The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-09
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sonsthing of u Mystery In the Second
MsRsursmonI.-D -DpnraVSn Has Mascot
Nav.
NEw YoRK, Sept S.-Ths yachts De-
fender ana Vaikyrie were both Fe'mess'
ured at the Erie Basin to-day. They ar
rived at tho basin about the same time
1910 a. m. Hyslop. tho official moaa-
urer, was waiting for them. aud got to
work with his steel tape ON the water
line mRasurement, as promptly as possl-
bio lhs FReeFa lay in pretty much the
sumo position as on last Friday, when
they wern first measured, Valkyrle being
lust outside the westerly dry dock, and
Defender Ia tho eastward OF her, within
touch Mr.. Hyslop would not say at
that time why he had come to make q
second measurement,
II YRIkyrio accomplished nothing
else wlilO in the basin, she got back
her black goat mascot, This worthy
animal is the property Of Dick Burke,
the wids,awake Waterman OF tho dock.
Burke loaned tho goat to Captain Gran
field when Valkyris was first dry
docked, but on Tuesday last, when the
yacht returned to the Robins yafd, sho
determined TO leave ths vessel and rc-
turn to her duties on the dock. Burke
was worry glad to 500 her again, for he
placed high value on her worth RI q
mascot, ~ tho following will show:
AVAILABLE GOAT.
give months ago." said Dick to rO.
portor to-day, between sentences in
which no informed hundreds OF sight.
soers that the yachts had boon in the
basin and gone away, that goat Camo
20 mo without any advances from me.
My wife and / were just thon taking
care Of threo OF our boys who were very
sick with tho measles My vile said
sho would look out Tor the creature TOR
Il time anyway. and WO did tako caro- OF
hor. Would you believe that from that
moment our youngslera began to pick
up, and it was orly short time until
they were all we'll and eating az much
as ever"
Yesterday Burke saw Lord Dunrayen
on the City of Bridgeport, ValkyriO's
tender, aud had quito u conVOrsatton
with him. The goat question was ro'
icrrod TO iestingly by Valkyris's com-
mander aud seriouSly by Dick Burke.
At any ratio, before tho City of Bridge
port left the dock ono OF hor crow SteerOd
up alongside OF Burke aud made known
tho lords desire to have tho goat on his
Yacht during q race. Burke consented,
but tho three young lads who were
clustered about their father, wore long
faces whom their pet was taken away.
"My wife will never forgive mo II
they do any harm 10 her," said Dick
Burke, as his mascot was lod aboard tho,
bridgeport,
THOSE RE.HRAsURENESTS.
At tho New York Yacht Club during
tho aitaruoon, few members were pres
Cnt, to-day being Sunday, and the OIL.
cials there wero ex.Commodoro KRno,
chairman OF the regstta committee ex.
Commodore u. Il Chase, chairman OF
tho house eoumittse, and SupL Olsen.
All OF the gentlemen at first pretended
Ignorance OF tho fact that the yachts
had been re.measured
When Commodore Kane was assured
by a reporter OF tho Associated Press
that the lattor did know about it he 70.
piled: "Woll, 1 have had no official
notification"
"Did you know that tho measures
we're to bo taken and Why2' was aSked.
ION tho Americas cup committee
will have charge OF all that" was tho
diplomatic spsWeE
Mr.. Kane also expressed the opinion
that whatever had been done no figures
were likely to be given out tonight
Mr.. Chase and superintendent Olson
both denied that they had any infor-
nation on the subject, and the mystery
grew.
Superintendent Olsen remarked, in n
conversation which followed, that, il
the ships had been remeasured, it
might have been because some ballast
had been shifted, but nobody dared to
suggest that either side had demanded
a announcement. All agreed on one
thing, however, that, whGIever tho
cause OF MIR. Hyslop's action to-day,
there can scarcely be discovered in any
mistake that mag have been mado
enough OF difference between tho
racers, assuming that tho error, II auy,
was in Naikyrts's favor, TO overcome
the decisive eight minutes forty-nine
seconds by which Defender won yes.
terday,