The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-30


opening regatta of the Club will be sailed
from the clubhouse tomorrow week, and
| great preparations are being made for the
event.
NEW JERSEY YACHT CLUB
The New Jersey Yacht Club, with head
| quarters in the Elysian Fields, Hoboken.
although not an old organization, has q
feet of smart little flyers and q member
| ship of amateur tars who know the
nam sheet from a Delaying pin, and
| do not do all their sailing in the club
house. They are not fancy yachtsmen.
They are sailors and sail their own boats
In fact, when the club was organizing in
August, 1871, at the foot of Fourth street.
where Hudson Square Park is now, the
members were thorough Corinthians in
their ideas, and have remained SO to this
day. They work, and are opposed to shift
ing ballast. They sail their races with
stationery ballast, and limit the crew Of
each boat to one man for each five feet Of
water line.
About fifteen men were present at the
organization, the story of which has often
been told. Only one or two of the charter
members are still in the club. Ex-Commo-
dore Ketcham, who is still on the active list.
is one of them. Abram Harrison, one of
the originals, is now an honorary member,
the only one the club elected during
period OF three years. For four years the
meetings were held in the old Hoboken
Yacht Club house, that club having moved
It's quarters to Staten Island In 1875 the
N. }. Y. @. moved into its present house.
near the foot of Tenth street, the one oriri-
nally occupied by the New York Yacht Club.
The first Commodore was the late Edward
L. Morton, as enthusiastic and accomplish
ed yaohtsman as ever sailed race. He
had one fault, however, which cost him his
life. He would take any risk in sailing to
mako time, and he was run down bya ferry
boat in 49,, while sailing his yacht, the
sJulia, in company with his cousin, VIM.
Shipper, now Secretary of the Hackensack
Water Company. Commodore Morton was
drowned. He was succeeded by e. w.
Ketcham In 1873, who remained Commo-
dore until 1878. Theodore n. Rogers then
scored year in the Office, and was succeed
ed by VIM. a. Dilworth, who was in turn
succeeded by Arnold Jeanneretz. Then
sack Longstreet was Commodore for two
terms, and at the last election Commodore
Dilworth was once more called to the Office.
The Commodore's flag now floats at top
mast of the cabin sloop "Wayward.v the
jOk-At k<NkCA ~ Va <f1-1 AAt0AD16 4<l4WOIbQ AQQ
Erred Beltz. She is the latest addition to
the squadron, and is % feet in length over
all, and comes from the New Haven Yacht
Club. Her speed remains to be tested, but
she came down from her old home to her
present mooyings in "a hours, part Of the
way under double-reefed mainsail alone.
The n. j. \. G. has had and has yet some
very smart craft. The club membership.
which is about Sc or 20, has not varied
much OF late years, nor has the number Of
yachts, though many changes have occurred
in both. Some of the old flyers were the
"Scrntch Cat, Emma, Ripple, Hope,
Grover" Neptune, sEugenla.o EMILY.
Sophia, q Charm, Julia, SPRAY,
"Fralie." Most of these have disappeared,
but the "Charm, ex Commodore Kstohau,
is still a commission, AMI is alb 5ut as able
a boat as she was fifteen years ago. In the
old days there were scrub races" nearly
every Saturday duTlng the season, and
there was plenty of life and excitement IN
the club. There is plenty of life yet but
the races are scarcely as frequent, There
is always an annual regatta in June. and Il
has long been the custom for the entire
squadron to turn ont for an opening sale or
yacht parade on Decoration Day.
The present squadron does not number
many yachts. Many of the boats which
have become famous in New York Harbor
as the heroes of many races, have been
recently sold out of the Club. Two of the
most notable of these are the g Dare Devil. =.
~ It. in Commodore Dilworth, and the
Lille r." ~ #. S in, ex-Commod are
Rogers. They have both gone to the New
Haven Yacht Club. 1t would be nard 70
find boats of their sizs that cc.ald ont-fv
them. They were the centre ef sttraction
Of all the regattas, and so CLOSELY we're thew
matched that there was 4 soecial rivalry
between them, and in q race thew cenerally
Rugged one another. TAe & Emma. 20 e.
telle, and "Letitia, = Il. "a and so feet
respectively, are al. gone. Residas fhe
" Hayward and Charm, = the Meteor
is still IN CON mission. She belongs to
ex-Oommodore JeaAnert, and measures as
feet s inches. No boat in the Club has
seen more Service, and none could stand it
better. TIE Eagle Wing, j. end O..
Buxton, "a feet 103 inches, is another good
one and Jimmie Bells /" Growler, /" "a feet.
is always on hand when there is wind.
The Rescue" Captain Sangendorf, 26
feet 5 inches, recent addition to the deet.
and not built according to the regulations,
Is conspicuous always. The Alice" %
feet, belongs to Captain Joe Curtin, owner
of the s Frolic, one of the old racers of
the Club, who also was halloween Of the
famous 6 Maria, after she passed eut of
the hands Of the Stevens family. Z. Il.
Dunbacher has pretty little boat. the
"a Geo. b. Deane." 2f feet o inches of