Nov. 26, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
863 
GEORGE L. BATCHELDER S FAST SLOOP DOREI.LO OF CLASS N. 
Bingham, Ventnor; Commodore Hexamer, 
Ocean City, and Commodore McVoy, Barne- 
gat Bay Racing Association, to prepare a non¬ 
conflicting schedule of rates for the New Jersey 
coast and Delaware River for next season. 
A special meeting of the Larchmont Y. C. 
was held last week, when some slight changes 
in the by-laws were made. Reports made at 
this meeting showed that the club is in a 
prosperous condition, anu still better things are 
looked for. The following nominations for 
officers of the Larchmont Y. C. for the coming- 
year have been made and are posted on the 
bulletin board of the club house at Larchmont: 
Commodore, Leonard Richards; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, J. Proctor Clarke; Rear-Commodore, R. 
J. Schaefer; Secretary, Frank Hardy; Treas¬ 
urer, R. E. Robinson; Trustees—George A. 
Freeman and Harry D. Klots. Four trustees 
of the present board hold over. The important 
changes are those for vice-commodore and 
treasurer. Judge Clarke will succeed Mr. 
Henry L. Maxwell for the former office, and 
Mr. R. E. Robinson will become treasurer in 
place of Mr. William Murray, who has held 
that position for many years. 
At a meeting of the members of the Ottawa 
River Y. C., C. A. Reiner was unanimously 
elected Commodore of the organization. A. 
Gertz was selected to act as Vice-Commodore, 
with A. Mallo as rear-commodore. Other of¬ 
ficers elected were: W. Torgler, Financial Sec¬ 
retary; E. Shanteau, Recording Secretary, and 
C. Meyers, Treasurer. The board of directors 
chosen is composed of L. Hildebrand, E. Zim- 
brum, C. F. Fowler, E. M. Debolt and C. 
Breamer. W. Hoff, G. Erd and E. Braatz 
will be the Regatta Committee. 
Percy C. Jones, head of the S. M. Jones Co., 
will be the Commodore of the Maumee River 
Y. C., of Toledo, the coming year. The other 
officers are: Vice-Commodore, Fred E. Dun¬ 
ham and P. W. Spenker; Rear-Commodore, 
Clare V. Skinner; Recording Secretary, George 
Mclnnes; Financial Secretary, A. R. Perry; 
Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Todd Duncan; Sailboat 
Measurer, Elmer Marks; Power Boat Measurer, 
A. H. Kruger; Delegate to Inter-Lake Yacht¬ 
ing Association, R. M. Starr; Alternate, Morgan 
S. Reed. 
Because of the proposition to put to a vote 
the question of requiring all members to hold 
ten shares of stock, the attendance at the 
special meeting recently was the largest in the 
club’s history and discussion of the plan con¬ 
tinued until nearly midnight without an agree¬ 
ment being reached. A considerable number 
of the club members felt that they could not 
stand the assessment, while others regarded it 
as a necessary measure to tide over a financial 
emergency in connection with the new club 
house. Finally, on motion of Percy Jones, it 
was decided to appoint committees represent¬ 
ing each angle of the controversy, each com¬ 
mittee to report at the next meeting. 
Olivette on Long Cruise 
Richard Moot’s schooner Olivette, which 
has been fitting out at Marblehead for a winter 
cruise in southern and West Indian waters, left 
recently for New Haven in order that her 
owner, who last summer graduated at Harvard, 
might witness the Harvard-Yale football game 
and then proceed on her voyage. Olivette 
carried a professional crew of four, and there 
are four Corinthians on board. The yacht will 
take the inland passage to Florida and will 
cruise among the West Indian Islands until 
next spring. 
Olivette was formerly the Takitesy and was 
built in 1906 by W. Irvin Adams & Son from 
designs of George M. McClain for J. F. Ap¬ 
pleton, of Salem. Built to a fisherman’s model, 
the Olivette is very strongly constructed and 
the principal dimensions are 60 feet over all, 
48 feet waterline, 14 feet beam and 7 feet 7 
inches draft. The schooner is of 16 tons net 
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and 23 gross and spreads 1975 square feet of 
canvas. 
In the winter of 1908-09 Mr. Appleton sold 
the schooner to a Boston yachtsman who 
changed her name to Olivette, but who did not 
put the yacht into commission. 
Last spring the Olivette was purchased by 
C. H. W. Foster, of Boston, by whom the 
yacht was sold this fall to Richard Moot. 
After coming into possession of the Olivette, 
Mr. Foster made many changes in the 
schooner. The sails, spars and engine of the 
schooner Barbara, formerly the Fife 46-foot 
sloop of the same name, were taken from that 
yacht and used in equipping the Olivette, while 
the Barbara, stripped also of her lead keel, was 
used last summer as a houseboat at Weymouth. 
Yacht Pilot Silences Emperor. 
Carl Sorenson, a pilot of Kiel, is now a 
popular man in Germany, according to a Ham¬ 
burg newspaper. The Hohenzollern, with 
Kaiser Wilhelm on board, had taken on the 
pilot. He was on the bridge and did not notice 
that the emperor was behind him until the 
latter, who considers himself a competent sailor, 
started to give the pilot advice regarding the 
direction - of the yacht. The pilot turned half 
around and, in a voice heard all over the craft, 
cried out: 
“Who is the pilot here, you or I?” 
For a moment an outburst of royal wrath 
was feared, but the. Emperor silently left the 
bridge and entered his cabin. A few moments 
later he re-entered the bridge and handed the 
pilot a bunch of his private brand of cigars and 
cordially shook his hand. 
The same newspaper relates a good story 
about the Kiel yacht races. A small store¬ 
keeper from the country had come to Kiel to 
visit his son, who was a sailor on one of the 
yachts. Before leaving home his wife had 
warned him not to go anywhere with strangers, 
saying they might be swindlers. Arriving at 
Kiel, he made his way to the yacht harbor. He 
approached two men in civil dress and inquired 
if they knew where the yacht Caroline was 
lying, explaining that he had a son on board, 
but that the boatmen wanted a whole mark to 
row him out to her. One of the men pleasantly 
replied that they were waiting for their boat, 
and if he would come "with them they would 
put him on board the Caroline. The man added 
that his companion was Prince Wilhelm of 
Sweden and that he himself was the com¬ 
mander of the royal Swedish yacht. The store¬ 
keeper interrupted: 
“Yes, and 1 am the King of China. You 
don’t get anything from me; my wife warned 
me against you.” 
Amid the laughter of the crowd he hastily 
made his way from the pier. 
A Night in the Channel. 
Our ship was a io-tonner, and we had been 
racing under the auspices of the Royal Mersey 
Y. C. The fates had not been propitious—in 
fact, our evil star had been in the ascendant dur¬ 
ing the whole season. The climax of our va¬ 
rious misfortunes seemed to have come when, 
on the muddy waters of the Mersey, we lost our 
mast. 
Shaking the Liverpool dust off our feet much 
more easily than its grime from our sails and 
gear, we got under way from Ramsay on a 
Sunday at 2 p. M. One of our class sailed in 
company with us. The flood was running hard 
when we were within a mile of the Formby 
lightship. Here the wind, hitherto paltry, de¬ 
serted us altogether, and we dropped our mud- 
hooks. A heavy swell was coming across the 
banks as the tide began to make. 
We lay thus for close on four hours under a 
burning sun, with the glue in the deck-seams 
as liquid as ink. Our ship boasted a good cabin 
(5 feet 9 inches headroom under beams) but in 
such circumstances none aboard seemed fain 
to seek its seclusion. Dinner (in this case a 
very movable feast, and none too appetizing) 
was disposed of a 7 p. m. The sea was now be¬ 
coming a trifle smoother as the force of the 
tide abated, but still no sign of wind. The ap¬ 
pearance of the sky to the southward, how¬ 
ever, gave promise of better things in this re¬ 
spect, and the glass was slowly falling. . 
About 8:30 a light air began to blow—-at first 
in catspaws—and we hastened to get the anchor 
aboard. For some time little or no progress 
was made, but presently our consort, which was 
to windward, felt a steady breeze and forged 
ahead of us. The crew of this yacht consisted 
of only two paid hands, and they had made all 
