New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25

war believe the only thing to prevent Sir Thomas
possibly be the doubt as to procuring design
that has sufficiently good chance OF winning;
the mean time. keep your eye on Payne.
NOTES OF INTEREST.
Montreal Feb. 81 (speciaD.-In order to defend
the seawanhaka Challenge Cup on the challenge
Of the White Bear Yacht Club of Minnesota, the
members of the Royal ST. Lawrence Yacht Club
will build five 2O-foot racing length craft H NJ.
Nelson. who has just been elected commodore. will
honorary Commodore of the club viii produce
second A club syndicate has ordered a third.
colin Mcintyre have ordered the others. It is
hard defence and a private letter from St Paul
states that the challenging club will spare no
trophy to the West.
The new crew for Mrs. Robert Goelets steam
yacht Nahma has gone to Scotland from Bright
Hngsea to take the vessel to the Mediterranean.
The Mahma ab has lust been a., in the drydoek at
New-York Yacht Club. in which Mrs. Goelet has
been elected flag member.
The steam yacht Courier has been at Tampa
Ta for w t and e5 on Jack
At Manning's Basin, South Brooklyn, ]. P!erpont
Morgan's steam yacht the Corsair is having her
top sides cemented and other work attended to.
A 21-foot knockabout is being built on the de-
signs of Arthur Binney for Dr. Weld. and the
same designer is having LawIey build a, 25-foot
open launch with an eight horse power Monarch
engine for Bancroft Davis
The old college rivalry will get into the 10
foot one design class w K Vanderbilt tr
August Belmont and f. D. Morgan are from FIar-
ward while Henry Payne Whitney is a Yale man.
In the Margarita. which Is being built for An
thony J. Drexe NewYork Yacht Club, there will
be lavish display in the internal fittings, which
will be quiet and elegant The yacht will be 323
feet and an extreme beam of SO feet inches.
The Lysistrata. being finished for James
Gordon Bennett, will have only mast. and that
Will be solely for signalling. Under natural
draught she is expected to travel at seventeen
knots, and keep this right along. She will have
waterline with an extreme beam of SO feet.
The fastest ocean cruising for a thousand miles
has been made by the steam yacht Giralda now
owned by the Spanish Government. She went
from Dartmouth to Gibraltar, said to be thou
The Lysistrata is expected to beat this and to hold
York.
The historic schooner Vesta. which has lately
been sold TO J. Frederick Alderman. the At
lantc Yacht Club only thirty-four years old and
for the sailing she will be improved as
much the present owner improved the Lady
Evelyn last year. The Vesta, which came in third
for the largest stake that sailed for $780,
COO, has been owned for years by the Rev James ].
Of Of. training ship for boys under his charge But
has been at Greenport for long time
With nothing but storm trysaf set, the schooner
yacht Endymion before a hurricane for forty
hours after she left New York on her cruise
southwark and part of that time was logging
as high as thirteen and quarter knots That the
Endymion was powerful craft and a clean run
ner was shown In her model before she left Tebo's
the wind it is not Impossible that Mr. Day may
ran IN with the foreign expectations and sail her in
me mel races against the three American schoon-
gattas
Crowninshield has order from Joshua Crane
jr for raceabout that will be a duplicate of the
boat with which the designer viii replace last
design has longer and lower ends than the old one
and also more beam.
A. D. Prince, of the Hampstead Harbor Yacht
Club. who took nine firsts of ten starts last
s st 9n is building YACHT himself at his home
a. d n l-ois IsIahu ms lo-Ioot soop Will
be raced all through the coming season, and will
be named the Quoc.
The Knickerbocker Canoe Club has elected the
| following officers for the ensuing year: Commodore
John Maier vice-commodore NJ Ohlymer tr; sec
reii r. H. . 'oeN"ei treasurer William r. Far
"A lOo-IOOt steam yacht with an S0-foOt waterline
IS feet beam and 3 feet inches draught is being
built by II. Weller. of Trenton, N. j. for S. p
Wetherill. She Is 10 be launched in May and be
ready by Memorial Day. This is twin screw boat
with compound engines electric light, steam haul
/ ing power and water tube boilers.
The American schooner yacht Alcaca, lately sold
70 Sholto Douglas, of Berlin, Will be renamed the
Northwest. and not the Sued West or Sudweste or
Sudwest, as announced in English papers.
AT South Brooklyn repairs are being made to the
steam yacht Elsa by Hoffman & Son. who are put
ting In new joiner work for T.. X. Dick.
ROYAL GUESTS AT THE EXPOSITION.
Paris correspondence of The London Telegraph
Royal guests expected in France during the
eeShttbitlon and your readers have been informed
tnat the Government has rented and is fitting up
NE late Dr. Evans's mansion in the Avenue du
Bois de Boulogne as residence for foreign SOW
ereigns and princes who may visit this city next
spring. At the quail dOrsay 1t has been stated that
me French Government is assured OF the visit In
the course or the spring summer OF the Shah OF
PEersia Emperor Menelik and Prince Ferdinand OF
Ituinena with regard TO the soYereigns and othe
princes of Europe no Information could be supplied
beSohu me iact that no oihcial communications
nave yer been received at the Foreign Office in this