The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-01

Visible on the bow of the boat: some az tho
sharper eyed mon the spectators said
however. hat they thought that there
had been q name there and that II had been
painted out. They thought that the am
was Flying Fish. Mr.. Pryor and . friend
whose name In not known were the only
crew.
There was q strong breeye from the south
giving the Flying Fish n fair wind TO her
destination at Mamaroneck. There were
no heavy seas encountered hut 10 the strain
ing eyes OF those ON the shore there was
every evidence that had there been heavy
seas the invention would have fully justi-
fled the hopes Of the inventor. The boat
seemed 10 be moving with fair speed for u
craft Of her sire. as she passed out Of Man
hasset BAY into the Sound.
Among those who saw the start were not
n few men who have made their living by
ths- building and sailing Of catboatz. A.
might have BEEN expected from such preju-
diced pcfrons. they showed no great CON
hdence In the rg OF the Flying Fish. One
Of them went SO far a. TO say that the boat
would have sailod Just rs well before the
vino II MIR Pryor had opened a good stout
umbrella of ample proportions and held IL
out To catch the bre-,ne, Hut the rest de-
termined To await the inventors return and
90 welcome him a. one deserved who had
turned aside from his daily task 90 shed
light In byway- which had long teen in
darkness.
A. the afternoon wor. CA the anxiety TO
have Mr. Pryor return Increased Even
some Of the upeu iolkS returning from their
offce In New York cauRht the fever Of the
excitement and Joined the throng at tlp"
beach.
Night came. but uo c~onqurring l'TI
came sailing home out ~ the sunset giH"
Watch fires were lighted A. beacOns To- guide
the inventor home lie DID not com.
The watcLer decided that the JEALOUS
f.lk sf fla HnFfh alna Of tho SnttFNI hal Ia
tanned him among them That the glory 81
Ina invention nigh shed a gla amour over
MamaruneCk and Iarchmont rather than
on the plac- 20 which the glory rightf1lly
belonged. the birthplace OF the boN-kti",
swivel sail system.
Early ri-.ts next morning vent down
20 the beach In the hope that 10y some chancc
they might 49, Mr. Pryor coming In with
the dawn. They did, indeed, zee Mr.
Pryor. but he was not on the FLYING Fish.
he was on no hoat at all lie said some
what shortly when questioned that b" had
cume haCk from Mamaruneck 10y train
He was waiting for the appearance Of a
launch which ie had chartered to TOW tie
FLYING Fish back across the sound
II was quite apparent that he was deeply
grieved by what had hApTrned, whatever
Il was, but no further explanation could
h. obtained from him except that the rev
sails did not work nearly 80 we'll against
the wind a. they ought and that IN" return
in the face OF n head wind had hs-'n quit"
impos=iblc He thought that J., s-ihly he
might study out some improvements that
would sbviate the difficulty W." war a.
positive a. ever that the main principle
was all right
The FLYING Fish has come back 4, II
apparent Co the casual observer that ther"
il something the matter with the -ail SyS-
tenn The gail- looked ~ though they had
leon o~Verworkcd In the EFFORT Ia meet "a"
head vino with iust the proper adjustment