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Yachting Magazines—Past and Present 
Continued from page 344. 
On Aug. 12, 1902, at New York, a twenty- 
page weekly paper, 9 by 12 inches, called The 
Capstan, with the name and picture of a capstan 
printed at the top, a rope wound around it, form¬ 
ing a frame, with anchors at the lower corners 
<<;.ww u. 
and a sheepshank tied in the rope under the 
picture of a racing schooner that occupied the 
center of the cover. It was all printed in black 
on white paper, selling for 10 cents a copy and 
$3 a year. 
Alfred A. Jones was the editor, and the edi¬ 
torial rooms were on Twenty-third street. New 
York. It ran for about a year before it suc¬ 
cumbed. 
Seeing the interest aroused among yachtsmen 
by the publication of these magazines, some of 
the boat manufacturers have taken advantage of 
it as a means of advertising their products. The 
Truscott Boat Co., of St. Joseph, Mich., in 
C-C.pAv«. 
December, 1902, started a little monthly paper, 
5 H hy 7 J 4 inches, called The Launch, which they 
still continue to publish, and the Lozier Motor 
Co., of New York, in November, 1903, followed' 
their example by issuing free a little sheet 6 by 
9 inches, called The Propeller, isued quarterly; 
but Propeller was abandoned after the second 
volume was issued. 
Providence, R. I., was the home port of the 
next periodical to brave the sea of criticism. 
Mr. D. W. Reeves, in May, 1903, started a 
monthly paper, 6 by 9 inches, called The Narra- 
gansett Bay Yachtsman, and therein answered 
that old saw, “What’s in a name?” For when 
he came to solicit advertisements, he found no 
one outside Narragansett Bay looked upon it 
with favor. He got out two numbers; the first 
had a green cover with the name and a picture 
of a knockabout in white, and the second and 
last had a blue cover. Both were well edited 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 7 , 1908 . 
42-page papers, profusely illustrated, and had 
interesting articles; but its life was short. 
The year 1904 saw four new papers launched; 
two for sailboats, and two for motor boats— 
that branch of the sport having grown to such 
proportions as to warant a representative paper. 
The Tiller, edited by C. W. Schmidt, Jr., of 
Cleveland, Ohio, 5L2 by 8 inches in size, had 
a yacht sailing 
through a pilot 
wheel in the center 
of the cover, with 
the title and all in¬ 
closed in a rope 
border. The name 
and border outside 
the rope was printed 
in red, the rest in 
black. Tiller started 
in February, 1904, 
but passed away 
unnoticed by many; 
in fact, Vol. 1, No. 
1 is the only copy 
I have of it, though 
it may have run 
for some time. It' 
was a 10-cent paper; 
$1 a year. 
Motoring and Boating was the second 1904 
aspirant. It started on April 6 as a weekly, 9 
by ix inches with forty pages, selling for 5 cents 
VOU.I. NO I. NEW YORK,APRIL0,1904 FIVE CENTS 
a copy; $2 a year. James P. Plolland edited this 
paper that treated of both automobile and auto 
boat. A year or so and this magazine faded in 
the forgotten class with it many predecessors. 
The third 1904 candidate grew up into a 
strong, husky magazine, carrying more adver¬ 
tisements, and as a trade paper is the widest 
known—with the possible exception of The 
Rudder—of any yachting paper published. The 
Motor Boat is its name, and the late J. J, 
Prial was the original editor. From its first 
number the style of its cover has been preserved 
—a green cover with the title at the top and 
below a half-tone cut of some yacht or boating 
scene. Its size is 9 by 12 inches. 
The first number of The Motor Boat, issued 
April 10, 1904, four days after the first number 
of Motoring and Boating, was a forty-page 
paper with seven'pages of advertising; but at 
present it carries seven times as much adver¬ 
tising, being issued twice a month. It is a 
motor boatman’s paper from cover to cover, and 
takes in the whole field of that kind of sport. 
The fourth candidate was a 10 by I2j4-inch 
monthly, called The Jersey Yachtsman, pub¬ 
lished at Toms River, New Jersey, and selling 
for 10 cents a copy; $1 a year. 
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The first number of The Jersey Yachtsman 
was a sixteen-page pamphlet, having a cover of 
a very pale green color, with the title and a 
photograph of Barnegat Light in an oval frame, 
issued in May; 1904, with Sewell Ford as editor. 
Wm. H.* Fischer was the publisher. 
It was a breeey paper, announcing on the first 
page under the headline, “Why we are here,” that 
the object of the paper was to enable yachtsmen 
all over the State of New Jersey to get to¬ 
gether in ideas at least by having such a paper 
as a medium, as the editor says, “We irftend to 
make the Jersey Yachtsman a connecting link 
