The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

Mr. Thomas w. Lawson'S yacht, INDIE
pendence, is rapidly nearing completion,
reports Harper's Weekly. Although 4
certain amount Of secrecy has been main
tanned in connection with the construction
of the Boston cup-defender, Mr.. Lawson
recently gave out her dimensions: Length
over all, 140 feet 6 inches; water-Hne
length, 80 feet; extreme beam, "a 1eet:
forward overhang, Is feet; after over
hang, "a feet 6 inches; draught, - feet.
1t seems probable that Designer Crown
inshield has drawn the lines OF the Bos-
ten cup-defender with the idea OF making
a more powerful boat than the Columbia,
and one with a much greater sail-carry-
ing capacity. He has made a distinct
departure in the forward frames, winch,
instead of being round and easy as in
the Columbia, are hard and fiat. rms
means that when the Boston boat is
heeled over she will sail on a longer floor
than has ever 90-foot sloop. She will
also be able to spread a larger sail plan.
1t is said that at least 2,00t more feet
than Columbia carried is proposed for
the Lawson craft The entrance of the
boat is blunt, and The after-deck lines
do not trim in neatly. Mr. Crowinshield
has not aimed for the fine entrance and
clean run as she lies down, but for sail
carrying power and stability.
Mr. Crowinshicd has not succeeded in
SURPRISING Mr.. HerreshofT Oh Columbia's
displacement Columbia was 1i5, and
LawSon's will be 1855.
Newspaper-men have their troubles. and
the genial editor OF the Hardcman CTenn)
Free Press is no exception. Hear him:
Miss Lucindy Bevins. who lives next
to the Methodist Church, paid her weekly
visit to We editor on Tuesday and COM
planned about that old plank sidewalk
in front OF her home. Every week some
body does something to that sidewalk
breaks the planks, covers it with mud
or carries it off fer kindlin' woodland
Miss Lucindy jumps on us about 1t, and
wants us to exscorchiate the mare and
blast the bored of aldermen. We amt
got nuthin to do with this here matter
and we've explained to Miss Lucindy till
we're red in the face that it amt our
business to keep the panks walks IN
repare; but it amt no good Stead OF
payin' us visits, she had better pay up
her subscription to the paper. We invite
the mares attention to this matter ana
hope he'll have the sidewalk torn up and
paved with mud two feet deep, and chain
Miss Lucindy to u bedpost and make her
stay at home
The Century thinks it a promising sign
of the present awakening in New York,
that the men just now most active in the
attack on bad local government are those
two good citizens Of such Widely-diverse
personalties-Bis Potter and Mark
Twain-the man who prays and the man
who jokes Mark not long ago, in an
after-dinner speech at the ST. Nicholas
Society, said, with his most solemn air:
Gentlemen, you have the very best
municipal government in the whole world
municipal government in the whole
world-and the most fragrant, and you
got it by your unfaltering devotion to
civic duty. BY your conscientious eXer-
else of the burdens of citizenship You
have made the city what it is, and God
will bless you for it. When you die and
80 to Heaven the angels will shout,
Here they come! Here they come! The
model citizens of the world! Show them
into the archangeis box and throw the
lime light on them.