Ill YACHTS
Notable Differences Between Racing
Boats To-Day and of the Past.
The Winner of the “tnerlra'i" Cup
and the Iteeent Defender Are to
Kntirel}- Different Clause*—
Some Yachting Klgnrn,
The present generation which has
taken such lively interest in the recent
series of international yacht races for
the America’s cup do not realize what
a complete revolution tn naval archi
tecture has taken place since British
yachtsmen commenced 50 years ago
their long struggle to regain possession
of the trophy won at Cowes in 1851 by
the world-famous schooner America.
Wood has given place to metals of the
most expensive character in the hull
of the boats; Oregon pine masts have
been discarded in favor of the carefully
built-up hollow spars of steel; the
shape of the underwater body has been
changed out of all recognition, and in
every little detail which goes to con
vert what was once a pleasure vessel
to a mere racing machine, all the re
r
sources of modern methods and inge
nuity have been called in to assist.
The first change of any great conse
quence was made in 1885, when the
schooner rig was abandoned in favor
of that of a cutter by both the challenger,
Genesta. and the defender, Puritan.
The chief difference between the two
boats was that the British craft was a
straight-stemmed cutter, while the
American was fitted with a center
board. The Vigilant was the last
American boat to carry a center board,
and she also had the distinction of be
ing the first metal boat which took
part in the cup races. At this time a
hot discussion took place on both sides
of the Atlantic as to the merits of the
center board, and great interest cen
tered in the contest with the Valkyrie
II.. Lord Dunraven's yacht.
With Lord Dunraven's second chal
lenge in 1895 British and American
ideas came more into line, and there
was a good deal in common between
Valkyrie III. and the Defender, which
was the first absolutely keel boat to
defend the cup. Sir Thomas Lipton’s
first challenge brought forward the
first British boat built of metal. The
British boat was fuller bodied and not
nearly so fine in her lines as the De
fender. The experience gained by Mr.
William Fife in this series of matches
has. however, proved invaluable to him
in the designing of the recent chal
lenger. Mr. George Watson hail again
with Shamrock II. a fuller bodied boat
than the craft selected by the Ameri
cans for the defense of the cup; but
in the recent series of contests this
state of affairs was reversed, the Re
liance being a much more fuller bodied
boat than the challenger, besides being
a great deal flatter on the floor.
How much we have progressed since
Puritan, the first cutter built for the
defense of the cup, was launched, will
be seen from a comparison of the di
mensions of the boat with those of Re
liance, which is probably the most ex
treme craft ever built In the history of
the racing for the cup. Puritan meas
ured 81.1 feet on the water line, as
against 89.66 feet of Reliance. The
spinnaker boom of the one was 62 feet,
as compared with the modern boat’s
83.75 feet. The main gaff, too. shows
what has been done in the way of in
creased sail area; Puritan had a spar
47 feet in length to contrast with the
Reliance's 71.90 feet. It is. however, in
the huge spread of canvas which can
be carried with safety that one notes
1he great advance of modern ideas—
Reliance spreads over 16,000 square
feet as against Puritan’s 7,982 square
feet.
GEORGE ELGIX.
THE '■ AMERICA," 1851.
By Proxy.
“James, are you not coming to S*ST)
bath school to-day?”
“No, ma’am; I hired er substltoot ff-r
free marbles and a piece er chewin’
gum.”—Chicago American.
t ilt! mi bled 1 >' iror.
“Tti *e’s one redeeming feature about
seasickness,” observed the man who had
just crossed the pond.
“Come opt with the explanation,” said
the party wit's was anxious to get wise.
“It makes a fellow forget all his other
troubles,” replied the amateur traveler.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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MADE MERRY TOO SOON.
Woful Tale of the Man Whose Wife
\\ as UoInK Away Hut Missed
Her Train.
“What's the matter, old fellow?" he said,
as they met the morning after, relates Lon
don lit-Bits.
"I feel blue."
“But last night you were the jolliest mem
ber of the party."
“I felt jotiy.’’
“You acted like a boy just let out of
school.”
"1 felt like one.”
“You said your wife had gone away for
the first time in three years, ami there
wasn t anyone to say a word if you went
home and kicked over the mantle dock."
“I renumber it."
“You said that if you stayed out until
four o'clock there was no one to look at you
leproachfully and sigh and make you feel
small."
"Yes-, and I stayed out until four o'clock,
didn't I?"
"You certainly did.”
“Ami 1 gave a war-whoop on the door
step?”
"Yes: and then you sang a verse from a
comic opera song and tried to dance a jig.”
"Yes; and my wife had missed the train.
Now go away and leave me. 1 want to kick
myselr a little more fur not taking the pre
caution to get an affidavit from me guard
that she went with the train."
And lie gave himself several bangs on the
cars and then shook himself till his lfair
began to fall out.
Modern Sherlock.
The modern Sherlock was told to spot the
suspected man.
“Well,” said Sherlock. “I have at leas*
found that his wife is away on a vacation.”
“How did you find that out?" asked the
mystified friend.
"He is wearing a safety pin instead of a
suspender button.”—Chicago Daily NtWo.
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man now over seventy-one years ot age, and
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ers aged people, lie would have to get up
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tiresome disease was last wearing him
out.
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one should know it. Every dealer in the
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Carrie—“I'm sure you misjudge Mr. Sweet
ser. papa. He is a man of great ambition*.
You should hear him teU of the thing- he is
going to do.” Carrie’s Papa—"And I sup
pose I'm one of ’em; but 1 reckon he’ll find
it harder to accomplish than he fancies it is,”
—lioston Transcript.
Do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump
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Fadeless Dye is the road to economy.
He who begins low can go up higher.—
Fa: in and Home.
NOT THE RIGHT MAN,
Ilad Aldfd In CapInrlnB the Hat, not
Didn't KfM Entitled to Any
He ward.
He was about to turn from Woodward ave
nue into Michigan when a gust of wind col
lided with his straw hat and sent it hustling
almost to the foot of the soldiers’ monu
ment, relates the Detroit Free Press. Be
ing a man who had passed through the
Galveston flood and the St. Louis alder
manic investigation, he stood stock still
and let three other men chase his hat. It
was brought back to him after two or three
minutes, and as he waited its coming he
took a memorandum book from his pocket
and asked of the man who had it in hand:
“Will you kindly give me your name,
sir?”
“What for?” wa9 asked.
“That I may remember you in my will.
You chased my hat, sir, and you picked it
up and dusted it off, and you have
brought—”
"There’s some mistake here,” interrupted
the chaser. “I am not the man who dusted
your hat off.”
"Then what noble part did you play””
“Why, I simply jumped on it and held
it down with my 180 pounds until another
feller came up and grabbed it. I guess f
don't care to be remembered in your wul
or anywhere else.”
Might Mail Woman.
A cable train was scooting down State
street as fa.-t as the wire rope could drag it.
The grip man was rattling off “Hiawatna”
on the gong, and just ahead a woman, who
was almost as broad as she was tall, had
preempted the track. The grmman re
leased the hold on the cable ana switched
from ‘Hiawatha” to a break down jig,
but the woman never stirred. The
next instant the street ear "jumped” the
preempted claim in the street, and
250 pounds of mighty mad woman
was taking a ride on the fender. The grip
man stopped the cable train, leaped over
the dashboard of the car, anil expected to
find a dead woman. But she wasn't dead.
Indeed, whe was sitting there adjusting
her hat. When she eaugnt sight of tne grip
man s.ne ground her teeth together, leaned
forward, shook her list at him. ar.d’ said:
"Blame you, anyhow!” A minute later she
was up and away without saying another
word.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
lie Won.
Like other men of prominence. Admiral
Dewey often comes across the lritsponsible
party, who always affects to be on terms
of intimacy with notable persons. Courte
ous and genial to a degree, the admiral has
profound dislike for tnis sort of nuisance,
and does not hesitate to show the feeling.
Not long ago, while out walking m Washing
ton. he was accosted by an effusive stranger,
who grasped his hand and said: "(ieorge.
I'll bet you don't know me.” The admiral
looked his di-pleasure as he answered, grim
ly. "Von win," and walked on.—Detroit Fxee
Press.
Cholly—"That was a clevah thing you
said to Fre.-chey lawst night.” Miss Pep
pery “Who told you'/” Cnolly—"Why 1 —
er -heard you say it.” Miss Peppery "Yes,
but who told you it was clever?*’—Philadel
phia Press.
A Good Thin*.
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it easier for ticket agents and ticket sellers
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every illustration in The Four-Track News
is an inducement for readers to travel and
see what a marvelous variety of scenery and
climate our own country possesses. ' The
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have a desire to travel. Therefore,The Four
Track News is not only in the interest of all
the transportation lines and hotels, it. also
bears out the legend of its title page of “An
Illustrated Magazine of Travel and Educa
tion.”—From the Buffalo Commercial.
I.lttle She Didn't Know.
Mrs. Knieker—Is Mrs. Amos a well-in
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Mrs. Bocker—ft es, indeed; her cook has
lived with all the other families in the neigh
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ghe—"Yes, and it was the last thing they
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