New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-19
THE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM.

Wilson Dart Of New-Iondon. Conn. has cruised
10 this city on his yacht Chatting Dish. lie VIII
probably start home to-day
T. J. Busby Of the New-Y Yacht club, will
use the twin-screw yacht Margaret. which he has
Just chartered. through the Seabury Company, at
Glen Cove where he has a summer home. captain
Purdy will be In charge
II would he useless for any one people 70 claim
the catamaran as It's own. except perhaps the
South Sea Islanders. with whom the craft was
found by the earliest voyagers and where II mas
existed for unknown time The canadia ans nay a,
2j-foot winner the Dominion In both me tnl'ed
States and Canada they have been saiIei lor d
member Of the ROYAL Canadian Yacht CIrb ano
formerly principal OF Upper canada tolIese' sane"
at Toronto
The steam yacht Nourmahal put n commits
sion az soon a. Colonel John Jacob Astor returned
from Cuba and he and Mrs Astor have since
b,.n entertaining their friends al Newport on
board After returning with coioneI As.g " ms
city for one day the vessel Is again ~ .>e"po'N
Captain william A. Miller Is In charge OF the new
twln-screw steam yacht Margaret, lately hnished
h ,ho seahurv Company for J. Z. Duncan. OF the
Nou-york Yacht club The Margarets guaran-
,e.d speed is placed in the contract At twenty-five
miles an hour She has FIVE water-tight steer ou'h-
heads and will probably be the fastest large yaon'
cent tests that seventeen KNOTS an no.r ,,sower
sidered great going for yacht. ne ara, ,a.,s
and %ah fOgcnfb
though it Is said Inc Eleanor can 90 J, ,or en,wlwo
Probably the only yacht able 10 40 ~ eGr,,,oid,
knots an hour FOR s s2ng for war use Captain
Johnson now chief ocer Of the ~. beS am 60 from
here 10 Newport az twenty-five kho'7'
,h pu,ner, Of the New-York Yacht Cluo'
- cruising in the Sound in his steam yacht Al
,o,ross and passed Iarchmont going east yes'e'
day.
clinton Crane has explained that the reason ~
chose the Challenger In the montreal '"O''
,,,,,,se the challenger seemed to be faster thah
" .,,ota vhich was selected here. and be
-. ,ho seow,nhaka was SO greatly strained IN
- ,-,,t races AT oyster Bay that she leaked 100
much As an evidence ~ the peculiar tras.s e o,
thes, racers the Seawanhakh h"s "ss ~ JAILED
10 step over the deck beams ana pu, toy' M Ia ~
the slim panklns II Is sac ,nSS ten minutes to
race at oyster Bay II lock NV CIV" "
clear her Of water.
Mr. Uorreshon was In Newport again on "eoheS
dav and had conference with +. ID. Morgan VINO
has been closely Identified with several cup De
tenders Of earlier years The stai.Ten, mn ,,lSne
syrdicate was personally denied by Mt Vanderbilt
rohn NJ Howell has bought the 2i-foot sloop Kay
for Charles Gulden. 81 New-Nork
,r,o animal oouatlc sports Of the Sea cln Yacht
c,uh VIII take place on saturday afternoon or the
.luh wharf IN Hampstead Harhor, and VIII IN.
ciude "v ~ birh diving FOR both and boys
swimming under water. tub races ana boat races
Commodore Henry G. Rouses schooner lroquols
m. flagship OF the Seawanhaka Corinthian faoh'
Club is now at Bar iiarbor, having arrived from
Marblehead on Wednesday.
Richard suydam Palmer. who lately raced MS
schooner Yampa at Cowes under the burgee oil
the New-York Yacht club Is now reported 10 DC
seriously III at Colorado Springs His mother Mrs
George q Ravens has left Newport 10 Join MIN
Mir Palmer went into the Navy as soon as Wal
ffH all declared
but wa unable 10 stand the exposure, and mo ed
West on sick leave.