The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-09-12
IN RUINS.


Turkish Soldiers Continue Their Work OF
Destruction in Armenia.
HIGHLANDS OF THE NAvEsINK, N. j.,
Sept. IA cloudy sky and smooth.
fredericksburg sea over which hight
southwest airs We're sweeping gently
was the outlook from here at q a. III. a
few stray yachts, fishermen and small
cOastinu craft were to be seen at anchor
inside Sandy Hook, but the contestants
for the Americas cup, the British chal-
lenyer and the American champion,
Valkyrie III and Defender, We're absent
from their usual m%0orings, having passed
the night almost within a biscuit toss of
each other. off the Atlantic clubs a
chorage at Bay Ridge.
The Britishers, not much discouraged
by the defeat which their yacht met
with on Saturday last in light to
strong breezes and a heavy sea, have
shifted some of her ballast from aft for
ward at the suggestion OF George l..
Watson, her designer, and have given
her a good trial spin since the last heat
Of the battle for the cup, therefore they
confidently expected her TO show up in
better form at the second race.
A Triangular Race.
The race on Saturday was a beat of
Is miles to windward for the first leg,
and a broad reach of ID miles, intended
to have been a run home. The second
race was around a triangle, 10 miles to a
leg, so miles in all. starting from Sandy
Hook lghtship and with the first leg Il
beat. if possible. With the wind hold
ing from the southwest this would be
possible, but the yachts would have to
run very close to the Jersey shore to
turn.
Weather Slightly Improved.
Off shore at 7:3O the wind was only
blowing at four miles an hour, but this
was an improvement on the light airs OF
the earlier morning. However, there
were breaks in the clouds here and there
at intervals, which seemed to hold q
promise of better weather as the
day wore on. These favorable
conditions continued until at 8 o'clock
the sun began breaking through the
mantle of cloud in earnest and the wind
came breezing up from the southwest
until it was stirring at the rate OF six
miles an hour. But off shore it was
still very thick, IT. being impossible to
see much further north than the end of
the Hook and Scotland lightship could
only be dimiy seen.
Valkyrie at S:42 could be seen follow
ing Defender through the swash chan
mel with her mainsail set and in tow
Defender at the same time was passing
the end of the Hook. There was nc
change in the weather conditions and it
was fully as thick off shore as it had
been an hour before.
At 1880 "A. N. the preparatory signal
was fired and the yachts began the usual
iockeying for positions. The British
Yacht blanketed Defender, but Defender
worked out from under her lee only to
be again ~blanketed. and the yachts
crossed the line in the following official
times: Valkyrie, ll:OO:l3; Defender,
l1:01:l5.
At II :O2 80, after a short tack to star,
beard, both boats came about and
stood directly towards this point
on port tack. Both boats were headed
directly for this point, Defender TO lee
ward and seeming to point a trit!e high
er than the Valkyrie.
Shortly after the start Defender hoist
ed "a protest flag, and the protest wa
allowed. it being believed here that Val
kyrie fouled Defender during the luffins
matches. 1t seemed from here as if III,
of Defenders shrouds was injured, bu
nothing definite could be made out, ant
Defenders topnast hung on well.
vaIkyrie Gained Some.
AT 11:43 they were not more than
mile and a half off shore, and Defende
was falling along nicely without the ait
of her lib topsail. Valkyrie seemed l.
be gaining a trifle on Defender. Sh
was getting a better breeze to wind
nrl n,fn,lo- 1n;,,r - cnf< c-r+c o~E
while Valkyrie's jib topsail did not Sc
well, yet it helped her considerably.
The excursion feet was giving tn
yachts all the room they wanted, and a
there We're not over a hundred vessel
of all sorts about the racers, they wcr
not in any way interfered with.
The wind at 1855 was very light an
the excursion feet was still doing finely
keeping from half to three-quarters of
mile from the racers.
The scene presented by the racin
yachts and the accompanying feet wa
q grand one. 1t was possible from hel
to look down directly on the decks {
both yachts. Captain Half could /
seen sailing Defender for all there WI
in her, and Captain Cranfield was doir
the same for Nalkyrie.
Both boats at 1859 were standing O
shore on the starboard tack and D
fender did not seem TO be closing up IL
gap ON Valkyrie. Through the gre
glass Of the Associated Press, the riv
shippers could be seen at their posts.
1t was not until ia p. m, that Il
, fog lifted sufficiently to enable the boa
to be seen reaching for the second ma
with balloon Jbs set and going al
lively rate. Although it was impossil
to distinguish clegrly between the
from the distance, il was believed til
Valkyr;e was still ahead.
A nice, whole .ail breeze was blowi
and there WAS not much sea on. 7
excursion feet at 2:l5 was seen headi
Tor the hghtship, which seemed to sh