New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-03
OPENING OF THE CRUISE.
START OF THE NETWORK YACHT CLUB
BoATs FROM GLEN COVE.

A
No nsrrzE UNTIL ABOUT O'CLOCK. WHEN.
THE soArs MADE FOR HUNTINGDON
Thu start Of the New-York Yacht Club cruise
at Glen Cove lacked nothing but the ability to
move. It would have been very fine II 1t had
been different. But the sails were helpless
while the wind gods slept. Hampstead Harbor.
the finest shelter and most beautiful bay on
Long Island Sound. was filed with pleasure
vessels. and at 10 O'Clock presented a picture
not easily to re forgotten. Commodore ]. Pier
pont Morsan was receiving all the captains and
feet officers on the flagship Corsair The big
black steam yacht was anchored, surrounded by
many score OF schooners cutters and steamers.
each Of which was sending its swift little
launch to the official gathering Perhaps a
hundred or more Of these bright. brass-funnelled
craft were soon clustered around the stately
Corsair whose broad decks were covered with
uniformed men. All the schooners had their
foresails. mainsas and maintopsails set. in read
mess for the start. while the after-canvas Of the
cutters and sloops sat trim and lofty One by
one as individual yachts arrived to join the
feet they fired their guns. while dropping
Choir 10 salute the commodore and club squad
ron and then, from the black sides Of the Cor
sair came thin, red line of fire and burst Of
white smoke, as the hagship's big brass blazer
banged off its Acknowledgements.
few minutes suffced for the assembled Of
fcers 10 express their approval of the arrange
rlents made by committees and to receive in
structions to the affairs Of the day. The
race was TO begin at Matnncock Point at the
time TO be signaled by the commodore. and the
course to be twenty miles to Hunting
ton Bay And then the flotilla Of small launches
disappeared from about the Corsair each seek
ing It's own restless home in the davits of a big
yacht, while the captains soon got out Of their
uniforms and sat cut under their awnings in
cooler garb. The smaller steam yachts kept
moving about most Of the time, all carrying
parties of lightly clad people.
II was all so gay. And when the large steamer
Glen Cove arrived from New-York with the club
guests they. too, were gay. They were delighted
to inspect the majestic craft they had been read
ing about There was that huge steamer, the
varuna. owned by Eugene Higgins. n. Y. Y. c..
which had just arrived from her trip across the
Atlantic She not looking as fresh in the
she lay anchored off Cowes. But that only in
creased the interest in her. Cor she bore the
marks of her ocean trip. and she looked wealth
erly and able she swung with the tide.
veritable monster of a yacht. over three hun
Atlantic liners than simply pleasure vessel,
though her white color. gay awnings. shining
brasses and handrails removed the ponderous
look Of the big vessels that work for living.
She had a gay party on board which she had
brought from London and Paris.
IT. TOO. COMMANDED ATTENTION.
Then. too. there the Sovereign. NJ. c. D.
Borden. a twn-screw vessel over two hundred
,t,ot
manded much attention she Joined the fleet
late after it had passed out into the Sound. And
there was Harrison 3. Moores new flyer the
steamer Marietta of 113 tons and the Oneonta.
owned by f. C. Dninny. jr.. steamer of over
hundred and forty tons, together with f. {.
Benedict's oneida.
The club guests wanted all these boats pointed
out. They wanted to see the big Narada. bark
entine steamer of nearly five hundred tons.
owned by Henry Walters who has just put up
something handsome in the way Of prizes to be
sailed for in this cruise. The steamer Par
thenia. 100 tons owned by A. Hart Mckee, also
got her share OF attention. as the Glen Cove
cruised about and threaded its way carefully
through the assembled fleets. But really there
was no end 10 this sort of thing From the little
Claymore built like torpedo-boat. TO the pict-
uresoue auxiliary barkentine Intrepid with her
three bright red masts. 1t was all a STUDY ana
a marine museum. The Nydia, isaac T.. Elmer
SON. of Baltimore the Katrina, Henry r. No!es'
the auxiliary brigantine Satanella formerly ana
better known as the Golden Fleece, no" owned
by Perry Belmont; the Emilia. John H. Hanan-
these steamers were all smaller than the 54o-ton
1are,one q brieantine-rigged ship, owned by H.
r Converse of Boston-though none OF them
looked any better, according to their size IMAM
the Giralda a steamer Of lS4 TONS
The steamers alone, TO say nothing Oh .ne
schooners and sloops that have cost over Fio"'''
each. in the cruise have had millions upon ''ii''
ions spent upon them. Indeed 70 take o"e III
s,once only. il would not be believed If a state
,oent were printed showing the total amount
which the Corsalr (ooo loh'' NOS w.
gan 49,, ooe, tbat move by sails
the amounts involved are mug ,n,nb az the
Tnr instance cost, perhaps as mucn as w. "a
o9her CUP defenders. and their price was sara
20 he over a hundred thousand each. When
Clarence A. Postley had the Coioi% &c hin, for
n schooner rig the bin presented 10 nm tUa
mere alterations was $4,000. Her rival tne
Wmeraid. has cost ]. Maxwell Rogers an IN,
terestine penny, and with her alterations las,
.intsr represents in herself fair.sizeu
tori,ne And there any number OF Deau-
tifnl schooners in the fleet YESTERDAY r',,S
E DaS,ou. the Cevalia, Howard w. Coates the
etanch Iroouois, Commodore henry Z. nousu
The wall-sded Viking. James d. smith; ouyu ,sna
pai,eer's old boat, the Marguerite. now oWned ,
hv Henri ". Lamb; the Elsemare, J; Berrl
the Vic Esnea Charles eFeas
=. Hua'' baltimore. the Fortuna, Henry D
hove fIoVey. Of Gloucester; the Water Witch j. b.
Ford and host OF others
.,,o,,c THE CUTTERS. sLOCP3 AND YAWls-
Among the cutters sloops and yawis were
seen the Navahoe the big 9O-footer' that mae
. n,,,o,,. try in England, and 1t was seen tha'
ROYAL Phelps Carroll had given her raU'" u
mansail once again. Royal Phelps CARO-, 10 -
out for the Morgan cup for cutters IN 'Ne 'o'-
mile race TO the coast OF Maine. lhere was ',e