Life — September 16, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: | | THE YACHT RACE. EPTEMBER 7.—Lir Special Sport, accompanied by a trusty friend of the business department, sailed gallantly down the bay in that trim little craft, the Hornet, chartered for the oc contest for the Amer sion, to view the first 's cup. The trusty friend showed some timidity when he learned that for the first time in his all-too-short career his ‘ Bark Was On The Sea,” but en- couraged by the Correspondent’s able hand- ling of the Bobstay, and more fully persuaded by a two-foot chain fast- ened to the mainmast, he concluded to remain, The Correspondent feared lest the wind should die out, and leave him afar from land, tugless and forlorn, and Fido —as the trusty friend wag. call- ed-might come in handy for a home- ward tow, | week, pressed hotly by the Gala‘ea, THE HORNET, The Luckenbach was on hand as usual, crammed full of judges and lunch. The special trailers chartered by the World and Christian at Work were also early on the scene, while the enterprise of the New York Sun was represented by One Brilliant Young Man on the Clipper- THE CHRISTIAN AT WORK, Brig Charles A, Dana. He was noticed frequently at anchor, tak- ing notes of the event from last Pape! t 10:25 :35-8, corrected time, Lieut. Henn with his beautiful racer glided out of the fog stationed at Staten Island, and sailed leisurely up to the starting point, where he fastened his boat securely to her rudder post. It was noticed that Mr. Webb was not on board, much to the consternation of the backers of the Ga/atea, who felt that considerable wind thereby taken out of her sails, but the Lieutenant explained matters to the satisfaction of all by saying that Mr. Webb had had his Beavor blown off on a little practice trip the night before, but would be on hand as soon as it could be replaced. Some delay in starting was caused ~ by the non-arrival of the May- flower, one of whose captains had been temporarily mislaid, but at 10:56:11 everything was declared in readiness. The Luckenbach blew was Off steam; the Charies A. Dana swung backwards into the cur- rent; the World artist got out his camera. Mr. Webb boarded the Galatea, blew a long breath, and the race began. THE CLIPPER BRIG CHAS, A. The Mayflower skimmed past Quarantine at the rate of two knots a iling close to the wind and making a little under ten seconds to the month poorer time than her rival, The Luckenbach, with the judges and lunch, was about three miles ahead by this time, and the Charles A. Dana had drifted off on the starboard tack to dispute the right of way with Fort Lafayette. It was right here that the World artist performed his great feat of catching by his instantaneous proc- ess the fascinating little cuts of the race that appeared in Wednesday's paper. Any child could tell from these historic drawings the differ- ence between the Ga/atea and the dredging scows at work in the bay ; and in our desire to give “ Mr. Pulitzer his due” — to quote the old saying —we do not go to extreme lengths when we say that nothing like this enterprise has ever before been seen. At12:2:7 23a good breeze came along and filled out the sails of both racers, and inside of ten min- utes they had caught up with the press and judges’ boats, much to the chagrin of those on board of the latter, who had seized the oppor- tunity to diminish the responsibil- ities of the steward. When the . Luckenbach's clock struck half-past- LIEUT. HENN AND HIS BEAUTI- FUL RACER. two bells the Mayflower was round- ing the buoy and with difficulty holding her own, as will be seen from the accompanying diagram taken on the spot, but from that time on to the end the Ga/atea was a beaten boat. comicbooks.com