New-York tribune., 1901-04-21

to arrive She left Southampton April IL.
and her arrival here will be fitted out to sail
the Isolde. the AstriId the Hester and others
The usual large gathering of sailmakers and
other workmen will be the steamer which Mr.
Barrie engages to be the tender of the Shamrock
the tender Plymouth in 1899 Thomas
Ratsey will be in charge of the sailmakers He
and not on the steam yacht Erin. which is to con
s Eos 1h m TO hs % SIDE nd a S
employees. except the men from the Ratsey lofts
A cup has been offered In the Riverside Yacht
Club by its commodore. George G. Tyson. for the
racing of the three Cup defenders the Constitution
the Independence and the Columbia. The proposed
course will be laid out in the deep water of Long
Island Sound.
Benjamin NJ. Whtlock, OF the Atlantic Yacht
Club. is having alterations made in the interior OF
Pt bis big snooner Ramona @ The vessel is now at
The former owner of the Queen Nab, Clifford "
Brokaw. OF the Larchmont Yacht Club will this
year use a 25-foot knockabout which he has pur-
chased In Bar Harbor.
The auxiliary yacht White Heather lately pur-
chased by Harrison Drummond, of the New-York
Yacht Club. left Cowes Yesterday for this city.
where she will receive an American
At Mannng's slips in the Erie Basin there has
been much work the steam yacht Norman IN
providing her with new engines and other improve
ments. She will now be able to show fine deck
Indian Harbor Yacht Club. and Captain Jackson
expects 10 have her ready for Commodore Frank
Tilford by May l.
Yesterday the engaged of the Cup defender
Constitution Joined the steamer Mount Morris.
which. told in The Tribune. has been chartered
TO be the tender of the yacht her racing season.
This crew has been engaged by Captain Urias
Rhodes, the skipper OF the Constitution, and IN
a honorern IN case THIS Yacht be- chosen e M
fend the Cup. For the winning OF all races they
the Morse Iron Works, Twenty-sIxth-st. South
Brooklyn.
The Corinthian Yacht Club. OF New-Rochelle
having disbanded. the premises formerly occupied
by this institution will be used by the New-Ro-
chelle Yacht Club. which will move its clubhouse
across Echo Bay Harrison Island. This club
house formerly on an island nearer Mr.: Iselin's
residence, and this will be its second salt water
voyage.
Captain Frank Dayton will be in charge of the
steam yacht being built for the Misses Thayer, OF
Roslyn. The vessel is OF wood. measuring 100 feet
in length and is fitted with triple expansion engines
and water tube boiler; She will soon be launched
from the Bayles yards. at Port Jefferson. Long
Island.
The seventy foot waterline schooner Amorta,
owned by w Gould Brokaw of the La rchmont and
New-York yacht clubs. has received her final
touches In the way Of paint and scrape and . has
been launched for the coming season at the kooert
Jacob yards. City Island.
The new raceabout for H. VI. Crane. designed
by his brother Clinton Crane has been launched
from the wards of Frank Wood, who built her The
racea bout, the Raider but is intended TO be much
faster.
Wilson Marshalrs schooner. the Atlantic. which
was built for Cup defence years ago, Is be-
ing prepared for commission when she will take
unr rnoo off the larchmOnt fdcHt blup III
which her owner was lately elected Vlce-coihiho-
dore.
one OF the few yachts 10 retain her crew all win
tor vas the steamer Anita owned by George B.
Wilson OF the New-York Yacht Club, VINO has
given her new decks and an electric light plant.
She will send up her burgee on May To-
T. ia Thought that the Ger stituion will not be
,o,rcbad IN after May 2. On that day high tides
hepn to be due and they will continue TILL May ls
Mr. said yesterday na e even she II 'ns n 0o
be ready DeIore '"e emu " W ~ " "
be put afoat.
The steam Yacht leased by Frederick G. Bourne
Of the New-York Yacht Club to William c Whit
nev is the SO-foot twin screw vessel sailed the
which will be be use used orr to srT Ps Mr
in Westchester.
Now that the Independence Is all shut in she
shows much easier form than her model sug-
gested especially in the forebody. and while her
great Pow is than an peepe sere at rst
led suppose.
The trip around half the United States that was
taken some time ago by II. c. Roome. in his little
6O-foot naphtha launch. has been successfully tried
by much deeper yacht, the I0-foot auxiliary yawl
Natka Richard p. Hart, also member OF the
New-York Yacht Club, made the tour In the re-
verse direction to the course pursued by Mr. Roome
The sticking point In the voyage to the Mississippi
via the Great Lakes. is between Chicago and the
bip river Pontoons put under the Natka TO
lessen her draught. which is six feet. and she was
thus towed from Chicago through the Illinois and
Michigan Canal and the Illinois River to the
Mississippi and down that river to st. Louis From
there she went under her power to the Gun
Of Mexico and round home by Florida and the
Atlantic.