The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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The subject of neither or not the So
Getty for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals should take hand to prevent
coursing in the parks of California
was literally discussed at meeting of
| the board of directors of the organiza-
ton in San Francisco. While no deci-
sion was actually taken, the prevailing
opinion seemed to be in favor of the
| advocates of coursing. The question
was brought up by the receipt of
communication from the coursing clubs
of the lower counties, asking that the
board rescind its resolution OF two
years ago, which authorized Secretary
| Holbrook to stopanything bordering up
| on cruelty in the coursing parks. Some
of the coursing men had learned that
the matter was to be discussed and
| William Halpin and H. A Deckelman
appeared to represent the sport.
The latter made pointed plea in the
| cause which he represented. He called
attention to the methods employed in
the big rabbit drives in San Joaquin
| Valley, and said that the cruelty of
the men on these occasions is manifest
to ALL The wel-conducted coursing
park eliminates all of the cruel feat
| ures. The hounds are Grained to kill
their game instantly, and, what is
more, this same training gives them
| experience for killing the hares on the
plains in a more humane manner than
the human hunters who participate in
| the big drives. According to his esti-
mate about 5000 hares are killed in
each park every year In all parts of
this state these animals are regarded
| as pests, the same as in Australia.
The question of the effect of the sport
upon the people was discussed, some
| arguing that it tends to make the
young familiar with brutal scenes and
less sensitive to the suffering of ami
mails DR.. Clinton said that his objec-
ton to the sport was the gambling fea
ture, which leads many person from
the paths of honesty. Colonel Jackson
stated that If the manner of killing
hares is cruel he would not favor cours
ing, but from all that he can learn the
| fleeing animals are killed the instant
they are struck by the hounds He
| regards the hare as pest, and that it
should be exterminated. While he
does not favor the gambling feature,
| still he said that he cannot forget that
every hare killed. whether it may
be, is one less pest in the state. Officer
Hooper, who attends all of the cours-
| ing matches. said that the killing of
! the hares by the hounds is not cruel,
| death resulting quickly when the hare
is caught. Director Hyde. also is any
thing but friend of the rabbit, and he
called attention. to the fact that the
| societys mission Is not to make cru
| SAGE against the vice Oh Dul
| to prevent animals from being abused.
This seemed to be the view of the
| board, and the decision was to keep
| its hands off all features not provided
for in its declared principles. How
| ever, the whole board will visit the
| parks at some convenient time and de-
| termine as to the amount of cruelty
involved in the hounds killing the
hares.
Edward c. Jewell writes in the Bos-
ton Journal concerning the Columbia:
1.-THE Columbia is to be classed with
| the fin type of boats. Her main inten-
ton of design abandons the principles
of Defender quite radically. The mid
ship section has rounder, firmer curve
| from the rail to below the bilge, with a
floor almost straight and quite a bit
| flatter than Defenders. Instead of
keeping to the idea of the design shown
| in modern keel boats, Defender among
the number of getting some displace-
ment by slow, easy turn Of the floor
| into the keel, Columbia has as sharp
| curve in the frame at the gangboard
as can safely be bent in the steel angles.
This departure from the 49, shape of
| the waistframes, with good deadrise
| displacement gained in the lower part
of the body, and a softer bilge, which
all mark the keel type, in favor of
| higher center of bouyancy, effected by
the cutting of the displa cement at the
keel and the filling out the bilge, as well
as lattening of the floors a bit, marks
| the points of the thoroughbred fin
type in the Columbia"
This authority has the bow of the
| Columbia very full, the bilges being
carried out into the overhang. char
acteristic of the best designed fms. An
| other alleged feature not common to
ninety-footers, according to Mr.. Jewell,
| a Or fI1n in, cta oh al
though very slight, is said to be suffi-
| Gent to steal couple of feet in meas
| urement length. This is said to be ac-
| complished by fiattening the bow frames
from the ''V" shape into a nearer APP
| proach to f1aring "U" shape. thus
cutting off the angle of the frame sec
tons and the water lines at that point.
The conclusion drawn is that this bow
| with stern much wider and fuller
than the Defenders. will give sailing
| lines, when heeled nearer twenty feet
than ten feet longer than the De-
| tenders.
Of the crew of the cup challenger.
| shamrock, the cycle correspondent of
| the Boston Globe says: 1.-THE crew are
trained and experienced yacht sailors,
| belonging to the small town of Brit
| lingsea on the River Colne in the
| County of Essex, the southern bound
/ airy OF which is the River Thames.
Rritlinssea, Wivenhoe. and Rowhedge
are small towns on the Colne river
| whose inhabitants are nearly all Yacht
sailors The yacht sailors on the Colne
| after the summers yachting closes, oc-
| cupy themselves with oyster dredging
| and sea fishing about the sandbanks at
the mouth of the Thames or 90 to sea
| in steamers or other merchant vessels
| AT Southampton, Portsmouth and
Gosport there are also great many
h u.
| of the Colne, man the pleasure navy.
| These sailors are a peculiar class They