New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-21
SHAW IS STDETR4CKFD.
ReUenue Fleet Police Course Well
Much Fun for attendant launches

For an anxious hour yesterday morning Il looked
as if the head Of the Treasury Department wo1ld
be represented az the yacht race by one large and
opulent hamper guarded by private secretary and
an impressive collection OF servants Secretary
shaw was due at the Battery with the hamper and
the private secretary at o'clock. where they were
to be taken to the revenue cutter Onondaga. an
chored on Tompkinsvile. Somewhere between
Boston and the Battery the secretary 5 sleeping
car was sidetracked. and IL was after O'Clock
before he arrived in town. One OF the government
dispatch boats was at the Battery waiting for him.
and when he arrived it sprtnted on with him 10
Tompkinsvine. The OnOndaga then ran his nag
up and stood out 70 Sandy Hook, an hour late but
triumphant
The service which the dotiia Of revenue cutters
performed in keeping an aisle open for the racing
yachts was amazingly eficacious- There were two
divisions. headed by the Gresham. commanded ~
Captain Thomas D. Walker, on the leeward SIDE
and the Tuscorora to the windward. Behind eaeh
leader steamed half dozen vigilant seagoing Pc
Hcemen No squad Of patrolmen ever enforced a
keep OF the grass sign more thoroughly Inc
slightest attempt on the part OF excursion boat
to treSpass was met with a hOarse voiced order %
keep of Each cutter had a swift steam or gaso-
lene launch 10 act as a retriever and Garner anu
the shippers OF these launches had plenty OF tah
DOSING the big yachts and excursion boats
majority Of them had been voluntarily offered 10
the revenue service by their owners. and. as they
were able 10 keep closer 10 the line and conse-
Quently nearer 10 the racers their motive was not
altogether unselhSh- With q revenue ensign a.
their mlzzen they were clOaked with altaorlT
which none dared 70 dispute.
The Mirage. owned by Cornelius Nande- oAI
served retriever for the Tuscorora. and the1s
never was moment when she was not hot on tAs
trail OF some miscreant. Her crew N part va
evidently composed of friends OF young owner
and they spared neither the big nor the little
Get back into the bunch languid young man
sitting with his feet the gunwale at one ms
commanded the skipper OF John JACOB As'g-
Nourmahal, running the nose or the retriever ia
pudenty near the great white yacht.
Who are yOu2' came the reply. -
That's all right who We are We're ridlns ISt@
this outfit, and don't stand any nonsense
The guests OF the different revenue cutters WstS
taken aboard at the anchorage on St C'eoIse %
revenue tenders and were sent ashore AT 4O.-f
kinSVilIe. The cutters are fast and their paSseLS
gers had better view than was afforded most -
the other sghtseers but the vessels were not 1-ts
for pleasure craft. and when they were caught -
the heavy groundswell OF the Jersey coast -
depression in spirits was marked and SAD A. -,
period the IuscarOra only two SURVIVORS "s-0
left deck. - -
How is it YOU are not sIcke'' one inquired 9.
the other. Nothing get sick on. the SuIN4ses.
explained mournfully. that Is nothinS DuI ''
hard boiled egg taken at 5 a. m lie,
Shortly after O'Clock. the cutters, W lnnlSsll
and MaCkinaw which had been used cutins -
day by larger cutters for the transfer OF sLeisI
landed a few passengers at the Battery WHO Ia
not got of at Staten Island