The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-30
POI WASHINGTON ST.
BRISTOL.
0di Fellows Enjoy Field Day.
Program for the Regatta.

The annual field day of United Brothers
Lodge, IO.O.F., was held yesterday at Mount
Hope. An old.fashioned Rhode Island clam
bake was served at 2 o'clock, after which
sports of various kinds were the order OF ex-
ercises
Members Of the Robert Emmett Literary So
ciety, with their friends, visited Rocky Point
yesterday TO take part in the Clan-na-Gael
festivities
Mr.. Albert G. Greene returned last evening
after sx-weeks' visit in Kansas City, Salt
Lake City and California
Professor j. Richard .Iewett, who has for
two weeks been cruising in Narragansett
waters, has arrived here.
Mrs. Florence f. Teol and family OF Boston
are-enioyiDg visit to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
i. Herreshoff at Papposesquaw.
Two house lots on the south side of Garfield
avenue have been sold through Lyman b.
Bosworth, auctioneer, 70. Frederick 9. Wal
dron Of Brockton and Mrs. Emma 9. Waldron
of Bristol to Andrew Lynch.
The 3Jfoot fin keel racing acht Voda, owned
by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., arrived here
yesterday 10 have q new mast stepped in
place of the one sprung in the race Of Tues
day.
AT regular meeting of Burnside Lodge,
No. "a, Knights Of Pythias, it was voted TO
have the annual clambake and outing at Fox
hill on Tuesday, August TO-
The following Is the program of the Neptune
Yacht Club regatta, to be held Saturday az.
ternoon at Bristol: A start will be made
from the limo OFF the club house at 2 n. IN.
The starting guns will be fred five minutes
after the signals are hoisted. Time will he
reckoned from that gun, and boats not cross
ing then will be- handicapped. An entrance
fee of 80 cents will be charged the owner of
each boat entered, which will be used toward
purchasing a cup for each class, TO be awarded
at the end Of the season to the winner of the
greatest number OF points in these club races.
The regatta is TO be- governed by the racing
rules of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Entries
will be received by the regatta committee
up 20 y. IN. on the day OF the regatta. The
following entries have already been made
up 10 the present time: Sloop yacht Marcia,
owned by Rear Commodore Walter A. Potter
of Bristol; soop yacht Ethelka, owned by
George H. Harris of Providence; sloop yacht
Metacom owned by Colonel II. II. /. Goddard
of Provdence; catboat Razzle Dazzle, owned
by Captain George II. Gladding of Bristol cat.
yawl Seagull, owned by william q. Lowe of
| Bristol catboat Kickemuit. owned by Cap
| tain Theodore Gladding of Bristol.
There are TO be five classes The courses
will be tho same on the day of the opening
regatta. For tho larger classes tho course
will be from the club house TO and around
Mon Tom buoy, near Prudence Island TO and
around Framing Mill buoy off Hog Island,
and thence to IA stake boat at the head of the
harbor and back to the start. The course for
the small craft will be from the start to Pap
poosesquaw, Walkers Covebuoy. and then back
to the start.
The classes are to sail twice over the courses.
There will be probably about 20 entries in the
races. There will be several entries By own
ers who are members of the club from out of
town, who have already notified their inten.
tions of taking part in tho races.