New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12

AluD, or England, VIII De OF % II ArOWnlNSnlelu \
design. measuring y feet all. with Is feet
of waterline and 80 inches OF beam. The races will
be sailed in the landocked Langston Harbor. on
August 81 Snd 70 Gun efender 1hepsndenoe
will attend to all the expense on the GhaIienge
Butler OF Lowell the champion eanoeist. VIII play
important part in preparing the challenge craft
The auxiliary yawI Natka has been the dry
dock at the Morse Iron Works 10 prepare her for
her owner. George c. Thomas: of Philadelphia.
Ha9 P OF the New sIitof Yacht Club
The Manning Yacht Agency has chartered the
schooner yacht Iroquois 10 Eric B. Dahlgren. OF
this city The Iroquois Is owned by J. Neafe-
Whitaker and was built Cary Smiths design
in 1857 by Harlan & Holingsworth. for Chester W.
Chaplin.
The 9oO-foot steam yacht AlcedO owned By
George ". Childs- Drexel. OF the New-YOrk Yacht
Club has been chartered for the season 10 Daniel
r. Reid. Of the same club and is now hitting ont
at South Brooklyn.
The sO-footer Empronz owned by Alfred Peats.
and the racing yawl sakana. owned by Andrew
McCreery. OF The Lareh h1 YACHT Club: have ,
ready for the first racing.
On Saturday. May is. the Huguenot Yacht Club.
OF w-Rochelle. will begin the regular racing Of
the year with a regatta at which large number
OF new vessels will appear
was turned out last year for A. H. AIker. Of the
New-York Yacht Club is being prepared for com
mission.
The new steam launch which Commodore Edward
NJ Brown Of the New York Yacht Club will a
Great South Bay is almost ready She has been
built at Cranes yards, South Brooklyn.
The Hanley design Acushla H. which a fall
In the 5l-foot class. has received auxil-
iary engine and has had her canvas cut down for
h,r Dan
took her from his brother. v. T. Rainey. whose
a few days
The racing sloop for F. y. Smith which has
just been turned out by the Herreshons for the
a-foot class. is now being rugged at Bristol. She is
4S feet the waterline and 60 feet over all with
draught OF feet She is called the Effort
Mr. Smiths last years racer Of the 3s-foot class.
has had her name changed from Effort 10 Leda.
since her partial rebuilding after damage by fire
al the Herreshon yards.
New water tube boilers are being given TO the
steam yacht Chetolah. which Is being prepared
with other improvements, for Albert j. Wise. OF the
Nsw-York Yacht Club.
ing new boilers 20 his We'll known steam yacht
Electra which is fitting out at Newport
watsons preliminary work before the designing
of the Upton challenger has been limited at. but
the particulars had not been known TIL Archibald
Denny told Of the work in his speech the launch
luncheon. He said they made no less than eleven
models and sixty different notifications OF
these models for the tank tests Watson worked
with the firm for nine months before the contract
was taken %. on That was from January q 1900 II
months OF work that Watson saw his way 20 build
a boat for Sir Thomas
IL has been remarked with some amusement
that while Watson has publicly thanked William
Fife for the great assistance rendered in pro-
ducing the new challenger. he has turned out
Shamrock III about different from the Fife
Shamrock as is the new Constitution from the old
frigate OF that name
The Newport Yacht Racing Association. which
has never been regularly organized club is now
taking steps 10 be duly incorporated under the
name hitherto borne. Colonel John Jacob Aston.
Harry j. Whitney, Woodbury. Kane, Reginald
brooks S. Nicholson Kane. Royal Phelps Carroll.
r Y. Sands. Eugene Higgins Perry Belmont. Her
man b. Duryea and Ralph n. Ellis are the leaders
In this institution.