The New York herald., 1869-01-17
TnE ICE BOAT RACE At Po6GnKIxPsIE


| The Haze Wins tho silver Plas1-TAc Icsca,
Comes i'm Second and the Snow Flnk,
Third-A Light Wind and the Time No
Given.
POuGHxEgpsn, Jan. ID 1859.
At last the long talked Of Ice boat race FOR th,
silver plate OF the Poughkeepse Ice Boat Association
has transpired and has given general satsfaction
| except In point or yime which was mot good, no
was 1t expected that fast time would be made unless
| the wind should blow hard from the westward O.
eastward, In which case the vessels could lay the
course directly down the river. swervng not an incl
either way, except In turning the stake boat. IN,
ice was in excellent condition when the ice boatmeI
left the river last evening. and 1t was predictet
then that there would be wind enough for the rae,
to occur to-day In accordance with such prediction
and at an early hour this morning the members O
the association were astr ana assembling at the
river, found the wind blowing very strong nom thu
north Then was the time to start the race; but al
all were not ready there was long waiting spell
Meanwhile the Una LETT her moorings with one per
son on hoard, ana proceeded to New Hampure, a
distance Of nine miles, going there in twelve minutes
On her return the track reported to be in good
condition; but another delay occurred, caused by
waiting the arrival Of the Flying Cloud which vessel
did not come to time TIL nearly eleven A. M. At
ready for the start when the greatest activity was
visible in the neet.
Nine boats in all were entered as foll0ws:-
No. Name. NnQin0 Master.
l.............. Flying Cloud..... Irving Grinnell.
I.............. lclcIe. Jonn Roosevelt.
S...-......... snow Squail. ..... 3. Y. Johnston.
4............. Una. ............ Richard Knight.
b.............. Haze. Aaron InniS.
6............ Restless. Com. o. Fl. Booth.
7............. Snow Flake. Thomas Parish
8............ Viola. ............ William LIE Roy.
0.............. Newsboy. ........ Chas. WllkensOn
From gan, boom and runner plank OF nearly all
the vessels nags fying ana the rigging of each
boat had two persons on board including the sailing
master, except the Flying Cloud, Mr. Grinnell the
owner OF that craft, resolving to "g0 1t alone"
In response to the order from the Commodore the
vessels wore away for the rendezvous, which spot
was located In the middle OF the river, on Vassar
Brewery dock, and in line with Theodore Van
Kleeck's ice boat; the Flying DutchmaR which
nounced as the home stake boat. All the boats
came up finely, with bows to the wind, twenty
feet apart and abreast Of each other.
SURROUNDING SCENES.
It was beautiful scene. The sun shone glo.
riously. nags waved to and fro and the ice gstened
with apparently the greatest interest. The
the docks are lined with them, many having come
down from town in all sorts Of vehicles to witness
h1ve we e =
from shore TO shore only about hundred feet
away is also gayly trimmed with bunting in honor
william @. Arnold is the Judge and starter at the
home boat, while "Jimmyn Parish acts as Judge be-
low and has gone to the turning point with his boat
NERVOUS DOUBTS
o. ii. Booth, the Commodore OF the feet, walks
out upon shore closely mufiied and turning an in
quiring glance skyward observes that the wind has
lued greatly and doubts whether the race had bet.
ensued when one exciaims 'sIiere we have been
three years getting this race on and now say 60 IT.
let the an@ time be what i SO nan a Ps
neet in line turned the boats over to the home
Judge for
Every sailing master was at his post as the excla.
nation from the judge "Get ready for the wordp'
along sns e Aes Sse 'nen a. a ~
stake boat ana shouted "Are you all ready fn and IN
second afterwards the word "Gon left his lips All
the Newsboy getting the start but she couldn't stay,
IN consequence Of her weight The Flying Cloud
on the tiller when she sheered out Of her course.
At this juncture the Haze and Una were seen to
shoot ahead Of the neet passing Blue Point mt three
tance behind the Icicle and Snow Fake were having
It lively: Below Milton the Una didn't appear to
her, and went humming along after the Haze, clos
ing up the gap between them and the latter quite
boat boa =. when the Haze to ali appearance held her
own, turning the stake ahead with the Snow Flake
almost tapping ner while the Icicle was also close
up. The rest OF the boats had not come up yet,
therefore the interest relation to the result OF the
race was centred on the three boats named.
Az soon as all three had got nicely around the
greatest skill became necessary TO hold their re-
spective positions. On nearing Milton the Icicle
was favored with ine dash OF air, when she passed
the Snow Fake and came near passing the Haze,
but did not The three vessels could now be seen
rom the starting point and scores Of glasses were
levelled at them The wind was very light, and they
were not travelling fast but nevertheless the con-
test between the Haze and the Icice was
. close one, hence everybody was excited over
It. As they 60 about on the west shore 10 is plain
to be seen that the next tack Will bring them home,
and as the Haze to the windward Of the Icice the
latter's chances for victory have vanished and be-
fore one can speculate on the matter the Haze
dashes on minute ahead, amid cheers from the
multitude and the blowing OF steam whistles; and
as the neet vessel comes TO q standstin the crowd
surge about her. al congratulating the winner OF
the silver plate of the association DO not mention
the time because 1t would not be fair, as the wind
was quite moderate and from the wrong direction
for speed. All the members OF the association re-
joce that the contest s and the plate has been
won by as smart an iccboat as ever slid over the
Hudson.
ACCIDENT ON the HARLEM Alh0AD.