Shattemuc History Sing Sing Yacht Club 1 Interlocutor Wm. Henry Rowe portion of it over three times. “The Owl introduced the end men, Stuart Baker, and the Pussy Cat” received the Published Articles bones, and William E Barlow, attention of Francis Larkin, Jr. with the tambourine, and the evening’s established results. of entertainment was opened by a musical ------o------Sing Sing Yacht Club medley by Professor Henry J Rall, who arranged the musical parts and led the The Republican 1889-1902 celebrated orchestra of Professor Louis J 3.07.1889 Cornu, of , with their The Sing Sing Yacht Club. The Sing at Teutonic faces covered with burnt cork, Sing Boat Club formally disbanded last Ossining, NY in doing up the instrumental part of the Monday evening, and the newly programme. incorporated Yacht Club was ~ permanently organized. The Then after the audience finished membership list is that of the old Boat The Republican applauding that, they laughed and Club, and the new organization will no 2.28.1889 giggled at the jokes of the end men, doubt take rank with the first clubs in The Yacht Club Minstrels. Seven until George Hyatt sung “Good-Night, the country. hundred people held down the settees in but not Good Bye”. After the singer had Olive Opera house on the evening of responded to an encore, which, by the A pleasant feature of Monday Washington’s Birthday. They bore the way, followed every thing, David H evening’s business was the financial affliction in order to witness the Benedict sang “The Old Street Lamp,” report of the committee, which managed performance of the Sing Sing Yacht after responding to what was now the the recent Minstrel Entertainment. The Club Minstrels, and although the ordeal inevitable, Stuart Baker sang “Many a net earnings were $200, an was quite equal to any of the tortures of Time”, an effusion which reflected announcement which was received with the inquisition, no one seemed to regret slightly on his friend Benedict, and applause. the deed. It was, indeed, the largest incidentally brought in the name of audience that has assembled in that President Many. “With all Her Faults” The annual election of officers of the edifice for many a long day. Gathered was the burden of a song by John F Yacht Club resulted as follows: in the number were many from out of Jenkins and it transpired that he loved town, the neighboring villages her still. Commodore Ralph Brandreth contributing to the number of the Vice Commodore W W Washburne audience, many being present from Encores were now rated nominal and Rear Commodore Benj. R Smith Yonkers, Irvington, Tarrytown and the audience was gasping for breath. Secretary W L Onyans Treasurer Joseph Thompson The end men were driving serious Peekskill, while the back country also Measurer Philip Samstag furnished many to join in the laughter thoughts sky high and the audience were ------o------created by the amateurs in the burnt captured. Those who had came laboring 1 cork . under the impression that they had to be Democratic Register lenient in their criticism began to find 3.15.1909 It was about a quarter past the first out that the amateurs on the stage were 20 Years Ago. ---Peter Clausen was bell in the starboard watch when the outdoing the professional standard of appointed boat keeper at the Sing Sing curtain rolled up, and after it had minstrelsy. Fresh and vivacious fun was Yacht Club (now the Shattemuc Yacht accomplished getting there with the being uncorked on both ends, and the and Canoe Club) and so well has he usual accompaniment of noise, the singers were dissecting their numbers in done his duty that he is still at the club house greeted the following artists in excellent style. Surely these could not house in full charge of everything cork and full dress suits with applause: be our young men about the village pertaining to boats and club house. giving vent to mirth and merriment with ------o------Ralph Baker J F Jenkins their songs and jokes, but they were, and Stuart Baker F Larkin Jr. the audience kept on growing interested. The Republican Varian Banks G F Mundon 3.28.1889 W E Barlow L Osswalt Stephen H Powers was the next to The New Boat House. It is now D H Benedict S H Powers sing. “The Stream of Time” called him definitely settled that the Sing Sing W H Dixon Wm Henry Rowe to his feet again and the encores kept on Yacht Club will have a new boat house. Harry W Hull Charles Schade coming. Then the prevailing end men The Trustees met on Monday evening George Hyatt Albert E Smith retired and Interlocutor Rowe and decided to build the structure. It G S Jenkins introduced Albert E Smith as bones, and will be located on the water front Ralph Baker as tambourine, and the fun recently purchased by Commodore kept on growing apace. Smith Ralph Brandreth, a short distance above resuscitated “Crackle, Crackle”, one of 1 the Upper Dock. The building will be Actors posing with faces blackened by his inimitable selections and did a burnt cork Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 2 25x50 feet, two stories, and is to be ---The Rear-Commodore Benjamin R The Republican ready by the opening of the season. Smith struck a pike pole into a spile on 5.23.1889 ------o------the club house on Tuesday and took an River Ripples. –Charles Schade has involuntary plunge bath in consequence. sold the saucy Alice J to parties in The Republican He happened to be trying to stop the Newark, N.J. 4.18.1889 Cora from running past the landing and ---A New York editor has offered a gold Yacht Club Notice. The plans and didn’t succeed as the sequel tells. and silver cup, valued at $500 to be specifications for the erection of the ---The sloop yacht Waif, which was sailed for by the Yonkers Corinthian quarters for the Sing Sing Yacht Club owned by Rev. S W Edgerton, of the Yacht Club. have been placed in the hands of the Sing Sing Yacht Club last season started ___William Haff and Augustus Osborn builders, and as soon as the award is last week from her winter quarters at are getting their lively cat-rigged yacht made work will be commenced. Rear Nyack, for her new anchorage at Jersey Surprise in trim to surprise the rest of Commodore Benjamin R Smith, who City where her new owner resides. His the fleet. profitably spends his time as builder name is B S Paine. ---The Mystery is the name of an when he is not the staunch Cora, ---Peter Clausen, a South eighteen and a half foot cat-rigged yacht has about completed building the dock2 blonde, who has heretofore sailed the with which Skipper Irving Haff hopes to required for the erection of the edifice. seas, has been appointed Boat keeper by capture prizes this season. ------o------the Sing Sing Yacht Club. During his ---Col. Franklin Brandreth has plunked short term of duty Peter has won favor down one hundred dollars and is the The Republican among the members by his practical and first to go on the life membership roll of 5.09.1889 obliging ways and bids fair to fill the the Sing Sing Yacht Club. Seven New Members. The Sing Sing bill to perfection, thus showing that his ---An inquisitive individual asked Yacht Club is progressing with giant selection is commendable. Steward “Johnny” Aitchison, of James strides. At the meeting last Monday ---The Lotta, Messrs Washburne Bros., T Blandford's rakish craft, when the evening, seven gentlemen were elected spreads a new of increased vessel would leave her anchorage. to membership, and new members have area, which makes her look like a “Johnny” answered he couldn’t “Say been coming in rapidly at each meeting Quaker City school girl in her When”.3 this Spring, the roll is growing into quite graduation costume. Captain John ---Captain E S Pelham is enjoying a formidable affair. The gentlemen who Jaderlund, of the schooner yacht Palmer, himself in bounding over the billows in joined the club last Monday are George now lying at South Brooklyn, made the the sixteen foot cat-rigged yacht Seola, a A Brandreth, Schuyler Hamilton Jr., rag which is expected to carry the Lotta new acquisition with which he Joshua B Many, B B McAlpin, Herbert over the finish line a winner this season anticipates filling his locker with any M Carpenter, George Hyatt and Fred M in some of the contests. stray prizes that are offered in his class. Fisher. ---Contractor Smith is raising the Sing --Secretary William L Onyans was so ------o------Sing Yacht Club quarters with a speed anxious to use the Willie he put the craft of the wind, only that element will find overboard before the paint had dried. The Republican hard work to shake it. So rapid has been He has been spending his leisure time 5.16.1889 the progress the question of a grand since in ridding his yacht toggery of a River Ripples. --Rear Commodore opening on Decoration Day is already a load of surplus paint with benzene. Benjamin R Smith will have the surety. There will be music, fireworks ---Measurer Philip Samstag has had vivacious Cora painted white this and refreshments in the evening to top some bothersome difficulty with his season. off the sports of the day, which, by the eyes of late which all the club members ---Treasurer Joseph Thompson wears a way, will be devoted to a race for the hope will be alleviated before the sunburned nose and a prodigious grin club pennant. yachting season commences in earnest now-a-days. Old Sol is responsible for ---The first visiting yacht of the season in order that he may be at this the former, while the rapid addition of was the conformable cabin cat-rigged accustomed post aboard the Aller. names to the Yacht Club roster is the White Cap, of the Tappan Zee Yacht ---The Palisade Boat Club of Yonkers cause of the latter. Club, of Grand View, below Nyack, has contracted to purchase a large track ---A four-leaf clover was picked up which was wafted into the anchorage on of upland and water right at Glenwood, under Commodore Ralph Brandreth’s Saturday. Her complement consisted of an upper suburb of Yonkers, and will cat-rigged yacht Madge before she was W C Francis, Jr. and wife, Mr. H W move its clubhouse4 there and make off the stocks, by one of the Peckwell and wife, and Miss Mary extensive improvements upon it. Its superstitious members of the Club, who McKensie and Miss Mattie Price, who annual regatta is for July 4. A argues that the incident will bring luck tarried long enough to exchange to the dusky craft. greetings with several of our yachtsmen, 3 and then sailed gaily away with a free A play on the boat's name, the Say sheet. When. 2 4 A pile supported platform, or pier, ------o------The Yonkers Clubhouse was similar in connected to the mainland by a piled design to the Sing Sing Yacht Club walkway. house and continues in use today, 2003. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 3 handsome medal has been ordered to be as a prize for the yachts under twenty sending the white caps of the mud competed for in a series of handicap feet, while another prize will be colored billows in a rain of spray. After single-scull races. awarded in the sloop class. several of the boat had tried tusseling ---J Herbert Carpenter has purchased the with the elements under short sail, cabin cat-rigged yacht Daisy of W E Several other events are named for the without much glory and a good deal of Tallcot of Croton Landing, and the day. There will be a medal for single wetness, the race was declared off until staunch little craft will hereafter fly the scull working boats, and medals for a Saturday, when another postponement burgee of the Sing Sing Yacht Club. double scull race in the same kind of was declared on account of the The Daisy was built by Wood Brothers boat. A canoe paddling and a tub race prevailing storm. The regatta is now of Boston, and is of the persuasion, will finish day’s aquatic sports. announced for Friday afternoon at two carrying her ballast down where it will The reception will be held in the new o’clock. do the most good. Her length is club house at eight o’clock in the eighteen feet on the waterline, being evening. There will be music and A large number of guests were present twenty feet over all. refreshments and a pyrotechnic display at the formal opening of the club house ------o------to celebrate the occasion. in the evening. The house was gaily ------o------decorated with a large number of The Republican Japanese lanterns and the brilliant 5.30.1889 The Republican illumination of the electric lights with The Sing Sing Yacht Club On the 6.06.1889 which the house is furnished shown morrow, Thursday evening, the The Sing Sing Yacht Club. On Friday, through the windows to bid welcome to members of the Sing Sing Yacht Club October 14th 1887, a trio of Sing Singers the coming guests. Rall’s orchestra was expect to enjoy one prodigious day. found shelter in the lee of the plot house there to please the ears and make every Their expectations of joy are expected of the little steamer that was running in body’s feet fretful until the floor was to be consummated through the opening the place of the Nyack-Tarrytown waxed and Caterer Sanford with his regatta of the organization and the ferryboat Tappan Zee, on its return trip attendants were making active opening of the new club house in the from Nyack. They were William W preparations for serving the evening. The former has been called for Washburne, Charles Schade and Robert refreshments, which were a bountiful the hour of two in the afternoon, while T Dennis, who were returning from a supply of ice cream, cake and the latter will take place in the evening trip to Nyack where they had just put strawberries. at eight o’clock, should the winds pipe the yachts Lotta and Alice J in winter high or low. quarters. In the course of conversation In the meanwhile, the guests were the subject was broached of forming an occupying camp chairs in front of the All the yachts of the club are in aquatic organization in this village. house witnessing a pyrotechnic display fighting trim, and have been thoroughly Within two weeks what was the by Messrs Onyans & Kamp, who fired groomed for the battle in the way that foundation of the Sing Sing Yacht Club the “Ah!” producing pieces from the yachts are prepared to meet each other. was formed under the name of the Sing float in front of the house. After the Money and muscle have gone hand in Sing Boat Club. glare of the red fire, the noise of the hand, one for the pot lead5 and the other On last Decoration Day the bomb and the last rocket stick had came to rub it in, while more than one pair of organization celebrated one era in its down from up near the clouds, dancing weather eyes have been cast aloft to see existence. That was the opening of the commenced. The Corinthians told the that everything is tuned up to stand the new club house, which is situated on the ladies that this part of the programme strain of carrying everything in a smart river front just above the Upper Dock, was only a test of the strength of the breeze. opposite Major Symonds’ School6. building, and as the fair ones were There was some disappointment in the anxious on this score the edifice was The event of the day, of course, will day, however. That was the thoroughly tested and pronounced be the race for the club pennant, now abandonment of the regatta, which was perfectly safe and a capital place to held by the dusky Aller. This will be called for two o’clock in the afternoon. waltz or polka. It was well towards the sailed for without time allowance over a Previous to that hour the murky witching hour when the big door of the course of two and a half miles to atmosphere gave promise of a clearing boat house closed and the last of the windward or leeward and return, to be and a breeze did not seem to exist. All happy participants in the opening of the sailed over twice within a limit of three of a sudden the cloud banks in the south Sing Sing Yacht Club started hours. A silver water tankard will be began traveling up the river and the homeward. given to the yacht winning on time pent-up wind began to come. It arrived allowance, the prize being offered by gently at first and then it came in chunks Among those present were the Club. Messrs. Onyans & Kamp and sections varying from east to west, Commodore Ralph Brandreth and wife, have offered a handsome plaque clock while it knocked up a terrific sea, Vice-Commodore W W Washburne and wife, Rear-Commodore Benjamin R Smith and wife, Treasurer Joseph 5 6 A mixture of graphite and linseed oil Now the Virum residences on Thompson and wife, Rev. J B Gibson, applied to the hull. Snowden Ave. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 4 DD Rev A B Jennings, Dr. George J of Tappan Zee may be obtained. The by Kirby of Milton-on-the-Sound. The Fisher and wife, Dr. E B Many and building is lighted by electricity, and Alice is the name of the craft, which is wife, Mr. and Mrs. William C Kipp, Mr. will be fitted up neatly ere it is finished, fitted with a cabin house, which may be and Mrs. James Bedell, Mr. and Mrs. I the builders not having completed it as used or dispensed with at the pleasure of T James, Mr. and Mrs. W Clinton Mead, yet. the owner. Mr. and Mrs. M F Rowe and Miss ------o------The following names were added to Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. William H Dixon, the roster of the Sing Sing Yacht Club Mr. and Mrs. William Myers, Mr. and The Republican on Monday evening: C G Barber, James Mrs. Lot Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Albert 6.06.1889 H Truesdell, C C Clarke, Leonard P Hall, Mr. and Mrs. William Brundage, Rough but Ready Etiquette. The Kipp, Richard W Shurter, Louis F Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brundage, Mr. average Upper Docker is nothing if not Washburne, Smith Lent, Gilbert M and Mrs. Joseph Willi, Mr. and Mrs. J concise and original. On the evening of Todd, William Truesdell, William Herbert Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. B L Decoration Day, when the invited guests Clinton Mead, of the village, and Beattys, Mr. and Mrs. E S Pelham, Mr. were thinning out from the reception of Charles Webber and Andrew Tracy of and Mrs. William L Onyans, Mr. and the Sing Sing Yacht Club, two worthies Tarrytown. The last named gentlemen Mrs. William L Hull, Mrs. O M Miller, who reside in that far famed locality, augment the fleet of yachts by the Mrs. French and Miss Jennie French, which is pitted against the universe for addition of a cat boat and an open sloop, Miss Sadie Washburn, Misses Carrie originality, made their debut at the door respectively. and Lizzie Gale, Miss Emilie Jones, and pleaded that they wanted some cake ---The famous steam yacht “Now Then” Miss Laura Mezger, Miss Lou Havens and cream. They were pretty rocky which was built for Norman L Munro and Miss Lydia Curtis of Hoboken, N.J.; from absorbing beer, but were allowed by the blind boat builder, John Miss Ada Jones of Tarrytown; Miss to go up stairs and partake of the plenty Herreschoff of Bristol R I and is now Josephine E Taylor, Miss Lillie Gorton, on the promise of good behavior. One owned by the builder, dropped in at this Miss Anna Secor, Miss Mary of them found the stairs too steep to village on Wednesday afternoon. The Henderson of Westchester; Miss Lillian climb without a rest and as he tarried the owner and his daughter, and Mrs. V C Sutton, , Misses Samstag, Miss other grasped him by the throat with one Gardiner and Mrs. De Wolff Hopper of Lillian Bell, Miss Eliza Stray, Miss hand and shook his clenched fist in his New York were on board. They had Lillian Hull, Miss Lyons, the Misses face as he warned him: You blankety, steamed from Newburgh and were Beattys, Miss Smith, Miss Perry, Miss blankety, blank, if you go raising any bound to New York. The boat averaged Eleanore See, Miss Mayme Griffin, muss up here I’ll break your blankety, twenty miles an hour in her run from Miss Bertha Acker, Miss Gertrude blankety, blank neck!” And they locked Bristol to New York on Tuesday. Foshay, Mr. Edwin Smith, Mr. H B arms and went up stairs like two Sunday ---On Saturday afternoon the schooner Sanford, of Albany; Mr. Charles School scholars. It was a rough but yacht Edith of the Yonkers Corinthian Washburn, Mr. Charles Schade, Mr. A effective lesson in etiquette, which Yacht Club came up to the Sing Sing Gorton, Mr. George F Secor, Mr. T R thoroughly beats anything laid down in Yacht Club anchorage under close Hart of Hoboken, NJ; Mr. J Joseph the rules of the “400”. reefed sails. In the evening Commodore Laurence of the Yonkers Statesman ------o------A J Prime and Sailorman E T Booth put staff, Mr. Charles F Webber of in an appearance, having came over Tarrytown; Mr. Edwin L Todd, Mr. The Republican from White Plains to enjoy a sail down Louis F Washburne, Mr. Alonzo 6.06.1889 the turbulent Hudson, but they tarried Draper, Mr. H H Armstrong, Mr. River Ripples – The steam yacht Say until the morning when the staunch craft George Hyatt, Mr. John Messeigh of When swings to an off the Sing hoisted sail for its home port. The New York, Dr J H Albee of Boston; Mr. Sing Yacht Club quarters. sturdy Commodore of the Corinthians Robert Lawrence, Mr. Ralph Stray, Mr. ---Byron E French has purchased a shell left some photographs of the new home Morton Haddock of New York; Mr. boat, and is now going to cultivate his of that club to remind the boys of their Montgomery Lyons, Mr. Winfield S muscle. pleasant visit. Smith, Mr. Ebenezer Fowler and others. ---A seventy-five foot flag staff was ---One day this week a small party of raised on the wharf in front of the yacht young gentlemen took a company of The new club house is a plain but club quarters on Wednesday, so that the estimable young ladies from South commodious building, which has been tall mast of the Aller cannot tear the Nyack out sailing in a yacht and went to substantially constructed by Contractor club signal as it did on Decoration Day. Sing Sing. The sail to that place was John Smith. It is seventy-five feet long ---The Sing Sing Yacht Club will hold delightful, but coming back it was not by twenty-five in width, being two an open regatta on the Fourth of July in so pleasant. A stormy wind interfered stories in height. The lower floor is which all the yachts of the various with smooth sailing and the yachting devoted to locker room, and a general organizations belonging to the New party, considerably frightened, put in to storage. On the upper floor is a large York Yacht Racing Association will be Rockland Lake, where they landed. It meeting room, boat-keeper’s quarters invited to participate. was found impossible to get any farther and lady’s toilet room. In front is a ---George Fisher Secor has a lively little in the boat, so the ladies were treated to large piazza from which a splendid view twenty-two foot sloop, which was built an exceedingly pleasant walk home to Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 5 South Nyack. It was a very enjoyable consist of articles useful on Board of a The following yachts were entered for affair, the ladies say, but for all that, yacht, the Regatta Committee having the regatta: they are not anxious for another abandoned the idea of awarding pewter pedestrian trip of that kind – Nyack mugs and other inducements of a SPECIAL CLASS—Schooners Evening Journal, June 1 kindred kind. The following Edith – Yonkers C.Y.C, Com A J Prime

---There was a grand athletic contest in contributed the prizes, an CLASS 1 – CABIN SLOOPS, 33 ft AND OVER the store room of the Sing Sing Yacht acknowledgement being herewith Mergus – Columbia C Vice-Com. Wm H Bowe Club after the meeting on Monday tendered on behalf of the Regatta Katie-Wil’msburg YC Whitaker & Hunneroff night. The big event of the evening was Committee: Messrs Isaac B Noxon, Lottie-Hudson River YC, John E Drew a tug of war. Messrs I T Washburn and Ralph Brandreth, Dr. E B Sherwood, CLASS II – CABIN SLOOPS 27 TO 32 FT Wm. E Barlow were on Team Francis Larkin Jr., M F Rowe & Son, Crawford -Yonkers C.Y.C. Charles E Day No. 1, whose members were John editors and proprietors of The Julian - Columbia Y.C.C., J Nightingale Jenkins, Wm. I Hull, Wm. Grant, S. Republican, J Howe Allen, Joseph Bertha -Yonkers C.Y.C.

Olin and Wm. W Washburne and Thompson, Washburne & Todd, CLASS III – CABIN SLOOPS 27 AND UNDER Dudley K Inslee. Team No. 2 had Fred William W Washburne, Charles S. Vixen-Yonkers C.Y.C., George Ransom M Fisher and Byron E French as Raymond and Robert T Dennis. Lurline-Columbia Y.C., H C Rosmond anchors and Irving Haff, Augustus Alice- Sing Sing Y.C., G Fisher Secor

Osborne, Ralph and Stewart Baker and The course for the first eight classes CLASS IV – OPEN SLOOPS Frank Robinson were the tuggers on the will be to Dobbs Ferry and return, P.J. Tomlin- Hudson River Y.C., J J McCarthy rope. Team No. 1 yanked their rivals twenty miles; time limit six hours. The Jas. T Corlett - Hudson River Y.C., Con. Roth. over the line three out of five pulls, not ninth class will go over a triangular May - Sing Sing Y.C., Andrew Tracy Surprise - Sing Sing YC, W Haff without a long pull, a strong pull and a course in front of the club house, to be Lone Star - Hudson River Y.C., John Reis pull all together. Edward Brinner was sailed over twice, making a distance of timekeeper and Charles Schade referee. ten miles. The start and finish will be CLASS V – CABIN CAT-RIG ------o------over an imaginary line drawn off the Henry Grey – Columbia Y.C., George C Everett Whitecap – Tappan Zee Y.C., W C France Jr. club house. The start will be made at Ella F – Yonkers C.Y.C., John Dixon The Republican eleven o’clock. Daisy – Sing Sing Y.C., J H Carpenter 7.03.1889 The Yacht Club Regatta. The second The staunch and comfortable steamer CLASS VI–OPEN CAT-RIG 27 & OVER Madge – Sing Sing Y.C., Com. R Brandreth annual open regatta of our local aquatic Sarah A Jenks will accompany the Phoenix – Sing Sing Y.C., B R Kittridge organization, now known as the Sing yachts over the course, leaving the Nina – Yonkers C.Y.C., Com. A J Prime Sing Yacht Club, will be sailed Lower Dock at half past ten o’clock. A tomorrow if the winds blow, high or string band will furnish music and CLASS VII–OPEN CAT-RIG 23 TO 27 FT Aller – Sing Sing Y.C., P F Samstag low. Caterer Crosier will serve refreshments Alma – Tappan Zee Y.C., Halsey H Cheney at reasonable rates. The tickets have May F – Tappan Zee Y.C., J A Styles The fleet promises to comprise some been placed at the sum of $1, for adults; Irene – Hudson River Y.C., C R Murray forty boats, which will be divided into children, 50 cents. As the race will take Cora – Sing Sing Y.C., Rear Com. Benj. R Smith nine classes, classified as follows: Class place during the time of day when the CLASS VIII–OPEN CAT-RIG 20 TO 23 FT E, cabin sloops over thirty-two feet; majority who are celebrating it in Irex – Sing Sing Y.C., R M Haddock Class F, cabin sloops over twenty-seven idleness do not know what to do with Pauline B – Sing Sing Y.C., James Smith and under thirty-two feet; Class G, cabin themselves this settles the question of Columbia – Sing Sing Y.C., I T Washburne, Jr. Marguerite – Yonkers C.Y.C., A T Rose sloops under twenty-seven feet; Fourth “What shall we do?” Amy – Tappan Zee Y.C., E C Weeks class, open and mainsail yachts; Fifth ------o------Lotta – Sing Sing Y.C., Washburne Bros. class, cabin cat-rigged yachts; Sixth class, open cat-rigged yachts, over The Republican CLASS IX-OPEN CAT-RIG TO 20 FT Gauntlet – Tappan Zee Y.C., C R Mason Jones twenty-seven feet; Seventh class, open 7.11.1889 Bon Ton – Hudson River Y.C., P Griffin cat-rigged yachts over twenty-three feet; The Fourth of July Regatta Ermine – Tappan Zee Y.C., C A Preston Eighth class, open cat-rigged yachts, ------Ella- Hudson River Y.C., Benjamin Wheeler over twenty feet; Class nine, open cat- The May F Got Her Mutton C H Miner – Columbia Y.C., D McGlynn. rigged yachts twenty feet and under. An Eventful Day With All Sorts of Of these there were twenty-nine yachts Weather representing the Columbia, Hudson A special prize will be awarded to the ------River, Yonkers Corinthian, Tappan Zee yacht making the quickest time over the The one hundredth and thirteenth and our local yachting organization, in twenty mile course. A prize will be birthday of American Independence was the fleet which stood over the starting awarded to the winner in each class with duly celebrated by the Sing Sing Yacht line promptly at eleven o’ clock, bent on time allowance, computed at two Club, by holding their second annual speeding down the river in the light minutes to the foot, special prize winner regatta, open to all yachts belonging to southwest wind. Nearly all stood over barred. The prizes are on exhibition in the fleets incorporated in the New York toward Rockland on the first tack. The the window of Jeweler James. They Yacht Racing Association larger boats were bound to and around a Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 6 stake boat off Dobbs Ferry, making a and or were riding out the storm at Perhaps it may be surmised from the distance of twenty miles, and the little anchor. There was some hail mixed in tenor of the introduction that the concert fellows in the ninth class were to go as a variation to the storm, and the needs some kind and sympathetic words twice around a triangular course turning drenched crews pretty nearly shivered said of it, such as are lavished upon a stake boat off Scarborough and one up their teeth out.. affairs that do not reach the appreciation the river near Croton Point, the inner of popular criticism. In this instance, it mark being in front of the club house, All interest for Sing Sing was knocked is to be admitted that there was nothing distance ten miles. out of the race when it was seen that the serious to criticize. One of the first Aller was under shortened sail when the tenors was rather lofty in some of his All hands were intent on squeezing murkiness lifted, and the May F was flights, but that must be excused along speed out of their respective craft, while walking right alone under full sail. with two or three others of the club who the weather man was mixing up an After a while the weather cleared. The were entertaining colds. In assortment of weather in the vicinity of winds subsided and the race developed summarizing the concert it must be set High Torr, and when he got ready he into a drifting match. IT was eight down as a treat, unique in its way, sent the first installment down in the o’clock and after when the Crawford, rendered by excellent talent, who sung shape of a nasty rain squall from the the last of the fleet to finish, drifted over in good voice and dashed off banjo and northwest. The fleet was then off Upper the line, some of the boats having been guitar music in a way that captured the Nyack. The amateur mariners who had towed home in the meanwhile. audience en masse. expected that the promise of a fair day ------o------o------would be fulfilled got their taste of what was to come. A little below this the The Republican The Republican wind came in sectional hurricanes from 2.20.1890 3.06.1890 the southwest, accompanied by torrents The Sing Sing Yacht Club Concert. It Sing Sing Yacht Club Annual of rain. Still the fleet carried all the sail is never expected that an orthodox Meeting. The annual meeting of the they could stand, but luffing and criticism is to be written upon the merits Sing Sing Yacht Club was held in Judge standing by the peak halliards was in and demerits of a college glee club Pierre Reynolds court room, No. 191 order. One puff came so hard that it concert. The simplest announcement Main street on Monday evening. The whisked a big flag staff and colors off that an aggregation of students are going elections of officers resulted in the an excursion barge which was being to lead their voices in a programme of following being chosen for the towed up the river. songs and glees is sufficient to secure an nominations presented: Commodore, audience who go with the expectation of Ralph Brandreth; Vice-Commodore, All this time the fleet kept on going, listening to a merry rangle-jangle of Benjamin R Smith; Secretary, Robert T however. The Madge was virtually melody, of grotesque and pathetic Dennis; Treasurer, Joseph Thompson; ahead being away over the eastward. numbers, to be sure, sung with all the Measurer Philip Samstag. Regatta The rest were fighting it out on the freshness and strength of youthful vocal Committee – B. Stuyvesant Gibson Nyack flats. The Corbett and Tomlin, organs. It was such an audience that Chairman Pierre Reynolds and Charles the big open sloops from the Hudson greeted the Princeton College Glee and S Gowen. House Committee – Joseph River Yacht Club, were having it with Banjo Clubs in their concert in Olive Thompson, Chairman Benjamin R each other, while Alice and the May F. Opera House on Tuesday evening, Smith, Robert T Dennis, E S Pelham, were being handled for all they were under the auspices of the Sing Sing Charles S Raymond. Committee on worth by their respective crews, and Yacht Club, and to make more Admission – Dr. E B Sherwood, were hunting in close company. From particular mention of an audience, it can Chairman; W I Townsend, Edwin I the long pier at Piermont the tussle of be asserted without egotism that the Todd, Francis Larkin, Jr., and Joseph the racers with the wind and rain defies college boys have never faced an Thompson. Auditing Committee – Dr. description. It was almost impossible to audience of more culture and refinement E B Sherwood, Chairman; W I see them from the steamer Jenks, being in all their travels, and they were highly Townsend and S Olin Washburne. out from view by the foggy sort of pleased in the way they were received Representatives to New York Yacht accompaniment to the rain, which came by such a large and fashionable Racing Association-Ralph Brandreth, in sheets driven by the howling wings. assemblage, so much so, in fact that Isaac B Noxon, Dr. E B Sherwood, they made general mention of their Francis Larkin Jr., S Olin Washburne, B The leaders luffed around the stake boat reception in comparison with that of Stuyvesant Gibson, Gilbert M Todd, in the following order: Corlett, 1:15:20; other places they have visited. Old Edwin I Todd and Joseph Thompson. Madge, 1:15:22; Aller, 1:16:38; May F, Olive Opera House must have been 1:17:34; Mergus, 1:22:41; Nina 1:24:24. delighted with itself on Tuesday night, Treasurer Thompson’s semi-annual The Tomlin kept right on down the river despite its defects, the least of which is report showed the organization to be in after the Corlett rounded the mark, and not the whistling gas jet in the circle that a prosperous condition. The roster the latter soon gave up the race and sheds light over the auditorium. shows a membership of sixty-seven, of followed her. Many of the other boats by this time had either given up the race Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 7 which one is a life member, sixteen non --Col. Frank Brandreth’s steam launch been launched and will be speedily put active and fifty six active7. Buttercup will be put in commission in a in commission. day or two. She has been fitted with --The Trustees of the club organized as Messrs. B. Frank Kipp, Dr. Brandreth brass fittings throughout, and has a brass a body on Monday evening, Symonds, Fred Jenks, Fred Griffin, four bladed propeller instead of the Commodore Ralph Brandreth was Frank Valentine and Charles H Sprong former three-bladed wheel. elected Chairman; Col. B Stuyvesant were elected to membership to signalize ------o------Gibson, Secretary; Joseph Thompson, the annual meeting. The first two go on Treasurer. the non-active list, but the quartette are The Republican --The club regatta for the champion active members, and not particularly sad 5.01.1890 pennant will be held on Decoration Day sea dogs at that. Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The and the fleet will probably rendezvous regular monthly meeting will be held in at Nyack in the afternoon and join the The chatter among the yacht owners the club house on Monday evening next, amateur tars of the Columbia and shows that the spirit of rivalry is only at half-past eight o’clock. Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Clubs in a summering through this winter, and that -The Lotta, Messrs. Washburne Bros., is social time, and fresco the handsome the coming season will be lively on the being thoroughly overhauled and will be village under the Hook Mountain a lurid waters of the Tappan Zee, for the jolly put in commission in a few days. red. Corinthians are already scraping spars --The club flag was formally broken out --The staunch little sloop yacht Viola, getting new rigs, or preparing surprises to the breezes this (Thursday) morning, Captain Daily, of Norwalk, Conn., has for one another. and the Sing Sing Yacht Club is in been lying off the club house for several commission for the season. days, the owner spending his time Vice-Commodore Wm. W Washburne, --James Smith has decided to dispose of between his yacht and the home of B Stuyvesant Gibson and J Herbert the saucy twenty-two foot flyer, the Rodney S Lockwood, on William street, Carpenter were appointed a committee Pauline B, as he cannot devote his time and making the most of favorable to select a uniform for adoption by the to sailing on the Tappan Zee as in days breezes to cruise over the Tappan Zee. club. It is not intended that it shall be gone by. Charles Lockwood is the first officer compulsory for the members to --Commander J H Herbert Carpenter, of and crew of the Viola, having purchase a uniform, but as the Sing Sing the Daisy, is an expert with a Kodak accompanied the owner in his voyages. Yacht Club is quite noted in aquatic camera. A snap shot of the Daisy under --Measurer Philip Samstag came over circles, it is thought that the securing of sail and another at the club house from the home of the Aller with a big yachting toggery will be beneficial in showing Boatkeeper Peter Clausen in bunch of blushing roses on Monday paralyzing the native when visiting repose on the porch, finely finished and evening, which were duly bestowed foreign ports, especially as a Sing Sing framed are examples of the ubiquitous among the members who happened to flyer always captures a prize when away amateur’s skill that draw forth hail him first. As that is the object of from home. commendation. the organization, this same “get there ------o------o------first”, the manly members didn’t grumble, but are awaiting the time when The Republican The Republican the good natured Measurer comes over 4.17.1890 5.08.1890 from Croton Point with another bunch. Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. A --The Uniform Committee – Vice- Columbia, owned by Isaac T special meeting will be held on Monday commodore W W Washburne, Col. B Washburne, Jr. will be painted white evening. Stuyvesant Gibson and J Herbert this season. --Water is to be introduced into the Carpenter – reported in favor of --Fred Jenks has purchased the cat- clubhouse from the mains of the Sing adopting a blue flannel suit, with a rigged yacht Surprise of Messers. Sing Water Works. double breasted coat and appropriate Osborne & Haff --The members of the Sing Sing Yacht buttons, and a yachting cap after the --The Irex, Roger Haddock, owner; and Club have been invited to attend the style of the , with Orient, Augustus Osborne, will carry annual “planked shad” celebration of the the Sewanhaka Yacht Club trimmings, big rigs, each having been measured for Jersey City Yacht Club, on Saturday as a club uniform with the usual devices new sails. next. as designations of rank, and such will --The fourteen foot cat-rigged yacht --Trustee Isaac B Noxon under a hereafter be the prescribed dress Dove is the first boat of the fleet to go in yachting cap resembles Captain toggery, their recommendations having commission. The little flyer came up Frederick Watkins, of the ocean been adopted. from Pamrapo on Monday, and will be greyhound, the City of Paris, and the ------o------sailed by Charles H Sprong during the latter is by no means homely. season. --The Lotta, Messrs. Washburne Bros.; The Republican Orient, Augustus Osborne; and Cora, 5.10.1890 Rear Commodore Benj. R Smith, have Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The Sing 7 The membership numbers do not add Sing Yacht Club on Monday evening to the total. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 8 appointed a committee to investigate the that the prescribed yachting toggery stern, which makes her look smarter circumstances in connection with the shall be secured of that firm. than ever. Rial Peterson did the work. imbroglio over the Newburg regatta; --Vice-Commodore Washburne and --The Ruston boat owners are talking --Messers John V Cockcroft, Lieut., J C Col. B S Gibson have reported in favor race. Messers. Joseph Thompson, Fremont, Jr., W N Searles, Jr., and of inviting the Columbia, Yonkers William B Stewart, James Bedell and Ralph Stay were on Monday evening Corinthian and Tappan Zee Yacht Clubs Louis F Washburne are the possessors elected members of the Sing Sing Yacht rendezvousing at the local anchorage on of these handy crafts. Club. Memorial Day, and making a big marine --Hon. George A Brandreth and Francis --Skipper Fred S Jenks is trying to display for Sing Sing. Larkin Jr. are the owners of a twenty- dispose of his cat-rigged yacht Lizzie J, --The sloop yacht Daisy, of Norwalk one foot open sloop yacht named the and it is presumed that not many sunsets Conn., started for its home port on Sybil, which will soon be in commission will have taken place ere he will be at Monday morning, after a fortnight of on the waters of the Tappan Zee. the helm of a larger craft. cruising on the Hudson, with Sing Sing --The twenty-first annual regatta of the --The Sing Sing Yacht Club anchorage as its temporary anchorage. Captain Pavonia Yacht club, of Jersey City, will has been the rendezvous of a number of Dale was accompanied by Charles be sailed on Monday, June 16th. The cruisers during the past week who have Lockwood, of this village, who clubs composing the New York Yacht been taking advantage of the Fourth of developed into a first class jolly amateur Racing Association will participate, and July holiday to sail up and down the tar. Sing Sing should be represented river. --The Regatta Committee of the --The Orient, manned by Augustus --Skipper Ralph Stray, of the cat-rigged Newburgh Canoe and Boating Osborne, her owner, and Skipper yacht Flossie, with William Haff and Association, composed of Harry A Charles H Sprong, started for Frank Valentine as able bodied seamen, Waring, P.C. Hall and Recorder Waring, Poughkeepsie on Monday, it being sailed up the Hudson on Thursday last have decided to hold a regatta on June intended to drop into Newburgh on the to enjoy the triple holiday. They reached 21, over the club course off the club way up and have Sailmaker Irwin attend home Monday having voyaged to house. The cat-rigged yachts of the to her racing canvas. Rondout. Hudson River will be invited to sail for --The Hudson River Yacht Club will -- Treasurer Thompson has presented a silver cup. Here is a chance for a Sing hold their eighteenth annual regatta on the Sing Sing Yacht Club with a Sing clipper to scoop up a mug. June 9th. The Yonkers Corinthian Yacht photograph of the club house, in a neat --The May number of the American Club have fixed upon June 21, as the frame. The work was done by Yachtsman magazine devoted date of their annual event. The Photographer Pelham. Col. Franklin exclusively to yachting, boating and Columbia Yacht Club will hold their Brandreth’s launch Buttercup is at the canoeing, which is published by the annual regatta on June 19th. float, and “Gus” Osborne’s Orient is Yachtsman Publishing Company, No. --Charles F Webber, of Tarrytown will seen with a broom at the mast just 756 Broadway, New York, has quite a sail a twenty-eight foot open sloop this to the leeward. batch of local yachting gossip season with the Sing Sing Yacht Club ------o------contributed by Secretary Robert T burgee at the peak. The craft is named Dennis. The current number of the the Davidson, and is said to be a flyer. The Republican Yachtsman contains two handsome tint Benjamin R Kittridge, of Peekskill, has 5.15.1890 engravings, of the schooners Grayling a twenty-four foot cat-rigged yacht that Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. A and Sea Fox, and is filled with an will undoubtedly be moored off the club telephone will be introduced into the interesting story of yachting news, house ere long, and she is quoted as club house for the season. gossip, statistics and fixtures. being somewhat of a hustler. -- Fred Jenks has re-christened the ------o------The schooner yacht Water Witch, Surprise. The craft is now named the James T Blandford's latest acquisition, Lizzie J. The Republican arrive from Boston on Wednesday --A half score of candidates for 5.22.1890 morning. The craft formerly belonged membership will be balloted upon the Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The to Jeremiah Thomas, of Peabody Mass., June meeting. seventh annual spring regatta of the and is a staunch clipper of eighty-eight --Skipper Charles H Sprong, William Harlem Yacht Club will take place on feet over all; eighty-one feet water line, Haff, Ralph Stray and Frank Valentine Memorial Day. and twenty-two feet beam. She has a voyaged to New Hamburg in the Dove, --The Madge, Commodore Ralph commodious cabin and six handsome on Saturday and returned on Monday, Brandreth’s flagship, will spread her big staterooms, her fittings being in bird’s making the first cruise of the season. mainsail on a new gaff and boom. eye maple and mahogany. Captain --Messrs. Townsend Young & Son, the --Robert M Haddock sailed the Irex to Eaton E Ferrin and crew, of Beverly, clothiers and outfitters, have offered Newburgh, on Thursday last, to be Mass., sailed the vessel around. Pilot good inducements in the matter of measured for a big mainsail by Irwin. Norman Minnerly is now in command furnishing uniforms, and it is an --G Fisher Secor’s sloop yacht Alice has in the capacity of boat keeper. unwritten by-law of the organization been spun out with an overhanging --The Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club have arranged to make Memorial Day Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 9 their opening day. Most of the fleet will --Dr. Brandreth Symonds will sail the sail to Fort Lee where the crews will training ship Cucurbita, alias the CLASS I – OPEN CAT-RIGGED NAME OWNER FT. IN. dine with yachtsmen from the various Pumpkin Seed, this season, and is duly clubs of the New York Yacht Racing expected to order a clipper in the natural Madge Ralph Brandreth 28 00 ½ Association. In the evening the course of events. Aller Philip Samstag 25 09 ½ Corinthian will have a members’ -- The big cat-rigged flyer Alma, of the Cora Benjamin R Smith 23 09 reception. On Saturday evening they Tappan Zee Yacht Club, scooted over CLASS II – OPEN CAT-RIGGED will have a clam chowder stag racket. and saluted the Sing Sing Yacht Club, Irex Roger H Haddock 22 07 ½ The members of the Sing Sing Yacht on Sunday, and then squared away for Pauline B James M Smith 22 06 ¾ Club have been invited to be present at home, claiming the distinction of being Columbia I T Washburne, Jr. 22 06 Orient Augustus Osborne 22 02 the dinner on Memorial Day, and to the first yacht to greet our local Lotta Washburne Bros. 21 04 ¾ attend the reception in the evening Corinthians this season. accompanied by their lady friends. --The New York Yacht Racing CLASS III – OPEN CAT-BOATS Those who anticipate attending the Association held a meeting at O’Neals, Lizzie J Fred Jenks 18 07 Mystery Irving Haff 18 03 dinner at the Fort Lee Hotel are in New York, on Friday evening. Seola E S Pelham 15 09 ½ requested to inform the proprietor. The Commodore A J Prime presided. Dove Charles H Sprong 14 00 banquet will be held at one o’clock. Secretary Parkill reported that the iron --Vice Commodore Wm. W Washburne steamboat Cygnus had been chartered The boats have undergone a vigorous gave a “May Party” on board the Lotta for the annual regatta on Sept 1. application of potlead, and are as on Wednesday. The following Treasurer McMurray reported a slippery as a vagrant banana peel rambumptious complement sat on the handsome balance in the treasury. The awaiting a victim. The fight will windward rail when the able little vessel date of the annual cruise was fixed for undoubtedly be the most exciting among struck her nose in the big billows on a July 28. The yachts will rendezvous off the boats of Class II. There are a number voyage to Haverstraw: Supervisor the Harlem Yacht Club house at College of old scores to be settled in this class. Gilbert M Todd, A L Babcock, H C Point on July 26 and report to the fleet Each of the respective skippers expects Westlake, Counselor Alonzo Draper, W captain. On July 28 the fleet will sail to his favorite to win and everything has I Townsend, T Henry Calam, William C Oyster Bay, on July 29 to Roton Point, been slicked and tuned up with that Kipp, Treasurer Joseph Thompson and on July 30 to Black Rock, on July 31 to intention. Barring the Lotta, the entries Secretary Robert T Dennis. The ascent Lloyds Harbor, on August 1 to Indian of this class are the peers of anything of of Mount Torr was the object of the Harbor, on August 2 to Sea Cliff, where their inches afloat. They cannot find wild day over the waves to the land the fleet will disband. rivals in other organizations and have to where they make bricks. The voyagers ------o------be contented with fighting it out among reached the summit in one hour’s time themselves. after striking the other shore. That was The Republican ------o------clambering extraordinary. The view 5.29.1890 from the topmost pinnacle was Sing Sing Yacht Club Pennant The Republican unusually grand, the day being clear and Regatta. The third annual pennant 6.5.1890 the air bracing. The country was regatta of the Sing Sing Yacht Club will The Aller Captures the Pennant. The magnificent in its new spring dress, the be held on Memorial Day. The start breezes were stingy on Memorial Day. verdure being as fresh looking as a new will be made at half-past ten o’clock, There was not enough wind on the coat of green paint on a pair of light sharp. The course will be a triangular waters of the Tappan Zee to send the trousers. one, to be sailed over twice, making a seven yachts of the Sing Sing Yacht ------o------distance of ten miles. The start and Club, which were entered for the third finish will be over an imaginary line annual pennant regatta of the club, The Republican from in front of the club house. The around the ten mile triangular course 5.24.1890 champion pennant will be awarded to within the three hours’ time limit. After Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. E S the boat making the fastest time over the making a pretty fizzle, as it were, the Pelham’s Seola is nearly ready to court course. A prize will be awarded in each race was postponed until Tuesday the breezes, blow high or blow low. class, the pennant winner being barred. afternoon. The Orient was in the van --The cats Mystery, Irving Haff, and The time allowance will be one minute when the race was called off. Dove, Charles H Sprong, are in to the foot. The Regatta Committee – commission. Col. B Stuyvesant Gibson, Judge Pierre On Tuesday afternoon, however, a lost --Commodore Ralph Brandreth’s Reynolds and Charles S Gowen – have breeze came out of the south and flagship, the Madge, is about to be put received the following entries, which worked around to the southeast, then it in commission. will probably be swelled by the entrance settled down and was very steady from --Treasurer Joseph Thompson and of boats in the other classes: the time the race was started until the members William B Stewart and James finish sometimes piping up right smart Bedell have purchased St. Lawrence and in its invigorating freshness. All in all, Rushton boats. it was an A1 day. The amateur tars gave an extra hitch to their trousers and Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 10 looked more nautical than ever, as it being awarded to the Aller, and a and Treasurer Joseph Thompson was an opportunity that would be likely barometer to the Sibyl. The Judges accomplished the feat, which was quite to show the mettle in their favorite were the Regatta Committee, Col. B a source of speculation to the un- clippers. The spectacle was witnessed Stuyvesant Gibson, Judge Pierre scientific members. Several of these by a merry party on the staunch steamer Reynolds and Chas. S Gowen. were so sanguine that a barrel could not Wave, and a staid business crowd with a ------o------be persuaded to go under the float that day off on Col. Franklin Brandreth’s they came down bright and early on steam launch Buttercup. The Republican Monday morning expecting to see the 7.03.1890 Rear-Commodore and Treasurer The race was a rattling contest. All Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. lassoing barrels like cowboys and then sorts of nautical jockeying was resorted Commodore A J Prime, of the Yonkers trying to punch them under the float, to in order to pinch speed out of the Corinthian Yacht Club, with a party much after the fashion that fractious boats. It was a race where headwork aboard his schooner yacht Edith, cattle are run on board of cars. But they and active sandbag exercise told. The dropped in at the club anchorage on reckoned without foundation. The seven smart boats kept in close Saturday evening. The sloop yacht manner of doing the work was quite as company and were not over three Crawford, Captain Charles E Day, of easy as rolling off a string piece. The cable’s length apart at any time. The the same club, was in company with the barrels were filled with water and then result was that Measurer Phillip Edith submerged and placed in position in a Samstag’s big cat-rigged yacht Aller --Francis Larkin Jr. has sold his fine rack, after which they were pumped out captured the pennant for the third canoe “Oneko” to Wm. Henry Rowe, and the bung driven in making them successive season, covering the course who formerly owned the craft and sold veritable air tanks. in 1:48:16, beating Commodore Ralph it to Mr. Larking some two years ago. --Canoeist Mailer Searles, of the Sing Brandreth’s Madge by one minute and By the terms of the sale Mr. Larkin is Sing Yacht Club came on board of the nine seconds, actual time. I T once more the owner of the canoe big canoe Ko Ko Ko Ho, which was the Washburne, Jr.'s Columbia went over “Gypsie” reporter’s boat at the regatta of the the course in 1:51:22, winning the prize ------o------Yonkers Canoe Club, at Glenwood, on in the second class cat-rigged yachts Saturday, with a big paper box punched from Roger M Haddock’s Irex, by forty The Republican full of air holes, tucked under his seconds actual time. The Columbia was 7.17.1890 leeward arm. In due time he produced a admirably handled by that foxy racing Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. Col. B pretty young carrier pigeon from out of skipper, Jared Raymond. The Irex beat Stuyvesant Gibson represented the Sing the box and announced that he was Augustus Osborne’s Orient by three Sing Yacht Club at the meeting of the going to liberate it and allow it to fly minutes and twenty-eight seconds. The New York Yacht Racing Association at home to the loft of its owner, W A Orient had to beg some in the rough O’Neill’s in New York City, on Friday Kiegans, of Elizabeth NJ. After a waters of the channel, as her mast did evening last. reporter had snapped his camera at the not appear to be stiff enough for her big --Skipper Walter Partridge, bird, as it had been named Ko Ko Ko spread of canvas. The big open sloop accompanied by three youthful Ho, for it had been previously un- Sibyl, owned by Hon. George A companions, are cruising up the Hudson christened being a young bird, it was Brandreth and Francis Larkin Jr. had the in a cabin cat They were above the allowed to take its wings. The smart little cabin sloop Alice, owned by town of Hudson on Wednesday bound intelligent bird circled around a moment G Fisher Secor, as her ostensible rival, for Albany. or two to get its bearings and then but the latter withdrew after the first leg --Clinton Talcott, of Croton Landing, is started off to the southward, bound on of the triangle had been made. The building a thirty-foot steam launch for an aerial journey, which the heavy wind Sibyl and Madge had a tussle with each his own use, which he expects to have in perhaps made a flight of forty miles, as other, which was a pretty race in itself. the water next season, he having also the bird could not fly against the The Madge only beat her rival by two undertaken to build the engine and other strength of the breeze direct, but had to minutes and two seconds, actual time. machinery himself. sag off some like a yacht going to the The Sibyl did remarkable work to the --The Pavonia Yacht Club of Jersey windward. windward for a boat of sloop rig. In City, has extended an invitation to the ------o------pointing she often laid up nearly as members of the Sing Sing Yacht Club to close to the wind as the cat-rigged avail themselves of the comforts of their The Republican flyers. She did so well it is safe to say commodious new club house, at 7.24.1890 that no owner of a crack cat-rigged Atlantic Highlands, Sandy Hook Bay, Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The yacht wants to race her, boat against whenever they are in that vicinity. The Pauline B. owned by James R Smith, is boat, when the breezes come strong and house will be formally opened on having her rig enlarged. steady, and the waves are running high. Saturday next. --The Irex, Roger M Haddock’s boat, --The float has been made more buoyant returned from her up the river The prizes were marine glasses to the by placing ten kerosene barrels under it. expedition on Friday. Madge and Columbia, the prize pennant Rear-Commodore Benjamin R Smith Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 11 --The Orient, with Hiram Osborne, --Painter Beattys is putting a new coat of cracks as valuable prizes have been Augustus R Osborne and William Haff of paint on the club house. It is to be guaranteed. on board, is cruising up the river. colored in buff with bottle green --The second grand union regatta of the --Commodore Ralph Brandreth and Col. trimmings. New York Yacht Racing Association Franklin Brandreth caught some --Messers. W A Wheeler, C T Smith will be sailed in New York Bay, on bouncing big weakfish on Monday and W A Troop, of the Mohican Canoe Labor Day, Monday September 1st. The morning. Club of Albany arrived at the club house Madge, Aller, Pauline B, Orient, Oneita --The annual regatta of the Tappan Zee last evening. They are on their way to and Columbia of the Sing Sing Yacht Yacht Club, of Grand View, below the meet of the American Canoe Club will compete with the yachts of the Nyack will take place on Saturday, Association now in progress at Peconic sixteen other clubs in the organization, August 9th. Bay, L.I. and a large party is going down to see --Rear-Commodore Benjamin R Smith’s --A race open to any cat-rigged yacht in them sail. The iron steamboat Cygnus yacht Cora is on a fishing excursion the United Sates, under twenty-three will accompany the yachts over the down at Staten Island with George feet in length, is being talked up. It will course, leaving Pier No. 1, North River, Smith in command. probably take pace about the middle of at half-past two o’clock in the morning. --Charles H Sprong, erstwhile of the September, and be sailed so that Sing There will be music and refreshments yacht Dove, was around town on Friday Sing can see it. Money enough has been onboard. Tickets, fifty cents each, may and was off again on Saturday, bound guaranteed to secure valuable prizes, be obtained of Secretary Dennis, or on a voyage to Sandy Hook. and the event is already causing a ripple Treasurer Thompson, of the Sing Sing --the ceiling and side walls of the in yachting circles. Yacht Club. meeting room are being artistically ------o------“Who Won?” Captain James C paneled in narrow pine by builder John Summers’ official yachting record for Smith. The funds for this improvement The Republican 1890 has been added to the library. It is were guaranteed by subscription. 8.21.1890 a complete pocket register, giving the --G Fisher Secor and William Carpenter Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The names of all the winning yachts for are cruising around New York Bay in Pauline B will probably sail in the 1889, and a chronology of yachting the former’s sloop yacht, Alice. They regatta of the Bayswater Yacht Club, in events, names, owners, dimensions, are accompanied by Thomas Roberts, Jamaica Bay, on Saturday. builders, and other information about who is acting in the capacity of an able --Col. Franklin Brandreth’s steam 3,608 American yachts, alphabetically bodied seaman. launch Buttercup is on Smith’s ways at classified; colored plates of 1,383 --The New York Yacht Racing Nyack, being smoothed up and re- private signals, 161 club flags; naval Association’s annual cruise will take painted. flags, code and weather signals; tide and place on July 28. Yachts will --Francis Larkin Jr. was on Monday time allowance tables; charts of New rendezvous off the Harlem Yacht Club evening elected to the office of Vice York and Boston Harbors and Long House, College Point, Long Island, on Commodore, in the place of William Island Sound, and much other valuable Saturday afternoon, July 26, report to Washburne, deceased. information in concise form. Captain the fleet captain and remain at anchor --Fred S Jenks has got his yacht Oneita Summers is the yachtsman of the New over Sunday, and sail as follows: slicked up neat. He had all of the last York Sun, and all of his work on his Monday July 28 to Oyster Bay; Tuesday week to devoted to performing this as handy little volume has been compiled July 29 to Roton Point, Norwalk her sails were in New York being without interfering with his routine Islands; Wednesday July 30 to Black altered to fit, so that’s the reason the duties. Rock; Thursday July 31 to Lloyd’s trim craft got a few more affectionate ------o------Harbor; Friday Aug 1 to Indian Harbor; touches. Saturday Aug 2, to Sea Cliff and --Treasurer Joseph Thompson, Secretary The Republican disband. Robert T Dennis and Trustee E B 8.28.1890 ------o------Sherwood were in attendance at the Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. Col. meeting of the New York Yacht Racing Franklin Brandreth’s steam launch The Republican Association on Friday evening, when Buttercup has come off of Smith’s ways 8.14.1890 the latter was elected a member of the at Nyack, thoroughly overhauled and Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. W Executive Committee in place of Vice- painted. Clinton Mead has present the club with Commodore William W Washburne, --The Pauline B, with her owner, Jas. R two pretty marine scenes, handsomely deceased. Smith, and fisherman Johnny Aitchison framed in oak. --A special race open to all cat-rigged on board, has been down to Seabright --The Pauline B., James R Smith’s boat, yachts between twenty and twenty-three during the past few days on a fishing is at Newburgh, having her racing feet in length will be held in the early excursion. canvas altered to fit snug. part of September. All boats under --The fall regatta of the Columbia Yacht --Harry E Belcher of Garrisons, and twenty-two feet will be rated as twenty- Club will be held on Thursday, Benjamin Jenks, of this village, are the two foot boats. It is expected that this September 18th, and will be open to the latest members on the roster. contest will bring together quite a fleet Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 12 yachts of the clubs constituting the New yacht Oneita in the afternoon and got was bound with rubber. A liberal York Yacht Racing Association. becalmed on the voyage home. The reward will be given for its return. --The yacht Louise, of the Albany Yacht boat was drifting through Haverstraw --Col. Franklin Brandreth has become Club, dropped in at the club anchorage Bay when the thunderous squall of that infatuated with the electric light fishing on Friday. The little craft was manned night started out on business, and struck scheme. He has perfected it and got it by Captain George DuBois and three the boat with all its fury. Between the down to scientific principles. A thirty- sons, R H, E J and George DuBois. wind and rain, and the blackness of the two candle power light is now --Samuel V Lane has brought his trim night they had a pretty adventurous time submerged off the club house float of a little twenty-foot cat-rigged yacht Just ere they reached the anchorage. The night and the sport goes on with a zest So around from Pelham. The jaunty sail in from the Point was made under born of the novelty of the idea. The craft is as spic and span a vessel as can bare poles. bulb in which the light burns is be found afloat, besides being a staunch ------o------protected by a heavy glass globe and the and able boat for her inches. current is conveyed underneath the --Skipper Styles of the Tappan Zee The Republican water by the regulation wire covered Yacht Club, steamed into the float on 9.10.1910 with a heavy rubber insulator. The fish Sunday in a big steam launch, of Twenty Years Ago. The Sing Sing flock around the light in all their staunch and handsome construction. It Yacht Club held its semi-annual inquisitiveness, and are lured out of the is named Yale, and was built by Messrs. meeting. During six months twenty-six water in surprising numbers. Col. Copeland & Styles for the Yale College members were elected, making a total Brandreth captured forty fine big perch Navy, to be used as a coaching boat. membership of eighty-three. The club on Monday evening in a little less than --The current number of Harpers Young was arranging for a special race of an hour’s angling, beside a lot of small People contains a timely and well twenty-foot catboats. Entries were fry that were returned to the waters written article in yachting etiquette, received from all the clubs in the New again to be caught some more, if they which is well worthy of perusal by the York Yacht Racing Association.. were not satisfied with their many who accept invitations to sail ------o------investigation. upon a friend’s craft, while some yacht ------o------owners might read it with benefit and be The Republican more acquainted with the courtesy 9.18.1890 The Republican necessary on such occasions. Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. A 9.25.1890 --There was quite a large bevy of ladies special meeting will be held on Friday Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. The at the club house on Wednesday, which evening, September 19th, at half-past Pauline B, James R Smith’s slippery is set aside as Ladies’ Day. There was eight o’clock, for the purpose of cat-rigged yacht, represented the Sing one disappointment to the fair visitors transacting important business. Sing Yacht Club, in the fall regatta of and that was because the piazza is shut --Roger M Haddock’s Irex is at Smith’s the Columbia Yacht Club, on Thursday off from use, as a new coat of paint has yard, at Nyack, being overhauled. The last. There was no boat of her inches to not thoroughly set as yet. This owner has forsworn potlead and the boat compete with so the saucy craft was disappointment was quite allayed by will come back arrayed in white. sailed over the twenty-mile course, inspecting the cosy quarters and taken in --The Pauline B and Orient are entered between Eighty-Sixth street, New York, the grand views to be seen from the in the Columbia Yacht Club Regatta, to Yonkers and return, just to see what observation windows. which takes place to-day (Thursday). she could do. Skipper Jared Raymond --The storm of Tuesday night nearly The course is from Eighty-Sixth street, was at the stick and the imperturbable swamped the boats of the fleet, the rain New York, to Yonkers and return. “Tom” Roberts at the sheet, and a filling the standing room in most of the --The Albany Yacht Club has extended brawny crew of sand bag slingers on yachts moored at the anchorage. an invitation to the Sing Sing Yacht board, so the little craft was driven right Boatkeeper Peter Clausen had a long Club to be present at their Fall regatta, through, a stiff and puffy northwest spell of pumping them out and airing to be held on Saturday, September 27th. wind prevailing. Her actual time over sails on Wednesday morning, but It is probable that the Oneita, owned by the course was 2:58:56, and her fortunately all the boats were safe and Fred S Jenks, will enter the lists in corrected time 1:49:04, fully as good as sound to need such attention. A boat cruising rig, as the owner and a couple beating the twenty-two boats that started belonging to Switchman Murphy at of companions are contemplating a for they were all big sloops for the most Crawbuckey Beach broke from her voyage to the head of navigation. that sailed, and only two of these moorings and was buffeted about until it -The dinghy, which formerly belonged surpassed her actual time. In was driven ashore near the Upper Dock, to the Lotta, Messrs. Washburne Bros, consideration of having entered and where it found an easy resting place, disappeared from its stake a few nights made such a showing the Regatta and escaped serious damage. ago, and it is supposed that somebody Committee of the Columbia Yacht Club --Treasurer Thompson, Secretary took possession of the stubby little waived the clause relating to awarding a Dennis, William and John Haff and Fred tender. The boat is eight feet long, with prize to a yacht without a competitor in S Jenks had a wild sail on Friday night. a broad stern, without a skag [], and her class, and handed over a handsome They went to Peekskill in the latter’s was painted white. The wearing streak gold anchor, with the Columbia’s colors Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 13 under a crystal on the shank, the design course, six and a half miles to the O F Quayle and W W Grey, of the being pendent from an inscription bar leeward and return, and defeat sixteen Albany Yacht Club. intended to be worn as a medal. Charles other clippers representing the Albany S Raymond will hereafter wear the prize Yacht Club, the Shenandoah and Troy The Orient was awarded a handsome in consideration of this devotedness to Yacht Clubs, of that city, and the silver cup as a token of victory. The the craft. Catskill Yacht Club. It was the open prize is on exhibition in the window of --The yacht Oneita reached Albany on fall regatta of the Albany Yacht Club, Jeweler James. It was given by Wednesday. Her owner, Fred S Jenks, and it was a regulation day such as our Commodore Sanders of the Albany Captain William Haff and Robert T local Corinthians are used to. The skies Yacht Club. W N Searles Jr had to Dennis are now on board. The Oneita threatened rain. It came just as the make a speech before the Albanians will sail in the Albany Yacht Club Orient finished in company of the would let the prize go. He did it regatta on Saturday. The yacht Orient, judges’ boat. gracefully, and Sing Sing was cheered owned by Augustus R Osborne, started to the echo. The Albany yachtsmen are for Albany on Wednesday evening, The story of the race is soon told as far a jolly set, who did everything to make manned by Irving Haff and Frank as Sing Sing is concerned. The Orient it agreeable for their guests. The Orient Valentine. slipped over the line first. She was in and Oneita made fast to a big tow an --Commodore A J Prime, of the the van throughout the race. All the rest hour or so after the race, arriving home Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club, of the cat-rigged yachts carried big on Monday morning in the bright light. President of the New York Yacht spinnakers, there being no restrictions as ------o------Racing Association spent a couple of to sails. This did not bother the jaunty hours at the club house on Sunday, Orient, however. The only boat to The Republican while waiting for the tide to turn and annoy her was the eighteen foot yacht 10.25.1890 carry the schooner Edith to Yonkers, the Defiance, of the Albany Yacht Club. Sing Sing Yacht Club Notes. Fred S comfortable craft having been on a She reminded one of a mosquito, until Jenks and William Haff sailed the couple of day’s voyage up the Hudson. the Orient began the windward work. It former’s yacht Oneita to Pamrapo, N J --Col. Franklin Brandreth has presented was then that the Orient scooted up the on Monday, where it will undergo some four colored lithographs to the club. river like a race horse. She walked improvement by Builder McGeighan They are handsomely framed in oak, through the fleet of big sloops and little during the winter. and are hung in the panels over the cats that had not yet turned the lower --Rear Commodore Benjamin R Smith windows. They are entitled, “Sunset at mark, when she trimmed in for home, has sold his cat-rigged yacht Cora to Robbins Reef,” “The Early Racers,” like breaking sticks. When the ruck William Truesdell, who is having her “Ice Boating on the Hudson,” and a were hacking away to and fro across the fitted out preparatory to sending her to plate of the American Steam Yacht Club water, she was standing up the narrow Broad River, North Carolina, where she colors. river, making long boards that surprised will find an anchorage at the plantation --a trio of Haverstraw yachtsmen visited everybody. Steamboats, tugs and of her owner. The boat is being altered the Sing Sing Yacht Club on Monday. launches tooted, and the natives cheered somewhat in anticipation of the voyage. They were very much interested in what her as her crew worked her along. A commodious cabin is being built, and they saw and heard as they were seeking Skipper Augustus R Osborne was at the her sail area diminished so that her crew information preparatory to organizing a stick. Irving Haff was tending sheet, can withstand all winds and weather, club at Haverstraw. and William Haff, Frank Valentine and making the staunch vessel a comfortable --A special meeting of the organization W N Searles Jr, were juggling sand cruiser. will be held on Friday evening, bags. The breeze was fresh and ------o------September 26th, for the transaction of treacherous, but her sturdy complement important business. kept her right side up with care. The The Republican ------o------result was that she beat the celebrated 12.04.1890 open-sloop yacht Artful Dodger, of the A Jolly Time at the Yacht Club. The Republican Catskill Yacht Club, by twenty minutes There was an extra glow on the big 10.02.1890 actual time, the latter boat being globe of the Modoc stove in the spare The Albany Yacht Club Regatta. The defeated by the little Defiance, of the room of the Sing Sing Yacht Club, on Sing Sing Yacht Club burgee fluttered Albany Yacht Club by time allowance. Monday night. This was produced proudly in the western wind that through the forethought of Boatkeeper predominated on the waters of the The yacht Oneita, of the Sing Sing William Wescott, for he knew that the Hudson at Albany, on Sunday. This Yacht Club, was on hand, but as she brisk, frisky weather of the first day of particular burgee was on the peak of the was in cruising trim, she did not enter. winter was even a little too energetic for big racing mainsail of the cat-rigged Her owner, Fred S Jenks, George the sturdiest yachtsman to endure, yacht Orient, August R Osborne’s Hotaling and Robert T Dennis witnessed without the comfort given out by a slippery twenty-two footer. It took the the race from the judges' boat, the latter rollicking burning of coal. But perhaps trim little boat two hours and thirty-nine being one of the judges in company with this is proceeding in advance of the minutes to go over a thirteen mile preliminary why and wherefores of all Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 14 this precaution upon the part of The Republican prize was the champion pennant, which Boatkeeper Wescott. In order to start 12.25.1890 is open for challenge next memorial without a handicap, in nautical parlance, The Yacht Club Shooting Gallery. day, but she won absolutely a pretty silk it must be recorded in this log book of The members of the Sing Sing Yacht club flag with the date “1891” upon it. the evening, as it were that there was Club managed to make things lively in The race was witnessed by quite a something unusual to transpire. This the spar room of the club house of an number of guests from the clubhouse was nothing more than the demolition of evening lately through the aid of a balcony. one of Caterer Crosier’s spreads, after shooting gallery they have established to ------o------the business meeting of the evening. break up the monotony of time between Vice-Commodore Francis Larking Jr seasons. A pool target, counting The Democratic Register piped a big complement of members thirteen for a centre is shot at over a 7.04.1891 down stairs, when Crosier gave the range of fifty feet. At this distance most Yachting Notes. Measurer William E word, and they soon wrought enough of the marksmen can make a very Haff has purchase a midget boiler and havoc to the viands upon the banquet creditable score, when it is taken into engine and is now altering a sixteen-foot board to show the sailing caterer that his consideration that the center is hardly as row boat into a natty looking launch. efforts were very highly appreciated. large as a half a dollar. In the team --Commodore Ralph Brandreth’s shoot on Thursday evening last the Madge, the Pauline B, and Oneita will After the members had paid their shot, following are the names and scores of sail in the regatta of the Newburgh for it was sort of a subscription affair, Team No. 1: Washburne, 36; I Haff, 30; Canoe and Boating Association on there was a scramble for the meeting Valentine, 33; Jenks, 35 – Total 134. Saturday. room over-head. The causing of this Team No. 2 shot and scored as follows: --Augustus R Osborne’s Orient will haste was quite apparent when Dennis, 36; Thompson 22; Pelham 35; probably be the only yacht of the fleet to everything got in sailing trim. The older Ostendorfer, 35— Total 128. The represent the Sing Sing Yacht Club in members tucked themselves in Referee was Boatkeeper William the cruise of the New York Yacht convenient corners, and for the most Westcott and the Scorer Thomas Racing Association, which begins on part, burned a cigar or two and spent a Roberts. The same marksman named the Fourth of July. good deal of time in trying to keep out made an average of thirty-three points --Messrs. Raymond & Smith’s Pauline of the way of the more youthful out of a possible thirty-nine during the B has been re-painted. The cock-pit members. This state of affairs came course of the evening, the best shooting combing is in imitation of cherry, and about through the efforts of Vice- being done by Pelham who scored the deck laid in straw color. This with a Commodore Larkin. It was not long thirty-eight. well rubbed coat of pot-lead makes the before he had all the brawny and wiry ------o------smart twenty-foot clipper look very youths like William Haff, Irving Haff, chipper. Frank Valentine, Fred S Jenks, Charles The Democratic Register --The Oneita, Fred S Jenks’ natty H Sprong, Ralph Stray, Fred S Griffin, 6.06.1891 skimmer, has received her new hollow Augustus R Osborn and several others The Pauline B Won. There were only spar, and big sail by Sawyer, and her trying all sorts of indoor athletics. It three entries for the pennant regatta of friends anticipate seeing her trot around was rather a surprise to all hands to find the Sing Sing Yacht Club on Memorial the course at Newburgh on Saturday in out what the boys could do. Indeed, the Day. They were the Pauline B, owned brisk style. The Oneita has also been result of the exhibition of strength and by Messrs. Raymond and Smith; the undergoing a painting, her upsides now skill has aroused the spirit of athletic Orient, owned by Augustus R Osborne; being green. exercise and has started the idea of and the Oneita, owned by Fred S Jenks. ------o------holding similar meetings during the The start was given at about 11:30, at winter season, when even such a the clubhouse of the Sing Sing Yacht The Democratic Register tempting lurement as a supper is not Club, to which they all belong. This 7.11.1891 forthcoming. There is a disposition to pennant regatta is confined to the 22- Annual Open Regatta. The annual organize a four or eight oared crew to foot class of cat-rigged yachts. The open regatta of the Sing Sing Yacht wrest the supremacy from some of the course is about 12 miles in length, in the Club was sailed over a twenty-mile rowing organizations next season. The shape of a triangle, and had to be sailed course in the Tappan Zee last Saturday. meeting of Monday night showed that over twice. The wind was from the westward and brawn and muscle is not wanting, alternated between a brisk breeze and gainsaying anything about the The Pauline B, won by going over the tantalizing calms. Commodore Ralph intelligent handling of the material, for course in 2h. 56m. 12s. actual time, Brandreth’s sloop yacht Madge won the there is a good stock of brains among beating the Orient by 3m. 5s. corrected prize in her class, covering the course in the prospective candidates who are time. The Oneita was thrown out of the 4:46:43. John Dickerson’s cabin likely to pull an oar. race by the twisting of her new hollow catboat Ella F, of the Yonkers Yacht ------o------spar nearly out while beating to Club, won in her class by going the windward in the stiff southwest wind. distance in 4:34:43. In the open cat- The others met with no accidents. The rigged class the Pauline B, owned by Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 15 Raymond and Smith, won in walkover finish 5:44:53; elapses 3:48:53; Roger Haddock, owner, being second, style. She went around the triangle in corrected time, 2:46:36, beating the Orient third and Marguerite fourth. The 3:29:47, beating her nearest rival by 48 Mary S, the other yacht in her class, pennant won by the Orient in this race minutes and winning the special prize. 46m. 53s. This was done without her has to be won three times before it In the large open cat class the Mary regular skipper, Jared Raymond, at the becomes the property of the owner of Alice, owned by H H Tallcot, of Croton- tiller, Irving S Haff being the honored any boat. The second race in this on-Hudson, was defeated by the skipper for the day. Robert T Dennis of “Rough and Ready” series as it is call, Marguerite, owned by James Peterson, the Sing Sing Yacht Club, was one of will probably be sailed to-day. by 2 minutes 10 seconds, covering the the judges. Everybody complimented ------o------course in 4:05:23 the Pauline B, and she deserved it. ------o------The Democratic Register The members and guests of the club 1.17.1912 were conveyed over the course, closely The Democratic Register Twenty Years Ago The heavy weight following the racers, by the little steam 9.19.1891 tug-of-war team of the Sing Sing Yacht yacht Marion of Tarrytown. Yachting Notes. Col. Franklin Club consisting of Irving S Haff, ------o------Brandreth's steam launch Buttercup has George H Barlow, W E Haff and Frank been hauled out at Smiths shipyard at Valentine defeated Cortlandt Hook and The Democratic Register Nyack, being re-painted. Ladder Company, and the light-weight 8.01.1891 --James B Murdock and J B Kearney of team, composed of A R Osborne, Oarsmen on a Tour. An eight-oared Rondout, put in at the anchorage on Edward B Murray and Philip H Fleck barge of the Varuna Boat Club, of Thursday, on board the sloop yacht and Ralph M Stray lost to the Cortlandt Brooklyn, arrived here last Sunday en Mary C. light weights. route for Poughkeepsie and other points --There is every indication that the ------o------north, and were hospitably entertained “Rough and Ready Races” will revive at the Sing Sing Yacht Club’s house. quite an interest among the boat owners The Democratic Register They took their departure on Monday. while the non-boat owners are doing a 3.09.1912 The crew consisted of William A good deal of talking in regard to the Twenty Years Ago. The Sing Sing Merrick, Chas. A Yates, Charles prowess of their favorite crafts. The Yacht Club elected the following Kassenbrock, R H Hamilton, William A first race will take place on Saturday, officers: commodore, Ralph Brandreth; Fischer, James A Gaynor, O E Payntor, the start being called for two o’clock in vice-commodore, Francis Larkin Jr.; Charles H Glass, C H Kivlin, T J the afternoon. The course will be to and rear-commodore, Charles S Raymond; Martin, S J Hosford, and Thomas F around the Tarrytown buoy and return, secretary, Robert T Dennis; treasurer, Grove. without restriction as to time limit. Joseph Thompson; measurer, William E ------o------Each boat must be sailed by a member Haff; regatta committee – B S Gibson, of the organization, and any non- Dr E B Sherwood, C S Gowen; house The Democratic Register professional can be one of the crew. committee – Joseph Thompson, Robert 9.19.1891 The prize will be a pennant in each T Dennis, James Bedell. Benjamin L Pauline B Again a Winner. Our class. This must be worn three times to Beatty, W L Hull; committee on famous little catboat, Pauline B, become the property of the successful admission – Col. Franklin Brandreth, W belonging to the fleet of the Sing Sing boat. I Townsend, E L Todd, Francis Larkin Yacht Club, was one of the participants ------o------Jr., Joseph Thompson; auditing in the regatta of the Yonkers Corinthian committee S O Washburne, G M Todd, Yacht Club, last Saturday afternoon. The Democratic Register T Henry Calam. Trustees S O There were also representatives from the 9.26.1891 Washburne, B S Gibson, E B Sherwood. Columbia and Hudson River Yacht Pennant Regatta. Eight of the yachts ------o------Clubs. The fastest yachts in all the of the Sing Sing Yacht Club had a clubs were there, but notwithstanding pennant regatta on the Hudson last The Democratic Register that, the little Pauline B cut out the Saturday afternoon, over a course from 8.13.1892 course for them all and led the fleet of a stake boat anchored off the clubhouse Yachting Notes. Yachtsman Charles W seventeen over the same, including the to and around the Tarrytown buoy, a Purdy the other day took a party sloops. She was in Class G, the only distance of twelve miles. The consisting of Supervisor G M Todd, other member of which class was not contestants were the sloops, Madge, Edgar L Ryder, S O Washburne and with her once. Waif, Alice and Topsy. The cat-boats James H Morgan for a sail in his natty were the Orient, Oneita, Irex and yacht Waif in Haverstraw Bay. It goes The Pauline B was the first to round Marguerite. In the sloop class the without saying that they had a delightful the club house stake boat on the down Madge, Commodore Ralph Brandreth, sail. river voyage, and she was the first to owner, won in 3:48:48. In the catboat --The sixty foot steam yacht Floss, finish. The course was 15 miles, and class the Oneita, Fred S Jenks, owner, owned by Mr. Westinghouse of air- her record was as follows: start 1:56:00; was a good winner in 3:25:52, the Irex, brakes fame, and navigated by William Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 16 Cronk, a former Sing Singer, came to Gibson; Dr. E B Sherwood and Charles One or both of these yachts will be in Sing Sing on Friday evening of last S Gowen; House Committee — the regatta of the Tower Ridge Yacht week, and put up at the Yacht Club Chairman, Joseph Thompson; Robert T Club of Hastings, which takes place on house. The Floss is a lively little craft Dennis, Benjamin L Beattys, James the Hudson today. We wish them better and can show her heels to most vessels Bedell and William L Hull; Committee luck this time and first over the course, of her size. on Admission – Chairman, Col. as they will meet some of their last --The twenty-five foot catboats Mary Franklin Brandreth; W I Townsend, Saturday’s competitors from Yonkers in Alice owned by Hudson Tallcot and Francis Larkin, Jr., Edwin L Todd and this regatta. Marguerite, owned by James Peterson Joseph Thompson; Auditing Committee The Yonkers Daily Statesman says: both of Croton, will sail with the boats – Chairman, S Olin Washburne; Gilbert “The Edna and Colleen open catboats of of the Sing Sing Yacht Club in a race M Todd and T Henry Calam; Governing the Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club for the cock-of-the-walk colors this Committee – Chairman, Dr. E B fleet, and both flyers, are entered for the afternoon for a special prize offered by Sherwood, Gilbert M Todd, Wm. Tower Ridge Club’s regatta Saturday. It Rear Commodore Chares S Raymond, Clinton Mead, W I Townsend and Stuart is expected the Pauline B of Sing Sing of the Pauline B. The start will be at 2 Baker; Trustees- Francis Larkin, Jr. will race them”. o’clock and it promises to be a lively Isaac B Noxon and Edwin I Todd. ------o------race, if there is any wind. ------o------The little steam yacht Sibyl of which The Democratic Register G Elliot Brown is the putative owner, The Democratic Register 7.08.1893 though by many it is said to belong to 4.15.1893 Sing Sing Yachts Capture Prizes. The Warden W R Brown, has steamed away Yachting Notes. Col. Franklin fifth annual regatta of the Audubon for Lake Champlain, and several other Brandreth’s steam launch Buttercup will Yacht Club, West One Hundred and lakes probably and is also said to be be put in commission within a few days. Fifty-third street and the Hudson River, manned by prison officials, who are not --Messrs. Harry M and William M which sailed on the Fourth in a fine employed to run yachts, but to watch Carpenter have been elected members of northwest wind. The course was from convicts in the pay of the State. It is a the Sing Sing Yacht Club. the club house to Rockside Park, on the question whether the Controller is --Contractor John Haff is building the shore, thence along that authorized to pay them for this non- addition to the quarters of the Ossining shore to Edgewater, and from there to official work. Yacht Club. the start. It was sailed over twice, --There was a yacht race at Croton last ------o------making a total distance of twelve miles. Saturday growing out of a rivalry The starting signal was given at 12:52 between the catboats Mary Alice, The Democratic Register P.M. and the fleet crossed in the owned by Hudson Tallcot, and the 6.24.1893 following order: Frankie V, Julie, Marguerite, owned by James Peterson. -- Col. Franklin Brandreth and Theresa K., Pauline B, J L Miller, Harry The race was over a triangular twenty- Commodore Ralph Brandreth have C Miner, Alta, Hilma, Agnes N, Lizzie mile course in Haverstraw Bay. returned from their salmon fishing F, Winona, Bonafide, Aller and Clara R. ------o------expedition to Nova Scotia. The first boat to finish was the Pauline ------o------B of the Sing Sing Yacht Club, which The Democratic Register crossed the line at 4:15:23, followed by 3.11.1893 The Democratic Register the Alta, Aller and Harry C Miner in the Yachting Notes. The annual meeting of 6.24.1893 order named. The prizes, which were the Sing Sing Yacht Club was held in Both Disabled. Two of our crack handsome pieces of silverware, were the law office of Messrs. Nelson H and yachts, the Aller and Pauline B were won by the Aller, Pauline B, Alta and Stuart Baker, No 10 Croton avenue, on starters in the fifth annual regatta of the Winona. Monday evening. Commodore Ralph Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club last Brandreth presided, and the report of Saturday, but they came home without The Aller, Osborne and Baker, owners, Treasurer Thompson showed the any prizes, as they met with mishaps which was in Class 2, cabin catboats, organization to be in a very prosperous and accidents which prevented them won in fine form, defeating her nearest condition. Col. Henry C Symonds and from finishing the course. In the first rival about ten minutes. Nelson H Baker were elected to place, the Aller broke her throat membership. The following officers halliards, which, of course, put her out The Pauline B, C S Raymond owner, and standing committees were elected of the race, and as the wind was blowing was in Class 3, open catboats over 20 for the ensuing year: Commodore, very strong, and quite a sea was running feet waterline, and defeated her nearest Ralph Brandreth; Vice-Commodore, the Pauline B did not have enough of a competitor, the Frankie V, 32 minutes Francis Larkin Jr.; Rear-Commodore, crew on board to handle her and had to and 7 seconds. Charles S Raymond; Secretary, Robert take a reef in her sail. In the face of ------o------T Dennis; Treasurer, Joseph Thompson; these conditions they saw no use in Measurer, William E Haff, Regatta trying to cover the course and did not Committee—Chairman, B Stuyvesant attempt it. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 17 The Democratic Register Commodore, Francis Larkin Jr; Rear- 8.05.1893 Commodore, Gilbert M Todd; The Democratic Republican Yacht Club Notes. Secretary, Robert T Dennis; Treasurer, 9.8.1894 --While the catboat Pauline B was lying Joseph Thompson; Measurer, William Yachting News. Measurer William M in front of the Sing Sing Yacht Club one M Carpenter; House Committee, Joseph Carpenter of the Sing Sing Yacht Club, night last week, during a heavy blow, a Thompson, Chairman; Robert T Dennis, has had his sailing canoe Oneka small steam yacht which was lying at William L Hull, James Bedell, William thoroughly overhauled and fitted out anchorage there dragged her anchor and C Kipp; Auditing Committee, S Olin with new rigging. A nickel plated drop- fouled the Pauline B, smashing her Washburne, Chairman; Gilbert M Todd, is one improvement that tends to bowsprit and injuring her pretty badly. T Henry Calam; Governing Committee, make the craft faster than ever . It is said though that the steam yacht Dr. E B Sherwood, Chairman; Gilbert ------o------was the most [sic] damaged of the two. M Todd, W. Clinton Mead, William I ------o------Townsend, Stuart Baker; Regatta Democratic Register Committee, B Stuyvesant Gibson, 3.06.1897 The Democratic Republican Chairman; Dr. E B Sherwood, Charles S Sing Sing Yacht Club. At the annual 2.03.1894 Bowen; Committee on Admission, Col. meeting of the Sing Sing Yacht Club, Sing Sing Yacht Club. This club has Franklin Brandreth, Chairman; W I held last Monday evening, the following grown so proficient upon the old billiard Townsend, Francis Larkin Jr., Edwin L officers were elected for the ensuing table they have at their clubhouse that Todd, Joseph Thompson; Trustees, year: they have decided to dispense with it Ralph Brandreth, Gilbert M Todd, Commodore-Ralph Brandreth. and have purchased two new tables Joseph Thompson Vice-Commodore-Col. Francis Larkin from the Brunswick and Balke ------o------Rear-Commodore-Gilbert M Todd Company, one for billiards, and the Secretary-Robert T Dennis other for the game of pool. This club is The Democratic Republican Treasurer-Joseph Thompson not asleep or dormant this winter, but 5.05.1894 Measurer-William M Carpenter are having a good social time. Yachting News. William H Baker, of Regatta Committee-Dr. E B Sherwood, ------o------the Sing Sing Yacht Club, is going to chairman; Chas. S Bowen, R T Dennis charter a large yacht for the season. House Committee-Joseph Thompson The Democratic Republican --Rear-Commodore Raymond, of the chairman; James Bedell, Robert T 3.03.1894 Ossining Yacht Club, has got his crack Dennis, William L Hull, William C Desire for Club Life. The desire for cat-rigged yacht Pauline B in Kipp. club life is growing hereabouts, and we commission. Committee on Admission-Franklin hear of one or two projects on foot to --The Columbia Yacht Club, of New Brandreth, chairman; W I Townsend, form a men’s club, such as is in York City, has tendered the courtesy of Col. Francis Larkin Jr, Edwin L Todd, operation in Yonkers, Peekskill, and its club house and anchorage to the Sing Joseph Thompson. other progressive places. Sing Yacht Club for the ensuing season. Auditing Committee- S Olin --Secretary Robert T Dennis, of the Washburne, chairman; T Henry Calam, The Sing Sing Yacht Club, since it has Sing Sing Yacht Club, has the G M Todd. become a social club in winter, has description and inventory of a smart and Trustees- Ralph Brandreth, G M Todd, increased so in popularity that it has comfortable twenty-eight foot cabin Joseph Thompson. doubled its initiation fee of ten dollars, sloop yacht that can be chartered for a Governing Committee- Dr. E B and now it costs twenty dollars to enter very reasonable sum for the summer. Sherwood, chairman; G M Todd, T H its membership. --William L Onyans, who was Secretary Calam, W I Townsend, A R Genet. of the Sing Sing Yacht Club a few years ------o------A number of gentlemen have come to ago, has presented the organization with the conclusion that a men’s club should a well filled scrap book that he kept Democratic Register be organized and flourish in Sing Sing, during his day. It contains a collection 5.15.1897 and are perfecting arrangements so as to of clippings relating to the organization, Col. Larkin as an Athlete. The call a preliminary meeting. The idea is which are very interesting. Illustrated American in its issue of the a good one. ------o------8th instant, had a half-tone engraving of ------o------Col. Francis Larkin Jr, which was made The Democratic Republican from a photograph taken when the The Democratic Republican 6.30.1894 gentleman was a student at Princeton 3.10.1894 Yachting News. James Bedell of the College some eighteen years ago. It is At the annual meeting of the Sing Sing Sing Sing Yacht Club has got his steam printed in connection with an article by Yacht Club, held on Monday evening, launch Mollie right in speeding trim and Charles E Patterson, entitled “The the following officers and committees frequently takes his fellow members out Growth of College Athletics”, which were chosen for the ensuing year: for an airing. treats of the famous college athletes Commodore, Ralph Brandreth; Vice------o------during the past twenty years. In it Col. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Sing Sing Yacht Club 18 Larkin is mentioned first and foremost The Republican under the hill, the club change its name and his photograph occupies the right of 9.02.1899 to something else. line, as it were, in the illustrations that Election of Officers. At a meeting of accompany the article, Col. Larkin is the Sing Sing Yacht Club on Monday Strange as it may seem to everyone but credited with being the most versatile of evening the following officers were the members of the club, the club voted the athletes of his college days, winning elected to fill vacancies occasioned by the motion down, only two votes being eight intercollegiate championships in the recent death of Joseph Thompson: in favor of it. We do not know whether two intercollegiate meetings. In 1878, Treasurer, Frank L Young; member of or not the club is to be congratulated in and again in 1879, Col. Larkin admission committee T Henry Calam; associating itself with the malodorous succeeded in winning the sixteen-pound member of house committee, Remsen institution alluded to, nor whether they shot put, the sixteen-pound hammer W Nourse; chairman of house contemplated applying for club quarters throw, the standing high jump, and the committee, James Bedell. A committee at the only place in the world now standing broad jump. These were the composed of Dr. E B Sherwood, J appropriate for it, so far as the name most praiseworthy performances of their Herbert Carpenter, and Frank L Young goes. day, and some of the records are yet was appointed to draft resolutions on the recognized as standards in the athletic death of Mr. Thompson. It could not take the name Ossining and sporting world. ------o------Yacht Club as there is one by that name ------o------already. Democratic Register Democratic Register 3.10.1900 Put on your “thinking caps”, 8.06.1898 Yacht Clubs Elect Officers. gentlemen; there are scores of good --The Sing Sing Yacht Club has leased Sing Sing Yacht Club. The Sing Sing names from which to select a good and the second floor of the Foshay block, Yacht Club on Friday evening elected appropriate one for your club. entrance on Spring street, for a club the following officers and committees ------o------room, to which they will remove their for the ensuing years: Commodore, billiard and pool tables. This will be Ralph Brandreth; Vice-Commodore, The above clippings were transcribed much more convenient for the members Francis Larkin, Jr; Rear-Commodore, from the original newspapers, which when they wish to manipulate the Gilbert M Todd; Secretary, Robert T reside at the Ossining Historical Society spheres. It is said the club will have a Dennis; Treasurer, Frank L Young; in Ossining, New York naphtha yacht race on Labor Day. Measurer, William M Carpenter; ------o------Trustees, Ralph Brandreth, Gilbert M Todd, Stephen M Sherwood. Governing The Republican Committee, Dr. E B Sherwood, 3.11.1899 chairman, Gilbert M Todd, William I Sing Sing Yacht Club. The annual Townsend, T Henry Calam, Albert R meeting of the Sing Sing Yacht Club Genet; Committee on Admission, was held on Friday evening, when the Franklin Brandreth, chairman, William J following officers were elected: Townsend, Francis Larkin Jr. Edwin L Commodore, Ralph Brandreth; vice- Todd, T Henry Calam; Auditing commodore Francis Larkin Jr; rear- Committee, S Olin Washburne, commodore, Gilbert M Todd; secretary, chairman, T Henry Calam, Milton C Robert T Dennis; treasurer, Joseph Palmer; Regatta Committee, Varian Thompson; measurer, William M Banks, chairman, Robert T Dennis, Carpenter. William M Carpenter; House ------o------Committee, James Bedell, chairman, Robert T Dennis, Remsen W Nourse, The Republican William C Kipp, Robert M Haddock. 7.22.1899 ------o------Both of the Sing Sing Yacht Club houses are draped in mourning out of The Democratic Register respect to the memory of its late 04.13.1901 treasurer, Joseph Thompson, and the Will Stick to the Old Name—At a flag is at half-mast. At a meeting of the meeting of the Sing Sing Yacht Club, club on Thursday evening, Dr. E B the other evening a motion was made Sherwood, Frank L Young and J that, inasmuch as the name of the Herbert Carpenter were appointed a village had been changed to Ossining, committee to draft suitable resolutions and as Sing Sing was now only used in on the death of Treasurer Thompson. connection with the penal institution ------o------