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Tie Emblem of Yachting Su- premacy Retained. The Mayflower Defeats the Gal- atea at New York picked up more than she lost before and was in the lead. After that the Galatea had not a chance. It was mora interesting to watch the marine panorama, There was Commo- dore Whiting, a hale old man of seventy, The series of races for the great yachting fropbv^tue America's cup, last year caused a lively revival of popular interest in this sport, Hod the success of the American competitor to the great contest in keeping the cup on fills side of the ocean was so gratifying to na- tional pride that when the coming of the Ge> MJssta was followed by tho cballougo of Lieut Henn of theroyal English navy, owner of the flalatea, a larger boat than the Genesta, the tfclrtted yachtamen*of the Eastern cities de- termined to build new yachts with the spe- cial object of meeting the Galatea. The Mayflower, of Boston, and (ho Atlantic, of Brooklyn, are the now boats. The owner of the Puritan again asserted his ability to ,1 ana ooiwrtMneWftl j 1-^ Ah . & •'.5' 4p&Zr, / „..,f^n«'4^p«tt^mers, mm .M#tasiJI«' ^^slteifedand'iinprovfid and again.toter<a *fie.lbts. The preliminary-trials of these j'achtein the.clHb.i'esattasand; tbesorfe3 of Coutests for tho honor of upholding the su- premacy of the American against her pcotch rivals have been among the note- worthy events of'the year to> which thepub- fo interest was most drawn, and tlje result is been, as last year, that a Boston yacht Serried off the honor. The Mayflower defeated her rivals in the preliminary trials, and was leleoted as Amorioo'schamiuon in the contest trifcti the Englishman's yacht. The first of the series of races, sailed in New York bay, took place on the 7th, and ivas easily won by the Mayflower, the Amer- ican-sloop coming in twelve minutes ahead pt the British cutter. The following vivid iccount of tbe race is taken from the New York World: At 10:45 o'clock thopronaratory signal was riven and one had to search among a vast flotilla for the two competitors. All the Braf t the business of tho city could spare had issembled there; they formed a half circle Several deep back of the starting line, the tugs on the inside and the sailing vessels be- e ond. The flag of the Royal Northern Yacht tab was flying from the judges' boat as the two yachts struggled into the ring aud stood put distinct to the gaze of all. The starting tfgnalwas given and both came up to the line; the Mayflower well ahead and evidently THE MAYFLOWER, prepared to sail so close to the judges' boat that the Galatea would have to pnssbo- hlnd her. But this was not tote. By a beautiful bit of close work and very skillful manoeuvring the cutter rushed up between the Mayflower and the judges' tug, gain- ing the advantage of tbe windward position and passing over the line just one second ahead of her rival. They were close together and the wind that the Yankees thought they had for a certainty went to the Galatea, Bhe did not keep her advantage long. The racers headed over ,to Long Island, not far distant, When they tacked for a long lee Over to Staten Island th 0 Mayflower had THE GALATEA. the first Gommo<?.ore of the Brooklyn Yacht [Club, sitting in his row-boat and bending to hia oars. He watches all the races that way and navigates down to Bandy Hook and back without thinking anything of it. There is a sound of melody and the big steamboat Columbia goes by with crowds on her three decks; the Prisoilla is seen standing down the Bay with all sails set; the tug Storm King, all the way from Boston, passes on, and a jolly crowd are raising glasses to their lips. Jay Gould, the richest man in America, perhaps in the world, is watching it ail from the bridge of his magnificent steamer Atalanta, So is Elbridge T. Gerry, the Commodore of the club, from the bridge of his steamer, the Electro. Other millionaires enjoy the show from the steam yachts Ocean Gent, ftodha, Corsair, Vision, Sappho, Stranger, Oneida, Wauda, Tillie, Vedetti, Meteor, Kuby aud a whole armada of sailing yachts. I'lio verandas of the hotel at Fort Ham- lion are decorated with flags and black . ,vith people gazingat the mighty procession, .vumerous steamboats with whistles scream- iug, bunting waving and men and women tmrrdhing and; shaking hats and handker- chiefsj swtep da in Amiehty prb'cessioai :The The* ocean steainer TBrBak^ater. keeps on: her way with do racers^ turnffig, neither to' right nor left. Jit is impossible to-tel! all the tugs that Vferminere. \They werelike'gnats around a summer pond. On the land a parade Is orderly and moves regularly, but on the sea the spectacle shifted every mo- ment; it was a continual transformation scone* brilliant with color and motion, and must have astonished the poor emigrants on the steamer Italy as it came in from tho ocean. They must have been struck with awe at the sight of this the first wonder of the great new world to which they had journeyed to make their fortune; it must have been to them a vision of boundless wealth and power, floating cities on the sea and spires and domes on shore, a vision which had never entered the most fantastic dreams of their narrow lifo at home. Perhaps there is too little written here about the racers and too much of the atten- dant vessels, but all the interest was in the latter. From tho starting line out to Sandy Hook it was simply « series of tacks, full, bel- lying sails in the sun foralong spin, wrinkled for a moment as the vessels went about, and ogain well-fllled as they started off on the other tack. Down below the Narrows tho steamboatSt. Johns outacross the bow of the Galatea aud injured her chances a trifle but did not affect the result in the slightest, as the Mayflower kept drawing away. At the buoys inside Sandy Hook the whole concourse of sail and steam gathered and waited while the sloop and cutter swept by. It was a lit- tle after 1 o'clock then, and the Mayflower was six minutes ahead of the Galateo in pass- ing these marks. In distance she was half a mile in tho lead. Out at sea, beyond the Hook, it was still Mayflower weather, a light wind and a smooth sea, with a scarcely perceptible swell. The Galatea did worse than in the harbor. The Mayflower took in her little jib-topsail. as she prepared to go around the ugly red vessel that marks the wreck of the Scotland. As she passed and started homeward there was a flash of white from togmast to bowsprit end, and her great balloon jib swelled out, the mainsail was eased off a bit, and away she went with the race already won if no accident happened. It was 2:35 o'clock when she turned and 2:44 whan the Galatea followed her example. Hero the natty Brit- ish sailors showed up to bad advantage, for they bungled terribly in the setting of their big jib. Onceit was half-way up and had to benauled in agaih.and when it was finally'set, after tho loss of valuable time, the May- flower was two miles awav. A stern chase Is a long one. The Galatea found it so in- deed: The Mayflower passed .the Southwest spit at 3.34 o'clock. The Galatea was not timed. There the Mayflower got her spin- naker boom ready, but did not break out the immense sail for a longtime. ? T o one paid any attention to the cutter •fter.that. All were hurrying away to th« finishing line to watch the run in. The way of the world over again; the Galatea lonely and friendless; vanquished, the Mayflower flattered with the presense of everybody, a hostgreotlng the victor. On the way up oil the schooners spread nut gigantic staysail! and became great drifting, foamy clouds. Tbs schooner SainbOi'ttig, on which a number of ladles were drowned off Sandy Hook a short time ago, was passed with another group of ladies, needless of the fato of their sisters, on her deck, As Fort Wadsworth is ueared thi Mayflower shakes out her spinnaker and all the vessels gather nt the line., From the city there had come down another fleet while th« vessels were out at sea, and it, too,was wait- ing under the shadow of tbe greeu bluffs, Some said there were lOO.OlW-people orises and shore; some put it at half that number. But whatever the exact count may have been, sea and shore were peopled. For half a mile the -Mayflower passed through a lane of vessels three and four deep on each side. She crossed the line at about 4:33 o'clock and one loud, long cry of exultation went up from every throat aiia every stoam whistle, while the guns of the yacht boomed out and were nuswered by a cannoir from the fortification. Twelve mlnutesilater th» Galatea passed by ant there was a similar demonstration in honor of the Englishman who had come 8,01)0 miles to get the old America's Cup. Tho Second Race. The Boston sloop, Mayflower, has beaten : 111? British cutter, Galatea,, in two straight races, and the cup that was won from' the 13 jglish in 1851',. when the new country sent iver to tho old; for the first time, a yacht i> compete with tbe pleasure vessels ( Great Britain, remains in Amer- ica, 83' it has without interruption since the time that the schooner Amer- ica won it. This was the sixth attempt on tho part of British subjects to take away that coveted cup. Boats came from England aud they cams from Canada, but every time they met the United States champions they were defefetod. Describing the second and final race of the series between the Mayflower and the Galatea, a metropolitan paper says: \Tho victory of the American boat was so great and so complete that the race was uninteresting. -Eive minutes after the yachts started the race was prac- tically over, The only real race was the race of the Mayflower against time, and after the wind died out it became only a question whether or not the Yankso sloop would get to the Scotland Lightship within the seven hours allowed for making the race. ''It was not a hard struggle between two -fleet boats, it was a walk-over, and the Gala- tea was never near enough to her rival to mike the affair interesting. The English boat crossed the line nearly half an hour after the Mayflower had fin- ished. The Galatea finished \by moon- light alone,\ and her dispirited crew co-dd 6ee the Mayflower far off in the distance sail- ing in by the Point of the Hook accompanied by most of the tugs and excursion staitnors which'had.cdhie outfo see theroce. <Tha :, race was over the outside course, . tMeimmiM-Vi j^wiU'a-itetfr^a»iifi6to tho, <j22§W''4&«#p! \&¥> wihd.>-#fcWow- .-W^HilyTPnM fifteen. mfc.«n «pur ; at the start, but after the iusningL Bjioy was rounded it began to die out, juid-aftef some time it'seemed as if. even the May- flower oould riot reach the lightship in time to make a race, But she got some wind.under tho land and, as itjjeeds ohlj thp slightest provocation to fn'afte the\ Mayflower go like a race-horse, she came flying over the fine with about ten minutes to spare, There was nothing wonderful in her beating the Galatea, but her race against time when she got the breeze and came rushing up to the lightship was marvelous.\ Another New York paper, speaking of the scene at the finish says: \The Mayflower beat the Galatea about fourteen minutes in a twenty mile run before the wind and in the beat back to the Scot- laud lightship left her competitor about five miles astern. The wind was blowing from the northwest. At times it was quite fresh and at other times light. The Galatea did not finish within the time limit of seven hours and was of course out of the race. The Mayflower only just managed to sail over the course in tho required time, and it was for long an open question whether she would make the goal. But she was handled with exceptional ability and piloted with great skill; \Around the lightship were gathered a mighty fleet of steam and sailing craft intent on seeing the finish, which occurred just as the red sun was setting in the golden west. Catspaws of wind- were wafting the swift sloop along in the direction of her mark. Tho excitement on • board the excursion steamers, whose burdened decks were thick and black with passengers, must have boon intense. It was getting along to the fated hour when either the Mayflower would cover herself with glory or else have to go through all the trouble of an- other race. And as the gallant craft heeled over to a sudden little whiff of wind which came just in the nick of time to send her shooting across the line between the light and the judge's boat, a great weight seemed to be lifted from the breast of every American who had anxiously watched and waited to see the pride of Boston vanquish her doughty opponent. The pent up feelings of all those who crowded the flotilla found vent in the shrill screams of steam whistles, the roar of can- non, varying in size from a piece of ordi- nance of quite extensive calibre to the petu- lant popping of the toy artillery which many small steam yochts carried.\ THE total number of paupers in London re- lieved in the first week of August .was 86,549, of whom 51,768 were indoor and 34,781 out- door paupers. These figures are interesting as showing the immensity of metropolitan pauperism. GROVBU CLEVELAND MaQmiEir won a prize at the Lexington (Ky.) fair as the hand- somest baby boy under two years old. There were, seventeen entries. Til EOOf (MP g TeiTlMe Disaster at a Pecnsyl- vaiiia Goal Mine. - Miners Overwhelmed Masses of Goal aud Boob A frightful mine dls-aiter occurred the other day in tho Marvine shaft of the Dela- ware and Hudson Canal Company, near ProviJenco, Penn, A fall of thousands of tons of rock and coal, 850 feet below the sur- foeo, shook the earth for two or three miles around, and made people turn pale with fright Those who lived in th9 neighborhood of the -shaft saw a great cloud of dust roll up from the dark pit immediately after the shock had been felt, and knew at one that a disaster had occurred down in tho depths of tho mine, where 2<W-men anfl boys were working. Ambulances andstretch- oi's were seat to flue mouth of the shaft by Superintendent Atherton, and a few minutes 'ater hundreds of men, women and children wore grouped around the entrance to the mine Iii the course of an hour several of the miner-: werohrought out of the snaf tin eafety. They said that tho first intimation they had of their danger was when clouds of -black dust uud debris began to rush through the gallerio? and chambers of the great colliery. Tho air caused by the cave- in, 800 foot away from where they were, swept through tho passageways with the forco of a tornado, spreading alarm and death through the underground work- shop. A panic followed, as all the lights wore blown out 'The rumbling sound* told the men that death was near, and ma'le thorn feel that the next jno- montthoy would bo crushed to death under tons of earth mid rock. Many of them worked their way to a place of safety near the foot of tho shaft, but those who were near the troinondous cave in, a thousand foet from the foot, oithor lost their lives or wore injured. John Shafor, fifty years old, and married, was crushed to death by the fall of rock. His body was found near the fall by a rcs'iiing party. His son, Henry Shafer, wns caught at tho edge of the fall. Ho had a shoulder fractured and throe ribs broken. Ho was the first one of tho injured to .get out of the pit; Thomas Healy had his lo;;s caught under a niass of earth arid had a miraculous escape. He was pros- tratedfor some time, aud< got away by piill- ibglus jfeotout of his~ boots, A driver named Joftph3?addy'1ifc£n»«*Bl othfeftiesiflmisBeid, George, JBasohi a mrtrer, 'gSfc out with a crushea Savnd: Patrick Gibbons, a miner,, yho^ w«> ' jinly a tew. feet from the a#aa of <he slope; was blown' \to the top by the tremendous force of the wind. His body was wedged under the.enginee, but he escaped without injury. Philip Kelly, a timborman, who was kuocked against a car, was slightly hurt. He told the following story of the crash: \About a week ago the men noticed 'a squooze' in the old workings. It seemed to- be working its way toward tho spot where the cave-in occurred. I was there to-day with a gang of six men, putting up timbers on the road to the right of where the fall occurred. In that part of the mine there were sixteen chambers, in which sixty men were employed. We felt the squeoze coming, and we all assem- bled in a.group. We then started through the old workings, and a second later the first fall occurred. All of our lights were put out at once. The fall of earth and rock extended from where the timbering gang had been at work to tho road on the right, a distance of 190 yards. We had to go through the other old workings to escape. When we got into the main heading, wo found tho gate locked. We quickly tore it down, and as wo did so, the roof fell in on all side.-. Our only hope then was to rush out in tbe face of tho fall to get out to the slope. This we did while the roof was fall- ing all around us.\ Kelly received a wound in the head and on the shoulder. These men were imprisoned in the mine: John Carden, a laborer, SO years of age, married; John Young, a miner, 55 vears, married, three children; Patrick McNulty, miner, married, seven children; CorniacMB> guire, minor, 55 years, married, two chil- dren; Patrick Kavanaugh, miner, aged 45, married, six children; Patrick Mur- phy, laborer, aged 25, single; P«t- rick narriscm, laborer, thirty-live years; single. It is supposed that they ran baak when they saw tho second fall coming and were cut off from all escape. A'reseuing party tried to reach them all day aud night. The hope that the men would ever be got out alive was finally nbandonod. The searchers went intothe mine 215 feet with safety lamps and such other imple- ments as they needed, A little later, props were sent down the shaft, as the roof wag still rubbling and they had to prop up the roof before they could proceed. One of the searchers said that the roof was \working\ constantly and it was dangerous to proceed beyond thehead of'the slope. While they were working a strong cur- fentof air rushed through thegangways, and the men were so.veral'times hurled against the walls by the.curreut aud theirlights put out. Every time the searchers came to the surface they were besieged with questions by the weeping wives, mothers, and sisters of the imprisoned men. They spoke in cheer- jngtones and words to the sorrowful women, but to the reporter they expressed their doubts of ever getting the men uot alive. •?V
