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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 13, 1909. 
Columbia Y. C. 
The members of the new Columbia Y. C., of 
South Carolina, have perfected the organiza¬ 
tion of the club by adopting a constitution and 
by-laws and electing officers. The officers are: 
T. C. Williams, Commodore; Dr. A. B. Wil¬ 
liams, Vice-Commodore; G. Duncan Bellinger, 
Rear-Commodore; Stephen Elliott, Secretary; 
William M. Perry, Treasurer, and Dr. D. L. 
Black, Fleet Surgeon. 
The initiation fee was placed at $10, but it 
was decided to not charge this fee until after 
Jan. 1, 1910. Until then, until the membership 
of the club numbers 50, the entrance fee will 
be suspended. The monthly dues were placed 
at $1. All persons who were at the first meeting 
of the club, last Friday previous, are considered 
as members, as at that time all signed their 
purpose of being such. 
The following resolution was introduced and 
adopted: 
“Whereas, The organization of a boat club 
in Columbia and the maintenance of pleasure 
boats on the Congaree River has been made 
possible by the exceedingly generous offer of 
Mr. T. C. Williams to permanently place at the 
disposal of such organization the property lo¬ 
cated on the eastern bank of the river, at the 
point known as Granby Landing, on which is 
located a natural harbor in which boats can be 
moored and protected; therefore, be it 
“Resolved, That the offer of Mr. Williams 
be accepted and the club hereby expresses its 
deep gratitude and unanimous thanks.” 
The objects of the club as expressed in its 
constitution and by-laws is “to promote social 
intercourse among its members, to arrange for 
pleasure runs, to encourage contests of all kinds 
among owners of motor boats, to maintain the 
rights and privileges of all forms of pleasure 
or racing motorboats, to advance and support 
the sport of motor boating and the art of de¬ 
signing and the construction of such craft, the 
science of seamanship and navigation, and to 
provide a suitable club house and anchorage for 
the use of its members and to secure and main¬ 
tain hunting preserves.” 
Those whose names are signed to the consti¬ 
tution and by-laws as members of the club are: 
T. C. Williams, F. D. Kendall, Edw. H. Haber¬ 
sham, William M. Peary, Dr. D. L. Black, 
Thos. R. Stanley, Frank B. Green, Henry 
Horlbeck, A. B. Knowlton, A. A. Knee, Emil 
W. Sylvan, Jr., Edwin S. Williams, Emil W. 
Sylvan, Gustaf Sylvan, Johanes B. Sylvan, C. 
W. Moorman, M. M. Rice, Stephen Elliott, Dr. 
W. T. Boyd. S. B. McMaster, Dr. P. V. Mikel, 
G. Duncan Bellinger, Capt. Dan E. Mallory, J. 
S. Moore, J. B. Lyles, S. I. Shand, H. Mc¬ 
Gowan Holmes, and Maj. Behr. 
Yachts at Morris Heights. 
Since the close of the season, general over¬ 
hauling has been done on several of the high 
speed yachts that are laid up at the Gas Engine 
& Power Company’s works at Morris Heights. 
Among these high speed vessels are, first, 
the twin-screw steam yacht Little Sovereign, 
owned by M. C. D. Borden, which shows a 
daily average speed of thirty-three miles an 
hour, and second, the triple-screw motor 
yacht Whirlwind, Julius Fleischmann, which 
has attracted great attention because she is the 
fastest cruising power yacht in the world. She 
moves along at the rate of 26.3 miles an hour 
whenever so much speed is needed by either 
her owner or her master, Captain B. Frank 
Smith. 
Also in convenient locations in the Seabury 
yacht basins are the steam yacht Vitesse, Gen¬ 
eral Brayton Ives, with a speed of 28 miles an 
hour, and the twin screw Vixen, John D. Arch¬ 
bold, 26 miles an hour, which is used from the 
opening to the closing of yachting season by 
her owner between his summer estate and New 
York, and it is yet to be told that she has never 
followed in the wake of any other speedy vessel. 
There is the steam yacht Sioux, Frederick 
G. Bourne, 23^ miles an hour; the steam yacht 
Limited, Alfred Bostwick, 20 miles an hour; the 
steam yacht Wasp, J. T. Williams, 20 miles an 
hour; the steam yacht Lyndonia, C. H. K. 
Curtis, 20 miles an hour; the steam yacht 
Mayita, C. B. Mason, 18 miles an hour; the 
steam yacht Helenita, Commodore Frank J. 
Gould, 18 miles an hour, and the steam yacht 
Hiawatha, Adrian Baudouine, 18 miles an hour. 
The fleet in winter quarters at this plant com¬ 
prises the following yachts: 
Steam.—Scud, Samuel Untermyer; Katherine, 
John F. O’Rourke; John Duff, John F. 
O’Rourke; Chichota, Edwin Gould; Jessie, A. 
E. Austin; Velthra, S. Parker Bremer; Va¬ 
moose, Walter Lewisohn; Sea Bird, estate of 
E. G. Burnham; American, Miss Grace Watt; 
Jule, Alfred Costello; Wissoe, R. H. McCor¬ 
mick; Sissilina and Courier, B. F. Keith, and 
Privateer, R. A. C. Smith. 
Power.—So-so, A. A. Stewart; Bone Fish, 
John B. McFarren; Jessamine, M. Schrenk- 
lieisen; Sally Growler, H. L. Terrell; Sea Wolf, 
L. J. Leland; Mavis, R. A. Shaw; May, A. Van 
Rensselaer; Ranger, C. H. Hyman, Jr.; Polly, 
F. F. Proctor; Beat It, William M. Fleitman; 
Arcadia, Rev. J. D. Roach; Caprice, Mrs. T. 
L. Redfield; San Souci, C. R. Smith; Kiddid- 
didee, George McK. Brown; Squaw, Peter 
Duffie; Roxife, Albert Greenspecht; Bantam II., 
George D. Pratt; Sinbad, Mrs. Sarah W. 
Kathan; El Delgin, G. K. Williamson; Car- 
mina, J. E. Fletcher; Madge B., John F. Bren¬ 
nan; Nyanza, C. W. Provost; Wou Wou, Percy 
R. Owens; Ariadna, James Laughlin, Jr.; Chick, 
Whitney Lyon; Scarab, H. P. Davison, and 
Niobe, George P. McMinn. 
Brownie II., A. Selwyn; Kawita, Henry T. 
Bragg; Intrepid, Lloyd Phoenix; Montauk, 
James R. Raymond; Virginia, J. W. Sheehan; 
Colma, Charles J. Eisenlohr; Ready, John F. 
O’Rourke; Lady Jane, John F. O’Rourke; 
Shadow, John F. O’Rourke; Sea Gull, John 
Sherman Hoyt; Meteor, C. P. Browning; 
Frances, F. E. O’Callahan; Advance, W. W. 
Cole; Rambler, W. D. Ellis; Speedway, J. R. 
De Lamar; Gayety, N. A. Chesebrough, Cay¬ 
uga, Clarence Morgan; Greyling, John Sher¬ 
man Hoyt; Osprey II., C. R. Runyon; Tequela, 
David Dows; Speedway, Jr., F. A. Miller; 
Gallavant II., W. S. Jackson; Tusayan, J. D. 
White, and Skylark, J. H. Ottley. 
The new 40-foot motor boat built for the 
government of Salvador was recently shipped 
via the Panama Railroad and Steamship Com¬ 
pany. This boat is fitted with a Speedway en¬ 
gine of 32 to 40 horsepower and can carry a 
large number of men. 
The auxiliary yawl Cacique, Laurance H. 
Armour, of Kansas City, Mo., has had a new 
32-horsepower Speedway motor fitted and a 
number of other improvements are being made 
to the boat. 
The 70-foot power yacht Onward, A. F. 
Holden, of Cleveland, Ohio, is having a num¬ 
ber of improvements made, and in addition a 
new six cylinder ioo-horsepower Speedway en¬ 
gine is being given her. 
A new 28-foot mahogany Speedway motor 
boat, with a speed of fourteen miles an hour, 
is being built for the schooner yacht Genesee, 
James S. Watson. 
A new 42-foot cruising motor boat of the 
raised deck type, is being built for George C. 
Campbell, of New York. This boat has a beam 
of nine feet and is fitted with a four-cylinder, 
32 to 40 horsepower Speedway gasolene engine. 
Twelve miles an hour is guaranteed. All up-to- 
date improvements will be embodied in the 
craft. 
A new motor boat as tender for the yacht 
Marie, Lawrence Fabacher, of New Orleans, is 
being built. 
A 35-foot Speedway motor boat, with a speed 
of 18 miles an hour, has been sold to T. T.- 
Firth, of Philadelphia. 
There is a 45-foot high speed, sea-going 
runabout, with a Speedway gasolene engine and 
a cruising motor boat 50 feet long, of the raised 
deck type, being built for Thomas M. Turner. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
Seawanhaka Cup Races. 
There will be a race next summer for the 
Seawanhaka cup, which was won by the Man¬ 
chester Y. C. in 1905. The Royal St. Lawrence 
Y. C. challenged for a race for the trophy last 
year, but at the request of the Manchester Y. 
C. agreed to po-stpone the race for a season 
because of the match with the German yachts¬ 
men with Sonder class yachts, in which the 
members of the Manchester club were verv 
much interested. It was then understood that 
the race should be sailed this summer, and it 
is thought now that the Canadian yacht will 
visit Massachusetts waters toward the end of 
July and then meet the defender of the cup. 
Since the last race was sailed, some changes 
have been made in the conditions governing 
this cup. One of these increases the sail area 
from 500 to 625 square feet. Another change 
has been suggested regarding the number of 
men allowed in the crews of each yacht, but the 
change in this rule has not been agreed on 
yet. No change has been made in the limits 
regarding the hulls of yachts eligible for this 
race, and it is probable that the offer of the 
Southern Y. C. to send Manchester to take 
part in the trials will be accepted. The year 
after Manchester won the trophy that yacht was 
sold to a member of the Southern Y. C., and 
since then has been raced very successfully in 
regattas at New Orleans. 
The Seawanhaka cup is now fourteen years 
old. It has been stated that at least 100 yachts 
have been designed and built to take part in 
races for the trophy. These yachts have been 
estimated as costing $1,500 each, making a 
grand total for yachts built in these waters of 
$150,000. The first three matches for the cup 
were sailed with half raters or 15-footers. 
From 1897 to 1900 the boats built were 20- 
raters, or 17.5 feet on the waterline. Since 1900 
they have been 25-raters with 500 square feet of 
sail, and they are built to scantling restrictions, 
insuring safe and seaworthy hulls. 
The cup was first offered by the Seawanhaka 
Corinthian Y. C. as an international challenge 
trophy for small yachts, and was challenged for 
in its first year, 1895, by an Englishman, Arthur 
Brand, who brought over a half-rater named 
Spruce IV., designed by Linton Hope. The ! 
Seawanhaka Y. C. successfully defended the 
cup. The next year the Royal St. Lawrence 
challenged and sent G. Herrick Duggan’s Glen- 
cairn, which took the cup to Canada. 
Since then eight American challengers, and 
one English yacht have tried for the cup, and 
in each match until 1902, a Duggan boat easily 
defended the cup, and since then F. P. Shear- 
wood has been prominent in designing yachts 
for this class. The challenges for the cup since 
1896 have been: 
1897— Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. with 
Momo, designed by Clinton H. Crane. The cup 
was defended by Glencairn II. 
1898— Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. with 
Challenger, designed by Clinton H. Crane. The 
cup was defended by Dominion, a double-hulled 
yacht. 
1899— Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. with 
Constance, designed by Clinton H. Crane. The 
cup was defended by Glencairn III. 
1900— White Bear Y. C. with Minnesota, a 
scow. The cup was defended by Redcoat. 
1901— Island Sailing Y. C., Isle of Wight with 
Grey Friar. The cup was defended by Senne- 
ville. 
1902— Bridgeport Y. C. with Tecumseh, a 
western scow. The cup was defended by Tri¬ 
dent, designed by Shearwood. 
I 9 ° 3 —Manchester Y. C. with Bolutoo, de¬ 
signed by W. Starling Burgess. The cup was 
defended by Thorella II. 
1904—White Bear Y. C. with White Bear. 
The cup was defended by Noorna. 
In 1905 the Manchester challenged and built 
two yachts, Manchester and Tunipoo II. These 
yachts were tried out on Lake St. Louis, where 
the matches were sailed. The defending yacht 
was Alexandra, but she was beaten by Man¬ 
chester, which yacht brought the cup back to 
this country after it had been away for nine 
years. 
