The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-15
SHAMROCK OF THE
THREE EYES IN
PORT
Lipton's New Cup Challenger
Had a SqualIy Time on the
Passage Across but Wealth
cred the Storms Without Mis-
hap---Shamrock |. Is Equally
Fortunate --- Upton Sends
Wireless Greetings.

NEW YORK, June 14.-Safe and
sound after rough passage from Gou-
rock, Scotland, of sixteen days and
tWenty-One hours Sir Thomas Lip
tons latest challenger for the Amer
1ca's cup, the Shamrock III. Is now ly-
ing at anchor off Tompkinsville, Staten
Island, where she arrived at 20 this
morning in company with the steam
yacht Erin, that had towed her most
Of the way acros the Atlantic, and by
the Shamrock l., towed by the British
tug Cruiser. The one hundred and
f1fty-six men which manned the yachts
and their conveys are all well, and
there were no accidents to mar the
passage.
Between Gourock and Fayal, Azores,
where the steamers stopped for coal,
Gains and squally weather were en-
countered. The Erin and her tow be-
came separated from the cruiser and
Shamrock /. before reaching Fayal, but
they did not lose sight Of each other
after leaving there. On June IL the
yachts were caught in a gale from the
southeast and while it blew very hard
and heavy sea was running, very lit
tie water was shipped and no damage
was done.
The tug Charles E. Matthews, in
charge Of H. H. Davies, met the yachts
at daylight twenty miles off Sandy
Hook lightships. Pilots were put on
board the Erin at sea and the Matthews
toWed the Shamrock III. to quarantine,
the Shamrock I. being towed by the
Cruiser.
The yachts passed Sandy Hook light
ships soon after 6 o'clock this morning.
They were saluted by every vessel that
passed them, al the way to quarantine.
When they arrived the crews of the
yachts gave three cheers for each other
as they stood lined up on deck. Both
yachts flew the pennant of the Royal
Ulster Yacht club.
The new challenger Is a far hand
somer craft than either the Shamrock
l. or Ii. She looks not unlike the Co
lumbta above the water line, and her
beam seems greater than either of
those yachts. She lows easily, making
very little broken water at the bow,
and leaving clean wake. Her captain,
Robert Wringe, says she behaved
splendidly under all conditions Of
weather during the passage across the
Atlantic. She is rugged as sloop with
short bOWsprit and a topmast over
short, stout lower mast. The Sham
rock |. has the same rig with the addi-
ton Of a jigger mast aft. The latter
steers with tiller, and the former with
small wheel.
At 1880 o'clock this mornin, when
the Erin was one hundred miles east of
Sandy Hook, the operator of the wire
less telegraph system on board the
Erin succeeded in raising the Coney
Island station, Capt. Matthews sent the
following message to be ca&leG to Sir
Thomas Upton:
Effect arrived safely Sandy Hook Ex-
perienced rough weather during voyage.
Shamrocks all right. Wireless working
we'll 100 miles. Matthews.
The reply to this message was received
on board the Erin by wireless from the
Coney Island station at S:55 a. M:
Delighted received good news Con-
yey to all officers and men my best wishes.
l hope they are all we'll and fit as fiddles
Upton"
Commodore Robert e. Tod, of the At
lantic Yacht club, met the yacht in his
schooner Thistle at Sandy Hook light
ship.