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EARLY AMERICAN YACHT RACES.
A TRANS-ATLANTIO' CONTEST,
WM.
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Ladies' and Gent's Fino Quality PANAMAS. A Fine Assortment of FLOWERS, MUSLINS, RIBBONS, LACES, &c
known as the the New York Yacht Squadron, It had its faception on July 30, 1811. The char for members, beaddas Stevens, vero Hamilton Not only sportsmen, but nearly every Wilks, William Edgar, Joln C. Jay, Georgs L. body almost everywhere, no matter what Echaylor, Captain Rogers, Jouis A. Depan, James profession or traduerantionality orreligion, looks W. Waterbury and George W Rollins, each of 73 forward to this year's coolest for the America them the owner of e schooner or stop yacht. oup between doughty Sir Thomas Lipton's! Stereus was jually mada the first đig office. · Is Shenrock III and the American defendor, with has been said of him that he belong il to a family' more or less marked interest, and the upper- [ of investors and discoverers, for his father wat most question in everybody's mind naturally is, į confessedly the first to employ the screw in "Will Lipton lift the cup?"
steam propulsion, and his brother, the fat to The contest for the possession of the America ¦ make use of compound saginos-two "factora cup suturally brings a crazy as to the building which have had enormita inthence upon the of the first American yacht, and by whom; for development of modern commerés, They were. it was an American yacht that brought the all facht designors and yacht builders from coveted piece of silver from the shores of Albien boyhood, and those of this is ond gonoration to those of the United States.
were the moving spirits waich gavo impulss to. the building of the famous Ameriet, and iş subaquent yacht constraction they embotied now and sound ideas which have brought Amiri ASK TO SEE THE NEW MOUNTAIN PICNIC TENT; CAN BE CARRIEDJAND can yachting to its present condition of pro- emisonce,
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The difficulty in answering that question arises from a necessary doubt as to its maning; whather the querist contemplates & decked wil. ing boat or end of the Iarga pleasure boits of the present day, which latter are not used merely for purposes of sport.
Lieutenant J. D. Jerrold Kelley, 13,5,N.... | whose work an Amarie in yachts is a recognised TOS. 33, 35, 37, and 39, MORRISON authority, weiting in the subject saventena Jenis no, said that the first docked vessel over juga admirably suitable for European fullies.anched in American wafom was built upon
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After the yacht amorfeu had lowered English prido on Angast 22, 1851, by winning the Royal. Squadron cup, the Britishers, while formed to admit their inferiority in spad und sɔamanship;
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PORCELAIN CIGAR CASES
at least at the time, stained that their boats were at least safer and mora comfortable on the | Manhattan island in the spring of 161-4, by tho | open mea. This point long remained disputed. urly Datch settlers, She was christened Cares!, | English yachtsmen did not appear to be auxious merring "The Restless,” sad was constructed to bring luck to their waters the Royal Squad for household, uso. Cappeity---One and Two Hundred Cigars each. from timber cut from the trees growing along ron cap which the America had taken away and
Guaranteed to koop Cigars dey in a dump climate, and moist in a dry climato, combin the shore whore the kool was laid. This is sup. which manwhile had bun preseated to and posed to have ben somewhere between the accepted by the Now York Yacht Cab as an inter- ing utility with beauty and security, with a perfect preservation of Cigars Would be pleased pressul Rector Street and the Battery of Now national trophy. American yacht owners fre.to have you inspect these PORCELAIN CIGAR CASES. York ofty. Lieutenant Kelley describes-hor nsa untly unade the joking that thatif England did plug "a yacht forty-four feet in length andɔtrolura the visit of 1851 Ameries would sendber eleven foot six inches in bem, proportions entire set to show for what Yankeg boats
could do and hów available any ware for ocea characteristically Dutch, and still hauded Tow in the most favourite type of small boat found travelling. This was looked upon marely as in our waters."
Yauken brag and bluster, but in 198 it 85′′ This was the first American yacht." says sunei aduzidolly pr.elind form, when for Kelley, "though, Bare for this one fact, we have
nenorimus stake the owners al tile Ameri- no authentic history of the sport previous to the oan yachts Hearieth, Fasting and Festu beginning of this century." In England, yacht-thatched their boats to race across tho
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ing dates from 1604, whom Henry, Princo atlantic. Tim manor in which the contest Wales, had a pleasure craft built by that innster urose, as subsequently described at a reception constructor, Phineas Pott, to whom the English in Cows, as recordal by Lieutunut Kelloy, navy owed so much of its success in the reign of the early Blaarts. The idea, su Popysnud Evolyu EWO SPACIOUS GODOWNS-No. 95 tell us, was taken from the Dutch, and in the
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diaries of both thers are quaint and agcasional references to the pastime. From these wo gathor that the sportive King Charlospuns wall misdad with the results of Lis first fãco, sailed in -1862. in tho yasht Mary, a boat/presectul to him by the Dutch East India Company. for Pepys
Watson's Tord Contrato. 1, BARROW TERRACE, Kowloon, writes: "By water to Woolwich. On my way
"SAM WANG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO, LD. -Hongkong, 25th July, 1903.
was as follows:
The match was pude at a dinner, when a question arose amicably between the owners of the Vesta and the Wectwing us to the compara- tiro spoed and ondurauto of their boats, A race was proposed.
Let it be outside," wil ons of them. “Agreed,” replied the other. - "What do you say-Sandy Hook to Cowes?" "Donn,” answered the first, in December, and Hers both
Baw the yacht lately built with the help of agreed that it should be for $34,099 a side- Commissioner Pett. Set out from Greenwich Them prodimïuaries settled, is then became a By with the little Dulch boyau to try for the simplu qrastion of rifles and dates, 2113 mastery, and before they got to Woolwich the mutual consent ik: Hauerielle was allowed to Dutch beat them half a milo; and I hear this enter, and, after evnsultation, an agreement afternoon on coming home, it got before was drawo up by which has owners "bonad NE ROOM, suitable for an Office, opposite three miles, which all our people are glad of themselves to mail of the 11th of Bamber, it Tiers extensive ele ROOM'
The King," he says, "kath boon to nes the yacht I p.m., from Sandy Hook to the Needles, and -Apply-
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which Commissioner Pott is building, which for a prize of $310. Square sails were at THEODORO VAFIADIS & CO.
will be very pretty; and also that his brothernt†lowed; the forty-eight hour rule was rescinded; Woolwich is making." And at a later date ho no channel pilot could be taken from this side enters in his book, “Mr. Grant showed mo Jelters | nothing bat ballast could be skiftesī, nikl two raeg of Sir William Patty's, in which be says that was to end when the yachts were on the channel his vessol, which ho built apan twokoda-doodol | course for Cowes, with the west end of tho, Isla whereof has been built for the King-hath this of Wight bouring abam. The race was 'to day (July 31, 1665) won a wagar of £50 in sturi upon tho dato fix al, ply or pay, blow bigh sailing between Dublin and Holyhead with the or low. The compoting yachts wer: all woll pacquette boat, the best host the King both known in Americup waters for their spord and there.
taunehness. Nowa batter, indoad, as the Henrietta and Plentining way dine examples of famous or keultype, and the Vota was a representative of the contre-bed class.
"In their going back from Holyhead they started together, and the vessel came to Dublin by 3 at night, and the pacquetto not before 8 o'clock the next morning, and when they
The race across the ocean was a most exciting care they did believe this vestel had beanons, and arous enbaunde interest on both drowned, or at least left behind, not thinking sides of the Altaatio wave. The match was not she coull huve lived in that sea." Strange only a novel one, the stake not only unprecedent- stories are hinted of this famous craft, wharedfod, the length of course for the class of ressols TISE GROUND FLOOR, No. 54, CAINE | the aune wo know not, but at lastshe was "lustentarsi nerer bofors, qualled, but the race was
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in a tempest, which overwhelmed a great feet dusted at the most rigorous season of the the same night,"
year, and if the three vessels crossed the ocena Care of Daily Press Office. John Evelyn, most honest and luckiest of without accident, English Shoors at the Hongkong, 30th July, 1903.
chroniclers, notes for us that of the last of ❘nusiaworthiness of the Yaukea craft would TO LET-UNFURNISHED. October, 1661, La salled “with his majesty in ba forever silenced. There was no housing of ons of his yachts or pleasure heats-vessels not racing masts. Thure was co steam yacht ucting 66OOMBE MAGAZINE GAP known among us until the Dutch East India as convoy. There were no owners rushing
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Company presented that ouri us piece to the to the other side en Atlantis liners. It was a King-and being very excellent sailing vessels." yachting race that was a ree, and to the credit The first Corinthian match of which there is of English hearts be it said that who the recari
was sailed about this time, the confest Henricita, having learned from a Cowes pilot being bot woon King Charles' now pleasure boat, that she was the first one in, dropped her racing built frigais like, and one of the yachts belong flag of blue and dashed aloft cho privato signal log to the Duke of York, afterward King of of her owner, the e.owl-that later saw it from England. The stakes of these royal gamestors the Lowes parada gure hor a hearty welcome. were £100, The course was from Greenwich to The time of the Henrietta was 13 daye, 21 hours Gravesend and back, and the King lost it going, and 55 minutes, that of the Flestwing, 16 daya," [* but saved stakes returning, somolimes sleer-6 hours, 10 minutes; that of the Veste, 14 days, ing himself. His Majesty being aboard with bears and 59 minates. That event was; in divers noble persons, and lords." In 1663 fast, the origin of the succeeding international Pepys again said:" August 13th, went to Lam-contests for the Amorica cup, which have SUMMER RATES. European Super-beth, and there saw the little pleasure boats in brought English yachtsmea repetelly to US, vision. Excellent Cuisine and Accommodation.
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building for the King, my Lord Browwicker tres in vain attempts to take hack the trophy Macdonnell Road, and the virtuosos of the town, according to now that the America caried from Albion.
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From all this it may be seen that the Dutch M. MATTHAEY.
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1987 the title given such racing.boats, the title of the Father of America Yachting in accredited to John C, Stevens by reason of the fact that in
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Ha subsequently constrasted yachts-of larger tontags than the one that originally gava kim fame among those who raced upon the deep. Stevens, by the way, was the originater," with others, of the first American yacht club, then
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