The Oskaloosa herald., 1901-08-15
SHAMROCK GREETED IS SHOWN NO MERCY.
Enthusiastic Reception of the Chal-
lenger Yacht.

New York, Aug. 13.-The new Amer
ica's cup challenger Shamrock ii. lay
at anchor off Sandy Hook lightship
Sunday night and Monday was towed
up the bay to Tompkinsville, Staten
Island. She will be taken at once to
the Erie basin, where she will be
stripped and her racing mast stepped.
Her spars are ready and there will be
no delay in getting her in racing trim.
Whether she will go into dry dock Ito
have her ~underbody cleaned before
her trials outside is not yet known.
The challenger of 1901 received a lively
and enthusiastic welcome from every
craft in the harbor as she came up the
bay in tow of the tug Robert Haddon.
First Taste of Enthusiasm.
She had her first taste of the enthu-
siasm with which she was to be greet
ed when two tugs filed with newspa-
per men and the team pilot boat New
York reached her anchorage near
Sandy Hook lightship at daylight. The
shippers of the tugs loosed their
whistles and the New York walled a
salute with her siren. The Erin ac-
knowledged the salute with three deep
blasts. 1t was at her anchorage over
looking the field where she is to give
battle in September to the defender of
the cup that the yachting sharps had
their first glimpse of the new chal-
lenger by daylight. The grace and
beauty of the lines of her slender body
were marred by her cumbrous cruis-
ing rig and the litter and confusion on
her deck as her crew were preparing
to weigh anchor. But one glance was
sufficient to convince the experts that
Watson had built a much handsomer
boat than the old Shamrock.
Looks Very Fast.
she looks the fastest boat ever
turned out in British waters. One of
her beauties is Watson's peculiar tilt
of the counter. There is no flatness
or tumble home along the top sides.
and her great overhang gives her the
appearance of speed. She was painted
green, like the Irish knights first chal-
lenger, but the paint on the sides of
her upper works had been scraped off
in many places by the seas she had en-
countered, and,these spots showed the
manganese bronze of which she is con-
structed. She raised her anchor and
.ook the tow line from the Haddon at
$3.50.
Crowds See the New Yacht.
After leaving quarantine the noise
and din of saluting whistles became
louder. Every ship steamed as close
as possible to get a better view of
the boat upon which British hopes
are conferred, and tugs and small craft
putting out from shore swarmed
about her. Hardly had her anchor
hit the bottom off Tompkinsville be-
fore the throngs appeared on hill
and pier-head to study her lines with
their glasses.
Capt. Hamilton, navigating officer
of the Shamrock, stated to a press
representative that the yacht had
been towed about two-thirds of the
way from the Azores.
Prevailing winds from the south
southeast gave them a fair wind all
the way. They got into the tail end
of an easterlv gale August 4 apd ear
ried away two topsail sheets. That
was the only mishap of the voy-
age.
The total length of the voyage vas
3,769 miles, and the actual running
time IA days 9 hours and As min
Government Defeated.
London, Aug. 13.-The government
was defeated in the house of com
mons Monday night in the course of
the debate on the factory bill. The
house supported by 1913 to 141 a pro-
posal, opposed by the government,
that textile factories should close at
noon, instead of n o'clock p. m, as
now.
The Invader Wins.
Chicago, Aug. 10. In a slight
weather run, q long reach out and
back, the Canadian Invader Monday
won the second of the races for the
Canada cup. She had the Cadillac