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Curley; House Committee—Charles H. Esting- 
hausen, William Boehmke, F. G. Overbeke; 
Regatta Committee—J. C. Bishop, William B. 
Alexander and James L. Mahon; Power Boat 
Committee—F. G. Overbeke and Otto Neh- 
renst; Auditing Committee—F. G. Overbeke, P. 
E. Hintz and Arthur C. Treiber; Entertain¬ 
ment Committee—Vance A. Hines and James 
L. Mahon; Membership Committee—William 
Boehmke, H. L. Chandler, J. H. Seymour, A. 
Treiber, 0 . P. De Mars, E. L. De Mooy, Dr. 
E. W. Burley, P. E. Hintz, E. H. Croft and 
Otto Nehrenst. 
At the annual meeting of the New Haven Y. 
C. the plans for the new club house at the Cove 
were talked over at great length, but nothing 
definite was done about setting a date for the 
completion of the building. The secretary an¬ 
nounced that some portion of the necessary 
$15,000 of the holding company bonds had been 
subscribed, but not half of the amount needed. 
It was voted not to purchase the present house, 
which will probably be rented for part of the 
coming season until the new house, if started, 
can be completed. 
The following officers were elected: Commo¬ 
dore, William S. Pardee; Vice-Commodore, W. 
W. Price; Rear-Commodore, Otto G. Ramsay; 
Secretary, Harry B. Ekmark; Treasurer, Wil- 
lian D. Scranton; Trustees—Frederick Brewster 
and R. P. Taylor; Racing Committee—G. Ed¬ 
ward Osborn, C. E. Skinner, R. J. Ferguson, 
Norman Gillette and Frank H. Mason; Meas¬ 
urer, Edward E. Crampton. 
The annual meeting of the American Y. C., 
of Newburyport, was held last week and the 
following officers were elected: Commodore, 
John H. Wheeler; Vice-Commodore, George 
W. Marquand; Rear-Commodore, Edward A. 
Moseley; Secretary and Treasurer, Edward 
Jacoby; Measurer, A. S. Dyer; Collector, G. A. 
Johnson; Executive Committee—H. W. Little, 
Charles Lundberg, Herbert S. Noyes, J. H. 
Johnson; Regatta Committee—George W. Mc¬ 
Kay, George W. Marquand, Charles A. Saf- 
ford, Charles S. Lundber and David P. Page. 
Admiral Montagu’s Stories. 
Admiral, the Plon. Victor A. Montagu is 
one of the best known of the British yachts¬ 
men, and not only does he pay attention to 
yachting, but he is a fisherman, good shot and 
hard rider to hounds. While in the navy he 
saw active service in the Baltic in 1854, in 
China in 1857 and in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8 
He retired in 1886. As a yachtsman he has 
been very prominent in the sport, having 
owned and raced Corsair in 1892, Vendetta in 
1893, and then Carina. 
tf Admiral Montagu has recently published 
‘'Reminiscences,” and in this work tells some 
admirable stories. 
Speaking, for instance, of his grandfather, 
Waterloo Marquis of Anglesey, there is the 
following amusing anecdote: “When I and my 
brothers were still children,” he writes, “I 
recollect our being sent for on several’ oc¬ 
casions to my grandfather’s dressing-room. 
Here we would find him sitting in his bath, 
and he used to frighten the very life out of us 
by pointing his stump of a leg at us, and the 
more, we yelled the oftener would he repeat this 
joke. Further on, in a chapter devoted to 
yachting, there is another tale of a tub equally 
amusing in its way, and perhaps of more in¬ 
terest to our readers. It was at Kiel. “I was 
having my bath at about 7 a. m.; some one 
shouted to me down the hatchway that the 
Emperor was coming alongside in his gig. 
What was I to do, naked as I was? ‘Come 
up at once, Montagu,’ shouted his Majesty; ‘I 
want to give you your instructions.’ ‘But I 
am naked, your Majesty.’ ‘Never mind that; 
come up!’ Luckily my bath-towel was of a 
large caliber, so I poked my head and shoulders 
up the hatchway. ‘You look like old Nero in 
that get-up!’ smilingly remarked his Majesty 
as he proceeded to give me verbal instructions 
for the day's racing.” 
He writes proudly of his two Queen’s cups, 
one won with Corsair, the other with Carina. 
Of the German Emperor there is another amus¬ 
ing story. “I had a curious adventure on one 
occasion at Cowes,” he says, “during regatta 
week. We had just finished a race, and had got 
hold of our moorings, and were going through 
all the performances of stowing sails, etc. 
Usually at such times, after a long, fagging day, 
one is able to enjoy a well-earned repose, a 
cup of tea, and a pipe, and to yarn with one’s 
companions over the details of the race. Sud¬ 
denly I heard a voice announcing through the 
skylight that a boat from the royal yacht was 
coming alongside. The German Emperor was 
then on board his yacht, the Hohenzollern, in 
the harbor, the Prince of Wales was on the 
Osborne, and her Majesty Queen Victoria was 
at Osborn House. It was nearly 7 p. m. when 
I was handed a huge sealed envelope, from 
which I extracted a letter telling me that the 
Comptroller of the Household was commanded 
by her Majesty the Queen to invite me to dine 
at Osborne at 8:30 that same evening. No 
sooner had the royal yacht boat shoved off 
that there appeared another and a similar craft. 
This came from the Emperor’s yacht Hohen¬ 
zollern, and bore another huge envelope ad¬ 
dressed to me. On breaking the massive seal 
j—why a German seal is always so large that 
it covers nearly one side of an envelope I never 
could fathom—I found, to my consternation, 
that I was invited to dine with the German 
Emperor on the same day and at the same 
hour! 
. "Reader, put yourself into my flannels and 
jedsey for a moment—tired, covered with salt¬ 
water, a humble creature, a mere nobody em¬ 
barrassed with double honors, and not having 
the slightest idea which command I was to 
obey on such a momentous occasion! I al¬ 
ways went to Cowes in those days, luckily for 
me, armed with the necessary clothing— 
breeches for Osborne and full dress for foreign 
entertainments. But to decide which honored 
invitation I was to accept passed the wit of this 
man. 1 he hour of 7 p. m. had already struck, 
so that there was no time left to pause or think. 
Such a journey to Osborne from a yacht lying 
in the roadstead, picking up one’s kit from a 
locker at. the club en route, occupies a con¬ 
siderable period of time. 
“ ‘Skipper,’ I called out, ‘is there anybody on 
board who can semaphore to the royal yacht? 
If so, tell him to signal to the equerry-in-wait- 
ing to place my dilemma before the Prince of 
Wales, and ask him which command I am to 
obey.’ 
“The signal came back that the Prince was 
not on board, and was not expected till 7:30 at 
the earliest; nor was there anybody on board 
who could supply the necessary information. 
“There was nothing to be done but to await 
his Royal Highness’s return with such patience 
as I could command, and with the thought ever 
present in my mind of the long journey in a 
fly through the crowded streets, across the 
dreaded floating bridge, that is never on the 
side where it is needed, up that long steep hill 
to Osborne House, which can only be ascended 
at a walking pace. At 7:15 there was still no 
news, but a quarter of an hour later, when I 
had almost given up hope, a signal came from 
the Prince of Wales, saying that I was to obey 
my Sovereign’s command to dinner, and to 
appear on board the Hohenzollern afterward 
in full dress. 
“I was soon off ashore to the club, where I 
did not take long to don tights and long stock¬ 
ings, and, accompanied by my full-dress tin 
case, made the best of my way to Osborne in 
a fly, after promising double fare to the driver 
if I arrived at the Castle in time .for dinner. 
“Any one who knows Cowes in the height 
of the regatta week must be well aware that 
the streets at eight o’clock at night are densely 
crowded and almost impassable. That we drove 
over somebody or something I felt certain, as 
there were constant bumps; but, at any rate, I 
was not stopped, though just as we were ap¬ 
proaching the floating-bridge the bell sounded 
for its departure. ‘Hi! hi!’ I yelled at the top 
of my voice; ‘hold hard a second! I have an 
important despatch for Osborne! Luckily my 
ruse was successful, and, as luck would have 
it, I arrived at the Castle only five minutes late, 
to learn with relief that the Queen did not sit 
down to dinner until a quarter to nine. 
"When dinner was over, her Majesty, who 
had, I supposed, been apprised of my invita- 
tion to the Emperor’s dinner-table, spoke a 
jew kind words to me in her accustomed charm- 
mg manner. ‘And now you must be off to the 
Emperor, she said, ‘or you will be very late.’ 
I hastily departed, and resumed my journey in 
the fly. 
“My next difficulty was to find a place in 
which to change from tights into full naval 
uniform. I decided to do. this in the cab, and 
implored the driver to go slowly down the hill 
As everybody knows, there is little difficulty in 
pulling off clothes and putting others on in a 
cab, even in total darkness, but there comes a 
moment when one has tO' stand up to complete 
one s toilet, and to stand up in a low flv is no 
easy task. ‘Driver, just pull up a moment,’ I 
said, ‘and open the top of the cab.’ ‘It's pour¬ 
ing with rain, sir,’ was the answer. ‘Never 
mind that,’ said I. ‘You get on top, too and 
hold your coat over me.’ This arrangement 
answered beautifully, and in due course of time 
I arrived at the landing and’ went off in a 
steam launch to make my obeisance to his Im¬ 
perial Majesty. _ The Emperor received me in 
his usual cordial manner, and, after a good 
description of all my adventures, 
Well, anyhow,’ he said, 'I have never been 
asked to dine with two Sovereigns the same 
day. Do you want more dinner?’ ” 
“On one occasion his Majesty honored me 
by coming to race on board my yacht, the 
Carina, when, we were lucky enough to win the 
first prize. At times, when we were diving into 
the seas in the strong wind, I admit to having 
felt a certain amount of anxiety with such an 
important charge on board, but all went well, 
and he seemed thoroughly to enjoy it, and did 
not mind getting wet.” 
Every one who races has his own opinion 
as to the size of yacht he prefers for the first- 
class racing. For my part, I think that of late 
years we have built too big crafts. They are 
decidedly more expensive, and, to a certain 
extent, in heavy weather involve too great risk 
to life and spars to be pleasant. All round 
the coast, with but few exceptions, tides have 
to be studied as of first importance, and these 
large vessels, drawing such an inordinate depth 
of water, are in consequence severely handi¬ 
capped. Then, again, they are quite unsalable 
when their racing days come to a close. I 
think that a cutter should not exceed 150 tons 
as the outside limit for racing in British 
waters.” 
His advice to beginners, short, but to the 
point, is that they should first adopt small-boat 
sailing in order to acquire knowledge and self- 
confidence. 
The Sun and Moon and Tides. 
The regular periodic rise and fall, or flow 
and ebb, of the oceans and the waters tributary 
to them is due to the attraction of the sun and 
moon, according to the Marine Journal. By 
the law of gravity the attractive force of these 
two commanding heavenly bodies decreases 
with the square of the distance. For this rea¬ 
son the nearer surface of the earth is attracted 
more strongly and the further surface less 
strongly than the center. 
The waters of the ocean are free to yield to 
this tendency, and hence tend to be heaped up 
into four tidal waves, two lunar and two solar, 
with the lunar greatly in predominance. The 
solar tides are noticeable chiefly as reinforcing 
or diminishing the lunar tides. 
With the revolution of the earth on its axis 
these waves cause two principal alterations of 
high and low tide every twenty-four hours in 
every part of the ocean. 
