Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 17

R R R Successful YACHT IOLANTHE Yachting Season HE closing Lake one and of the most of paid tory debts The and a small credit to the good, with $7,200 treasurer reports worth of real and plans prepared for a house to be completed of the season of 1901, yacht builders have orders for new with forge and calking iron The Council Bluffs Rowing association was organized in 1887 by adoption of articles of incorporation, fixing its corporate existence The incorporators of the association numbered twenty-five and were composed of such well known business H. Merriam, W. F. Sapp, E. E. Hart, A, T. Elwall, Dr. F. T, H. Odell, Charles R. Hannan, C. During sed and to expire March 4, 1900, and professional men as E Seybert, E. T. Stewart, C. A. Beno and others, the season of 1807 a lot was purcha yachting season Manawa the in of the at ends jolliest suce ful years in the his- clut, full estate clear of encumbrance $5,000 club before the opening Several Wisconsin some beauties, to be delivered early next spring while one enthusiastic member has engaged the services of an old-time ship carpenter, who is hard at work in his own back yard the present club house building erected. For the first few years Mr. C was secretary and From year to creased until yvear the now they have in the club. With the expiration corporate charter in March, sociation was reorganized for the NEW treasurer of the ciation and to him is largely due the fact that the association is ir existence today. membership about members actively and earnestly interested the as- periold of 1900, the Beno asso0- $5,000 in- 150 At Lake Manawa of twenty-five years and at the same time a resolute determination wuas made that before the passing of another year a new and fully equipped club house would take the place of the old one, The association found itself upon reorganization free from debt and possessed of about $6,000 worth of prceperty. It was necessary, however, that additional land be purchased so as to rcommodate the new building and to this end, since the opening of the season of 1600, the association has invested $1,200 in lots adjoining the present boathouse prop erty. Out of Debt. It s a matter of extreme gratification to the directors of the association that at \he clese of this season the association is out of debt, having fully paid for its real estate purchases and met all of the ex- penses of operation. Plans have been pro- pared’ for a new club house building, the estimated of which is about §5,000, and from picture shown herewith it will be that the proposed building will certainly meet ali the demands of the sociation for many years to come. It is the intention to limit the member- ship of the club about 250 members, which number will be reached before the close of the present year, and from the revenue derived from the increased mem=- bership 1d the subscriptions to the new building already made there certainly no doubt but that before the opening of the coming season the new building will have been finished. The membership is com- posed ot residents of Council Bluffs and of Omaha and among the best professional and business people of both cities inter- ted in boating and social pleasures. The sent directory made up as follo Emmet Tinley, president; W. K. Shepard, vice president; James M., Fenlon, sec tary; J. T. Tidd, treasurer; F. A. Buckman, commodore; Fred D, Empkie, vice commo- dore; H. Z. Haas, E. A. Wickham and Vic- tor White, directors, cost the seen 0. Some of the Ya tn, The Psyche, owned by Mr. Shiverick of Omaha, has been considered the fastest yacht on the lake this season. Rumor says, however, that he will have to put some lead in its keel, give it more canvas and do HBOAT HOUSE. YACHT BUTTERCUP some very clever work at the wheel to keep up with th- procession next year. Dr. Despecher's Buttercup is a good fair weather Loat, carrying a fine spread of can and riding the waves beautifully It is extra wide and deep and can load a large party. The boys say the doctor intends to have its sails whitewashed or sell it to the improvement company for an excursion steamer next summer. Both the doctor and his wife are good sailors and ¢lub members are Keeping a weather boat in that direction Fred Empkie and H. Z Ann. Mary Ann is a pretty boat and be- haves splendidly in a twelve-knot breeze, but in a gale it likes to have its bottom up too well. It upset during a squall last sum mer and dumped into the storm-tossed waters the Empkie boys, Ned Sheppard, Harry Gleason and George Garner. The Patience happened to be near, was close- hauled and picked up the unfortunates, but during the excitement Patience shipped con- siderable water, and with an unusual num- ber on board dipped its nose into a big wave and all went down together. Mrs. Des- pecher, closely watching the unfortunate turn of affairs from the beach at Manhattan, vas eye out for a new Haas own the Mary put off immediately in a large skiff and with two its breasted the angry waters and v soon to the rescue of the drowning boys. One by one they were hauled into the boat badly frightened and nearly ox hausted, but deeply grateful to the cour ageous woman The Iolanthe, owned by Potter, Clarke and Dickinson, is a fast boat and goes after some of the prize money sure enough, but the boys had put on a rider in some of the races to keep it from turning turtle on account of its lack of beam lolanthe gets there just the same, even if the rider is a “leetle agin the rules.” J White devoted most of his time to his canoe Chum. He is a clever sailor of this “skittish” sort of craft. It takes un ariist to handle a canoe and not get ducked once the whole summer through Some of the knowing ones say Mr. White is building a yacht in his own back yard and doesn't want anyone to know it, When ready he intends to take it over to the lake gome moonlight night and if it won't do he will sink the boat and keep mum The Lark is another white-winged beauty that glides along over the smooth lake's leve brim, but takes great pride in poking its nose to bottem when a freshet comes along, It belongs to Art and Frank Cooley of Omaha, Frank Haskell never goes sailing with- out his bathing suit. He owns the Shrimp, one of the prettiest ca- nees in the club house, but it has sent him overboard so many times this summer with his Sunday clothes on t he is afraid of it, and shivers like an pen leaf when they hang up more than a pocket handkerchief on its mast Frank is a fine boy, but they say now the beat only appears in his dreams, for he is playing golf George Purvis owns the Roxanne It used to be the Dean ¢ When he brought it down from Okoboji he said it ¢ uld beat anything on the lake He changed the name to Roxanne and since the change the boat has been hoodooed Myratona, owned by George Rice and George Mayne, holds up its head and cuts the swell like an ocean greyhound. The two Georges are capital sailors and all around heavyweights in business soclety and yachting, but during the recent races their good hoat Myra strained its masthead, and now is drydocked, under going repairs. Yachting circles are anx iougly looking for their new boat, the Bigeorgia. LOUIS R. BOSTWICK YACHT In his brilliant apostrophe to truth, re the Indianapolis News, many a1 1 will hold of life or fortune when he will not hold to it at the of a little daily trouble. In that observation is sounded the keynote of real heroism and most of the sacrifice we are called on to make in this life and yet the last that we preciate. It is not diffeult to give up life or for tune on oceasion, It is difficult to submit to the little daily sacrifices that an inflex Ruskin to truth at the lates that cost Hays Cost ible pursuit of duty entails As we get further along in the experience of this fair but deceitful world we find that here is really where the greatest heroism s manifest. We are not called on to lead a forlorn hope or to carry a life line to a wrecked ship and it might be saild that the few that are called on for such great ef- forts are rarely found wanting. We are called on for daily pression of self-denial for a constant cleaving to an ideal at the price of petty sacrifices, to meet which with- out failure, if we only knew it, is proof of heroism greater than that of him who is willing to risk his life on some occasion. There comes from New York a story of her- oism that involved both great and little sac- rifice. The way in which it was made ex- emplifics as true a hero as ever went unsung, as most true heroes do and greater far than many who have had tne world's acclaim, The man is a clerk in New York He is forty years old, but he is gray and stooped and worn like a man of three score. He has an invalid mother. He had a wife. Fifteen years ago they were married A year after marriage their baby died and doctors soothed the mother's grief and physical illness with opium. The grip of the drug she could never shake 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 the best in all ways that the husband could do was to move his mother to New Jersey and to get for his wife quarters at a cheap hotel in New York, the best he could provide. He paid $8 a week for her board and supplied regularly a sum to buy her morphine, Season at Lake Manawa RONXANNE tory of Courage--- Common Life Heroi m the again years her came At crossed river he went for seven attended to day death The woman years of her slavery not obliterated all her great beauty. During the time had been kept in the apartments, and almost squalid as they were I was not able to provide better quarters,” the man sald in the presence of strangers who had come in at the death she had been in almost a constant opium stupor For the last six months she kept her The world was a blank to her. Only day before her death the watchman had guarded over her heard loud volees in her room and going to the door with a remonstrance was met with the woman's “Never mind, it Fred, my hus- band, reading prayers to me and 1 love to night before he his invalid mother his wife Thus times a day he could. The other its gracious relief years old and the to the drug had o thre I with was gy ol she poot e the who voice: is hear him."” “Sure enough,” says the caretaker, “as 1 looked in he was sitting beside her on the little bed reading aloud from a little prayer book.” The husbhand stroked the hair of the dead woman as she was put in a plain coflin ‘My poor wife, how different it might have been, but it was not her fault.” Here was heroism. Here was sacrifice Here was truth and duty followed. Here was an illustration of righteousness made part of life that makes one equal to all that can be demanded. Here is the lesson that we must learn, that our opportuni ties do not lie on the great stage in the sight of the world, but in the hidden ave nues of dull routine. War, Etc. Detroit Journal: Here was a of beef condemned by the inspectors “And what becomes of this we asked since It was none of our business. “It gees to the devil!™ replied packer, moodily. ““Thus enabling his satanic preserve the conventional war and hell!" we quantity the majesty to parity between suggested, with une In all these years when he came to his tious humor, work in the city in the morning he first Of course he did not knock us down with went to see his wife. At noon he took a cart stake, He was far too well bred his lunch, which he brought from his for that. But we could sce that he fel home, and ate it by his wife's bedside. hurt. I — Sl | | | ¥ THE CUP RACES.