The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-08
INDEPENDENCE IS BARRED
NEW YORK YACHT CL UB DECLINES
LAWSON'S OFFER.
Challenge Committee Refuses to Fur
ther Discuss the Matter with Him
Mr.. Lawson Publishes His Offer to tia o
CIub-WilIing to Charter the Yacht
and Names His Men-Agreed to Pay
All Expenses.


New York, June 7-Thomas w.
Lawson, of Boston, will not be allowed
to enter his yacht Independence for the
defense of the Americas S cup under the
charter he has proposed to the New
York Yacht club. This decision was
arrived at by the challenge committee
of the New York Yacht club this af-
ternoon and was conveyed to Mr..
Lawson in letter mailed tonight. The
letter Is as follows:
your letter of June was received
this morning. The papers Herewith
consisting of an instrument signed by
you and copy of letter addressed to
you by counsel, whose name is not
disclosed, are hereby returned to you,
the committee having notified you on
June that it did not desire you to
submit to them form of any charter
you might propose to make.
Throughout the entire correspond
ence this committee has been anxious
to believe that you had no other object
than to avail yourself of such reasona-
BILE regulations as might be necessary
to qualify the Independence to compete
for the honor of defending the cup and
they have therefore, in spite of many
things in your letters to which excep-
tion might have been taken, treated
you with uniform courtesy.
''Your last letter, however, with the
enclosures indicates settled purpose
on your part to misunderstood the po-
sition of the committee which has been
again and again stated to you in terms
4f,o Not, tr, no tn h11t 1Iti1f
misconstruction.
''It is evident that further discussion
can serve no useful purpose and the
committee therefore must decline to
pursue the subject further with you.
"If member of this club notifies the
secretary that he has chartered the In
dependence or that he has accepted
transfer of her it will be for such
member to enter her for such events
as she may be qualified to enter.
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Chairman"
Seemingly the last paragraph in it
self might open way in which the
Independence might be entered, but as
a matter of fact it is said that no mem
ber of the New York Yacht club to-
day would accept a charter or a trans
fer of the boat owned by Mr.. Lawson
under any circumstances. Therefore
she is shut out absolutely from partici-
pating in the race.
After meeting of the challenge COM
mittee to-day and after it had decided
to return to Mr.. Lawson his PROPOSE
tion to charter the Independence to a
number of New York Yacht club gem
tlenen who comprise the challenge
committee, the correspondence covering
all the controversy was given out by
Secretary Odide.
This correspondence begins on May
% with the letter from Mr.. Lawson
agreeing to charter his boat to any
member of the New York Yacht club
agreeable to the committee. To this
Chairman Ledyard, of the committee,
replied that any member of the New
York Yacht club named by Mr.. Lawson
would be acceptable to the committee.
Mr.. Lawson replied, saying he would
draw up charter and submit it.; but |
the committee replied that it was un-
necessary to submit the charter, that I
being entirely matter between the |
Lawson. Mr. Lawson, however, on |
June wrote enclosing the charter and /
naming the challenging committee of |
the New York Yacht club as charterers,
but saying that he would free them I
from owners duties, supplying captain
and crew and managing the boat him
self, if necessary.