Some News and a Little Gossip. 
Unless the schooner Westward is purchased 
by some active yachtsman, she will not be raced 
the coming season. A friend of Alex. S. 
Cochran, the owner of the famous yacht, re¬ 
cently received a letter from Mr, Cochran, say¬ 
ing that the yacht would not be in commission 
tins year. Mr. Cochran’s health is not at all 
good and yachting is out of the question he 
fears. He had intended to bring Westward 
back from Southampton, but unless some en¬ 
thusiast purchases the vessel, she will probably 
remain where she is now hauled out. 
^ Id® is a big disappointment to all yachts¬ 
men. t hey had hoped to witness some fine 
H*ces with Westward and Elena, Morton F. 
1 lant s new yacht this year. It is a disappoint¬ 
ment, too, to Mr. Plant, and unless some good 
system of handicapping is arranged, there will 
be little sport in the big class, as Elena will 
outclass all existing vessels. 
If the owner of the new Fife schooner could 
be induced to bring his yacht to these waters, 
he would have lots of opportunities to race his 
vessel against the best that has been built on 
this side. \ acht clubs would be only too ready 
to arrange races and to offer valuable prizes, 
and he could have much more sport than he is 
likely to get in home waters. 
Se\ era] new boats are being built for racing 
in the small classes, and the racing in New 
York waters promises to be exceptionally good 
three new 31-raters are being built One is 
for a syndicate of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. and 
has been designed by Gielow & Orr, another is 
for a syndicate of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
fr' , a r tblrd 1S for Commodore William 
H. Childs, of the Indian Harbor Y C These 
three will compete for the Manhasset Bay chal¬ 
lenge cup now held by the American Y. C. It 
is probable that a new boat will be built for the 
defense of that cup, and with four new boats 
in the class, the racing in Class P will be better 
than m any other class. These boats will rep¬ 
resent different designs and different ideas, and 
success will not be due solely to good handling 
or to a boat being kept in better racing trim 
iwo boats are being built for this class to race 
in eastern waters, and it is very probable that 
another inter-city match will be arranged. 
In Class Q which races mostly on the Lower 
Bay a new boat is being built for Gherardi 
L>av, s who last year sailed the S boat Alice 
this new yacht has been designed by William 
Gardner who last year turned out Grayiacket 
the champion of the class. The older boats! 
Spider, Soya and Grayjacket will be raced 
again. 
There are two new boats building for Class S. 
one for Dr. C. L. Atkinson, of the Bensonhurst 
C.. from designs by William Gardner and 
“? e other for H. L. Whitlock, of the Brooklyn 
Y. C., by Herreshoff. These two will make the 
1 r i? S lm P°sing one. It has grown won¬ 
derfully since it was first boomed four years 
ago through Sir Thomas Lipton offering a 
cup, and now there is another cup by the same 
donor which is held by the Crescent Athletic 
kdub. It has to be won three times to become 
the property of the yachtsman and was last 
season won by R. B. Moore’s Blue Bill in a 
series of three races in which there were ten 
starters. 
At the annual meeting of the Huguenot Y. C. 
last week the following officers were elected- 
Commodore, E. A. Sanford; Vice-Commodore! 
”• vv - Uear; Rear-Commodore, T L Coe- 
Secretary, H. M. Hyrick; Treasurer. G C 
Allen; trustees (for two years)—F. B. Lewis 
and John Flolden. Commodore Sanford pre¬ 
sided at the meeting and at the sixteenth annual 
dinner, which followed it. The reports of the 
secretary, treasurer and regatta committee read 
showed the club to be in a flourishing condition, 
with a large fleet of small yachts, both of the 
racing and cruising type, and a good member¬ 
ship. 
The officers, members and guests of the 
Knickerbocker Y. C. spent a thoroughly en¬ 
joyable evening at the annual dinner of the club 
held on Feb. 15 at the Hotel Manhattan. Com¬ 
modore Louis H. Zocher, who presided, ap¬ 
pointed Vice-Commodore Charles P. Loeser 
toastmaster. After brief addresses by the guests 
of honor Commodore H. Davis Ackerlv and 
ex-Commodore A. H. Ostrom, of the North- 
P° rt Y. C., and Commodore L. M. Allen, of 
the Norwalk Y. C., the prizes won on July 16 
rgup in the race from Northport and Norwalk 
to Port Washington, were presented to Harry 
Morse and Judson Snyder, owners respectively 
of the sloops Ojibway and Petrel of the North- 
port Y. C., and to Dr. C. B. Keeler and George 
Chaderton owners of the Defiance and the 
Osprey of the Norwalk Y. C. It was an- 
nounccd that there would be a series of inter- 
club races next summer between boats from 
these three clubs. Those present at the dinner 
included Oscar Chellborg. J. O. Sinkinson, 
a J£Y Stephenson, L. D. Huntington and Dr 
E. D. Rudderow. 
The annual meeting of the Middletown Y. C. 
was held at the club house last week and the 
old officers were re-elected for the coming year 
they are: Commodore, Arthur L. Miller- Vice- 
Commodore T. M. Russell; Rear-Commodore. 
wm r - y A n- Babcock ; Secretary, Edward H. 
Wilkins; Ireasurer, G. Ellsworth Meech; Fleet 
Captain, A. J. Betteridge. Ihe committees were 
practically the same as last year. 
the elections of the Corinthian Y. C.. of Yale 
were announced as follows for the coming year 
Commodore, Leslie Soule, Dorchester Center 
Mass; Vice-Commodore, James Wallace Para 
™ r , e ’ T , L ? u ‘ 5 l. R ea r-Commodore, Carom 
Hatley, Duluth, Minn.; Fleet Captain, Hermar 
Rutgers Emmet, New Rochelle; Secretary 
John Coleman, Louisville; Treasurer, Auguste 
R. Cordier, Woodhaven, N. Y. 
Schooner for Dr. Grenfell. 
, T J? E contract for the new vessel for the use 
of Dr. \\ llired I. Grenfell, in connection with 
the work of the Labrador Mission to deep sea 
fishermen has been recently placed by Bowes & 
Mower naval architects, of Philadelphia Pa 
with A C. Brown & Sons, of Tottenville! 
Staten Island N Y. The vessel will be named 
the George B Cluett, as she is a gift to the 
Mission by Mr. Cluett, who is a life member 
of the Grenfell Association of America In a 
recently published letter Dr. Grenfell expressed 
the need of a new schooner to assist in carry¬ 
ing on the work of the Mission, and a ready 
response was received from Mr. Cluett, who 
offered to give a vessel which should in every 
detail meet Dr. Grenfell’s requirements 
The order for the design of the new vessel 
was placed with Bowes & Mower, and plans 
were drawn for a three-masted auxiliary work¬ 
ing schooner, 135 feet over all. 115 feet on the 
waterline, 26 feet moulded breadth and 12 
feet moulded depth. While designed to have 
arge cargo carrying capacity, the lines of the 
hull have been drawn to make a vessel that will 
be unusually fast under sail, and very easily 
driven by her auxiliary power. She combines 
the elements of a working schooner with those 
ot the modern fisherman, and at the same time 
has the graceful sheer and well proportioned 
overhangs of a sea-going yacht. She will be 
heavily constructed in accordance with the rules 
ot the American Bureau of Shipping, and will 
be built with selected white oak frame and 
planking and with selected long leaf yellow 
pme, where oak is not used. Everv detail of 
her construction has been carefully worked out 
by her designers to stand the hard service 
which the vessel must meet and she will be built 
under the close personal supervision of the 
architects. Special provision is made for 
strength in case of her being stranded on any 
of the dangerous, uncharted reefs of the 
Labrador coast, where she will be used, and 
provision is also made to prevent any damage 
by the ice, which she will encounter in the 
northern latitudes. 
att schooner with Oregon pine masts and will 
have a moderate sail spread. 
The officers and owner’s quarters are aft 
under a raised poop deck and trunk cabin, and 
wil consist of a saloon, mess room, pantry 
bath room and six staterooms. The galley and 
forecast e are in the house on deck" forward, 
ihe will carry a crew of captain, mate three 
men and cook. 
The auxiliary power will be a 75 -horsepower 
Wolverine kerosene oil engine, which will drive 
the vessel at a speed of six miles per hour. She 
will also have a donkey oil engine on deck for 
anc hors, sails and handling cargo She 
will be launched early in June, and will be de¬ 
livered to the owners complete and ready for 
sea on July 1st of this year. 
.This vessel is the largest gift that has been 
given to the Mission by one individual at one 
time, and she will be most valuable to the Mis¬ 
sion m carrying out its own work, and will 
also be a source of tevenue to the Mission as 
she will be chartered for scientific and sporting 
expeditions .down North" whenever oppor- 
tunity offers, and when not otherwise employed 
she will be chartered to trade out to the West 
Indies. H 
I-h" - Wilfred 1. Grenfell is an Englishman, an 
Jxford graduate. He first became interested 
m the work of the Royal National Mission to 
Deep Sea Fishermen among the fishermen of 
the North Sea. The work was medical as well 
as religious missionary work, and did much to - 
better the condition of the men of the North 
Sea fishing fleets. In 1892 he was sent by the 
Mission to Labrador to investigate conditions 
there among the fishermen in the hospital ship 
Albert, a ketch of about one hundred and fifty 
tons. After a season among the fishermen, she 
returned to England, and in the following 
spring came back to Labrador, carrving equip¬ 
ment for two small hospitals. 
From the beginning the work has grown until 
now the Society has four well equipped hos¬ 
pitals at different points along the coast, co¬ 
operative stores have been started, schools es¬ 
tablished, saw-mills built to give employment 
during the winter, and the people taught to take 
care of themselves. An inestimatable amount 
ot medical work has been done among the sick 
the poor have been clothed, and the starving 
fed. While the entire work is built upon a 
foundation of the truest Christianity, it is in¬ 
teresting to know that no man has" ever been 
engaged by the Deep Sea Mission in the capac- 
lty of priest or clergyman. Dr. Grenfell him- 
self is a man of indomitable courage and de- 
termination. He is master of his hospital ship 
Strathcona simply because he could not get a 
captain who would drive her as hard in all 
weather as he would have her driven, and the 
worst gale will not stop him when lie decides 
to go. 
I11 winter when the coast is impassable, he 
