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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 18, 1911. 
CABIN CRUISER ELMO II., WINNER OF MANY LONG RACES. 
Farragut Association Dates. 
The newly organized Farragut Sportsmen’s 
Association, of Camden, has arranged the fol¬ 
lowing program for the season, races open for 
all: 
Decoration Day, May 30.—Motor and sailboat 
races, canoe and swimming races. 
Independence Day, July 4.—Motor and sail¬ 
boat races, skiff, canoe and swimming races 
and shooting match. In the evening fireworks 
and moving pictures. 
Aug. 12.—Motor and sailboat races, canoe, 
skiff and swimming races. 
Sept. 23.—Field Day of Farragut Sportsmen's 
Association. Motor and sailboats, canoe, swim¬ 
ming and skiff racing. Motor boat races for 
members only. 
June 17. July 15, and Aug. 26.—Association 
championship for 1911. Best in three races, or 
if three different winners, they to compete in a 
fourth race. 
Oct. 7 (subject to change).—Sailboat races 
for members only. 
June 18. July 16 and Aug. 27.—Association 
championship for 1911. 
Oct. 8 (subject to change). 
Association runs, all motor boats to take 
part: 
June 11.—Burlington Island Park. 
June 25.—Rancocas Creek Farm. 
July 23.—Pensauken Grove. 
Aug. 6.—Andalusia Shore. 
Aug. 13.—Timber Creek Farm. 
Sept. 3.—Billingsport. 
Oct. 1.—National Park. 
To Keep the Bilges Dry. 
A power boat with a dry bilge is about as 
rare as a winter thunder squall, and when bound 
•down stream with everything working nicely 
.and prospects of a fine cruise ahead of you, it is 
a very easy matter to overlook a trifling leak 
that might" bring the bilge water up level with 
-the floor if not attended to at regular intervals. 
One of the most ingenious arrangements for 
giving warning of an excess of leakage was in¬ 
stalled on the Wanderer, Horace C. Chandlee, 
owner, last season, and it proved to be a re¬ 
markable success, says the Washington Star. 
Mr. Chandlee explained that his reason for 
adopting the device was a narrow escape from 
sinking which he experienced with a friend on 
aboard his first gasolene yacht during the sum¬ 
mer of 1909. They were anchored just below 
Alexandria one fine night in July, and happen¬ 
ing to get out of his bunk during the night he 
was rather surprised to step in water about six 
inches deep. That meant that the actual depth 
of the water in the boat from the bottom to the 
surface on which his shoes, socks and a 
■cuspidor were serenely floating, was about one 
foot, an alarming amount for a craft that only 
required about four inches more of water to make 
a graceful plunge to the mud. Arousing his 
companion, they both worked on the pumps 
until the welcome suck was heard, but sleep was 
out of the question the rest of that night. 
That is an experience which is apt to be 
entered on the log of any motor boat, but the 
matter of preventing it is as simple as descend¬ 
ing the proverbial log. 
Provide yourself with a float such as is used 
in a closet tank, and fasten it to a timber of 
your boat, so that the copper bulb will rise and 
fall with the ebb and flow of the bilge water. 
An ordinary electric bell outfit is the next 
requisite, and the method of wiring up is merely 
to connect one strand with the handle of the 
float and place the other above the copper bulb, 
so that a 4-inch rise of water will make the 
connection, which, of course, rings the alarm. 
On the same principle as a doorbell button, you 
see, and no more intricate. 
On Mr. Chandlee’s craft, which is up-to-date 
in every particular, the moment the gong in 
the cabin rings the man at the wheel turns a 
cock which transfers the suck of the circulating 
pump on the engine to the water in the bottom 
of the boat, and in less than five minutes the 
Wanderer is as dry as a bone inside. 
Sparks. 
The little 21-footer purchased by Lyon de 
Camp, of the Reliance Company, at the recent 
Motor Boat Show, was tried on the Hudson 
River early this week over the measured mile 
course. This boat is 21 feet over all and 4 feet 
beam. She can accommodate six passengers 
in chairs in her. cockpit and is driven by a 4- 
cylinder Reliance motor 3)4 inches bore by 4 
inches stroke of 20 horsepower. On the trial 
she showed 18 miles, which is remarkably fast 
for a boat of her size. She turned up 1,150 
revolutions a minute, threw a butterfly wave 
similar to the Peter Pan III., and was remark¬ 
ably dry. Mr. de Camp intends using the boat, 
which he has not named yet. on the Fulton 
Chain Lakes in the Adirondacks. She will be 
raced. 
The Motor Boat Club of America has notified 
the British challenging clubs that the series of 
races for the British International trophy will 
begin at Huntington on Saturday, Aug. 26. 
The first annual meeting and election of 
officers of the newly organized Fulton Motor 
Boat Club was held at the club house at 138th 
street and North River. The officers elected 
for the ensuing year are: J. D. Bunting, Com¬ 
modore; W. J. Welty, Vice-Commodore; Dr. 
F. Kristella, Rear-Commodore; John Kellner. 
Treasurer; Roman Leslie, Secretary. The 
Board of Governors elected for the ensuing 
year are Charles Frelloehr, H. C. S. Stimpson, 
F. A. Sanford and L. Amberg. 
The Western Power Boat Association is 
planning to give under the auspices of the 
Illinois Valley Y. C. their third annual regatta 
at Peoria, Ill., Aug. 8 and 9. This will be one 
of the biggest power boat regattas ever held in 
inland waters. It will be open to boats owned 
by members of any recognized yacht club, and 
those interested in power boat racing should 
address Thomas H. Webb, racing manager, 
Peoria, Ill., for full particulars. There will be 
four classes, 40-foot, 32-foot, 26-foot and 20-foot 
for which, in addition to valuable silver cups, 
prizes in cash from $750 to $50 will be offered. 
The Venice to Rome cruise, which is prob¬ 
ably the biggest event of its kind ever contem¬ 
plated, appears to be arousing considerable in¬ 
terest all the world over, if one may judge from 
the list of entries. These have been received 
from no fewer than ten different countries: 
Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, 
Greece, Turkey, Egypt, the Principality of 
Monaco, and Great Britain. The entries from 
England are seven in number: The Duke of 
Westminster, the Owen Motor Co., the Wolse- 
ley Tool and Motor Co., the British Motor 
Boat Co., Capt. Beckett, Mr. Dudley M. Stone 
(who was a competitor in last year’s Dover to 
Brussels “raid”), and Mrs. M. G. Thornton, 
owner of the auxiliary yacht Modwena. 
The prizes in this race amount to $30,000, and 
American boat owners have been invited to 
take part. 
Walter T. Reed, recently elected vice-com¬ 
modore of the Seaside Y. C., of Atlantic City, 
and owner of the motor boat Vanish, is hav¬ 
ing that craft thoroughly overhauled and ex¬ 
pects to have her bow close to the starting line 
in the various contests in which she will be 
entered during the coming summer racing 
season. 
Vanish has to her credit the remarkable 
record of winning eight first prizes, two sec¬ 
onds and one third prize in the twelve races in 
which she ran during the season of 1910. In 
the other race the boat was disabled by strik¬ 
ing a log in the Hudson River. Vanish has 
raced at every club along the South Jersey 
Coast from Beach Haven to Cape May, with 
the exception of Sea Isle City. 
Canoeing. 
Eastern Division Dinner. 
The Eastern Division, A. C. A., has not held 
a dinner for some time and we want to run 
one Saturday evening, March 25, at the Amer¬ 
ican House, Boston, Mass. 
The dinner will be $2 per plate, and we must 
know at once just how many will be there. If 
you will be able to come, kindly notify under¬ 
signed as soon as you can and state how many 
tickets you want. If any of your club mem¬ 
bers or friends, who are not A. C. A. men, would 
like to come, bring them along and we will 
try to give them a good time and get them in¬ 
terested in the Association.- 
Let us have a good bunch out for this dinner 
so we can get acquainted before the season 
opens and talk over the coming meet so we can 
have one of the best camps in the history of the 
Eastern Division. 
Yours fraternally, 
Jack Howard, 
Vice-Commodore, E. D., A. C. A. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division—William H. Logan, Jr., 
1534 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa., by J. A. 
Edgar. 
Central Division—A. Frederick Saunders, 
care of Benedict Mfg. Co., East Syracuse, N. 
Y., by C. H. Mattison; Fred B. Kirchner, 1507 
Pennsylvania avenue, Allegheny, Pa., by H. D. 
James. 
MEMBER DECEASED. 
Atlantic Division—3266, Robert G. Lucas, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
