The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-19
BOTH MEN MEAN BUSINESS
LORD DUNRAVEN IS WILLING TO
 BACK UP HIS CHARGES.

He reIegraphs to This Country to That " Effect-At a Meeting of tine New York
 Yacht Club Suitable Action Was Taken
 in Regard to the Matter.
 New York, Nov. 1S.-The New York Yacht club at one of the largest and most representative meetings ever held in Its club house took action this even- ing on the charges which Lord Dunra- ven has made over his signature in the London Field. Commodore E. M. Brown S presided at the meeting The room was packed to suffocation with gentle men of wealth and distinction. w. c. Whitney, J. Pierpont Morgan, G. J. Gould, c. Oliver Iselin, ex-Commodore J. M Smith, ex-Comptroller Meyers, E. S. Willard and scores of others. The call for the meeting was read by Sec retary Oddie, and then the following ' was read:
 New York, Nov. 1S-To the New s York Yacht club:
 Gentlemen: I desire to lay before you M for consideration the charges made by Lord Dunraven in his letter to the Lon- \ don Field, of which the annexed is copy:
 A careful perusal of this letter will show that Lord Dunraven makes the x charges that after having been measur- ed for the cup race in September last \ the Defender was surreptitiously load a ed so as to sink her four inches in the water; that she sailed in that condition on the first days race, and immediately < after the race the ballast so loaded was # secretly removed so that when meas ured the next day-Sunday-no dis crepency was found to exist between { the two measurements. While Lord Dunraven intimates that I was not personally cognizant of the fraud the ! charge is none the less explicit.
 Now, Lord Dunraven is an experienc- ed yachtsman, and when he made that charge he knew perfectly, what as every yachtsman knows, that it was a prac- tical impossibility for such a thing as < he charges to have been done on the Defender between her measurements { Friday and her sailing Saturday with put being known or being made to me, who, on behalf of the owners of the Defender and in the name of the N. Y. ". c. was charged with the sole per- sonal responsibility of managing her during the race. Officers and men to the number of thirty eight were on board of her all the intervening time, and it is impossible that the fourteen tons necessary to accomplish the re- suit charged could have been put into her on Friday night and taken out again before Sunday without the fact being known to large number of wit nesses. I was responsible for the prop CT officering and manning of the yacht l personally examined the Defenders hold and every part of her on the morning of the seventeenth immediate ly before the race, and know the abso- lute falsity of the imputation. I con- sider myself, therefore, as standing be- fore the world solemnly charged by Lord Dunraven with an offense as base as could possibly be imputed to a. sportsman and a gentleman and which l indignantly resent and impel-and more than that, with having betrayed the confidence of my associates in the ownership of the Defender, the trust placed in me by the New York Yacht club and the good name of the country whose reputation for fair play was in- Nolved in the contest.
 Lord Dunraven claims to have sailed the race on Saturday after being satis- factorily assured that he had been cheated in the fraudulent overlooking of the Defender. He sailed the next race on the 10th with the same convic- tion on his mind, that on the first days race he had been cheated. He broke off the last days race not upon any such ground, but on the entirely distinct ground that tn course would not and could not be kept clear. He went home and after a silence of more than two months he makes this odious charge in a communication not addressed to me- nor to the owners of the Defender nor to either the New York Yacht club or the Royal Squadron, but to a public newspaper on the other side of the At lantic, which it would be impossible for me to read or reply to before it had al- ready made deep impression on the minds of his countrymen,
 Relying upon its belief in my integrity the New York Yacht club deemed itself justified in placing Its honor and that of the country in my hands in the con- duct of the race. I could not have inn agined in assuming that trust should expose myself and you to such gross tmputations. But now that they have been made place myself in your hands in order that the club may take such steps as it sees fit, not alone to vindi- cate the Defender and the honor of her owners. but also to refute the imputa- t'ions cast upon the good faith of the club and the country.
 I have the honor to remain,
 Very respectfully yours,
 C. OLIVER ISELIN.
 The following letter from H. Maitland Kersey was then read:
 New York Nov. IS. Dear Commodore Brown:
 I understand that motion may be made at the meeting of the New York Yacht club to appoint a committee of