The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-19
MORE LIGHT SHED.
Letter Recently Mailed to the Quib.
bling Lord.


NEW YORK. Sept. dS.-Ex-C Commodore
James D. Smith made public the sub
ject Of a letter tonight with the state
ment that the letter of the America S
cup committee dated September II was
mailed to Lord Dunraven at Newport,
Tuesday noon, September IL.
"THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB,
NEW YORK, Sept. II, 1895.
"My Lord-We have the honor "
acknowledge the receipt of your letter
dated September IS. We would be
glad to limit our reply to acknowledge
ing its receipt, but as the whole matter
will probably come before the public
we feel we should correct certain mis-
apprehensions which we fear may
arise.
'You say, the request that Mr.. Can
field should not open my letter of the
10th was unnecessary, as the cup COM
mittee was not hearing the protest.
You informed Mr.. Garfield that you
had learned that the cup committee
had nothing to do with the protest, and
at the same time you request him to
keep the letter (of the 10TH unopened
until the protest had been decided.
You did not inform him it was unneces-
sary to refrain from opening your let
ter. If the details you give as to the
time of the delivery, etc, imply any
neglect or discourtesy on the part of
the committee we must deny that there
has been any such neglect and must
disclaim any intention of being dis
courteous. Otherwise we agree with
you that these facts are of minor inn
portance.
your assertion that you named no
new conditions in your letter of the
10th, is absolutely exact. We should
have said in your letter of the 18th.
clined to continue the contest under the
existing circumstances and gave your
reasons for declining.
In the interview at the Waldorf at
9 p, M, September 10, you stated on
what conditions you would continue,
and you reported substantially the
same conditions in your letter of the
11th
In the interview at the Waldorf the
two representatives of the committee
pledged the committee to one condi-
ton, namely, to secure a clear course
and obtained your permission to pro-
pose the time of starting for that
purpose
''The representatives declined abso-
lutely to agree to the conditions that
S~~S WO0Id cloooiuC LIC grave
responsibility of declaring the race
void If in their judgment either vessel
was interfered with by the attending
vessels. In our opinion it would be
impossible to secure a race absolutely
free from interference and the amount
of interference would be much too del
icate point for us to decide. The rep
resentatives declined to agree to the
race fixed for the next day, Thursday.
The representatives informed you the
question of not announcing the dates
and times of starting any future races
must be submitted to the committees.
The representatives assured you of re-
newed efforts to secure clear course.
You finally declined ito say whether
you would sail the next days race
Thursday or not and said that in any
event Valkyrie would cross the start
ing line.
Tn view of the replies given by them
we cannot understand how you could
doubt that the representatives sent you
were acting for and with the authority
of the committee. AS to postponing
Thursdays race in order to consider
your letter of the 18th, the committee
felt that the point had been fully coy
cred in the conference at the Waldorf
and did not require more time for re-
consideration of the answers given by
the representatives at that time. The