The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-18
YACHTS OFF WITH THE
 ATLANTIC IN THE LAD
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:. ' tion. Crowding close behind them came
 the Atlantic, Endymion, Hamburg,
 Thistle, Utowana and Valhalla in that
 order. ,
 Windward end of the starting line, each captain anxious to secure the weather
 position, the schooners in the lead
 crowded the Utowana and Valhalla so
 badl ythat they were unable to corss
 the line without collision. They ap-
 preached the line from such a direction
 that the othsr yachts were crossing
 their bows, yet they held to their course
 so long that the Utowana, the leader of
 could not turn about. Both she and the
 Valhalla bore down upon the schooners
 threateningly. Passing between a tug
 though they were going to smash into the Atlantic and Endymion, and an or
 der came from the committee to go
 about and cross the line properly. Barely ,in time to prevent a collision the fleet made an opening for them and they went through the mand swung in to line. Warning whistles and signal flags recalled them but not until they had gone more than half a mile on | their course were they able to get clear
 of the fleet and return and recross the line In the meantime the little schooner
 Fleur de Lys, the smallest of the fleet, on which Miss Candace Stimson, the owners daughter, and J. B. Connolly, E the writer of Gloucester stories, were
 passengers, slipped across the line and quickly overlook the Thistle. -. All the leaders got away within a minute of the starting gun at 1915, but the Fleur de Lys crossed at 12:27, Sach- }em at 12:30, Apache at 12:35, Utowana
 at 12:57, and Valhalla at 1:25. The lat ter was in irons in tacking and the line and thus badly delayed. Among the leaders the yawl Ailsa, as expected in light winds, clung to the windward position and quietly drew away from the Hildegarde. The long, lean three mastetr Atlantic, with Cap- tain Barr at the helm, went after and slipped by them both like 8, keen grey
 hound, and at her stern clung the Ger
 man Hamburg which i'll the first five miles had almost overhauled the Ailsa and had dropped the Endymion astern of Ter. It was evident that the Ger
 man was hot after the flying leader
 more than a quarter Of a mile ahead
 and that Captain Barr was wasting not
 a moment in claiming nor any effort to
 hold the position in which he has so
 after placed the American craft--in the lead. It was to be a royal battle be- tween the Yankee by adoptin and the Teuton, with Captain Lenuel Miller of the Ailsa and the Gloucester fishing skipper Captain Bohlin of the Fleur de
 Lys, each eager for the lead and wise in ways to get it, -=.-.- Strung out behind was the long fleet | in the order named above, they faded
 into the dim horizon and were gone. The starters and the owners were: Schooner Atlantic, Wilson Marshall,
 American, 206 tons.
 Yawl Ailsa. H. S. Redmond, Ameri- can, 115 tons.
 Schooner Hamburg, a syndicate, Ger
 man, 1855 tons.
 Schooner Hildegarde, Edward R..
 Coleman, American, 146 tons. Schooner Endymion, George A. Lau-
 der, jr., American, 116 tons.
 Schooner Fleur de Lys, Dr. L. A.
 Stimson, American, S6 tons.
 Schooner Thistle, Robert E. Tod,
 American, 235 tons. ..a. y
 Topsail schooner Sunbeam, Lord
 Brassey. British. 227 tons.