The San Francisco call., 1898-12-31
LATEST DOINGS IN YACHTING
 CIRCLES.
Q e4%+%+444%44+4+4+S '

Owing to the recent death of Edward B. Lathrop, late secretary of the Corinthian Yacht Club, the annual New Years dinner at the Tiburon boat house will be quiet affair. Eddie" was a universal favorite among the members, and was never ab- sent from any of the club gatherings. Many of the Corinthian yachtsmen at tended his funeral, and sent flowers as tokens of their regard. His heart was in the sport of yachting, and he was zealous in the performance of his duties as secre- tary, which In a club so large and active as the Corinthian often entail consider able labor.
 The nominating committee, consisting of J. Short, ex-Commodores A. J. Young and T. F. Tracy has nominated the fol- lowing to serve as officers the Corinth- ian club during the year 1899. For com modore, Carl Westerfeld, part owner of the successful prize winner Aeolus; for firm of Ravens & Toepke, architects), part owner of the sloop Harpoon; for port captain, John Fl. Keefe; for directors, T. rett, E. F. Sager, of the sloop Edna, and A. I. Lyons of the sloop Freeda T. l.. Milleri will be elected secretary and C. l.; Barrett will be treasurer. These will form a strong board of active, popular yachtsmen, the offices of commodore, treasurer and port captain being held by
 
 their duties to the general satisfaction.
 Frank Stone is working upon H. Simp- kins' new boat, which, with an overall measurement of 65 feet, anu a measure ment on the water line of about 45 feet, will be the largest Xawl on the bay stone & Swanson. the Tfburon boat builders, also have under construction yacht built on the lines of w. G. Hall, who modelled and constructed the schooner Aggie and the swift sloops Nixie and Aeolus. She Is built of white cedar with keel or ore gon pine having, two tons Of lead oolted to it. Her bow is of the spoon type, and she Is considerably cut away at the stem. Her dimensions are as follows; Length over all B feet 4 inches; length on the E. Stone of Hunters Point is building a yacht which is said to be for one of the members of the South Bay Yacht Club; The South Bays will elect their new board Francisco, Thursday, March ?, being the day set.
 One of the best known yachtsmen of early days recently passed aWay-John h l. was the agent of D. o. Mills and other rich men at Sacramento. He lived at Elm erald Bay, Lake Tahoe, for some ume and owned land there. He was an enthu- siastic yachtsman, and often took part in races before there were any organized clubs or regular regattas here. In 1868 he and J. c. Kelly built the yacht Emerald, which won many matches and races in regattas. He was one of the founders Of the San Francisco Yacht Club, which was organized in 1873, and was its first vice commodore; later he became its commo- dore. When the Pacific Yacht Club was founded in 1878 at Old Sausalito he became its first commodore and a life memoer. He owned the schooner Pearl, which was built from the designs of M. Turner, and the schooner Harvest Queen. Though he had retired from active business several years ago he owned half interest in the shipyards at Benicia and was interested in other enterprises.