G V LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Chap^..-. Copyright No., ShelL.^lL.B-\ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Xhe Popular Larch mont W^"^®* America's Representative Bicycle 4 Warren St., NEW YORK Seventeenth ^nnual J^egatta JULY FOURTH 1896 L]i V ■i.ol^ COPYRIGHT, 1896. BY THE CHASMAR-WINCHELL PRESS NEW YORK LARCHMONT YACHT CLUB , Won by " Emerald " Desiijned and Made by Whiting M'£'g. Co. Solid Silver (Exclusively. ) STPLELRILurrc Whiting M'F'g Co Silversmiths, Broadway & i8th St. New York. .L3l LARCHMONT SCHOONER CUP Designed and Made by Whiting M'f'g. Co. LARCHMONT CUP FOR SCHOONERS Won by "Lasca " De.signed and Made by Whiting M'f'g. Co. OFFICERS. COMMODORE. HARRY M. GILLIG. VICE-COM.}rODORn. CLARENCE A. POSTLEY. REAR-COMMODORE. EDWARD S. HATCH. SECRETARY. CHARLES C. LITTLE. THE COMMODORE, Chairman. THE SECRETARY, Secretary. THE TREASURER. MEASURER. JOHN HYSLOP, 2oS East 2Qth Street, New York. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. FRANCIS M. SCOTT. AUGUSTIN MONROE. EDWARD J. GREACEN. HOUSE COMMITTEE. AUGUSTIN MONROE, Chairman. TREASURER. WILLIAM MURRAY. EUGENE L. BUSHE. WILLIAM B. JENKINS. OSWALD SANDERSON. EDWARD J. GREACEN. THE COMMODORE, cA-officw. WILLIAM B. JENKINS. THE TREASURER, c.x-officio. C. M. HAMILTON. HENRY E. SMITH. THEODORE D. RICH. OTTO SARONY. LIDRAR Y COMMITTEE. FRANK M. SHAW, Chairman. ART COMMITTEE. HORATIO R. HARPER, Chairman. REGATTA COMMITTEE. JOHN F. LOVEJOY, Chairman. FLEET SURGEON. CHARLES F. ROBERTS, M.D. GEORGE A. CORMACK. T. S. DROWNE, Jr. EDWARD F. CALDWELL. HENRY C. WINTRINGHAM. Steam Yacht "HUNTRESS," 120 feet long, built CHARLES L. SEABDRY & CO., * DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS OF Steam Yachts and Lannclies, also Sailing Yachts. Seabury's Patent Safety Water Tube Boilers and Marine Engines Main Office, Works and Yards, Nyack-on-Hudson, N. Y. New York Office, "TOWER BUILDING," 50 Broadway. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Local and Long Distance Telephones in Both Offices. FLAGSHIP "RAMONA." Includes - RULE XIII. COURSES. In all the Reg'attas of thi.s Club, courses for the respective classes shall be selected on the morning of the race, and be signaled from the Judges' steamer. For the purpose of signaling the courses to be sailed the Clas.ses are divided into Three Series: Series A. All Schooners. } Classes i, 2 and 3 of Sloops, Cutters and Yawls. Series B. i Classes D and E of Schooners. Includes -^ Classes 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Sloops, Cutters, Yawls and Special ( 30 foot Class. Series C. In -ludes ^ Classes 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, i6 and 17 of Sloops, Cutters, Yawls '' ] and others. Not later than fifteen minutes prior to the preparatory signal being given, the Regatta Committee shall fly from the forward Flag Staff on Judges' Steamer, the Series Letters A, B and C, and under each the num- ber of the course to be sailed by the classes comprising the series of the letter above. White Flags, Black Letters and Figures will be used. Example : ^ OQ O Series Course Series Course Series Course Course No. i. For Schooners and Classes i, 2 and 3. — From off Larchmont to and around a float with club flag anchored in middle of Long Island Sound ; distance 6 nautical miles; course E. X N., leaving same on the starboard hand; thence to and around white spar buoy, letter "L" in black painted thereon, in Hempstead Harbor, off Prospect Point, distance 6 nautical miles course, S. W. )i W., leaving same on the starboard hand; thence to and around the southwesterly stake-boat off Larchmont, distance 3 nautical miles, course N. N. W. , leaving same on the starboard hand; thence over and around the above course a second time, to finish between two stake- boats off Larchmont, leaving S. W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, 30 nautical miles. LstLeg— E. ^N 6 Miles 2d Leg-S. W. f^ W., 6 " 3d Leg— N. N. W 3 ■' 15 Nau. Miles. Course No. 2. For Schooners and Classes i, 2, and 3. — From ofl: Larchmont to and around a white spar buoy, letter " L" in black painted thereon, in Hemp- .stead Harbor, off Prospect Point, distance 3 nautical miles, course S. S. E. , leaving same on the port hand; thence to and around a float with club flag in middle of Long Island Sound, distance 6 nautical miles, cour.se N. E. f^ E., leaving same on the port hand; thence to and around southwesterly stake-boat oft" Larchmont, distance 6 nautical miles, course W. 3^ S. , leav- ing same on the port hand; thence over and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larchmont, leaving S. W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, 30 nautical miles. I.St Leg— S. S. E 3 Mile.s. 2d Leg— N. E. ^ E., 6 " 3d Leg-W. ^ S., 6 •■ 15 Nau. Miles. Course No. 3. For Classes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and special 30 foot class. — From off Larchmont to and around float wath club flag anchored in the middle of Long Island Sound, distance 4 nautical miles, course East, leaving same on the star- board hand; thence to and around white spar buoy, letter "L" in black painted thereon, in Hempstead Harbor, off Prospect Point, distance 4 nau- tical miles, course S. W. leaving same on the starboard hand ; thence to and around southwesterly stake-boat off" Larchmont, distance 3 nautical miles, course N. N. W. , leaving same on the starboard hand ; thence over and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larchmont, leaving S. W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, 22 nautical miles. ist Leg — East, . 4 Miles 2d Leg— S. "W., 4 " 3d Leg— N. N. "W., 3 " ■ II Nau. Miles. Course No. 4. For Classes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and .special 30 foot class. — From off Larchmont to and around white spar buoy, letter "L" in black painted thereon, in Hempstead Harbor, off Prospect Point, distance 3 nautical miles, course S. S. E., leaving same on the port hand; thence to and around a float with club flag anchored in the middle of Long Island Sound, distance 4 nautical miles, course N. E., leaving same on the port hand; thence to and around southwesterly stake-boat off Larchmont, distance 4 nautical miles, course "West, leaving same on the port hand; thence over and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larch- mont, leaving S. W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, 22 nautical miles. istLeg— S. S. E., 3 Miles 2d Leg— N. E., 4 " 3d Leg — 'V\''est, ..... . 4 " II Nau. Miles. Course No. 5. For all Schooners and Classes i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and special 30 foot class. — From off Larchmont to and around white spar buoy, letter "L" in black painted thereon, off Parsonage Point, Rye Neck, distance 3 nautical miles, course E. N. E., leaving same on the .starboard hand; thence to and around white spar buoy, letter "L" in black painted thereon, oft" Red Springs Point, Hempstead Harbor, distance 3^ nautical miles, course South, leaving same on the starboard hand; thence to and around south- westerly stake-boat off" Larchmont, distance 3% nautical miles, course N. W. , leaving same on the starboard hand; thence over and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larch- mont, leaving- S. "W. stake-boat on port hand. Total di.stance, 2i_5^ nautical miles. ist Leg— E. N. E., 3 Miles 2d Leg — South, 3% " 3d Leg-N. W., ...... y/s" 10^ Nau. Miles All Schooners and Classes i, 2 and 3, over and around the course three times. Total distance, 32X nautical miles. Course No. 6. For all Schooners and Classes r, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and special 30 foot class. — From off" Larchmont to and around a white buoy, letter "L" in black painted thereon, off Red Springs Point, Hempstead Harbor, dis- tance 3% nautical miles, course S. E., leaving same on the port hand ; thence to and around a white spar buoy, letter " L" in black painted there- on, oif" Parsonage Point, Rye Neck, distance 3^ nautical miles, course North, leaving same on the port hand ; thence to and around sotithwesterly stake-boat off Larchmont, distance 3 nautical miles, course W. S. W., leaving same on the port hand ; thence over and around the above course a second time two finish between two stake-boats off Larchmont, leaving S. W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, 21^ nautical miles. I St Leg— S. E 3^ Miles 2d Leg — North, 3^ " 3d Leg— W. S. W., . . . .3 10^ Nau. Miles. All Schooners and Classes i, 2 and 3, over and around the above course three times. Total distance 32^4^ nautical miles. Course No. 7. Classes 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. — From off Larchmont to and around float with club flag thereon anchored in the middle of Long Island Sound, distance 2 nautical miles, course East leaving, same on the star- board hand ; thence to and around float with club flag thereon anchored 2 nautical miles distance, course S. W. , leaving same on the starboard hand ; thence to and around .southwesterly stake-boat off Larchmont, distance i>^ nautical miles, course N. N. W., leaving same on the starboard hand; thence over and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats oft" Larchmont, leaving S. W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, 11 nautical miles. i.st Leg — East, 2d Leg— S. W., . 3d Leg— N. N. W., 2 2 Miles Course No. 8. -5>^ Nau. Miles. For Classes g, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. — From off Larchmont to and around float with club flag thereon anchored i^ nautical miles dis- tance, course S. S. E. , leaving same on the port hand; thence to and around float with club flag thereon 2 nautical miles distance, course N. E., leaving' same on the port hand ; thence to and around the southwesterl)^ stake-boat oft" Larchmont, distance 2 nautical miles, course "West, leaving same on the port hand ; thence to and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larchmont, leaving S. "W. stake- boat on port hand. Total distance, 11 nautical miles. ist Leg-S.^S. E., I j^ Miles 2d Leg— N. E 2 3d Leg — "West, . . . . . .2 " 5>^ Nau. Miles. Course No. g. For Classes 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. — From off Larchmont to and around red spar buoy on Scotch Caps' Reef, course E. N. E. jc^ E., dis- tance lYi nautical miles, leaving same on starboard hand ; thence to and around float in middle of Long Lsland Sound, coiu'se S. Yz E. , distance i^ nautical miles, leaving same on the starboard hand ; thence to and around southwesterly stake-boat off Larchmont, course N. W. , distance 2 nautical miles, leaving same on the starboard hand ; thence over and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larch- mont, leaving S. "W. stake-boat on port hand. Total distance, xoV, nautical miles. 1st Leg— E. N. E. 2d Leg— S. Yz E., 3d Leg-N. "W., \Y% Miles 2 " SX Nau. Miles. Course No 10. For Classes 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. — From off Larchmont to and around float in middle Long Island Sound 2 nautical miles distance, course S. E., leaving same on the port hand ; thence to and around red spar buoy on Scotch Caps' Reef, i^ nautical miles distance, course N. Y W., leaving same on the port hand; thence to and around southwe.sterly stake-boat off Larchmont, lY nautical miles distance, course "W. S. "W. Y "W. , leaving same on the port hand ; thence to and around the above course a second time to finish between two stake-boats off Larchmont, leaving S. "W. stake boat on port hand. Total distance, loY nautical miles. istLeg— S. E 2 Miles 2d Leg— N. Y^ 1% " 3d Leg— "W. S. "W. X W lYi " 5^ Nau. Miles. All courses and bearings are magnetic. Home stake-boats will carry at the masthead a large blue and white striped ball, and floats fly the Club Flag. Competing yachts must not pass Isetwcen either of the buoj^s on Hen and Chickens' reef, nor to the northward of the Scotch Cap.s' buoy, for either course. The restriction regarding Scotch Caps' buoy does not apply to yachts in Classes of Series C. RULE XXII. START AND FINISH. 1. All starts shall be fljnng. 2. The time at the start and finish shall be taken when the point marked by the foremast in schooners, and the mainmast in single-masted vessels and yawls, crosses the line. 3. If this point in any yacht be across the line when the signal for start- ing is given, she must return and recross the line. 4. A yacht so returning, or one working into position from the wrong side of the line after the signal for starting has been given, must keep clear of and give way to all competing yachts. 5. The starting and finishing line shall be an imaginary one, and drawn between two stake-boats, each carrying at the ma,sthead a large blue and white striped ball, anchored off Larchmont Harbor. At night the home stake-boats will carry two red lights, one above the other, and the .south- westerly stake-boat at intervals will btu-n the night signal of the Club, .showing blue-red-blue in succession. 6. A competent person appointed by the Committee .shall be placed on the southwe.sterly stake-boat at the finishing line, who shall time the yachts in the absence of the Regatta Committee, and this time shall be considered final. REGATTA SIGNALS. PRErARATORY. — A red rectangular flag, with white square in center, displayed from flagstaff on Judges' steamer as a signal for yachts to approach the starting line. Start. — A large white ball substituted for tlie red flag, as a signal for all yachts to start in their respective classes. Ei.Ai'SED-TiME. — The Club flag substituted for the white ball, as a signal that the time for cro.ssing the line has elapsed. Preparatory and Elai'sed Time.— The addition of the red flag to the Club flag, as a signal for yachts in their respective classes to approach the starting line. Attention shall be called to each of these signals bj"- the blast of the whistle from the Judges' steamer. All yachts must cross the line during the time the white ball is hoisted for their respective classes, and any yacht that fails to do so shall be timed from the lowering of the white ball. In case the whistle should not work, the hoisting of the signals shall be deemed sufficient notice. Always Ahead . . . OUR UNRIVALLED Spar Coating TRADE MARK A perfect finish for all WOODWORK, SPARS, and IRONWORK exposed to excessive changes in weather and temperature. ....... MANUFACTURED BY EDWARD SMITH & CO. Varnish Makers and Color Grinders, 45 BROADWAY, NEW YORK We'll post you on the proper Golf-Wheel Clothes. Coat and Breeches (new styles ), $8 to $15 Separate Breeches, $2.50, $3, $4 and $5 Linen Crash Suits, $7.50 Linen Crash Breeches, $3.50 and $4 The new narrow Belts, ysc, $1.50 Ventilated Caps, $1. 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CHAPIN, Medical Director WILLIAM G. LOW, counsel Racing Number Racing Lengtti Start Finish Class 8 V I DRAGOON V 2 ACUSHLA V 3 VORONT II V 4 ADELE Special 34-foot Class. No time allowance SPECIAL CLASS FOR YAWLS AUDAX, allows AURA SPECIAL 30-FOOT CLASS No Time Allowance W I VAOUERO III W 2 WAWA W 3 MUSME W 4 DEPARTURE W 5 HERA W 6 MAI W 7 ASAHI Racing Number Racing Length Start Finish Special 30-Foot Class— Continued W 8 ESPERANZA W 9 CAROLINA W 10 ARGONAUT W 12 DOROTHY II W 14 RACOON Class 9 O 5 GARILAN, allows O 21 NINITA O 25 FEYDAH O 7 CYGNET Class 10 P 8 VAQUERO II, allows T 6 BOGIE P i6 HYALE 78 QUANTUCK 8 SPINSTER 29.92 27.50 29.50 28.00 25.00 20.00 17.60 25.00 23.00 M M MACY & JENKINS Old Club H^^^e Whiskey Well known for nearly half a century, and has no equal for Purity, Body and Delicacy of Flavor MACY & JENKINS FINE WINES, Etc. 67 Liberty Street, New York Established 1844 YACHT SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY HYQEiA DISTILLED WATER CO., 349.35.a„d353w ..thst. 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SLOAT, allows Racing Start Le-ngth- H IVI 27.00 2,1.50 20.58 . ; 21.20 , .• ' ■...23-52 -- ".r-^^: - : :;— -- -■■.■■ -- 19.91 - ■ 18.60 19.86 19.91 16.50 17.90 27.07 ' 27.IS Finish Ve iiveXIicquot Pohsardiii Ch.F Schmidt & Peters.- New-York Sole A(]onls for the United Slates and Canarlo ALBEMARLE HOTEL. C.,|,y,, shied YACHTING CAPS for MEN and WOMEN DEVICES FOR ALL CLUBS 1x07 and nog BROADWAY, Madison Square, West X58 BROADWAY, near I^iberty Street \YeST End gXABLES 73D Street and Amsterdam Avenue, New York .... SUPPLY first-class Coupes, Landaus, Victorias, all with Two Horses, for Shopping, Calling and Pleasure Riding, with careful drivers in Livery. We make a Specialty of Supplying Equipages by the Month. First-class Accom- modations for Boarding Horses WEST END STABLES RUIN ART BRUT "^^.^^^^^^ OLDEST CHAMPAGNE HOUSE IN THE WORLD. FOUNDED A. D. 1729 RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR BRUT WINE AT CHICAGO, 1893 MESSENGER SERVICE FREE Telephone Call 96 COLUMBUS -THE WINE OF CONNOISSEURS- Racing Number Y Y Y Y Class 16 1 CELIA 2 VAQUERO 3 HOURI 5 MAYSIE Special 2i-footers Racing Start F Inish Racing Number Class 17— Half- Raters Racing Length Sti irt F inish Length H M H M . H W H M Z ,26 MICROBE Z i8 KITTY V ■' ' Z 12 TRILBY Z 17 IDEAL Z 5 QUESTION Z 7 GNOME Z 28 DIE HEXE Z 13 PAPRICA - RACING PROGRAMME FOR 1896 Xarcbmont IRace lIQeef? SATURDAY, JULY i8. Open Regatta for all Classes. Second Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Second Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. Special Race for Schooners in Cruising Trim. MONDAY, JULY 20. Special Race for Schooners in Racing Trim in one Class. Special Race for Schooners in Cruising Trim in one Class. Third Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Third Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. Special Race for 21 Foot Class. Race for Half Raters. TUESDAY, JULY 21. Four Oared Gig Race for "Hen ana Chickens Colors," presented by Commodore Gillig. Two Oared Gig Race for "Dauntless Colors," presented by Mr. H. B. Seeley. Dingy Race for "Execution Colors," presented by Mr. H. B. Seeley. Race for Naptha Launches exceeding 21 Foot L. W. L. Race for Naptha Launches 21 Foot L. W. L. and under. Race for the "Eastward and Westward Challenge Cup." Tub Races and Water Sports. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. Open Regatta for all Classes. Fourth Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Fourth Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. THURSDAY, JULY 23. Race for Class 5 Yachts with Cabin Trunks., Fifth Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Fifth Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. Race for Cabin Cats all in one Class. Race for Special 21 Foot Class. Race for Half Raters. FRIDAY, JULY 24. Schooner Race all in one Class. Race for Class 5 Yachts with Flush Decks. Race for Class 6. Sixth Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Sixth Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. Race for Special 21 Foot Class. Race for Half Raters. SATURDAY, JULY 25. Open Regatta for all Classes. Seventh Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Seventh Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. ^ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Eighth Race of Series for 34 Foot Rating Class. Eighth Race of Series for 30 Foot Special Class. Race for Half Raters. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 (Labor Day.) Fall Regatta open to all Classes. Race for 30 Foot Special Class. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. Race for Larchmont Cup for Schooners, Race for 30 Foot Special Class. All true Yachtsmen . . . Smoke SURBRUG'S Golden Sceptre or Arcadia Mixture In their PIPES-DO YOU? The Larchmont Yacht Club A Temple of Yachting T the farewell dinner given two years ago at Larchmont to Mr. Vice- Com- modore Harold Sanderson, who was. leaving America to take up his residence in England, Mr. Sanderson said some pleasant things about the Larchmont Club. The tenderness of his words and the gentleness of his_2bearing wei^e impressed on every heart, but hearts speak to hearts only — in an idiom that is untranslatable: and though the kindly eye, genial smile, sympathy of voice and mobile grace of the human expression speak the one language which is under- stood and loved throughout the v/orld — it is a wordless tongue and cannot be written. Mere memory, however, tells me that he talked of happy years at the Club, of official duties shared with colleagues who had become friends; of racing and cruising recollections, and of the impression which time could only intensify, made upon him by these souvenirs. He did say that perhaps in the dim future he might be able, and would hope to "%7"erxxo»lt;^ ^ ^ The Highest Grade of Spar Varnish for Coating and Protecting Spars, Rails, Decks, Woodwork on Yachts, Steamboats, Canoes We could not Use Better Materials in its Composition, It is Perfectly Elastic. It will not Turn White. 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If Mr. Sanderson were bringing his ship into the harbor to-day he would be amazed at the _ _ improvements which have been made even since his time. This paper is undertaken to describe informally, some of these im- provements, and to present some features of the Club as it was, is now, and as it ever will be, an unrivalled yachting and country club. Just why this is not written by Corporation Counsel Scott, or Counsellor Eugene Bushe, or Augustus Thomas, Esq., or by even anybody else, is ground for profound regret, but need excite no surprise ; for it is a maxim of natural law that mundane performances always are undertaken by the wrong people. On the other hand, as our enjoyment of an honor is ever proportioned to our unfitness for it, I personally take a very special pleasure in the perpetration of this sketch. special Attention given to property along the Sound <^ S Ne'w Rochelle, Larchmont, Belle Haven, Greenwich, Etc. W. F. BROWN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS ■^^^ CITY AND COUNTRY ^ ^ ^ NO. 24 EAST FORTY-SECOND STREET NEW YORK A large list of City dwellings and other properties For Rent, Sale or Exchange ^,^<^^<^v^i>S^ One of the brightest exceptions to the rule of nature that I have just cited has been the Club itself. It has been run by the right people from the start. And what a little start it was! Back in the summer of 1880 a handful of young skippers, whom a cockpit would have held, hired a shed in the Horseshoe Harbor, merged their respective entities into a scarcely larger identity, and called it the Larchmont Yacht Club. They chose Frank C. Fleming, now deceased, as Commodore. His flagship was the sloop "Truant." They adopted a form of government by trustees, not by committees. Suffrage was secured even for non-yacht owners, and the right to fly the club-flag was preserved for the smallest of its boats. Olficers were selected for fitness only. The initiation fee was originally five dollars, and at that time there were no annual dues. While candidates for membership were scrutinized strictly, a campaign committee led by Charles E. Jenkins, then Vice-Commodore, accomplished wonders. From the New York Racquet Club alone was obtained within a week a membership which transformed the coterie into a club. All these early members loved boat sailing. They did not join the Club because the burgee was a famous one or its members nabobs, but because it was an association of young gentlemen sailors to which it cost next to nothing to belong, and which promised fun and racing within small purse limits. To the Club they contributed youth, enthusiasm, love of sport. Is it, under the circumstances, strange that the Larchmont Yacht Club has remained a Club without a clique ; where welcomes are warmest, farewells friendliest, sport the best ? Did the early adoption of a democratic tone tend to attract a worthy membership, or Meriden Britannia Co. Gold and Silver Plate Chafing Dishes MERIDEN chafing dish receipt book, showing latest designs and illustrations of liew silverware pieces, may be had on application, or mailed upon receipt of two cent stamp. Trophy's book of illustrations, or estimates and special designs furnished. Meriden Britannia Co., nadison Sq., New York 208 Fifth Avenue 1128=1130 Broadway CHICAQO SAN FRANCISCO LONDON, ENQ. Factories: nERIDEN, CONN., HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA J AS. A. HETHERINQTON PHARMACIST Cor. 42d Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, New York OPPOSITE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT Prescriptions Carefully Compounded pure • sparkling • soda water • with • fresh • fruit • syrups has its worthy membership involved the democratic tone as a natural result ? At all events, here if anywhere, "a man's a man for a' that." Every tub stands on its own bottom, and everybody knows it does. The accessible harbor, its convenience as a base of supplies, its high sanitary condition and situation on the main land (an objection inseparable from the beautiful but sequestered shores of Long Island) prove to those who know anything about Long Island Sound, that the Larchmonts have chosen the best yachting station on it. In the years which followed, the Club had its ups and downs, still an era of growth of membership, of boats and racing. The conviviality and the precocious evolution of those days was the theme of much dire prophecy and witty defamation on the part of many an envious Casca whose funeral the Club has since gleefully attended. If there were any indiscretions committed in that adolescent period they were distinctly due to the corruption of the age ! The foam has flown from those pleasure cups of our departed, exuberant youth, but the old members will never forget the irides- cent come and go of its rainbow bubbles. 1 Is S 1 < g o < h Q h tn < u 1 Q (ij > U) Ul u u K h < IS w h a U K b S h 5 W o (/) < ID ►J J >< jJ h S o 1—4 Cu o o u H U W O en Q O Q U IS IS S ^ < o < ^ a h tx < IS h (U C/) y Ui t/> tn H h u Q, < ffi p § g 0:^ o o < h < o h CO W > J tfl d ^ O o z It is true all was not always quite '' covlciir dc rose." There came a time of apparently grave financial emergency, but the trustees, after investigation, took steps, among which was a further increase of annual dues, which, with a more systematic management, placed the Club upon a paying basis. The Club was at this time fortunate in securing as superintendent the present incumbent, Mr. Tilden. He is a thorough accountant, and his experienced judgment has been of great value. There are to-day nearly 600 regular members, in addition to fifty life members. The initiation fee is $100, annual dues are $50; and life memberships cost (but the list is full) $500 each. At various times the Club occupied different premises under lease, until in 1887 the present noble property was purchased in fee. This was in the administration of Commodore W. S. Alley. For some time previous the Club had been casting sheep's eyes at this property, which, however, was not in the market. Commodore Alley deserves the credit for detecting the earliest moment when purchase became possible, and of enabling the Club to snap up the property at the low price of $100,000. A quarter of a million was bid for it last year. Owing to the dense foliage the buildings, in summer at least, are not visible from the entrance gates, but are reached by a winding road just long enough to convey the proper sense of spaciousness and a due appreciation of the natural charm of the well-kept grounds. The house itself is on a little knoll, which shuts off the Sound view from the road and beautiful rear grounds. It is only, therefore, when the visitor enters the Club that there bursts upon him, through broad view windows, the picturesque panorama of Long Island Sound. The Arethusa Spring Water Contains less than one and three-quarter grains of mineral matter in over fifty-eight thousand grains of water. ....... CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS Yale University New Haven, Conn., May 17, 1894 Grains per U.S. Gallon Silica 0.607 Calcium Carbonate . . .0.431 Sodium Chloride ........... 0.247 Magnesium Carbonate . 0.128 Potassium Sulphate 0.095 Sodium Sulphate 0.203 Sodium Carbonate . . .0.015 Ferric Oxide and Alumina . 0.009 Total 1.735 The water is clear, colorless and alkaline, and as the Analysis shows is an exceedingly pure and soft water. Respectfully yours, (Signed) R. H. CHITTENDEN. Purest Spring Water Known STILL OR SPARKLING The Arethusa Spring Water Co. 5th Avenue and 42d Street Geniletneti : 1 take great pleasure in recommending your Arethusa Spring Water to all athletes for training purposes. I have found it the best water I have ever used and think it is a wonderful tonic for building up the system in general. Yours truly, ROBERT STOLL, JV. V. A. C. ARETHUSA SPRING WATER CO. No. 9 Seymour BIdg, 5th Ave., N. E. Cor. 42d St., N. Y. City M. GREENEBAUM Larch mont Manor $ $ $ Market $^ Branch of Palace Market, 612 Third Ave. NEW YORK The best of everything at the right prices- Purveyors to the Club. CHAS. M. BAXTER ::: NAPHTHA Oars, Rope, Polish, Boat and Yacht Fixtures of Every Description. Hardware, Paints and Oils. For Launches Always on Hand MAMARONE^CK, N. Y. M ILK, CREAM, BUTTER, EQQS, COTTAGE CHEESE, BUTTERMILK AND ICE CREAM SUPPLIED BY WM. R. & E. BULL Proprietors of Heathcote Hill and Chatsworth Dairies Also the Larchmont Dairy Store Telephone— Established 1879— Reference, L. Y. C. Deliveries, Morning, Noon and Night. harbor's winding shores conduct to views of inlets, distant hills and rocky islets, which form pictures quite as beautiful, and which by their diversity even increase each other's charms. To what now forms the central part of the Club House, originally the residence of the late B. F. Carver, Esq., was added in 1888, on the northeasterly end, a long extension wing in order to provide adequate sleeping apartments, dining rooms and kitchen. The adequate, having recently be- piazza length now of 350 feet), balconies, spacious windows and turrets, go far toward forming an attractive exterior, but the view from them is more engaging than the view toward, for they are all observation points from which cosy members may survey the lovelier creations of cloud and sky and ship and shore — and not infrequently the yet fairer loveliness of the pretty girls of Larchmont tripping to and from the landing stages. THE MERCER COMPANY Successors to the Construction Business of tlie H. B. SIWITH CO. E^l^^liXeor*^ and Steam and Hot Water Heating and Ventilating Apparatus 137 CENTRE STREET, 1^ NEW YORK Public Buildings and Private Houses heated by Steam or Water in any part of the country. We take pleasure in stating that we installed the Heating Apparatus in the Club House of the Larchmont Yacht Club Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Imported and Domestic Groceries PAINTS, CORDAGE AND A FULL LINE OF YACHT SUPPLIES. GENUINE IMPORTED STEEL WOOL 25a and 254 Main Street, NMW ROCHELLB (Joutant'0 ^arcbmont U^barmaci^ First Class in all Respects. Delicious Ice Cream Soda, Imported Cigars, Mineral Waters, etc. Sole agency for Huyler's Candy, . . ..... Yachts Supplied. Delivery Free. Telephone 537 F. CAFE D'ELITE ¥ A BLEND OF THE FINEST "^ .-. COFFEES .-. GROWN. ALWAYS UNIFORM, . . . . Especially adapted to Fine Hotel and Restaurant Trade ALL WHO USE IT ACKNOWLEDGE ITS SUPERIORITY. M. N. PACKARD COMPANY Purveyors to the Club I?! DUANE STREET, NEW YORK I don't know of any pleasanter place for the average man to awake in on a bright and breezy summer morning. To throw open the shutters to the sunshine and the cooler outside air ; to watch awhile the swaying fleet in the harbor and the far off line of vessels on the Long Island shore ; to hear the murmur of little waves lapping the sea wall directly below one — and only distant by a iew feet — and flower beds ; a swim in the harbor from the Club's Flub Dub and an open air breakfast on the cool piazza; — all these are pleasant preliminaries to a sail or a yacht race. Besides, as Harry Smith says, "Just think who you're with." And are its winter pleasures less? A good many members seem to think not. Pigeon matches continue all winter. There is a little boisterous sailing, and some duck shooting. It is a quiet retreat in mid-week for the jaded man of society or of the world, and from Saturday eve to Monday morning there is a weekly gathering of tired brain workers, who make the welkin ring, drive dull care away and buckle on the unpierceable armor of Health, Happiness and Hope for the tremendous and ever recurring weekly tournament with the world. Everything about the place is very comfortable. The Club cuisine is good and sound. The house is provided throughout with gas and electric light and the best modern methods of heating. All archaic contrivances for caloric, except those of a fluid nature, have been ban- ished. A lot of new and roomy bed-chambers have been added. There are bathrooms on all the floors. There are shower baths and Roman baths. Well-trained valets are on the per- petual lookout for uncreased trousers, wet garments and untidy shoes. The arrangements for dominoes, cards and other games are very complete. No pigeon grounds are more favorably known than those of the Larchmont Yacht Club, and very extensive 48ac50 EAST 431° ST.. OPP, GRAND CEKTRAi OEPOI. \ A /E make a specialty of supply- ing yachts with Groceries, Wines, Cigars, etc. We have every facility for prompt service, and are conveniently located opposite the Grand Central Station, \acht Uniforms FOR OFFICERS AND CREWS MANUFACTURED BY W. A. RAYMOLD Between nth and 12th Streets 99 FOURTH AVENUE !^ Complete Catalogue sent upon request. Owners' and Members' Caps and Uniforms a Specialty HEMMENWAY & SON IS ail ^\Tekts:e>r'^ Our hand and machine made sails not excelled by any. Low prices for first class work. Write for estimates. ..... Send Five Cents for Illustrated Catalogue of FLAGS and TENTS 60 SOUTH STREET . . . NEW YORK ALWAYS AN ACCEPTABLE GIFT TO FRIENDS IN THE COUNTRYI Dellcxious I I Bonbonsf Chocolates 863 Broadway, New York. • • • • CANDIES SENT EVERYWHERE BY MAIL OR EXPRESS. Orders by Mail receive best of attention. 1 IIiMHE^iui i i. M m 9 % m S J 11 golf links have just been constructed. The spacious billiard room, reception rooms, photographic studio, barber shop, bicycle and baggage departments, are all in the new wing. There is a picture gallery in every room, hall and cranny, besides hundreds of photographs of objects of local interest by the Club's amateurs ; there are all the best sets of yachting pictures, together with the truly immense collection of English yachting and sporting prints in color, and also the big photographs of Uncle Sam's Navy. Leaving these foothills (if the distinguished amateurs and others will pardon the expression) of pictorial art we rise to a higher plateau to observe the interesting collection of American engravings, consisting of a very large number of artists proofs on India paper, signed by artist and engraver. There are some valuable works in oil by a number of well-known artists, and a superb copy by Lefevre of Corregio's "Nymph and Satyrs." Our chief interest, however, so far as pictures go, culminates in the extremely fine collection of black and whites, presented, among his multitudinous other very valuable contributions, by Horatio R. Harper, Esq., Chairman of the Art Committee. These black and whites are some 300 in number, all being original drawings, a large proportion of them the WE have supplied the China and Glass for many of the celebrated yachts, and, we believe, to the entire satisfaction of the owners. We make a specialty of monograms, crests, private or club signals, either on China or Glass, and we firmly believe investigation on your part would lead to business mutually advantageous. We'll send our illustrated catalogue, if it would interest you. S. APPEL & CO. 8 and 10 Catharine Slip, Cor. Water street, NEW YORK YACHT ^ ^ OUTFITTER Yacht crews fitted out accord- ing to club regulations at shortest notice Send for Illustrated Catalogue. SOLE AGENT FOR THE KNIGHT ENGLISH GUERNSEY EH RICH BROS. $,oo Bicvcle Are Sellin? a (lenuine .... •' Are Selling a Genuine FOR $45 Every expert rider in the country knows it and its value. Sixth Ave. and 23d St. YACHTS supplied with Cut Flowers, also Palms and Ferns for the Table. Address, Pendleton's pequot Qreen Houses New London, Conn. Telephone Ca" 33=5 exemplars which have served for the illustrating of many books which are actually in the library, a circumstance enhancing our interest both in the pictures and in the corresponding books. The collection includes many evidences of the best work of Abbe)'^, Reinhart, Smedley; Millet, Remington, Thulstrup, Frost, Du Mond, C. D. Gibson, Chapman, Burns, Sterner, McVickar, Pennell, Hassam, Pyle, Nast, Fenn, Klepper, &c., &c. All these pictures have been very tastefully framed. The Club is under obligation also to Messrs. Zogbaum, Dan Beard, B. N. Mitchill and Thomas Moran for some exquisite examples of their art, kindly presented in recognition of the earnest stand that is being made toward that elegance and comfort of surroundings to which nothing more contributes than beautiful pictures. The decoration of the house is very attrac- tive. Mr. Harper has so preserved the kinship and harmony of the Club's countless treasures, of its bric-a-brac, gunnery, pewter, "objects of art and virtue," that for the quiet haunter of the library or of the pictures there are cosy nooks where every mural decoration lures to the contemplative or artistic sense. The dining room suggests an equal but a different cheer, while the spaces allotted to the various games and recrea- tions teem with souvenirs of many-sided sport. ^^^ ^&eLt-ork L'igriit Will not jolt out owing to rigid brack- et Throws light forty feet ahead SEARCH Wheeling at night, With the "Search Light" —Is A Pleasure. Combination of lenses makes a most intense light. . . . Burns kerosene or naptha »^^^r>K BY J3i?lci^^i>or*t EJr'OLi^:^ C^o. Mills at BRIDGHPORT, CONN. lo jvixjiei^^v^sr »arieE>E>^, iv. "^. For the model room some rare old square-riggers have come to the Club straight from dusty offices, where for half a century they have graced the mantel-shelves of shipping houses. Others, full-rigged old whaling models, were picked up at New Bedford and Nantucket. Junks, proas, dhows, the models and drawings of every ship and rig are here. Fine old English and American engravings of battleships, and vessels of the mercantile and yachting marine, together with a large number of pictures of the best yachts of to-day, make a delightful garniture to the superb collection of models. Life lines with pendent buoys, chronometers, sextants, binnacles and signal flags please alike the artist, the captains of the piazza fleet and the sea's sweethearts as well. The Regatta Committee is the most important committee in a yacht club. Mr. John F. Lovejoy is Chairman of the Larchmont's Regatta Committee. He proposes to maintain a collection of the best yacht models. Only winners will be allowed representation. All the models will be handsomely finished and constructed upon a uniform scale by a reliable expert. The models already secured under this plan number more than fifty, and include the winners of all the important races of the country, such as all the challengers and defenders of the America's Cup, the Goelet Cups, the Larchmont Cup for Schooners, and many of the ocean racers besides the winners in the yearly races, representing as they do nearly all the speediest yachts in America. This is an important advance over any other yacht club's models, and cannot fail to interest and instruct serious students of yacht designing and lovers of good racing. Chairman Lovejoy has just instituted a new yachting fixture — the Larchmont Race Week. It will be held this year from July i8th-2 5th, -aiffl annually thereafter. Care has been taken Ask Your Dealer for the Most Powerful Long Distance Glass Known THE "ADDEMAIR" achromatic field or marine glasses y. .AiM» 'pHE U. S. MARINE AND U. S. ARMY GLASSES COMBINE DURA- '■• BILITY OF CONSTRUCTION WITH HIGHEST POWER AT- TAINABLE. SUPERIOR LENSES. 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His committee can easily start a fleet B^^ ^^B ■■ ifwZ^^HK^^^E SBEHHiil^HII^I of seventy-flve to one hundred vessels of ^m i^^^^B^^^^^»S^^^BK^^^^^^S^m\lm\ different classes on three or four separate H \^«]^LZ^^VH^^^^^^^^^^^Hk^l^B f courses, time them and dismiss them at |^|HE*'*^lfeflHi^^^^^l^^^^^^^^^^HHlill^^ll '^^ ^-^^ '^'^ ^^ ^^^ without perturbation or an exception taken. It has long been conceded that there is more and better racing at Larchmont than at any other station on the coast, and this is in no small measure due to the laborious and able work of Mr. Lovejoy and his well-known judicial capacity. To my mind, however, nothing has ever exerted a better influence on the Club's condition and prospects than the creation of its library. Begun less than four years ago, nourished entirely by voluntary subscriptions and book contributions, it has cost the Cltib nothing, and Yacht Stores a Specialty ^ ^ $ ^ ARE you going to stock your yacht, your club house or your residence with groceries? If you are it will pay you to send to us for a price list. We have only one store ; it is our con- stant aim to make it the most popular grocery store in the city, by the quality of our goods, the large assortment which we keep, comprising all the neces- saries, and many of the luxuries of life, and the prices at which we sell them. Proprietors of the celebrated blends of No. 41 Teas and No. 43 Coffee. We pack and deliver all orders free in any part of this city, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City. Freight prepaid by railroad or steamer, to all points within 100 miles of "New York. Orders by mail receive prompt and careful attention. Callanan Si Ke/wp 41 and 43 Vesey Street DAVID KAHNWmLMR U. S. 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In the united sentiment with which the collection was begun was born a new vital spark, spreading rapidly toward the Department of Art, and stirring in friendly competition every officer and frequenter of the Club. The gratitude of the Library Committee to its subscribers and to the many members who have despoiled their own collections of its choicest treasure to add it to the Larchmont Library, is simply inexpressible. To the Chairman of the Art Committee above all is the Club indebted for his powerful aid and generous book contributions. I would ask you (if you were Paul Lacroix or Uzanne or Laurence Hutton or Brander Matthews, or any other literary bacteriologist, I would implore you) to look into our books and tell me what YOU see in them and what they say to you. We all enjoy them very much, and some of us even work with a microscope, but to the unlearned what is a microscope but a toy? This is no chance aggregation of books or authors. It is preponderatingly a carefully culled and searched for, elegantly bound selection of the most luxurious editions, the beauty of which can scarcely be exaggerated. To cite among so many rich volumes a iew of those which equally evoke our admiration is not easy: "The Art of the World," in ten numbers, is handsome, and of great value. "La Fontaine's Fables in English Verse," contains an extraordinary number of most rare plates, and is I believe the only complete English version. Uzanne's "La Femme a Paris" is a charming book, so is " Straparola, " Wyllies Allen's "Tidal Thames," and "Real Life in London," For 60 Years— Made on Honor — Sold on Merit Heating, Ventilating: and Cooking Apparatus OIL AND OASOLINK STOVES FOR YACHTS Barstow Stove Company New York Office : BEEKMAN AND WATER STS. Foundries: Providence, R. I. Boston Office: 56 Union St. and the mag-nificent edition of "Don Quixote." There are the Harper's exquisite Edition de Luxe of " Prue and I," "Ben Hur," "The Rivals," Parson's "She Stoops to Conquer," Abbey's "Shakspere," "Deep Haven," "Trilby," and many other no less attractive ones. The English and American classics in fiction are in superb editions. There is consider- able of the best work from the most artistic presses and binderies of France, England and America. These books are a dream of limited editions of vellum, Japan paper, large margins, choicest type, delightful illustrations and crushed levant. They charm the lover of handsome books, the "amateur." But it is to the true old-fashioned book lover, the " amoureux des livres" fellow often enough who dogs-ears his pages but loves his books for the touch of nature and the word of truth, it is to him that this collection will even more strongly appeal. I sincerely hope that he will not use his fist, however, to cut our leaves, nor claw our bindings nor spill his drinks on the dear books. If you care to travel with Stevenson, Lafcadio Hearn, Theodore Child, Loti, Molloy, Baring- Gould, Barker, Pennell, Hamerton, or with older men like Gautier, Bayard Taylor, Kinglake and Froude, or would you follow the wanderings of the earliest explorers, either as outlined in Hugh Murray's voluminous historical accounts, or as you may here see them in the original Yacht Cannon STRONG FIRE ARMS CO. 83 Court Street NEW HAVEN, CONN. PETER CUNNEEN Plumber, Qas, Steam and Hot Water Fitter Between Main and Huguenot Streets 19 CENTRE AVEN-UE NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. SANITARY WORK A SPECIALTY Jobbing Promptly Attended To Dealer in Vitrified, Glazed Drain and Sewer Pipe TELEPHONE, 534 A ALFRED B. SANDS & SON YACHT ¥ i ¥ PLUriBERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF Yacht Plumbing Specialties 134 Beekman Street TELEPHONE 4046 CORTLANDT NcW YORK RED.-. BLUE. -.GREEN Red, white and blue — in fact miy colors for decorating can be had if you use the "HANDY ANDY" lantern on your yacht. // cannot be blown out by any ivi>id. Can't catch fire. Can't drip candle grease, and besides, with a plain chimney, is perfection for a hand light and perfectly safe. Sent anywhere without chimney for fif- teen cents, prepaid. Uses any No. i chim- ney. THE BAUCHELLE CO., 76 Park Place, N.Y.City texts and prints, this is the place foi- yon. We beg to thank the oificers of the United States Navy bureaus for their many valuable olficial publications, as well also as the Congressmen of our district for their esteemed contributions of Government publications. There is also a lot of quaint, droll, psychologic, curious and out-of-the-way literature and philosophic creeds for all sorts at Larchmont. If you love a sonnet or an essay or a play or the standard and forgotten or the standard and most read, here you will find them. The growth of the novel is traced in this library from its wayside and cloistered beginnings, its Canterbury Tales, its Fabliaux and Novelli down through gay chronicles of court and social life, through decadence and restoration, the romantic, the realistic, and on to Bonrget and Du Maurier. While general poetry has been rather neglected, there are very many gems of lyric song from Catullus, Petronius, Propertius, Tibullus and Horace, down through carmina, chansons, lieder, ballads, society verse, not omitting even Paul Verlaine and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The social foibles and vanities of the present and earlier generations — in a word the manners of the world — are pictorially delineated in many rare volumes of caricature by Gavarni, Mars, Forain, Du Maurier, Ferdinand Bac, Guillaume, and Caran d' Ache ; in brief our own costumes and customs presented as the attributes of other people — say our friends — are intensely droll and amusing. Naturally there are books of reference on grave, gay, popular and recondite subjects and of course entertaining and rare translations from the languorous East. The aim is to build up a library on the lines of literary taste and discernment, where no boor can enter, but of which all writers of grace or sense, all illustrators of merit are if not actually with us, at Larchmont 3^^y^'^ H^^P^tal No need to tote your wheel to town if you have broken down. Bring it to me, and have it mended in short order at a fair price. Probably you think this is just a country blacksmith shop— nothing of the sort. I have, or can get for you in no time, anything you want for "Bikes." Drop in and see me. I give lessons too. Got a good place for my school. C. & R. POILLON Shipwrights, Calkers and Spar flakers $ ^ $ ^ $ No. 224 SOUTH STREET, ."^^°^.''^i?ocks'^ '''™ Shipyard and Wharves : Foot of Clinton Street, S. 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Naval records, memoirs and reminiscences give us interesting sea-pictures of the Revolution, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, the Mexican, the Crimean and the Civil Wars. Here, too, we find the work of Mar- ,=,,^ ryat, of Dana, Clark Russell, and that foremost er of the sea, A feature lar mention, is bers, many of the past few Our books ing the Ameri- can read, but, ions of volumes is said, done, way into a book ; lover and incomparable word -paint- Herman Melville, of the year, which deserves particu- our recent accession of navy mem- whom have joined the Club within months. contain more information concern- can navy than any one human being after all, notwithstanding the mill- printed, only a very little of all that thought, felt or seen, ever finds its and for a thorouofh understanding of the life and spirit of the service, as well as for a correct construction of naval events, regulations and science, recourse must still be had personally to the navy men themselves. • • • 111 LIr • • • David B. Crockett ConPANv MAKERS OF FINE VARNISH SPECIALTIES DBKMJDOK^I^OI^ar, OOIVIV., XJ. iS. J^. 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Bath Room Pittish A new specialty for varnishing Toilet, Bath, Engine, Refrigerator and Store Rooms, Boat Houses, Yacht Cabins and Saloons, Breweries, Stables, Laboratories, Kitchens, Pantries, Water Closets, and is the best Interior Floor Finish in the market. Not affected by frequent contact with chemical gases, immersion in salt water, or washing with hot or cold water and soap. ALL OUR GOODS CAN BE RUBBED OR POLISHED OR LEFT WITH AN EGG SHELL GLOSS SAMUEL SWAN, President W. D. LENT, Vice-President CHAS. F. TOWNER, Secretary and Treasurer In this connection I will recall the story of the Samoan hurricane, with its awful loss of ships and men, as it was related to me by a British officer who had served on the Samoa Station, in H. M. Ship of War, Calliope, in 1889. On the 15th day of March, of that year, a terrific hurricane came on. All of that day and night and throughout the following day it raged. A world's fleet was in the harbor of Apia. In vain were yards lowered and topmasts housed. Wheels were lost, rudders broken, chains parted, and ships hurled upon the reefs. Every vessel, save one, lay sinking or stranded; hopeless, helpless, awaiting the destru.ction that followed. The Britisher alone, by reason of her superior steam power, succeeded about noon of the i6th, in clawing her way out to sea; carrying ninety pounds of steam, making seventy-four revolutions — and then just able to make headway — sixteen knots an hour through the water to gain half a knot hourly over the land, so strong were the flood and blast. She passed slowly one after another of the wrecked European battleships (and there were three of them), but not a sound came to the escaping English from their staring and despairing companies, but as Calliope crept past the United States Flagship Trenton, every officer and man of the Americans, wriggled, clambered and clung info the shrouds and rigging of the Trenton, and looking in the face of death, gave the Britishers a ringing Yankee cheer and shouted to them God-speed out of that fearful hole. Some printed accounts of this incident have stated that above the howling of the tempest, the American Naval Band played national airs, but I am assured by a navy friend that at that particular tiiiie even the band's whole energies were divided between hanging on for dear life and cheering Calliope. This is but one of innumerable exploits. When we consider the experience, the trained mentalities of these officers, whose gener- osity, good-fellowship, undaunted pluck and thorough breeding are esteemed the world over, may we not justly look forward at Larchmont to a renewal of the privilege of that expert counsel and a continuance of that sort of delicious reminiscence with which the late Lieutenant Henn, R. N. (sincerely regretted by every member of this Club), was wont, a few years since, so entertainingly to instruct and to charm us ? My purpose being to convey a general idea of the Larchmont Yacht Club rather than to give an analysis of its each separate element and part, I have not stated the acreage of our park, nor the number of holes in the golf field — nor the quantity of traps on the pigeon grounds — but I trust and believe that there are not more traps on our pigeon grounds than on those of any other reputable club. Nor shall I tell you the size either of tlie new bedrooms — nor of the wainscoted billiard room — nor the height of the flagstaff, the red electric light of which is visible from afar, but just how far I presume depends on meteorolog- ical conditions and the visual range of the observer. The reason that I do not state all these things with minute particularity is not that they are not immensely creditable to the Club — for they are ; nor because I do not know all about them — (and I admit I do not), but it is because this graceful subject will not let itself be treated quite as an inventory or as a hotel prospectus. Besides, I stand too near the picttire both in person and in spirit — I have been too long accustomed to its thousand and one charms as a whole, to be able to itemize them, yet were the least of them gone I think I should miss it at once. The late Commodore Colt gave us luany trophies of the sea. Commodore Gillig has brought us exquisite works of Japanese art — rare and gorgeous draperies from Stamboul — flags and standards and arabesques from Cairo, with Larchmont names and devices so cunningly and artistically interwoven that, like the pictures by the old masters, they first baffle us and then later when we have discovered their signification delight us the more. There is a frieze in one of the rooms which will be painted in panels by eminent artists. All these things are exquisite ; but someone has said that a woman who possesses one man's love needs no other adornment ; and it seems to me that the truest and loveliest decoration of this Club is the unselfish loyalty — the unwavering affection of its members. A portion of the piazza in the new extension is so expan- sive, so exposed to every breeze that loiters round the place, so near that popping fount at which the thirsty mariner slakes his briny tongue, that the moment Commodore Gillig saw it he ex- claimed " Out o'sightski," and as so christened it is still termed. Although the Club has an adequate list of trustees, officers and committee-men — as many as there were captains on Mark Twain's ship — one here encounters also many brevet titles. First and foremost is the "Proprietor." NN^^ •p ■ M 1 1. .-J E MIEIi ^TJ^^^^^^^^^^^BBHMBF" 1 "^ r'l ,0^— mm -. f . Next comes the Commodore of the Rocking Chair Brigade, — a class of gentlemen corre- sponding to those who are termed about Cowes "The true British Tars." There are also the brevet organizations — Corinthian cat-boaters — called the " East'ards " and the " West'ards " — and sometimes other names. Their burgees indicate their purposes. These men's heails are shown in the songs they sing. How touching the sentiment of their which is held by them ballad which begins: "Of the Rocking Chair Brigade we have no fear! we're the East'ard West'ard boys who fear no noise." Their proudest and only trophy consists of a tin tankai'd under the following deed of gift : Yet, despite the ber to seek his enjoy- is not mala per sea, interests of the Club, upon the comfort of rarely happens that these privileges is in- but seldom the can- issued, the mandate prompt and repent- garded even as a bil- fitness to the vernal called a "Valen- A tribute is gustin Monroe, Ex- man of the present Chairman of the freedom of each mem- ment in any way that nor prejudicial to the nor which trespasses fellow members, it undue advantage of dulged in, and when tionary word has receives invariably a ant sanction — it is re- let-doux, and from its equinox of life, is tine." due certainly to Au- Commodore, Chair- Board of Trustees and House Committee for J0}^sn^^kV ^^m4^1>All l^t^^xf ^ >»>;•> ^ ^6iv^di^Ua^ ^ * forty oi?c*tc*Oi?a i^ai^drcd apd fi% fit)(i*^ HIGH GRADE WORK^ ^ J^ J^ UP-TO-DATE ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ =^ e^ ^ PROPERLY EXECUTED ^ WE FURNISH YACHT STATIONERY, PRINTED, ENGRAVED OR EMBOSSED, PLAIN OR IN COLORS, FROM SPECIAL DESIGNS. THIS BOOK WAS DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY US .* J* S POSSIBLY WE MAY BE ABLE TO OFFER SOME SUGGESTIONS IN REGARD TO YOUR LITERATURE WHICH WOULD ACCRUE TO OUR MUTUAL ADVANTAGE Jt ^ Ji Jt ..* ^ .J^ .^ .^ Jt .^ ^ ^ Ji ^ the last twelve years. He has alwaj^s been at the front, the van leader of the Club's best interests, and has executed his duties with original resource, high skill and a whole-souled and unequalled perseverance. Commodore Gillig, the present Chief Flag Officer, is another warm friend of the Larchmonts. This is his second administration. He is a most magnetic, capable, enthusiastic and popular chief, and under his regime the highest point of the club's prosperity has been attained. In what is known as the Commodore's room is a superb portrait in oil of the late Commodore Caldwell H. Colt. It is painted by Charles Noel Flagg expressly for the Club, and presented as a gift of Mrs. Colt, mother of our late regretted Commodore. The picture is of life size. He is represented as wearing the regulation uniform of a Commodore of the Larch- mont Yacht Club. The work is one of extreme fidelity and art. Not a member but regards it with affection. To all who knew him it is a shrine. Ancient mariners rescued from the dangers of shipwreck or returning in safety from the perils of the sea were accustomed to hang some votive tablet or representation together with their moist vestments in the temple of the god by whose interpo- sition they believed themselves to have been saved. These books and pictures, the register of faithful service by officers, the extraordinary social and financial support by members ; and the Racing Records of the Larchmont Yacht Club, are all votive tablets, and after any day of racing or of rain, the moist garments may hence- forth be seen suspended in a perfectly fitted drying room specially constructed for this unique purpose in the newest wing of this temple of yachting. F. D. SHAW, Chairman Library Committee, L. Y. C. 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