New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
IN A MIDNIGHT FINISH.
QUEEN AND WINSOME YIN
Trying Time for Sailors in the Neso
York Yacht Club Cruise.
Try Telegranh to The Tribune.l


New London, Conn. Aug 1L-Only SIX OF
the forty yachts that started from Huntington for
this port Saturday morning, in the second
squadron OF the New York Yacht Club. suc-
ceeded in crossing the finish line before midnight
of that day. They were Cornelius NanderbiIts s
sloop Aurora which was the first to finish. at
s:44:52; Henry r. Lippitt's sloop Winsome, at
9:44:52; ]. Rogers Maxwells schooner Queen at
10 80 SO; F. F. Brewster'S schooner Emina, at
IO:57:41 Charles Lane Poor's sioop Weetamoe at
s:55:36, and F. NJ Smiths soop Effort, at 955:36
It was one OF the most trying nights tlat any
regatta committee of the New York Yacht Club
had. for in addition this difficulty Of denti-
flying the yachts in the darkness and the timing OF
them the arriving yachts had 10 contend with the
worst of all foes TO sailor-a thick fog that
shut down early in the evening and continued In
patches ell night The wind was so light that
frequently a yacht would almost reach the finish
line and then drift back with the tide, finishing
perhaps hour later.
Some idea of the tedious timing process may be-
gathered from the fact that there walt OF
2 hours So minutes 45 seconds after the Ingomar
crossed the finish line. five minutes after mid
night before the next yacht the Gardenia. finished
Then there was a wait Of nineteen minutes for
J. 3. Fords Katrina Six minutes later the sloop
Avenger put in appearance. at 2:55 I'm the morn
ing In the hour five yachts loomed up out
of the fog and finished. They were the Doris, the
Invader, the Nicola. the Istalena and the Lasca.
Ten finished in the next hour and seven after
O'Clock. DR.. Lewis Stimson's schooner Fleur De.
Lis the last yacht to finish
She crossed the line at 5:31;12, and II had taken
her % hours % minutes u seconds to cover the
course of something Ike ninety miles. for what
little wind they had was ahead all tho way Al
though the commodore's sloop Aurora crossed the
! finish line first, she lost time allowance to the
Winsome by IS seconds, and the Efforts allowance
from the Weetamoe gave her the race by minutes
25 seconds, although the latter finished 81 seconds
before the Effort The winners OF the vfce-commo-
dore's cups in first division OF schooners wcre
the Queen by ! minute seconds. from the I'll
nina; in the second schooper division. the Katrina
from the Taorrnina by / hour IS minutes seconds.
In the first division OF sloops the winner ths
Winsome. by IS seconds from the Aurora. and in
/ the second division Of sloops the Ciardenia from
the Phryne by minutes "a seconds.
For the regular class prizes the winners were as
follows: The Queen from the Elmina by minute
seconds. the Invader from the Lasca in Special
Glass B by 2 minutes % seconds the Crusader II
| in Class C., the Katrina the TaOrmna IN
Class D by l hour minutes seconds the Venona
in the special schooner class. the Effort from the
Weetamoe in Glass by minutes - seconds. the
Gardena from the Kestrel in Glass NJ by / hour 81
minutes &c seconds. and the Phryne from the Aera
in the New York Yacht Club So-foot class by 10
| minutes seconds. The yachts that did not finish
and were towed into the harbor by the committee
boat Catherine Moran included the schooners Ge-
valia, Ariel. Endymion and Cachalot.
At "coors'' this morning the shone brightly
and the horizon was clear. Upon signal from the
flagship North Star every of the two hundred
or more yachts at anchor in the harbor dressed
ship aud about noon, after owners guests and
crews had taken nap. boats lowered and
visits exchanged and the experiences of the
discussed. 1t learned that, while the sloops
Aurora and Winsome were lighting 1t out, tack for
tack, for hours Saturday afternoon, close
Long Island shore. the Winsome in striving for
the weather BERTH ran aground, but came Off again
easily.
II. T. Lippitt. owner OF the sloop does not think
she was damaged. By an error in the compass the
Nicola, owned by j. a. Blair. Jr.. almost
on TO Race Rock before the fog siren was heard.
when she was quickly hauled 20 the westward for
this harbor. Fleet Captain Grenville Kane. ii.
Deb. Parsons Ernest L. Lorillard and Walter G.
Kerr, of the regatta committee; c. Oliver IseIin w
mander J. d. j. Kelly, u. S. N, and Newberry
Thorne were Commodore Vanderbts guests at
(.v4u
committee notified to-day that Lieutenant
Charles p. Nelson. L. s. N, has been assigned to
lay out the for the for the cups
and for the Kings Cup. to be sailed, respectively,
on Thursday and Saturday of this week.
The guests on board the yachts III the fleet are:
Steamers-The Rambler, w. Dixon Ellis. Mrs. w.
d. Ellison. Mr.. ana Mrs. w. c. Demorest; the
Rosemary Louie Elizabeth Marsh Mrs. Converse
Dewey Marsh, Mrs Edward p. Fowler Miss Hope
Woods of Cambridge, Mass: Mrs. Carroll Perkins
OF Brookline. Mass, and Harry r. Parrish. of
Chicago the Aloha. Fice-Commodore a. c. James.
Mr.. alS Mrs Percy Knapp, Miss Sade Franklin
A. Plummer; the Sapphire, Captain and Mrs Stuart
Wing, Bryce Wing and l.. Stuart Wing, 1r; the
Gambolier, Mr. and Mrs Augustn Smith; the An
netta. Mr.. and Mrs Andrew f. Foye; the Atlantic.
Wilson Marshall, Senator Charles w. Barnum. DIR.
f B.. Downs James d Coin, Augustus w Mott,
Fleet Captain Morton W. Smith and II. A. Berg
mann. Schooners-The Crusader H. Seymour c.
Hustled. Mrs. Hustled and George A. Freeman: the
Verona. Robert Olyphant, Robert Olyphant jr..
William De La Roche Anderson and Rupert w. n.
Anderson; the Invader, Roy a. Raney and Ralph
Ranlet; the Katrina, James B. Ford and Carlton
7. Chapman; the Viking. ex-Commodore James d.
Smith. Miss Lillian Thompson and Master Dickin-
son Cummings. Cutter-The Kara George w
Scott. George b. Hulene, Edward w. Murphy and
r. K. Owens.
A number of steam yachts left during the after
noon for Newport and New York, including p. A.
b. Widener's Josephine thick fog set In at
o. m continuing until o'clock Some or The
yachts returned here. Secretary of the Navy Met
CALI visited Assistant Secretary Newberry the
gunboat Dolphin to-day Rear Admiral Robey D.
Evans visited Commodore Vanderbilt aboard the
North Star.
The results of the from Huntington TO New
London on Saturday for the vice-commodores cups
follow: