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bed entirely draped in a green striped covering, 
with heaps of cushions to disguise anything but 
the effect of a luxurious divan. A Mayflower 
grate, gay in brass balls and andirons furnishes 
the room with an open fire, which, with the large 
hanging lamp, give sufficient heat for the chilli- 
est November days. A mahogany eight-legged 
table for dining or’books stands in the center of 
the room, surrounded by a side table for candle- 
sticks and serving; two bureaus, a bookcase, 
writing table and six rush-bottomed chairs, with 
a well-appointed smoking table near the head of 
the divan quite furnish the saloon. All walls and 
ceiling are painted white, with no pictures; at the 
windows are brilliant chintz shades made on roll- 
ers. The decorations of the walls and ceiling are 
fresh every few days, being vines brought from 
the woods, standing in large Gruby jars and 
tacked to the walls and ceiling. 
In the gangway, amid great branches of the 
fragrant barberry, we hear. the bells of the ship’s 
clock, the thermometer and barometer are keep- 
ing it company; here also is a large mirror which 
reflects the water and trees or any approaching 
boat. At either side of this little hallway are 
drawn green awning curtains for protection from 
sun and rain. We now pass ‘aft through the pas- 
sageway to the galley. 
This generous kitchen occupies the end space 
with two windows and door, and hatch in the 
floor for storage below. Shelves and cupboards 
surround an enameled sink, with hooks and racks 
for dishes. White cotton curtains bordered in 
turkey red are run on a rod about the dishes, and 
two gas pipe berths opposite, these are pulled 
across these folded berths by day; a yacht stove 
with the funnel running above the awning on the 
roof, a tip table, folding stepladder chair, earthen 
water tank and clothes hamper quite furnish this 
galley. The stern piazza holds the two big green 
water barrels and cleat for stem moorings, an 
iron table and wicker chairs. 
On either side of the passageway returning to 
the gangway are toilet and staterooms. The 
blind-slatted doors opening into the rooms give 
ventilation and are easily folded back; a single 
white iron bed, bureau, mirror, chair, table de 
nuit, and a space for hanging curtained by a 
white drapery bordered in turkey red, are all 
these rooms require and are very neat, all in 
white paint, and a large map on the plain wall 
space. In fact, the entire house inside and out 
is painted white, with the exception of the hull, 
blinds and grass of the roof garden, which are 
green. 
We find the saloon useful only on rainy days, 



as the roof garden is the delight of a houseboat, 
and there you spend many a restful hour, sur- 
rounded by a parapet of blooming things and 
trailing vines. Morning glories twine about the 
awning frame, myrtle and nasturtiums fringe the 
cornice line, while the hedge of geraniums, petu- 
nias, marigolds, mignonette and heliotrope bloom 
in profusion. At the bow end of the roof garden 
are two huge riding lights. For festival occa- 
sions bunches of barberry evergreen trees are 
brought from the woods, soon transforming this 
roof promenade into a most luxuriant bower. 
A Venetian night, entertainment is one of the 
possible features to add to the novel way of en- 
tertaining on the houseboat. Many lanterns 
draped about with poles pushed in the bottom of 
the river about the boat, with bunches of green 
and lanterns, with your canoes and boats float- 
ing about, guitars and mandolins playing, make 
the delusion quite complete. 
Select a charming spot in the norrowest part of 
some salt river, where you can secure the haw- 
sers to firm boulders on the shore, with good 
ground tackle for the off-stream mooring, near 
a good spring and within easy access to trans- 
portation, then you are ready to call the tugboat 
into commission. If one selects the proper place 
for mooring, the houseboat is likely to remain the 
entire season, and often returning to the same 
place for many seasons. 
Conchiglia has two boat poles for her tender 
and canoe. There is also a sailing canoe added 
to the outfit. 
There is a great charm in learning this new 
haven, with the fresh breeze laden with the per- 
fume of buttercups and wild strawberries wafted 
on the salt breeze over your decks and through 
every window of your boat. You catch up the 
earthen pitcher, jump into the canoe, romp 
through the waving grass to the spring and on 
to the woods, over the hills and far away until 
the sun is high and hot, then is the time for the 
houseboat. 
Take a plunge from the gangway steps; after 
this cool salt water bath, the shade of the big 
green striped awning of the roof garden is the 
alluring spot. A book or siesta until the twilight 
hour calls forth the many lights of yachts and an 
endless string of brilliants along the shore. All 
is quiet but the regular click of the oars of some 
passing boat, or the distant sound of the mandolin 
and some one singing make these hours the most 
precious and enchanting. 
Several half-tone reproductions of the interior 
and exterior of -Conchiglia will be found on an- 
other page. 
Houseboats and Houseboating 
BY ALBERT BRADLEE HUNT 
Yachting Editor of FOREST AND STREAM. 
A volume devoted to a new outdoor field which has 
for its purpose three objects: 
FIRST—To make known the opportunities American waters 
afford for enjoyment of houseboating life. 
SECOND—To properly present the development which house- 
boating has attained in this country. 
THIRD—To set forth the advantages and pleasures of house- 
boating in so truthful a manner that others may become 
interested in the pastime. 
The book contains forty specially prepared articles by owners and de- 
signers of well-known houseboats, and is beautifully illustrated with nearly 
200 line and halftone reproductions of plans and exteriors and interiors. 
A most interesting chapter is devoted to houseboating in England. 
The book has been carefully prepared by Mr. Albert Bradlee Hunt. 
The work is printed on extra heavy coated paper, and is bound in 
olive green buckram. The price is $3.00 net. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY bei 
Boston Letter. 
Want KeeL_ Boats ror SEAWANHAKA Cup.—A 
conference was held in Boston recently between 
a committee representing the Seawanhaka Cor- 
inthian Y. C. and a committee representing the 
Manchester Y. C., with a view to changing the 
conditions of the deed of gift of the Seawanhaka 
Challenge Cup, now held by the Manchester Y. 
C. The proposal of the committee from the Sea- 
wanhaka Y. C. was to so change the deed of gift 
that keel boats will be favored in future contests 
of the cup. The committee of the Manchester 
Y. C. took the matter under consideration, but, 
although no decision has yet been announced, it 
is considered highly improbable that the condi- 
tions will be changed. While the majority of 
Manchester yachtsmen favor keel boats for rac- 
ing, they believe that it would be unfair to prac- 
tically bar a type of boat which has been so nicely 
developed by the Canadians and with which they 
successfully defended the cup for so many years. 
They also feel that it would be unfair to favor a 
type of boat which would carry too much draft 
to be successfully raced off Point Claire. It was 
in such a manner that the Manchester Y. C. con- 
sidered proposed changes in the deed of gift of 
the Quincy Challenge Cup. After the cup had 
been won by the Manchester Y. C. and success- 
fully defended against the club formerly holding 
it, the Quincy Y. C. proposed changes in the deed 
of gift so that a more wholesome type might be 
produced. The Manchester yachtsmen had no 
more love than others for the flimsy, impossible 
boats which were produced to race for the Quincy 
Cup; but they felt that as the Quincy Y. C. had 
formed the rules and that under them the Man- 
chester Y. C. had won and defended the cup, it 
was up to the Quincy Y. C. to win the cup back 
under the same rules, when the. deed could be 
changed in any way the Quincy Y. C. might 
desire. 
Work AT MANCHESTER.—At White’s yard the 
21-footer designed by Messrs. Small Brothers for 
a Toledo syndicate to race for the Lipton Cup, 
will be laid down this week. Two boats are 
building at this yard for Mr. F. M. Crosby, of 
Boston. One is a 15-footer and the other a 22ft. 
power boat to be fitted with an 8 horsepower en- 
gine. An auxiliary 15-footer is also being built 
for Mr. Thomas Goff, of Cincinnati, which will 
have a 2 horsepower engine. 
At Fenton’s Manchester yard the 22-footer de- 
signed by Mr. E. A. Boardman for Mr. George 
Lee is nearly finished. At the same yard four 
18-footers are being built from Boardman designs 













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