The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-19
VALKYRIE HAS ARRIVED
ENGLISH CUP CHALLENGER AT LAST REACHES THIS SIDE.

able Head Winds Since Her Departure from Sootland-Decks Were Flush With No Protection for Those on Board-Towed to Anchorage on Liberty Island.
 New York, Aug. 1S.-After encoun- tering heavy seas and considerable head winds since her departure from Gourock bay, Scotland, on July 27, the cup challenger Valkyrie III, arrived at Sandyhook lightship at 7:S0 o'clock this evening. Her passage from Malinhead, where she dropped the tug, to Sandy Hook, 2,77O nautical miles was made in 21 days, g hours and 30 minutes, an average of 12s miles a day.
 The Vigilant last April made 2,9S4 miles from the Lizard to Sandy Hook in IS days, l hour and 45 minutes, a daily average of 16S miles, but the Vigilant had more favorable weather than the Valkyrie III. has experienced, The Dunraven cutter made the ocean voyage without serious mishap.
 Clever British shippers and plucky British tars brought through stiff winds and heavy seas the low racing craft with flush decks and scarcely any protection for those on board. With a peculiar ketch rig of stout spars and tough canvas, the modern racing ma chine crossed the Atlantic where many a big steamship has come to grief.
 The long, low, slender craft made hoy-@ tNp " miles to the eastward of Sandy Hook lightship, when at o'clock this even she took a line from a towboat and came to anchor with fleet of tugs and the propeller, City of Bridgeport, which is to act as her tender, lowering about her.
 At 9:45 the fleet arrived at quarantine Health Officer Doty by special request went on board the Valkyrie III. and after a brief examination passed her. She was then lowed to an anchorage off Liberty Island.
 At 545 D. m. the Valkyrie was sight, el off Point Lookout about half way between Fire Island and the lightship. The British ensign waved from the top of her digger mast, and Lord Dunrav- en's private pennant of blue and yell low f1uttered at her topmast head. The yacht was making good headway un- der her mainsail. Her white hull sug- gested that of the Defender with it's sharp prov and immense oyer hang aft, but amidships the great beam sug- gested the Vigilant's lines. The Val kyrie appeared to have less free board than either Vigilant or Defender. A marrow gold band relieved the plain whiteness of her sides. Her deck was like that of the Defender, flush and without break. There is no cockpit for ward of the tiller, and the house amid ships is very small. A cleat runs along the deck on each side for sailors to brace their feet against when the boat is doing windward work The Defen- der was the first cup racer to show this innovation.
 The Valkyrie has "a temporary wheel rigged to her tiller, but this will be re- placed by the regulation English stick for racing. Her jury mast and the jig ger mast just abaft the tiller will be removed, as also will be the short stick which occupied the place of the bow spirit. Two folding canvas boats were on the counter, and the yachts cutter and dingy were lashed to the deck amidships. The jury spars which she has carried across the sea are stout sticks and looked very clumsy on a yacht with such fine lines as the Val kyrie's hull shows.
 No time was lost in unbending sails and in stripping decks of sailing truck the moment line was got out to the tug which had been engaged to tow her to New York. The crew of forty men jumped with great celerity and soon had things shipshape. Captain Syca- more, the assistant skipper, busted him. self overseeing the slowing of sails and housing of spars.