Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-07
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE YACHTSAT NEWPORT
Looking Out For Favoring
Breezes.
FAST FLYERS IN THE FLEET.
The Race For The Amer
ica's Cup.
DOIhGS OF The GRAND ARMY.
Cutting Found Guilty I'm
Mexico.
DOINGS OF The GRAND ARMY.
Cutting Found Guilty I'm
Mexico.
THE WHITE WINGED FLYERS

| THE WHITE WINGED FL ERS
Ready For To-Day's Race For The
| Goelet Cups-The America VIII Run
| Over The Course-England's Fastest
| Schooner With The Fleet.
| NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. 6.-The weather
cleared shortly after noon and to draw
the yachtsmen from the seclusion whittier a
rainy forenoon had driven them it was de-
cided to have the cutter and dingy race as ar
ranged for in New London. The race was
called for 4 o'clock and the handsome four
cared cutters shot over the imaginary line
nearly abreast of each other. Their course
then lay through the harbor, to and around
the cutter Bedouin and back to the starting
| point, distance one mile. The race was very
closely contested and the excitement was at
| high point as the boats neared the home
They passed over the finish in the following
| order: Dauntless, Gitana, Nooya aud Phan-
tom, the Dauntleas leading the Gitana about
two boat lengths. The two-oared dingy race
| followed over the same course, the Compel
itors being from the Fanny, Hildegarde and
Athlon. The Fanny won by two boat lengths
| over the Hildegarde and the Athlon brought
/ up the rear. The winners were heartily
| cheered both from the yachts and the
wharyes.
Wind and plenty of it is what n thousand
yachtsmen and sailors in Newport harbor are
praying for as they lie down in their snug
berths for good nights rest before the great
contest of the morrow. A good whole sail
breeze is the only thing now needed to make
the race for the Goelet cups one of the grand
est ever sailed in American waters. Of course
the folks on board the Puritan do not care
how hard it blows, for the beautiful white
sloop from the Hub has often proved that
she can stand up as stiff as a board in the
heaviest weather and up to this time nothing
has been able to pass her in a twelve knot
breeze. General Pain and his friends on the
other white Yankee are not afraid to cope
with the Puritan, Atlantic or Priscilla in
good breeze, and Phil Ellsworth, the design
er of the big black sloop Atlantic, has often
boosted of what his favorite creation would
be able to accomplish if she only had air
enough to bring out her best qualities
Though the Priscilla has in the past found
out that light airs seemed to be her beet hold,
her owner, Commodore A. Cass Garfield,
we'll knows that if his black beauty is to de-
fend the Americas cup against the Galatea
she must be able to show good heels in
schooners do not care how it blows;
the more the wind the better
and tonight all agree that they want good
wind tomorrow. The old shellbacks are
gazing intently into the clear sky tonight
trying to find out what old Boreas' scheme is
for tomorrow. There is not a trace of a
breeze tonight. The wind has been blowing
in light and uncertain puffs from the south
east to-day and the surface of the water in
the harbor has been like a mill pond. Old
be like this-a day of Gains and light winds
Still weather predictions are "mighty onsar
TIM things and the wind is liable to spring
up from any quarter at almost any moment |
The harbor to day has looked like a
huge forest of trees barren Of foliage |
together that it would almost be |
a difficult task to sail small catboat be- |
tween them. There are dozens and dozens
of crack yachts whose fame is known from |
one end of the country to the other. There |
are old veterans among them which have
won mugs for a score of years and whose |
black sides covered with new paint and |
whose newly polished trimmings fairly |
shone in the bright sunlight they lay at |
anchor. And then there many new
boats built this year and last which to- |
morrow will probably give some of the old |
ones one of the hottest races they have
ever seen.
The yacht that perhaps attracts the |
most attention and greatest admira- |
ton is the old war horse |
America, which more than thirty years ago |
was able to show her heels to every pleasure |
craft af1oat either in this country or in En- |
gland. General Butler was aboard of her |
nearly all day surrounded by a few friends. |
The America, however, will not be allowed |
to sail in the race tomorrow as she is not en- |
rolled in the New York club, but will proba- |
bly, go around the course. Near the Ameri- |
ca are anchored the little cutter Clara and |
the Fortuna The former made a wonder |
full record this year, having won first prize IN
every race she has entered. She will sail |
against the four big sloops tomorrow. They
will have to give her big allowance and
there not a few yachtsnen who are haz
ardous enough to predict that she stands a
fair chance of winning the cup. Right |
astern of the Clara lies another English cut |
ter, the Stranger, of which great things are
expected. Near her is the famous New Yorker |
Fanny, while further on is her old |
rival the Oracle. In the center of the harbor |
is the famous schooner Montauk, which, |
with stern that looks as if 1t might have
been bitten off short by some sea serpent,
does not seem half SO pretty to Bostonians as
their pride up the harbor, the Fortuna, or
their new pet, the new white schooner Sa-
chem, way down at the further end of the
harbor. Nevertheless the New Workers pin
their faith to their old cup winner and her
famous sister, the schooner Grayling, which |
is also here. The Miranda, the fastest schoon-
er in England, which arrived in this country
d
start The result of match between this
flyer and Americas fastest schooners will be
awaited with the greatest anxiety. The great
event of the day will be the struggle for su-
premacy among the four big sloops, for if
there is good whole sail breeze the contest
will do much toward showing which of them
will have the honor of defending the Ameri-
cas- cup.
The course tomorrow will be triangular
one about forty-fve miles long. starting
from Brenton's reef lightship or vicinity and
will be announced by signal from the judges
boat, depending on the direction of the wind
if possible from the flagship as follows: The
letters 'tK. v" of the international code will
signify a course from the Brentons reef light
to and around the buoy on the north end of
Block Island; thence around stakeboat or
mark displaying the club signal anchored
about two and ive-eighths miles west south
west from the lighthouse at West Island
leaving it on the port bow, thence to the
start, passing to the southwark OF the light
ship. The letters IS. NJ Will slgnlty
course from a line drawn between the red
buoy off Beaver Tale and the judges boat
anchored to the southwark of it, to and
around the Sow and Pigs lightship, leaving
it on the port hand. thence to and around
Hen and Chickens lightship, leaving 1t on
the port hand, thence to the Brentons reef
lightship. passing to the southwark out arg ana De-
tween the lightship and the judges boat
The latter is the one sailed last year in the
aoelet cup races and can can be seen
from any prominent place along on
the shore. The start will be made at ten
o'clock and there will be limit of time in
which the race must be sailed The II entries entries
received up to this evening are as follows:
Sloops-Puritan, Mayhower, Atlantic, Pris-
ella, Hildegarde, Oracle, Bedouin, Huron,
Stranger, Attilon, Cinderella, d ai Clara
lie. Gitana. Fortuna, Miranda, Norma, Mon
tauk, Ruth, Grayling and sachem, The tug
Luekenbach of New York will sbe used used as
the judges boat. A magnificent 1eet OF
steam yachts will follow the racers, headed
by Conmodore Gerrys flagship Electra.
Many of the yachts were brilliantly illumin-
ated early in the evening.
Nominations and fireworks were the order
of the evening. About 10 o'clock the boats
of the Brazilian man-of- war We're brilliantly
| illuminated. half a dozen in number and full
| of men. with the ships band, were towed
| through by the ships steam launch and were
| saluted with artillery by each yacht as they
passed, making complete fusilade.