The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-01-26
THE Yacht RACE,

The London Times Of December 81
publishes . detailed account of the yovaos
of the yacht Henrietta. Or to the 18Th
olHmo, when off the Grand Banks, the
MeeIher was heavy, but the yacht ran
e~siiy before the Wind. On the 18th. in
: to severe gale. she was compelled to hsavs
SSs before noon the next day the
ZINC r nae iniled, and the yacht again start
60 on briskly. She had no fur9bsr dis.
Guilty. The events of the last 5sv oF ~.
race are thus described:
"Fhe excitement in regard to H.. 80.
now reached fever heat. All ioEss -
stories became stale, aud nothing vas
TAXED OF but yachts and time and wind.
and the probabilities and possibilities of
tue contest. In every distant vessel We
saw FleetWing; every star near the
norlzon was transformed into the Yesta's
signal light. At 8 P. II. we we're on
soundings; at l2, midnight, of Cans
! Clear. Thus the next morning. Dsc.n5.
Der "a, found us in the chops of the
Channel. hoping 10 eat our Christmas
dlOoer al COWes. It was mdtky. foggy,
dark, damp, dissgreeable morning, and
even az noon 1t vas impossible to take q
solar observation; but by dead reckoning
We had made one hundred and seventy
TWO miles. The carpenter, who had given
US one sensation by discovering a spuri-
Gus leak. now treated US to another by
announcing that the FleetWing was In
sight. Everybody clambered on deck.
BInnacniar glasses, eyeglasses, and spec
tacles and telescopes were brought to bear
upon the imaginary yacht, which was
soon made out to be an English toPsaiI
schooner bound the other way. Indigi-
nation followed excitement, and both
quickly merged into 8 hearty laugh.
Nearing the land of Christmas carols and
Dickens upon Chritmas eve it was impos-
sble to GO TO rest. After very late din
ner, We had our Christmas songs and
stories; among the former was dItty
composed in honor OF the Henrietta, and
suug to the familiar air of Sweet
Evelina.'
while these festivities were 10 pro-
gress we had made the Scily Island lights
az IL P. n. The current drifting us to
leeward, We started south southeast for an
ofhng and passed the islands handsomely,
having made no tack since We left New
York, and having only varied eleven miles
fru1 the straight line between the two
points. So admirable . Iandfall reflected
great credit upon Captaia Samuels. At
3 O'Clock A. n. we passed the Lizard
light going thirteen knots az hour steadily
the Henrietta, like well jockeyed race
horse, reserVing her best pace for the fin
Ish. Running close in to the bold coast
We sighted the Eddystons, Start Point,
and Portland Hill, and 1910 p. NJ, on
4 IN nj INaVT 4,
pilot. A heartier cheer never rent the
air than that which greeted the pilots an
nouncement that no other American yacht
had passed up the Channel. Tue race
seemed won, and a sudden blaze of sun
shine lit up the chalk cliffs of Old Eng.
land in siivery glory; 1t was like an illU-
mination OF welcome.
"Under every stitch of canvas, with
even her staysail set, and with her racing
flag and Yacht Club ensign proudly
floating on the stiff breeze, the Henrietta
dashed by the Needles, and Messrs. Jsr-
ONE and Knapp, the judges for the Fleet
wing and the Vesta, decided that all the
conditions of the race had been strictly
complied with, down went the racing flag
and the private signal of Mr.. Bennett took
its place. As the yacht turned up the
Channel to Cowes the land shut out the
wind, and like one who has finished q
long aud tollsome task, the brave little
yacht slaekened her speed and Aoated lei
surely along. Her blue-lights aud rock
cts announced her arrival here. after haV-
iug crossed the Atlantic to the Isls Of
Wight in the unprecedented time of thir-
teen days, twenty-five hours and forty
six minutes, meau time, and that without
having carried away any of her light sails
or spars, or even SO much Rs a snrsd Of
or strand Of rope"