Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-02
TO BEAT THE vIGILANT.
James Gordon Bennett Orders a
 New Ninety Feeter.
WANTS TO RAGE THE BRITANNIA.

The Herreshofls Are to Build For the Edi-
 tor Tobin Bronze Flyer Guaranteed to
 Be Faster Than the Last Cup Defender.
 A Scotchman May Challenge.
 NEW YORK, May 2.-There are prospects of great yacht racing in the Mediterranean next year and also possibility of another challenge for the America's cup. It is learned that James Gordon Bennett has given an order to the Herreshoffs for 90 foot yacht to be built of Tobin bronze. She is to be used for international racing, and it is said that Mir. Bennett has re- quired guarantee from the Herreshoffs that she will beat the Vigil mt.
 She will be taken across .he water to race and will be especially designed to meet the Britannia, Walk Tie and Nigilant in the Nice regattas. Captain McCalmont, Scottish yachtsman, will also have a boat in the races. He has given an order for boat of the same class. which will be built on the other side
 Will Be a Tobin Bronze.
 The Bennett boat will probably be called the Prunelle, and Captain McCalmont' s boat, it is said, will be called the Tobin, for she, like the Prunelle, will be of Tobin bronze. If the captains boat is a success, or if he is convinced that she is likely to be superior to the Vigilant and the PrUnelle he will probably challenge for the Ameri ca's cup. It is regarded as almost a set tied fact that the Vigilant will go to the Mediterranean for the races there next year.
 Baron Arthur de Rothschild will race the same boat he did at the last Mediter- ranean races. MT. Bennett has a contract with the Cramps for new steam yacht, and it is hoped that the Atalanta will be in the Mediterranean at the time of the races so that there may be some good steam yacht races.
 It is stated on good authority that MT. Bennett will have a racing crew of Corin- thians on the Prunelle. She will have centerboard. and the Herreshoffs will spare no expense in building her in first class condition for racing abroad.
 The estimates of how much she will cost vary, some yachtsmen saying she will cost $65,0 and others SS4000. The former price ought to be nearer the facts. That was about the cost of the Vigilant, and a boat ought to be built cheaper in these hard times than it could be when the Vigi- lant was built.
 Three Big Races.
 Captain Price Hamilton, secretary of the Mediterranean international races, has given public notice that three races have been arranged for in connection with the Nice regatta in April, 1885
 Following are the conditions of each race:
 The winning yacht is to hold the cup as challenge cup, which is to become the property of the owner of the vim r of two successive contests: the race to be held either at Nice in April, at Cowes during regatta week, at New York week before after the June regatta or when the America's cup is contested for, at Newport in August during the squadron cruise of the New York Yacht club, may be decid- ed by the yacht first holding it. The cup may be challenged for in the next year after it has been won by giving six months notice.
 The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwe Duke George Of Leuchtenberg, Baron Arthur de Rothschild, James Gordon Bennett and Cap tain Pryce Hamilton to form the sailing com-