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came up, so everyone went ashore while it tried 
to rain for ten minutes. As the rain had poor 
success as a shower, the lunch was again looked 
up. In the meantime telephone communication 
had been going on with the Red Dragon Canoe 
Club, and"a little later three launches came in 
view with Walter Bachmann, A 1 Fennimore and 
Hank Fleischmann at the respective wheels. The 
tide was running out the creek and the wind 
blowing up the river, which made some lively 
sea, and with some weak painters in addition, 
furnished plenty'of both work and amusement 
for some time. • * 
Eventually all got under way with about five 
canoes towing back of each launch, and at 4 
o'clock the Red Dragon Canoe Club was reached. 
About 6 p. m. supper was served on the lawn 
and before dark the visitors all got away, bring¬ 
ing to an end an exceedingly pleasant and suc¬ 
cessful cruise. 
The committee who had the trip in charge 
consisted of J. A. Edgar, Chairman; H. S. 
Lukens, W. P. Randall, W. C. D. Gauntt, F. 
Andreas, W. H. Mason. 
The next important event in the Atlantic 
Division will be the division cruise and camp, 
June 25 to July 4. The cruise will start from 
Phillipsburg, N. J., Saturday afternoon, June 25, 
at 4:30, and continue down the Delaware, stop¬ 
ping at various places and reaching Burlington 
Island, Wednesday, June 29. Here the perma¬ 
nent camp will be located and continue until 
July 4. Many short cruises will be taken, and 
on Saturday and Monday the racing events will 
be called, also the annual election. H. B. Fort, 
Burlington, N. J., is chairman of the cruise and 
camp site committee, and E. K. Merrill, c/o 
Land Title and Trust Co., Philadelphia, is chair¬ 
man of the regatta committee. Booklets contain¬ 
ing general information will go out to the mem¬ 
bers shortly. Frank T. Wilson, Purser. 
George W. Ruggles. 
Concerning Captain George W. Ruggles, who 
died at his home in Charlotte, N .Y., recently, 
the Rochester-Democrat and Chronicle says: 
Born in the village of Gaines, N. Y., Captain 
Ruggles lived in Orleans county until 1866. In 
November of that year he came to Charlotte, 
where he had since resided. During his boy¬ 
hood he had sailed to some extent on Lake On¬ 
tario, and had acquired a strong interest in 
navigation. At Charlotte he bought an interest 
in the schooner H. M. Ballou, and later sailed 
a barge for the Rochester & Charlotte Iron Com¬ 
pany. He had an interest in the Jasen Parker, 
the first tug owned in Charlotte, and was con¬ 
nected with a number of other shipping enter¬ 
prises. 
Later Captain Ruggles turned his attention to 
canoe building, and his first finished product re¬ 
volutionized the method of constructing these 
craft on Lake Ontario. It was built for F. F. 
Andrews, of Rochester, and was the first smooth 
skin canoe owned in the locality. In 1888 Cap- 
ta : n Ruggles built Eclipse for Reginald Blake, 
of the Brooklyn Canoe Club, and the boat won 
first place in the trial races for the defense of 
the cup of the International Canoe Club. It 
was, therefore, chosen to defend the cup against 
Walter Stewart, of England, and won. A num¬ 
ber of other canoes that figured in international 
contests were constructed by Captain Ruggles. 
In 1892 Captain Ruggles built his first rotary 
snowplow, and the patent was taken out on 
July 4, 1893. It was first put into operation on 
the Charlotte and Rochester electric line in 1892 
at which t : me it was pushed by a car. Captain 
Ruggles improved his invention, until the plow 
is now a self-propeller, and is used throughout 
the United States and Canada wherever enough 
snow falls to obstruct railways. The right to 
manufacture the plow Captain Ruggles let to the 
Peckham Manufacturing Company, of Kingston, 
N. Y., which turns out about twenty-five ma¬ 
chines each fall. 
On Nov. 20, 1866, Captain Ruggles married 
Miss Ellen Bliss, of Kendall, N. Y., a direct 
descendant of Miles Standish. For the past 
twenty years he had been at different times con¬ 
nected with the village government of Char¬ 
lotte, having been president in 1895. Pie was a 
member of the American Canoe Association and 
the International Congress of Inventors, and in 
addition was connected locally with the Roches¬ 
ter Y. G, Genesee Falls Lodgs, F. and A. M. 
and the Rochester Whist Club. He leaves only 
his widow. 
Captain Ruggles was a devoted fisherman, and 
at many of the A. C. A. meets on the St. Law¬ 
rence River he, with a nephew and Charles A. 
Barney, of Springfield, fished early and late 
among the islands. 
Commodere Forbush. 
Charles P. Forbush, who passed away May 
17, at his home in Buffalo, was not only one of 
the charter members and founders of the Buf¬ 
falo Canoe Club, but he was also one of the 
leading promoters of the sport of canoeing in 
the United States and Canada. He had been 
for a number of years an active member of the 
international organization known as the Ameri¬ 
can Canoe Association, and had been elected its 
commoder for the season of 1910. He had 
formerly been a member of the Buffalo Y. C. 
and had at one time served as vice-commodore 
in that club, and was secretary-treasurer of the 
A. C. A. in 1899. 
Mr. Forbush was born in Buffalo, Sept. 10, 
1863, and that city had been his home through¬ 
out' his life. After completing his education at 
the Buffalo schools, he engaged in the lumber 
business, which he followed until the time of his 
death, having been, for over ten years, manager 
for Montgomery Brothers, one of the biggest 
concerns in the lumber trade on the lakes. He 
was prominent in the Masonic fraternity as a 
member of Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M. 
Despite the exigencies of business affairs, Mr, 
Forbush found much time to devote to water 
sport, a branch of athletic activity of which he 
was enthusiastically fond, and it was due largely 
to the efforts of such men as he that canoeing 
has been placed on the sound footing which it 
now enjoys in Buffalo. 
Surviving Mr. Forbush are his mother, Paul¬ 
ine Forbush; his widow, Adele Waldron For¬ 
bush, and two sons, Walter W. and Chas. J. Jr., 
all of Buffalo. Mr. Forbush was buried in 
Forest Lawn Cemetery in his native city. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW members proposed. 
Atlantic Division. — Rudolph A. Weiss, 574 
Wythe avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., by James Mc- 
Gahan. , 
Central Division.—Brent Wiley, 652 Maryland 
avenue, Pittsburg. Pa.; Orin E. Watkins, 123 
Trenton avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa.; Thomas E. 
Simpers, 302 Gray Building, Wilkinsburg, Pa.; 
Phillip Webber, 896 Eighth avenue, Munhall, 
Pa., all by F. D. Newbury; James E. Clune, 7213 
Idlewild street, Pittsburg, Pa., by H. H. Martin 
dale. . , 
Eastern Division.—I. Summer Merritt, Ded¬ 
ham, Mass.; George W. Nay, Dedham, Mass., 
both by F. Brodbeck, and Arthur J. Clark, 44 
Pitman street. Providence, R. I., by F. J. Kenny. 
new members elected. 
Central Division.—6041, James H. Horrocks, 
54 Genesee street, Utica, N. Y.; 6042, Adolph 
G. Ahrens, 713 South avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa.; 
6047, Roland R. Davis, 915 Ross avenue, Wil¬ 
kinsburg, Pa. 
Eastern Division.—6040, John A. Cameron, 57 
New Fenner avenue, Providence, R. I., 6043? 
Norman H. Cummings, General Delivery, Law- 
rence. Mass.; 6044’ "Walter Keogh, 55 Bodwell 
street, Lawrence, Mass.; 6045, Edward H. Gar¬ 
vin, 28 Crosby street. Lawrence, Mass.; 6046, 
Chas. C. McCauley, 10 Federal Building, Man-. 
Chester, N. H. 
MEMBERS REINSTATED. 
Eastern Division. — 5289, Robert R. Bishop, 
Dedham, Mass.; 5137. J ohn L - Keenan, 358 East 
street, Dedham, Mass.; 5553 , Fred W. Mahern, 
Dedham, Mass.; 4523, Charles G. Newcomb, 21 
Everett street, Medford, Mass.; 5789, Fritz A. 
Fenger, 54 Pomeroy avenue, Pittsfield, Mass. 
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