Show I I IT IS FINISHED I I I The Remains of Henry Ward II I Beecher at Rest in the Greenwood Cemetery California as a Health and Pleasure Resort A Destructive Colorado Breeze Bulgarian Executions The Race of the Yachts Beechers Burial Chant Blooded English Convicts Paris Shocked TIic Yacht Race NEW YORK March 12The TransAtlantic nto keel schooner yacht race from Owls Head New York harbor to Roches Point Queenstown Harbor will be started weather permitting at 1 oclock today Every stay rope halyard line brace sheet and bolt of the tackle on the Dauntless were carefully inspected for the last time by Captain Samuels yesterday afternoon and Captain Crosby did the same service aooard the Coronet Both pronounced the yachts in perfect order and ready to encounter encoun-ter tao gales which are expected and perhaps hoped for on the passage The time of cross ing the line of each yacht will be taken but it will have no effect in deciding the result as after the signal has been I given both boats will be considered as hav ing started and the one that first reaches Roches Point will be winner wnner The race grew out of a discussion among several yachtmen late last fall regarding re-garding the relative merits of various vari-ous American yachts in heavy weather The Coronet has two distinct advantages over the Dauntless her rival I She Ja larger l anu newer sue was built at South Brooklyn in 1885 while the Dauntless was constructed twentyone years ago at Mystic Bridge Conn Betting is even NEW YORK 2 p mThe narrows were filled with numerous yachts and other craft to witness the departure of the raping Yankee schooner The last signal was given from Fort Hamilton at 110 and within a few minutes both of the ocean racers had crossed the imaginary line and started on their way to Cork harbor The Coronet was leading The wind was twentyfour miles an hour and increasing The Sandy Hook judges boat left the yachts when north of the lightship at 230 p m The yachts are forging ahead with a twentyfour mile north northwest wind The weather remains clear and the sea has gone down some The Coronet was still leading by about a quarter of a mile A representative of the Associated Press is aboard of each yacht |