New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-04
LIPTON'S GOOD EFFORT.
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been suspended, the fleet all passed as near as
possible 10 the yachts IN order to give their
passengers close view. Cheer after cheer went
up from the steamboats, decks they passed
the Columbia and the Shamrock and the racing
crews responded by waving caps or handker-
chiefs. Meanwhile gorgeous sunset cast fiery
glare over all. bringing out each rope and spar
win the distnctness Of q limelight the grand
finale at a theatre
PLEASANT FOR SPECTATORS
Though the weather was disappointing TO
sailors, 1t was delightful to sightseers The sun
shone with a brilliancy which deepened on many
face the midsummer tan that was Just be-
ginning TO lose its hue. The waves were not
high enough to do more than mpart a gentle
rocking motion to the larger boats, though the
little fellows rolled sickeningly in the wash Of
the leviathans The sky azure blue, fiecked
with heecy cOudlets. and the sea churned by
hundreds Of propellers looked so much IKE the
sky that on the horizon II was impossible to tell
where one began and the other ended.
In the morning the air was almost frosty, but
about noontime the sun had warmed up things
TO such extent that many discarded wraps
and overcOats for a time. but they were gao
TO resume them when the boats turned their
noses homcward and the wind dead ahead.
There was constant music on the fleet. be-
cause soon as the band on one boat paused
for breath the band on some other boat began
Everybody was gay, and the gayety seemed TO
the mudscoWs laundering out TO sea, took a
rakish air. careening far to one side and show
ing a broad and dirty stretch below the water
line on the other. AS much like yachts as pos
sbe.
BIG CROWD AFLOAT.
The attendant fleet. besides being the best
behaved that ever saw an international yacht
race was larger IN numbers and carried more
passengers than ever before as could be readily
seen when It was massed at any one point. like
at the start at the stakeboat. To one bearing
down upon II then from distance II looked Ike
a city. thick the little forest Of masts and
so dense the accumulated volume Of smoke
which poured from its hundreds Of tunnels
Perhaps the most closely packed boat in the
feet was the big side wheeler Columbia. her
name. no doubt gavr her an unusual degree OF
popularity with tie sightseers.
Conspicuous among the steam yachts was W.
with deck and saloons almost empty; j. p. Nor
gan's COrsar. black and busting; Colonel
Payn's lovely Aphrodite, with her white ana
crimson paint and her three tall, square rigged
masts; Sir Thomas LiptOn's Erin and George
GOuld's Atlanta. which. every time she rolled,
showed a broad free water line stripe that
seemed to express sympathy for the 1rish chal-
lenger
LIPTON's GOOD WORDS.
After the day was over SIR Thomas Upton
added 70 the good feeling which has existed be
tween the English and the Americans over this
not even In England had important yacht
race ever been sailed under fairer conditions and
surroundings
II was the first international cup race in four
years In that time some other intcrna' ional
affairs have gone forward faster than yacht
racing When Lord Dunrave1 went nome four
years ago in a nasty temper and the Newly crk
Yacht Club removed his name from IT'S homo
rary list, there was httle i'll feeling between
the two countries. and there migh- have feen
more. but for the Prince o. Wales Nho. not
being wholly absorbed In the sailing Of boats
knew that the two counrwsa had something
better 10 do than to quarrel over their toys.
Since then America has had more 10 10 with
boats that were not toys 10y any means and
England has cheered them on. That sad but
necessary work is over now aud has let new
and better feeling between the nations. The
fair and square race OF yesterday, though no.
body won t. was the earnest Of the rev and
better feeling and meant much more than a
mere sail over cou Sc without result. Sir
Thomas Upton does not seem 10 be spelling for
a fight so much as those Of his race are supposed
to be chemically. He Is a man whom every
good sporting man in America is proud 10 meet,
and the two countries will like each other the
better however the series Of races OF TINS year
may end.