Successful Yachting Season at Lake Manawa
YACHT IODANTHE,
YACHT Itl'TTKHCri
YACHT RttXANNK
Yachting Season
1
111' L'lOSltlg Of till!
yachting season at
Lake Munnwa ends
oiio of ttio Jullicst
and most success
ful years In the hi3
tory of the club.
The treasurer reports debts paid In full
and a small credit to the good, with $7,200
worth of real estate clear of encumbrance
and plans prepared for a new $3,000 club
houso to be completed before the opening
of tho Benson of 1901. Several Wisconsin
yacht builders have orders for somo $300
beauties, to bo delivered early next spring,
whllo one cnthuslnstlc member has engaged
Ihe services of nn old-time ship carpenter,
who Is hard nt work In his own back yard
with forgo and calking Iron.
The Council HlufTs Rowing association was
organized In 1SS7 by adoption of articles of
Incorporation, fixing its corporate existence
to expire March 4, WOO. The Incorporators
of tho association numbered twonty-flvo and
were composed of such well known business
and professional men as 13. II. Merrlam, V.
P. Sapp, IS. K. Hart, A. T. KlweJl, Dr. P. T.
Seybert, E. II. (Well. Charles II. Hannan, C.
T. Stewart, C. A. Bono and others. During
tho season of 1S07 a lot was purchased aud
tho present club houso building erected.
Por tho first few years Mr. C. A. Beno
was secrotary and treasurer of the asso
ciation and to him is largely due tho fact
that the association Is It: existence today.
Prom yenr to year tho membership In
creased until now they hnvo about 150
members actively and earnestly Interested
In the club. With tho expiration of the
corporato charter in March, 1900, Ihe as
sociation was reorganized for the period
At Lake Manawa
of twenty-live years and at the same time
a resolute determination Huh made that
before the passing of another year a now
and fully equipped club house would take
I ho place of the old one. The association
found Itself upon reorganization free from
debt and possessed of about $0,000 worth
of prcperty. It was necessary, however,
that additional laud be purchased so as to
accommodate tho new building aud to this
end, since the opening of the season of
1900, tho association has Invested $1,200 In
lots adjoining tho present boathouso prop
erty. Out it Ilvltt.
It Is a matter of extreme gratification
to tho directors of the association that at
she clcse of this season tho association Is
out of debt, having fully paid for its real
estate purchases and met all of tho ex
penses of operation, Plans have been prs
pared'for a new club houso building, tho
estimated cost of which Is about $3,u00,
aud from the picture shown herewith it
will be seen that the proposed building
will certainly meet all the demands of the
association for many years to come.
It is the intention to limit the member
ship of the club to about L'50 members,
which number will by renehed before the
close of the present year, and from tho
revenue derived from the Increased mem
bership and the subscriptions to tho new
building already made there Is certainly
no doubt hut that before the opening of the
coming season the new building will have
been Mulshed. The membership is com
posed of residents of Council Bluffs and of
Omaha and among the best professional
and business people of both cities Inter
ested In boating and social pleasures. The
present directory is made up as follows:
Emmet Tlnloy, president; W. U. Shepard,
vlco president; James M. Penlon, secro
tary; .1. T. Tldd, treasurer; P. A. Btickmnn,
cotnmodoro; Prcd I). Kmpklo, vice commo
dore; II. Z. Haas, K. A. Wlckham and Vic
tor White, directors.
Some (if (In- Yiii-IiIm,
Tho Psyche, owned by Mr. Shlverlck of
Omaha, haa been considered tho fastest
yacht on tho lako this season. Rumor says,
howovor, that ho will liavo to put some lead
In Its keel, give It more canvas and do
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NRW $G,000 BOAT HOUSR.
some very clever work nt tho wheel to keep
up with tin procession next year.
Dr. Despeclier's Buttercup Is a good fair
weather Loat, carrying a lino spread of can
vas and riding the waves beautifully. It
Is extra wldo aud deep and can load a large
party. Tho boys say the doctor Intends to
have Its sails whitewashed or sell it to the
improvement company for an excursion
steamer next summer. Botli the doctor aud
Ills wife are good sailors and club members
aro keeping a weather eye out for a new
boat In that direction.
Prcd Kmpklo and II. '.. Haas own the Mary
Ann. Mary Ann is a pretty boat and be
haves splendidly in a twelve-knot brco.e,
but In a gnlo It likes to have Its bottom up
too well. H upset during a squall last sum
mer and dumped Into the storm-tossed
waters tho Etupklo boys, Ned Sheppard,
Harry Cleason and (leorgo darner. The
Patience happened to bo near, was close
haulod and picked up tho unfortunates, but
during the excitement Pntlenco shipped con
siderable water, and with nn unusual num
ber on board dipped its noso into a big wave
and nil went down together. Mrs. Des
peclier, closely watching tho unfortunate
turn of affairs from tho beach nt Manhattan,
put off immediately In a large ski IT and
with two assistants breasted t lie angry
waters and was soon to the rescue of the
di owning boys.
One by one they were hauled into the
boat badly frightened and nearly ex
hausted, but deeply grateful to tho cour
ageous woman
Tho Iolauthe, owned by Potter, Clarke
and Dickinson, Is a fast boat ami goes
after some of tho prlzo money sure enough,
but the boys had put on n rider in some of
the races to keep It from turning turtle on
account of Its lack of beam. lolautho
gets there Just the same, even if the rider
Is a "leetle agin the rulis."
J. S. White devoted most (it his time to
his canoo Chum. Ho Is a clever sailor
of this "skittish" sort of craft. It takes
an artist to handle a canoe aud not get
ducked once the whole Hummer through.
Some of the knowing ones say Mr. White
Is building a yacht in Ills own back yard
and doesn't want anyone to know It. When
ready he Intends to take It over to tho lako
toino moonlight night and If It won't do
ho will sink tho boat and keep mum.
Tho l.ark Is another whlto-wlngod
beauty that glides along over the smooth
lake's level's brim, hut takes great prldo
in poking Its nose to bottom when n freshet
I'uiues along. It belongs to Art and Prank
Cooley of Omahn,
Prank Haskell never goes sailing with
out his bathing suit. He owns the
Shrimp, one of the prettiest ca
noes in t In club house, but It
litis sent him overboard so many
times this summer with his Sunday clothes
on that he is afraid of It, and shivers like
an nspen leaf when they hang up more
than a pocket handkerchief on Its mast
Prank Is a line hoy, but they say now
the boat only appeals In his dreams, for
lie Is playing golf.
(icorgo Purvis owns the Roxauue. It
used to bo the Dean C. When he brought
H down from Okoboji he said It u uld
beat anything on the lake. Ho changed
tho name to Roxanno and since the change
tho boat hns been hoodooed.
Myrntona, owned by (leorge Rice ami
Ccorgo Mayne, holds up Us head and cuts
tho swell llko an ocean greyhound. Tho
two Ocorges nro cnpttal sailors and all
around heavyweights In business society
and yachting, hut during tho recent races
their good boat Myra strained Its
masthead, and now la drydocked, under
going ropnlrs. Yachting circles are anx
iously looking for tholr now boat, the
Blgeorgia. LOUIS R. BOSTWICK.
Story of Courage
Common Life Heroism
In his brilliant apostrophe to truth, re
lates tho Indianapolis News, Buskin nay a
that many a man will hold to truth at the
cost of life or fortune when he will not
hold to It at the cost of a little daily
trouble. In that observation Is sounded the
keynote of real heroism and most of the
sacrifice we aro called on to make In this
life aud yet the last that we appreciate.
It Is not dltl'cult to give up life or for
tune on occasion. It Is dllllcult to submit
to the little dally sacrlllees that an Inflex
ible pursuit of duty entails. As wo get
further along In the experience of this
fair but deceitful world wo find that hero
Is really where the greatest heroism Is
manifest. We are not called on to lead a
forlorn hope or to carry a life lino to a
wrecked ship and It might bo snld that tho
few that aro called on for such groat ef
forts aro rarely found wanting. Wo nro
called oil for dally expression of self-denial
for a constant cleaving to an Ideal at tho
price of petty sacrifices, to meet which with
out failure, If we only knew It, Is proof of
herolbtn greater than that of him who Is
willing to risk his life on somo occasion.
There comos from New York a story of her
oism that Involved both great and little sac
rifice. Tho way in which It was made ex
emplifies as true a hero as over wont unsung,
as most truo heroes do and greater far than
many who have had tno world's acclaim. Tho
man is a (dork in New York. Ho is forty
years old, hut he Is gray and stooped and
worn llko n man of three score. Ho has
an Invalid mother. He hail a wife. Fifteen
years ago they wore married. A year after
marriage their baby died and doctors soothed
tho mother's grief and physical Illness with
opium. Tho grip of tho drug she could never
shako off. With her husband's love, with
the help of sanitariums and experts, with
her own efforts, she was still hopeless. She
sank lower and lower as a victim of the
drug. Seven years ago tho best In all ways
that tho husband could do was to move his
mother to Now Jersey and to get for bin
wife quarters at a cheap hotel In Now York,
tho best ho could provide. Ho paid $S a
week for her board and supplied regularly
a sum to buy her morphine.
In all these years when ho came to his
work In tho city In tho morning lie first
wont to see his wife. At noon ho took
his lunch, which ho brought from hla
homo, and ate It by hla wife's bedside.
At night before hu crossed the river to
his Invalid mother hu went again to sec
his wife. Thus for seven yeius thiei
times a day he attended to her as he
could. Tho other day death came with
Its gracious relief. The woman was II
years old ami thu years of her slaver)
to the drug had not obliterated all of
her great beauty. During the lime Hhc
had been kept In these upartmentH, pour
and almost squalid as they wero-"l was
not able to provide better quarters," I lie
man said in tho presence of strangers
who had comu In at tho death she had
been In almost a constant opium stupor.
Por tho last six mouths she kept her bed
Tho world was a blank to her. Only the
day before her death the watchman who
liad guarded over her heard loud voices
In her room aud going to the door with a
remonstrance was met with Hie woman's
video: "Never mind, It Is Prod, my Inn
band, rending prayers to mo and I love to
hear him." "Sure enough," says the
caretaker, "as I looked In ho was sitting
beside her on the little bed reading aloud
fiom a little prayer book." The husband
stroked thu hair of the dead woman as
she was put in a plain ciillln. "My poor
wife, how different It might have boon,
but It was not her fault."
Here was heroism. Hero was saciillce.
Here was truth and duty followed. Here
was an Illustration of righteousness made
part of life that makes one equal to all
that enn ho demanded. Hero Is the lesson
Hint we must learn, that our npportunl
ties do not Ho on the great stage in Hie
sight of the world, but In the hidden ave
nues of dull routine.
War, Ktc.
Detroit Journal: Here was a quantity
of beef condemned by the inspectors.
"And what becomes of this?" wo asked,
since It was none of our business.
"It goes to tho devil!" replied the
packer, moodily.
"Thus enabling his satanlc majesty to
preserve tho conventional parity between
wnr and hell!" wo suggested, with unc
tions humor.
Of course he did not knock us down with
a cart Htake. Ho was far too well bred
for that. But we could see that he felt
hurt.
THE CUP RACES.