New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-18

| son: the Zero and the Flying Cloud Irving Grin
nell: the Avalanche. Captain Sands; the Jach
Frost Captain Rogers. Among other yachts are
the Blizzard, the Bessie, the Dreadnausht, the
Great Scott. the Santa Claus. the Dragon, the
Arctic the Arrow the Cyclone the Eskimo; the
Dunden Darden. the Magic, the Galatea the Nor'n
star the Vixen the Snow Flake the onteGra ana ,na
dozen others Of the fourth class Two oIher Clubbs
the Hudson are the burg Ice fa aGL
Crb and the Carthage Ice Yacht Club: Inc
former has about twenty-five boats ana me 'a,, Ut
In the neighborhood Of thirty The orange La ,s
Ice Yacht Club is hourshinG institution WIN
fifteen or sixteen fine craft the principal ones be
Ing the Ice Queen. The Esqumau the irouoier' IN
Wndward the Cold Wave. the Ice king, inc ln-
pulse. the Frolic and the tIying I'D. & hts
Lake men are thorough sportsmen ana Keen y@cn'S-
men . pa r,.,b 60 tho
home Of on The H North shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club
with a fine fleet of over thirty vessels the Scud
lines against the Hudson River and Orange Lake
1 Boa Tho The Rocket the Now Then
the &c. There and the George.
CHAMPIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.
While the Hudson and Shrewsbury rivers and
Orange Lake may be considered as the leading
centres Of ice-yachting In America, they are oy
no the only places whore II Is a popular
and wel-known winter pastmc. on lovely Lake
Minnetonka near those great cities Of the North
west St Paul and Minneapolis IS a lively and
growing band OF ice-boating enthusiasts, HEADED
sior Ice Yacht club The Commodore brought this
sport West from the Hudson, and It Is now one
are the Reindeer, Commodore Wetmore the 81.
Nicholas Captain English; the Gypsy, captain
Purchase: the Red Dragon. Captain sampson; me
Icice. CAPTAIN Bailey; the Bitten. captain Mlicr
the Blue Bird Captain Harrison; the Eronco cap,
tain l.. Wetmore: the Plato. Captain Maurer. ana
a number OF others. Lake WlnnebaGo. Nls mas
a fourshing coterie OF clubs. among them belhs
the Oshkosh Neenah, Menosha and Fond-du-L Lac
OF the towns named Regattas are sailed each
winter for the Wisconsin cup.
Lake Pepin another Wisconsin town. Is fast com
ing to the front In this sport. The lake Is reaiiy
the Mississippi River which broadens out mere 10
several miles in width and Affords an excellent
course Clustering on its banks the towns or
Lake city Stockholm. fepin Frontenac ana wan
keta Pepn is the principal and the ciuD pears
that name St Paul Is less than nifty miles away
on the opposite side Of the river. over thirty years
AFRO tho iceboat then n very crude affair. was nor
Unknown here and little by little the sport ad-
vanced until the Pcpin boats compare with any IN
the country Each winter numerous races are
held AMI several years ago the Pepln men Jou,,
nevod over 10 Minnetonka and captured IN" chal-
lenge cup and ponnant from the yachlsncn OF d.
Paul and Minneapolis. The pepin yachts nave an
enyIable record for speed. one OF the t"2t being
race or twenty miles in thirty minutes. or an aver
age rate ~ a mile IN 4 minute and hali Llke
their rowing friends Of Wisconsin University. me
Westerners have itching 20 try conclusions WIN
the East and q contest with tn" racing queens ot
the Hudson or Shrewsbury "a not improbable In tho
near future The most noteworthy Fcpin boats are
the Tempest Captain Fuller; Commodore Amer
sons Lorna and irene the Cow BOY. the Bear, the
Marian the Dart the Meteor. the Cannon f'ail ana
the Comet. , ,,,--...
The Burlington Ice Yacht Club, on tho Delaware
River in New Jersey has about twenty inc yach's
some Of them very fast