Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-30
KAISER STICKS TO HIS YACHT.
Would Not Leave to Attend Dinner on
Hohenzollern.

KEEL, June 80, 1890 a.m.-Emperor Will
liam's American-built schooner yacht Me-
teor, the Cicely, owned by Cecil Quentin
Of England and the other yachts which
started in the schooner race today are at
this hour drifting toward home. The Me-
teor Is in the lead and the Cicely is second
Emperor William and the empress are on
board the Meteor, and will probably spend
most of the night on the water.
The guests invited by the emperor to dine
tonight on board the imperial yacht Hohen-
zollern have long sinca dispersed.
Emperor William resolutely declined to
leave the yacht until the finish of the race,
and the judges and the sailing committee
sent launch to port to bring out provis-
ions to the vessel which carries them.
The yachts in today's race carrying full
light weather canvas, crossed the starting
line at 1875 yesterday morning in the fol-
lowing order:
The Yasca. the Clara, the Cicely. the
Iduna, the Northwest and the Meteor. The
wind was dead ahead for the entire dis
lance to the first mark. twelve miles out
ahead Of the Cicely, which had already dis
tanced the other contestants. The Cicely
challenged the Meteor for the weather
berth, slowly passed her and heightened
her lead. The time at the first mark was
as follows:
The Cicely 3 hours "a minutes 10 sec
onds; the Meteor, } hours % minutes 20
seconds.
AS the wind had dropped a good deal the
sailing committee decided to shorten the
course by one side Of the triangle and to
instruct the yachts to come home direct
from the first mark. The committee, con-
sequently, borrowed all the available steam
launches in it's neighborhood and with a
member of the committee on board each,
the launches started to intercept the yachts
and inform them of the decision before they
rounded the first mark. Acting under these
Instructions the Cicely rounded the mark
and started for home, but Emperor Will
liam objected to this change of the course
because the Meteor was coming on the
reach, which would show her best points.
The sailing committee countermande it's
previous instructions.
The Cicely in the meantime had lost the
FIVE minutes she had gained. and, being to
leeward. she lost five minutes more in jib-
ing. All the yachts with their Spinnakers
doomed out to starboard, then started for
the second mark, seven miles away. On
this reach the wind continued to die away.
The Meteor rounded the second mark a
long way ahead Of the other yachts, and
when she started on the homeward leg CT
eleven miles 1t was almost complete calm.
All the observation yachts and excursion
steamers left the racers at this point. The
yachts were drifting hopelessly.
The sailing committee has decided, if the
Meteor beats the Cicely, to give the latter
yacht a special prize, in view of the COM
plication which arose over the orders to
change the course.
The race of Friday has been awarded to
the Cicely. In this race the Meteor finished
seven minutes and twenty-five seconds
ahead Of the Cicely. but under her time al
lowance the English boat won by one min
ute and eleven seconds. Upon this occasion
M. Guilleaume, the owner of the Clara
which was also in the race. lodged pro-
test against the Cicely. claiming that the
rules compelled her to carry two anchors
at her bow instead of one. The judges re-
served decision Friday because of this pro-
test.