The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-09


Of vigor that she never will do so.
There will be no race between them
until next week, probably, for the cap
tains of both craft have received a
letter of admonition from the treasury
department at Washington that makes
both willing to wait for some day when
the waterway was less crowded than
on this occasion to make a speed test
between the pair.
But short way off is the Monmouth.
which is considered by mans to be
the equal of either of the sound boats
whose owners are walking about like
couple of champion pugilists with
chips on their shoulders, but with no
particular desire, perhaps, to test the
full capabilities of their crarG, both of
which are good enough for an practi-
cal purposes.
The noisy, fiashily dressed craft, with
a quiet and prosperous-l looking lot of
people aboard, is the Havana of Phila-
deiphia, which has brought over its
crowd of passengers so that they might
see what yacht race and good har-
Dor are like. The big red flag with
white lettering that flies from the peak
of the Sirius tells people that the Sew
enth Regiment Veterans association is
aboard, and the club flag of the At
lantic Yacht club tells the same story
as TO the personnel of the crowd about
the decks of the Gay Head.
The Cygnus carried jolly crowd
of the Riverside yachtsmen and their
friends, and a brass band that played
Yankee Doodle" America" "The
Star Spangled Banner" and a host of
other patriotic airs. The little Manhat-
tan had crowd that saw the panorama
spreading out before them with the
most intense interest until the great
raking masts of the racers hove in
view. Then the Manufacturers had
eyes for nothing else. Those on board
had come all the way from Portland,
Me-, and they got all the possible en-
joyment out of the drifting match, as
they were all expert sailormen or con-
structors Of sailing or steaming craft.
1t would, perhaps, be easier and take
up much less space to tell the names
of the steam craft and Of the tugs that
We're not on their way down the har-
Dor Surely, no excursion boat was
missing, from the big three-deckers
General Slocum and Grand Republic
/ down to some of the small and anti
quated arks that venture out of the
waters of the Hudson river only on
the rarest occasions. There was among
those who saw the college boat races
at Poughkeepsie a reminder of the day
of disaster there in the tug George w.
Washburn, and, as is her wont, she got
in the way as soon as possible, this
time driving across the starting line at
just about the time that the racers
We're to have put in an appearance.
The big yellowish hull Of the Almeria
of the lighthouse service the tugs of
the ordnance and engineer departments
of the army, the General Meigs, with
a party of army officers aboard, bore
passengers who seemed deeply inter-
ested in the appearance of a huge,
black-hulled craft of rakish build that
flew the flag of the English navy. What
she was the passengers on the pleasure
craft could not make out, as she was
perfect stranger in these waters.
She proved to be the Valhalla, huge
British craft that has just completed
tour around the world.
1t seemed as if all the steam pleasure
yachts that could reach these waters
were here to join in making the great
sea panorama the finest in the way of
holiday show ever seen about here
First there were those who served as
patrol boats, a magnificent fleet in
themselves. They were H. M. Flag
ler's Alicia, John c. Hannan's Embla,
John Nicholas Browns Ballmana, John
H. Halls Unquowa, Harrison B. Moores
Marietta, Fred G.. Bourne's Reverie,
E r. Ladew's Orienta, F. G. Haute-
ville's cara, F. H. Benedicts Vision, John
H. Goudlie's Ava, John P. Duncan's
Washita, E. H. Harriman's Spendrift,
and Henry F. Noyes' Katrina
Besides these and those already men
toned there were the Sylvia, Commo-
dore E. M. Brown; Susquehanna, Joseph
Stickney; Allegro, Charles NJ Pratt;
Amy, Frederick Gallatin; ATLANTA,
George ]. Gould; Ballymena, j. Nichol-
as Brown; Clermont, A. Van Santvoord;
Columbia, w. c. Whitney; Comanche,
H. Melville Hanna; Duquesne, T. r.
Hostetter; Halcyon, Edward G. Potter;
TUNA, Allison D. Armour; Judge, w. J.
Arkell; NADIA, Charles r. Flint; Oneida,
e. c. Benedict; Peerless, Charles w.
Hardness; Shearwater, E. D. Morgan;
Sycamore Edgar T. Scott; Sapphire,
Eugene Higgins; Santanella, Perry Bel
mont; Sultana, John r. Drexel; Va
moose, Frank 7. Morrell; Wadena John
H. Wade Wild Duck, John M. Forbes;
Mindora, C. H. Merrill; Veto, George
Law.
A most magnificent sight it was that
the feet made when all had assembled
about the racers for the start and again
when they congregated to whistle a well
come to the Defender when she made
the first mark a minute i'm advance of
the Valkyrie. But the great fleet prob
ably showed at its best in the interval
between the two points while it was
slowly following the yachts in their
drifting match over the course
AS the fleet rested, apparently mo-
tionless on the water, it looked like
great seaside resort that had been pick
ed up bodily and moved out to float on
the waters of the Atlantic. instead of
resting peacefully on its shores
There was but one thing to dispel
that illusion, and that was on a near
approach, when the heads of the sick
ones could be seen resting on their
arms against the edge of a friendly