New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-27


Heights She is g. feet over ALL 81 feet inches on
the waterline II feet wide and draws feet OF
water The engines. two IN number are OF tW We W
horse power The boat will have trunk cabin OF
mahogany with plate-glass windows the plioI-
house will be fitted with fodng berihs the
seven feet long Is followed by ano,nsr Ching
room and for sleeping.
Mr. and Mrs Alexander Van Rensselaer, OF + MI
sdelphia have arrived al Kingston. Jamaica. on inc
Yacht May The steam yacht Barracouta. D. F
Reighard. which left New-York sh2rt ,ime ago.
dropped anchor in the same port ias' iue'u"''
Starting arrangements are not up 10 GATE III
Mediterranean yacht racing. Hitherto tho commit
tees have been starting the racers by exploding
large paper bombs, which could seldom he hred Al
the right moment The fachding Mord M an
man has presented the Club Nautique de Nice with
two brass cannon. ar;sticaily finished. TO be used
starting guns.
Much work will be necessary on the schooner
Miranda before she Will he presentable again. She
has been out OF commission four years. with the
usual results. Before being put away she WAS
fitted for a trip around Cape Horn 10 San Fran
cisco with everything new in the way Of spars that
and she seems TO require tonly scraping oilins
painting and polishing {. n Nelson has bought
her and Captain Rhodes Is In charge
The sloop Safna. belonging TO a. II Renshaw. OF
Troy. is receiving a general overhauing for the
coming season at the MCGOWAN yards. South
Brooklyn
A RIVERSIDE YACHTING IMPROVEMENT.
THE COLUMBIA CLUB BUILDS A NEW HOUSE On
THE HUDSON AND BEAUTIFIEs
IT'S GROUNDS.
The Columbia Yacht Club at Eighty-sixth-st.
ana the Hudson River. has made great improve
men,s on It's property. 1t has filled in the ground
40 giCe &
seawan around II. A new bulkhead has also beer
built which will permit launches and yachts 10
land their passengers directly at the clubhouse
without having 10 resort 10 small boats Inc wafer
is never less than ten feet deep in front OF TINS
bulkhead and when the river is rough it VIII prove
great convenience. steps run down from me
bulkhead TO the edge OF the water, and gang
plank can be run out from them to the yachts.
The grounds in front of The clubhouse are being
laid out in grass plots and flower beds. and amid
these a fdGpole tghty-fve feet high. was orected
Yesterday A new 25-foot flag will he run up on II
on Saturday, May :. the clubs opening day, when
the clubs annual planked shad dinner Will be held
Last year the wives. daughters ana other women
relatives and friends Of the club members were
invited to this dinner for the first time. and the
innovation proved so pleasant Il feature OF the
opening day that 1t Will be repeated al this years
dinner.
The extensive work on the grounds is only pre-
lminary TO the erection OF new cluhhouse IN me
near future Another improvement The club mas
entered upon Is the building of pontoon hoat
sixty feet long which will be reached from me
grounds by gangplank. and will he used for row
boats 10 land their passengers upon me cluo Is IN
exceedingly prosperous condition AT the present
time. 1t has more than one hundred membtrs and
a number of new applications for membership VIII
be acted on at the next meeting.
The officers OF the club recently elected are:
Walther Luttgen commodore; w. Dixon Ells. vice
commodore; w. {. Tragcser, rear-CommodOre, AL
fred Carr feet captain; George Parkhill. secre-
tary; Joseph A. Weaver. treasurer; Henry Girls
" I'D. fleet surgeon; W. +. Quackenbusn, meaSurer.
Mr. Parkhill is also chairman of the Regatta Com
mittee and ne has been particularly active IN push
ing along the improvements made by the CLUB
The club will have number Of new and last
yachts in commission this year Rear -Cofninodorc
Trageser is having a full-cabin naphtha
launch built which will be seVenty-five feet long
over all and will be fitted with fifty power
engine Vice Commodore Ellis is having his yacht
Rambler heightened ten feet. W. II. CARPENTER. OF
the REGATTA Committee. has had built a fast cat
boat which he has chrIstened the frankie g.. and
which is expected to outsail any similar craft on
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