Jan. 2i, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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A YACHT OF THE MANHASSET CUP CLASS. 
Smith; Vice-Commodore, Robert H. Mason; 
Rear-Commodore, Edward Oldman; Secretary- 
Treasurer, Vernon A. Ellsworth; Measurer, 
Frank D. Wood; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Elisha P. 
Hussey; Directors, Loran C. Davenport, 
Eugene C. Roberts, Edward Smith and Carlton 
H. White; Regatta Committee, John H. Car- 
roll, Harry L. Nuese and Frank J. Wilson. 
ernors, John O. Gilmore, B. John Anchor, 
Henry Bassett, Robert J. G. Woods. Dr. 
George C. Signor and David Risley. 
A new 46-foot sloop, building at Herreshoffs, 
is for Russell, Irving and Frederick Grinnell. 
The yacht will be ready by the opening of the 
season. 
Palmer; Financial Secretary, Fredk Richard- 
son; Recording Secretary, Charles Palmer; 
rleet Captain. Gus. Hudson. 
Yachting in San Francisco. 
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 10.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The twelfth annual New Year’s 
least of the Corinthian Y. C. was held at the 
club house at I iburon last week and was a de- 
CKled success. Under the able direction of Port 
Captain John II. Keefe, the two hundred 
hungry guests of the club were waited on in an 
entirely satisfactory manner and the great quan¬ 
tities of ducks, geese, suckling pigs and turkeys 
that were disposed of attests to the excellence 
i [* le ,, mea l' At the meeting the proposition 
ot building a new club house was given atten¬ 
tion, and it is likely that these plans will soon 
be 1 ealized. Plans have been drawn, and to 
carry out these will require the expenditure 
of about $20,000. 
The splendid weather that has been experi¬ 
enced on San Francisco Bay from early in 
November to the present time is causing many 
owners of yachts to wish that their boats were 
in commission. There has been scarcely a rainy 
or foggy day in the past two months, and the 
weather has been as warm as it usually is in 
the spring. a. P. B. 
Lighthouse Operated from Mainland. 
Lighthouse keeping from the mainland is 
possible in the case of a new lighthouse on the 
coast of Guernsey, one of the group of islands 
m the English Channel. The light house con¬ 
tains a powerful fog siren as well as an 
acetylene light, and the lighthouse keepers are 
stationed at the electrical plant on the shore, 
more than a mile distant. The fog signal is 
worked entirely by electric cable, the turning 
on and off of the electric current on the shore 
automatically starting and stopping the motor 
and pumps which force air into the reservoirs. 
This compressed air drives an air motor, which 
in turn operates the siren. 
The members of the City Point Y. C. have 
elected these officers: Commodore, H. E. Car¬ 
lisle; Vice-Commodore, R. P. Christian; Rear- 
Commodore, James Swift; Secretary, R. J. Ben¬ 
nett; Treasurer, G. A. Adams; Measurer, John 
Guest; Trustee, Thomas McClusky, 2d.; Fleet 
Captain, George Baldwin; Chairman Entertain¬ 
ment Committee, R. R. Christian; Chairman 
Regatta Committee, Thomas Plunkett. 
The board^of trustees reported the club in a 
flourishing condition, having gained thirty men- 
bers during the past year. The club owns its 
own house and lot, has 150 members, no 
launches and ten sailboats. 
Among the yachts to have new sails this sea¬ 
son, made by Wilson & Silsby, are: Commo¬ 
dore Alfred Douglas’s schooner Shiyessa IV., 
Robert Hale’s sloop Thetis; George F. West’s 
new 31-rater; Walter D. Wood’s new 18-footer 
for Narragansett Bay; F. S. Eaton’s sloop 
Nydia; E. E. Converse’s yawl Albicore; John 
W. Birds cutter Adeltha; L. H. Spalding’s 
sloop Shearwater II.; Cyrus H. K. Curtis’s 
steamer Lyndonia and M. B. Roche’s sloop 
Dormie. 
The steam yacht May was sold to Walter P. 
Bhss, through the agency of Ernest E. Loril- 
lard, and Mr. Lorillard is watching the altera¬ 
tions being made On the yacht in the interest 
of Mr. Bliss. These alterations consist of new 
accommodations forward and aft, new decks, 
new bulwarks, new deck house forward, new 
plumbing and a general overhaul of machinery 
and hull. Gielow and Orr have planned this 
work. 
The Stone Harbor Y. C. has elected these 
officers: Commodore. James Thompson; Vice- 
Commodore, Fred D. Biddle; Rear-Commo¬ 
dore, Ernest N. Ross; Secretary, Charles A. 
Farnum; Treasurer, William J. Jackson; Gov¬ 
The new officers of the Haverhill Y. C. are: 
Commodore, William Walker; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, Arthur Stacey; Rear-Commodore, Everett at 
The acetylene light is automatic, and will 
work for months without attention, the gas 
being automatically turned up at dusk ’and down 
daybreak. 
SENECA, CHALLENGER FOR FISHER CUP. 
