The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-22
TEE REGATTA WEEK AT COWES.
Scenes In the Harbor-Dirty Weather.
The Illumination OF tho Yachts at
Night-The Royal Yacht and the Ameri-
can Frigntes Brilliantly Lighted.

ICowes, August Q, correspondence Daily News.l
Until noon to-day the ram poured down with.
out stopping and 1t Numbered heavily. After
wards the sun shone with actual ferceness
the sky over the mainland remaining, however,
clouds. A handful Of nautical men, to whom wet
weather, probably, Is thing which never enters
into their :. calculation, proceeded as a matter Of
see the cutter yachts start but they seemed quite
as depressed as the ruesome individuals at the
dry weatherbound. The wind seems to have
tried every point OF the compass dur.
our experience on shore-a reservation very essen
tial to make when the wind has been SO capriclous
as It has during the last Two days The afternoon
extent for the privat0ns suffered by the forced
clusion Of the morning. Cowes kept It up SO late
EXTRA repose was grateful rather than otherwise.
After yesterdays parcel had been despatched across
apology. The sports Of the town regatta were
over, and the Alberta, with the royal children
into Osborne Bay How many hundreds s@ or thou.
sands OF people were by dusk assembled along the
IT. a%a be Sa t. tS wre they
mately, was and is puzzle not to be read. The
most extensive preparations had been made for
pieces had been deliberately built up before dark
and fixed ready for lighting they simply answered
drenching fireworks win stand before their ex-
plosive properties disappear. The public, how
ever, cared not button for an experiment Of
that natures they had set their minds on the
fireworks, and grieved piteously that the weather
had robbed them Of the tit-bits Of the pyrotechnc
senses than one; and, fortunately for everybody,
the rain aba:ed for precisely the hour required to
had provided The prettest part Of the aair was
the illumination Of the yachts in the roadstead.
With the ordinary lights burning at the mastheads,
traveller in the dark views Thankfully from
Character They each otser
with rockets and Roman candles and exposed them
10 n 10 a The
the Victoria and Albert, was the most successful.
She was lighted up with limeght Jets so as to show
red lamps The fireworks were the best
sight, beyond doubt The yachts, which had been
distributed over the blue Solent during the day,
had arrived at their moorings-white-wnged birds
rOostng after days flight AS far as the eye
could reach east and west the line of twnkling
lanterns extended, and as the fireworks and illu-
nom another, they cast food OF light upon all
their neighbors within a large area. But the vic
took. The American frigates Illuminated also o''0'
The Cowes boatmen, Knowing perchance that
the work will be most elfectually done by the casual
VISITORS hunt the members Of the royal family
and the Princes and Processes In consequence
walk hither and thther in the streets, making the
people. This morning one of the heavy carriages
from the royal coachhouses brought Prince Leopold
10 the pier, anu INC COckneyS JneTe WOuIu
have been at their Old stupid tricks had not an
iron gate. Kept them back The Cowes boatmen,
however, know the movements Of royalty as well
as, perhaps trne better, than royalty ITSELF A
veteran quid chewer on the pier pointed out the
Prince OF Wales shooting across from East Cowes
In his small steam launch; and he concluded o
variety OF information by oonldentially stating
that his Royal Hghness would land In hall
enough so 1t happened. The man did not give any
hint as to the sources OF his information, but
he could, no doubt. have supplied the lovers Of
smal-heer chronicles with budget of useful
and entertaining knowledge had he been Sc
verely cross-questoned. Tie Queen, as we sur
missed yesterday, was not on board the Alberta at
tho Town Regatta. She drove into West Cowes
during the day, and so did the Princess OF Wales
A good deal of commotion WIS caused by an
eccentric lady OF title insisting upon taking hold
OF the Princess carriage and following it along
Princes Green. A crowd quickly began to form,
and the people hardly knew what to do, although
they felt that IL was necessary that something
should be done. Her Royal Hghness, however,
regarded the matter in the best conceivable good
humor, and her Iadyship at length released her
hold and put an end to the scene