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prizes. Twige she successfully defended the 
British international cup, twice she won the Gold 
challenge cup, twice she. won the National cham¬ 
pionship on the Hudson River, and this year she 
won the Great Lakes championship at Buffalo. 
She was beaten at Monaco, but then had to meet 
a boat ten feet longer and with twice her power. 
Mr Burnham's new boat will be Dixie IV.. as 
the present boat is really Dixie III. The first 
was owned by E. R. Thomas, who had' a 150- 
horsepower Smith & Mably engine in her. Mr. 
Thomas sold the boat to E. J. Schroeder, who 
took Dixie to England and captured the Harms- 
worth trophy. This was in 1907. The next year 
Mr. Schroeder built a new boat which he called 
Dixie II.. and this boat raced against Woolsley 
Siddelev and Daimler for the British trophy. 
Last year INI r. Schroeder had a new hull built for 
Dixie’s engines and she went to Monaco. This 
year Dixie was purchased by F. K. Burnham. 
Motor Boat Josephine. 
The large cruising motor boat built for Ed¬ 
ward Shearson, of the New York Y. C-, by 
Robert Jacob at City Island, is almost ready to 
be delivered to her owner. This boat, which is 
the largest of the cruising motor boats and a 
most up to date craft in every detail, has been 
built from designs by William Gardner. The 
yacht will have the usual trials as soon as com¬ 
pleted and INI r. Shearson will then cruise to 
Chesapeake Bay and later to Florida waters. 
Josephine is a yacht of the flush deck type 
and is 138 feet over all, 17 feet beam and 4 feet 
3 inches draft. The hull is built of steel of 
high tensile strength and is divided into six 
watertight compartments by five steel bulkheads 
which extend from keel to deck. 
The owner’s stateroom is directly aft of the 
fuel section. It extends the full width of the 
yacht and ten feet fore and aft. It has two 
stationary berths, the usual fittings and connects 
with a bathroom. Aft of the owner's cpiarters 
are a lobby and passageway with companion way 
which leads to the upper deck saloon. The 
guests’ quarters are two large double staterooms 
and one single stateroom and two bathrooms. 
All the rooms have outside ports and overhead 
skylights insuring perfect ventilation. There 
are two deck houses, the after one in which is 
the social hall, being twenty feet long and ten 
feet wide. The forward house will be the din¬ 
ing room and pantry. It is finished in teak- 
w r ood and the deck houses, skylights, rails, etc., 
are of selected mahogany and the deck fittings 
of polished bronze. 
There are twin screws which will be driven 
by two six-cylinder air starting and air revers¬ 
ing Standard motors of 300 horsepower each. 
They will drive the yacht twenty miles an hour. 
The yacht is lighted and heated by electricity. 
Fast Western Boat. 
Western motor boat men are claiming that 
they -have a world beater in a boat named Spirit. 
The Seattle Intelligencer says two or three rac¬ 
ing events held in the United States during the 
past few years have demonstrated the superiority 
of Pacific Coast talent over that of the East 
Coast so strikingly that if the West Coast were 
not young in the racing game, all sorts of chal¬ 
lenges would be quickly emanating from the At¬ 
lantic. 
Several days ago at Larchmont, N. Y. there 
was held an international speed boat race, in 
which the Dixie II., credited 'with being ^the 
fastest boat in the Linked States or Canada, 
made thirty mi'es over a three-lap course of ten 
miles each in a few seconds less than one hour. 
Dixie II. is one of the highest powered boats 
in the world, being propelled by an engine rated 
at about 200 horsepower. 
Compared with this record, Wolff II., of 
Portland, powered with a ioo-horsepower engine, 
made thirty miles in three ten-mile laps at Van¬ 
couver, Wash., on July 4 in 58m. and 28s. 
In the same race the Seattle Spirit, which 
caught fire and was compelled to withdraw from 
the race, showed a record for the first ten miles 
of 26s. better time that Wolff II. was making. 
Had the Seattle Spirit not suffered the accident 
of catching fire there is no doubt in the minds 
of all the judges of the race, as well as the spec¬ 
tators, that she would have made the thirty miles 
at a clip of almost a minute faster than the win¬ 
ning record of. Wolff II. 
The speed boat enthusiasts of the coast are 
beginning to blink their eyes and wonder whether 
instead of looking at the East Coast as the domi¬ 
nating produce.r of real speedy craft, they should 
not begin to appreciate their own prowess at its 
true value and put it up to the Eastern racers to 
come to the Pacific Coast and demonstrate their 
ability to remain in the Western class. 
The first real long distance race of the Pacific 
Coast was held last week, the course being from 
Ketchikan, Alaska, to Vancouver, B. C. There 
were three entries, three starters and three finish¬ 
ers in the race. In the Bermuda and Marbiehead 
races on the Atlantic Coast, which have been 
pulled off each year regularly for the past six 
or seven years, there have never been a large 
number of entries, and upon several occasions 
but two boats have run the course. 
In the first long distance race on the Pacific 
Coast the course measured 618 miles, and Limit, 
which won first prize, made the non-stop run at 
a clip of 10.65 miles per hour, almost two miles 
per hour faster than any record ever made on 
the Atlantic Coast. 
Motor Boat for Com. Winton. 
Commodore Alexander Winton, of the Lake- 
wood Y. C, of Cleveland, is to have a motor 
boat built from designs by Cox & Stevens which 
will be one of the largest in the country. It 
will be 140 feet long and driven by three six- 
cylinder air starting motors of 200 horsepower 
each. The yacht is to be built by J. H. Dialogue 
& Sons, at Camden, N. Y., and in exterior ap¬ 
pearance will resemble the conventional steam 
yacht with clipper bow, overhanging stern, con¬ 
tinuous deck house, pole masts and stack. Her 
general dimensions are 140 feet- over-all length, 
118 feet waterline, 19 feet beam, 6 inches draft. 
The enormous power plant, including an elec¬ 
tric lighting outfit and the fuel tanks, will be 
inclosed in a compartment in the center of the 
boat, separated fore and aft by watertight bul¬ 
warks. The engines drive triple screws, giving 
a cruising speed of fourteen knots, and enough 
fuel can be carried to cover 2,000 miles without 
replenishing the supply. 
The designers have worked with the idea of 
turning out as stanch jnd seaworthy a craft as 
can be built, and the plans show a vessel with 
moderate ends, which are neatly turned and 
present a good appearance; a full deck line, 
carrying the beam well aft, and the sections 
show a good, hard bilge, with plenty of dead 
rise throughout, associated with an easy run to 
nrooel ers. She has a good freeboard and a 
high bulwark mounted on a teak rail, so that 
she will be in every respect able and seaworthy. 
On deck all the appointments are to be sub¬ 
stantial and in keeping with the character of 
the vessel, the exterior of the continuous deck 
house being teak, as are also the skylights, com- 
panionways, hatches, rail, plank shear and other 
deck fittings. The deck house contains at the 
forward end an unusually large dining room, 
being widened at this part in order to make the 
room of attractive proportions, its dimensions 
being in the clear 16 by 12 feet. This room will 
be finished in selected hardwood and communi¬ 
cates directly with the pantry and galley, which 
are abaft of it in the deck house. 
Canoeing. 
Northern Ohio C. C. 
Tiie Akron canoeists carried off the honors at 
the Northern Ohio Canoe Club regatta, held re¬ 
cently on Lower Shaker Lake, Cleveland. 
Bolte won the northern Ohio championship, an 
event of one mile, in 9.42. Bigler, also of Akron, 
was second, and Beman, Cleveland’s most con¬ 
sistent representative, was third. After the race, 
Bolte was awarded a silver loving cup. 
The novelty race was won by A. Rose. This 
event created much laughter among the specta¬ 
tors. To win this event a participant had to start 
from shore, go to the middle of the lake where 
the boats were anchored and paddle to the op¬ 
posite shore. The paddling was done with the 
hands instead of regular paddles. Rose’s time 
was 2.13. 
Clevelanders also won the quarter-mile event 
in which four men were in one canoe. Williams, 
Moore. Hanson and Marble composed the team 
which completed the quarter-mile in 1.47, which 
establishes a new record for canoeing in this part 
of Ohio. The previous record was held by mem¬ 
bers of the Akron Club and was 1.50. 
Bigler won the quater-mile race for singles, 
while he also landed the half-mile event. 
Following is the summary: 
One-quarter mile straightaway—Bigler (A) I, 
Bolte (A) 2, Hanson (A) 3, Beman (C) 3. 
Time—2.05. 
One-half mile two-men race—Moore and Wil¬ 
liams (C) 1, Hanson anc\ Scheible (A) 2. Time 
— 4-05 3 - 5 - , _ 
Novelty race—A. Rose (C) 1, F. Rose (C) 2, 
Buss (C) 3. Time—2.13 
One-half mile single—Bigler (A) 1, Bolte (A) 
2, Beman (C) 3. Time—4.34. 
One-quarter mile, four men—Williams, Moore, 
Hanson, Marble (C) 1. Time—1.47. 
Northern Ohio Canoe Club championship, one 
mile—Bolte (A) 1, Bibler (A) 2, Beman (C) 3. 
Time—9.42. 
American Canoe Association. 
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 26 .—Editor Forest arid 
Stream: The annual Executive Committee 
meeting of the American Canoe Association 
will be held at the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburg. 
Pa., on Oct. 22, 1910. The following program 
has been arranged: 
Saturday, Oct. 22.—10 a. m. to 1 p. m., meet¬ 
ing; recess for lunch; 2:30 p. M. to 5 p. m. meet¬ 
ing: 6:30 p. m., dinner given by the local canoe¬ 
ists to the visiting members of the committee. 
All A. C. A. members and their friends are in¬ 
vited to attend (dress informal). 
Sunday, Oct. 23.—Visiting members and 
guests (including ladies) are requested to as¬ 
semble- in the lobby of the Fort Pitt Hotel at 
9:30 A. .M. for a trip up the Allegheny River to 
visit the several canoe clubs. 
During the morning the Tippy Canoe Club, 
the Oakmont Boat Club and the Oakmont 
Motor Boat Club will be inspected, the party 
arriving at the Sylvan Canoe Club for luncheon 
about 12:30 p. m. In the afternoon the Du- 
quesne, Sylvan, Crescent, Algonquin, Minne¬ 
tonka and Keystone canoe clubs will keep open 
house. Members of the Youghiogheny, Aspin- 
wall, Pontiac and Allegheny clubs will be 
present. 
The visitors will be entertained at the Du- 
qtiesne Canoe Club for supper at 5:30 p. m. 
Kindly advise if you will attend the meeting 
and the time of your arrival in Pittsburg. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW member proposed. 
Central Division. — Richard M. Harris, 415 
East avenue, Rochester, N. Y., by H. L. Crit¬ 
tenden. 
PROPOSED FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP. 
Mrs. E. Horton Weidman, 582 Van Cortlandt 
Park avenue, Yonkers. N. Y.. proposed by B. 
Frank Cromwell, No. 4659; Mrs. Walter O. 
Amsler, Miss Anne Demmler, Mrs. Henry D. 
James, Mrs. Alton Brown, Miss Elinore Demm- 
ler, Miss Emma Schoeneck, Miss Ella Ruth 
Boyce, Miss Martha Demmler, all of Pittsburg, 
Pa. 
A. C. A. Amendment. 
The fo'lowing amendment to the constitution 
will be submitted to the members at the annual 
meeting: 
Article IV.. Section 2, line four to read, “have 
attended at least two general or one general and 
one Division camp.” 
