June 4, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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A motor boat race was arranged for the 
course arounc^ Staten Island, 34 miles, going by 
way of Prince’s Bay first. This was won by 
Neptune with Niobe second. 
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon the regular 
Gravesend Bay classes were sent off. They 
went to Fort Hamilton first and then around 
by Sea Gate_and Bensonhurst. In the Q class 
Spider, owned by Hendon Chubb, was the 
winner. She started with Florence, and these 
two had a smart luffing match, which enabled 
Soya to turn the first mark in the lead. Spider 
seemed to be much more lively than the others, 
and she overhauled Soya, and then keeping in 
the lead, won easily. Florence was outlucked 
throughout the race and did not finish. Gray 
Jacket, owned by F. S. Noble, the winner of 
Saturday’s race, did not start. 
In the first division of the handicap class 
Careless won, and Joy won in "the second di¬ 
vision. These yachts are racing throughout 
the season for Thompson prizes offered by the 
commodore of the Bensonhurst Y. C. Only 
two started in the S class, and Blue Bill de¬ 
feated Bensonhurst handily. Merry Widow 
won in the knockabout class, and Bullfind was 
again a winner in the sailing dinghy class. The 
summary: 
Mixed Class—Start, 11:05—Course, 24m. 
Finish. Finish. 
Tammany . 2 31 40 Adyta II. 2 42 05 
Gardenia . 2 33 15 
Corrected times: Gardenia, 3.24.47; Tammany, 3.26.40; 
Adyta II., not measured. 
Sloops, Class O—Start, 3:05—Course, lO^m. 
Spider II. 5 30 25 Florence .D.N.F. 
Soya II. 5 35 00 
Sloops, Class S—Start, 3:15—Course, Sm. 
Blue Bill . 5 27 25 Bensonhurst .D.N.F. 
Handicap Class, 1st Division—Start, 3:10—Course, 5I4m. 
Joy . 4 51 25 Walkan II . 5 02 30 
Miana . 4 53 47 La Cubana . 5 08 05 
Handicap Class, 2d Division—Start, 3:10—Course, 4m. 
Careless . 4 46 45 Breeze . 4 54 30 
Gamma . 4 53 40 
Gravesend Knockabouts—Start, 3:20—Course 4m. 
Merry Widow .... 4 56 28 Chico .D.N.F. 
Masque . 4 59 30 Bobs .D.N.F. 
Slow Poke . 5 00 10 
Sailing Dinghies—Start, 3:55—Course, 4m. 
Bullfinch . 4 46 40 Aries . 5 03 30 
North Star . 4 49 30 Meteor . 5 03 35 
Skeets . 5 03 30 
Motor Boats Over 40 feet—Start. 11:15—Course, 34m. 
Neptune II. 3 32 10 Boffin ."4 19 28 
Motor Boats Under 40 feet—Start, 11:15—Course, 34m. 
Niobe .3 14 65 Sim .Disabled 
Sally . 4 01 15 
S. J. Hyde Buys Rainbow. 
Seymour J. Hyde, of the New York Y. C., 
has purchased the 70 footer Rainbow through 
the Hollis Burgess Agency. The yacht is at 
Herreshoff’s, and is to be rigged as a yawl and 
equipped with an auxiliary gasolene motor. 
Rainbow was built for Cornelius Vanderbilt in 
1900. She was one of four of one-design, and is 
the last to be changed. Mineola and Yankee 
have been broken up, and Virginia is now a 
houseboat. These four made a remarkably fine 
class and furnished many sensational races. 
Tolna Sails Away. 
The schooner-yacht Tolna, formerly the 
Thistle, which was owned by Commodore 
Robert E. Tod, saild from this port last Tues¬ 
day with Count and Countess Festetics de 
Tolna on board. Count Festetics owns the 
yacht, and he is her master. The yacht will 
touch first at Madeira and will later cruise to 
the far East and will be gone about two years. 
When she reaches Marseilles, a 40-horsepower 
Standard motor is to be installed on the yacht. 
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Sloop Shima Launched. ^ 
The 55-foot racing sloop Shima, built by 
Herreshoff for Morton F. Plant, was launched 
at Bristol last Tuesday week. She will race 
against Avenger, now owned by Vice-Commo¬ 
dore Harry L. Maxwell, of the Larchmont Y. 
C. Captain John Barr, a nephew of Capt. 
Charles Barr, will be her skipper. 
Harlem Y. C. 
The championship season of Long Island 
Sound was opened on Decoration Day with the 
regatta of the Harlem Y. C- It was a day to 
try the skill and the nerves of the stoutest crews, 
for out in the northward was a sky as black as 
ink at times, and squall after squall of wind and 
rain struck the gallant little fleet of racing craft 
forcing some to douse their canvas until the 
heaviest puffs, were over. The yachts were off 
the northeast buoy off Execution Light. 
There was a strong breeze from the E.N.E. 
and an ugly chop of a sea on when the sloops 
Crescent, Interim and Juanita of the first divis¬ 
ion, handicap class, were sent away at 1 \2 5. It 
was a dead beat to windward for these, and the 
other large sloops to Parsonage Point Buoy. 
From there they had a broad reach across the 
Sound to the Weeks’ Point and Prospect Point 
buoys, and a close fetch from there to the finish. 
Staggering under whole canvas in the vicious 
squalls, and with crews drenched to the skin, 
hanging far out on the weather rails, the finishes 
of the leaders in each class was as exciting a 
piece of plucky sailing as has been seen on the 
Sound in many a day. The Larchmont inter¬ 
club boats made a particularly good showing. 
Five of them started and four finished. The 
winner, A. Bryan Alley’s Festina, sailed the nine- 
mile triangular course in 1 hour 47 minutes 10 
seconds, beating L. Darrs’ Tilton by 3 minutes 
30 seconds. Richard Monks’ Windward sailed a 
great race, winning from Mimosa II. by 1 minute 
55 seconds. G. P. Granbery’s Scud won in the 
first division handicap class. 
The summary follows: 
Handicap Class, 1st Division—Start, 1415—Course, 12m. 
Finish. Finish. 
Juanita .2 &3 25 Interim . 3 48 42 
Crescent . 3 43 12 
Corrected times—Juanita, 2.08.25; Crescent, 2.13.42; In¬ 
terim, 2.17.55. 
Handicap Class, 2d Division—Start, 1:30—Course, 12m. 
Scud . 3 41 40 Bedouin .D.N.F. 
Fearless . 3 44 50 Quest .D.N.F. 
Red Wing . 3 47 06 
Corrected times—Scud, 2.07.03; Fearless, 2.1410; Red 
Wing, 2.16.26. 
Sloops, Class P—Start, 1:30—Course, 12m. 
Windward . 3 25 30 Bonita . 4 27 55 
Mimosa III. 3 27 25 Alyce .D.N.F. 
Cara Mia . 3 28 10 Dolly '. !.d!n.F. 
Amorita . 3 37 55 Sagola . D.N.f! 
Sloops, Class O-—Start, 1 :35—Course, 9m 
14 30 Naiad . 3 29 00 
Division—Start, 1:35—Course, 9m. 
15 40 
R—Start, 1:40—Course, 9m. 
33 05 
S—Start, 1:40—Course, 9m. 
03 44 Midget .D.N.F. 
One-Design—Start, 1:40—Course, 9m. 
3 27 10 Como . 3 34 45 
30 40 Lowanna .D.N.F. 
31 10 
Joyette . 3 
Handicap Class, 3d 
Chinook . 3 
Sloops, Class 
Hoyden . 3 
Sloops, Class 
Nereid . 4 
Larchmont 
Festina ... 
Triton . 3 
Dagmar . 3 
Handicap Class, 4th Division—Start, 1:45—Course, 9m. 
X| ctor y . 3 13 40 Kenosha II.D.N F 
Okee II., . 3 37 10 
Corrected times— Okee II., 1.52.10; Victory, 1.28.40. 
Manhasset Bay One-Design—Start, 1:50—Course, 9m. 
Althea . 3 45 55 Scyllan . 3 46 40 
American Y. C. One-Design—Start, 1:55—Course 9m. 
Chphora . 3 51 05 Maryola . 4 02 03 
Larchmont 21-footers—Start, 1:55— Course, 9m. 
lola . 3 59 37 Houri . 4 39 30 
Manhasset One-Design—Start, 2:00—Course, 9m. 
Ahoy .D.N.F. 
Class—Start, 2:05—Course, 6m. 
Big Bug . 3 46 15 Inez . 3 58 10 
Dragon Fly . 3 54 52 Mayfly . 3 58 18 
New Rochelle One-Desien Class—Start, 2:30—Course, 9m. 
La Rochelle .D.N.F. Nereid .D.N.F. 
Indian Harbor Y. C. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C. opened its house on 
Saturday, May 28, and on Decoration Day had 
a race for the 65-footers. They sailed a twenty- 
mile course, first to the eastward, but the wind 
was very fluky, and it was no fair*test of the 
racers. They were sent away from off Great 
Captain’s Island at 1 -.55 and 11:55, and Istalena 
finished at 2:30:35, Winsome at 2:31:12 and 
Aurora at 2 :yz .-59. 
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Motor Hooting . 
Berneyo Wins Havana Race. 
Berneyo, owned by S. W. Granbery, of New¬ 
ark, won the race from Philadelphia to Havana. 
She was the second yacht to reach the finishing 
line, being one hour and a few seconds behind 
Caliph, owned by M. E. Brigham, but on ac¬ 
count of difference in size and power, she won 
through her time allowance. The race has 
demonstrated again the absolute reliability of 
the Standard motor. Berneyo has a motor of 
25 horsepower, according to the Standard Com¬ 
pany s rating, but which under the Power Asso¬ 
ciation rules rates at 37.69. It is a 4-cylinder 
motor and the piston area is 28.27 cubic inches. 
The motor worked beautifully and drove the 
yacht at an average speed of better than eight 
nautical miles an hour. The Standard motor 
also showed well in Caroline, which was the last 
of the yachts to reach Havana. The motor in 
that yacht was exactly the same size as that of 
Berneyo, but Caroline is a much larger yacht 
than Berneyo. She is 65 feet 10K inches on the 
waterline against Berneyo’s 56 feet 10 inches, 
is 3 feet 8 inches beam measuring 13 feet 8 
inches and the area of her midship section is 
25.66 square feet compared with 21.15 square 
feet of Berneyo. Thomas Fleming Day, who 
was navigator of Caroline, said on reaching 
Havana: “It is wonderful that so small an 
engine could move so heavy a vessel at the rate 
it did.” 
The race was close and exciting. Caliph and 
Berneyo, as their logs showed, were in company 
nearly the whole length of the race. The day’s 
run of Caliph were 210, 204, 185, 160, 190, 190 
and 46 miles to the finish, a total of 1,194 miles. 
The runs of Berneyo were 207, 203, 175, 168, 
203, 188 and 56 to the finish, a total of’1,200 
miles. Caliph had a slight lead the first two 
days, which she increased by ten miles on the 
third day. Then Berneyo gained eight miles on 
the fourth day and four more on the first, so 
that at noon on Thursday Caliph had run 958 
miles and Berneyo 956. When near Jupiter Inlet 
the two were in close company, and with lights 
doused during the night, Caliph succeeded in 
getting the lead again, and she apparently made 
a better course across the Florida Straits which 
would account for the difference in the lengths 
of the passages of thet two yachts. 
At Havana preparations had been made to give 
the yachtsmen a royal welcome. Almost every 
vessel that could go outside the harbor was 
afloat, and each one had a merry party on board. 
Late on Friday afternoon a motor boat was 
sighted heading toward Morro and she was mov¬ 
ing fast under power and canvas, and while she 
was watched, another was seen still further 
away. The first was Caliph and she crossed the 
line between Morro and La Punta at 6:03:14. 
Berneyo finished at 7:04:00. Salutes were fired, 
the Havfina yachtsmen boarded the visiting craft 
and cordially welcomed the yachtsmen on board. 
Vice-Commodore Brigham and his crew on 
Caliph went ashore at once, but those on Berneyo 
preferred to remain on board and have one good 
night’s rest before accepting any of the enter¬ 
tainments that had been arranged. The navi¬ 
gators of the two yachts reported good weather 
all the way from Philadelphia. 
Ilys had done well early in the race, and she 
was close to Caliph up to Thursday, but then 
she encountered some heavy weather which seri¬ 
ously hurt her chances of success. Ilys was the 
smallest yacht in the race, and with her big 
allowance she had a good chance of winning, 
especially as she was within sight of Calioh 
when the race was within 300 miles of being 
finished. Ilys started, to cross the Gulf Stream 
at 6:25 o’clock on Friday night and encountered 
a rough sea. so that she was slow in making the 
last stage of her journey. She arrived at the 
finish at 10:35 o’clock on Saturday morning. 
During the race the engines of Ilys were stopped 
for sixteen minutes. 
Caroline reached the finish at 6:38 o’clock on 
Saturday afternoon. She lost considerable while 
crossing the Gulf Stream, being rather under- 
