Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07

tou 1diOe 1luO met last TueSday night,
and several matters # moment were
brought up for discussion.
1t was decided to install a hot-water
heating plant in the clubhouse before the
END OF this month. and the funds for the
ouint We're appropriate ted.
The subject of keeping up the personnel
OF the club by rejecting all but highly
recommended applications for member
snip was talked over. but it was decided
that such a policy would work more Marin
than good. and the proposition was re-
jected.
Tho fifty-foot power cruiser Edgar Blk
ley, owned by the vaudeville character
artist OF that name. is berthed at Ba ley S
hoathouse, on the Eastern Branch for the
winter The craft was brought here from
New York last summer by her owner.
who Is an enthusiastic yachtsman, and
who forsakes the glare of the calcium
every summer for the less brilliant but
more interesting CLEAN Of pinnacle
lamp.
The power cruiser Ray. owned by Joe
Humperson Of the Eastern Power Boat
Club, has received a general overhauling
and painting IN preparation for an early
return to service.
Work on Judge L. c. Strider's motor
yacht has progressed quite q bit during
the past three weeks. and plankins was
craft seems to evolve day by day from
naked keel to finished skeleton, and it
should at least be afioat by the middle Of
May. and in full commission before the
Howard l.. Warwick of the Corinthian
Yacht Club is building two thirty by-sev-
en-foot glass-cabin Pioneer cruisers,
which will probably be ready for the rib
bon bedecked ''fizz'' bottles shortly after
the opening of the season
In view of the fact that English
yachtsmen claim to be severely handi-
capped in having to cross the water in
order to compete for the America cup,
1t has been suggested that the scene
founder without a stroke OF the pumps
be transferred to the Pacific coast
upon the completion of the Panama
canal and held during the San Fran
necessary for the American boat to cover
almost as much open water as the Brit
ish craft in order to reach the line, but
there would still remain an opportunity
Tor objections on the part of the Britons
In that our boat could make the voyage
in easy stages, on short port-to-port runs
But tlse suggestion. coming from the OFF,
Gals of the exposition, does seem to be
the best solution Of the problem offered
SO far, though there is little prospect of
the proposition ever maturing into an
America cup race in 1913. The old
schooner yacht America, which brought
the cup to this country in 1861, and for
which the valued trophy, now in the
possession Of the New York Yacht Club.
was named, Is at present owned by Con-
gresham Butler Ames. now residing in
this city.
She is spending her last days moored
alongside old Chelsea bridge, Boston,
where she has lain for the past ten years,
unvisited by a soul and forgotten in the
hustle Of modern times.
The new officers of the Corinthian
Yacht Club will entertain after the regu-
lar club meeting the first Thursday in
February, as is usually the custom in
that organization. The Corinthians re-
taken in at almost every meeting, which
is rather unusual at this time of the
year.
DR.. Karl J. Mess of the Corinthian
Yacht Club will soon start work on q
new boat The craft will not make her
appearance on the river until 1913. but
like "Cap'n Bill Ingram's cruiser, she
will be some boat after about two years
spent In building.
Vice Commodore Horace Chandlee of
the Capital Yacht Club. whose term will
expire, with several others, next Thurs
day night has announced that he will
make a motion the evening Of the club
elections to create the office of club fore
caster and run for the job himself
Mr.. Chandlee since Investing in an
aneroid barometer. hygrometer and sew
eral other meteorological instruments dur
ing the past summer has taken on a
cargo Of weather lore until his matches
are nigh on to bustin'.'
In all seriousness, however, a man
versed in reading weather signs would
be of great service on a club cruise, but
the job would demand that he arise in
all his might every morning before light
to put the shippers right on the weather.
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Officers of the Motor Boat Club of
America have been elected for the COM
Ing year as follows: Commodore Henry
II. Melville: vice commodore Frederick
X. Burnham; rear commodore, ]. Stuart
Blackton; treasurer, Charles Francis:
secretary, +. N. Morley