Arizona republican., 1901-10-02
YACHTS NOW FORGOTTEN.

Only six years ago Lord Dunraven's beautiful yacht Valkyrie II. left Eng land with a crew confident of bringing back the much coveted America cup.
 She came nearer to doing so than any other British yacht.
 A few weeks back the once trim racer was lowed into Gourock from Greenock. there to be broken up. Her victor Is in little better case She is hauled up high and dry at City Island, near New York. and has not been in the water for two years
 Alongside her lay, till lately, Colum- bia, the fiier that beat Shamrock I in 1899. She Is. however. in better case than the older boat. having been care fully protected with canvas. This spring Columbia was put into the water again, and refitted. She is being used just as Shamrock I has lately been,. in tuning up and trying her more modern successor in the task of cup racing.
 The fact is that the modern yacht is simply a racing machine. She has hardly any accommodation below, and so cannot be refitted as a cruiser.
 It was very different with the earlier competitors for the greatest of inter- national trophies. The vessel that on August %. 1851. won the Royal Squad ron cup at Cowes, the famous America was, and is to this day. a snug and cosy sea boat, as well as being pos sessed of a remarkable turn of speed. During her long life this vessel has had more adventures than almost any ship afioat. Bought by an EnglishnIs IT, Lord de Blaquiere. for $25.000. she eventually became a blockade runner during the American civil war. Sunk in the St. Johns to avoid capture, she was raised again in 1865, became a gov ernment training yacht, was twice par tially wrecked and then was refitted and actually took part in another cup race in 1871, beating the challenger Cambria, and coming in fourth out Of twenty-one vessels.
 She won races in 1875 and 1876, under the ownership of General Butler. and at present, fitted with a. new stern and completely new rigged. is well capable of holding her own with any cruising schooner afioat.
 The Magic, which won the cup race in 1871. in which MT. Ashburg's Cam bria was beaten, and in which the America came in fourth, was small yacht, yet managed to beat the char lenger by no less than forty minutes. She did a lot-of racing for many years afterward, but her fate was a sad one. After twenty years of hard work she went dSlO.e on u SllOai near w liIllnB. ton. D5l.. and, in spite of every effort. could not be got off. There she lay for months, gradually falling to pieces. til finally, in November, sou'easter roared up from the Atlantic, and few shattered timbers on the beach were the only remains of this once beautiful craft
 In 1876 the Canadians first challenged for the America cup. They sent down the Countess of Duffsrin, a big schoon- CT. The S-year-old Madeline was cho- sen to defend 1t. The Canadian craft never had a chance The Americans made fun of her sails, which, they said, bagged like balloons. The Countess was twice utterly beaten, and her own CTS were so disgusted that they docked her and never used her again. She eventually became a fishing vessel.
 As for her conqueror, her fate Is equally prosaic. Her present owner, Captain J. R. Lord, took her cruising in the West Indies two years ago. By way of turning an honest penny he took a cargo of cocoanuts to Tampa. Fla. He found the venture paid SO well that he decided to go into the