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A THIRTY-FOOT L.W.L, AUXILIARY YAWL— DESIGNED BY SMALL BROS. FOR A. H. SMITH. 
labor-saving device—it means less work for the 
sailor; but fewer men are carried, and so in 
the end Jack has to catch it, while no invention 
can eliminate fog and gale and lee shores and 
collision and freezing seas. 
When once the long narrow hull of the 
schooner has been safely launched, the life story 
of the craft begins; she has been built, let us 
say at Camden, or on the Kennebec. In case 
she has been launched without her masts, she 
is towed to the wharf, where her own donkey 
hoists in the heavy spars and gangs of rigging, 
sails and all the endless amount of gear that a 
new vessel requires. Six weeks or a month 
finds her ready for sea, with a crew aboard, and 
she sails, gay with bunting, saluted by all the 
craft in port, and the people on shore, mak- 
ing a beautiful picture as she moves off, 
glistening in the paint so soon to be covered 
with the marks of her calling. Chartered per- 
haps to load coal at some southern port, the 
course is around Cape Cod; and once arrived, 
the clean deck and yacht-like appearance of 
things soon disappear. The trip down has served 
to settle things into place and gear renders more 
easily at the end of the passage. 
A friend of mine in a new schooner, coming 
from Maine in the winter, went out of the 
South channel, took a westerly gale, was blown 
off for a week across the Gulf Stream, always on 
the starboard tack; and after reaching the lati- 
tude of Charleston finally worked back into 
Norfolk, his destination. But the masts were 
“over the side,’ as he said; the port rigging 
hung in bights; about half the ratlines on the 
starboard side were gone, and she looked like 
a wreck. Being new, of course, nothing had 
settled into place, and he had had no chance 
to repair damages in the gale. 
Our schooner then loads coal for Boston back 
to a coal port, Philadelphia or Baltimore, being 
chartered for two or more trips at the prevail- 
ing rate, which would be anywhere between 60 
cents and $1.75 a ton, allowing so many “lay 
days” when the vessel can lay awaiting her turn 
and still not be on demurrage. And many are 
the suits and trials occasioned by this same 
demurrage. A year or so ago a schooner lay 
at Norfolk for six weeks on demurrage, which 
amounted to something like $2.500 more than 
she would have earned by getting a cargo and 
freight money. The order of arrival determines 
the order of loading and often the captain’s own 
word is final. We arrived one dark night at 
Newport News at about 1 o’clock, and on go- 
ing to the office found that a vessel which we 
passed off the Rip Raps and had beaten into 
the anchorage had arrived at 12 o’clock, an hour 
before us; the captain had “lied his turn.” Then 
comes a charter from Boston to Brunswick to 
load ties back to New York at 16 cents; then 
light to Port Tampa; rock to Richmond; to 
Norfolk to load coal for Vera Cruz; light to 
New Orleans; molasses to New York; light to 
Philadelphia; coal to Matanzas, and sugar to 
New York. It is a business.. The danger of 
the sea is there; and while those who sail its 
waters find it a profitable one, the risk is great. 
ManuasseT Bay Y. C. Meretinc.—The follow- 
ing officers were elected at the annual meeting 
of the Manhasset Bay Y. C., held at the Hotel 
Astor, New York city, on the evening of Jan. 
2: Com., A. H. Alker, steamer Florence; Vice- 
Com., Ashton C. Clarkson, sloop Chiquita; 
Rear-Com., Charles M. Gould, launch Colum- 
bine; Sec’y, Edward M. MacLellan; Treas., 
Frederick A. Hill; Meas., Francis W. Belknap; 
Trustees, class of 1908, Hazen L. Hoyt and 
Clarkson Cowl. 
Since moving into the new club house the — 
organization has been under heavy expenses 
and the club has run a little behind. The club 
is now practically free from indebtedness, as 
the trustees have raised funds to meet all obliga- | 
tions. The yearly dues have been raised from $30 
to $50, and with 240 members, the club will have 
a sufficient income to meet all expenses. Now 
that the club has been put on so firm a footing, | 
its future is assured, particularly as its officers © 
are all such capable men. 

