New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-11
THE YACHTS WILL TRY AGAIN
DRYING THEIR SAILS FOR To-DAY's RACE.
PROSPECTS THAT THERE WILL BE GOOD BREh~H
TALK ABOUT GENERAL PAINE's cHAL-
LENGE TO A RACE ACROSS
MASSACHUSETTS, BAY.


A second attempt will be made to-day to sail
the second OF the series OF the Ioternatonsl yaons
over the outsds course The Mayhower after she nhze
OF Thursday groped her way through the thick ios "
the Scotland Lghtshp There she fortunately iounu"
tug which brought her safely to her anchorage Oh '
Ridge She got to her anchorage at 1880 O'CLOCK iho,
was some anxiety board as there were tnir'y 81
people aud provisions on the yach1 1ho
Galatea did arrive at her ahcno'
age of Bay Ridge until $50 m. yesterday.
When the fog shut down her on Thursday sne Was
afraid to try for Gsdneys Channel and stood OH sporo
she did not mako any attempt to 60 over THO ooui'o
after the fog on but consulted her own sAios'.
When the fog lifted with sunrise the cutter ran iof
Sandy Hook and arrived at Bay Ridge glad to DO 'neio
and have an opportunity to dry her sails and prepare
for to-day's race.
All yachtsmen who we're out the attempted
race OF Thursday prayed last night Tor oioa.
weather day. The Iron Steamboat Company was muoh
disturbed By the false reports Of the grounding anu uo
laying OF one OF their boats by the fog As matter Vi
fact the boats of the Iron Steamboat Company "ero
among the first city, the Taurus getting
in 7:45 r. M
The showing which the Mayfower made While tue
wind lasted on Thursday good enough 10 convince
every yachtsman that In everything except perhaps
hurricane the American champion Is better boat than
the Galatea. General Paine said yesterday regarding
| the race:
1--WE ran in to the Scotland Lightshp aud were fort
unste enough to find tug there. We engaged
It at aud towed to the city In as dense
fog as over We right glad to get here can
you and been making heroic efforts TO dry
| our sails.'
The Gaatea, which anchored near the May no"er'
also trying hard dry her sails, which had Oeen
saturated by the fog, the rain aud the seas. IL
| seems that General Panes proposition 10 Lieu
tenant Hem In regard to race across Massa-
chusets Bay was this: He would sail Tor
| diatel fter
races and would pick up the Puritan tho way The
Galaea would also and the three yachts woud lie az
Provncetown until ahowing northwest gale spranoup'
Then the yachts to across the Bay 10
| Marblehead. For some reason Commodore foroes uiu
not want to enter arrangement and then Gen.
era Paine proposed to the Galaea alone uhder 'he
same conditions The only reply that he has received
from Lieutenant Hem Is note saying that alter tne
Bermuda challenge s disposed OF the challenge OF Ueh
| era Paine will be in order General Paine SAID yes
terday:
liam not over confident about the action of the sloop
In gale In heavy weather, such an Instance as was
experienced at the latter part OF the
last year. have doubt that the Mayhower Is
the better but in piping gale the narrow peam ol
the cutter would give her great ADVANTAGE over the
broad-beamed sloop. STILL am ready, willing ana anX-
ious for the test."
The tugs and excursion steamers which foHoWeu
Thursdays race were numerous as at Tuesday
race nor they offensive IN getting In the way OF
this acers the day OF the first international race
STILL the warning whistle OF the Luckenoach had 70 pe
blown at Intervals them of the racing yachts
Whatever may be tho outcome OF the Bermuda
and Massachusetts Bay challenges, the race
of NeUport ia an established fact The
cittzens OF Newport have subscribed $1,000 foE
cups to be sailed for of that city The schooner Miriam
da the champion MayAower and this cutters Bedouin
Stranger ana already entered and 1t Is prop
| able that the Grayrg and sachem among the
| ~ ala and
also De among the competitors The challenge OF Lieu
tenont HEM for around Bermuda Is ambiguousy
worded and specifies that the yachts shall not race
der the American tonnage rule" Just what this means
| IN one seems to know, but as yet no owner OF al
American soop has accepted the challenge. The heroic
race TO which General Paine has challenged Lieutenant
HEM is one which every one desires TO see sailed IL
would be a novelty in yachting and close cohtes'' Inc
| gales that sweep Massachusetts, Bay are nc
zephyrs and in no than the one proposed
| could such a thorough test be made or the heayy
weather qualities Of the yachts Last year when the
Gene.ta 50 gallanty sailed the BrentOhs hee rae.
ending In hurricane, the cutter auVocaos su mo- -
the Puritan had been in the sea she wOuiu nave
been 'drowned out" 1t is matter OF record now
that American centreoosrd $40 soops OF Cen
erai Paine II accepted, WI m se''ie 'n0 que''' -
The race to-day Will be sailed over wndward course
| as was attempted on Thursday. The iron stoamDoats
Sirius and Cepheus will accompany the yachts over Tue
course The sirius will leave West Twenty-thlrd,st at
$50 a. m aud Pier No. l. North River at ocioeK; 6
The Cepheps WIZ ieavs or,S ~ ver a. O'clock
II probabilities count for anything the yacht race 10
day will have pleasant weather, puo & tao YIN tor Tie
indicatinos that It will blow from eight 20
miles hour but as the race VIII DC ouss,aH Di
so that there fair chance OF the race pens nnsnou'
|
PREPARATIONS ON THE PURITAN
NEw-BEDFoRD, Sept. 1O.-Ihe yacht Furi'
al ting mn