The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-20
ACCIDENT TO CONSTITUTION
ILL-LUCK CLINICS TO THE BEL
 MONT BOAT.
Sustnins Serious Damage While Being Hauled Out-WIlI be Unable to Enter the Contests with the Reliance and toIambia or en Cove, l.. |, Which Begin TO-morrOw-LaGter Yachts in Fine Trim.

New York, May 19.-The ill-luck
 which has trailed along in the wake of the Constitution ever since her launch ing two years ago is still with her, for an accident which happened to-day, | when she was being hauled out at Ja-
 cobs yard, City Island, will keep her
 out of the first two or three Glen Cove
 races, if not the whole series. She arrived from New London yes terday afternoon, and it was thought that it might be possible to get her out at high water early this morning, when the Reliance, which has been re-
 furnished, was put overheard. On &C., count of the neap tide, however, there
 was not sufficient time by which to do the double job, and the work of hauling out was postponed until high
 water this afternoon. The cradle was adjusted, the Constitution came slowly out of the water, when suddenly the l cradle props gave way. The big yacht,
 heeled over to port, and with so great force that some of the bilge blocks went almost through her thin tobin bronze underbody. Her keel sank into the mud, and after a line was passed to the Satille, it was all her tender could do to get her off.
 It was thought at first that the hull had escaped injury, and that with one extra effort the yacht could be got ready for to-morrow's race. When,
 however, this evening the damage in- f1icted by the bilge blocks was discoy- cred, her owner, August Belmont, gave
 up all hopes of being able to enter the Constitution in the first race against
 Reliance and Columbia, and he at once made arrangements with the
 Morse Iron Works, Brooklyn, to have
 the yacht docked there for repairs:
 She will arrive there tomorrow morn- ing, and be dry-docled immediately,
 and although the work of repairing and overhauling will be carried on
 with all possible speed, it will be at least a week before the yacht is again
 in racing trim.
 Glen Cove, l.. l., May 19.-The cup de- fender Columbia arrived at her moor ings here tonight from South Brooklyn. where she had been hauled out to be cleaned. She is in fine trim for the race on Thursday with the Reliance and Constitution.
 New Rochelle. N. Y. May 19.-Reli- ance got away from City Island this morning before daybreak. She had been hauled out for cleaning at Jacobs shipbuilding yards at that place since Saturday, and was floated off this morn ng at o'clock, her bronze underbody having been polished until Mr. Iselin was satisfied that she was a slippery as she could be made. She was taken in tow to New Rochelle.
 In light. streaky southwest wind Reliance left her moorings here at Il o'clock for a sail on the sound. She stood away towards Mattinock Point on reach with the wind blowing over her starboard quarter. She moved rapidly in the light breeze. and was soon lost to sight in the dense haze.
 The Reliance's spin took her only as far as Glen Cove whence after jogging about the cove a few minutes she cross ed the sound in very light air and tied up at her moorings.