Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. EXCLAIMED AT THE HOOK The Yachts Fail to Make
 a Race. HAN[AN WINS AT SHEEPSHEAD. Meon|ighters Abroad In Ireland. ALPHONSO HOPEFUL OF PEACE. A Young WOInan's Terri
 ble Revenge.
THE RuRITAN IN THE LEAD.

THE PURITAN IN THE LEAD.
 Hut the wind Goes Down and the
 Yachts Make No Race-The Yankee
 Vessel Outpoints Her British Rival
 All over the Course.
 NEW YORK, Sept 7.-The first day of the series of races which are to decide whether England can build cutters to sail faster than America's centerboards, and whether Ameri- ca shall keep the Americas cup, opened cloudy with light wind from the northwest. A heavy fog hung over Manhattan Island and people looked out of windows and won- dered if it would be safe to go to see the race Soon it cleared a little and the excur- sion boats and tugs and vessels of every sort started for the Sandy Hook lightship from where the Genesta and Puritan were to start we'll filled with good people who almost unanimously wished that the Puritan would win. The sun came out about 9:30 and gave brighter appearance to mat ters. But down in the lower bay was a bank ot fog which made things look dubious and there was much conjecture aboard the big excursion boats about collisions and oth- CT accidents. The tug Luckenback, carrying the cup committee of the New York Yacht club and about fifty others, left pier B. North River, at S:15 8. m. She met hun dreds of vessels of every description all bound for the same destination. Everything which could float was brought into requisi- tion and the karbor never seemed so full The excursion steamers were crowded f oh CTS, sloops and catboats sailed along with the light wind. During the morning the yachts that came down to Sandy Hook Bay yesterday were anchored in mass with scarcely room enough to permit them to swing with the tide clear of each other. When the boats came down the bay from New York the fog had lifted, but there was no breeze. The various craft clustered about the Sandy Hook lightship and the spectators became impatient because something was not done. The Genesta drifted about with everything ready for start. She was criticised severe ly by some and admired by others. Her crew all in spotless white duck lounged about apparently not thinking that they were being discussed by Americans, some of whom knew a good deal about yachting and many of whom knew nothing about it at all.
 The Puritan wandered up aimlessly around in tow of the tug Ward with mainsail and clubtopsai1 set and the big jibs ready to let go waiting for sailing breeze. As she went slowly along she was greeted with guns from the yachts and salute from the excursion boats and tugs. Her tanned crew responded by waving their caps. Jay Gould's big steamer Atalanta moved digni6edly about. Tba CfiIaffn ltoana6 the fleet slowly for while and then she put on steam and darted hither and thither to show that she could go fast if she wanted to. The wind acted badly. All that could be said of it was that it was trying to blow from the there was was any race at all it would be an easy thing for Genesta. Talking about this a prominent member of the New York Yacht club said: If the Britisher can beat us she will do it today but it is really my honest belief that she cannot beat us even if every advantage is in the cutters favor :" At 1:10 p. m. and just as everybody was getting tired of waiting and when there seemed no alternative but to go home with out any excitement the preparatory signal was given by the Luckenback A very light wind was blowing from about southeast. Both yachts were standing out on the star board tack when the starting signal was given.
 
 put about simultaneously. The Puritan crossed the line at 1885 and the Genesta at 1:36:10. They went about five miles to- gether, holding their relative positions, the Puritan pointing closer as rule. The friends of the Boston boat saw nothing before them but victory. They congratulated each other and cheered. Apparently the, Genesta thought she could gain something by split ting tacks and she went about, but the Puri- tan quickly followed and the Englishman re- turned to the port tack. So did the Puritan They stood away for some time, the Puritan continuing to outpoint her rival. At 3:11 the Genesta went about and almost soon the Puritan followed. The Genestas big mainsail had a wrinkle on the leach She seemed to try to point up too close and the Puritan gained slowly but steadily.
 At 6:3O the wind was so light that it be- came apparent that the yachts could not sail over the course in the prescribed time-seven hours-and after one more reach they wore ship and started for home. Neither yacht got within five miles of the turning raft af- ter having sailed a course of probably fifteen miles dead to windward. The yacht clubs of the East were well represented. Aboard the steamer H. T. Boyd was the Newark Yacht club. The Joseph Stickney carried the Larchmont club and the New York and Eastern Yacht clubs viewed the race from the iron steamer Taurus. There was scarce 1y any betting.
 Sandy Hook, II p. m.-The Puritan and the Genesta were lowed in and anchored here at 10:15 p. m. A reporter of the United Press boarded the Puritan on her arrival and in 8 conversation with Captain Joe Ellsworth the latter stated that they had had an even run with the Puritan leading until 7:30, when the wind fell and they were nearly becalmed. The captain gives the Puritan the precedence for speed and says she can beat the Genesta. The Horseshoe is fairly bejewelled tonight with hundreds of lights from the various yachts lying at anchor. Owing to the fail ure to sail the race to-day during the pre- scribed time another attempt will be made tomorrow should the wind be favorable.
 The cup now held in this country by vir- tue of the sailing of the yacht America was won thirty-four years ago and has never been recaptured by English sails. It was off, fered by the Royal Yacht club in 1851 dur ing the great Worlds fair of that year, open to yachts from all nations. The race in which the America carried off the cup was sailed on August 22, there being eighteen en- tries. The America won by twenty minutes ahead of the best of the other vessels, the Aurora. The cup thus won became the property of the New York Yacht club in July, 1857, the America's owners hay ing transferred it to the club. In 1870 an attempt was made to recover the cup. The race came off on August Sth of that year. between the English yacht Cam bria, owned by James ;AA,shbury, and fleet of American yachts. The Cambria came in tenth in the race, the Magic first, and the old America second. In 1871 another trial was made by MT. Ashbury, who seemed de- termined to get back the cup. In this con- test the American yachts Columbia and Sap pho won five out of the eight races arranged for. Twice more, in 1876 and in 1881, Am erican yachtsmen had to defend the cup. The contestants came from Canada and in them the crack yachts were beaten badly by the Americans.
 A LITTLE GIRLS SAD FATE. Her Mother looks On While Her Step. father Kicks Her to Death.
 LAFAYETTE, Sept. "A horrible story | comes from Pine Village, Warren county Ind, twenty miles from here. Last Wednes day night Harvey Ogborn while drunk beat and kicked his stepdaughter Mamie, sever years old, into insensibility and then threw her down stairs, inficting injuries from which she died next morning. The child'i own mother, whom Ogborn married year | .-.- 1,,1xarl oy1, with shooEiper