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across the sky line with a launch and a sailing 
"skiff dodging around islands as a background. 
This heading took up about two inches across 
the top of. the cover, the rest was devoted to 
J. J Bockee’s advertisement. The editorial 
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rooms were then at 55 Dey street, New York. 
There were seven pages of reading matter, on 
the last of which the editor announced,' “We are 
here to stay.” There was not an illus¬ 
tration in the whole text, but in the next 
number W. C. Lieber s plans for a cat 
yawl started the ball -a-rolling. until the Rudder 
of to-day, eighteen years old at the present 
writing (1908), is a mass of photographic re- 
oroductions and lines of yachts, with a kaleido¬ 
scopic cover. The first year it cost $1 a yeai, 
10 cents a copy; the second year, 1891, the price 
was raised to $2 a year, 20 cents a copy, and lfi 
1897 it was again raised to $3 a year, 25 cents a 
copy. 
Like everything else in this world. Rudder 
had its ups and downs. It went along quite 
well The second year it absorbed the Sail and 
Paddle, all being in one title. Mr. Day steered 
this paper successfully until 1893, when Pitt J. 
Baker tried his hand at the helm, but she kept 
getting in the wind all the time with him. In 
1894 he got a new man to help hold the good 
craft on her course, W. G. Shepard; but she 
missed stays even with him several times, so in 
1895 the Nautical Publishing Co., of Watertown, 
formally turned over the helm to Mr. Day again, 
and he, with Mr. C. G. Davis as mate, soon got 
Rudder back on its proper course, getting 
heavier cargoes each year, 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Then there is another, a weekly magazine, that 
Capt. James Summers started in New York city 
in 1895. This was called the Burgee and 
Pennant, and had a cover g ]/ 2 by Iij 4 inches in 
size, with rainbow hue, so varied were the tints, 
all the flags being printed in colors—yellow, red 
and blue. This paper cost $2 a year, 10 cents 
a copy. 
The Naval Reserves were coming into promi¬ 
nence this year, and Capt. Summers catered 
largely to them; but after running a year or so, 
his other newspaper duties made it impossible 
for him to continue Burgee and Pennant, and he 
stopped publishing it. 
At Chicago in 1900 another paper came near 
being launched by C. P. Root, a publisher of 
that city. A prospectus was gotten out, showing 
what the paper was to look like. The coyer, 
7 by iof4 inches, was of brown paper with title 
<* C.OAVfe 
printed in red upon it; but after carefully can¬ 
vassing the field, its owner came to the con¬ 
clusion the West would not support such a paper. 
Tucked away in an out-of-the-way corner of 
the bookcase is one poor, lonely little survivor 
of the San Francisco 
earthquake, called 
Yachting. The cover 
of this magazine . is 
5 by 6*4 inches, with 
the name and an old- 
time galley sailing to¬ 
ward a round, silvery 
moon, the galley, name 
and all being printed 
in silver on a light 
blue paper field. 
Mr. R. R. l’Hom- 
medieu started Yacht¬ 
ing at San Francisco 
in January, 1901, and 
as long as it ran, it 
was a very creditable little monthly, selling for 
15 cents a copy and $1 a year. It told of the 
doings of the yachtsmen who sailed in and out 
of the Golden Gate, and had some excellent 
photographs of the west coast boats. One in 
particular in the first issue, showed the sloop Edna 
running before the wind, with spinnaker and a 
water sail, as the bag-like strip of canvas hung 
under the mainboom is called. There were sixty 
pages of type and sixteen page plates of yachts, 
etc., and when Yachting sank from sight, its 
loss was lamented by many. The earthquake 
wiped out all record of this little paper. 
Three months after Yachting, or in March, 
iqoi, there appeared another monthly yachting 
magazine at Detroit, Mich., called the Sail and 
Sweep, edited by H. Coy Glidden. It has a 
gray cover, gA by 11% inches, with an artistic 
design consisting of an oval form in the center 
with the name printed in red above it, a yacht, 
surrounded by gulls, fishes and scrollwork and 
a wheel with crossed oars below made a very 
taking coyer- The first number ha4 twenty 
YACHTING 
pages, with a pleasing mixture of cuts and read¬ 
ing that improved with each issue and quickly 
ran up in popular favor. 
Sail and Sweep ran for over four years, selling 
for 10 cents a copy and $1 a year. 
The next paper successfully launched, was the 
Binnacle, a monthly club paper, published by 
the Columbia Y. C. 
at Chicago, a paper 
5 3 A by 8 inches. 
The cover showed 
two mermaids hold¬ 
ing the spokes of a 
pilot wheel, in 
which a picture of 
the club house was 
printed, and point¬ 
ing with outstretch¬ 
ed arms to the 
name above formed 
of rope. 
Binnacle was 
originated by W. F. 
Corey, at that time, 
1901, on the edi¬ 
torial staff of a Chi¬ 
cago cycling club 
paper. His idea was 
laughed at by his fellow yachtsmen, but never¬ 
theless he went ahead, and in April, 1901. got 
out the first number, a yellow-covered pamphlet, 
with a design in black and a club flag in one 
corner printed in red. It was a modest num¬ 
ber, not an illustration appearing in the whole 
eight pages of reading matter. , . 
It started off with an article entitled the 
“Starting Gun,” as follows: “It is with a feel¬ 
ing of pride, but not unmixed with trepidation 
that we launch The Binnacle. 
To-day Binnacle causes no trepidation to its 
editors, and is the pride of the club whose 
official organ it is, and in whose pages much 
of interest, not only to Chicago sailors but 
yachtsmen in general, is to be found. 
[to be continued.] 
Stamford Y. C. 
The Stamford Y. C. has elected the follow¬ 
ing officers for the year: . 
Commodore, Richard H. Gillespie; Vice- 
Commodore. Alfred S. Pitt; Rear-Commodore, 
James S. Jenkins; Treasurer and Secretary, 
Herbert Lawton; Fleet Surgeon, Drr John J. 
Cloonan: Measurer, Dr. Alfred H. Scofield, 
Chaplain, the Rev. Louis F. Berry; Directors— 
Wilson L. Baldwin, George C. Blickensderfer, 
Edward G. Burgess, Jr., Walter E. Coe, John 
B. Phillips, Henry G. Ridabock, Edward E. 
Rinehart, Jr., Harold Roberts, Dr. Alfred H. 
Scofield. James D. Smith, Robert Struthers, Jr., 
and Charles F. Waterbury. . 
The club has two hundred and sixty members. 
