New-York tribune., 1900-12-30
Assnssinations I'm the Nineteenth Century
Tribune Almanac. 1901.
BRONZE PLATES

BRONZE PLATES FOR THE NEW DEFENDER
bristol r. L. Dec 2s-Two cases of Tobin bronze
plates for the bottom of the new Cup defender ar
rived bv express to-day and were sent at once 10
tho Herreshoff ward This Is the last lot of bronze
plate for the new boat carload OF nickel steel
plates the howeysr @ % and f5e is * e con no
sirpment destined for the top sides of the vessel
TFE. CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM
r { Poekel who has charge OF the engine and
machinery department at Lawley's has designed
novel shape for a steam yacht which contains part
of the Duggap idea put into the he dSeGe Se be keelson
raised that there is noiloW mo tbi c ~,
the propeller will be placed underneath the hull
Delaqates to the Interlake Yachting Association
meeting last Thursday selected Put-in-Bay as the
place for the next annual meet which Will be held
July G e IL Is and lS Of 9ro the To3ea6 cyeTe
land Erie Detroit, Sandusky, Prt-in-6ay ana
other cities
The s5-foot cruiser for Henry T. Sloane, of the
New-York Yacht Club has been laid down at the
Lawey yards from the ed deSiSns signs, OF Clinton H. crane
The Prince of Wales will be present at the
launching of the Shamrock H. and will spend at
least week in sailing on her IN the preliminary M
on board the steam yacht Erin as the guest CT Sir
Thomas Upton
Cantain Wringe has been named the skipper
Of the Shamrock in the challenge trial races. and
a good number of New-York yachtsmen are inter-
ested to see how far Wringe will be allowed to
order ord
Five Yachts are being built on the Gardner & Cox
design for the Larchmont special 25-foot class.
which are to be 3s feet long ALL 10 feet
inches in beam and feet inches In draught.
viii have pole masts and short bowsprit
Cary Smith has designed a 7O-foot schooner for
New-York Yacht Club member which will be raced
in the Amorita's class. and she will have centre
board hung well forward, instead of dropping
be about 6S feet and she will have 20 feet of beam
and u feet draught.
Oswald sanderson's business Will keep him in
England next summer and the LarchmOnt Yacht
Club will lose the general zest of an enthusiastic
racing yachtsman. His new Herreshon Countess
OF the 3Gfoot class which is now hauled out AT the
Robert Jacob yards, will be sold
Gardner s. Cox have prepared design of
steam yacht $50 feet long for j. Gardner Cassatt
of the New-York Yacht Club and the boat will be
built at Chester Penn. This firm will build two
3O-foot racers Shelter Island yachtsmen two of
their Larchmont one design 25 four S6.foot centre
class Which Is ordered 10 beat Charles Lane Poor's
Mira. their own earlier design
The international code of signals at sea, after
being in use for thirty-two years is TO be altered
by the addition of eight flags. Hitherto the code
has consisted OF eighteen flags with which 1000
words could be made With the enlarged code
375, 600 signals will be possible, and advantage
OF the new system will be that flag will be
used more than once In the hoist The
code will he introduced January l. and will be-
come compulsory twelve months later.
Henry s. Redmond. the of the Syce. has
been considering the purchase English cutter
TO he used In these waters. as a commodious
cruiser He has had his eve on the well known