New York Tribune

THE SHAMROCK A SURPRISE.

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chorus heard and then the press tug Filig ag nt noare than ft foot from the rgcht Sir Thomas did not come on board the Sham rrck rhon she sas read te etait. Fife Ratsey Cornell and twe more ame dean off the Frir Into a steam launch and sailed on the chal lenger hut the owner remgined with a number ahich aae lookurg fine and stgtcls aith her of friends on the bridge of the larger vessel many hragsee chining in the sun and her slx high copper ventilators polished to distraction.

MAINSAIL NOT SET TILL TIME.

Ratsey was very particular about having the heautiful mainsail he had made st perfectly of the foot of the sail that were not being used. There were several large holes at the after end Thege were nier the gtee trairller on ahich the foot of the sail is hauled out ind hs the traveller yesterday and did not hang ' vo feot wav thie sai sent full rn to the end of the short as on Friday last. Ratsey had three men go out aud lasd doun the outer part tha' was slack and then the sal looked as flat and as white as an instde plastered all of a house.

Not a sound could be heard from the Sham rock in the way of calling out orders but apparently at a signal from some one a gang of about twenty men came tumbling up from below as If they were doing the disappearing demon act" at a theatre. These men cleared the sheets of the jib and broke out the sail from lis stops ment, and the foresail was broken out at 11 20 The sheets were hauled to windward for a mo- after the yacht was clear of the towline.

When Hogarth put his tiller up, and let draw the jib the head of the boat fell away so quickly that the shamrock seemed to he able to spin. If she wanted to.

SPECTATORS WERE STARTLED.

At that moment the long talked of challenger for the Americas Cup began her first sailing in American waters and for the next half min ute there wasn't a word said by any one. She simply got up and dusted. If any one has ever seen a scared coyote get over the prairie he has aith him an illustration of how the Sham paper experts was saying to himself "Great Scott' What's this?" or words to that effect. But he did not speak to any one else. He was waiting till the yacht was jammed closer on the wind the mysterious way that the Shamrock's sails are worked, the mainsail came in silently as the yacht luffed up a bit to take off some of the strain, and then the men who had been watching the Shamrock for five consecutive days got They took it silently only the photographers chattered. The Shamrock was going to wind ward like an iceboat, and almost as quietly. In spite of the sea that joggled the tug about.

MVEY WAS TROUBLED.

A. G. MeVey, the veteran expert of The Boston Herald" was on board. The longer he looked the graver he grew. He is a staunch American and he was seeing something that he never saw in any other challenge. At last the writer asked him 'Well what do you think of her? MeVey shook his head a number of times without speaking and with a sad sad smile sat down in one corner of the pilot house. He seemed to be having dreadful visions of being sent away to England to report the next races for tl America's Cup.

The tug Ellis was being driven at her top speed, but she could not keep anywhere near the flying craft ahead. Her best speed is now between ten and eleven knots an hour. To be safely within the mark, call her yesterday's speed ten knots, and the Shamrock was beating her a full two knots an hour. She was the best part of a mile ahead in the first fifteen minutes.

EATING WIND AND KEEPING SPEED.

The wind was northeast at first, afterward hauling two points northerly, and the Sham- rock came up from a course east to east-north- east. Here she flattened her head sails a trifle, and stood even closer jammed then before. One could see this by watching the luff of her mainsail lift. But the hard pinching she was getting did not let the tug Ellis get any closer. The straining steamer did not pull up an inch, but lost ground as fast as ever.

The challenger altered her course at 11 45 o'clock, when she bore away and took the breeze quarterly. This gave the tug a chance to cut a corner, and both she and the Erin came nearer to the racer. The City of Rome was coming in from the ocean and recognized the Shamrock when over three miles away. There was a lot of signalling, whistling and dropping of English ensigns, but there was no code signal book on board and the messages could not be read on the press boat. The decks of the City of Rome were black with people, and the white hand- kerchiefs of the alien passengers were seen being waved heartily.

NO TRICKS, JUST SAILING.

On this trip there was no attempt to exhibit any smartness in maneuvering or in quick hand- ling of sails. The only intent was to set upon tain sails and try the boat in a leisurely way aith them, and on different points of sailing. The lightheaded working gaff topsail was sent up on this quarterly run. This sail carries n yard and was laced to the topmast, as it as ndmd h the man i' the masthead. When finally set t filled most of the space between the gaff and the topmast and afterward proved a good working sail h the wind.

Soon after 1 o'clock Hogarth gave his craft Ir a slow easy way and stood f! a while toward the Terwey eist and then hauled ut for a homeward run. He now sent up a medium sized jib topsail and n a started sheet fairly flew away from the tug in g northerly direction. Then the sheets were flat aft again and this jib topsail was tried n a close pinch.

A PRETTY PICTURE.

The Shamrock was a fine sight as she headed ur fer Sandy Hook Lightship healing over t the rail with one plank in her lee decke gugen Iart of te time the air off her lee boue filled uith ciouds of mlet thg' travelled augt on the a nd and the fie sails hord with pressure hult fat 3s hoards gnd a drie t a lif: n vort rch f then The steam yacht Frir thote re eoded srsed to aixter ktots an hoir had to do a me rall hustling to keep thyuherr negr the Shamrock on this leg and as for the Eile she nas simply Iest. And the marye) f " wae thg' the Sham rk ags cloae fammed on the aind all the time Her motlon In the sea se alm et nil. It collld nat he percelied that she pitrhed at all Her long hrus seemed to reach ut and crnch doar a euple of the short davee hefore they had 'ime to iift her. She a as smaahing tm many ef them fat at are time and her speed "ae too great to lft to any of them. When she sloued up to take off her canygs the same seas coule make hor pltch in a marked was hut ahile golng to alndwart she seamed ahso lutely le sal fron hoa to stern all the time.

SLOWER BEFORE THE WIND.

At the Sandy Hek Lightship which she reached a' 1 lo (clock she hre awa for the Scotland Lightship nearer the Jersey coast and here exchanged her Ilbtopsail for a smaller one of a more creams and reddish color on this course, being nearly before the wind she did not seem to make any extia speed. There was noth- Ing to suggest that she was running any faster or as fast as the Columbia and the Defender on this leg. The tug Ellis kept up with her of course, no spinnaker was set and ones memories of the Columbia were all of times when she was racing and with every kite and balloon set for down the aind. Nothing can be told here of this Ieg exerpt that i seeted lou aid that there was an intuitive feeling that the Columbia could beat the pace under similar sails.

Near th S otland Lightship the Shamrock was gybed again and she came close past the press tug, to leeward on a beam wind with a hard full everywhere that was driving her as her best pace on this lg did not seem gooid that is, fast as she could tiavel on this course. But her not first clasa the photographs taken n England hate shoun. She pulled after her just the same waves that and which were fully referred to in yesterday's Tribune. She was piling out water forward and shouing a deep cavity amidships, probably five or slx feet deep, all the time, ahile aft of the counter rose a ate like thgt caused h a short hrond high pressure steam tug It did not jook sell. Ita nromiee vag mnet unfavorabln to her syrcess.

BUNNING AND PFACHING,

The Columbia etirs ro sater lke thls. It seemed ag if there sare soma arge under xnter shetryetion heneath the Shamrork that refueed to let her pass through the water a' more than a ertaln spend and t o a curioue thing tha' none of this appoared shen the bont xas going taolte knote hy the wind she goes up to wind tard ike a ca' it a tree leasing m mark te hind hor and a htemen can think oit uhy this of course the shamtock wds going fast even ahen heiviag up those great ta'es and there as nothing to gauge the artual pace a' the time. Yet after eeeing the was the (aiumbja gots through shen heayils rreseed in running and reqohing it seme tirisihle to ayold the frst impression that the Ameri an Iat alll hea' the chaliengey on iath theese points of spiliny This braettreails ehded the dd s ierforidhce woi soam after she areg ped het foresail, ub and gafi opsall. The working of the allors oh the bet sI and decks as they siipped th boat of h I edhyas ahd handd d it bolaa de ks was Intet sling. The tue La senes tooh hold at 2 2n ahd s on afteruard ane hor was droy ied In the Sandy Huok horsesh Here the bress tug drey alongside the Frin and Sir Th mas slooke to th roporters. It aas Iearned that he was much phrased at the IeI formance of the Shamron k an that she would go out gait atls today with new sult of canvas bent. Mr. Batrie then came or hoard the Ellis and r,turned to Nea-York on her. He sald there would I a neh and larger loom In place for the setting of the large racing main sall, whlch has just arried with the rest of the new sult from Ratset s lofts In England and has nrver been en board the Shamronk Mr Barrle "lhtervieted" the sa h' sharps' on the aay hone, taking doun notos of hat thet said for th purpose of a juainting sir Thomds with outside opinion as to his beat Eserybody on the Erin sremed delighted with the day's tria! Ii was thought that eyen De. signer Fife sralled hut he got away so qulekly from the neuspaper gaze tha! It cannot ie said with absolute certainty that hls fae relaxed.

HER OWNER WELL PLEASED.

Sir Thomas Lipton did not return to the Fifth Avenue HotI last night after the trial spin of the Shamrock. He preferred to remain on the Erln but witn chara teristte constderation and couttest he sent Dasld Barrte to the hote! for the purpose of answering the juiuiries of r Iotters and others interest.d In the performance of his vaeht on hor first trlal In these watere Sir Thoma Is more than pleased with the tesult of to das'a spin, were the first words Mr Barrle said to thuse who flos ked around hirn w hen he entered the hotel. The Shamrock Is a wohder ahd tery oe tnterested in the boat is thopoughls satisled with what she did to-day The Shamrosk ds sailed nyer the regula triangular cup cuurse, and in the tine hreeze ahich was blouing she male about thirteen knots an hour. At th end of the run Sir Thonas expressed himself as perfec tly satlsfied with the capabilltles of the Shamro k What did Mr Fife say about hrtsome one In th rud around Mr Barrie asked Nothlng tersels replled Mr Barrle Rhereat his hearers smtled hroadiy, remembering how udlrously retlcent Mr. Fife has heen since he ahe to thls country Mr Barr'e spoke uith gratifieatlon of the kindly sreetings whlch the Shamrock received fom passtng claft as she mnde her was out to the ourse Iuring tho trta! th. Anchor Iine steamshit (its f Poe passed aIthin a hun dred vards. The hlg reasel saluted ht dipping Fe ehsigr and with three long blasts from her feoghot ahile the passengers clustered to the side tht gase three rouslng cheers for the chal leuger In to Jas's spln Mr Barrfe sald the Sham rok sould Ie tried with another set o saila and s me fresh spars In all probabllits Slr Thonas will return to the Iifth Avenue Hotel to morrou nlght.