Oct. 8, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Venetia to Make Long Cruise. 
John D. Spreckles, of San Francisco, has 
purchased the steam yacht Venetia from Geo. 
W. Elkins, of Elkins Park, Pa., through the 
office of Stanley M. Seaman. 
Venetia is a handsome vessel, 226 feet over 
all, 196 feet waterline, 27 feet 2 inches beam, 
15 feet draft. She was built by Hawthorns & 
Co., Leith, Scotland, in 1903, under Lloyds sur¬ 
vey. The accommodations consist of eight state¬ 
rooms and three baths, two bachelor rooms and 
bath. The main deck house contains a smok¬ 
ing room forward, a dining saloon next aft, 
followed by a pantry and galley, engine and 
boiler room casing and a social hall in the after 
end. All quarters are beautifully finished in 
fancy hard wood. The normal speed is twelve 
knots and under forced draft fourteen knots. 
The yacht was fitted out in South Brooklyn in 
command of Captain Lake and left last Monday 
morning for New Orleans, La., where she will 
lay for about six weeks. Mr. Spreckles contem¬ 
plates joining her there with his family for a 
trip through the West Indies, circling South 
America and reaching San Francisco next spring. 
She will be used between the latter port -and 
San Diego. In 1912 an extended cruise is con¬ 
templated to Honolulu, South Sea Islands and 
the Orient. For the trip to New Orleans Mr. 
Spreckles will have as guests Geo. F. Keene, of 
Philadelphia, Read G. Dilworth and Stanley M. 
Seaman, of New York. 
Motor 'Boating . 
British International Cup. 
Commodore H. H. Melville, of the Motor 
Boat Club of America, and some other influential 
members realize that it may not be so easy to 
keep the British International cup here next year 
as it was this. Luck favored the defender to a 
remarkable degree, and it is not reasonable to 
suppose that such luck will come again. Dixie 
II. won because she is reliable, but Pioneer 
showed that she has a wonderful turn of speed, 
making at times more than forty miles an hour. 
The Lritish are to challenge again. They have 
said that they will refrain from sending the 
challenge until the deed of gift governing the 
trophy has been changed. The changes to be 
made have been agreed on, and now Lord North- 
cliffe has to give his sanction. In the future 
there will be three races instead of one, and the 
deed will be rewritten to clear some point over 
which there might be a dispute. 
ihese motor boat men appreciate that to be 
successful next season a boat has to be built 
which will make at least forty-five miles an hour. 
It is only natural that the B'ritish designers and 
builders should improve, and as Dixie made 
little more than 30 in this year’s races, much im¬ 
provement has to be made on this side. 
Unfortunately on this side things are allowed 
to wait. Instead of starting in at once to have 
boats designed and built, yachtsmen wait and 
wait, with the result that when they do finally 
place their orders the building season has well 
advanced. Then the builder has to rush things 
to get the boat finished. It is probably late be¬ 
fore it is turned out, and there is little time for 
trying out, and year after year things happen 
just as they did this year. Many boats were 
talked of and some were built, but none was 
ready at the time of the trials to show what it 
could do. 
Members of the club who are prominent in its 
councils now realize that something must be 
done and done at once. It takes time to build a 
fast motor boat of the Pioneer type. An engine 
cannot be picked up in the stock room of some 
manufacturer and placed in a hull in a few days. 
The hull has to be carefully designed and just as 
carefully built. More attention has to be devoted 
to the motor, lhat, too, must be designed to 
suit the hull it is to drive, so that the hull and 
the motor must be in harmony, and engines such 
as are used in these- fast craft are not kept in 
stock, but have to be specially built. 
James Craig, who has built many such motors, 
talking of this recently, said it w@uld take 
months to turn out a suitable motor for a high 
speed craft. "If motor boats,” said he, "are to 
be built for the defense of the British cup jhere 
is no time to be lost. The designer must get to 
work at once preparing the lines for his hull, 
and the engine builders must get to work on the 
motor. Now is the time for those yachtsmen 
who wish to take part in next season’s sport to 
get ready, and if they start now they will have 
the defenders of the cup early in the season 
and have ample time to tune them up properly. 
Then if the challengers win we will have no 
excuse to make. This argument also applies to 
all motor boats. Yachtsmen leave things too 
long and then are disappointed because their 
boats are not ready for the opening of the sea¬ 
son.” 
Commodore Melville has sent the following 
letter to members of the club. It is good advice, 
not onl}' to the members, but to all who are in¬ 
terested in the defense of the trophy: 
"Your Board of Governors take pleasure in 
reporting to you that as a result of the inter¬ 
national race for the Llarmsworth cup, held off 
Larchmont on Aug. 20, the' 1 trophy remains in the 
custody of the Motor Boat Club of America, 
Dixie II., belonging to Vice-Commodore F. K. 
Burnham, having won the race. 
"The board desires to call attention to the fact 
that while the result of the race is a victory for 
the club, one of the English challengers showed 
a speed so greatly in excess of that of Dixie, as 
to make it evident that in the contest of next 
year (informal notice of which has already been 
received) new boats of a speed much higher than 
that of any American craft must be built for the 
defense of the cup. This is a matter which 
should engage the attention of the club and its 
members at an early date. It is a matter also 
that makes it imperative that the membership of 
the club shall be largely increased, and that new 
members shall be sought among those who have 
an interest in the sport and are of such char¬ 
acter and standing as to strengthen the hands of 
those already in the club, who have been and will 
continue to be active in the work of the defense 
of the trophy. That the interest of men of the 
sort desired can be enlisted is made evident by 
the fact that the membership of the club has 
been doubled during the past four months. 
‘‘The board desires to call attention to the fact 
that among the privileges offered to the mem¬ 
bers is the full use of the club house of the 
Automobile Club of America with its handsome 
assembly and lounging room, buffet, cafe, and 
full club equipment. The use of the club house 
is not a matter of courtesy or sufferance; it is a 
full right and privilege. Every member of the 
Motor Boat Club of America becomes. auto-» 
matically a club room member of the Automo¬ 
bile Club of America, entitled to all the privi¬ 
leges of that club, excepting the specific automo¬ 
bile privileges, such as the use of the garage, 
machine shop, bureau of tools, etc. 
“It is the intention of the board to arrange a 
series of entertainments and smoke-talks, to be 
given at the club house of the Automobile Club 
of America during the coming winter months, 
for the purpose of bringing the members of the 
club into closer acquaintance and promoting an 
exchange of ideas on motor boats and motor 
boat racing. A variety of entertainments will 
be provided, some of them of more than ordi¬ 
nary interest to motor boat men.” 
Dixie II. to be Retired. 
Dixie II. is to be retired. Vice-Commodore 
F. K. Burnham, who owns the fast motor boat, 
has announced that he will take the 250-horse- 
power Crane '& Whitman engine out this winter 
and replace it with an engine of lower power and 
use Dixie as a runabout. Mr. Burnham does not 
intend to retire from racing, however, but intends 
to have a hydroplane designed and built. He is 
to have another engine similar to that used in 
Dixie built and install the old and the new one in 
the hydroplane, which should be a remarkably 
fast craft. 
In her three seasons, Dixie has won many big 
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