The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-26
Marked Contrast to the Cordial
Greeting rendered Several
Months Ago.
READY FOR AN INVESTIGATION.
Men of international Regulations to
Weigh the Evidence Against
the Defender.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Dec. 25.-Wynd-
ham Thomas Wyndham-Q -Quin, Earl of
Dunraven and the owner of Valkyrie III ac-
companied by his legal adviser, Mr.. George
Asquith, a noted London barrister. and
Mr. Arthur Glennie, ex-commodore of the
Royal Portsmouth Yacht Clue, arrived in
American waters this evening. Lord Dun
ravens visit is for the purpose of doing
what he can to substantiate the charge OF
fraud, which he made against the De-
fender after he returned to England, and
which set yachtsmen of the two conti-
nents by the ears and nearly caused as
much talk as President C1eveland's more
recent remarks on the Venezuelan diff
Guilty. The owner Of the Valkyrie brings
with him a number of dispositions of mem
bers of his crew, and Mr.. Arthur Glennie,
who sailed on the Valkyrie during the
races, is expected to testify. Lord Dun
ravens legal adviser. Mr.. Asquith, will
probably be permitted to appear before the
committee and conduct the Earl's case.
He is famous on the other side as cross
examiner and is brother of the Hon.
Herbert Henry Asquith, who was Home
Secretary under Gladstone.
The preparations for Dunraven's recep-
tion were in marked contrast to those upon
his former visits. When he came here in
1898 with the Valkyrie II and again this
year with the Valkyrie III, he was well
coined by yachtsmen and people of prom
inence generally as a fair and honorable
sportsman, who had the pluck to try for
the America cup after the many failures
of his countrymen to regain it. The men
who were his most hospitable entertainers
| then are the ones whom he has now ac-
cused of conduct, which if true, would de-
bar them from the society of gentlemen.
When his charges published IN the London
Field of November 8 first reached the ears
of c. Oliver lselin, the managing director
of the Defender, he said:
"Any man who makes such charge is
liar and a blackguard.
This remark, though somewhat violent,
| expressed the sentiments of most yachts
men on this side of the Atlantic.
Lord Dunraven's charge was that the
Defender. after being measured for the cup
races, was surreptitiously loaded so as to
sink her four inches deeper into the water,
and that she sailed that way in the first
days race, and that Immediately after the
race the additional ballast was secretly re-
moved so that when remeasured the next
tween the two measurements.
Lord Dunraven does not accuse Mr.. Ise-
lin or any one of the owners of the De-
fender of being personally cognizant of the
fraud, but as they were responsible for the
boat and as the removal of ten to twelve
tons of lead could scarcely take place with
out their knowing it, the charge amounts
to the same thing.
Upon the publication of the charges,
special meeting of the New York Yacht
Club was called and a committee composed
of J. Pierpont Morgan, William C. Whit
ney and George L. Rives was appointed to
investigate and take such action in the
matter as they deemed fit. The Hon. E.
J. Phelps, ex-Minister to England, and
Captain A. T. Mahan, o. s. N, the WELL
known writer in naval affairs, have been
added to the committee, and Joseph II.
Choate has been engaged as counsel to the
committee. All the members of the COM
mittee are men with international reputa-
tions, and full, thorough and impartial
investigation is assured. Neither Captain
Mahan nor ex-Minister Phelps belongs to
the New York Yacht Club. The first
hearing is now set for Friday next in the
model-room of the New York Yacht Club.
II will be private.
The committee will probably call Cap
tains Haff and Terry, who were on the
Defender, and some members of the crew,
as well as officers of the hattie Palmer and
City of Bridgeport, the tenders of the two
yachts, and dock officials, tugboat cap.
tains and others who were in positions to
know what was going on ON the Defender.
1t is expected that Messrs. Iselin, w.
Butler Duncan Jr.. Newberry Thorne, w.
K. Vanderbilt, Herbert c. Leeds, and E.
d. Morgan will also testify.
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