New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-01
FOREIGN YACHTS TO COME.
AN ENGLISH FLEET OF RACERS EXPECTED.
WHY NEXT SEASON WILL BE BUsY ONE
BOATS ON THE LAKES

WHY NEXT SEASON WILL BE BUsY ONE
BOATS ON THE LAKES.
IL Is extremely probable that large fleet Of foreign
yachts will be in these waters next season. SevTaa
reasons will CON ine to bring this about Lou Dun
raven has social standing which no challenger iF
the America's cup has had since sir Richard sutton
challenged, and the fact that he Is coming over VIII III
duce Others accompany him. Men Of wealth and les'
ure, such the large British yachts, are always
ready to 20 where there Is Il prospect Of novelty
As the magnitude Of the Columbian Exhibition at Shi'
cagO Is beginning TO BE- better understood Oh the o'her
side this will also act as an incucemont. Then there
is the fact that there may be an epidemic Oh ch"iaa
in Europe and the fact that the restrc-
ton Of immigration here will lessen the chances
OF the disease being imported TO these shores AN
these things will send foreign yachts over here, ana
the tide of foreign yachting travel once sets this way 1t
will continue year after year. This wOuid be the grea
est thing that could happen yachting Plenty OF cups
would b. offered for competition Already dispatches
from England have been received saying that number
Of British boats are coming over next season. The mem
hers OF the New-Ycrk and Eastern Yacht clubs have
already discussed the situation. and II considerable
number of foreign yachts next season there
will be cups offered in plenty for them 10 compete
Cor The Offering OF cups In advance wonla not Drns
Yachts 1t has beer the experience OF the yacnt
Ing world that the mere Offering OF cups VIII not
tempt boats across the Aanc, But II yact oroSSe s
and has lots OF good racing she VIII mn m,'ny aSL
lowers. The for the foreigners might be made
outside OF Newport, winch WOulu give open WAFER
and be convenient bOth for the Boston Sach.smeh an"
The yachtsmen from York. toreigt yaclitsmen
have always ooked with dsfavor ur inside courses
and properly So
For yachts which visit the Worlds Iair at Chicago
next year elaborate preparations are being made AL
along the lakes the prospect OF there being numoes
OF yachts cruising there has. stimulated yachting AZ
Chicago yacht club has been formed, and club
house on the ake-fron built in the large and generous
style in which the "queen OF the prairles does thihsS
IS 10 be erected. The Common Council OF the Guy
mas approved the plans for the building OF an ahchor
age on the waterfront at East End Park The cIuo
intends also to establish nava, academy for the pr'
pose of disseminating maritime Intelligence among the
citizens OF Chicago The Toledo Rochester,
ST. Lawrence and Bay OF Quinte Yacht CLUBS
have all made preparations to entertain any WISHING
yachts which stop at their stations on tile way u
Chicago next year. There are NUMBER Oh e'oa
yachts on the lakes and among the racing fleet there
are several fast Fife and burgess boats. Nearly all
OF them are small, however, us no long cruises o
made the ports being FREQUENT ana EsS Zach x"as
seeing much larger fleet than the year beIoie ING
natural limitations to the growth S .c por ro cd wo
Is being done there
rhi, Is the season when the southern yacht clubs,
IN. Sntropical Yacht clubs, flourish. Up here IN the
frozen North winter has sent the yachts 10 hibernate
has rendered the shore clubhOuses scenes OF desoia
ton and has stopped all racing. But on the ever
summer seas the white sails std gleah anu s"ti'
kcels cut sparkling over coral sands In friendly
rivalry There the yacht clubhoses thronged ana
the cooling breezes OF tropical winter blow refresh
incly through the anguid afternoons around thear
broad yer,ndas The savannah Yacht Club the South-
ern Yacht Cub OF New-Orleans, the 81. Augustine
and tue Bscayne Bay Yacht clubs are III their heS'
day. Yachts from the North and from Europe are
now and then dropping in. and the southern hee' T"
cruising about 1t perfectly dylc, this winter yacht
shores ef Flo.da where the spanish moss hangs iro'i
the trees and below the West Indies, where one III
the breath OF the constant trade winds hoats on rom
island unto island at the gatewiys Ca me oay p1
Roymi nd The Havana Yacht Club all keep "open
housev The Havana Yacht club mas q Clubhouse W.
Mariana or t Ssrc from nr New orcan. and iavo place
for the boats OF the southern lhc lno 10 runs. W.
rr ,d vachs mostly Sleeps The southern Yacht
sIub is next TO the New York Yacht Club, the 0 dest
In The United states having been organized IN lc4V'
Tho sale Of the Miranda 10 J. .. Coleman. Of san
Francisco marks another era in the life Of this ccle
hr,,ed Schooner The M.rlgdi was built by John
Harvey and was 80 fast that she practically put an
end TO schooner racing in England for II time she
WAS bought and brouGh. over here. but has done
nothing since she has been on this side OF the water
q, shov bow fleet she once was. That the Miranda
has boen outbullt there Is doubt but 1t Is also
true that she ncycr has appeared ut her best since
she has been here For some time she has been
owned by Commodore G. W. T. Hill, OF the
scawanhala Yacht C.nb. As soon rs Mr..
Coleman bought her hs placed her In
tire hands Of her designer John Harvey who has Just
comrl eed his work her In fitting her out for trip
to Tie Tactic Coast. The sending II the Miranda
around the Horn 10y Mr.. Coleman recalls sad In
cident of that gentemans yachting career. In 1855
Mr. Coleman built the kc,lschoOncr Carmelta here.
he was named after Mr.. cJemans wife, who was
fond OF yachting. and together they had planned many
trJs In the new yacht In Pacific waters. The
Carm.a had reached Rio dc Janeiro on her trip
around tie Horn, when MIS-. Coleman died suddenly.
4 cable Dispatch brought the yacht back. Mr. Cole'
man sold her and her name was changed. She
Ia the Carotta, owned BY George Mathews OF thus
city.