The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-10


ones when the yachts came back in the af-
ternoon They led a triumphal procession
OF yachts and excursion craft up the har-
Dor, for the Vigilant had added another |
victory to her score. She had walked away |
from the NallIyrie in a wind that topped |
the seas with foam and drove clouds of |
spray over her weather bow.
The day was an ideal one for an outside |
race. The air was clear rs a crystal II |
had the vigorous freshness of October in |
it, and every old salt who shifted it in the |
early morning predicted a blowing day. |
The yachtsmen, American as well as the |
British were gsad that the day had ar
rived when there could be no excuse Of |
light winds for either of the contestants |
All felt that the comparative merits of the |
two crack single stickers would be made |
plain before the day was over, and the |
anxious citizens Of two nations would be |
able to make something more than guess
as to which is the queen Of yachts.
The first of the international races was
a run to leeward and return, and that Of
yesterday, the second in the series of three
in five, was a triangular course of thirty
miles, ten miles to the leg There was
bound to be windward work and reaching,
and-that always makes a prettier race than
leeward run
When the wind came up from the south
west all the yachtsme1, and yachtswomen
put on their blue caps and sea togs and
started down the bay on the usual fleet of
excursion boats, which included every
thing from a big ocean steamer to a naptha
launch The big boats were the popular
ones yesterday, and many Of the small
craft did not 90 half way down the bay
before they turned tail to the seas that
threatened t to engulf them and returned
TO the city. There was the usual crowd of
patriotic citizens who went down to see to
it personally that our Yankee sailor bows
did their duty in the defense Of the Amer
ica's cup. They were not quite equal to
Saturdays crowd in nun bers, but they
made more noise, especially when they
saw the manner in which the white sloop
showed her stern to the cutter.
William X. Vanderbilt's new steam
yacht Valiant, with the Countess Dun
raven on board. was present, and other
! crack steamers was Commodore Perry's
Electra, e. G.. Benedict's Oneida, Ogden
Goelet's White Ladye, and John Jacob
Astor's Nourmahal The excursion boats
kept at a more respectful distance from
the yachts than on any previous day and
| did not interfere with them in any way
|
| lightship an hour before the time of start
| ing. After consultation had been held
on board the topsail was taken down, and
| the larger one which she used on Satur-
| day was sent up instead. At this time
| the wind was blowing a good fourteen
miles an hour. The Nigilant ran up her
| large club topsail at 10 o'clock, Both boats
| cruised about north of the lightship for
an hour before the start.
On board the Valkyrie were Lord Dun
! raven, Lord Wolyerton, and one of Lord
Dunraven' daughters in a blue yachting
suit trimmed with yellow at the neck
Others on the British yacht were Captain
Crantield, Designer Watson, Sailmaker
Batsey and Archibald Rogers.
On the Figilant were C. o. Iselin, Au-
gust Belmont, Nat Herreshof e. A. Will
lard, W. Butler Duncan, Jr., Herbert
Leeds, Newberry D.. Thorne, Captain Han
sen (who was at the tiller), Captain Terry
| (who looked out for the sails and Charles
| Kerr, representative of Lord Dunraven.
On the bridge of the flagship May were
Commodore Edwin ID. Morgan, ex-Com-
modore S. Nicholson Kane, A. c. Garfield,
Latham A. Fish, General Charles j. Paine,
Irving Grinnell, Peter Wright, j, Rodgers
Maxwell, J. S. V. Oddie, Charles Russell
and Stanley Mortimer
Before the start the excursion boats and
tugs massed in two groups, one around
the lightship and one around the May.
At the request of the skipper of the Wig
liant all OF the boats around the lightship
moved over to the other side of the course,
so that the yachts could work up to the
line close under the lee of the lightship
without their wind being broken The
feet made great show on the water. The
deck of the iron steamboats, and river craft
were black with people
The wind was blowing twenty-five miles
an hour when both boats went over the
line within two seconds OF each other The
Vigilant led by the length of her bowsprit.
They made a pretty start as they started
on a beat to windward OF ten miles to the
first mark, which was of North Long
Branch, and so close in shore that good
view of the racing yachts was obtained
from Seabright Monmouth Beach and
Long Branch AS on Saturday, the Val.
kyrie forged ahead at the start She was
not running quite as close to the wind as
the white sIOop, but she was going faster
In ten minutes the Valkyrie led by fouI
lengths, but the Nigilaut was a trihe tc
windward.
The Valkyrie increased her lead to ten
lengths at the end of the first half hour
and then while the Englishmen on the
steamboats, were hugging themselves with
Joy, the Nigilant began to cut down the
open water between her bow and the Val
kyrie's stern. She walked right up and
took the lead, and the race was a process
sion from that point, The cup defender
gained 4 min. 45 sec, in the first ten miles
tacking to the windward, min. 12 sec. in
the second ten mile run, and 3 min. and
% sec. in the last ten miles. She crossed
the line ahead of the Valkyrie ~ min. 2;
sec, actual time. The Valkyrie was oyel
two miles astern when the Vigilant fin
ished
From the second mark to the finish, of
Sandy Hook lightship, it was a broad
reach on the port tack, shifting to a closC
reach as the wind cauted TO the westward
The Vgilaut seemed literally to hy
through the water from the moment she
gybed around the mark. The wind blew
fresh from the southwest throughout this
leg, getting a little TO the west near th,
end Indeed it had increased 60 almost
half a gale, and for time it looked "a
though both boats would be forced Co re
duoe the fearful strain upon their spars