Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. AFTER FIVE ATTEMPTS The Yachts Sail Over the
 Course. IA VICTORY FOR THE YANKEE. Fast Sailing and a Fine
 Race. SCHO0L MATTERS AT BOSTON EnsIand and the Caroline
 Islands.
SCHOOL MATTERS AT BOSTON
THE PURITAN IN THE FORE.

Leading the British Yacht A Process
 sion Over the Course-The Genesta
 Splits the Yoke of Her TOpmast and
 Is Given a Day to Make Repairs.
 NEW YORK, Sept 14.-At last, after many attempts the first of the series of races which are to decide whether the America's cup shall stay in America or go to England has been sailed, and the Puritan has won. The morn ing broke cloudy and overcast with a good sailing breeze from the southwest which the weather prophets said would probably hold all day. But it only held for little while and it turned out to be a purely Puritan day the sea smooth and the wind light. The race was to be over the inside course and therefore there was an immense crowd of steamboats, tugs and sailing vessels of every description early on their way to the starting point in the Narrows. The excursion boats were crowded and everybody bubbled over with enthusiasm. All night long the two rival yachts lay at anchor-the Genesta off Tompkinsville and the Puritan off Stapleton The sailors on both were astir early getting things ready. Both yachts began to set their sails about nine o'clock. The big mainsails were swayed up and the men rode the topsail halliards. At 9:30 both got un- der way and sailed out into the middle of the Narrews, tacking across and back again waiting to start. A large fleet of excursion steamers and tugs brilliantly decked with flags and bunting lay back of the judges boat and stake boats. At 1915 the Luckenbach blew 8 number of short sharp blasts which meant that the champions must get ready. Then at 1925 @ pre- paratory signal was given and both yachts headed for the line. The Puritan crossed the line at 10:32:50 and the Genesta at 1O:32:1O. Both vessels stood over to- ward the Long Island shore on the starboard tack, the Puritan to windward. The first stretch was short one and at 10:37 the Genesta went about followed ten seconds later by the Puritan. The enthusiasts aboard the excursion boats perceived that the Puritan gaining bit and they cheer ed and whistles were blown making a deaf ening noise. The wind freshened bit and both boats heeled over under it until they seemed in imminent danger of upsetting. Then it slackened and swerved around little to the west. The Puritan caught this change first and laid her course directly toward Sandy Hook and she gained rapidly on her oppo- nent. The parapets of Fort Wadsworth were black with people who cheered and waved hats, handkerchiefs and parasols as the racers went by. Just at the entrance of the Narrows the Genests went to windward and improved her position. Then the Puri- tan caught slant of wind and she went ahead so rapidly that at the upper Hospital island the Genesta was fully mile astern and the Puritan sailing fast. The wind act ed queerly It came in puffs and from diff ferent directions. At 11:37 there came a slight blow from the south and the sails of the Puritan futtered so that she was obliged to fill away on the port tack. The Genesta caught it a moment later, but she was prepared for it and did not go about. Then the breeze died away almost entirely. Both tackled several times until they were away in toward the Jersey shore and finally the Puritan stood away on the stretch which was to carry her past the Southwest Spit buoy, the first turning point ill the race. This buoy was passed by the Puritan at 12:20:15 and by the Genesta at 19:24:50 P. m.
 There was mighty scream of delight from & hundred whistles and cheers from a thou sand throats when the Puritan rounded the spit and headed for the stakeboat. The big fleet was spread out from Sandy Hook to the NATIONS. 1u0 NdCHuS SuAeIeu u SOON from the wash of the steamers, particularly the Genesta, the people in their anxiety to be near the American forgetting that they were retarding the plucky foreigner. But it did not make great deal of of, difference because the wind was so light. The Puritan rounded the Sandy Hook lightship, the stakeboat, at 2:15:20 and started for home. The Genesta turned at 2:20, both on the port tack At 3:35:15 the Puritan rounded the Southwest spit, the Genesta at 3:42. The sail home procession. In spite of the fact that the Genesta set her spinnaker she could not make up the lest ground. The inn mense fleet kept up a din that must have caused much wonder to the fishes and it was increased when the Puritan neared the finish by salute from Forts Wadsworth and Ham ilton. The Puritan crossed the line at 4:39:05. The Briton was sixteen and forty seven seconds behind her. In the run from buoy No. II the Yankee gained ten minutes and forty-two seconds. She beat the Genes ta over the course by sixteen min utes forty-seven seconds actual time and 16:19 corrected time. The course was thirty eight miles and the Puritan allowed the Bri- ton twenty eight seconds. The record is as follows: