Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-24
O FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE WIND WAS TOOLIGHq' And The Yachts Make No
 Race. LAWN TENNIS AT NEWPORT. An Exciting Foot Race In
 England. MEXICO SETS CUTTING FREE. Mrs. Cleveland Opens An
 Exposition.



 | The Wind Light And The Yachts Un- able To Make The COurse-The Puri- tan Leads Her Nearest Rival The Maydower By Half Mile When The Return Signal Is Ordered.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The second race for the selection of competitor for the Ameri-
 ca's cup to-day turned. out to be no race at
 all. For something like four hours the
 four big sloops Atlantic, Puritan, Priscilla
 and Mayfower tackled over the windward
 course, but with the wind that prevailed
 they might have tackled till doom's day and
 would have never reached the red buoy
 that bobbed on the ocean wave twenty
 miles off the Jersey coast. About 8:30 the
 tug E. G. Burgess with the America's cup
 committee steamed away from pier and
 headed for Bay Ridge where ske took the
 Nayfower in tow and headed across for
 Staten Island to get the f'iron pot" Priscilla
 at the tail end of another hawser. With the
 two beauties strung out in tandem fashion
 the Burgess started down to sea and at the
 same time the tug Scandinavian picked up
 the Puritan and the Atlantic. On the way
 down the bay Commodore Gerry's big steam
 yacht Electric hove up near the
 Burgess and the commodore invited
 the committee to come aboard and make the yacht their regatta headquarters. James D. Smith and Fred Krebs were on the tug at the time and observing that Lieutenant Hem and his wife were on the bridge of MT. Ger rvs yacht they concluded to join them. A boat was lowered from the Electra into which IL |, al and were rowed to the flagship. That was about 1O:30. Half an hour later the two tugs, with two yachts apiece in tow, passed the point of the Hook. Of this point the threw off the Puritan and At lantic, but there was such dead calm that their prospect of ever reaching the ightship under canvas was hopeless. After a time the tug picked them up again. At 1850 the Electra anchored in line a little southeast of the Scotland light. The four yachts had a short time previously been thrown off from their tugs and were endeavoring was weak and they merely drifted. Shortly after noon the wind freshened and Commodore Gerry signalled the boats to come to the flagship for orders. The direc- | ions consisted in the designation of a south, | southeast course twenty miles to windward | and return, but the instructions seemed al- | most farcical. Several steam yachts, includ l ng the Viola, Viscon, Ocean Gem, Meteor | md Wanda lowered about the lightship.
 At 12 o'clock the whistle for the start was | blown from the Electra. The yachts were | Ill beating to leeward and it was some time | before they crossed the line, which they did | n the following order: Atlantic 12:1S:45, Priscilla 12:18:47, Puritan 12:19 Mayfower
 2:21. They all stood off on the port tack long the Jersey coast, the Puritan usurping l he lead over the Atlantic within five minutes after crossing the line. At bout five minutes to 1 o'clock the Atlantic's topmast toppled over to ee and her rigging dragged in the shrouds. The wind was light and it was surprise to everybody that her spar should come down. She immediately luffed into the wind and her rev went to work disentangling her gear. Toe Ellsworth, however, was not to be ,luffed by so small matter as the parting # topmast and setting his balloon topsail leaded off on the eastward tack, nearly ouling the Puritan he did so, md about o'clock the Puritan leading the 'ther boats went about on the eastward tack. The Nayflower, which came second, next vent off on the tack. The wind had been ,radually dying out and it was evident the ace could not be made. As it was the Puritan ed the Mayfower by about half 8 mile, the Priscilla came next and the Atlantic with her broken spar hanging in the igging followed up in the rear, 1t 443 gun was fired from the Electra and he signal 'B. V." hoisted, indicating ''come. lome." The yachts were then about twelve niles off shore and gaily they rounded and quared away for the Hook. The next race will be on Wednesday. The judges tug will leave at 8 a. m. instead of S:30 and the achts will be lowed to the Scotland light Moreover the course to be sailed will be only
 fifteen instead of twenty miles to windward further general instructions will be given ron the judges boat on Wednesday morning