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Brooklyn Y. C. May Put Up Cup. 
THE proposition to offer an International cup 
for foreign competition under the present rules 
of measurement for any sized yacht that cared 
to challenge, will be decided by the Brooklyn 
Y. C. at its annual meeting set for Dec. 11 at 
the Hotel Marlborough. The idea meets with 
general favor within the club and there is little 
doubt that it will be adopted. The suggestion 
grows out of the refusal of the New York Y. 
C. to accept the challenge of Sir Thomas 
Lipton, and the cup is intended to take the place 
of America’s Cup. 
The meeting will also mark the fiftieth anni- 
versary the club and a collation will be 
served to commemorate the anniversary. Com- 
modore Bird S. Coler will retire from office and 
be succeeded by the present Vice-Commodore, 
W. C. Towen, if the ticket offered by the Nomi- 
nating Committee is elected. Col. Austen has 
consented to run for Vice-Commodore. The list 
of officers placed in nomination follows: 
Commodore, William C. Towen, schooner 
yacht Tammany; Vice-Commodore, David E. 
Austen, sloop yacht Ondawa; Rear-Commodore, 
Leo S. Herzig, power yacht Dorothy; Treas- 
urer, Willard Graham; Secretary, John G. Faist; 
Measurer, Edson B. Schock. Trustees (for 
three years)—John Lewis, John E. Haviland, 
Thomas J. Moore. Trustees (for two years)— 
Frank J. E. Fitzpatrick, Arthur Macdougall. 
Trustees (for one year)—V. Hugo Koehler. 
Regatta Committee—Dr. J. E. DeMund, Will- 
iam H. Griffin, James Bradley. Membership 
Committee—Conrad R. Schmitt, Dr. W. J. 
Krausi, Daniel Toffey. Nominating Committee 
—Walter D. Haviland, A. V. B. Voorhees, Jr., 
Charles A. Kelly. Delegates to the Gravesend 
Bay Yacht Racing Association—Dr. J. E. De- 
Mund, William H, Griffin. Delegates to Ameri- 
can Power Boat Association—Dr. J. E. De- 
Mund, E, W. Graet, 
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Royal Yacht on Rocks. 
Tue Russian imperial yacht Standart ran on 
the rocks off Horsoe, Finland, on sept, IL of 
this year, 
The Russian Emperor and the Empress were 
dining at the time. The dishes were all thrown 
from the table and the Emperor and Empress 
almost thrown from their chairs. 
They nevertheless remained calm and did not 
appear to be at all frightened. The Tsar refused 
to leave the yacht until compelled to by the in- 
flux of the water. 
The yacht was not pulled off the rocks until 
two days later. Her bottom was crushed in and 
she was otherwise badly damaged, and it was 
some time before she could be put in condition 
fit for use. 
The naval court martial inquiring into the 
causes of the stranding, delivered its judgment 
as follows: It sentenced Admiral Nyloff to be 
reprimanded. 
Captain Tchaguin and Colonel Konmuchkoff 
were deprived of their rank as a disciplinary 
measure, but in view of Captain Tchaguin’s ex- 
ceptional services his punishment was com- 
muted to a reprimand. Lieutenant Oltanoff was 
sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment in a 
fortress. General Chayman was acquitted. 
The general opinion is that the sentences are 
light, especially in view of the serious accusa- 
tions made by the prosecution and the evidence 
adduced, which was most unfavorable to the 
accused officers. 

Australian Ocean Race. 
THE ocean racing fever has spread to Aus- 
tralia. The first race will be started the day 
after Christmas, from Port Philip, Victoria, to 
Tamar Head, Tasmania, across the celebrated 
Bass Straits. The race is under the flag of the 
Geelong Y. C., and it is for a cup presented 
by the Rudder, through Commodore T. A. Dick- 
son, of that club. It is open to cruising boats 
belonging to any club in the Commonwealth. 


FORES TAN Des T REAM: 
Several boats have entered, including one from 
Tasmania. Commodore Dickson has built and 
will sail in the race a 38ft. sea bird similar to 
the Naiad, of Chicago. 
The distance across the strait is two hundred 
miles, and the prevailing summer winds are from 
the south, so that it will be a beat all the way 
over. Geelong, the city where the club is situ- 
ated, is on Port Philip, opposite Melbourne. 
The yacht squadron of New Zealand will also 
hold a race for a Rudder cup in January. This 
will be for power boats, distance one hundred 
miles, and is open to all the clubs of New Zea- 
land. The race will be started at Auckland 
which is on the North Island. 

Colonial Y. C. to Go in Winter Quarters. 
Tue Colonial Y. C., of New York, after a 
most successful season, has decided to move 
into winter quarters. The members also dis- 
cussed the various features of their annual pro- 
fessional entertainment and dance to be held 
this year at the Harlem Casino, on Jan. 23. The 
following nominations were made for officers of 
the club for the year 1908: Commodore, George 

THE VOLUNTEER, 
J. Vestner (re-election); Vice-Commodore, 
Frank Totten (re-election); Rear-Commodore, 
W. A. Brown; Measurer, J. A. K. Whipple; 
Master-at-Arms, Franklin Coppen; Treasurer, 
Frederick Gerst; Secretary, John J. Tulley, Jr.; 
Governors, Messrs. Canavan, Franklin, Ellis, 
Sheffler, McGlone, Noble, Lederer, Newman, 
Eberlein, Tully, Murphy and Thiel. 

Hansen Sells his Yard. 
A. Hansen, the City Island boat builder, has 
sold out his entire plant of shop, yard and rail- 
way and is going back to see if life in the old 
country, Sweden, is to his tastes. His friends 
predict he will not stay long, but will come back 
and start another plant somewheres. 
When he first started in business in this 
country, he had a yard at Hoboken, N. J.; then, 
after “Sam” Ayers moved from Bay Ridge and 
went to Nyack, Hansen moved over to that 
place, and from there moved his outfit to City 
Island on an old scow and gradually built up 
what is now a prosperous yacht yard this side, 
as you enter on City Island, of the yard of 
Robert Jacob. 

All the fish laws of the United States and Can- 
ada, revised to date and now in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
[DEc. 7, 1907. 


Kanawha Burned. 
THE well-known steam yacht Kanawha, ownec 
by Mr. Hartley C. Baxter, of Brunswick, Me. 
was burned on Thanksgiving Day at Gurnet, 
Incendiarism is suspected. During the Spanisk 
War Kanawha was a United States despatch 
boat. She was built of steel in 1896 by Chas. L. 
Seabury & Co., for Mr. John P. Duncan, and 
was enrolled in the New York Y. C. fleet. Mr. 
Baxter has owned her since 1904. Her dimen- 
sions are: Length over all, 147ft.; waterline, 
LI7it.;, beam) T7ite dratte7ite ome 





GREAT BRITAIN, not content with possessing 
the largest warship in the world in the Dread- 
naught, has now constructed the fastest torpedo 
boat destroyer in the Mohawk. 
On her official trial in the North Sea recently 
Mohawk maintained for six hours a mean speed 
to 3444 knots an hour. In six runs over a meas- 
ured mile she traveled at the rate of 341% knots 
an hour. This is equal to forty miles. 
Mohawk is fitted with steam turbines 
vater tube boiler using oil. 
and a 

Canoeing. 

A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division—Lawrence M. Thompson, 
Princeton, N. J., by W. A. Furman; Harrison 
Elliott, Brooklyn, N. Y., by W. A. Coley; R. 
Roth, Philadelphia, Pa., by Theodore Quasebart. 
Central Division—Harry C. Loudenback, Wil- 
kinsburg, Pa., by H. G. Welsh. 
Eastern Division—Geo. W. Mansfield, Geo. E. 
Brown and Harry L. Tilton, of Boston, Mass.; 
Bancroft L. Goodwin, Norwood, Mass., and J. 
K. Park, Newtonville, Mass., all by J. R. Robert- 
son. 
Western Division—Irving F. Koch and Perry 
Mueller, of Chicago, Ill, by W. H. Piggott; 
Arthur Bonnet, Chicago, Ill., by J. E. Dixon; 
Harry W. Pollard, Orlo M. Stevens, J. Bertram 
Andrews, F. Nate Kelley, C. W. Davis, Andrew 
Berg, Earl J. Van Wie, Arthur S. Butterworth, 
Hugh G, Parsons, Geo. C. McLean and Frank 
Taylor, all of Rockford, Ill., and all by H. F. 
Norris, and Edward J. Steinberg, Grand Rapids, 
Mich., by H. F. Norris. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Central Division.—s5410, Clarence D. Buckpitt,| 
Buffalo, N. Y.; 5411, R. S. J. DeNiord, Buffalo, 
N. Y.; 5412, R. N. DeNiord, Buffalo, N. Y.; 
5413, Thomas Heath, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Eastern Division.—5389, Harry Albert Wil- 
liams, Arlington, Mass.; 5390, Edwin C. Merrill, 
Lawrence, Mass.; 5391, Rylance Platt, Jr., Law- 
rence, Mass.; 5392, Charles F. Jackson, Man- 
chester, N. H.; 5393, Edward Moss, Lawrence, 
Mass.; 5304, Walter B. Bateman, Lawrence, 
Mass.; 5395, Clarence P. Cotton, Providence, 
R. I.; 5306, A. A. Lenane, Lawrence, Mass.; 
5397, Geo. B. Ames, Dedham, Mass.; 5308, E. V. 
Comerais, Dedham, Mass.; 5300, Edward S. 
Baker, Dedham, Mass.; 5400, E. Scott Morse, 
Dedham, Mass.; 5401, Dudley T. Rogers, Ded- 
ham, Mass.; 5402, Geo. W. Lane, Medford, 
Mass.; 5403, C. W. Ruth, Medford, Mass.; 5404, 
Malcolm G. Wight, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; 
5405, C. Edwin Johnson, Watertown, Mass.; 
5406, David L. Coutts, Andover, Mass.; ‘5407, 
Andrew Winsor, Providence, R. I.; 5408, Fred. 
G. Valpey, Providence, R. I.; 5400, Walter H. 
Waterman, Providence, R. I. 

NEW LIFE MEMBERS, 
No. 79 (N. 1838), Joseph W. 
Sparrow, 
Toronto, Ont. Can’; No. 80 (@) sqrt), Re Se 
DeNiord, Buffalo, N. Y.; No. 81 (C. 5412), R. 
N. DeNiord, Buffalo, N. Y.; No. 82 (C. 5413), 
Thomas Heath, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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