New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-31
WHAT MADE DUNRAVEN SUSPICIOUS.
A YACHTsMAN EXPLAINS THAT BEFORE THE DE.
TENDERS WATER LINE WAS MEASURED
SMALL. AMOUNT OF BALLAST
WAS PIT ON POApD


A yachting man who has followed the Dunraven
controversy said yesterday 81 believe that Lord
Dunraven has been sincere In the stand he has
taken, but he has been aboring under misappre-
tension The facts which he bases his charges
are true, but the charges untrue was one of
perhaps a thousand who saw the Defender when she
was towed into Erie Basin to be measured Oh the
day before the first The Valkyrie was already
there The water-line of the Nalkyrie taken
first. Then Mr.. Hyslop. the official measurer, went
to the Defender. There delay in getting to
work during which time the Nalkyrie was towed
to an anchorage off Liberty Island Lord Dunraven
accompanying the yacht on her tender the City of
Bridgeport Before the water-lne of the Defender
was taken / saw eighteen twenty pigs of lead,
which said to weigh from eighty to- one hum
dred and fifty pounds each taken aboard the Amer
lean yacht II explained mat while at New
Rochelle after the trial races with the Nigant the
Defender hal been skinned out more thoroughly than
eyer before and Il was thought that she could
stand a little more ballast
MIR Watson the Na.kyre's designer STOOD on the
Defenders deck while this lead was being taken
aboard It was placed on the deck Meantime
ppehoie which Lord Dunraven says he mad noticed
and which was not visible the morning following
had been plugged up for among the things removed
at New-Rochelle were the lavatory arrangements
and the interior connections having been removed
the pipe was no longer needed. After the water
line and spar measurements of the Defender nad
been taken the official measurer ana representatives,
OF both yachts went the Valkyrie to take her
spar measurements Then both yachts were towed
down To Bay Ridge, and anchored for the night
Lord Dunraven says that the Defenders bohetay
bolt seemed the water next morning Wnen ne
saw her down at the Hook. The ppehole was nvisi-
BILE and the implanted section of bronze along the
water line appeared narrower than on the proceed
Ing afternoon. He intimates that this was due to
additional ballast. placed aboard during the night
and refers 10 the fact that party had noticed that
men were at work on the American yacht late into
the night and that her tender. the Hattie Palmer,
lay Alongside till n late hour. The presumption
was that his lordshp suspected that additional pal
last placed aboard her from the tender Now
| heard official on the day OF the re-
measurement. that Designer Watson Canned 10 nave
lead being secretly taken aboard the Delenusr
after she had been measured ana wheh SUBSEQUENTLY,
the cable told us that Dunraven was soinS To make
an exposure made up my as MIND tnat Nie" WHAT
but what were the circumstances? gang of
riggers were under contract to work on me De
fender for twelve hours-from p m OF oePteinipeI
to a. NJ of the eth. the day of the first race mat
accounts for the late work; Meantime in the early
hours of the night the lead which had been placed
on deck was slowed below, but some OF the pigs
were too long be slowed in the spaces between the
frames closest the keel and had to be cut in Two
Fearing that this work performed on the yacht S
deck would be harmful to her these pieces were
taken on to the tender cut in two and carried back
to the yacht 1t was done openly and above board.
and was doubtless seen aboard the British boat
Lord Dunraven. who had not had an opportunity or
noticing the change of trim caused by the additional
ballast placed forward, and made suspicious by
what had been seen during the night. came to the
conclusion that the Yankee boat was deeper and
that it was due TO added ballast.
THE facts are of course that the bobstay bolt
was nearer the water because Of the lead which
had been taken aboard the previous afternoon
b becat,se Il had been stopped up and the lead
which the Dunraven people saw being taken aboard
he yScR Was an only h pieces which had been taken
TO the tender to be cut up There you ye the
show that this is right and Dunraven himself Will