The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-26
Final Arrangements
Are Made For
the Regatta.
VISITORS ASSIGNED QUARTERS.
All Clubs Will Entertain
In a Lavish
Manner

An intense interest is apparent all
over the city in the Quinsigamond In
ternational regatta at the lake, and
with the boating men there is little else
talked of. On the days of the races,
Monday and Tuesday, the city, and es-
pecially the lake, will be crowded with
boating men from out of town. Provis-
ions for the entertainment of the oars
man who will be In Worcester go on
apace, and yesterday it was practically
settled just where the visiting oarsmen
will stop.
The Wachusett Boat club will have
its full quota of guests among the COM
peting boatmen and will entertain the
foAowing out-of-town oarsmen: The
pennsylvania Barge club of Philadel-
phia, consisting of James B. Juvenal,
H. G. Scott, James F. Dempsey, Hugh
Monaghan, M. .Ruegenburg, Philip
Kunzig, John o. Exley, Edward Marsh
Hoher Meade, A. C. McCloskey, Joseph
Dempsey and P. Wall. C. S. Titus of the
Young Mems Gymnastic Rowing club
of New Orleans, and Amos Kubic of the
| Springfield Boat club will also be en-
| tertained by the club. The Wachusett
| boys will leave no stone unturned in
| providing pleasing entertainment for
| their guests, and on Tuesday evening
will hold q social and dance at the club
rooms.
The Lakesides will look after the well
! fare of the Knickerbocker Athletic club
| boys Of New York city. They are l.. B.
| Handley, J. H. Hughes, +. Hoffman, j..
H. Rooney, J.. T, Wishart, J. O'Connell.
| r. j. Savage, w. Bentley and c. E. De-
verde. The Crescent four-blade war
oanoeists will also be looked after by
the Lakesides. Joseph B. Mcguire and
Joseph j. Whitehead will also be the
/ guests of the Lakesides.
| The other entries will be located at
the club house Of the Tatassits. They
viii entertain the Wabewawa Club, who
will be represented by its four-blade ca
noe crew.
! The committee of management met
/ yesterday and agreed upon the follow
ing program for the two days racing:
First day. Monday, all the preliminary
and semi-final heats in all the events
will be rowed. The races will COM
and the heats will be rowed every halt
hour throughout the afternoon. Or
Tuesday, all the final heats will be
rowed, beginning at o'clock, with the
heats being pulled off every half hour.
i Walter B. Simpson of Arlington will
be umpire, and he will see that the
, races are pulled off with no tedious
waits between. The clerk of course
A. v. Coulson, will be provided with &
naphtha launch, and will be kept busy
the afternoons of both days. Tht
course will be policed as thoroughly al
possible, and the chief of police, whel
seen by members of the committee
agreed that 16 policemen would be OIL
duty besides officer John Horgan ii
his rowboat.
The course will be staked, and at tn,
finish of the course, at the causeway
big markers will be placed SO that thi
coxswains Of the eight-oared crews viii
be enabled to steer their course proper
Z ly. But two steamers will be allowed
on the course, one will carry the off
cialG of the regatta, the press and thu
members Of the committee of manage
ment, and the other the out-of-towr
guests, the board of governors of tn,
! regatta, the city officials and the mem
bers Of the Board of Trade that con.
, tributed to the success of the regatta.
The shells will arrive from Boston Al
O'clock Sunday afternoon, and will be
} distributed among the clubs that art
to house them. The oarsmen will ar.
rive about the same time, and all the
0arsrnen will be on the water by
: o'clock in the evening.
.
3 the Consolidated Street Railway Com.
: pany tc carry the boats to the lake.
1t has been practically decided to
drop the four oared event but if en-
tries received, the race will be rowed.
j. H. Meagher will go to Boston to-
! morrow, with P. H. Hurley. to make
, an effort to get another entry in the
, double SOULS They will endeavor to
get the Delaware Boat Club of Chicago
, to enter Henderson and Weinand
The chairman of the committee, j. H.
, Meagfer, received the shields yester-
! day but not the medals When the
: medals are received they will be placed,
with the shields, in the show window
of F. A. Easton's news room, on Main
street, Thursday.
The committee reports that nearly all
the money subscribed for has been re-
ceived. The petition that the commit
tee started for closing stores. Tuesday
is still going the rounds, meeting with
fiattering success everywhere. All the
} bicycle dealers have signed.
The LakeSides were jubilant last
evening over the arrival of their war
canoe yesterday afternoon, from Og-
J densburg, N. Y. The canoe is a beauty
and is from the shops of the Spalding-
st. Lawrence Boat Company. Last
evening the crew that is to represent
! the club in the regatta went out on
the lake and pronounced it a speedy
, canoe. The men who were out last
evening, and who will make the crew
, ARE H. Ames B. S. Flint, c. H. Wash
burn and A. B. Whiting.
Edward H. Ten Eyck his father
James A. Ten Eyck, and Charles H
Lewis left yesterday morning at 1c
O'clock for Boston. where the two
Youngsters are to row at the national
regatta. on the Charles river. Ter
lEyck is in good form and will row as
we'll as he ever did in his life Many
tion 10 attend the regatta. Excursion
rates of 81 80 have been arranged, and
that allows waiting over few days