The New York herald., 1874-07-17

would not take place till six o'clock. Three hours
OF patient waiting on the not banks OF lake; but
the audience stood II with cOmmendaOe patience.
The ladies only the more thoroughly canOpied
themselves beneath their big umbrellas, while gen.
temen ground the,r nees @ n tne oank ana enewed
and politicians gathered IN groups To- discuss tha
third term.
At six o'clock the cannon finally doomed from
the direction of snake ilill, and a hundred thou
sand eyes were turned TO the starting point, three
miles TO the south ward In a moment there
busy scene among the nine crews Away In sho
distance with heavy opera glasses couad De seen
the white and orange or Princeton the Que eno
white OF Cornell, the Magenta OF Harvard. the lay
ender OF the Weseyans, the blue OF Yale, the blue
and the S purple o" Of Winams koi on second sight
the lavender Of the % WesIeyans not there Then
Colonel Ritchie comes rushing In TO say tnas the
whitecaps on the lake have
swAMPED THE STAKEBOATs.
"Tne stakeooats are sunk, the dickens Id -
pay" he says, swinging his hands, lana We ca
have no race tO-day-it Is too windy"
Then comes painful ieehng among the KNOWING
ones The people do not know what Is the matter.
In y lew minutes the wind uls. 1t Is six O'Clock!
"A little after, perhaps. We can have race YETI
says commodore Brady. getting lnto smas
followed by the other steamers. The great crowd
cheer for It is an indication that the race rs to
take place In % fifteen minutes the smau stsa%cr
Snake Hill and the crews got into line. six specks
can be seen ON the water-that Is all any one noe
the referees steamer returned towards MoOn's.
'sruE RACE Is POSTPoNED.n
''It is postponedr shouts race man.
The people take up tine cry and.there ls gen
eral shout along the crowd. mo race to-day; 1t ts
Oh,~w6at grow went up from 10000 throats-
as the decision was made known. Then coma
SCRAMBLE BACK TO TOWN.
. me scramble, the rush, the lam the Squeeze
neua sne Gat the Snasang o. eessn Sse howl tas
omnibus and hack had been bringing the 30.0oe
people to the Lake. When the time came to
The hackmen had the hungry crowd packed
four miles from their smoking dinners The hack
men appreciated this situation OF things and CON-
menced work accordingly. only milllonnaires werd
taken first, people who could buy the hacks Gus
and out; then came well-to-do people, VINO could
advance the price OF span OF horses, and then thd
poorer classes, who almost handed the hackmen
their pocketDooks Hacks started Tor Saratoea
with eight people crowded inside, three outside
and small boys hanging on behind. Hay wagons
were pressed into service and a great many young
ladies walked in. In TACT, the most amusing part 0l
the race was the race OF the pedestrians back ID
Saratoga.
The Disappointment I'm tho City.
There certainly has been no recent event III the
sporting world which has commanded such gen.
eral interest outside Of il. Yesterday, thanks to
the interesting and exhaustive HERALD regatts
edition. every schoolbOy in town could under
stand as much about "outriggers, "scus."
"shells," 'latch rowlocks" and the University
crews as his elders; and even the seminary
misses had their sly bets OF gloves and ribbons On
favorte coors, prompted, doubtless, by the prefer
ences OF "big brothers."
At the Stock Exchange the brokers left or deal
1ng in the last hours Of business, aud 'bulls" ana
"bears'' bought pools in the Long Room on their
IA vOrtes. AT the hotels the stock indicators wero
eagerly watched Tor Jews, and when the postpone
ment Of the race was announced until SIX O'Clock
the excitement seemed to increase. The cOnver-
sation in the street cars was magically diverted
from the weather, and such names as Harvard"
"Yae,n "COrnell" &C., sounded strangely from
bps that never lisped in a "'Varsty." OF course,
in the drinking saloons, the race mOnopOlized tho
interest and every Knowing one had bought =
Paris Mutual pool l0r SIS on the winning boat, ana
was already speculatng on what It would pay.
Merchants and clerks, bankers and brokers saun-
tered into the Hobbies OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
the evening to hear the result, and when 1t was
announced that o postponement had taken place
account OF the weather, there was mutual dis
appointment and criticism.