The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-24

l mentOS or the StralH
 In spite of the fine drawn look which Suggests the word 'fragility' when one Is reciving his first impressions or the craft, the immense strength of her l fin becomes apparent in the first few minutes of the examination, and then the vessels begins to explain herself in an extremely interesting way. The trst glance reveals the truth that this racer | is thoroughbred from the gammon to l the taffrail. She's "lydy" with silk stockings to her neck. And it is this | Heightened sweetness long drawn out that at first gives the idea that she | must be fragile, just as one receives | the same idea regarding some women and some celebrated racehorse, But the game of lawn tennis and the rec
 ords of the turf have sufficiently prov- ed that these refined creations, with
 their peculiar length and grace of limb, are capable of enduring extraordinary
 and prolonged exertions with apparent | ease and undeniable enjoyment.
 l In other words the Shamrock seems | to be a structural counterpart or sug- | gestion of what is called nerve strength" and she is undoubtedly a mechanism which may do wonders if | in the right hands, though farmer or l a butcher on the boat could do her much harm It would be a pleasure to see Charlie Barr tool the Shamrock to windward in changeable catspaws, when he could get back to the tiller he was born with and let the boat tell
 him in her pulses what she could do. A wheel on a thoroughbred like the
 Columbia is like using an Arab bit and
 curb with Cresceus. Watson wants no
 muzzle on a creature that can talk, and he has given this high strung thing tiller, so that she may throb her mes- sages to her master and be understood. Any yacht skipper of experience would be delighted to steer the Shamrock for half an hour and get away from his deadening cog wheels to take her close
 to him and feel her talk.
 At the 90-foot racing at Larchmont
 yesterday there was one topic of con-
 versation that never ceased. One
 caught driblets of 1t in passing along
 the club verandas; it was present at
 the bows of the judges steamer, and if
 one walked aft to the ice cream end of
 the vessel it was there, too. The ex-
 treme beauty of the new Upton boat
 was food for the day. People have not
 got around yet to knowing, or even
 guessing at her chances, but it is sim
 pie truth and duty to say that Wat
 sons creation has delighted every
 American yachtsman who has seen
 her
 So far as yet heard, there has not
 been a single unfavorable criticism,
 though one man said that she was too
 lean in the bows, and while he greatly
 admired the grace of the entrance, he
 thought she lacked lifting power for
 ward. There may prove to be some truth in the that as regards certain kinds of water, but it is also true that 1t may turn out to be a pleasing change to watch craft that gets down into the brink little more easily than some racers which have been closely followed for months. Yachtsmen have been seeing the Constitution knock wa ter forty feet off both bows. They have seen the Independence knock it from the lightship to Brentons Reef, and they have seen the other Scow form, the Huguenot, whet water all over Long 1SldnQ SOunu.
 Flying water assists the photograph CTS, but there is no clear proof that it assists the speed of the, boats that spank it off the surface of the ocean. In the rafting district of Canada huge logs are dropped off flat cars into the water They are three feet each way in thickness, and they drop fourteen feet, but they don't splash water fur ther than the Independence and the Qualities which increase speed may demand shape which does this splashing but to an old fogy of an earlier day it does not, somehow, accord with his ideas-perhaps anti quated-as to how a goodly ship should travel and if the English boat should have to be content with elegance rather than speed, she will always have good word said for her if she avoids some of the modern peculiarities
 A deal has been said about the ex- treme bow being cut off the Shamrock and replaced with triangular flat piece but this is very long and mar row, and from a side view it presents an outline like that of the Herreshoff special thirties the bows of f, which American yachtsmen have been accus- toned to for nine years It also gives the idea of greater structural power in the forward extremity, and from any a able.-New York Tribune.