Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-13
WILMINGTON WINS AGAIN
YACHTS RACING FROM NEHPORT
TO NEW BELlFOhD.
lac Yacht fiuiit by the IsarIan &
Hn0liingsNGorth Company Lcnyes
tic Puritan ~ Minutes Behind
Fine WORK by fiie ssrncic.

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Ar0liingsSrorth Company Lcnyes
| the Fmri1as ~ Minutes Bscbind-
Fine WORK by fhc ssrncic.
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NEW BEDFoRD, Aug. 5.-The Prlscilln
viii not, MS intllnated by some haplS aud
Jocular Bostonians be broken M ,lnu sold
Tor old IRON, ut least not Immediately. IN
the 80 mile run from Newport 20 this
town to-day She came in ii minutes 16
| seconds ahead of the Yankee sloop.
Joseph Z. Earle's trim little sloop Gracie
also got the better OF the white boat by 2
minutes and seconds.
Only a light air from the northeast
.rippled Newport hnrbor when the fleet,
decimated BY Mondays disasters, but
| sll gorgeous. hoisted sail and lifted
anchors this morning. As the graceful
white sloop Puritan glided peacefully
past Fort Adams two muscular British
tars rapidly climbed the rigging of the
cutter Genesta, grasped one utter the
other the peak and throat halyards, and
descending by them to the deck, looking
like II string OF long beads, hoisted the
cutters big sail This is not the usual
American way Of setting sloop's mann.
sail, and il attracted much atten-
tion, The fleet was to have started
from q line between Brenton's Reef
lightship and the flagship rolynia,
ut 9.45 O'clock but ~ TINT time
only few yachts Aud half sailed and
half drifted thither. AT 10 O'clock the
breeze subsided completely, flags hung
idly from peaks and topnli,sts and si.iis
fiopped lazily. While waiting for wind
some OF the yachtsmen took /. DIP in the
sea. The calm lasted over half IN hear,
and was then dispelled by n light wind
out of the south at IL O'Clock, when the
Polynia's whistle sounded the starting
signal. The wind was brisk. The only
relics of Mondays turbulent weather was
long roll of the sea. The air was full
of sunshine and the sky clear, save for a
few feathery clouds.
The Oracle was then lowering near the
line and at 12:05:53 she skinned across.
The Mischief, Vixen, Clio, Clytie and
Princess followed. The wind was abeam,
and it sent the yachts dancing over the
long rolls merrily. The Genesta, with
working topsail and small jib topsail and
boat in tow, did not cross the line. She
went to leeward OF the flagship, crossed
the Gracie's bow, and went far TO wind
ward of the fleet. The Priscilla crossed
the line at 12:05:24, letting her immense
balloon iib topsail futter out of stops.
The Madeleine, Nirvana, Athlon, Gray
ling and Whileaway skurried across in
the sequence named. The Puritan crossed
at 12:U7;24, and split her balloon jib top
sail in half Just as it broke out of stops.
Another and a smaller jib topsail was Set
Immediately, but not too soon to prevent
the Priscilla from increasing her lead.
These yachts crossed after the Puritan;
Marian Wentworth, Norma, Estelle,
Norseman, Dauntless, Isis, Fortuna, ,Sper-
ANA, Dreadnaught, Regina and Wave
Crest.
The British cutter Stranger did not
cross the line, but followed the example
of the Genesta, and went to leeward. At
r. 16 the Genesta was quarter of a mile
to windward and abeam of the white
sloop, which seemed to be desirous of a
trial of speed with the Briton.
AT 1925 the Priscilla passed the Oracle.
and had to overtake only the Stranger.
She accomplished this mt 12.45, and the
horizon on her bow WINS then clear of
yacht canvas. AT O'Clock the iron sloop
was in the van, with the Stranger mile
ON her weather beam. The Puritan was
gradually climbing up on the Oracle, half
a mile to windward, and nearly abeam of
the white sloop was the Genesta. Her
English skipper carelessly worked her
tiller, gazing thoughtfnlly at the Puritan.
He seemed to he sizing her up. He was
| evidently not going to show the Yankees
the capabilities of his own boat. The
| Atalanta and the Grayling had u pretty
| fight up TO O'clock Then the Atalanta
received knock-down blow, the Gray
| ling, after several unsuccessful efforts,
| getting to the wihdward Of her.
At 40 j.. NJ. Browns handsome
schooner Nirvana, originally the sloop
Julia, led the schooners. The Puritan
| passed the Nirvana mt LIE. They Gray
ling set her enormous balloon jib topsail
and, kicking up showers of spray, lett all
the schooners astern at l rs The Genesta,
which had voluntarily dropped astern,
was then a mile away on the windward
| quarter of the Yankee boat.
The Priscilla passed the Hen and
Chickens Lightship at 1:5l:45, the Oracle
about five minutes later, and squared
away for Clark's Point. There was
general setting of spinakers to the star
board. The Genesta was long way
astern, and, notwithstanding her apparent
intention not to race, she dropped her
boom and set her spinaker also. She did
not catch up any by this.
The famous America, with Gen. Butler
aboard, hoveIed near the Dumping MS
the fleet, under pyramids of white cloth,
| MeLlt lALu htM btulOIl IlittDOIt Witulu u
few miles of Clark's Point The jibing
of mainsails caused the spinakers to be
taken in. All New Bedford, which is
nothing if not nautical, came out in all
sorts of small craft, and lined the wharves
and bluffs to see the fleet, the finest that
was ever here, come in. They rather
expected the Yankee sloop to fill their
vision first, but they were hearty in their
commentator of the Priscilla, when they
learned that she was the leader.
The Genesta made no effort to display
speed. She almost drifted across the line
letting the wind spill out of her close
hauled sails. When she got up opposite
the town She turned and started out on
the starboard tack, pointing for the
beacon of Sconticut Neck. Had she not
gone about quickly she would have
smashed her bottom on reef. A sue
cession of blasts on the Polynia's whistle
told her of her danger. She anchored
outside the harbor of Buffers Flat. Fol-
lowing is the record Of the race