Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-17

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 Saturday evening at Black Rock grand hop was held and brilliant assemblage | was in attendance. The yachts were decorated with lanterns and fireworks | were sent off during the evening. At 7 | o'clock party of seventy lady bicyclists arrived and the gallant yachtsmen had maidens to wait upon and dance with, | while they were admired in turn.
 The yachtsmen included some notable | sailors, Commodore David Banks, Vice ! Commodore R. G. Sanford, Rear Con- George H. Church. The steamers were | Aquills, Trophy, Juda and Forgetmenot. l The following are the schoonere and sloops and their owners: Water Witch, Commodore David Banks; Grayling, Latham A. Fish; Una, J. Fred l Ackermsn; Vidette, H. F. Mum; Lydia, Henry W. Banks; Syren, J. K. Emmett; Loyal, B. Frank Sutton; Rival, Vice Com l modore P. G. Sanford; Saona, Rear Com mcdore A. P. Ketcham; Ava, 0. B. Game ron; Lymph, Henry W. Harris; Choctaw, Daffodil, James R. Whiting; Tigress, James Weir, jr.; Penguin, George E. Briehtson; Moya, W. L. and F. M. Moffat; Daphne, A. W. Booth; Concord, H. O. Room; Rover, J. S. Manning.
 Yesterday morning service was held on Commodore Banks boat, the Water Witch, at which all the yachtsmen were present. At 2 o'clock the fleet set sail for Morris Cove where it arrived about o'clock, the boats dropping anchor in the following order: Water Witch, Rival, Saona, Gray ling, Daphne, Tigress, Choctsw, Mocassin, Loyal, Una, Concord, Penguin, Ava. During the evening most of the yachtsmen were entertained at tEe Psquot club.
 Early this morning the white wings of the several yachts will be unfurled and the fleet will proceed to New London where they will anchor off the Pequot house.
 THE LARcHMoNT YACHT CLUB.
 Saturday afternoon nineteen sailing craft belonging to the Larchmont Yacht club dropped anchor in the harbor at Morris Cove. The commodore of the Larchmont is Caldwell H. Colt of Hartford and his boat is the famous schooner yacht Drunt- less.
 The club started Saturday morning from Larchmont on race to New Haven har- bor, the prizes being silver cups to the winners in the various classes. The start l was made at 9:20 with twenty-two boats, l and nineteen were brought into the harbor. The Dauntless arrived frat and, anchor!ng off the lighthouse. timed the other boats as they came in.
 The Ramona, a magnificent schooner yacht owned by Harry Gillig of NewYork, arrived next, four minutes later, but it l made trifle the faster time over the course, az the Dauntlees was the first to get away.
 The next boat to arrive was R4ar Com modore Works beautiful boat, Katrina Ech0Onar | owned by Wilson Marshall, and next the Phantom. which is the property of Con- modore Parmelee of the New Haven Yacht club. His boat is entered in the La1ch, | mont. Commodore Colt, by the way, Is 8 member of the New Haven Yacht club, and | his boat is enrolled in it's list. The other boats arrived in rapid succession, as the breeze was stiff and blowing up from the south. The smaller boats anchored in fair | ly near the shore, but the larger boats were we'll cut, the Dauntless being only mile away from the lighthouse.
 It was the boat furthegt out into the harbor. Just little inside of it was the Non Parielle, an English yawl owned by the vice commodore, H. A. Sanderson. and further in still the rear commodore's boat
 all drawn up in naval precision.
 Among the other boats in the fleet were the Py1ie, owned by Oswald Sanderson; Phantom, owned by Commodore Parmelee; the steam yacht Lagoda. owned by John F. Hall of Hartford, superintendent of Colts works; the steam yachts Thyra, owned by Clinton Seeley, nephew of P. i. Barnum and Jessie, owned by William Murray; the Peri, owned by 0. M. K. Loueser; the Vis- ion, owned by 0. s. Allen; Gevalia, owned l by H. M. Coates.
 Then there was the Katrins, the Allan tic, the schooner Victor owned by W. G. Brokaw, the Mistrel owned by O. T. Will lis, the Flash owned by Joseph H. Ster- ling, the Winona owned by MT Norton. son of the late president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, the sloop Rosalind owned by JA 0. Aver, the Majore owned by H. D. Burt, the Southern Cross owned
 by F. W. Flint, the Tioga owned by Sey- mour Husted, the Clochett owned by Eu- gene Bush, a member of the rapid transit commission of New York city, the Katrina, ! rear commodore's boat, the Non -Pareille, vice oommodore's boat, and last the Daunt- less, one of the staunchest pleasure crafts afoat, which has made eight ocean voyages and the hero of two ocean races, one of l which was the we1l-remembered race with the Coronet. It has been old enough to
 vote for many years.
 There was no reception of the members of the Larchmont by the Pequot club, and
 none was expected by them. Some of the
 yachtsmen came ashore and patronizsd the
 cafe, and Commodore W. A. Harris and
 Mrs. Harris visited Commodore Parmelee
 on board the Phantom. The members of
 the Pequot club took advantage of the
 large number of members attracted to the
 club house by the yachts to hold hop.
 Among those present were: H. M Kocher-
 sperger, F. H. Benton and wife, W. P.
 Bishop, M. R. Durham and wife, w. B.
 Futile, E. o. Brown, W. M. Wellman, Mrs.
 Cummings, G. W. Lewis and wife, Mr. and
 Mrs. Hodges of Buffalo, Mr. and Mrs. W.
 W. Crosby, Miss Osborn, Mrs. Ryan, Mr.
 and Mrs. Shurer, MT. and Mrs George R.
 Chamberlin and Miss ChamberIin.
 Early yesterday morning the fleet got
 under way and last evening dropped an- l chor in New London harbor.
 COMMODORE BANKS SUMMER HOME.
 NEW LoNDoN, July 16.-The fleet of the Atlantic yacht club is expected to arrive
 here tomorrow evening with the largest number of boats that the club has brought in here in many years, The summer home of Commodore Banks of the squadron is here and he hopes to make the visit of the yachtsmen a very pleasant one. The
 boats will stay here over night and on Tuesday morning will start for Shelter Island The custom in vogue some years ago of holding series of races just out side the harbor on the occasion of the an- nual visit of the club is likely to be re- vived next year. It is being talked up among the yachtsmen and many favor if. The races were great feature of the cruise ! when Commodore Voorhees, was at the head of the fleet and the yachtsmen here would like to see this part of the program revived.
 Found Thirty Men Drinking. Officers Cooney and Doolittle yesterday found George Miller, who keeps saloon at 222 Wakar afraaf dnine, a thriuino hnai