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ampton. It will mean good racing between the 
Plant craft, the Queen, Elmina, Muriel and 
others. It may be the best schooner sport ever 
held on the Atlantic Coast, for the Queen, 
barring unreasonable rating, is the best boat 
of her class that ever raced on this side of the 
Atlantic. Although she may have to take a 
position abaft the beam of the Westward in a 
12-knot breeze, she has accomplished a great 
deal, including the winner of the race for the 
King’s cup the second season she was in com¬ 
mission. 
Who will sail the Plant schooner next sea¬ 
son is an open question. It is a foregone con¬ 
clusion that Commodore Plant will not handle 
the craft himself, owing to his physical inca¬ 
pacity. Edward Holmes, once well known at 
Newport and Bristol, sailed the Ingomar for 
Commodore Plant in her first year out, but his 
sphere of action for several seasons past has 
been in Boston and vicinity with boats of the 
Eastern Y. C. Capt. Holmes is an all-round 
sailor, as he was master of the Herreshoff built 
steam yacht Parthenia, owned once by Commo¬ 
dore Plant, and is now skipper of Visitor II., 
at Panama. 
Capt. Charley Barr was formerly in the pay 
of Mr. Plant also. It was during the height of 
his career, less than a decade ago, when he had 
just returned from an America’s Cup victory 
at Sandy Plook. He sailed the Ingomar to 
Europe and there raced her all summer. It is 
likely that Capt. Barr will be skipper of the 
Plant yacht. He knows all the tricks of the 
Westward after a season’s sport and on the new 
Plant boat he would have to learn kinks injected 
because of a change of form from the West¬ 
ward, made necessary by building to the Ameri¬ 
can rule of measurement instead of the British 
rule. 
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Whitney Flag to Yacht Club. 
Capt. W. W. Price last week presented to 
the New Haven Y. C. a burgee of the club. It 
has the distinction of being the flag which has 
flown in the highest northern latitude of any 
yacht club flag in the world. The blue and white 
banner waved from the masthead of Harry 
Whitney’s ship when it reached latitude of 79 
degrees and 20 minutes, and will hereafter oc¬ 
cupy a place of honor in the club house. _ 
Just before Mr. Whitney sailed on his trip 
last year, one of the members of the club 
brought to him a club flag with the request 
that he take it with him and fly it at the north¬ 
ernmost point reached by him in his explora¬ 
tion. This Mr. Whitney did, and last night 
the flag was returned accompanied by a letter 
vouching for the record. 
Both the letter and the flag were ordered 
framed, and Mr. Whitney was elected an hono¬ 
rary member of the dub, the time of his mem¬ 
bership to date from the day he started north. 
When Mr. Whitney starts for the Antartic he 
will taken with him another flag to go after 
the record of “farthest south,” The “farthest 
north flag is triangular in shape and about 
three feet long and hung at the masthead of 
the Boethic on July 29, when she reached her 
highest latitude. 
Motor 'Boating. 
Cruiser for L. F. Percival. 
Lawrence F. Percival, owner of the many 
racing yachts which have been named Sally, 
has just placel an order with Arthur P. Homer, 
of Boston for a 50-foot high-speed cruiser, 
which will have a beam of 7 feet 6 inches. This 
craft will have sleeping accommodations for 
five persons, and a speed of 20 miles has been 
guaranteed. The motor will be a six-cylinder, 
6Y2 by 8 Sterling. This boat is to be built by 
James E. Graves at Marblehead and will be 
ready for delivery on April 1. 
The boat is laid out as follows: Forward, 
owner’s stateroom, with toilet attached; im¬ 
mediately aft of this, bridge deck, and gasolene 
tanks with a capacity of 200 gallons underneath; 
engine room with sleeping quarters for one 
man amidships; galley full width of the boat 
immediately aft of this, separated from same 
with watertight bulkheads; main saloon with 
two transom berths, side board and fire-place 
immediately aft of the galley, and a small cock¬ 
pit. This boat will be the fastest cruiser of her 
size in the New England waters and is Mr. 
Percival's first power boat. 
Dr. William S. Dennett, of New York city, 
has placed an order with A. P. Homer for a 
30-horsepower yawl which he will use for ex¬ 
tensive cruises along the New England coast 
during the summer, and in the early spring will 
use her in Long Island Sound. 
This boat is a very unusual type, being deep 
draft with ample sailing plan to handle her and 
with the engine in a separate house aft of the 
cockpit amidships. The boat will be finished 
throughout with mahogany, lighted with elec¬ 
tric lights, etc., and it represents the latest de¬ 
velopments of the comfortable small cruiser 
which Mr. Homer has specialized in for the last 
three years. 
Dr. Dennett’s boat will be equipped with a 
double cylinder 6 by 7 1 / Eagle engine, and will 
have a speed of 9 knots. A full model of this 
boat will be exhibited at both the Boston and 
New York shows. 
Long Cruise of the Venus. 
Joseph Vitous, of Cleveland, has completed 
a long cruise in his 28-foot motor boat Venus, 
tie went from Cleveland to Jacksonville to win 
a $3,000 prize. Accompanying Capt. Vitous 
were his wife and 11-year-old son, Samuel, his 
assistant and the latter’s wife and two children. 
The boat was propelled by a 6-horsepower 
gasolene engine. Venus was formerly an ordi¬ 
nary rowboat, and was transformed into a 
motor boat by Capt. Vitous. 
The boat set out from Cleveland late in Oc¬ 
tober, and reached the Atlantic Ocean by way 
of Lake Erie to Buffalo, thence through the 
Erie Canal to the Hudson River and down the 
Hudson to the sea. During the trip to Jack¬ 
sonville the two families lived aboard the boat. 
Capt. Vitous’ trip from New \ork to Jackson- 
vill along the Atlantic Coast was not entirely 
clear sailing, for the party met many reverses. 
During a severe hurricane off Cape Hatteras 
the little boat was nearly wrecked, and it was 
only through the cool work of Capt. Vitous 
that the craft pulled through safely. For nearly 
two weeks the Venus drifted helplessly in the 
fierce gale, and in the meanwhile provisions 
aboard ran out. After the party had gone three 
days without eating, the storm abated, and a 
landing was made and provisions taken on 
board. 
Long Trip Down the Mississippi. 
Almost three months traveling down the 
Mississippi River in a 40-foot motor yacht from 
St. Paul, the headwaters of navigation of the 
Father of Waters to New Orleans, is the record 
of Dr. J. M. Welsh and wife, according to the 
Times-Democrat, who arrived recently at the 
head of Walnut street. They were not 
fatigued by their long cruise, which began Sept. 
25 from Minnesota, and after laying up the 
little yacht for repairs and repainting, they will 
continue through the inland route and along 
the Gulf shore to Palm Beach, Fla. Dr. Welsh 
was at the St. Charles Hotel recently, where 
he called upon Jackson Johnson, who is waiting 
the arrival of his yacht, Kentucky, which should 
arrive by rail from St. Paul within a few days. 
Mr. Johnson and wife will also take the inland 
passage to the Florida coast resorts and make 
a companion cruise with Dr. Welsh. 
Dr. Welsh traveled by day only, and made a 
cruise of more than 2,000 miles by easy stages, 
going at about an average of nine miles an 
hour. The yacht draws a little less than three 
feet, and when she first started it was hard 
pulling to get her through the low water of the 
Mississippi. Often she was on the sandbars 
and several times she had to be pulled off by 
the United States lighthouse tenders. Above 
Grafton, Ill., where the Illinois River empties 
into the Mississippi, the water was less than 
three and one-half feet deep. After passing St. 
Louis, sailing was easy, and it was merely a 
question of making the next night’s stop. Dr. 
Welsh said that the journey through Dixie was 
delightful, and he was never more hospitably 
treated than when he tied up his boat and ap¬ 
plied for a night’s lodging. The yacht is 40 feet 
over all, and has a beam of 12 feet, with 3 feet 
draft. She is a ketch-rigged with three masts, 
so that she can be sailed as well as motored. 
Sparks. 
The new 45-foot midship deck cruiser 
Suzanne, designed and built in New York City 
for L. J. Bell, of Lake Charles, La., was shipped 
via Morgan Line steamer on Dec. 3 to Galves¬ 
ton, where it proceeded under its own power 
to Lake Charles by way of the Gul of Mexico 
and the Calcascieu River, and the handsome 
craft is now in service at the owner’s home. 
This is the fifth motor boat that this firm has 
built for Mr. Bell. 
A firm in New York city has just closed a 
contract for a 42-foot raised deck cruiser, to be 
shipped to Switzerland, and to be used on Lake 
Geneva. This boat is an exact duplicate of the 
one shown at the last National Motor Boat 
Show at Madison Square Garden. 
F. C. Fowler, of New London, Conn., has 
just placed an order for a 25-foot speed boat, 
to be used by him at his summer home, Range- 
ley Lake, Maine. 
Horace L. Kent’s 35-foot speed boat, which 
has been named the Guess, is now being pre¬ 
pared for shipment to Florida. Mr. Kent stipu¬ 
lated that the boat be guaranteed to make 18 
miles per hour, and the Guess has exceeded 
this by nearly two miles. 
At the meeting of the New England Boat and 
Engine Association, these members were elected 
members of the Racing Committee: Chester 
I. Campbell, Arthur P. Homer, Norman Skene 
and William B. Stearns. A fifth member is 
yet to be chosen. The races last season were 
held on the Charles River and at Winthrop. 
Many of the members, however, think that a 
better course could be found at Hull Bay, and 
it is probable that one regatta will be off the 
Boston Y. C. house. 
N. Howard Easton, who is to be the next 
vice-commodore of the Barrington Y. C., has 
just ordered a new 55-foot power boat which 
is to be built at Fort Clinton, N. Y., and 
brought down from Lake Erie in the spring. 
The new craft will have a deck flush with the 
rail to extend fore and aft except where the 
breaks of the hatches and companions occur. 
There is to be ample deck room and a well ap¬ 
pointed cabin. The new boat will have about 
8 feet beam and light draft. 
Samuel Hesketh, of Boston, Has ordered a 
25-foot raised deck cruiser to be built by Davis 
Bros, at Warren. The boat will be built of oak 
and pine. It will be equipped with a io-horse- 
power motor. 
At the annual election of the Camden Motor 
Boat Club, held at their headquarters in North 
Camden, the following officers were chosen for 
the coming year: Commodore, Claude Headley; 
Vice-Commodore, H. J. Dudley; Fleet Captain, 
Charles Johnson; Official Measurer, John Van- 
derslice; Treasurer, Austin M. Clark; Secre¬ 
tary, W. V. Pike, and Financial Secretary. 
George Johnson; Trustees — Chairman, ex- 
Commodore Frank Turner, C. L. Stewart, J. 
F. Magee, J. C. Dorment, S. S. Norcross, F. 
Reynolds and J. M. West. 
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