The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-20

course of the last week that he believed
that the Norwood would beat the latest
creation OF tae Herreshotfs, and has ex-
| ressed every desire to arrange for race
with the Vamoose. Mr. Hearst said that he
would see Mr.. Munro. and try to arrange
| such contest
The Vamoose tested herself alongside the
J Powell a week ago last Monday. Unfavor-
/ able conditions did not make hat test salts
! factory. She beat the fast river boat but
1t was only by running across corners
| Yesterday she pitted herself against the
Powell once more, and simply played with
! her
Capt. Anderson of the Mary Powell had
| publicly stated that if the Vamoose tried
to get on a race with him she would get
left. His steamer, he said, was a passen-
ger boat, and not racing machine. and he
would not run her at speed that was not
| perfectly safe. However shat may be, it is
| said that when he saw the Namoose run
ming away from him yesterday he gave
such orders to the engineer as caused the
black smoke to pour from the Mary How
ellis smokestacks and the steamer to pIow
through the river at a speed that soon told
her passengers that a race was on.
The little needleslike Vamoose came from
| her dock in Brooklyn and tied up at the
! foot of Thirty fifth street. The party that
| was to go up on her got aboard. There
was nobody but the crew, Mr.. Hearst,
| Capt. Henry Stanwood, Chief Engineer
Theodore Hebron, and the newspaper
men. She darted out into the stream at
3l4 O'clock. The splendid white squadron
was just coming to an anchorage In the
river. In and out among the ships of war
the diminutive racing steamer glided. The
jack tars aboard the ships Of the squadron
cheered her heartily and each Of the ships
dipped their colors in honor OF the distin-
guished little craft that was visiting them.
Ii was at 1884 that tine steamer Mary
| Powell was seen to leaye her dock at the
foot Of Twenty-second street. Everything
was then favorable for a brush. WHAT
little wind there was was blowing up
! the river. The tide was at the flood.
| Though there had been no announcement
of a race between the big river steamer and
| the little steam Yacht, the news that there
was to be brush had been noised about,
and aboard the Powell there were scores Of
people who were there for no other reason
| than to sea the contest. There wore also a
great many people on the docks along the
water front who had got wind Of the af-
fair, and many private yachts were "loaf-
ing" about in the stream for the same
| reason.
The little Vamoose kept zlg-zngging across
the river until NinetYfourth street was
reached, in order that the Powell might
catch up with her The two were bow and
started with about 800 pounds of steam
pressure. With this she began to rapidly
run away from the powell. The steam
pressure was run up to $40 pounds. Then
the little races fairly flew. At $50, three
minutes after the race began, the Vamoose
was shooting ahead Of the Powell, and five
minutes later the big river steamer wai
fully 200 yards to the rear Of her little com
petitor.
Then Millionaire Hearst and those il
charge of his toy gave the people on boar,
the Powell an exhibition of their nerve
With helm hard down the Vamoose cam
about. She ran down the river and met tn
Powell. Coming about again she crossed
the Powelrs stern and then headed up tn,
river. The Powell was about one-third o
a mile up the river by the time that tn
Vamoose was Strengthened on her course
In five minutes from that tine the sharI
little bow OF the Vanoose was overlapping
the stern Of the Powell, and the passenger
aboard the big steamer gave their speedy
little neighbor three rousng cheers.
!. 1t was at 4:01 that the Vamoose thu
caught up to the Powell. At 4:04 she wa
ahead Of the big river boat and at 405 thu
Powell was certainly seventy-fve yard
| behind. Then the Vamoose crossed mel
I
, ing sauclly as she did So
: That was practically the end Of the brush
with the Mary Powell. The little Vamoos'
, gave her a parting salute and she went
| scuddlinG off toward Yonkers. When she
, got abreast of Yonkers passenger train
! headed north on the New York Contra
railroad, was seen pulling out OF the station
IL was not an express train but fairly fas
? local. The little VamoOse vas right on
, line with the locomotive Of the train. Mr.
Hearst told his engineer to push her alonl
and she what see would do.
The result was q surprise. The it'll
! craft went through the water like a knife
She Kept right along with the locomotive
, of the train on the bank until Hastings wa
, reached, four miles up the river. Thea TN
: trial stopped AS the Vamoose slowed dowI
Engineer Heilborn said: 81 will wager m,
life that this is the fast steam craft in th'
world"
, Just then the New York, the fastest
steamer of the Albany day line, which
many of the Hudson river stea boat cap
tains say is even faster than the Mary Pow
> ell, wa5 spied coming down the stream. Tn
/ Vamoose. Of course, had to give her
a brush. footing a challenge, which was &C
knowled from the big steamer by the effor
: to put on more speed, as indicated by tn
, black smoke from her smokestacks, the lii
tie Vamoose steamed alonsids her and the
? began 10 run ahead. This brush soon los
its interest, for the Vanoose got 80 ia
ahead that the New York was out Of tn
race. The little racing machine then RAJ
down to New York and tied up.
There was not time during yesterday
, trial when there was not a reserve powe
I of ten pounds on the steam indicator Of tn
Vamoose, and generally there was frof
twenty to thirty pounds reserve. Wiz
, 240 pounds OF pressure her wheel made 81
revolutions. Il is a 5+inch wheel Tn
y engineer said that he could easily run he
: uD TO 40 revolutions a minute, and coul
? keep the speed up for eighty miles
| Young Millionaire Hearst was very prou
!, of the showing that his little craft made
| aud yet was very modest about it, Aske
? il he would race the Vamoose againss th
q Norwood be said yes lie had only had tn
= Vamoose three weeks, and was anxious {
find out what was in her before he entere
her for compositions. He said be woul
see MIR. Munro personally early next week
and if Mr.. Munro was willing TO have
race over the course Of the American Yach
Club, eighty or hundred miles straight
away or with turn, he thought 1t coul
easily be arranged.
He would like to have the contest TAX
e place in about two weeks from the day Ga
! | arrangements we're made. BY that time b
would have received and put in the me-
thres-bladed racing wheel which is now o
the way from San Francisco. The presen
screw OF the NamO1se, he saws. is only fl
for cruising IL is q four-bladed Zeice, {
inches in diameter and will hang 70 inchG
below the keel. The present wheel is capr
| BILE of but 410 revolutions minutes bu