The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-24
NEW MASTS FOR DEFENDER
THEY WERE SENT FROM BOSTON TO
 BRISTOL ON THREE CARS.

1hEI UEttE SENI bhOm bOSION TO
 BRISTOL ON THREE CARS.
 On Their Arrival They Were at Once Put
 Overboard- H ummocks Are Well Defined
 -shs Will Have Two Extra Backstays-
 Work on the Yacht win be Rushed.
 Providence, Aug. 23.-The new mast and mainmast for the Defender ar rived at Bristol from Boston at 7:3O o'clock tonight. The train consisted of an engine and three flat cars, and it came through in quick time. News of the coming of the train had been sent along, and workmen and sailors from the Defender were on hand to receive the spars. They were put overheard, and at 9 o'clock the Hattie Palmer lowed them to the works.
 Both sticks were very much admired. The topmast is a little larger at the heel, but about the same length as the old one The mainmast head is two feet longer and the diameter near the hounds is two and a half inches great CT. The hummocks are well defined and close up to the hounds to prevent slipping. Height Is the same as the mast just taken out from hounds to deck floor. The hounds are brought down to below the heel of the topmast. This was reversed in the older masts. She will have two extra backstays.
 Work will be pushed all night and Saturday. She may be ready by Sun day night, fit to take trial Monday, but 1t is not expected that she will be able to leave Bristol before Tuesday, while some put the date of her depart ure as late as Wednesday.
 If the yacht cannot get away at an early hour on Monday, what time seems to be really impossible then the trial race with Vigilant scheduled for Tues day will have to be postponed. The work, of course, be rushed, but it seems too much to expect a departure before Tuesday. Defender lay at her moorings off the boatshops in Bristol farbor to-day all day with her mast out which gave her a rather modest ap- pearance from the contrast of full rig of the previous days,
 When the big mast was laid on the wharf the hustle of the early morning was practically over and the triggers went leisurely to work stripping the stick of the shrouds, backstays and runners. By noon this work was all about done. In the afternoon the spreaders bands and loops were re moved and the stick was measured by Captain Half, assisted by some of the crew. MT. Iselin with Messrs. Kane and Leeds came ashore in the fore noon, visited the shops, eagerly watch ing the construction of the steel boom in the south shop.
 The new spars and rigging will mako some difference to the trim of the yacht, and it is likely that if remeasured a difference in her racing length would be apparent The yacht will, of course, be again measured before the cup races, and it is probable within Mir. Willard's province to waive the right to have her measured before the trial races.
 New York, Aug. 2S.-In a telegram to a friend here to-day c. Oliver Iselin stated that the Defender could not leave Bristol before Monday night. This means that it will be impossible to have another race on Tuesday. New berry Thorne went down to the Erie basin this afternoon to look at the Val- kyrie. In speaking of the Defender s mishap of Tuesday last he said:
 Tt is not at all surprising that De- fender's spars weakened. If you re- member they were built for her first sails Afterwards we discovered we could carry a much larger suit. We used the same spars and consequently the strain on them was much greater. We have been looking all along to see them weaken. It was surprising that the weakness did not develop be- fore. When we go to the start in the next race you may be sure we will be in the best of condition
 In regard to the Valkyrie MT. Thorne said: "I do not like to venture a con- elusive opinion upon her in dry dock. She is a mighty powerful craft, how ever, and splendidly rigged. She ap- pears to be very smart vessel and I have but little doubt she will sail as well as her lines in dry dock indicate'' D