The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-08-02
NEW YORK YACHT CLUB CRUISE
WILL MAKE NEWPORT GAY.
KINGS CUP RACE.

NEW YORK, Aug. August is al
ways the most festive month OF the
summer season at all the seaside and
mountain resorts OF the fashionable set.
The racing season is IN full swing at
Saratoga. while from Bar Harbor, New
London. Southampton, Nara gansett
Pier, and from Newport come echoes OF
much gayety. The event OF the week
opening today Will, OF course, be the
start Of the annual cruise Of the feet OF
tie New York Yacht Club, which this
year for the first time viii rendezvous
at New London. Conn. instead Of at
Glen Cove, /. J.
II Will assemble on Thursday next,
and on the following day the run will
be made 10 Newport, where, on Satur-
day. the races for the Astor cup will be
held. These will be followed on Monday
by the contest for King Edwards trO-
ply, and then the fleet will leave for
Vineyard Haven, Provincetown. and
Marblehead, where we are TO have the
race for Commodore Vanderbilt's cup.
That viii occur on Saturday week, and
then the fleet win dispense.
King Edwards trophy is a challenge
cup which has to be won for several
years in succession before il becomes
the property OF any one club or contest
ant. But Colonel Aston gives two new
cups, one for sloOpS and the other for
schooners, which become then and there
the property of the winner, and are
worth about si,000 apiece. The sIoop cup
this year is Of eighteen carat gold,
stands about eight inches high, and Is
decorated with beautiful chasing and
enamel The cup for the schooners is
a silver punch bowl with a capacity
OF twenty pints, adorned with an etched
pattern of seaweed
VIII Add to Newport Gayety.
Of course the presence Of the feet at
Newport from Friday next until the
following Tuesday morning win be mode
the occasion Of much hospitality. and
all sorts Of entertainments both ashore
and ahoat have already been organized
in honor of the visiting yachtsmen,
notably by Commodore and Mrs. Gerry.
Lispenard Stewart, Mr.. and Mrs. z. J.
Berwind. Mrs. James B. Haggin. Mrs.
Richard Gambrill. Col and Mrs. De
Lancey Kane, Mrs. Robert Goelet, ST.,
and her son, Robert Walton Goelet, Mr..
and Mrs. r. Livingston Beeckman, Mr..
and Mrs. E. D. Morgan, the Reginald
Vanderbilts, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. Lau-
rens Van Allen.
The feet is considerably smaller this
year than IN any summer Of the last
decade owing TO the exceptional decline
in the number OF boats put into COM
mission. This is ascribed to the hard
times; but those who are going on the
cruise are bent on having a merry
time, and as every yacht will be freight
ed to its utmost capacity with guests
of the owners, all on festive thoughts
intent. many familiar faces will be
missing during the next fortnight from
summer resorts and also from town.
For in midweek men come 70 the city
in such large numbers. frequenting clubs
and fashionable restaurants and roof
gardens, as 20 render il matter OF diff
aculty 70 realize that we are at the
height of the summer.
Polo At Point Judith.
Polo has already started at the Point
Judith Country Clu3 and. lasting until
August y, is attra sting many TO Mar
ragansett from Newport. It begins at
the latter place ton orrow on the West
chester Polo Club grounds, and as the
game is more IpC pular than ever this
year, the tournament and the presence
of the players will be made the &C