Some News and a Little Gossip. 
C. Ledyard Blair, who for two years has 
been vice-commodore of the New York Y. C.. 
will next season be senior officer of that club. 
Commodore Arthur Curtiss James, who has 
served for two years, declined a renomination. 
Vice-Commodore Blair is an enthusiastic 
yachtsman and he will work hard in the club’s 
interests. Rear-Commodore Dallas B. .Pratt 
is to be made vice-commodore and George F. 
Baker, Jr., will succeed him as rear-commodore. 
There are a few changes on the committees, the 
chief of which is on the regatta committee. H. 
de B. Parsons will again be chairman and his 
assistants will be C. Sherman Hoyt and L. 
Vaughn Clark. Ernest E. Lorillard, who has 
been an indefatigable worker on the committee 
for some years, retires. The ticket which will 
be elected at the next meeting of the club next 
month is as follows: 
Commodore—C. Ledyard Blair, steamer Del¬ 
aware. 
Vice-Commodore—Dallas B. Pratt, schooner 
Sea Fox. 
Rear-Commodore—George F. Baker, Jr., 
steamer Viking. 
Secretary—George A. Cormack. 
Treasurer—Tarrant Putnam. 
Regatta Committee—H. de B. Parsons, C. 
Sherman Hoyt, L. Vaughn Clark. 
Measurer—William Hallock. 
House Committee—Thomas A. Bronson, 
George A. Freeman, Lieut. William P. Cronan, 
U. S. N. 
Committee on Admissions—Henry C. Ward, 
Albert V. de Goicouria,, Henry T. Sloane, New¬ 
berry D. Thorne, W. B. Duncan, Jr. 
Library Committee—James A. Metcalf, 
Charles W. Lee. Richard T. Wainwright. 
Model Committee—James D. Sparkman, Al¬ 
bert Bradlee Hunt, Paul E. Stevenson. 
Committee on Club Stations and Anchorages 
—Station No. i, Stapleton, Robert E. Tod; No. 
2, East Twenty-third street, J. P. Morgan, Jr.; 
No. 3, West Eighty-first street, Brayton Ives; 
No. 4, New London, Vernon C. Brown; No. 5, 
Shelter Island, Charles Lane Poor; No. 6, New¬ 
port, Maximilian Agassiz; No. 7, Vineyard 
Haven, Alfred C. Harrison; No. 9, Ardsley, 
Franklin Q. Brown; No. 10, Glen Cove, J. 
Harvey Ladew. 
Nominating Committee—R. P. Doremus, 
Chairman; J. P. Morgan, L. C. Ledyard, F. G. 
Bourne, S. Wainwright, F. H. Von Stade, 
Daniel Appleton, Wilson Marshall, N. D. 
Thorne, W. B. Duncan, Jr., Secretary. 
Just now with the past season only a few 
weeks closed and still a long time before yachts¬ 
men will be afloat again, the outlook for some 
brilliant racing next year is most pleasing. It 
was not at all gratifying to American yachts¬ 
men that the sport in foreign waters should 
have been boomed through the successes of an 
American schooner, even if that vessel did 
bring more honors to the American yachtsman. 
There were many who would have been better 
pleased had A. S. Cochran remained at home 
and raced here, and those yachtsmen feel to¬ 
ward Mr. Cochran just as the British yachts¬ 
men did toward Sir Thomas Lipton when he 
persisted in coming.here to race when his yacht 
at home would have done so much for the 
sport. Now comes the news that Westward is 
to come home and race here. This announce¬ 
ment is made by friends of Mr. Cochran who 
say that the yachts will winter at Southampton 
and be brought here early in the spring to 
meet all comers in her class. Captain Charles 
Barr is now at Southampton looking after the 
yacht, and he is to have charge again next sea¬ 
son. 
Westward will find some fast yachts to sail 
against here, and among them will be some new 
vessels. The new schooner building for 
William E. Iselin at Lawley’s, from designs by 
A. Cary Smith & Ferris, will be ready and is 
to race. A new yacht is to be built by Herres¬ 
hoff for Morton F. Plant. Elmina will be in 
commission and will be sailed by Capt. Dennis 
for F. F. Brewster. J. Rogers Maxwell hopes 
to have his yacht Queen racing again, and 
Harry L. Maxwell will be at the helm, and then 
there is the new schooner building for Robert 
E. Tod. This last will not be in the same class 
as Westward and Queen, but when the yachts 
sail for the Astor, King’s and other big 
trophies they will meet in one class, and the 
races should be intensely interesting. 
What will make the racing of more than 
ordinary interest is that Westward was built to 
conform to the requirements of the British rule, 
while the others are fitted to the American rule, 
and students will be able to study the workings 
of these two rules and find out which is the 
better. 
Of course this determination on the part of 
Mr. Cochran to race at home will be a disap¬ 
pointment to British yachtsmen, particularly as 
a yacht is now being built there to race against 
Westward. Why don’t the owner of that yacht 
pay a visit to these waters and try to beat 
Westward and other vessel in their horpe waters 
as Westward did this year? A visitor here 
would find all the racing he wanted and over 
courses where the yachts could be thoroughly 
tested in all kinds of wind and weather. 
Referring to the new British schooner, the 
Yachting World says: “When the American 
schooner Westward was laid up in Britain at 
the close of the season’s racing it was read¬ 
ily admitted that her performances in her 
maiden season showed the most remarkable 
form and the greatest advance in one type of 
racer that has been seen for many years. It 
was pointed out also that with the America’s 
Cup contest lying dormant and with little hope 
of revival, the yachting rivalry between this 
country and America would best be carried on 
by transferring it to the class of racing schoon¬ 
ers and by taking steps to provide more fitting 
opposition for Westward before the opening of 
another season. 
“So marvelously fine had been the per¬ 
formances of the Herreshoff flyer that some of 
her admirers expressed grave doubts as to the 
possibility of finding a British owner and de¬ 
signer willing to undertake the attempt to lower 
her colors. There will therefore be added in¬ 
terest in the announcement that the man has 
come forward in the person of an owner who 
has been long enough in the sport to be able to 
estimate the difficulties as well as the possibil¬ 
ities of the task. He has gone to Mr. William 
Fife for the vessel with which he will meet the 
formidable American. 
“There will be no concession to the cruising 
element in the new vessel beyond what is de¬ 
manded by the rule of rating. She has been 
designed for the special purpose of lowering 
the colors of the American, or at least of mak¬ 
ing a fair and sporting attempt to go a point 
or two better than the very high standard of 
schooner racing which the American designer 
set up in the production of Westward, and all 
other considerations will be held subservient to 
the production of a vessel worthy to uphold the 
reputation of this country in the racing arena. 
“The great size of the vessel, and possibly 
also the material of which the hull will be con¬ 
structed, make it difficult to work at Fairlie, 
and arrangements are accordingly afoot with 
a view of having the actual work done at Dum¬ 
barton under the eye of the designer.” 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
End of Gloriana. 
The famous 46-footer Gloriana, the first of 
the type with the spoon bow, has been broken 
up. She was a great vessel in her day and 
caused a radical change in the model of the 
modern racing yacht. She made her first ap¬ 
pearance in 1891, having been built by Herres¬ 
hoff for former Commodore, E. D. Morgan. 
That season saw a fine class of 46-footers. The 
new boats were: Mineola, designed by Burgess 
for August Belmont; Oweene, designed by 
Burgess for A. B. Turner, of Boston; Sayonara, 
designed by Burgess for Bayard Thayer, of 
Boston; Ilderim, designed by Burgess for Cor¬ 
nelius Vanderbilt; Alborak, designed by John 
B. Paine, of Boston, for himself; Nautilus, de¬ 
signed by Wintringham for J. Rogers Maxwell; 
Barbara, designed by Fife for C. H. W. Foster, 
and Gloriana. These boats were built to the 
old rule of sail area plus waterline length, di¬ 
vided by two, and all except Gloriana were 
of the old type, with clipper bows and 
moderate form. Gloriana was 71 feet over 
all, 46 feet waterline, 13 feet 2 inches beam 
and 10 feet 4 inches draft. She spread 4,200 
square feet of canvas. In addition to the 
new boats there were out that year the 40- 
footer Gossoon sailed by the Adams Brothers, 
Jessica owned by J. M. Macdonough, and Uvira 
owned by F. C. D. Sands. Gloriana went 
through the season without a defeat. She 
started in eight races and won all. 
The next season Herreshoff turned out Wasp 
for Archibald Rogers, and Wasp defeated 
Gloriana as easily as she had defeated the 
others. Gloriana changed owners several times 
and was last the property of Gordon Abbott, 
who in 1908 was commodore of the Eastern Y. 
C. That summer the yacht ran on a rock while 
racing, and when hauled out was found to be 
severely strained and her lead keel was badly 
gouged and bent. Of all that fine class of rac¬ 
ing yachts, Oweene and Sayonara are the only 
ones left in active use. Both are now yawls, 
but their lead keels have been removed. That 
of the Oweene was taken off in 1907 and of 
Sayonara in 1908. Others, including Wasp, 
have gone to the junk heap. 
Mr. Abbott has usually laid Gloriana up at 
Lawleys, and last month the yacht was placed 
there as usual, but toward the ejid of the month 
workmen began to tear out the inside of the 
vessel and her lead keel will soon be cut up and 
sold. 
Yachting on the Pacific. 
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 12. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: The yachting season on San Fran¬ 
cisco Bay may now be regarded as being at an 
end, for the club events are all over and most 
of the boats are now in winter quarters. Both 
the San Francisco and Corinthian yacht clubs 
have held their closing exercises, the latter hav- 
the customary jinks. A few craft will hold 
forth all winter on the bay and some fine sail¬ 
ing will be enjoyed as soon as the rains come 
to clear away the atmosphere, but from now 
on there will be no racing. Next season there 
will be a number of changes made in some of 
the prominent events, chief of which will be a 
change in the date of the race around the Far- 
allones. This race demands a strong breeze to 
enable the yachts to finish the course within 
the specified time and has been in the nature of 
a failure during the past two years. Next year 
it will be made an early event, and it is antici¬ 
pated that it will become a very popular one. 
During the coming winter a number of club 
houses will be erected by yacht clubs about the 
bay, and next season will be a very active one 
with at least one new club in the field, the San 
Rafael Y. C. 
