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Show A N--l Ocn Ittie. Fire veaatjs aatlisl out of ton Fran Cisco bay the other day and Urted ou a long race around Caj-e Horn and np Uie Atlantic At their heiul as th queen of sailing ships, tho American four masted bark tJbenaudoah, Itrtial for Liverpool with S003 ton of whett, tht largest caw of the kind ever stow ed in a tailing esel She had been put lu lino trim oipwclalh for this trial of speed but her comtiuujer, Lar talu Murphy waa atlll h UttU anxious at tha start, as accident au 1 unforeiee n Incl lent have Dutch todoludett ling u railing race. Her great rival I the Hrltlih ship Htrxthearu, C tain KnbU. bhe Is twen ty live years oil, aud waa fur year tht won ler or tho western waters, bh beut ill th steam veasels on long run until the ocean greyhounds came in aud ottr shadowed hor phenomonal time Wtwtwu New Votk aud Llrer.-ooL Th other three are tho America.! ship 8. 10. Carltv ton CaptaluAmesbury, bound for Harm the UritUh ship Ilnlkamah. CapUlu atta. also for Havre and the American ship M 1'. (Iraco, Captain be Winter for New York. All went out on th hlifbvst Hie, aa tho Hhenandoah draws twenty seven feet of water and coufJ afford no rUka, The bheuaudoah and Btrathearn 'm tko sail hy steam," a the nautical i4irae I that la, they bavu donkey engine to draw tht sail Into i lace, and, accordln to aeameu, it 1 one or tho loveliest sight iu the world to q all thu w hite ennva a will In flvo minutes from bare pulta to full rig Detroit News. |