Show Ii I i OF DEFENDERS OF THE AMERICAS CUP i J a e century halt to be N II e rest HI event In In Ini dot fUI the the mer merI When ot of Y fl Jle Isie i oft off Cow I I 1 sir i ld anchor reat la 4 the It fr her on pod tM the 11 re that have Inter IntI salon IU a g l thore ot two 0 oc the any bat h at to Inimitable According III Vii I tons lona AI al a run PUll h 11 Queen and In n n 11 h a ot of Ih the eh ehn 11 she be When t I I wall what whal n b was Rn nY nW day for tor e Int all Yankee I la ant your maj r I I 1 Th This Then which I le t Ah Abl AIu lu your J It p f second nary aint no rd 1 th u n I In pl hl ever Inc the cup CUll cupar been n so 3 n II hal won on by byth Yacht Royal Roal of ar die he Iii In rila a In all worth About th Ilver of I the for tor forIn It ItA In a Ile It LL J p hll hue huen probably A hol turns or attempt to recall In i n eXI of American In Ihl this trophy carried after aCler It was wal yearn England or In 1870 1670 a 1 Irks the Cambria to toI spot over Oer fl n defeated b by the h wu at t I I N jr Columbia the ear The Th next year jugI and andt nI the tho i tta bo heat best the later In the too t y ors Canadian madlan yacht Countess th the V n 11 from of oft little was II thought r few achta thaI er t I a tot toI to III hAve I t II TM The Marie Magic and the It t r origin Osgood owned II by I I 1 I if ere the former It lion la on record lint a before the race I ut u lilt lut I th late Ite David Corti Carll ot of City Island who ho was wasI to IA uy that it w u I u UI la is Till America It I er 11 by Steers n Nan 11 and II 11 liner n III under the theran d t r wu we o 0 of Robert Hobert Fk before I heating the ran car I Tile The lIne when Ih she beat beati oM old timer i wu was railed called an I c n l I eras a owned by br J S Dickerson Within a score of year the Amer J I I 1 awoke oke to th the real Importance ot of ofIL before them ot of keep 11 IL k they had 11 i up UI on this side Ide the Atlantic a I 1 Ir A L Cary r Smith designed t II tier hid which walked away from fromn n II by br Alexander Mr Ir Smith wu an artist who I fany y to yacht cht designing and I 1 1 i having heen somewhat ot of a ay In III the acid is I known b y hi his 1 yachtsmen Old 01 Car Cary i iI Ili to III years fars he la I b by no means so soI I I I Jl Ife the famous Iro ho hoc I Ithe the Titania etc et eth c and hll h as made m h f J Hump thO th international chal I lenge came cume tram from the other oilier side the tho Yankee were found thor thoroughly alert and determined to hOld the cup CUll at nil hAZards In III lasS 1896 wan WILli evolved the wonderful Puritan III Du competition with the tho nn an Iron stoop sloop built at on plane by A Cary Smith And with a hull ot of beautiful lions the Puritan carried cardell off the palm And was all assigned ned to meet the which had OO been II d cosigned by J Decor Reavor Webb The wu was then thell the mr get Beet single sticker except the cite old Marin ever built buill In American waters and was Iho creation of at 1 Edward Bur Dur Burgess Durgen gen gess n a of AI Aa I after atter his hlA gradation from Harvard In hi his other met with heavy financial losses young oung Jur WEnt bass to his hili Alma mater RS as Instructor in III entomology gy Hut But besides II a taste laste for classifying hugs the he also had a love loe for mathe mahe matIce and yachting All his spare time In summer nil ne a 00 boy had hael been belli put In nt at his fathers country llac place lit at Dev a t t Y Q 11 r ti r i y c t y l G B I erly erl Mass In sailing and oth other er craft or of the kind so 10 he as aR an ex expert I pert yachtsman before he had loft school lie Ile abandoned the insects and took to designing and being connected with upper up r cruet It was Quite natural that ho he should attract the attention of at General Paine the tn fa famous old sea Ha dot dog who Induced him to fy 4 I tJ 1 i 1 1 1 GEORGE I build n a yacht for tor th the contest with the Genesta ta Burgess thereupon the Puritan which won the tho famous rl race ce ot of 1886 followed tier her with the Mayflower which sustained hie hl tallon In the contest with the Galatea 1890 and lastly the Volunteer which though built In days beat the Thistle In Titus Thus three years ears running Bur gess had won the tho laurels from Eng lands crack designers rs Webb and Wat Ion eon lie Ile had wrought a revolution In yacht acht designing as nil all have edged and there Is no predicting to what perfection hie he might have carried his accomplishment had not his ly Iy death occurred in III 1691 Nobody dies dle without an heir how however ever and long before the of at 1593 came oft the had tour four crack boats In competition to meet the tom com Ing III of oC 11 designed by Watson Waton WatonA A Hoston syndicate put forth Corth the Ill grins grim and the Jubilee the former built from Irom desIgns b by Binnay and anel Stewart Burgess successors and the 10 latter Iter do signed b by John D B son eon of at General Charles T 1 Paine of at Boston HOllon who owned her and who had hael also alBo defended the cup eup with the flit u and Vol ti ol r New NelV York men contracted for tor the Colon la a 11 true cutter and the Vigilant lant n t fI a centerboard cutter sheathed with bronze Doth Both were wre designed and built b by the celebrated and the bronze bo boat t the Ule Vigilant proving thi tie heat t ot of the quartet YoU was selected d dlo to lo steel 1 with the usual result list the t e cup till lingered on this side aide the water a In Again In 1895 when the Valkyrie IU HI was lUll sent user oer on n a forlorn hope the met her with the Defender and ami sent latest and but best horn home In disgust They also allo l land nn and built the lie Columbia which met and Lipton Shamrock design dulen designed td ed II by William Idiots Fife Jr In Thus ThUI In III 11 races it II a ahas has haft held her own and come forward ev v try Pry time with some new and Unconquerable I aspirant for tor honors In Julio I nell field ot of prowess prow I Thlu Though h nurlee I is dead the builders of at the ti I trio which eded hili bla at still living and doing business at tho th old oIl stand They are so eo welt well known that It might seems a work of to more than chair mention the ramous lamou Iler lI r ot of Bristol It IL I 1 who Ita have In hand hend the racer which may muy compete In Inthe inthe the conning camillI race of at 1101 Thy They come eom of deep rooted New England stock and have all the sturdy qualities ot of born sailors Though 11 the eldest member ot of the firm John I is too to totally tally blind he can design an any kind ot of as well at as on one possessed of sight In fact ll It is 18 said sall that tb the only man who can probably him In his hi chosen I is ht his youngest broth brother or er Nathaniel Oren Greene or Out Nat Herra who is II a past master of the art artand and has built more mort fast IH than any other man living lie He her 1 been hands hand and eyes to his hla blind broth or cr and ami their minds mind work In unison to 1 produce the mOlt moat wonderful creations I ot of the yacht builders skill Trained b by bylong long IonS study In technological schools and andIn In lint best beet of at nil alt schools experience with unlimited capital At command and prolong b by the triumphs triumph of former years earll It t is thought that the shells holt will evoke something that will III carr carry away the palm from all precedIng Ing efforts It th they tall fall then then thre I ot of Boston Roston who la is work workIng workIng Ing out his hili peculiar Ideas IdeAl ot of what hat a yacht should be In the boat boal the Law Lao eons will build and mil may prove another lurKes In the aquatic field Of vidual designers ners such luch all as Gardner Mosher McVey Stewart Win there thre are al also many having In them hem promise of great Ineat success the American designers is III now working the deft dett Watson designer ot of the Thistle and the who has already alreAd man many swift racers All c I la no n ow In thc he prime pAnt e o ot his hili powers being H 49 years old It is III now a battle of at brains of at matIle calculations adjustments com compensatory pEnsa lory weights Ight otc etc and when It comes orneR to genius genlue pure puro and simple It t Is all ald the blind has no peer lifer |