The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-25
CHARLIE BARR WAS SKIPPER OF WILSON MARSnALl'S YACHT
 IN FAMOUS RACE TO ENGLAND

Southampton, England, Jan. 25- Capt. Charles Barr, most famous of all yachting shippers, died here yes- terday of heart disease. The end came swiftly and suddenly.
 Capt. Barr had been in this coun- try since last spring, when he brought over his last command, the schooner Westward, built by the Herreshoffs for A. s. Cochran of the New York Yacht club. With the Westward Capt. Barr won many trophies in the regat- tas at Kiel and Cowes last summer.
 His remarkable success as skipper of the defenders of the America's s Cup gave him international fame and a high place in European and Ameri- can yachting.
 His first experience in the Ameri- ca's cup races was on the Scotch chal- lenger Thistle in 1SS7 He acted as mate on the Thistle, his brother, John Barr. being the skipper. This race brought Charlie much prestige and Minerva, with which he won fifteen races out of twenty-two starts and in 1890 he captured ten firsts out of twelve starts.
 The following year Capt. Barr sail ed his first American boat the Burgess sloop Oweene, and the year after he commanded the second of the 46 foot Herreshoff productions, the Wasp. Royal Phelps Carroll sent him to Eng land in 1893 on the Navahoe. The following year he sailed the Gloriana, and in 1895 he again entered Ameri- ca's Cup competitions when he handled the two year old vigilant the trial races off Sandy Hook.
 A second trip to England in an American boat was made in 1896, when he commanded Howard Gould's Mag ara in a fairly successful season in British waters. Two years later he he took charge of the schooner Colonia.
 Then came Charlie Barr's real ad- vent as an Americas Cup defender. for in 1899 he was selected from a score of shippers to handle the fam ous Columbia, which sent the Sham rock I, back to England in defeat.
 After a year on a 70 footer, Barr was called back to the Columbia in 1901 and won an uphill fight in beat ing out the Constitution. newer boat, in the race for the Americas cup de- fense. The sailing duel that year be- tween Barr on the Columbia and Rhoades on the Constitution was re- garded as the grandest fight in Amer ican yachting annals. The Shamrock IT, met the fate of her sister although this second attempt of Sir Thomas Upton to lift the Cup was only de- feated by the clever work of Charlie Barr in the last race off Sandy Hook
 The Reliance year of 1903 put Char lie Barr in command of the greatest sloop yacht ever constructed, and his ability was tested to the utmost but not found wanting, and the Shamrock III, in the last race could not find the finish line. while Barr held the Reliance straight and true to vic tory.
 The steel nerves of the little Scotch man were again sought by Wilson Marshall of Bridgeport. Conn, when in 1905 Barr had the wheel of the three master Atlantic and won the ocean race for the Emperor's Cup against thirteen other yachts.
 During the last seven years Capt. Barr's life has been less strenuous, although he had a particularly active season on the big schooner Westward in England last year. With this yacht Capt. Barr defeated Kaiser Wilhelm at Kiel end won other splendid vic- tories at Kiel and Cowes.
 Charlie Barr 7became naturalized American citizen in Boston ia 1899 and made his home in New London Conn.