New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-04
HOW YAcHrsMEN WILL, SPEND THE DAY.
THE LARcHMoNr's SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REGATTA
RACES OF THE SHELTER ISLAND GRAVES
END BAY. NEPTUNE AND OTHER
YACHT CLUBS
Independence Day is come.
Flll away and let 'sr hum

This couplet will be either mentally or orally
calculated again and again this morning by every
yachtsman in and around Gotham and every
yachtsman who can control a respectable pucker
will whistle his best for wind so that the many
yachts that will take part In the various regattas
70 may saii with lee rails awash and not IDLY
lie like painted ships upon painted ocean. or help
lessy drift about like ghostly derelicts.
The sixteenth annual regatta OF the Larchmont
Yacht Club which will be sailed over the club
course. In the Sound. to-day viii be the largest
aquatic occurrence of "the day We celebrate and
one OF the most important yachting affairs OF the
season. 1t Is deemed possible that the famous
soop vigiIant will sail over the course. though not
as a contestant. There are seventy-sx entries IN
twenty-five classes. as follows:
Schooners-Class A. Ramona and Constellation;
Glass 3. Emerald and Marguerite; Class 3 cruising
TRIM. Iroquois; Class c. Amorita and Esemar!s:
c!sss sioops-cisss 1Hya T Katrina and Huron Glass 81
Queen Nab Class Wasp Glass 1nnk asn cabns
Penguin, Choctaw. Wenona and verens; Class ],
EdOGn Naroa EuryOa sa;sna DTSsa W ssesSe sSr
Gavilan and Audax Glass Feydeh. CygneS Har-
sS,s hnso aRa %ahnsss Rssya and aas sSrimp G
mira Molly Bawn; Oconee Minnie, NymphD Ds ano
class ls Fairy. Iilewhile. Violet. Punch Zeliea.
Typhoon Colleen and MERCEDES Class H. nnsa Annie F..
Adele Rae. Cinch. Little Dean Terrapin Flounaer'
lone and Narrosche; Glass Z Ramona IA vor.r, IT
Special class, 3-footers-Dragoon and Noraht a.;
csiis. sRsF''' Glass;
Special class, u raters-Trust-me and Question
The members of the Larchmont Club are looking
for "Iarchmont Luck" which has become pro-
verbal I'm yachting circles. 1t having come TO be
generally understood that the Larchmonts racing
programmes need no saving clause. such as wind
and weather permitting. etc. but are always car
ried out whether or no. and with more tnaii
mere capful OF wind Every member OF the cup
got his prophetic goose-bone out bright and early
Yesterday morning. and devoted the entire day re-
i,piousy and assiduousy TO It's careful poshinX,
lest the Independence Day wind should independ-
entity go of at a tangent in pursuit OF strange
eoddesses Last night "all hands and the COOK,
the culinary expert however, being merely an inter-
ested spectator, formed In procession lndan NE,
and in the weird starlight solemnly marched In a
ring three times around mystic circle. under the
larches chanting IN unison and deep-chest tones:
We've polished our goose bones fine as you please.t
And you'd better blieve that we'll have good breeze
Other races which will be sailed to-day are those
Of the Shelter Island and Gravesend Bay Yacht
clubs The races of the latter will be Informal and
constitute only a part of the exercises incident TO
the openng OF the clubs new house on inner Pier.i
Bensonhurst. The Neptune Yacht Club Will have
It's forty-ffth annual opening and dinner at the
clubhouse on Shrewsbury River. at p m. On.the
arrival OF trains from this city launches will con-
yey members OF the club and their guests from
Swift's to the clubhouse. The sewaren Land and
Water Club will have tennis-playrg at 10 a. m,
yacht at p. m. and fireworks at p m