Feb. 22, 1908.I 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
ARTHUR BINNEY. 
(Formerly Stewart & Binney.) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker, 
Mason Building, Kilb^ Street, BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, ''Designer,” Boston. 
C. Sherman Hoyt. Montgomery H. Clark. 
HOYT (El CLARK. 
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YACHT BROKERAGE. High Speed Work a Specialty. 
17 Battery Place, New York. 
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Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects, 
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Telephones 1375 and 1376 Broad. 
Marine Models 
Of ALL KINDS 
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91 Maiden Lane, New York 
C. D. CALLAHAN. Naval Architect. 
Designer of Yachts and Motor Boats. Construction supervised. 
San Pedro, CALIFORNIA 
Canoe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Varieties, 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative Facts. 
By C. Bowyer Vaux (“Dot”). Illustrated. Cloth, 
168 pages. Price, $1.00. New and revised edition, 
with additional matter. 
A complete manual for the management of the canoe. 
Everything is made intelligible to the veriest novice, and 
Mr. Vaux proves himself one of those successful in¬ 
structors who communicate their own enthusiasm to 
their pupils. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain, 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
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Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple, untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their uses and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much time 
and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
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Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
borhood used to meet of evenings and dull outdoor days 
“to swap lies.” 
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Men I Have Fished With. 
Sketches of character and incident with rod and gun from 
chilohood to manhood; from the killing of little fishes 
and birds to a buffalo hunt. By Fred Mather. Il¬ 
lustrated. Price, $2.00. 
It was a happy thought that prompted Mr. Fred Mather 
to write of his fishing companions. The chapters were 
received with a warm welcome at the beginning, and 
have been of sustained interest. The “Men I Have 
Fished With” was among the most popular series of 
papers ever presented to Forest and Stream readers. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Racing Rule Changes for 1908. 
Advocates of radical changes in the yacht 
racing rules and measurement restrictions were 
decisively defeated at the meeting of the Atlantic 
Coast Conference assembled at the New York 
Y. C. club house on West 44th street last 
evening and failed to pass all of the decided al¬ 
terations in the code that have been agitated in 
yachting circles recently. There will be no .re¬ 
duction in the time allowance scale, so persist¬ 
ently urged on every hand; no scantling rules 
or cabin house restrictions, as the New England 
yachtsmen advocate; no change in the draft 
regulation, and no alteration of class require¬ 
ments. Yachts built during 1908-9 may be con¬ 
structed anywhere in a class desired and will not 
be required to rate at the top, as has been sug¬ 
gested. 
In spite of- these sweeping negative actions, 
the conference adopted same very important 
changes, both in the measurement rule and in 
the racing laws. The changes in the measure¬ 
ment rule dealt altogether with the method of 
taking measurements and were designed to cor¬ 
rect some flagrant abuses and to secure greater 
accuracy. 
The measurement changes dealt with the sail 
area, quarter beam length, and displacement, 
the three principal factors in the rule. Of 
these, the most important was that affecting 
displacement. Under the old conditions, dis¬ 
placement was computed very inaccurately, and 
it was never possible to get the same result 
from any two measurements. Hereafter the dis¬ 
placement must be computed by Simpson’s rule, 
and the areas to which it must be applied are 
those taken at cross sections secured by divid¬ 
ing the length into ten different parts, instead 
of five, as at present. With ten divisions, nine 
cross sections result. 
The measurement of the quarter beam length 
must hereafter be taken from the boat itself by 
actual measurement, and no designer’s certifi¬ 
cates will be accepted, while, with regard to sail 
area, changes were made in the manner of 
measuring headsails and the lug foresails of 
schooners. The measurement for lug foresails 
will be taken horizontally as the distance be¬ 
tween the masts instead of the length of the 
fore boom, while the headsails will be measured 
perpendicularly from the deck to the highest 
halliard block. This affects the measurement 
decidedly. 
The conference also confirmed the action of 
the New York Y. C. last year changing the 
racing rule referring to marks, so that a mark is 
always a mark, and not anomalously only after 
the starting gun sounds. 
All the prominent yachting organizations in 
the country were represented by delegates. In 
organizing W. Butler Duncan, Jr., of the New 
York Y. C. was elected chairman and Charles 
Lane Poor, of the New York Y. C., secretary, 
while a committee of three, including Charles 
Francis Adams, 2d, of the Eastern Y. C.; Victor 
I. Cumnock, of the Y. R. A. of Long Island 
Sound, and Charles Lane Poor, was appointed 
to draft the new regulations embodying the 
changes adopted. Those attending were: 
Atlantic Y. C.—John R. Brophy and Henry 
J. Gielow. 
Beverley Y. C.—F. E. Cabot and Robert W. 
Emmons, 2d. 
Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead—Henry A. 
Morss and W. L. Carlton. 
Corinthian Y. C. of Philadelphia—George 
Vreed. 
Eastern Y. C.—Charles Francis Adams, 2d, 
W. B. Stearns, and Henry Taggart. 
Larchmont Y. C.:—H. Wilmer Hanan and 
Charles P. Tower. 
Y. R. A. of Long Island Sound—O. H. Chell- 
borg, Victor I. Cumnock, George P. Granbery, 
Frank Bowne Jones, and Edward MacLellan. 
Y. R. A. of Massachusetts—Charles Francis 
Adams 2d, and R. M. Owen. 
Y. R. A. of the Great Lakes—Dr. C. G. 
Jennings. 
New York Y. C.—W. Butler Duncan, Jr., 
Charles Lane Poor, William Halleck, PI. De 
Berkeley Parsons, and C. Sherman Hoyt. 
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Naval Architect, Engineer, and 
Yacht Broker. 
No. 1 Broadway, (Telephone 2160 Recto r^ New York 
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YACHT BUILDERS 
Office: Boston. Works: Marblehead, Mass. 
Canoe Cruising and Camping, 
By Perry D. Frazer. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $ 1 . 5 *. 
Full of practical information for outdoor people, 
whether they travel in canoes, with pack animals or 
carry their outfits on their own backs. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Building Motor BoaJs and 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
‘'HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PUNS" 
A complete, illustrated work on the building of motor 
boats and the installing, care and running of gasolene 
motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, 9 
folding drawings and S full-page plans. Price, post¬ 
paid, $1.50. 
The author is a builder and designer of national repu¬ 
tation. All the instruction given is defined and com¬ 
prehensive, 40 diagrams, 9 folding drawings and 8 full- 
page plans. That portion of the book devoted to the 
use and care of gas engines should be most carefully 
perused by every individual who operates one. The book 
is well worth the price asked for it. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A Complete Manual of Practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 page*. 
Cloth. Price, $3.00. 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon¬ 
stration, one ’ of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline, and 
the other a cruising cutter of 22ft. waterline. Both de¬ 
signs _ show fine little boats which are fully adapted to 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what is 
said applies to all wooden yacht building according to 
the best and most approved methods. 
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Ca.noe and Boat Building. 
A Complete Manual for Amateurs. Containing plain 
and comprehensive directions for the construction of 
Canoes, Rowing and Sailing Boats, and Hunting Craft. 
By W. P. Stephens. Cloth. Seventh and enlarged 
edition. 264 pages. Numerous illustrations, and fifty 
plates in envelope. Price, $2.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
A Big-Game and Fish Map of New 
Brunswick. 
We have had prepared by the official draughtsman of 
New Brunswick a map of that' Province, giving the local¬ 
ities where big game—moose and caribou—are most 
abundant, and also the streams in which salmon are 
found, and tho rivers and lakes which abound in trout 
Price, $1.00. 
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