The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-28
C0RNELL'S CREW WATCHED
THE OHIEF OBJEOT OF INSPECTION
 ON THE VOYAGE OYER.

They Are Hardy Lot, Arc Well Put To
 gether and Are About the Same Height
 and Weight-Beauty of the Yale and Cor
 nell Men Commented Upon.
 Southampton, June 6, 1895.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND CouR1ERi
 The steamship Paris" of the so-
 called American line, left her dock in
 New York at Il a. m. sharp on Wednes-
 day, May 29, and reached her dock in
 this town on Wednesday. June 9th, at
 SS0 p. m, the passage occupying seven
 days, nine ITS and thirty minutes or
 about twenty hours more than should
 have been occupied, considering the su-
 perb weather which accompanied the
 ship from end to end of her journey
 What was the matter? That is exactly
 the question all the passengers were
 asking-in the present tense of course
 but to which no one of them obtained a
 satisfactory or polite answer, or in fact
 any answer at all. Even Mr. Cramp,
 the heroic American ship-builder, was
 not accorded an investigation. There
 were rumors thick and black; and
 plenty of them; and well-grounded ap-
 prehension, theories and plausible sup
 positions founded on the snake-like
 course of the vessel, the irregular and
 un-twin-like action of the two screws
 and the evident favoring of one of them.
 That something was wrong was most
 evident. That the officers knew, va
 sans dire. Now then, to the practical
 summary Let law be passed mak-
 ing imperative the disclosure of the ex- act condition of every pa asenger vessel leaving New York harbor, and in time that every passenger may know the risk offered and may decide whether he will take it. Is this not most reasona- hle and most burdane? Should it at least not be demanded of every vessel flying the American flag? The Paris" starts back two days from now
 If anything of serious nature have happened to her machinery there will not have been time for thorough repair. nor will there be time in New York be- fore she again starts. perhaps with an equally large and valuable cargo of American citizenship, The American citizen is a very intelligent and wide awake animal Given the exact condi- tion of vessel he can calculate quite as well as her officers the probabilities of her getting over, and far better than her officers the exact cash value of the risk. The company owes every passen- ger of the last trip at least hundred dollars worth of anxiety and delay. If they would unite and push their claim, what grand lesson to steamship com panies But they won't. That isn't the way of Americans. Already they are all over Great Britain and all over the continent and have probably forgotten by this time even the name of the steamer which brought them across.
 During the voyage the Cornell crew was the chief object of inspection and of speculation. They are a hardy lot, | well put together and well selected | They are about of height and of about | the same weight. But they are not | pretty. There isn't handsome man in | tfe crowd. Looking at them, the mind, | by the instinct of contrast, naturally | recalls the beauties who have adorned | Yale athletics and them speculates as to the position of aesthetics in athletics. Bob Cook, to whom may be traced the source of modern Yale athletics, is re- markedly handsome man. When his face is illumined by a pleasant smile there is no handsomer face in the Uni ted States. Strength and determina- tion are the principle qualities of his expression. He has always kept his beauty we'll In hand. He has never al- lowed it to exceed the proper quantity for athletics He has sacrificed beauty to duty If he had given his beauty a free rein he might have conquered the hearts of queens and grand-duchesses But where would have been Yale row ing? Camp, the regeneration of foot ball, is another remarkably handsome man. The beauty of his head, face and shoulders trickles down all over his person. From the bald spot, which crowns his cranium, down to the neth- ermost filament of his heel, he chal- lenges the Apollo Belvidere. If he had lived in the time of Phidias the state would have condemned him to pose as a model for statues of the gods of Olympus. The high stand ard of beauty established by these two great and glorious men has been fol- owed. Not all Yale athletes are beau- +iful, but on every crew, i'm every nine, and in every eleven there has always been at least one beautiful man to im- part the element of beauty to the whole body. Sam Hopkins, at first base, was IS graceful as a fawn. San1's beauty is ! till remembered with tears by neglect d virgins Jule Curtis was and is, beauty of the very first water. Every < .eader will add to the list and be irre- ' sistably led to the conclusion that aes- hetics and athletics must go hand in : land that each is essential to the oth- | IF; that an athlete to be re-eminently z must cultivate aesthetics; must strive to be as beautiful as he is trong. The ever presence of beauty Is F he secret of Yale's ever recurring suc- ess. This being established, the next UeSfioa ic hoTSr is fo cta1 t,d 1Nod;I,r l e