Life — August 18, 1887 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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“DIRE: HE events of last week have shown that the Volunteer has the right metal in her to try conclusions with the Thistle, and encourages the belief that the conclusion will not be trying to American yachtsmen, It opens up an interesting field for speculation to follow Mr. Burgess to the logical end of his career. A designer, who in 1885 gave us the Pursfan to beat all previous records, who in 1886 designed the .\fayflower to show the Puritan how the stern of a rival looks in a race, and who in 1887 so models a craft as to throw the Mayflower into innocuous desuetude, may be counted on to make for us by 1897 a single-sticker that will require a steam launch and a load of Saratoga trunks to keep her from going over the course in less than no time. The silken sails of the new boat, we understand, are an enormous success. Certainly, if ever craft deserved to be dressed in silk, the Vo/unteer is the one, and the adoption of this texture for sails will lend an additional significance to the use of the word “she” in connection with sailing- vessels, We find the same fault with General Paine’s selection of a name for his yacht that we found with Mr. Bush for naming his boat the Curonet. The name Voiunteer when painted on the stern of a sloop has no special signiticance, and it cannot be doubted that that rapidly increasing order of society known as the G. A. R. Veterans will hardly feel complimented when they realize that a craft that is expected to run away from her enemies has been named the Volunteer. General Paine may retort that the 7/zs¢/e, too, is inappro- priately named, because no Thistle ever grew that could be called a single-sticker ; but two wrongs do not make a right, and the fact remains that Volunteer is a bad name for a boat —without considering the fact that a boat is a she, while the average Volunteer is not. . . . HE 74éstle is gradually getting here. Her spars and yawl arrived on the Circassia last Monday, and by the time this paragraph is before the public her rudder and keel, which are now sailing over, will probably have been washed ashore. Then will come the dry-docking, cleaning up, rows with reporters and practice spins in the bay which will show the public everything they wish to know but the vessel's capacity for speed. Betting men on both sides will get frightened and hedge. The papers, English and American, will blow about the respective merits of the boats, and with an unerring instinct for scenting out the windless day, the New York Yacht Club will set the race for some date in September, when half-the population of the United States will sail down the bay and float around in a glassy calm in the vain hope of witnessing the event. In the meantime, LiFe’s advice to its readers is to make some arrangements other than the newspapers afford for obtaining foreign or domestic intelligence, All Europe might be plunged in a bloody war, a plague might visit the United States and the Czar of Russia might be blown up and we would not know it if the editors of our great dailies should find it necessary to Jeave out an article on the contesting boats to admit the news. The story concerning Queen Victoria at the first contest for the cup when there was no second will be resurrected for a short time, and it may occasion our readers no surprise if it is alluded to more or less in detail in the Century's Life of Lincoln—which, up to date, has been very much of a Cyclopedia of Universal Information. . . . “TT HE relative positions of the ball nines have not changed materially since we last referred to them. The Giants are still playing one old cat, and there are strong hopes that a friendly umpire may make enough errors to win them an occasional game. HOW DUMLEY MADE AN IMPRESSION AT SARATOGA. wr Heiroc emotic Wi EN¢ an imy Te by SC PHI by th shavin; ~ than ir FAL spiritu: REL he is obligat missior SER' in hum Opp betwee: Tru hostility of life-t¢ comicbooks.com