Feb. i8, 1911.] 
Bromley responded, thanking the members and 
assuring them of his support in all future under¬ 
takings. 
Other speakers were Vice-Commodore Philip 
j v,nr° n ' ex-Commodores A. L. English 
and William H. Bromley and Rear-Commo- 
dore George F. Schilling. 
The gift to the retiring commodore consists 
of a handsome sterling silver punch bowl, ladle 
and plateau, with elaborate and graceful grape¬ 
vine decorations. The following inscription ap- 
?^? rS v/ 1 u he b ? wl ; "Presented to Commodore 
•L? .. n , ■ Bromley by his fellow members of the 
Philadelphia \. C. upon his retirement from the 
omce ot Commodore, Feb. 1, 1911.” 
The following officers were elected: 
Commodore, Samuel B. S. Barth; Vice-Com- 
modore, f hilip H. Johnson; Rear-Commodoie, 
George F. Schilling; Recording Secretary, 
Sylvester W. Bookhammer; Financial Secre- 
tary, C Carroll Cook; Fleet Surgeon, Fred- 
pA, J'r Haerer : Harbor Master, Bernard 
Bloch, Measurer, Alexander G. Rea; Trustees— 
John H. Bromley, George W. Fite, Walter N. 
Stevenson W A. Christy, John H. Simon, 
Abraham L. English^ R. J. Williams; Racing 
Committee—Enos D. Garrett, Thomas W. 
Boyd, John McAvov; Nominating Committee— 
J mder d G rS R n ea R ° SS ’ Charks H - Downing, Alex- 
Prominent Philadelphia cottagers and well- 
known local yachtsmen are enrolled in the new 
Chelsea Y. C. which has been formed in that 
fashionable Atlantic City section. A club house 
to cost $30,000 will be built at once for the use 
ot the club members, who will have nearly fifty 
power craft as a nucleus to the new fleet. 
Joseph Swoyer has been elected Commodore. 
Other officers of the club are: Vice-Commo¬ 
dore V. S. Piersol; Rear-Commodore, Charles 
P. Bancroft; Fleet Captain, L. T. Rubens- 
treasurer, John R. Shields; Secretary J. b' 
iettis; Surgeon Dr. W. H. Schmidt; Quarter¬ 
master, Edward A. Smith; Trustees—John L 
Borsch, L. F Rubens, Joseph D. Swoyer 
Samuel W WHan, W. S. Piersol, C. P. Ban- 
Leo f nard r h E 'Al J ' P °% ous ’ R - M - Jereissati and 
tlfj fin • Algar - Tbe commodore has named 
the following committees: Finance—W S 
R p e a r i SO F J t°? n c' Bo , rSC |Vr J °seph D - Swoyer. 
Heal Estate—Samuel W. Whan. Dr. E. T 
Porteous, L F. Rubens. Building—R M 
Whan Satt1 ’ Leonard D - A,gar > Samuel W. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
well. For the storage of yachts there will be 
two large basins. The larger one for big 
vessels will cover about 125,000 square feet, and 
that tor smaller yachts about 60,00 square feet 
Between these two there will be three railways 
for hauling, out vessels. After these basins 
nave been finished the yachts stored at South 
Boston, which are temporarily at East Boston, 
will be taken to Neponset. They will be there 
m time to fit out this spring. 
. A t the Neponset yard considerable new work 
ll Un Jr er way - Ih the wooden construction shed 
the first work at the new location has been 
started, I his is a 53-foot cruising power launch 
or A. Laurence Berker, of New York. The 
keel for a 40-foot runabout for Thomas Cunning- 
fiam, owner of the big power cruiser Bostonian 
designs of Arthur Binney, is out. 
I he first boat constructed in the new small 
Doat shop was a 33-foot power tow-boat for 
use around the yard. This boat is equipped 
with a 40-horsepower engine. Planking on the 
55 -toot mahogany speed launch for W Dod°- e 
irom designs ot Tams, Lemoine & Crane is 
nearly finished in this shop. 
The keel and moulds of the Sonder boat from 
d f S ' gns „° , E - A- Boardman for C. F. Wood, 
ot the Corinthian Y. C., are out and work of 
setting up the boat will be started this week 
this racer will be similar to Charles Francis 
Adams 2d s Harpoon. 
Work has been started also on a 32-foot semi¬ 
speed launch for Richard D. Sears from 
designs ot Arthur Binney, and a 30-foot semi- 
speed launch for A. Angier, of Boston. The 
tatter is to be equipped with a 25-horsepower 
auto marine engine. 
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STS- 8 Point anc | re turn, Bonita, Henry Lar- 
en, skipper, was the winner, with Baby second, 
ifiese two were the only ones to finish within 
the time limit of two hours. A number of power 
race* W® hav ,l fak ? n P art in the power boat 
Piratp bUt h i e V ^ t,me came t0 start, only 
Pirate, owned by Dr. Scott, was ready and the 
PT ze sn was won by default. Tn order to disp ay 
the speed 0 f h,s boat, Dr. Scott took the boa^ 
hour tH A , Course a t a speed of thirty miles an 
served awfi V k f an ^borate lunch was 
served at the club house of the Tacoma Y C 
|uid e a great crowd was feasted and entertained 
The annual meeting of the Mosquito Fleet 
1. C. was held m South Boston last week and 
officers elected. Commodore Richard F Quirk 
deenned a renomination. The officers elected 
were; Thos J. Kelley, Commodore; David Hen- 
wood Vice-Commodore; Richard Landers Sec¬ 
retary; Cornelius J. Driscoll, Treasurer; Ed¬ 
ward Landers Measurer; Richard F. Quirk; 
rectors ^ ^ llte and Sydney Higgins,- Di- 
Dories that Won’t Sink. 
The new non-sinkable fishermen's dories now 
b°anks g h a n ve 0 J? °? - the Newfoundland fishffig 
watertight everal ingenious features. Four 
watertight compartments, located under the 
Httle cra^affoa^ Se H s ' keep the stai,ncb 
stora^Sf c fl Si an g d Pfnd^rr^ 5 f ° r the 
gn-e acces g s d to PO the ld n?erTor th o e f t t°he S tLk^ *?£t 
fhe V Ste fl n tanks aIone are sufficient to keep 
P C 1 0r A/ fl , oat - and at th e same time savs 
Uie P s ora^e o : f ani< ; S ’ - he / provide receptacles f?r 
while on? of f th lm d SUppIy ° f dry Nothing, 
A,, A A e ? f the cross seat tanks is partialfv 
M.r- h f °° d 3nd the other with water * 
% le bWtom “p. should 
capsized. These are set in the flat bottom and 
litt1e SS a ff Se * a i ’ S continu ally breaking over the 
httle craft, the ports may be unscrewed one at 
reached’ Tim t ^ f f ?° d J \ vater and clothing 
I ,, the two false keels are provided with 
bottom. S aS an 3ld t0 the men Nmging to the 
The annual meeting of the Stamford Y. C 
was held last week. The reports of the officers 
and committees showed that the club is in a 
flourishing condition and the plans for the 
coming season are such that it is hoped it will 
Affine 6 beS V n the ? Iub ’ s history. The following 
d?re #d d c ° mi ?. Itt ces were elected: Commo- 
pT , Ed A ard Y - Weber >' Vice-Commodore 
Edward Corning; Rear-Commodore, Walton 
Ferguson; Secretary, Herbert Lawton; Treas 
CiHe’s N er i )ert Lawton; Directors—Richard H 
Gillespie James S. Jenkins, Bartholomew Jacob 
George C. Blickensderfer. William H. Marlin 
Frederic G Mather. John J. Radley, Herbert C 
Reed Fra, ik Shea, Theodore R. Hoyt, Douglas 
L Llhman, W illiam W. Heroy; Fleet Sureeon 
U' an ? T - Godfrey, M.D.; Measurer, Baffi 
omew Jacob; Chaplain. Rev. Frank H Bffielow 
Me^h^fTb ' Com " llt tee fofl 1912—Schuyler 
Merritt (Chairman). Alfred S Pitt Elbert 8 
Barlow. John B. Phillip,. Oliver G Fessenden, 
The Royal Canadian Y. C. has accepted the 
challenge of the Rochester Y. C. for a race for 
chibs F ar h e e nn CllP ' * nd the c ° mmittees of the two 
clubs are now arranging the rules for the races 
hese are to be sailed late in August off 
oronto Seneca will represent the challengers 
Ah?" be sailed b - v Eric “S 
At the annual meeting of the Squantum Y. C 
at Quincy the following officers were elected- 
Commodore, George W. Hinkley; Vice-Com- 
Wa d t 0 er e ’ E D A eW: Rear '- C ommodore, 
Walter E. Kimball; Treasurer, Richard R 
Freeman; Secretary, A. F. Tobin; Measurer! 
Archie H. Briggs; Trustee for three years 
Hamilton Flood; Regatta Committee—George 
H. Bean James McCarthy, Perley C. Rogers, 
Harry Hinkley, S. W. Ferguson. 
. The Dorchester Y. C. has elected the follow¬ 
ing officers: Commodore, Hjalmer Lundberg- 
Vice-Commodore, Arthur Bowman; Rear-Corni 
Mar?*ifnH e0d ° re ^r g: Se cret ary. William 
Mace and Treasurer, Oliver Davenport. 
California Yachting. 
to L assnm P S T V yard 3t Neponset is beginning 
nW KT a PP earanc e of a yacht building 
S* anb Nearly all the sheds that were at the 
work' f°A t0 A yard have been remov ed and the 
work of dredging out the basin is progressing 
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 2 3—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Winter yachting on the coast re¬ 
ceived an impetus this month when the first an¬ 
nual mid-winter regatta of the Tacoma Y C 
was held at Tacoma, Wash., with marked suc- 
cess In speaking of the big event, Commodore 
B. F. Jacobs, of the Tacoma Y. C., said at its 
close: "It was the best regatta ever held in 
Commencement Bay, and the fact that it came 
at a time of the year when lakes and rivers in 
most other parts of the country are frozen 
makes it a more attractive feature. We have 
now demonstrated that mid-winter regattas can 
be held in the bay, and the Tacoma Y. C. in¬ 
tends to renew it annually, hoping to make it 
a bigger affair from year to year. Other yacht 
clubs were skeptical when we undertook the car¬ 
nival this year, but the visitors from the other 
clubs were highly pleased to-day and promised 
us to^help out more next year and succeeding 
years. The regatta embraced all forms of 
water sports from swimming to canoing, small 
boat and yacht races. In the yacht race to 
Old Timber Stronger than New. 
V hich IS the stronger, a piece of sound old 1 
tmber or a piece of new? We think it nrnh 
able that the majority of engineers would s-iv 
case ' ho«Lr” , ,t r "’ e sfro "^- 
case, nowever, the opinions would be mere 
guesswork for there has been hitherto so far 
poim 6 ThS\ n t - authentic inf ormation ’on this 
C P Pnebs ack - 1S n< ?'y sopphed in a paper by 
f i ' Buchanan, in which he shows as a result 
of careful tests, that sound timber a Quarter of 
sto C cL tUry ° Id 13 material] y stronger than new 
• AIr -. Pucban an’. s tests were made on white 
nJl e ’ b bu u th - ere ls 110 reas on to suppose that 
i°sed ffi r hid1H n - e ’ ° r an Z °u ther wood commonly 
used in building would behave differentlv It 
is fair to conclude that all wood maintains its 
strength except as decay weakens h o fi 
and mechanical abrasion destroy it. 
Yacht Indra Sold. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agencv has sold 
the atncdmry schooner yacht Indra.'owned by 
J - L- Arern > 1 - of Los Angeles, Cal., to a promi¬ 
nent Nevv \ ork yachtsman. 
Indra is a very handsome schooner built by 
is feet’ fi nd IS 72 , feet ° ver alI > 46 feet waterline 7 
Ls feet beam and 10 feet draft. Flush deck 
Equipped with a 20-horsepower Grant-Ferris- 
engine. She will be used in Boston waters. 
Waterway League Dinner. 
The second annual dinner of the Waterway 
League, of Greater New York, will be held 
Saturday, Feb 25, at Piel’s Hall, corner of 
Liberty and Sheffield avenue, Brooklyn. Five 
hundred yachtsmen will sit down, including over 
one hundred commodores and vice-commodores 
representing all the yachting and boating or°-ani- 
zations withm one hundred miles of the ~citv 
Applications for tickets shou’d be sent at once 
to Fred Reid, 581 St. Mark's avenue. Brooklyn. 
