The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-08

race, the timekeeper and the newspa-
| per reporters This is the fastest
steam launch in Great Britain and can
easily keep up with the four-oared and
/ eight-oared crews.
The first race of the day is started
at IL o'clock. "A sculler not present at
the moment forfeits the race. The
other races follow at intervals of 30
minutes each
The Thames "caravansary," CORE
| spending to our harbor police have
| charge of the course. They keep the
course perfectly clear for the oarsmen.
At the finish is constructed a plat
form for the finish judge" Directly
opposite is a blackboard with a white
line drawn through the centre The
judge holds flag which he drops the
moment the line is crossed. So closely
can the distance between the competing
boats be calculated that in 1897 in an
eight-oared race between the Leanders
and New College, the hardest fight in
the history of Henley regatta, the lat
ter was declared the winner by a lead
of two feet The eloseness of this race
recalls to mind the famous race on
Lake Quinsigamond half a dozen years
ago between the Cornells and the Bow
doins, which was won by a few feet
The attendance varies, but no day
was it less than $4,000, and the largest
was $4,000. In all that crowd there was
no rude conduct, no indecent language,
and scarcely any signs of intoxication.
although all were on pleasure bent. The
charge that "the English take their
pleasures too seriously" does not apply
to Henley.
The households extend along both
sides of the river from the grandstand
for about a mile. The positions they
occupy are leased by the Henley regat-
ia committee, and considerable in
come obtained from this source, which
is applied to the payment of the re-
gatta expenses. Some of these boats
cost as much as $4,000. They
are one-story high, like the ladies
bathing pavilion on the south side of
the causeway at Lake Quinsigamond,
with an awning on top. Others are built
with a second story, leaving a margin
on the sides for a piazza all around
the boat. The sleeping rooms are up
stairs, the kitchen, refreshmert and
reception rooms are on the first floor
Potted plants on posts everywhere, vines
running around, concealing the wood
work, a regular arbor with flowers
blossoming and scenting the air with
their perfumes, flags fiuttering in The
breeze, every foot of floor carpeted,
music rising and swelling from guitars,
mandolins, banjos, places,-truly an
oriental scene from fairy-land.
What impressed me most during my
short stay in England was the English
mans sense of Justice, his love of flair
play" Except in cases in which his
prejudices enter, his views are broad
and liberal, his judgments usually
sound 1t is not fair to measure him by
our standard. We would object to a
measurement by theirs. You must
make an allowance for time, place,
country, government and associations
Can you expect country whose an
cestors. famous the wide world over,
were established before Columbus set
his foot on this continent; whose power
is co-extensive with the dominions of
the world, on whose empire the sun
never sets, to yield without some ex-
pressions of dissent, their judgment to
that of the infant republic, which first
saw the light of day 1875 years ago?
know that the opinions | now express
will not be acceptable to many of my
countrymen, but it is the duty of a his
torian to tell the truth; the realm of fic-
ton belongs to the novelist; flights of
maginations are for the poet. I can
say with Henry Grafton, 81 respect
other mems opinions, but l keep my
own"
At a banquet given by his English adj
mirers to Edward H. Ten Eyck at Put
ney, presided over by H. M. Casper,
the celebrated boat builder, the man
who built "the Diamonds" the remarks
of the speaker, who responded to the
toast, 1.-THE Wachusett Boat club"
were cheered to the echo. A Jew has
as good a show of obtaining justice as
an Englishman; both stand on an equal
footing, in fact as well as in theory, be-
fore the majesty of the law Americans
will tell you that they would as lief
try their cases before an English as be-
fore an American jury. attended their
courts for four days in Temple Inn in
London, and marvelled at the even
handed way in which justice was melted
out
No English crowd ever yet stood
round fight and saw a man kicked
when he was down.