New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-10
YACHTS AND YACHTSMEN.

The Prince Of Wales is using the steam yacht
sigurd this season. She is 'i-ton craft ana was
formerly known as the rance
F + Bergen. OF the Atlantic Yacht Club. is hav-
ing auxiliary schooner built at bal''more' w.
Ly Joseph Thomas & Son. The designer OF me
i rm - .
Johnson r. dc Peyster OF this city. has taken
foot cabin launch from the Gas Engine company
Of Morris Heights
SAWYER & Sons have made a new set OF SAILS TOT
the soop Doctor. owned by II. L. Hewitt OF '"e
Jamaica Bay Yacht club
The naphtha yacht WAIKIKI. II. c. Roome has ar
rived AZ Detroit on her round OF half the cont-
ncnt. via the Mississippi
Or. W Seward wcbb's steam yacht Efrida has
left Halifax for New-York. and is expected TO ar
rive to-day.
The second OF the regattas TO be given ny the
Atlantic Yacht Club this month, will be sailed on
Saturday.
Jefferson Hogan. OF the Atlantic and New-fork
Yacht clubs. has laid up his schooner yacht
Cavalier at Suffolk, Peconic Bay. and she
will not 90 into commission this year. she Is IN
charge OF Captain i. t. Acker
CAPTAIN Matheson has taken the steam yacht
Matilda. J. J. Phelps to oyster Bay. after re
cciving Il new Roberts boiler and thorough over
hauling at Teoos
J. H. Longstreet's steam yacht May. which Is one
OF the New-Jersey Yacht Clubs fleet. has arrived
at Twen,ysl1th-st. South BROOKLYN TO have some n.
deutown In 1893 and is eighty feet long.
T. s Marvel & Co. is the name OF the Arm which
Will build the new steam yacht for Commodore
Morgan The " e. A. Fletcher Company. OF the
North River Iron Works lIoboken. received me
contract and suNet part OF II TO the Marvels
H. H. Higgins. OF the Atlantic Yacht Club has had
a new water-tuhe boiler put In his steam zach,
Tranqrilo.
Tho schooner Miranda. which has Just been ntted
out after four years Of ideness. passed down the
Sound on n cruise eastward yesterday in charge OF
captain r'rias Rhodes. Her owner C. "
Nelson and his family were aboard
The Marine Vapor Engine Company. OF Jersey
CITY. has completed n 3o-foot hunting launch for
Wills T. Peake The boat is equipped with seven
horsepower alco-vapor motor.
Samuel y Sexton OF the New-York zach. Club.
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Tic big steam yacht Eleanor, owned by william
4 Slater and chartered FOR this season by Colonel
oyer II. Payne. was out for an afternoon cruise on
the Sound yesterday. with the burgee or the New
York Yacht Club flying.
The new yacht FOR Edwin Miner son Of ex-Con-
gresham II. G. Miner. has been com ple,ed and will
be used chiefly or the Shrewsbury River. where
young Mr. Miner is active In yachting circles The
new boat II now about 70 be launched and possesses
some novel features In its design.
There seems to be but little excitement 10 be ex-
pocted in English yachting circles Except the
sunbeam. no racing craft % peculiar importance
have sen brought out and with the Satanita and
the Ailsa turned into yawls the prospect would be
Dover 10 Hcigoland and FOR the German Emperor's
cup Tho hrst OF these. FOR the Hodgknson Cup
viii be started on June is.
Henry Darlington. OF Pttshurg. ,or whom the big
steam yacht Elreba has Just been built, was recent
" elected 20 membership in the NevYork Yacht