Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-08
FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE TRUSTY MAYFLOWER Leads The GaIatea Over
 The Course. IA WINNER FROM THE START. Alexander On His Way ' From Bulgaria. THE AhTI-EDMUNDS FIzzLE. A Few Light Shocks In
 Charleston.
SHOWS HER HEELS

MAYFLOWER SHOWS HER HEELS To the GaIatea in the First Race For the America's Cup-A SpIen- did Race-The Boston Boat Leads From Start to Finish.
 i; | NEW YORK, Sept 7.-The noble Mayhower with Captain Stone of Swampscott at the wheel and Skipper Joe Ellsworth hard by to give him points won the first of the
 series to-day against the English cutter Gal
 atea and manifested sailing qualities sufa- cient to confirm the convictions
 of her advocates as to her ability to save the
 Americas cup from confscation for another
 year at least. The start was made from
 Owls Head, little below Bay Ridge Early
 in the day dense fog hung over the bay
 and when the yachtsmen of the fleet bobbed
 their heads above the hatches little after
 sunrise their hearts dropped when they con-
 templated the situation. The tug Lucken-
 bach with Tony Herman at the wheel started
 from pier No, early in the day with E. E.
 Chase, Frank T. Robinson of the cup com
 mittee and squadron of yachts numbering ! a hundred at least were beating about of the l club grounds and far down the bay the two
 big sloops lacked about until 10:20, when 1 they headed up the stream and lay to, as a
 yachtsman on board the judges boat said,
 for further particulars. The original pro- gramme of tie start called for the prepara-
 tory signal about 10 o'clock, but it was 10:55
 before the Luckenbach opened her mouth,
 and when she did it was for no preparatory signal, but start outright. A fleet of steam and sailing craft hung about the starting point as thick as bees and scraped the paint | off one another's sides in their eagerness ! rather the interest of their owners to witness ! the send-off
 At 10:56:01, official time, the Galatea got | over the line under plain sails and carrying her baby jib topsail, sailing neck and neck l with the Mayfower. Captain Stone was at the wheel of the Boston boat and near him, clinging to the backstay, was old Joe Els worth, acting as pilot. The Mayfower was slightly to windward and it did not take her long to make the best of her position. Ten minutes afterwards the Galatea went about and headed over on the other tack for Fort Wadsworth. The wind shifted slightly southward and promised dead heat to buoy No. 10 for the two boats, but the Mayfower hauled away from the Englishman as though the latter were at anchor Of Suspicion, s. l., both boats went about again and reached over to near Coney Island point, but so far did the Boston sloop gain in the lead that when she entered the fourteen foot channel near Coney Island the Galatea was half mile astern. At ten min utes to one the Mayfower rounded buoy 10 on the port tack, but away to leeward of the 1 buoy, the Galatea following far astern | About ten minutes later the English cutter l rounded the buoy close to almost l scrape the paint of her sides and headed in | the wake of the Mayhower for buoy S1a.-i Southwest spit-which she turned at 1:073O, | five and half minutes after the Mayhower. Then both boats made a stretch to the east ! ward on their course to Sandy Hook light l ship. Near the point of Sandy Hook vast ! fleet of steamers and pleasure crafts being | about buoy 515 and in direct violation of the 1 request of the New York Yacht club com l mittee bothered the yachts with the back wash and dead water & Of the Hook the wind freshened and the May flower somewhat increased her lead. She l stood out to sea away to the eastward, head | ing far enough out to clear the Sandy Hook | lightship without making a tack on her | course across. Under her working sails she | headed across to the Sandy and rounded l it at 2:35:02 amid the screeching of tug and | steamer whistles and guns from the steam | yachts. The British craft followed at 2:22:13 | and was greeted with 8 similar ovation. Far | off in the lead the Yankee sloop blew out | her big balloon jibtopsail and headed back | for the point of the Hook the port tack | with the wind nearly abeam.
 The run home a beautiful scene. 1 About 3:30 the wind Jagged and the tn htg0wsrs tga big 6tops" Bat drAgg9e sea or two on the sheet hauled her in again. The | Galatea away off near the turning buoy | rigged her spinnaker but for reasons best | known to her skipper did not set the sail. At | 3:34 the Mayhower rounded buoy S15 on the | home stretch followed at 3:46 by the Galatea. l A little after the Mayhower broke out her | spinnaker and created beautiful sight l with every stitch of canvas set and going be- 1 fore the wind that all the steam crafts set up 8 tremendous howl. On the run up the | lower bay the poor old Priscilla. | ing else, came down to meet | the boats and hove to near the Boston sloop. 1 All the steamers of high and low degree l made as fast as they could for buoy 15 to | whoop it up at the finish and no one but an l absolute pilot could have distinguished where | the finish was to be, so dense was the fleet of | outside craft. The following table shows | the time of the finish and the general statis | tics of the race:
 Elapsed Corrected 1 Start. Finish. time. time
 b. m s. h. h. S. h. m. s. 1 Mayhower.. 10:56:12 4:22:53 5:26:41 52641 | Gafatea ........ 1s:56:11 4:3532 5:39:2 5:3843 l
 The next race will be sailed on Thursday | next and will be over course from the | Sandy Hook or Scotland light twenty miles ! to windward and back to the lightship. Of | all the boats that accompanied the race the | police boat Patrol had, perhaps, ! the most important personnel on | board. Among the guests were Commissioner l French, the president ot the police board, | Inspector Byrnes, Chief Clerk Kipp, Colonel |