The Penn's Grove record., 1903-06-19
SHAMROCK III. ARRIVES
New Cup Challenger Made the Trip
ii IS Days % Hours.
NO MIsAAP ON THE VOYAGE
She Was lowed Most Of the Way by the
Steam Yacht Erin-shamrock I. Right
Behind, Towed by . Tug THE Upton
Fleet Gets q Fine Reception In the
New York Harbor.

New York City.-Welcome to Sham.
rock III. Courtesying over the white.
capped waves off Sandy Hook with o
grace that fascinated watching yachts.
men, Sir Thomas Lipton's cup chalien.
ger gifded into port. She was In tow
OF the steam yacht Erin, but the con.
Meeting hawser trailed slack, as under
jury rig and mainsail and staysail the
new Shamrock skinned along.
Right behind, not half a mile away,
came Shamrock I. in tow Of the Eng.
lish 0cean-going tug Cruiser. In com.
parisOn with the new challenger she
looked like a fishing smack. Where
the Upton racer of four years ago
pounded and spanked the seas until the
spray few the new boat swept over
them like a shadow.
The passage was made from Gou.
rock, Scotland, In sixteen days and
twenty-five hours, the feet anchoring
off Tompkinsville, Staten Island, at
100 a., m. The yachts were towed
most Of the way across the Atlantic.
The 156 men who manned the yachts
and their conveys are all well, and
there We're n~o-accidents to mar the pas.
sage.
The new challenger is a far hand.
somer craft than either the Shamrock
I. or IL. She looks not unlike the Co.
lumbia 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 a clean wake.
From Sandy Hook to Tompkinsville,
where the little fleet cast anchor. Sham.
rock Ill. and her mates secured g tu-
multuous welcome. Early morning ex.
cursion boats, crowded to their guards,
footed their whistles like mad. Their
passengers cheered and waved hats and
handkerchiefs. Outward-bound steam.
ers and host Of tugs and launches blew
their whistles, sailing craft dipped their
colOrs, while men and women crowding
innumerable rOwboats cheered Justify.
All the way from Sandy Hook to
Staten Island the steam whistles Of the
Erin and the Cruiser were never idle.
Grouped on the decks of the two
Shamrocks stood their crews-lithe, &C.
tive lads, who grinned and ducked
their heads and once broke into a roar
Of cheers.
Cannon doomed from the Staten Isl.
and shore and zoe the feet hove to
of Tompkinsville and dropped anchor.
Captain Mathews told a brief story Of
the voyage.
I'VE sailed from the Clyde" said he.
ION May % at l q. M, and reached
Fayal, In the Azores. early in the morn
ing Of June 3.
"The weather up to that time had
been perfect, but sailing from Fayal
on the afternoon Of June 4, we ran
INTO bad weather with strong head
winds and a heavy sea. There was
q regular southeast gale blowing on
June IL, but it did not trouble us.
OF course, the two races were pretty
roughly handled, but the hawsers held
true, and there was not a bit Of trouble.
1t was the usual thing, you know
really a most monotonous trip, quite
dull, you know"
At 1890 o'clock, when the Erin was
100 miles east of Sandy Hook. the
operator Of the wireless telegraph sys.
tenn on board the Erin succeeded in
raising the Coney Island station. Can.
tain Mathews then sent the following
message to be cabled to Sir Thomas
Upton:
FLEET arrived safely Sandy Hook.
Experienced rough weather during
voyage. Shamrock all right. Wireless
working we'll 100 miles.
"MATHEWs.n
The reply to this message was re.
ceived on board the Erin bv wireless
from the Coney Island station at S.55
a.. m:
Delighted receive good news. Con.
vey to all officers and men nv best
wishes, I hope they are all well and
ut as fiddles. Upton"
Later Sir Thoma.; Upton cabled the
following greeting to the feet:
congratulations to Captains Math.
ews, Wringe, Bevis, Walters and every
man upon good seamanship and safe
arrivals. sLIPTON.n
AS to the chai4ceE of Shamrock III.
In the coming struggle for the Cup.
neither Captains Wringe, Mathews nor
Charles Bevis, who is in command Of
Shamrock l., desired to be quoted.
They were eager for news OF the Reli.
ance, however.
On the following day the two Sham.
rocks were towed to Erie Basin. to be
put in thorough racing trim. The first
OF the tuning-up races between Sham.
rock III. and I. was scheduled for June