The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-27
DUNRAVEN DONE.
Moved by Ledyard's sug-
gestions He Resigns
From the N. Y.
Yacht Club.
THINKS THIS HIS BEST MOVE
An Opinion in Which the Other
Members, as He Says, Will
Probably Coincide.

NEW YORK, Feb. q. 1S96.-The follow
ing are the letters received from Lord
Dunraven which will be considered by
the New YORK Yacht Club at its meeting
this evening"
London, q Norfolk street, Park lane,
Feb. 10.
y v. s; oddie. ESQ.,. Secretary
Dear S1r-ln Suplelnenting my cable
gram and letter Of February IA, wish to
emphasize the fact that my letters TO
Messrs. Riyes. and Phelps Were written
and despatched before mad heard of the
melton of Captain Ledyard.
without commenting upon the grounds
or terms of the motion, AS to the justice
OF which 4 do not agree. I wish TO say
IN view OF the fact that a motion OF such
a nature has been made, and is a matter
of record. l do not desire to remain a
member Of the club, Whatever may be
i therefore beg That you will lay my
resignation before the club, a course
which will probably be approved by a ma
Jcrlty OF the members.
II remain. yours faithfully,
"DUNRAVEN."
On February II Lord Dunraven ad-
dressed q letter to the Hon. e. J. Phelps
Dear. Mr.. Phelps-The attitude Of as
sistlng the inquiry as a witness ara not
as prosecutor which in the nature of the
consistently maintained, prevents me
from presuming to accept ar reject, or to
c%rltlcise affirmatively or negatively the
committees report officially.
But in view of the many misunder-
standings which have occurred I have felt
myself justified in writing briefly to you,
mittee misunderstood my silence, and in
saying a few words to which you may
give such publicity as you may think fit
or necessary. My complaint was made
in good faith on the direct evidence of
the eyesight of my own and competent
men as to the effects or cause Of which
they DID not know or attempt to define.
1T will in my opinion be impossible to
lind stronger reasons upon which action
could be taken, or as justification for a
complaint Of like nature to that which I
most reluctantly made, and I am unable
therefore to agree that the complaint was
unreasonably originated. I cannot admit
that there was a mistake in the observed
facts. as suggested by the employment
OF calculations which were accepted by
the committee as automatically prov
ing that we did not see the actual OBJ
ieets which we did see; The only time
plant that the Defender did not sail the
race on September Z under the measured
load water line length must have been
w"My conduct after the first race and
my attitude toward the inquiry when l
offered to go to New York and before the
all show my belief in that proposition, a
proposition which, in my opinion, was
~self-evident, and l think admitted in evil
dence Dy memDerS OF the Cup committee.
Feeling as | do upon this point, I was
unable to adopt toward the Judgment of
you committee the attitude which ]
should unhesitatingly have taken had
the inquiry been conducted at the proper
time by the authority under which I sail
ed, to which I made my complaint, and
whose decision I was bound to accept, I
fully realized the difficulty Of the situa-
ton which had arisen, | think, largely
through mutual misunderstanding and
on the evidence before them.
Il most willingly accept the main con-
illusions of your committee and am only
too glad to consider the dispute closed.
Il have throughout frequently stated
that / had no charge to make against
Mr. Iselin or the other owners of the
and his friends and all connected with
the vessel must have BEEN aware of it
if the Defender sailed her first race deeper
than whenNshe was measured.
A this is a matter personal to them
1 have written to these gentlemen to
make the point perfectly clear.
There are two less important matters
to which I may briefly refer. I believed.
and for the reasons given in evidence ]
think was justified in believing that the
plant at the time it was made, but |
fully accept Mr.. Iselin's statement that
he only became cogniZant of it on Oc-
tober "a.
field and Rogers. admitting the error in
my belief that the vessels were ordered
marked in Difference to my request made
to the Cup Committee on September, Z;
though neither | nor anyone connected
with the yalkyrie III. understood that
Der s. / fully accept the statements of
Messrs. Garfield Rogers that they
believed they had explained the fnten-
tons of the committee to me-"