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Kenana. Where Rails and Rivera Meet
Prospectors
F armers
Trappers
T our ists
The Nenana district offers oppor
tunities for prospecting, farming, and
trapping that are unequaled in any
other section of Alaska.
Gold placers of known value, close
to Nenana, are producing annually sub
stantial amounts, and there are scores
of streams within the district on which
little or no prospecting has been done.
These streams, until a short time ago
almost inaccessible, are now easily
reached by means of the new Govern
ment Railroad, and undoubtedly soon
will be the scene of much mining ac
tivity.
Farming in the Nenana district has
the advantage of a growing season fully
ten days longer than that of any other
section of Interior Alaska. There is
much desirable land in the district open
to homesteaders, and marketing possi
bilities are being expanded steadily.
Fur-bearing animals of the Nenana
and adjacent districts are noted for the
fine quality of their fur, and trappers
annually bring large numbers of pelts
to Nenana and receive for them higher
prices than are obtained for the average
furs of other districts.
Game of all kinds abounds in the
Nenana district, there are scores of
trout streams easy of access, and the
scenic wonders of the district are un
surpassed. The district is the natural
gateway to Mt. McKinley National*
Park, and close to Nenana may be
viewed the largest coal ledges in the
world.
Detailed information regarding the
resources and possibilities of the Ne
nana district may be obtained from the
Nenana
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YACK BRAINS
OF AMERICA GIVE
TESTS ATTENTION
NEW YORK.—The first official
activity in connection -with the Am
erica’s Cup races off Sandy Hook,
July 13, began recently on Long
Island sound, when the prospective
cup-defending yachts Resolute and
Yanitie met in the opening race ot
the 1920 elimination series. Six
races were held off New Haven,
Conn., between May 21 and 27,
after which the yachts proceeded to
Newport for a more extended series
of races under open sea conditions.
The schedule calls for 15 races oi?
i Newport, the contests terminating
on June 19.
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The contests off New Haven were
short practice events, twice around
a short course, and did not count
materially in the selection of a de
fender. Their chief purpose was
to afford the crews practice and to
stretch sails and rigging.
The real trial races are now in
progress off-Newport, and at their
conclusion the cup committee will
announce the defender. These races
are “for blood.” The friendship
that exists betw-een the two crews
is forgotten for the time being,
each desiring to be the “cup boat.”
Once the defender is decided, the
“brains” of the two yachts will
again get together to plan the de
fense of the America’s cup
The regatta committee of the New
Y'ork Yacht club has full charge of
all the trial races. It is made up
of H. deB. Parsons, chairman; Jo
seph M. Macdonough, and Frederic
O. Spedden.
With both Resolute and Vanitie In
the water again, yachtsmen are once
more beginning to take an interest
in the international series for the
classic racing trophy. The race to
put Resolute and Vanitie into the
water first was watched with inter
est throughout the country. The
honors went to Vanitie. Not only
was she relaunched a day ahead of
Resolute, but she also was under
sail 24 hours ahead of the Herres
hoff designed craft. This, of course,
means nothing in the selection' of
the defender of the cup. Still, the
race to put the yachts into commis
sion was interesting, as it showed
the keen rivalry that exists be
tween the managing directors of the
craft.
Vanitie, designed by William
Gardner for Alexander Smith Coch
ran, a member of the New York
Yacht club, originally was built by
the George Lawley & Son corpora-'
tion, at Neponset, Mass., in 1914.
Her general dimensions are 118 feet
over all, 75 feet on the water line.
22 feet 6 inches extreme breadth. ‘
and a draft of about 14 feet. Since
1916, the craft has been at Robert
Jacob’s yard, City Island. Last win
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ter, Mr. Cochran grave the yacht t<
the cup committee of the New Yori
\acht club, and the committee, ir
j turn, placed Vanitie in the hand:
| of Rear Commodore George Nichols
jone of the best amateur sailors ir
: the country.
i Throughout the winter. Real
Commodore Nichols experimented
■ with the vessel. In the trial races
of 1014, Vanitie had to allow Reso
lute time. The junior flag officer
of the New York club tried to find
a method of eliminating the handi
cap. With this idea in view,
changes were made in the rig and
the centerboard and the yacht gen
erally lightened. Naturally, there
has been considerable secrecy re
parding the changes. Whether Rear
Commodore Nichols has gained his
point will not be known until the
defending yachts are officially mea
sured.
The changes in Vanitie were made
at Robert Jacob’s yard. It is said
that Sterling Burgess, a Boston
yachtsman, a member of the after
guard of the Gardner boat, prin
cipally is responsible for the chang
es. One is a new hollow topmast.
The yacht also has new hollow
spruce spreaders, about 35 feet from
tip to tip. These changes have been
made to lighten the craft.
Regardless of the fact that it had
been frequently reported that Vani
•tie's stem was to be shortened ma
terially and that her rail, which is
really the continuation of her sides
above the deck, was to be removed,
these changes have not been made.
The rail has been cut away, from
about two-thirds way aft, so as to
enable the decks to clear them
selves of seas that may come aboard,
more rapidly than if the waters had
to get away through the small scup
pers. The angle at which the cen
terboard of \ anitie extends has been
altered so as to throw the weight
forward. This is hoped to increase
her windward qualities.
\ anitie is being raced by Rear
Commodore Nichols. In addition to
the flag officer and Mr. Burgess,
there are on the quarterdeck in the
majority of the races C’. J. Nourse
and C. Sherman Hoyt. Both are
well-known New York yachtsmen,
the former being prominent in the
weekly racing of the Seawanhaka
Corinthian Yacht club of Oyster
bay, and the latter interested in
yachting for years.
G. A. Gautesen is the professional
skipper of Vanitie. In former races
for the America’s cup, the profes
sional skipper has been the all-im
portant personage on board a cup
yacht. That is not so today. Both
Shamrock IV' and the American de
fender will be sailed by amateurs.
Still, the professional skipper plays
an important part on a cup boat,
and although he is not' as well known
as some of the other paid racing
men. Captain Gautesen is an excel
lent sailor, who has had many years
of experience on hoard racing
yachts.
This is not the first time that
Captain Gautesen has shipped on
Vanitie. Back in 1915, when Com
modore Cornelius Vanderbilt had the
yacht under charter, he was her
first mate. At that time, Vanitie
was commanded by Captain Chris
Christiansen, Commodore Vander
bilt’s sailing master, who is the pro
fessional skipper of Resolute. Later,
Captain Gautesen was engaged by
Rear Commodore Nichols as the sail
ing master of the latter’s 50-footer
Carolina. He did such excellent
work on Carolina that it was only
natural that he should be Rear Com
modore Nichols’ selection for the
cup boat.
Like Vanitie, the other candidate
for the honor of defending the Am
erica’s cup was built in 1914. She
was designed by Nat Herrshoff and
built by the Herreshoffs at their
Bristol yards in 1914. Her gen
eral dimensions are 106 feet 3 inches
over all, 75 feet on the waterline,
21 feet 2 inches extreme breadth,
and about 12 feet draft. Although
the same length on the waterline.
Resolute is smaller than Vanitie,
and so, during the trial races- of
1914, received considerable time al
lowance.
Resolute was built by a syndi
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cate of members of the New York
Yacht club. The syndicate was
headed by Henry Walters, erstwhile
commodore of the club, with Arthur
Curtiss James, Frederick G. Bourne,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, George F.
Baker, Jr., and J. P. Morgan as
the other members. All have flown
the senior flag of the club. With
the exception of Frederick G.
Bourne, the members of the syndi
cate are all alive and deeply inter
ested in the defense of the trophy.
The cup situation, in so far as the
New York Yacht club is concerned,
is most unusual this year. The syn
dicate that built Resolute is prac
tically the “cup committee" of the
organization, which also is in con
trol of Vanitie. Again, Rear Com
modore Nichols, in 11) 14, was a
member of the afterguard on Reso
lute, and probably would be there
today had not Vanitie been turned
over to the club.
The “interlocked directorate" ex
plains why the new sails for Vanitie
came from the Herreshoffs* sail-loft
and why Rear Commodore Nichols
and Captain Robert W. Emmons,
2nd, of Boston, managing director
of Resolute, have been in continual
communication throughout the win
ter. Each has helped the other place
his respective craft in commission.
The reason is self-evident. The New
York Yacht club is playing no fa
vorites in its defense of the trophy.
The “yachting brains” of the club
are not trying to make Resolute beat
Vanitie or Vanitie beat Resolute.
They are out to make either Vanitie
or Resolute beat Shamrock IV. and
with that In mind, they have been
working to get as much as possible
out of each yacht.
With changes being made in Van
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j ltie io lighten the craft, it was nat
ural that Designer Herreshoff should
! make a few in the Bristol craft.
These principally have been cen
' tered in the racing rig. Changes
have been made in the tophamper
1 of the craft, on the basis of re
ducing weight above deck, so as to
bring the yacht to a new line of
I flotation, in the hope that a shorter
waterline will draw more time from
j opponents. It is said that about 900
pounds have been removed from the
tophamper of the craft. The new
Resolute mast, with its aluminite
gaff, is considered unmatched in
i strength and lightness. The changes
have made Resolute ride a little
higher out of the water than in
1914. In her trials today, she seems
to have gained by the alterations in
running before the wind.
In addition to Captain Emmons,
there are on board the Bristol yacht
Charles Francis Adams, 2nd, of
Boston, who holds the wheel; George
A. Cormack, secretary of the New
York Yacht club, and John Parkin
son. All served as members of the
afterguard in 1914. No one has as
yet been selected to take the place
of Rear Commodore Nichols. Cap
tain Christiansen also served on the
craft in 1914.
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| ^ NOTICE OF CHAN6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS ]
| According to a recently issued Court Order by f
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- f
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- |
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. I
| Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be |
§ enabled by this change to do their recording and |
| transact other business at Nenana, which is within =
| easy reach of their mining activities. f
| NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. |
= J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. |
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