The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-11

On the sound the at met and tor
mented with battling AIRS and II looked for
that another doldrum DAY was to be experienced as
mile or SO to the southwark old coasting schooncrs
were seen, some with booms on the starboard and
ohcrs with them on tho port sdo, almost tho radius
Of punch bowl The feeling that Gains and catspaws
and the sottest of pipes were 10 accompany them
Plum Gut ongendsred an unpleasant feeling; but
happily the rippled with breeze from
tho northwest that filed the canvas and intro
duced merry dance that continued all the way
the big stretch Of water.
THEIR WAY.
The soops in instant began to 90 cloan away from
the balance, and approaching the lghship off Bart
let's reef streaming ahead jam wind VI
pace that astonishing The tickle sioop windward
led tho squadron q! "a" WIND, with the Vixen On
was the Vision, with the Active sailing marvelously
we'll and cIosng upon the Rear Commodore's boat in
handsome style. These were all within the radius OF
malt Y mile. The stanch Ciio standing well up the
wndward had tho post OF honor OF the schooners an
weather quarter while the Madeleine, as far away
In her wase, was walking along in the
old form she was accustomed to show IN years gone
by Thon came tho Estelle, and on ner Ice bow the
Wanderer, doing n0biy, and no doubt satisfying the
critics and those who think somethtpg was wrong
with her wnen racing from Glen Cove 10 New Lon
thorough fiddle tune but few could catch
worked along finely and trnc, and on her weather
quarter the Cytie, the new stamford yacht that
had already found out that the Estee was too much
for her. while OF the Cbue the Josephine,
Dreadnaught Restless. Rambler Nettie aud Nsreid,
the latter the double hulcd wonder
THE DRRADNAUGHT's TURN
This was Just the breeze TO keep the head or the
Drcadnaught stcady, and whom the ligh,ship
abreast of the Josephine the big boat was dying
through tho lee Of tho latter In magnificent STYLE and
going by her rs II she was as moti0nloss
pillow. Then the prcadnaught slipped past the
the same shape IS she had passed the Josephine,
rapidly began picking up the Estcllc with The cool
breeze she brought along with her. This was moro
difficult job however, than she had before experienced,
the Estelle provokinsy kept her bow
to the front for half an hour, but finally
the long keel OF tho Drcsdnaught pushed hor
than chds play fthe winds had held steadily with
the Estelle ~ with her bigger sister Tho Wanderer
was at this time also working by tho Estele, aud
at 9m sos. she had the latter In her
up tho Clio, but the Countess of DuGerin's victor,
standing upright as II her inasts had been stuck in
rock, gradually closed the lead between her and tho
smaller boats, and at 9m Sos. the latter was astern.
OFF ORIENT POINT.
Nothing seemed to stop the flashing, meteor-lko
OF the sioops that At the trent and they
stood straight for tho beacon OF orient Point
which they reached In advance OF all the schooners,
In the last four or Ave miles the ldcr was also
closing in on the leaders OF her class, and tho
10 tho latter Both these making a
thread IN the and TO the observing watchers
the OF tussel seemed to DO that they would
near tho front il the wind held IL did not, however,
much TO the chagrn OF their sailing masters and the
Madeleine was thus enabled 80 TAR the beacon, to
breeze would not hold proceeded to clcw down
his topsais and make such other pre- parattons TO
wait the coming OF the flagship that indicated that he
oil tho bcef that the race stopped at that mark ;
lenes owner, well the rest, understood that or
the Long Beach Point in Gardeners Bay, was tho end
OF the battle and not the beacon of Orient Point
The time OF the yachts was taken at the beacon 40