Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-18
YACHT RACES ON THE SOUND.

The Annual Fall Regatta of the New
 Haven Yacht Club-The Day Was
 Calm and Precluded Fast Time
 Those Who Saw the Races-The Re-
 suits and Winners.
 The yachtsmen of New Haven had clear and beautiful day for their fall re- gatta. The wind, however, was dead, and the course of twenty miles was covered in very poor time. The yachts started at Il till 5:30 p. m. There was great difficulty in starting, on account of the food tide and the calmness of the air, which prevented the vessels from getting out to Pardee's buoy, off the West Haven jetty, where the course began At 10 a. m the boats were advertised to start. Only very few of them at that time lay drifting near the buoy. By 1O:3O o'clock breeze sprung up from the southeast, by whose aid the larger craft slowly made out toward the mouth of the harbor.
 At few minutes after Il the first gun was fired from the committee steamer Mes senger, and a huge red ball hoisted. After an interval of ten minutes the second gun was fired and the red bali lowered and the judges bugee hoisted. The fall races had begun.
 The yachts kept we'll together through out the cruise. The Stranger took 8 long lead at the first and was never headed by any yacht in her class. The Flora crossed the line at the start several minutes before the other vessels and made a good race as far as the goal. There by mistake she turned to starboard instead of port, and for this violation of the rules was counted out of the race. The course lay to Charles Island buoy off Milford and from there to the Mid-channel buoy at the mouth of the Housatonic river, and then back to the starting point.
 None of the vessels were disabled except the Phyllis, which received bad rent to it's mainsail on the return and was unable to continue in the regatta. While no rec ords were broken, most of the boats made l respectable time and the races were very much enjoyed by all the yachtsmen who participated.
 prize Carrie w., $1O
 ond Sas pTxe sooe g7p sosR o Class S-First prize, cat boat Libbie, $20; sec I ond prize, cat boat Fleetwing, $1o. Class 9-First prize, cat boat Zephyr, $15; sec ond prize cat boat Edna, $5. Class 1O-Flrst prize, Isabel, $15. Judges-W. w. Price, R. B. Farren, J. c. Gala l gher.
 The steamer Sunshine. which followed | the race, carried small number of peo- | pie. Among those on board were: T. F. Vosey, Charles Chew, William
 McNeil, Henry D. Bishop, Mrs.
 Frank D. Hitchcock of Bridgeport, Mrs.
 Benjamin Fairbrother, Brooklyn; Ed
 mund Barnes, Jamestown, N. Y; Mrs. | Henry Barnes, Mrs. William Sheffield, | William B. Pardee and daughter, Lewis B.
 Brown, MT. and Mrs. Myron Durham,
 Richard F. Percy, Miss Emma Smith, B. E.
 English, J. F. Lines, John H. Post and
 family, Charles E. Warehouse, George E.
 Dudley, Attorney L.W Cleaveland, W. H.
 Farren, Dr. C.. A. Lawton, G. Edward Os-
 borne, Dr. Shigemi.
 | On the judges boat, beside the judges, | A. w. Andrews, William w. Price and
 Roswell B. Farren, and the regatta com. | mittee, w. A. Foskett, jr., Lewis A. FL | liot and Frank P. Tyler, were A. E. Burr, Edward Taylor, William H. Sears, J. O. 1 Gallagher, Dave Cowell and Thomas Pease 1 Other boats that followed the yachts and
 their parties were: Yale launch, Dr. G. P. Davis and wife of Hartford, Mrs. Morgan
 G. Bulkeley, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis,
 Miss Houghton of San Francisco,
 E. A. Mitchell; steamer Ceres, James H
 Warehouse, jr.; Myra, w. H. Pickering
 and ladies; steamer Trophy, T. H. Pratt c. H. Pratt and party of ladies; Niagara
 Treadweli Ketchum, Mrs. Prof. Eaton anc I Miss Eaton.
 The following are the results in full ot | the races, with the starting, elapsed and
 finishing time: