The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-04

display OF the yachts, there being splendid view or
was crowded to excess. The course lay from a
stakeboat OF the club house around stakeboat
Island, making two turns around each stakeboat,
which were to be rounded from east to west. The
prospect was most pleasant and picturesque one
the surrounding scenery adding not little to the
magnificent exhibition
According to the arrangements Of the committee
the first gun was to be fired to make ready, second
for the first class yachts to start the third gun for
the second class and the fourth gun Tor the third
class. Precisely at twenty minutes to two O'Clock
gun doomed forth, and every man aboard the racers
was alive to the occasion. In FIVE minutes after.
did craft display such energy. The competitors
dashed forth in o moment almost beam ana
me esyon1e however w rushing Ssr to toe
peutors. Then followed the Muskodeed. the
Nellie g., Pearsal and Onward oil Of which
SKINNED the water In splendid style, the breeze be.
ing just equal 10 the occasion. Gun number two
was equally effective in sending of the second class
ing to the wind she was not long in advancing to
the front Of her competitors, all the while skim
The s su Sas
Gage and Apollo. The velocipede made Splendid
closely followed In the wake by the Lavlne, Jane
Vernon and Aida. Again the gun from the Judges
the wing Thev took accordna supsd 70 e
but quickly spread out to the breeze. In dne bet
ter more beautiful or more excellent start
gallant seamen on board the racers, but also the
arrangements OF the committee. The judges OF the
regatta were Colonel Hiram Van Buskirk j. G. Ar
mour, OF the Latourette House, and James Ruston;
the regatta committee consisting OF Captain Joseph
Ellsworth Thomas Harrison, John Ellsworth and
John Moffat Commodore Van Wrinkle, ex-Commo-
dore Gunther MIR. Harrison. Mr.. Mallery and others
attended to the arrangements at the clue house and
although evidently much interested In the contest
were not wanting In the characteristic oolresles or
the Bayonne Club.
The competitors dashed forth In splendid style.
Half a mile from the stakeccs: they were almost
abeam or at least so mingled taa ke!r positions
almost undiscernible. The Besla he'd her own TO-.
wards Fort Diamond after round.ng which the com.
petitors kept well together the Pearsal making good
way. There was out little variation approaching the
stakeb0at OF Oyster Island, tho Bella ana Pearsa
Deing among the foremost yachts. The Bayonne,
Flyaway, Nellie g.. Muskodeed and few others kept
well together Returning the yachts tackled In the d.
recti0n OF the New York Yacht Club House, ana when
making for home began to- part company Up TO
the present the event had been most earnestly con-
tested and as the yachts approached the stakeboat
the excitement on shore ran very high. The yachts
IN the rear were almost beam and beam. Indeed
throughout there was but comparatively little dis.
lance between oil the competitors. Perhaps more
beautiful sight was never witnessed In the bay, not
only account Of the close proximity OF the yachts
but because OF the excellent handling which ap.
peared to characterize the motions OF the conies.
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