Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-05


awoke this morning there was hardly a
breath of air stirring, but the mist how
cred over the roofs. AS the sun rose the
misty mantle began to lift, while the
wind began to veer to the westward and
freshen. Off the Battery fleet of about
40 newspaper tugs and steam yachts had
assem- bled.
By O'Clock the early birds of the craft
/ began 10, move toward the scene of the
contest. Sir Thomas Lipton's chartered
tug. the Volunteer, flying the Shamrock
flag. left the Battery at TAO with $50 of
Sir Thomas guests, who were afterwards
| transferred to the steam yacht Erin,
which then proceeded to the race course.
The Earl of Mimic, governor of Canada,
and Lady Minto, who are guests of Sir
Roderick Cameron, will be guests of
Commodore Morgan during today's yacht
race
The first report from the Highla nds
of Navesink, at 1885 a. M. says the wind
was abou, west, blowing eight knots, and
showing signs of increasing. The haze
which obscured the Long Island shore
shows signs of disappearing. The sun
coming out, the weather was pleasant
and a light sea running.
Before $50 a. m. the Columbia crew
had her jib and stay sails up and the
cover was taken off the main sail The
Shamrodks people had by that time un-
covered her mansail and hosted her jib
in steppees. Then the crew Went to
breakfast and waited for further orders
At o'clock, While the Scotland light
ship. four miles away, could be seen from
the Highlands, the Sandy Hook light
ship. eight miles away, was hidden from
view.
By 1915 the first Of the excursion fleet
had reached the lightship and the rest
of these vessels We're strung out behind,
making a procession ten miles in length
and including every conceivable kind
of steam craft In the lead were a
number of revenue cutters. The weather
half hour before the start began to cloud
up, but gave no indication of rain.
At 1O:59:3O the Shamrock's big spin
maker was broken out, all jibs on each
having been set few seconds previously
The spinnaker on the challenger began
to pull the moment 1t was in place and
helped to move her down across the linA
At II o'clock the preparatory signal was
blown. Then they both came drifting
up close to the lightship, the Columbia
coming down across the line close to the
lightship and coming about sailed slow
~ back, leaving the lightship q bort.
The Shamrock also headed toward the
line but did net cross.
At S:45 a. m. the Shamrock's tug came
alongside and took a line from the big
green racer. The mooring was cast on
and the Shamrock started for the light
ship Just before she left her moorings
the crew began hosting the big main
sail Five minutes after the Shamrock
started the Columbia was also taken in
tow by tug and followed her rival out
by the Hook.
At 9:15 the wind was still light from the
west southwest. although frequent pufs
could be felt scurryng out to sea. The
haze had cleared sufficiently to enable the
observer at Highlands to family dis
cern the Sandy Hook lightship, eight
miles distant. The other cup defender,
Viglant, ran out ahead of the two newer
boats with her working top set, to en-
able the shippers on both boats to judge
as to the direction and velocity of the
WIND Inc Two Dig racers were ACCOM-
panied out to the lightship by news
paper tugs and the Associated Press
yacht Wanda.
The Erin. with large party on board,
left her anchorage inside the Hook and
started after the two yachts. The wind
at 9:45 was blowing off the Jersey shore
with a velocity of about seven knots, but
showed little indication of increasing ma