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vided, however, that at the discretion of the Re- 
gatta Committee, existing yachts not conforming 
to the spirit of the restrictions adopted in 1904 
may be barred. The races for the trophy will be 
sailed during regatta week in September. The 
trophy will be awarded to the boat making the 
highest total percentage in the three races; per- 
centages to be computed according to the table 
adopted by the Country Club for the Competitive 
Cup races. Entries close Sept. 1. 
eReR 
Cuicaco Notes.—The annual race from Chi- 
cago to Mackinac Island, 341 miles, will start this 
year on Saturday, July 14. The Chicago Y. C. 
have fixed the date earlier than usual to meet the 
views of those who wish to cruise longer and 
some who want to return to Chicago to witness 
the Lipton Cup races in August. Although an 
open event, the entries in the past have been from 
the Chicago Y. C. only, and an effort is being 
made to get all the clubs on Lake Michigan to 
send representative craft to take part in this 
sporty. race. 
The principal home racing in the Chicago Y. C. 
will be done by its new fleet of 18- footers—Pe- 
quad, Sioux and Seminole. The last named is 
now being built from designs by Mr. Crownin- 
shield. Trophies for these boats have been pre- 
sented to the club by Mr. Frank Howell, of New 
York, and Maj. Edw. Atkin, of London. All the 
clubs report much activity and a better prospect 
for yachting here than has been seen for many 
years. 
Mr. W. J. Starr is building a new Rosamond to 
take the place of the one he sold last year to Rear 
Commodore Steere, of the Chicago Y. C., who 
has renamed the boat Vanadis and has entered 
her in the Chicago-Mackinac cruising race. 
nn e 
A Boox or Power Boat Desicns.—Messrs. 
Swasey, Raymond & Page have recently issued a 
compact little book which contains thirty designs 
of power boats of various sizes. From the 114ft. 
power cruiser down to the 14ft. power skiff 
shows the wide range covered in both speed and 
cruising craft. Full particulars accompany each 
design and the man interested in power boats 
of any size would do well to’ secure a copy of this 
splendid little book. Some of the best power 
boats produced by American designers have come 
from the boards of Messrs. Swasey, Raymond & 
Page, and now that their productions are coming 
in for consideration and attention it is well that 
the power boat enthusiast should be familiar with 
their work. The best way to accomplish this is 
through the medium of the book “Power Boat 
Designs.” The book is 6xgin. in size and is bound 
in cloth. Copies can be had from Messrs. Swasey, 
Raymond & Page, Colonial Building, Boston, 
Mass., for $1. 
RRR 
Country CiLus oF Detroir.—The following offi- 
cers were elected at a recent meeting of the Coun- 
try Club of Detroit: Franklin H. Walker, Com- 
modore and Chairman Board of Directors; Chas. 
G. Jennings, Vice-Commodore and Chairman 
Yachting Committee; Walter S. Russel, Rear 
Commodore; Frank C. Baldwin, Secretary Yacht- 
ing Committee; John M. Dyar, Fleet Captain; 
Dr. Wadsworth Warren, 
Russel, Measurer; 
Dyar, Russell A. 
Warren. 
Fleet Surgeon; 
Regatta Committee—John M. 
Alger, Jr., Dr. Wadsworth 
RmReR 
LAURENCE PIKE Dres.—Laurence Pike died at 
his home in New York city on March 17 of heart 
disease. He was fifty-five years old and was one 
of the oldest living members of the New York 
Y. C., having joined in 1870. 
Ree 
NorwWaLk Y. C. Orricers.—The Norwal 
has elected the following officers: 
F. Osborn; Vice-Com., 
Com., William F. 
kKevenes 
Com., Clarence 
Charles A. Mead; Rear 
Clarke; Sec., George Curtis; 
Asst. Sec., Robert G. Mitchell; Treas., Samuel 
Lynes; Meas., Frederick A. Hill; Governing 
Committee—George A. Jennings, Horace S. 
Haich, William EY. Byington, Robert G. Mitchell 
and Victor W, Ferris. 
Sidney . 
Yacut Bass Sorp—Mr. Hollis Burgess has 
sold the cruising sloop Babs, owned by Mr. E. B. 
Alford, of Brookline, Mass., to Mr. Charles S. 
King, of New York. He has also sold the knock- 
about Pet, owned by Mr. Walter Burgess. 
RRR 
Yacut SALEs.—The following sales of yachts 
have been made through the office of Mr. Stanley 
M. Seaman: The auxiliary sloop Narda was sold 
by Mr. F. K. Blanchard, of New Rochelle, to 
Messrs. Sidney Hogerton and Alfred Hamburg. 
The auxiliary yawl Pawnee was sold by Mr. John 
P. Elton, of Waterbury, Conn., to Mr. A. Win- 
sor Weld, of Boston, Mass. 
Canoeing. 

Toronto's White-Headed Canoeists 
Foregather. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
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to stick to one even when not wanted. Twenty- 
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tary of the Toronto Canoe Club, I used to write 
Forest AND STREAM the accounts of our annual 
dinners and other canoe news, and from 1885 to 
1890 my scrap book shows that I was a fairly 
regular kicker in your columns. This was a bad 
habit and it has caused me to be selected to write 
you an account of a dinner which was held by 
The Old Boys of the Toronto Canoe Club 
on March 9 in the Rossin House where twenty- 
six years previous the club was formed. Invita- 
tions were sent only to men who belonged to the 
club previous to 1890, when the club was small 
and: each member knew every other member by 
having camped, cruised, fished, raced with or 
against, or else had partaken of a part of the 
grub cooked over a spirit lamp in the small tents 
of those days. 
The result was a gathering of old chums and 
friends, many of whom had not seen each other 
for fifteen or twenty years, and when Dr. Powell 
arose to say grace there were thirty pair of sand 
packers stowed under the table, and with a few 
exceptions there were thirty grizzled, bald or 
white heads bending over as many plates, while 
thirty strong right arms that used to “whang into 
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