, 1874-08-30
Star island and Its Points OF In
terest.

For i.s one to 60, hut another to come,
taye cast balcful shadow the day g festivities
Everybody has had godspecd for
TIE GREAT YACHT REGATTA,
.rd good word for it's deTiser and forwarder,
Mr. John H. Poor, of sSThe Oceanic" Stal
Island. Naye-god sud wind-god. roseidon and
Ampnittite, "Eurus, Notus, aud Africus to-
rethe,." and the whole race Of Nereids aud
Tritons G1anci and phosci, must have felt thei1
sous stirred and their fingers eager to grasp
trident. chariot-rein, or dolphin-steed. and curb
the winds and the sounding tempests in favor OF
the sea-race, recalling ancient heroic ago, and
ro-euacting Greek romance and gala-day on New
Enelana4 " rock-bound coast" However, these
high diyipities may hare viewed the contest as
compared With those of the Phryean biremes,
and "Mrestheus, Sergestus, and the brave
Cioanthrs," tho patron dcities OF the Shoals,
whom old William Wood describes
The king Of waters. the sea-shouldertng Whale,
The auufsnR Grampus. With the oily Scale,
The tt7zm-p -presag3ng Porpus. Uer1lng-1ogge,
1ine-shearing sharke, the Catfish. and sea-pogSe
The eca1e-fenced Sturgeon, cony-mouthed Holhbut,
The douude111g S2Enmon, Goldfish, Greet1lgut
Cole, Haddocte, Haicke, the ThorpbacRe and the
6cate,
conso,t;pe He,1ings and the bony shad,
Bie-bcslied Alcwivea, MacEills richly clad,
1ns Spotted Lamprons. Ee:cs, the Lamperies,
hare never seen such commotion in their
Fatery domain since the golden age Of the
islands in tue seventeenth century, when their
world-rcnorned AZ Eshlng-stages" drew hitber
The shipping OF all nations. And, though the
Delphic orscle be wanting. ne had what suits
the Yankee far bstter,-the ''guess" OF odd
Probabilities and the Oldest Shoa1er on Star,
nf &t,n f1f Y+t,ic of ffnr
late breakfast, still hung over Kttery and Now
castle, and shut of from view Rye. and Haup-
ton, and Salisbury, and made dim and indistinct
the Whales Back, and our ne,ghboss, Smutty
Nose, Duck, white, and Malaga Is1ands-the day
would get prove to be '>gailors delight"
1t last the rain ceased to drizzle On the gray
rocks, the fog lifted, q bit Of blue in sky and sea
appeared. and finally the sun burst forth IN all
lis spIendor, chasing away the rolling vapors,
and disclosing to view the broad e1panse OF
Eptera
ALIVE WITH EEA-CR4FT
Of various desziptions,-yachts, steamboats,
schoouers, row-5oats, etc.,-each crowded with
interested spectators, or manned by eager, eK-
pectant ciews. Flags and pennhnts stteamed in
the breeze, whistles sh1iekcd and horns footed
from boat to boat in iocose responses, hats aud
handkerchiefs Eaved, st1ains Of music doated
over the water, and sigual-g guns, booming, an
nounced, at half-psst Il o'clock, that tho races
had begun. Gen. Buffers yacht, the America,
started first, amidst rounds Of applause from
the throng gathered On sea and land; for the
rocks, dotted with payilions and awnings at
ya11ous points OF view, and the broad rerandas
Of the Oceanic House, Afforded fine prospect
Of the harbor 6nd the raco-courEe. With glaes-
and 31iY0 yTn tfy7tr
sails as one By ono they sped away toward the
red buov, the goal near Hitrs Head, aud bent
md bowed their swelling canras to the stiff
oreeze. Only the practiced eye or the near be-
holder could follow the various competitors for
fa1no and prize with any intelligent zeal. So we
abandoned all thoughts Of the main point OF
interest, Who was to win,- and gave ourselves
ap, for the time being, to enjoyment Of the
beauty Of the scene.
IT Is EDEECH1BAnLE,
his sudden inspiration and sense OF triumphant
ecstasy which one gets from the contrast Of the
Eca, alive, and throbbing. and palpitating with
its human activities, and hopes, and delights, to
The ocean as it wes but day ago.
beating the lone crag with its low monotone and
perpetual daeh Ct waters. Then, it seemed so
vast, 30 remote and disepgaged from al the be
petty concerns Of mems lives, part of the
Ete1nities: now it looks proud, fond, caressinc,
paterEal, tenderly bearing On its broad breast
the tiuiest bark committed to it, rs somo stern
EEt 1AL0eT L3keE TO MS afIQH the
infant Of days, IS il he feared to hurt it With his
too rude touch. How gay aud fearless the row.
boats and smaller sai1-boats ccud from eteamer
to steamer, and from yacht to yacht, on their
er7ands. Liliputs lowering about some huge
Gu!liver they seem; and how picturesque the
7nft aro decked with thousand devices aud
Eatring colors, and bright with the varying cog
TUNES Of the reWs. Then the names. There is
eonething exhilarating in tho pleasant surprise
OF spelling them out as We glide about among the
boats, or study thc letters with our glass. They
haTe certain daror OF
ROMANCE AND sEsTEEyTAI. SUGGESTION
as ole sees them At tha boats PROV .1e.ving the
oiue. which is quite hopeleesly los md gone
when ne meet them in printed columns of time
tables IN newspapers, Just az our eea-
Shells and pebbles, so bright and beautiful
een.a eeaee1a tho no., lapse Of tho wave on the
clam and -snail-she1ls, when we take them from
thelr bflne-washed beds to our cabinet-shelyes
ana EXHIBIT them among our treasures. So I
oao Eag that, to the careless eye. the names TINT
stA Keep for me something Of tho charm Of this t
morning. summcr-sea will seem tho merest trite
eonmonplaces- The Sparkle, the Posey. the
1onata, the 6prite, the Magic Nautilus, Ripple,
y bsfe11ns, Curlew, and the Agnes. Aline, Gra- |
ne. Napoleon, Saxon, and such like, hint Of
fr1end, lover, hero, fair women and brave |
lseo OF appropriate names to vessels it seems |
10 NE. las something more in it than the nero |
natter Of fact convenience Of designation
Though Ee have = thousand chairs or pieoos OF |
furniture, or carriages, wagons landaus, phae-
'ons. etcetera, one never thinks Of giring each
aame; and even Streets, which, "a somebody |
nay remind me, NC 'name," keep always the |
st." appendage, indication that they never |
Use IN ou- estimation above the level OF thor |
'rehfares. But with tho names OF our vessels
! is otherwise. They cease to be the boat Liz
he, tho ship Nautilus, the yacht Curlew
nd become the Lizzie, the Nautilus, |
he Curlev, With al almost individuality |
'f their own. And, when one sees how tho !
racetuI. majestic, strong ship yields to tho skill
II the helmsman, and becomes, to skillful touch
i ropo snd sail, obedient we1-nigh :s is the hu- |
nan body itself to the will informing and direct
oe its mechanism, one can partly appEehend the
ea-captain's strong and sensitive affection for
rs good ship. But ah! how many braTo heart
nd stout ship
HAVE GONE DOWN n rHEsE sEAf
nat nov LOOK SO smiling! And, when the
White Isle kndles it's great red star tonight,
rho knows but it will be to throw its beams over |
be hsp1oss victims whose bobes will then pe |
runched by the rock-teeth Of the treachcrous
1aot that now caresscs! Such forebodirgs soms
ear1u hearts could not forbear to whisper as