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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 18, 1908. 
California Yachting. 
San Francisco, Jan. 4. —The Corinthian Y. 
C. gave its annual dinner on New Year’s Day 
at the club house in Belvedere. Over 150 mem¬ 
bers and their friends were present to enjoy 
the dinner, and the fun which accompanied it. A 
committee of the club known as “Cooks’ and 
Waiters’ Union No. 23,” had charge of the 
preparation and the serving of the banquet. 
There were several “strikes” during the enter¬ 
tainment, particularly when “boss” Keefe at¬ 
tempted to introduce into the service a foreign 
waiter, known as Caruso. After Judge 
Kavanaugh had poured oil on the troubled 
waters, the situation cleared and the men of 
“23” went back to work, except one named 
Short, who went back to dodging work just as 
before the strike. The next event was the 
presentation to Commodore John C. Brickell of 
a gold watch and chain from the members of 
the club, in appreciation of the commodore’s 
work during his term at the head of the club. 
The nominating committee, appointed by the 
directors of the Corinthian Y. C. to prepare 
a ticket of officers for the coming year, has 
posted its selections in the club house in ac- 
cordancse with the bylaws of the club. The 
names which will be submitted to the members 
at the annual meeting on the last Wednesday in 
January are: For Commodore, W. F. Stone, 
of the sloop Presto; Vice-Commodore, W. A. 
Stringer, of the sloop Freda. In addition to 
these officers the following are named as di¬ 
rectors: John H. Keefe, Charles F. Morel, L. 
J. McMahon, F. C. Raymond and Peter Lamb. 
For Regatta Committee, T. J. Kavanagh, Lester 
Hammersmith and J. K. Neyland. The Nomi¬ 
nating Committee was composed of Stuart 
Middelmas, J. H. Doan and David Abecassis. 
Owners of launches in the vicinity of San 
Francisco are forming a motor boat club. It 
will make its headquarters at Belvedere, where 
a site has been procured. Races will be brought 
off once a month, handicap events to cover a 
season from New Year to New Year. A 
machine shop will be erected on the grounds 
for the repairing of launches. Among those 
interested in the movement are Fred W. Kelly, 
W. H. L. Corran, S. L. Plant, M. B. Wallach, 
Dr. Bean. Frank T. Bowers, C. H. Morrell, 
Gordon Blanding. J. E. Hax, Charles H. 
Crocker. Hugo Kiel, Fred M. Greenwood. 
Stuart Dunbar, W. B, Leavitt, all of this city. 
A. P. B. 
A Yachtsman Explorer. 
Mr. Hollis Burgess, the Boston yacht 
broker, well-known to yachtsmen as the man 
who sailed the Dorothy at Jamestown in the 
King’s cup races, has given up his brokerage 
busines and will accompany Com. George Mel¬ 
ville Boynton, F. R. G. S., as Right Com¬ 
mander of the Discovery Darkest America Ex¬ 
pedition, which will start next spring on a five- 
year exploring expedition up the Amazon River 
in South America. 
A Gloucester fishing schooner of 135 gross 
tons has been secured to carry the party as far 
up the Amazon as it can, where it will serve 
as a base of supplies from which operations can 
be conducted. 
Mr. Boynton is a member of the Royal 
Geographical Society of Great Britain, and has 
: - snent over ten years in South America. Capt. 
Frederick Denham West will command the 
schooner. John Vessey Colcough will be second 
officer and Howard King Parker, third. The 
schooner will be rechristened the “Discovery.” 
Mr. Walter Burgess will hereafter conduct 
! the former business of Mr. Hollis Burgess. 
A New Yawl. 
Wm H. Simonson is having a new sailing 
i yawl built at the yard of Geo. Byles, City 
1 Island. She is 54ft. over all. 41ft. waterline, 
; 14ft. Sin. beam and will draw 6ft. 6 in. of water. 
The hull is all in frame and partly planked and 
1 shows a wonderfully clean and powerful shaped 
boat—that is, just new fangled enough to be a 
treat for a true sailor man to look at. 
The End of the Kahma. 
The accompanying illustration shows the fate 
that befell the English-built cutter Kahma. She 
was broken up at Robert Jacob’s yard at City 
Island in the summer of 1907 for the lead on her 
keel. The iron and steel used in her frames was 
sold for junk, the teak planking going into 
the woodpile for fire-wood. 
It does seem a shame that so good a boat as 
she has been to be sacrificed in such a manner; 
but every year we see instances of just such a 
wicked waste. No one seems to want to buy 
such boats, yet they are a far better investment 
for a man than many of the newer flimsy yachts. 
Look at the Queen Mab now lying neglected 
at one side of the yard, with Yankee and 
Mineola, two newer boats, at the other -side. 
Queen Mab is worth the two larger boats for 
a man who wants a boat to wear and last, and 
they can be run far cheaper and will give better 
satisfaction boat for boat, except for racing 
freaks, which, thank goodness, yachtsmen are 
getting tired of owning. 
Revolution Sold. 
Col. Charles Hayden, of Boston, has 
bought the turbine yacht Revolution from F. 
Augustus Heinze, and will use her for cruising 
next year instead of his yacht Wacondah, which 
is well known around Newport and ports at the 
eastern end of Long Island Sound and Narra- 
gansett Bay. The turbine, the first built in 
America, is 177ft. long, 140ft. on the waterline, 
17ft. beam and lift, depth, and is one of the 
fastest yachts afloat. 
Nevins Succeeds Hansen. 
Mr. Henry B. Nevins is the man who has 
succeeded Mr. A. Hansen in the yacht building 
business at City Island. Though it is an ex¬ 
ceptionally bad season for all, Mr. Nevins has 
quite a little work in view, and in the mean¬ 
time is saying nothing but sawing wood. He 
is making many improvements in his plant, the 
principal one being the installation of a better 
hoisting arrangement for the marine railways. 
Mr. Hansen has gone back to Denmark, but 
he told his friends before he saild he had a re¬ 
turn ticket in his pocket. 
New Jersey Y. C. Officers. 
At the annual meeting Tuesday night of the 
New Jersey Y. C., held at the new club house 
on Newark Bay, Bayonne, the following officers 
for the ensuing year were elected: Commodore, 
John A. Dennin; Vice-Commodore, Thomas 
Watson; Rear-Commodore, Charles Sage; Sec¬ 
retaries, James Owens, George Hughes, and 
George Rinker; Treasurer, James Dodd; Fleet 
Surgeon, Dr. Charles Limeburner. Thirty new 
members were elected. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—J. Chauncey Van Horn, 
Trenton, N. J.. by Wm. A. Furman. 
Western Division. — Walter Weingaertner, 
Chicago, Ill., by W. H. Piggott; Frank Haines, 
Chicago, Ill., by Robert Lockerbie. 
sail plan of bajazzo. 
