Show AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAfcAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA j MODELS OF FAMOUS RACING BOATS Historic New York Yacht Club Has Collection Famous the World f Over and Beyond Price K tl k Al Ono of tho most Interesting spots hat an enlhuHmstlc yachtsman can dslt Is tho model room of tho Now York Yncht club Thero he can whllo iwny hour after hour studying the models of the many yachts that have IrSlSTrtATA 1000 won fame since yachting began Ho can study their forms and shapes see how tho present typo ot boat has gradually grad-ually been developed nml learn why p boats years ago can led only half tho sail spread that they do nowadays and he con see almost at a glance why ono boat was successful under certain conditions and why she was beaten under others This room has too a mute but Intelligent In-telligent history of the Americas cup OENESTA 1834 and tho models of the yachts that sailed for that famous trophy have been finished most perfectly Collecting models has always been lono of the objects of tho club nnd when tho club was first organized on board the schooner Gimcrack In 1844 a committee was appointed to framo rules and regulations for Its government This committee reported re-ported at a meeting held at Wind hursts tavern and one rule said that a model of each yacht was to bo deposited de-posited with tho recording secretary beforo It could enter for the regatta The model was to become tho property prop-erty of tho club This rule started tho collection which has now become I J t riLOWER1880 probably the most famous In the world and Is of priceless worth Tho yachts that have raced for the Americas cup are arranged In pairs laround the room each challenger and I the defender being placed side by side At present there aro sixteen of these and to complete the exhibit models of tho Llvonln 1871 Countess lot Dufferln 1870 Madeline 1876 jAtnlanta 1881 Puritan 1885 Thistle 11887 Valkyrie II 1893 and Vnlkyrlo I III 1895 are needed Theso will probably be presented to the club be foro very long Of theso cup defenders tho old America winner of tho trophy in 11851 Is the most famous and it is 1 CAdDRJAtIdB interesting to compare her shoal model and peculiar rig with the present pres-ent type of boat and the change in typo from the America to tho Colum bla is most remarkable Both yachts jaro very nearly tho same length on the waterline The America was only a little longer over all than on her waterline while the Columbia Is ann a-nn keel typo of boat with long over Jiangs and big draught The Amen Sea had short masts and no topmast forward being rigged llko tho North River trading schooners The mast l VV of tho Columbia towers away up In tho sky and It Is n wonder how she carries the spread ot canvas that she docs Tho Magic was tho first defender of the cup and she defeated the Cam bria The chief difference In the POof PO-of these two boats Is In the draught Tho Magic had a centerboard and tho Cambria was u keel boat The next challenger was tho LIvonia LI-vonia and sue was mot by l the Columbia Colum-bia and Sappho after the Columbia had mot with an accident The LI voulas model Is wanting but tho Columbia Co-lumbia nnd Sappho are both there The Sappho won Como abroad and tho Columbia Is still to be seen sail I I MAOIC 1809 big In theso waters during the yachting yacht-ing season Two challengers from Canada came after tho defeat of tho Livonia and of theso boats and tho defenders only tho Mischief Is found In the collection collec-tion Tho Genesta a deep keel narrow nar-row cutter came In 1885 and sho was defeated by the centerboarder Puritan Compared with the modern yacht the G nestn looks queer but sho was a good boat and could sail well In a hard blow ns was shown In her last race with tho Puritan which was sailed In half n gale of wind In 188C tho Galatea another plank on edge typo of boat camo over and sho was defeated by tho Mayflower I I UlATftL 1883 a boat similar In typo to tho Puritan Puri-tan but with more draught and loss beam In 1887 tho Thistle came hero and was defeated by tho Volunteer but theso two boats are yet to bo added to the collection Then Came tho Valkyries but their models are not In tho club Lord Dunraven was to have sent thorn to the club but on account of the trouble ho kept his I models away Tho Vigilant defeated the Valkyrie II and she was the last of tho centerboard typo of boat to race for tho Americas Cup The Defender De-fender was built to meet tho Valkyrie 4 COLDlinlA 1685 III and Herreshoff was not slow In taking some Ideas from the British model She was a deep keel boat cut away forward and had a rudderpost rudder-post that raked at a considerable tingle tin-gle She was the first of the big boats to carry a big rig nearly twice as much as the Puritan carried The Columbia an Improvement on tho Defender followed and met tho Shamrock I und then came tho other I mscniEr 1879 Shamrocks to bo beaten by the Columbia Co-lumbia and the Reliance It Is interesting to note too the effect that the cup racers havo had on other yachts that havo been built If 1fJPto y4 > lJi At tho tlmo of tho America the schooners were mostly of tho same type but since then tho models have changed until tho present day boat Is very similar to tho big sloops that have so successfully carried tho Now I l Birriia 1863 York Yacht club burgee to victory and placed this country In tho lead in all yachting events Tho threo schooners Henrietta 1 Pleetwliy nnd Vesta that raced across the ocean In 1RCC aro represented rep-resented by full rigged models These were presented to the club by lames Gordon Bennett Tho Coronet and Dauntless racers of 1887 are also al-so there nnd of tho last race tho model of tho Atlantic the winner has been presented by her owner Wll 01 AURJOtl85l son Marshall and tho Endymlon tho winner of the fourth prize by George Lander Jr her owner Ono of tho most Interesting models In tho room Is that of an old ship which was given to tho club by ox Commodore J Plerpont Morgan The committee wroto to tho librarian Ferdinand Brand of the Admiralty Library London to try and find out more details of tho model Mr Brand wrote to tho club that ho had searched search-ed through the Royal United Service Institution and the Naval College Museum Mu-seum nt Greenwich but was unablo to find any corresponding model and can only conclude that the model Is ono which escaped retention In Kng land at tho tlmo when by order of his majesty King William IV the > COBSAIn1809 models at Kensington wore transferred trans-ferred In 1830 to tho naval college at Greenwich There aro many famous otcam yachts In tho collection One that attracts attention Is tho United States steamship Gloucester that did go woll at tile battle of Santiago This boat was formerly Commodore J Plorpont Morgans yacht Corsair and ho presented tho model to the club Ho has also given tho model ot his new Corsair H II Rogers steamer steam-er Kanawha tho fastest steam yacht In tho country shows remarkably clean lines and the models of Jamas Gordon Bennetts Lyslstrata and A L Barbers Lorona a turbine steamer c I I vioimftr1893 show what the most modern steam yacht Is like rue oldest model in tIm club is that of the perlagua Trouble Tho schooner Wave built In 1832 and tho schooner Onkahyo aro among tho oldest of the half models The work of adding to this calicO > tlon and completing it will bo pushed along by the present committee and many now boats will be added to the clubs list before tho year closes Now York Sun |