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., 
the 30-foot sloop yacht Nike which he will race 
on Narragansett and Massachusetts bays. Nike 
was originally the sloop Oiseau which was built 
for Harry L. Maxwell by Herreshoff, and which 
was the crack of her class. She is 43 feet over 
all, 30 feet on the waterline, 10 feet beam and 6 
feet 6 inches draft. She will in future be known 
as Virginia. 
Motor 'Boating. 
The Race to Havana. 
Five of the six yachts entered will start to¬ 
day in the race from Philadelphia to Havana. 
They will be sent away at noon and expect to 
reach Havana on Friday next. They will remain 
there for four or five days and then race back 
for prizes offered by the Havana Y. C. and the 
Seaside Y. C., of Atlantic City. The starters 
and those on board will be : 
Caroline.—M. Frank Dennis, owner; Walter 
M. Bieling, Captain; Thomas Fleming Day, 
Navigator; Morris W. Whitaker, Fred Thurber, 
Joseph Kerr, John Sillen, engineer and two pro¬ 
fessionals. The distinguishing number of Caro¬ 
line is three, and her night signal a green light 
aft and the Yachtsmen’s Club signal, red and 
green, and white and green lights forward. 
Loantaka.—H. S. Peters, owner ; Warren Shep¬ 
pard, Navigator; Hiram Weller, Dr. C. S. Street, 
Percy Cook, J. W. Sheppard, Thomas Teasdale, 
John Price and Chris Miller, engineer. Her 
number is four and her night signal blue. 
Berneyo.—S. W. Granbery, owner; Capt. W. 
J. Ryan, Navigator; Edgar W. Roberts, Alexan¬ 
der McDonald, F. J. Williamson and three pro¬ 
fessionals. Her number is five and night signal 
yellow. 
Caliph.—M. E. Brigham, owner; Captain Love¬ 
land, a professional navigator; Peter G. Hall, 
chief engineer; Rufus Lennig, Richard Mitchell, 
Dr. Ward Brinton, Henry Bowes and Charles 
Curran. Her number is two and night signal 
red. 
Uys.—Commodore J. C. N. Whitaker, owner; 
B. D. Reese, Navigator; C. L. Lagen, N. G. Bel¬ 
knap, W. A. Winterer, Theodore Presse, Engi¬ 
neer ; T. C. McKenzie, Steward. Her number 
is one and night signal white. 
All will show the Yachtsmen’s Club signal 
forward at night. 
British International Trophy. 
At present the Automobile Club of America 
says that the race for the British International 
trophy will be held off Larchmont, and the 
Motor Boat Club of America has announced 
that it will be at Huntington. The British chal-* 
lengers have been notified that both courses have 
been selected, and some rather caustic comments 
have been made in the British yachting publica¬ 
tions about the conflict between the two clubs. 
It is hoped that all will be cleared up soon to 
the satisfaction of all. In the meantime the 
British are working for the recapture of the 
trophy. The Duke of Westminster has ordered 
a new boat which will have a Wolseley-Siddeley 
motor and which it is expected will be as fast as 
his 50-footer Ursula, which is the fastest motor 
boat in the world. S. E. Saunder, a prominent 
naval architect on the other side, has designed 
a 40-footer, and Mackay Edgar has Maple Leaf 
II., which at present is having a cracked cylinder 
head repaired. The trial races to select the 
three challengers are to be held on July 9 under 
the auspices of the Motor Yacht Club. 
Atlantic Motor Boat Race. 
A motor boat race across the Atlantic is now 
being planned. Thomas Fleming Day is the pro¬ 
moter and he thinks that after the Havana race 
the next step is to race from the Lower Bay 
to Havre, about 3,000 miles. The conditions 
have not yet been arranged, but the race will be 
for yachts under 100 feet in length. One yacht 
is already being planned. The main trouble in 
a race of this kind will be the question of fuel. 
A boat 70 feet long that could make eight knots 
with a 30 horsepower motor would take 375 
hours to cross the ocean, and consuming four 
gallons of fuel an hour, would require 1,500 
gallons. For safety sake she should carry 2,000 
gallons, and to do that would require four tanks 
each 6 j 4 feet long and 3*4 feet wide and 3% 
feet high. A motor of 100 horsepower put into 
the same vessel, all conditions being equal, would 
increase the speed to about 12.5 knots, and she 
would use to make the journey 3,000 gallons or 
two more of these tanks full. The conditions 
will be framed after the Havana race. 
Motor Cruiser for Henry B. Joy. 
Henry B. Joy, of Michigan, a member of the 
New York Y. C., has purchased a raised deck 
cruiser of the Gas Engine & Power Company 
similar to the cruiser Vagabond, which was ex¬ 
hibited at the Motor Boat Show. The boat is 
42 feet over all, 9 feet 6 inches beam and 3 feet 
draft. It is equipped with a 4-cylinder 32-40 
horsepower Speedway motor and eleven to 
twelve miles an hour is guaranteed. The gaso¬ 
lene tank is separated from other parts of the 
yacht by watertight bulkheads. In the cabin 
there are sleeping accommodations for four and 
the cockpit is large and has room for half a 
dozen chairs. The boat was one of the most 
attractive at the show and was generally ad¬ 
mired. It has liberal freeboard and a flaring 
bow which should make it a staunch dry boat 
under almost any conditions of weather. 
The Midget Squadron. 
A new motor boat club known as the Midget 
Squadron, of Jamaica Bay, has been formed with 
headquarters at Boegel’s Pier, Bergen Beach. It 
has 100 members and a fleet of sixty launches 
ranging in size from 16 to 48 feet in length. The 
squadron will have an inaugural parade on Deco¬ 
ration Day, when it is expected that there will 
be 100 launches in line. The officers are: Com¬ 
modore, Charles W. Mead; Vice-Commodore, 
Fred Boegel; First Division Commander, W. C. 
Hambler; Second Division Commander, E. D. 
Ainslie; Third Division Commander, W. C. Fur- 
ley; Engineer, E. G. Wadsworth; Secretary, 
Wal. Edgerly; Treasurer, S. E. Brooks; Trus¬ 
tees, one year, T. Birmingham, G. A. Schlaglin; 
Trustees, two years, G. W. Travis, J. C. Tully. 
Sparks. 
Frederick K. Burnham, owner of Dixie I. 
and Intruder, has been chosen rear commodore 
of the Motor Boat Club of America to succeed 
Henry R. Sutphen who has resigned. 
The Parkside Motor Boat and Canoe Club has 
been formed at Reading, Pa. Walter Lotz is 
president and George Freyberger, secretary. 
Ground has been leased at Haine’s Locks on the 
Schuylkill and a club house is being erected. 
A double ended cruising motor boat built from 
designs by A. P. Homer and R. E. Winslow, 
building at Bath, Me., for Harry Thompson, of 
Lowell, will be launched this month. This boat 
is 45 feet long and 10 feet 6 inches beam. 
The Cochrane 6o-foot speed boat, built by 
Lawley from designs by Clinton H. Crane, has 
been guaranteed a speed of thirty-one miles an 
hour. She will be used at Bar Harbor this 
summer. 
Murray & Tregurtha have under construction 
a 58-foot cruising motor boat for M. H. Latti- 
mer, of Seattle, Wash.; a 48-foot cruiser for 
H. A. Knowles, of Boston; a 6o-foot cruiser 
for O. C. Sanborn, of Boston; a 57-footer for 
Robert Saltonstall. This firm recently shipped 
a 38-footer to Robert Henkel, of Detroit, and is 
rebuilding the 65-foot cruiser Ogarita, owned by 
E. V. Benjamin, of New Orleans. 
Commodore Dutee W. Flint’s flagship Unome 
11 . wintered at Nyack. She arrived at the Edge- 
wood Y. C. last week and this year is painted 
black. 
The 40-foot cruising boat, built by Sanford & 
Goddard, at Bristol, for William Almy, has been 
named Quonset. Another craft at the same 
yards for Marc T. Vincent, of New Bedford, is 
called Aidyl. 
Commodore Dunbar’s cruiser Artmar, built at 
Nock’s Yard, is almost finished. She has had 
some very satisfactory trial trips. 
Canoeing . 
Canoes and the Canals. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Thinking that you might desire to publish 
them, I give below copies of two letters that 
passed between myself and the Superintendent 
of Public Works of New York. This is a copy 
of my letter: 
Buffalo, N. Y., May 11. 
Superintendent of Public Works, 
Albany, N. Y. 
Dear Sir —I desire to take a trip in a canoe 
through the Erie Canal and the Cayuga and 
Seneca Canal from Buffalo to Cayuga .Lake and 
return, and I am informed that the proper pro¬ 
cedure in order to get permission to pass the 
locks, etc., is to write you for a permit, giving 
the name of tlje boat. I therefore desire to ask 
if you will have the kindness to send me the 
required permit. The canoe is a small 16-foot 
canvas-covered canoe called Lotus. I expect to 
go some time after the middle of June. If not 
asking too much, and there is any such thing as 
a map of the canal showing the location of locks, 
etc., that I could get, I should greatly appreciate 
that. 
I shall be very greatly obliged if you can ac¬ 
commodate me in the manner indicated. 
Yours very truly, 
Benjamin W. Hall. 
This is a copy of the reply: 
Albany, N. Y., May 13. 
Mr. Benjamin W. Hall, 
Dear Sir— Replying to your letter of the nth 
