Dec. 31, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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ICE YACHTS READY ON THE SHREWSBURY. 
he went on a cruise to Calcutta in the British 
full-rigged ship Dangalore. He was 121 days 
out, and in 1896 published a book, “A Deep- 
Water Voyage.” In 1905 Mr. Stevenson sailed 
in the races for the cup offered by Kaiser 
William, and in 1907 published his “The Race 
for the Emperor's Cup.” 
At a meeting of the Racing Association of 
South Jersey, held recently, a schedule of open 
dates was arranged. The clubs represented at 
the meeting were Sea Isle City Y. C., Wildwood 
Y. C., Ocean City Y. C., Ocean City Motor B. 
C., Cape May Y. C., Ventnor City Y. C., Sea¬ 
side Y. C. of Atlantic City, Stone Harbor Y. 
C. and the Yachtsmen’s Club of Philadelphia. 
The dates as arranged are July 1, Stone Harbor 
Y. C.; July 8, Yachtsmen’s Club of Philadelphia; 
July 15, Seaside Y. C.; July 29, Ventnor City 
Y. C.; Aug. 5, Ocean City Y. C.; Aug. 12, Sea 
Isle City Y. C.; Aug. 19, Wildwood Y. C., and 
Aug. 26, Cape May Y. C. 
The Pavonia Y C., of Bayonne, has elected 
the following officers for the ensuing year: A. 
J. Schneider, Commodore; E. A. Vogt, Vice- 
Commodore; Edward C. Zeiger, Rear-Commo¬ 
dore; John Wilson and H. W. Ludlam, Secre¬ 
taries; Frank Baker, Treasurer; Dr. W. I. 
Hatch, Fleet Surgeon; C. S. Barney, Measurer; 
William J. Aichele, F. M. Brown, M. F. Keat¬ 
ing and H. Ockerhausen, Trustees. 
The 18-foot knockabout is going to be one 
of the most popular of the small racing craft 
in Eastern waters Text season, particularly on 
Narragansett Bay and about Boston. Two im¬ 
portant matches have already been arranged. 
In 1909 the Dorchen II., representing the local 
association, defeated the lake champion, Boni- 
two, at Cleveland and the return match will be 
sailed off Marblehead next summer. Besides 
this match there is the one with the Narra¬ 
gansett Bay boats. 
Last summer at Marblehead the three Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay 18-footers, Dorchen II., Aurora 
and Kittiwake V., defeated the Narragansett 
Bay boats, Arrow II., Bat and Hugi by a nar¬ 
row margin. Next season, when the teams 
from the two associations meet on Narragansett 
Bay, things are apt to be different. 
Late in the summer the Answer and Mouse 
were purchased by Narragansett Bay yachts¬ 
men, and these, with the older boats and the 
two that are building will give the Narragansett 
Bay Association a fine class to select their team 
from. The Rhode Island yachtsmen already 
have begun to make preparations for the enter¬ 
tainment of the Massachusetts yachtsmen. 
There will be the match for the interstate cham¬ 
pionship, which will be of three or four races, 
followed by the annual association week in 
which the Massachusetts Bay boats have been 
invited to take part. 
Yachtsmen hope that the match between the 
Massachusetts Bay champion and the boat from 
the lakes can be arranged so that the Western 
boat can also take part in the races on Narra¬ 
gansett Bay, to which the Rhode Island yachts¬ 
men will invite the champion from the Great 
Lakes. The boats to be sent from Massa-' 
chusetts Bay to the championship match, three 
in number, will be selected by their percentages 
in the open races given by the Y. R. A. of M. 
up to a date one week previous to the date of 
the match. 
At the recent meeting of the Massachusetts 
Association the following otficers were elected 
for 1911: President, A. W. Finlay; Secretary 
and Treasurer, R. W. Pigeon; George Owen 
and Ralph Winslow Inspectors and Measurers; 
A. E. Whittemore, J. W. Olmstead t and Harry 
Bloomfield, Board of Judges; William Stephens, 
S. R. Ferguson and Stanley Bloomfield, Mem¬ 
bership Committee. 
Commodore Bernard, of the Atlantic Y. C., 
has appointed Ernest E. Malcolm Fleet Cap¬ 
tain, and Dr. J. E. De Murid and Walter H. 
Sykes, Jr., Regatta Committee. 
The Chesapeake Bay Y. C., of Easton, Md., 
recently purchased a new $6,000 clubhouse on 
Washington street. The new building contains 
fifteen rooms and will be repainted, repapered 
and remodelled and fitted up in the best man¬ 
ner, with all the modern improvements for the 
comfort of its members. Col. F. Carroll Golds- 
borough, the present commodore of the club, 
was elected in 1887, and has held that office 
ever since. With him the other officers of the 
organization are: Vice-Commodore, T. Clifford 
Morris; Rear-Commodore, George K. Kinney; 
Treasurer, Alfred L. Tharp; Secretary, Dr. 
Charles R. Enos; Fleet Chaplain, Dr. S. D. 
McConnell; Board of Governors—Col. F. C. 
Goldsborough, T. Clifford Morris, George K. 
Kinney, A. L. Tharp, Dr. Charles R. Enos, 
Col. Oswald Tilghman, Matthew T. Golds¬ 
borough and Clifton Wharton; Regatta Com¬ 
mittee—Andrew A. Hathaway, T. Clifford 
Morris and Samuel A. Rohrer. The club ex¬ 
pects to occupy its new quarters Jan. 1, 1911, 
and will give a house warming. When finished, 
the club will have one of the best and most up- 
to-date club houses on the Chesapeake Bay 
and south of New York. 
At the annual meeting of the Jubilee Y. C. 
these officers were elected: Commodore, John 
J. Harrigan; Vice-Commodore, Warren White; 
Rear-Commodore, Frank A. Guinivan; Secre¬ 
tary, L. C. Doble; Financial Secretary, A. L. 
Odell; Treasurer, George A. Endicott; Meas¬ 
urer, P. H. Guillford; Executive Committee—- 
J. J. Harrigan, J. E. Collins, A. L. Odell, J. 
J. Heaphy and N. E. Giles; Regatta Commit¬ 
tee—L. P. Stanton, C. E. Grush and Charles 
Prescott. 
This account of the purchase of the Venetra 
by John D. Spreckels appeared in the Los 
Angeles Times. Friends of Morton F. Plant, 
who originally owned the Venetra, but who 
sold her when he had Iolanda built, will be 
amused. 
“Off on a journey which will extend over 
fifteen thousand miles of land and water and 
take eight months, Mr. and Mrs. John D. 
Spreckels, of San Diego passed through Los 
Angeles yesterday en route to San Francisco 
and thence to New Orleans. 
About two months ago a magnificent yacht 
the Victoria, which had been built by a multi¬ 
millionaire by the name of Plant, of New Or¬ 
leans, and which he was compelled to sell, 
owing to business reverses, was offered at auc¬ 
tion. Mr. Spreckels was one of the bidders and 
secured the prize for about $200,000. The yacht 
is considered one of the most sumptuous on 
the Atlantic Coast, comparing favorably with 
the Corsaid, J. Pierpont Morgan’s private yacht. 
“The Victoria has been overhauled and some 
alterations m'ade and is ready to sail. Mr. and 
Mrs. Spreckels will take several friends with 
them, and will sail in the yacht around South 
America and into San Diego harbor. 
“Their plans call for stops at Havana, Rio de 
Janeiro! Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic and 
Valparaiso. The Victoria has several times 
crossed the Atlantic. While in the city, 
Spreckels was at the Jonathan Club.” 
At the annual meeting of the Mecca C. C. 
these officers were elected: Commodore, 
Arthur W. O'Donnell; Vice-Commodore, 
Frederick Mohr; Rear-Commodore, J. G. 
Struke; Fleet Captain, Thomas Tischan; Finan¬ 
cial Secretary, William V. Stahl; Recording 
Secretary, John A. Totten; Trustees—L. Lea- 
man, L. H. Hettler, Andre Beauplane; Meas¬ 
urer, Prof. Alexander McClain; Fleet Surgeon, 
Dr. Montgomery; Fleet Engineer, W. Fearnley. 
The Plant Schooner. 
The new Herreshoff schooner building for 
Morton F. Plant is the most attractive vessel 
building on this side of the Atlantic, and many 
are wondering if the new boat will be a match 
for Westward. According to a writer in the 
Providence Journal, Westward is said to be the 
scavenger of the European racing centers, from 
the fact that she cleaned up everything under 
canvas, including such cracks of the class and 
type as the German Emperor’s Meteor, the 
Brynhilde, White Heather and others of equal 
speed and steadiness. 
She won wherever she had a fair start under 
rules that met with the favor of all good sports¬ 
men, her single failure to lead the racing fleet 
to the finish line being when she was so over¬ 
burdened with a handicap that she was in much 
the same predicament as a waterlogged ship is 
in rolling in the trough of the sea—not able to 
cope with the conditions. 
That Herreshoff has not lost his knack of 
improving upon himself is argued by some who 
always believed that, like Tennyson’s brook, he 
“goes on forever.” FI is favorites point to the 
confidence he has in himself when he tackles 
the job of beating the Westward without any 
more ceremony than flinging down the lines of 
the boat to his mechanics last Tuesday and 
ordering the work of “laying down” to begin 
without delay. 
Faith in his methods is strong in Bristol, for 
it is easy to remember the Flerreshoff feats of 
increase of speed, step by step, in the Gleam, 
Drusilla, Gloriana, Wasp, Vigilant, Defender, 
Columbia, Reliance and Avenger, not forgetting 
the much maligned Constitution, which in fresh 
hands proved to be a boat fully up to the 
Herreshoff notions as far as speed goes. 
Then there is the shorter string of schooner 
yachts in the Herreshoff belt, the first of any 
note being Ingomar, which was built to the 
order of Commodore Plant, the man who 
ordered the new schooner less than ten days 
ago. Ingomar took shape seven years ago and 
made a fine record abroad with Charly Barr at 
the wheel. Then followed the Queen and Iro- 
lita. both of which have been literally swaoped 
by the owners. T. Rogers Maxwell and Com¬ 
modore E. W. Clarke. 
The last to be built before the Plant order 
name was the famous Westward, which is to be 
back here next spring after wintering at South- 
