The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-08

Irish Baronet Announces Plan to Figure
In Event on Opening of Panama Ca
nal-Gives High Praise to Yacht Club
and Man Who Crossed Ocean In
Launch.
Sir Thomas Upton entertains the
hope that be will be able to race again
for the Americas cup off Sandy Hook
in 1914 under the universal-or Euro
pean-rule. He declares that the New
York Yacht club has always treated
him very handsomely and that If it
negotiations or dealings with him they
have always been in his favor. All of
which he said at dinner rendered to
him at the New York Athletic club re-
Gently by the yachtsmen of the greater
city Of New York and given under the
auspices Of the yachting committee of
the athletic club, which includes yacht
ing and in considerable degree yacht
racing in its activities.
Two hundred men or more attended
the dinner. Probably a third of the
number were members of the New
York Athletic club. Among the other
two-thirds were former Commodore
Wilson Marshall, former Fleet Captain
Morton w. Smith, former Vice Com
modore f. M. Hoyt, Clay NJ. Greene
and several others of the Lachmont
Yact club; Commodore ]. Stuart Black
ton, Fleet Captain Ernest Malcolm
and about twenty members of the At
lantic Yacht club; Commodore NJ. w.
Houck and several others Of the New
Rochelle Yacht club; Commodore II.
II. Melville, Fleet Captain John NJ.
Shaw and others Of the Motorboat
Club of America; II. A. Jackson, Jr.,
Commander Alfred Brooks Frey, G. S.
King and j. A. Mahlstedt, athletic club
men who are distinctly Of the yachting
contingent OF that organization, and the
members Of nearly all the yacht clubs
on Long Island sound and Gravesend
bay.
Among those at the table of honor
were Vice Commodore Edward A. Sum
ner Of the yachting department of the
New York Athletic club, who acted as
toastmaster; Colonel Duncan F. D.
Neill of Sir Thomas Lipton's encourage,
Vice President Ernest f. Haubold,
New York Athletic club; Roy Allen.
Senator Francis Atwater of Connecti-
cut; Brigadier General Tasker A. Bliss,
U. s. A.; the Right Rev. Charles S.
Burch, Ernest Birmingham, Charles
Chapman, Charles Davis, Justice Dixie
of Brooklyn; Justice Donnelly, Captain
Thomas Fleming Day, Hon. Henry A.
Gildersleeve, Hon. David Leventritt,
Captain Thomas G. Meadows, Commo-
dore ]. Blackbourne Miller, Dean An
drew Phillips, Yale university; Hon.
Thomas Ryerson, New Jersey; Don G.
Seitz, Hon. George w. Schurman, Rear
Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. N;
William Stone, Major William s. Ter
riberry, NJ. c., N. G. N. Y, and Hon.
Henry A. Wise. 1t was distinctly an
assembly of the admirers of the Irish
baronet, and, in measure, one repre-
sentative of the great body of yachts
men of the United States.
Sir Thomas was introduced as one
who had done more to promote good
fellowship between England and
America than any other man who had
ever crossed the ocean either way. He
talked for twenty minutes or more and
devoted considerable portion of his
attention to the praise of Captain
Thomas Fleming Day, because of his
performance In crossing the ocean in a
thirty foot motorboat
He also told of his proposal made to
the yachtsmen Of San Francisco, to
race with them with % meter boat
off the Golden Gate In 1915, the year
of the opening of the Panama canal,
and of the prompt acceptance of his
proposition, and intimated that he had
reason to believe that one or more
boats would be built by eastern yachts
men to enter the contest. He hinted
further that former Commodore VIII
son Marshall, who won the emperors
cup in race across the Atlantic seven
years ago, would be represented in the
event. Sir Thomas said that his pres
ent Shamrock had started in eight
past season and had won six first
prizes and acknowledged that his sue
cess was due in part to the good offices
of former Commodore Robert Il. Tod of
the Atlantic Yacht club, who had sail
ed on his yacht in all, or nearly all, of
these races.
Don G. SeitZ, who was the second
speaker, expressed regret that interest
in the automobile had superseded that
in yachting in a considerable degree
and that yacht racing was on the de-
cline, and urged that yacht clubs take
up the matter of racing with flying ma
chimes Justice Dixie of Brooklyn, Ad-
miral Charles D. Sigsbee, o. S. N;
United States District Attorney Wise,
Thomas Fleming Day and Commodore
Melville Of the Motor Boat Club of
America We're also among the speakers.