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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 20, 1911. 
There are four windows on each side of the 
craft with diamond-shape panes of glass, which 
add largely to the exterior appearance of the 
boat. The headroom of the craft is 6 feet 6 
inches, and the floor is raised 18 inches from the 
bottom of the boat. The interior finish of the 
craft is in green and brown burlap, with galley 
finished bright. Everything has been provided 
to make the boat habitable, and she is a good, 
example of the box or scow type of house boat. 
While these boats, of course, are most efficient 
in smooth water, they will stand considerable 
sea without being too uncomfortable. The hull 
is equipped with chain plates, from which a 
chain bridle is fitted, to which is attached a 
mooring at the end of 150 feet of Jfs-'nch gal¬ 
vanized chain. 
Relics of the Clipper Maria. 
Dayton, O., May 12 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: A recent article in the New York 
Times with reference to the famous old clipper 
Maria stated that she disappeared mysteriously 
in i86q and no one to this day knows what be¬ 
came of her. If that is the case, I can throw at 
least some light on her mysterious disappear¬ 
ance, and also it might be of interest to know 
that her signal gun has been in my grand¬ 
father's, my father’s and my own possession 
since taken off the Maria in 1870 and is now 
guarding my back yard. 
My grandfather, Capt. Chas. S. Barkelew, 
known to many people who used the Hoboken 
ferries between 1875 and iSqo as "Capt. Barke¬ 
lew,'’ was in Commodore Robert L. Stevens’ 
employ practically all his life and sailed the 
Maria for him for many years. In 1870, in 
partnership with my father, he purchased the 
Maria and she was entirely refitted with a dif¬ 
ferent rigging, intending to charter her out for 
commercial purposes. It was at this time that 
the cannon was taken off and all the other 
fittings sold, but the cannon was stored in 
Hoboken until 1885. Maria made several suc¬ 
cessful cruises, but in 1874 she was chartered to 
go to Cuba, I believe, but never returned. My 
grandfather's belief always was that the crew 
threw the captain overboard and stole the boat. 
She was afterward positively identified in France 
on account of her peculiar lines and upon ex¬ 
amination the steps where her original masts 
had stood were found, they not having been 
removed when her rigging was changed. At this 
time. 1876, my grandfather went to France after 
her. but by bribing the consul at the port where 
she was being held, she was allowed to get away 
before his arrival, and although heard of a 
couple of times afterward, there was no money 
left to go after her with. The cannon, ramrod 
and a few primers are all that is left of Maria. 
Chas. S. Barkelew. 
New Yacht for Southern Y. C. Fleet. 
New Orleans, May 12. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: J. F. del Corrall, a member of the 
Southern Y. C., has just received a splendid 
new sailing boat and will enter it in the regattas 
this summer. The craft was built at Marble¬ 
head, Mass. The boat is 32-feet over all and 
has a draft of 3 feet and 6 inches. The boat 
was shipped here by rail from Boston. It is 
expected that this new craft will give the speedy 
Sinner a close race this summer. The regatta 
committee of the S. Y. C. is arranging the pro¬ 
gram for the summer, and will announce it 
soon. 
Yacht Sales. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the racing 25-foot sloop Tiger, owned by Chas. 
Platt. Jr., of Philadelphia, to George Carroll, 
of Boston, who will race her in class A. Inter¬ 
club Association of Massachusetts, the coming 
season. 
The same agency has sold the 37-foot gaso¬ 
lene launch Uncas II., owned by Mrs. E. H. 
Spaulding, of New York, to Richard Pope, of 
Waltham, Mass., who will use her in Boston 
waters. 
Catboat for T. C. Hudson. 
Theodore C. Hudson, former owner of the 
catboat Alice, has closed a contract with the 
Narragansett Bay Yacht Yard for the building 
of a 21-foot catboat. She will be designed and 
built at the Riverside shops, and while not in¬ 
tended primarily for racing she will comply with 
all the restrictions of the Inter-bay Cabin Cat- 
boat Association. 
The new boat will have a 20-foot waterline, 
9 feet 6 inches beam and 26 inches greatest draft. 
She will be a sturdy little cruiser with excellent 
accommodations for two people. The cabin will 
be finished in butternut, oak and mahogany, 
with bright deck. The contract calls for de¬ 
livery July 1, and it is thought that Mr. Hudson 
will put her in' some of the races in Class E as 
soon as she has been tried out. 
Motor Boating. 
Motor Boating Fixtures, 1911. 
MAY. 
28. N. Y. Motor Beat Club. 
30. Camden Motor Boat Club. 
30. Farragut Sportsmen’s Association. 
JUNE. 
3. Edgewood Y. C., Markham cup. 
10. Columbia Y. C. 
10. Delaware River Club, Tcrresdale, Pa. 
11. New York Motor Boat Club. 
17. Bermuda race. Motor Boat Club. 
18. New York Motor B. C., Tarrytown Light race. 
22. Portland P. B. A., cruise. 
24. Camden Motor Boat Club. 
24. New York Motor Boat Club, club. 
24. New York A. C., Block Island. 
JULY. 
1. New York Motor Boat Club, Albany race. 
1. Stone Harbor. Y. C. 
1. National Y. C., Cape May. 
2. Pacific Inti. P. B. A., start from Vancouver, 235 miles. 
4-6. Mississippi Valley P. B. A.. Dubuque. 
4. City Island Y. C. 
4. Farragut Sportsmen’s Association. Camden. 
4. New England Mfg. Association, City Point, Boston. 
8 . Yachtsmen’s Club, ocean race. 
8 . New York Motor Boat Club. 
8 . Fall River Y. C. 
13. Fall River Y. C. 
14. Marblehead race. Motor B. C., Huntington. 
15. Seaside Y. C., Atlantic City. 
15. Camden M. B. C., Reedy Island race. 
16-17. Philadelphia Yacht Club. 
18-20. Interlake Association, Put-in-Bay. 
22. Halifax Race. National Y. C. 
27. Fall River Y. C. 
29. Yentnor Y. C., Atlantic City. 
AUGUST. 
4. New York to Camden, New York Motor Boat Club. 
5. Ocean City Yacht Club. 
7- 12. Frontenac Yacht Club. 
7. Scripps Reliability cruise, start Detroit. 
8- 10. Gold challenge cup, Frontenac Y. C. 
8-10. Great Lakes P. IS. League, annual meet. 
12. Sea Isle City Y. C., Atlantic City to Cape May. 
12. National Y. C., race to Fire Island. 
12. Camden M. B. C., race to Florence, N. J. 
12. Farragut Sportsmen’s Association. 
16-19. Motor Boat Club trial races. 
19. Wildwood Yacht Club. 
19. New York Motor Boat Club, club. 
19. Manhasset Bay Y. C., open races. 
24-26. British Inti, cup races, Huntington. 
26. Cape May Yacht Club. 
SEPTEMBER. 
2-4. City Island Y. C.. cruise. 
2. New York Motor Boat Club, club. 
2. Fall River Yacht Club. 
2. New Rochelle Yacht Club. 
4. Hudson River Y. R. A.. Yonkers 
4-9. Motor Boat carnival, Huntington. 
9 Camden M. II. C., speed boats, open. 
17. New York Motor Boat Club, economy race. 
”3 Farraeut Sportsmen’s Association. 
24. New York Motor Boat Club, Rockland Light race. 
Marblehead Racer for S. Cochrane. 
Among the smaller craft at present under 
construction at the yards of the Luders Marine 
Construction Company, is a 36-footer recently 
ordered by Vice-Commodore Samuel Cochrane. 
Mr. Cochrane last year won the classic Bermuda 
race with his Eronel. The new boat will be 
entered in the Marblehead race and with the 
reliable and powerful Craig engine that is being 
installed should prove a worthy contender. The 
boat is of the raised deck type, with self-bailing 
cockpit aft, then an engine room with a com¬ 
panionway on the side to a ’obby which divides 
the saloon from the motor room. The galley 
is forward. Ample sleeping accommodation is 
for four. Gasolene is to be carried in steel 
tanks in the cockpit, where it will be accessible 
and safe. 
A 25-foot runabout is being built for Walter 
Freystedt, of New York City, for use on Lake 
Hopatcong. This model is a rather unique de¬ 
parture from the usually accepted speed boat 
hull. It has been devised by this firm after 
considerable thought, and is essentially a 
straight keel skipjack with a concave bottom. 
The crew and engine are located well aft of 
amidships, and with the fairly light construc¬ 
tion that is being used and a 50-horsepower 
motor a good turn of speed is looked for. 
A 32-footer for Albert Chesebrough will be 
launched within the next few days. This boat, 
Eltovar, powered with a ioo-horsepower Sterl¬ 
ing engine, is guaranteed to make 30 statute 
miles per hour. 
Pawtucket Motor B. C. House. 
The Pawtucket Motor B. C. is having built 
a novel club house, which is to be moored on 
the east shore of the Seekonk River. It is a 
big houseboat built on a coal barge, and when 
the house is finished it will give very comfort¬ 
able quarters and can be moved at will. It is 
not expected that it will have to be moved 
though, and is to be allowed to settle comfort¬ 
ably in the mud. Motor boating has grown im¬ 
mensely at Pawtucket, and recently a club was 
formed and an indefatigable committee has 
found a site for the home and a house for tl.e 
members. 
While seeking for a new location for a build¬ 
ing the members of the committee stumbled 
upon the old houseboat then lying on the East 
Providence shore, and after inspecting it, they 
conceived the idea of transforming it into a club 
house. The old structure was built upon a 
great barge, formerly owned by the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad Company, and was used as a 
boarding house for laborers employed upon the 
East Side tunnel. 
It is about 130 feet long by 30 feet wide. The 
first floor contained a lounging room, kitchen, 
dining room and a small office. The second 
floor is split up into about thirty sleeping apart¬ 
ments. The timbers had become water-soaked 
from their long contact with the water and mud. 
It had practically outlived its usefulness as a 
boarding house, for the hull required extensive 
repairs before it could be made watertight. 
It was not suitable for a club house until many 
alterations were made. But the price for which 
it could be purchased made the proposition an 
attractive one, and as the club included within 
its membership skilled workers in the various 
branches, it was believed that the alterations 
could be made at a somparatively slight expense. 
After the report and recommendations of the 
iommittee had been rereived members ex¬ 
pressed a willingness to aid in the work. The 
old houseboat was purchased and plans were 
made for transforming it into temporary head¬ 
quarters until the desired location for a perma¬ 
nent club house may be procured. Permission 
to anchor the houseboat near Cottrell’s whart 
on the east shore of the river, within a few 
minutes’ walk of the center of the city, was ob¬ 
tained, and after calking the seams in the hull 
the old craft was hauled up the stream one 
Saturday afternoon by a small fleet of oyster 
boats. It was warped into its position close to 
the shore just above the home of the Pawtucket 
Y. C. 
The water-soaked hull forms an ideal founda¬ 
tion, that brings the floor of the superstructure 
on a level with the top of the retaining wall of 
the bank of the river. According to plans now 
formulated, practically all partitions will be 
ripped out of the interior of the structure. A 
complete set of new rooms has been designed, 
all of which will be sheathed up and suitably 
stained and painted. 
A considerable part of the first floor will be 
devoted to a general club room or meeting hall. 
Adjoining this will be a smoking or card room, 
a dining room and back of these, on the city 
