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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April i, 1911. 
Gravesend Bay Dates. 
The meeting of the delegates to the Yacht 
Racing Association of Gravesend Bay, held in 
the Crescent Athletic Club house last week, was 
well attended. The clubs represented were At¬ 
lantic. Brooklyn, Bennsonhurst, New York 
Canoe and Crescent. It was the annual meet¬ 
ing and officers were elected. President George 
R. Le Sauvage, who has been elected Commo¬ 
dore of the Bensonhurst Y. C., retired, and Dr. 
J. E. De Mund, of the Atlantic Club, was chosen 
to succeed him. W. L. Inslee, of the B'enson- 
hurst Club was chosen Secretary to succeed 
Louis J. Tiemann, of the Canoe Club. Henry 
J. Gielow was re-elected Measurer. 
Some slight changes were made in the by¬ 
laws. and after transacting routine business, the 
report of John R. Brophy and W. L. Inslee, a 
special committee to arrange new courses, was 
discussed. This committee reported in favor of 
adopting the special courses of the Atlantic Y. 
C. and four new ones which made buoys well 
down the Lower Harbor turning marks. It 
also made Buoy 13 the turning mark of some 
courses instead of the Craven Shoals buoy, 
which has always been the cause of trouble. 
After considerable discussion it was decided to 
adopt the Atlantic courses and four new ones, 
but to keep Craven Shoals as the mark of one 
set of courses. 
As usual the racing yachtsmen and their 
friends will dine together at the Crescent 
Athletic Club house. This dinner is for all the 
members of the clubs in the association, and it 
will be held on Thursday, April 20. Then the 
season's prospects will be talked of, and those 
who are to meet in races will become acquainted 
with one another. 
The season will last from Saturday, May 27, 
until Saturday, Sept. 16. There will be twelve 
championship events and for the winner of the 
championship in each class the association offers 
a handsome plaque. 
The schedule is as follows: 
May 27—Atlantic Y. C. 
May 30—Brooklyn Y. C. 
June 3—Bensonhurst Y. C. 
June 10—Atlantic Y. C. 
June 17—New York C. C., first championship. 
June 24—Crescent Athletic Club, second cham¬ 
pionship. 
July 1—Atlantic Y. C.. third championship. 
July 4—Bensonhurst Y. C. 
July 8—Brooklyn Y. C., fourth championship. 
July 15—Crescent Athletic Club. 
July 22—New York C. C. 
July 29—Atlantic Y. C., fifth championship. 
.Aug. 5—Marine and Field Club, sixth cham¬ 
pionship. 
Aug. 12—Brooklyn \. C., seventh champion¬ 
ship. 
Aug. 19—Atlantic \. C.. eighth championship. 
Aug. 26—Bensonhurst Y. C., ninth champion¬ 
ship. 
Sept. 2—Marine and Field Club, tenth cham¬ 
pionship. 
Sept. 4—Atlantic Y. C. 
Sept. 9—Bensonhurst Y. C., eleventh cham¬ 
pionship. 
Sept. 16—Atlantic \. C., twelfth champion¬ 
ship. 
White Bear Y. C. 
1 11 e^ annual executive meeting and banquet of 
the White Bear Y. C. was held recent!}'' with 
forty of the members in attendance. In the 
election of officers, George H. Wing was 
chosen as Commodore; Worrell Clarkson as 
Vice-Commodore; William Motter, secretary, 
and J. W. Daniels, Treasurer. 
Donald 1 aylor, rated as being one of the best 
sloop handlers in this part of the country, and 
the man that won the championship of the Ilya 
Lake Yachting Association Class B more times 
than any other person, was elected captain. 
Following the election of the principal offi¬ 
cers of the club, four men were elected to act 
with the officers on the executive committee: 
These are H. S. Ottis, O. L. Taylor and F. W. 
Pinska. The new members of the regatta com¬ 
mittee elected are F. L. Wann, Stewart Lem¬ 
mon, E. M. Van Duzee, Jr., last year captain of 
the club, and Jack Ordway, he of curling fame. 
The principal business taken up was the read¬ 
ing of the treasurer’s report, which report 
showed that the club was absolutely free from 
debt and had a surplus in the treasury. The 
season will start Decoration Day, and will close 
Labor Day. This shortens the season a few 
weeks, as the last races of last year were run 
on Oct. 1. 
Long Race for Yale Club. 
The Corinthian Y. C. at Yale, which will cel¬ 
ebrate its thirtieth anniversary this year, has 
added a long-distance race as one of the features 
of its spring program. The race will be from 
New Haven to Bridgeport, or to some other 
point along the Long Island shore. The club, 
as usual, will hold its annual cruise to New 
London at the time of the Harvard-Yale boat 
race, and will have a regatta for club members 
on Memorial Day. The club uses what is known 
as “Yale dories,” a type of boat that is 21ft. over 
all, with 14ft. 7in. on the water line, and cost¬ 
ing $100. They are large enough to accommo¬ 
date four or five persons. 
Edgewood Y. C. Plans. 
Thf. annual meeting of the Edgewood Y. C. 
was held last week and plans for the season 
were announced. The regatta committee this 
year will be Ben. Flanklin, chairman, assisted 
by Messrs. Stone. Peiper, Brown and Streeter. 
The Edgewood plans for the reason are nearly 
complete. Opening with a big regatta on Ladies’ 
Day, June 3, there will be races for all classes 
for cash prizes and the race for the Markham 
trophy. Many special events of interest to the 
fair sex are being arranged, and it is thought 
the attendance in both spectators and racing- 
boats will be the largest in the history of the 
club. 
On July 4 and 8, and Aug. 19 there will be a 
special series of races. The 21-footer, Class Q 
and the big sloops in Class P will race together 
in one class with a limit of rating of from 21 to 
31 feet for the handsome trophies given by Mr. 
John Stone, which are valued at $50, $35 and 
$15. In addition the club will give a bronze 
trophy for the first boat in each race. On the 
same dates the 18-footers will race for the W. 
D. Wood trophy, with second and third prizes 
given by the club. The catboats, Classes D and 
E, will race together as one class for the Edge- 
wood trophies, and the small power boats lor 
the Palmer engine cup for boats under 20 feet 
in length. 
On the night of July 8 the boats of all classes 
will have a moonlight race around Prudence 
Island, measurement based on over all, less 
one-half overhang, and allowance of seven sec¬ 
onds per foot per mile. Henry Ford, the auto¬ 
mobile man of Detroit, is giving the first prize 
for this race and there will be several other 
prizes. 
The Interstate knockabout series between the 
Rhode Island and Massachusetts teams will be 
held below Conimicut on July 31, Aug. 1, 2 and 
3. Vice-Commodore Markham has given three 
$50 cups for the winning teams and the Folsom- 
Thurston Company a very striking champion¬ 
ship pennant for the boat with the highest 
score. One of the river steamers will be 
chartered for the entire series to convey the 
press representatives from Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island, and the club members who desire 
to see the series at moderate cost. 
Edgewood will open the week of racing of 
the N. B. Y. R. A. on Aug. 5, off the club 
house. Cash prizes will be given in all classes. 
On Sept. 4 there will be a special race for Class 
Q and the 18-foot knockabouts for suitable 
trophies. In addition to the above Commodore 
Flint has given a $75 trophy for the club 18- 
footer making the highest season percentage, 
and another $75 trophy is offered for the cham¬ 
pionship in cat class D, the inter-bay boats. 
Altogether the Edgewood Y, C. has laid out a 
season of racing which will break all records 
both in point of number of races and value of 
trophies. 
The officers of the Edgewood Y. C. are: 
President, James T. Thornton; Commodore, 
Dutee W. Flint; Vice-Commodore, Charles F. 
Markham; Rear-Commodore, John D. Peck; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Harry Fulford; Di¬ 
rectors—Herman G. Possner, R. W. Jennings, 
Benjamin Peckham, Harvey J. Flint and Emil 
G. Peiper. 
Ocean Going Steamer for W. A. Lydon. 
William A. Lydon, of Chicago, has con¬ 
tracted with the Pusey & Jones Company, of 
Wilmington, for an ocean-going steam yacht of 
more than 600 gross tonnage. The new 
steamer, which is to be named Lydonia, has 
been designed by William Gardner, and will be 
built under his supervision. She will be the 
largest yacht built in this country since 1902. 
Mr. Lydon had a steamer built two years ago 
from Mr. Gardner’s designs which was 168 feet 
over all. This boat has been sold, as it was 
too small. 
Lydonia II. will be 215 feet over all length, 
171 feet on the waterline, 26 feet beam and 12 
feet 3 inches draft. She will have single screw 
and be schooner rigged, with pole masts. The 
hull will be built of high tensile steel with six 
watertight bulkheads, dividing the vessel in five 
compartments. Amidships will contain the ma¬ 
chinery. The compartments forward and aft of 
the machinery space are for the owner and 
his guests’ accommodations, and the crew’s 
quarters are all forward. 
The after living quarters on the berth deck 
will consist of six single and one double state¬ 
room and three bathrooms. Access to the 
quarters is from the upper deck house by a 
stairway which will lead to a center passage¬ 
way finished in African mahogany. The two 
staterooms directly aft of the machinery space 
and the double after stateroom will be finished 
in white mahogany, with satinwood panels. Red 
mahogany furniture and white enamelled panel 
work rubbed to a dull smooth finish, will make 
up the interior of the other staterooms. Each 
stateroom will have a large bed, wardrobe, 
bureau, chiffonier, cheval glass, sofa and sta¬ 
tionary wash basin. 
Mr. Lydon’s quarters will be forward of the 
machinery space, and will consist of three com¬ 
municating staterooms, bathroom and lobby, 
and all, except the bathroom, will be finished in 
white mahogany. Special attention has been 
given to the ventilation of the living quarters 
between decks, including overhead skylights, in 
addition to the large air ports in the hull. 
The main deck house will be continuous for 
90 feet. At the forward end will be the dining 
saloon, and the library and music room will 
occupy the after section. A passageway inside 
of the deck house will connect the deck saloons 
and give access to the berth deck quarters and 
shade deck. Selected African mahogany, with 
figured panels and furniture to match, will form 
the decorative scheme for the passageway, 
library and music room, and the dining room 
will be finished in carved Java teak. The galley 
and pantry will be in the deck house with direct 
communication with the dining room. 
The shade deck will extend to the side of the 
house and afford a ioo-foot promenade. The 
chart house, with flying bridge above, will be 
on this deck. Two separate compartments for 
officers and sailors, each having a separate 
mess, will be set aside for a crew of thirty men. 
The complement of boats will include a 28-foot 
motor launch for owner’s use, a 20-foot power 
boat for the ship’s use, a cutter dinghy and two 
lifeboats. 
The yacht will be driven by a 4-cylinder, triple 
expansion engine, which will give a normal 
speed of twelve knots. The cruising radius will 
be 3,500 knots without recoaling. The yacht 
will be lighted throughout by electricity and 
there will be a navy type 5,000 candle power 
searchlight, together with a wireless outfit. 
Mr. Gardner says delivery will be made by 
Jan. 1, 1912. Mr. Lydon will place the vessel 
in commission immediately for a winter cruise 
to the West Indies and South America, and 
upon his return will take the yacht to Chicago, 
the home port. 
