Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-05-01

Experience Of IN Eaifor-He sails Into
Annapolis What he Thinks Of the
Severn BEAUTIFUL Bay-Its
Valuable Treanuren

Valuable AHEacUre8.
Mr.. @. p. Kunhadt. formerly
yachting editor of the Forest and
stream, started from New York last
fall IN cal boat for q cruise to Flor
ida by The iuland route. and Forest
and Stream il publishing 10 serial
form al exceedingly interesting ae-
count Of thetrip The following is what
be bias to say about the Chesa Deake.
The port Annapolis Is easily en-
tered night or dav, aud is snug add
perfectly protected. From IL to Is
feet at low water is found all over,
unless you anchor close inshore. The
Severn riverexte0ds miles in q north
westerly direction, Guiding in Round
Bay . mile and baIfin diameter. The
shores are bold, pretty bluffs aud
undu ating country. You carry from
3 to fathoms clear up to the head,
aud l5 feet in the lateral creeks.
here is no such cruising water
az the Severn any wheFe about New
York or Boston short of the Maine
coast. aud that il intricate. rock
bound. clustering, rncoDgenial aud
foggy, except for few SD lrt months
10 midsummer Yet in the Chesa.
peake, what | have said concerning
the Severn applies with equal force
10 hosts Of similar e,tuarIes, bays,
rivers aud so-called creeks, cruis.
ing being, moreover. enjoyable all
the year round, unless an excep-
tional y severe winter, like the one
just passed, should be experienced.
Occasional cold snaps may cause
few days. interruption, but the way
is always clear TO escape 10 the south
Still these ATTITUDES remain practically
unexplored, aud strange TO say, the
sport has scarcely found a footing
among the natives. Que would
suppose that q wealthy city like
Balumore, th Q largest ''iore-and-aft
port" ia The country. would boast lis
yachts by the hundred, aud that Nor
lolk would count hers At fifty at least.
with the exception of the Cbe-a-
peake Yacht Club, recently organized
by few gentlemen vi the Eastern
Shore, there seems no INCLINATION
whatever on the part of men to the
manor born TO take TO the wa
er, aud they are ignorant of the
splendid opportunities thrown in
their way. Perhaps with the fashion
once set by the more frequent ap
pearaure Of yatchs from the North,
he discovery OF what has been 50 far
miss, d will be made, so that the
Chesapeake towns may take their
proper rauk 10 a sport TO which their
location especially invites them.
chesapeake Bay is noble sheet
of water, more like an inlaud sea
Offering every variety of experience
ado It and scenery along shore, lille
du Ks, lish, oysters, clans aud crabs
abound aud are TO be bad for tie
trouble OF pursuit.. To the great
majority of New York yachtsmeu the
bay is practically unknown except
the name, other wise its beautiful
natural attractions, its picturesque
ha, bors, great bell-mootbed rivers
aud salt water arms would be visit ed
by squadrons of vessels in spring and
10 fall Imagine Long Island Sound
doubled in length. carry ing its great.
est width for two-thirds OF the dis
tsnce and the shores indented with
scores of lateral branches like North.
port, Narragaosett, lsuzzard's Bay
and Gardeners, but carrying deptt
of ten to twentv feet clear up TO theil
heads. Tufo this great .o0oy ....n1!U 10 v
river upon river to now, some of them
seven miles across aud dis
cover TO each Of these numerous trib-
u,aries wider than the Thames at
New London, many 10 turn supplied
by a system Of ramitying arms like
the branches and twiRs of TREE, the
arms as big as the whole OF Northport
Harbor.
Lime all these with bold bluffs.
now clad with the -verdure OF forests;
now TILED ia broad fields Of prosperous
farms; now steep and cliif-like in their
ascent from the sea. Dot
in great cities, towns, villages and
settlements. nestled in the hollows Ct
tide line along the beach, and iuva-
riablv moor . feet Of smart. rakish
craft Of moderate size under the lee
Of q sandy hook or in the turn OF .
creek with others standing
of add on, their dredges towing
astern. and keen-hulled canoes with
strong trace Of poetry 70 their bulls