New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1930, Page 8

NEi\’S7 BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930 | can sail craft. strangely-molded silver pitcher, how | prohibition stud. \ many fortunes would be spent in thrilling battles for it. er how, for|investigation of group banking. more than three-qluarters of a cen- tury, it would bear constant evi-|takes of South American air mail e ' FORMER SCHOOL HEAD dence of the superiority of Ameri- English and Canadian challenges for the America’s Cup have been ues hearings on proposed flood con- TOMORRO W:—How! thirteen { trol projecis. Raskob of democratic national com- plemental estimate calling for $28,- Banking committce resumes its|000,000 for government’s public buildings program. Appropriations sub-committee Flood control committeE” coan- ASKS GHESHIRE PROBE Senator Heflin assailed Chairman | Ex-Governor Says He Suggested In- of dhe reformatory by Superinten- | a desire for efficiency and not be- dent George Erskine. He urged the directrs to do this, he said, but they refused. He declared that in his opinion an investigation is still needed. Recent dismissal of threc em- ployes of tfe institution was due to cause of a complain} ‘of 41l treat- ment of a specific inmate, Fredericic M. Adler, of the board of trustees, said yesterday discussing the report made public Monday of the charges. USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS - ONE VISIT: -« THEN ALWAYS v d. "”\__d_icjm mittec and Heénry H. Curran, pres- vestigation of Reformatory, ident of the Associdtion Against the f Prohibition amendrent. But Was Ignored. President: Hoover rcported 0| waterbury, April 23 — Followi What Congress Is ! i (0| Waterbury, April 2 ollowing senate leaders that revised esti-| oo S g Dols or & drasite 16t 145163 WEST 4 Doing | mates for next year by budget bu- : ] . 7™ST.,NEW YORK | reau show a treasury deficit! | vestigation at the State School for 600 ROOMSo BATHS Ordered investigation of shipping | Boys in Meriden following the deafh Wednesday | board, of a New Britain boy fatally in-| : Rates Senate: | Agrcement rcached to vote on|jured by a hay fork, a request for | , RUNNING WATER$2¢® Resumes debate on Harris immi-| pypier confirmation Monday. an investigation of the Connecticut | R 2 tion bill. | Debated Harrjs immigration bill. |Reformatory in Cheshire has been | Lobby committee continues probi-| yonpy commiltec questioned Cur- | madé in a letter to Governor Trum- bition investigation, [ | bull by Lidgar White of Cheshire.|. Hou ; | House: | White” formerly had charge of the| Continues consideration of John-| yppeld President Hoover's veto | schools of the ipstitution. son veterans bill. of the Gardsden purchase coinage| Former Governor Templeton said | Interstate commerce committee | bill. !last night that when he was gover- | continues hearing on McDuffie bill Rivers and Tharbors committee nor evidence was given to him {0 climinate unfair competition in |approved omnibus bill carrying|which, in his opinion, warranted ll\c\ terminal and warchouse industry. $110,000,000 for river and harbor|dismissal of the deputy superinten- udiciary committee takes addi- | development. |dent and an investigation of thie in- tional testimony of-thc wets in its| President Hoover submitted sup-|stitution, including the supervision : HOTELS MAN HATTAN ano AMERICA America’s Cup and the trim little Yankee schoonsr whicli captured it from the Brit- adron in the first sensational vace in 1851, The *cup,” . is really a some- ilver pitcher, but it has become the most highly-prized irophy porting world. The | rica is shown as she appeared after she raced in Ingland; copyright by Brown Bros. [ v more | - - Sl aialio hicd is aimost be s louble row, with th: L British {0 cutters in front and schooners som thrill- 3 5 2 s t Ha e America was 1a 00 yards astern. At 9:55 a. m. a G up for ting with racin proparatory signal was given, and Commod Stevens joined h: | the vachts made sail. Iive minutes there, an A o e weeks consid- | lat the startin barked out. | crable reey surrounded prepari-| Most of the. craft jumped ahead Sl the firat | tions for the activitics 1| under a fairish breeze, but th Confident that their craft wa America’s crew had been slow with of three, is told the oy of the orig challenge uccessfully t T | winner. the crew had no intention | sails and she was the last to get £ ing her design, or spoil under way. This proved to be only nees fof wagers which they | a trifling handicap, however, for by i led to expect would be|the time Nab Light, 12 miles away, | waiting for them at Cowes. was rounded, the Yankee schooner Lad walked through the entire fle four—the Beatrice, Volante, d Aurora, the latter beir But while proceeding sporting instinct of modore spoilzd whatever chances | ATT . | t A niericans ott 1 L rite of the Dritish boat 2 money Inglis ior ‘ e. roughly a rectangle, . I The schooner Lav k, a speedster | wi with wmany large crait [° o F E D P i who had come ° AT NO EXTRA COST of the foreign flect, h sen sent | carr spectators it out to escort the An N from the fair grounds. Queen Vie- mother thrilling | §he invited a race, and Stever toria and part of her court had HolLes! Thomas Lipton. | ypable to resist the challenge. Away | sailed down on the royal yacht, ani fivp, mc allengey and four|¢hey ‘went. Th erica worked to|a large Party of wealthy American loser, is finishing | yindward surprisingly and | including most of the members of mreck to contend | yycezed into Cow cll ahead of |the New York t club, were on of four ©-| the Laverock. Soon it was widely | the scen ts, modern Vikings are|ynown’ that no English yacht w Bowled Along at 13 Knots L Dgueht (hak Thisher equal. Off Sandown Bay, the wind had 0L “'f’mf\‘ w“f’]H_ ! Criticized By British freshened and carried away th il S Despite her performance, the | America’s jib-boom. But old Cap- ‘(_”' S ath Ton, rp bow, heavy, slanting|tain Dick Brown, who never ha Pigpiddali B a are o . |masts, and flat sails of the America |believed in carrying a flying _‘_’t S gy ”WW;" were criticized by British vachts- | windward, only shouted that he wa e xn ote. | Drosent inter. | men. The 80-year-old Murquis of [“damned glad it was gone rom L °'"| Anglesey, who was the Thomas|St. Catherine's to the Needles, he In Past |y pton of his day. was one of thos:|had a lcading wind, and bowled ore i rich ia | Lipton of his day. was one of thos:| had a leading wind, i : watched her come in. His|along at thirteen or fourtcen knots e B R y went back o the days of| The royal yacht Victoria and Al- il i el and, as he gazed this | bert was lying off the Needles, an1 too short a time for Britain to re- : ! foreign craft that called|the Queen and her company wer cover the trophy first snatched frorm at o : "™ | herself a racer, he said, “If she is|anxiously awaiting the passin, r yachtsmen. The cleverest de- Sl . ; : b ol T o |all right, by God, we surcly have|the race It was about 5 o'cloc have built craft in which 10 { : been all wrong. lin the afternoon, ~and lowering ickiest mariners have come | noe P one after to re-1" A few days later, while watching | ¢louds were beginn| LORERL B all hav . back | the America in a trial sprint, be|LFinally, Queen Victoria called im- empty-handed Millions of dollars have, been pent in thesc attempts, and other! millions in defensc—all over a silver pitcher with an about §5 it is . inartistic thing, but in the yachting c is beauti- ful and s “or, 1851 became openly skeptical of her ability to attain such a speed by | sail alone. Determinedly he board- [ed her, stalked aft and leaned far clover the side, looking for a pro-| peller! Commodore Stevens, al- though far from being amused by | the conduct of the old Marquis, w obliged to hold his legs to keep his | patiently: “Signal Master, arc vachts in s, may 't please Your Majes- he replied . “Which is first?” “The America.” “And which is second? “Alas. Your Majesty, there is no un d supremacy of the | suest from falling overboard , | Nobody would bet against the| It was quite “dark when the Virst Cup Race nkee visitor. Day after day the | America crossed the finish line with schooner from the United | commodo 1ed new challenges | @ comfortable lead over the Aurora «trophy from th»|and posted wage only to have|Bands played Yankee Doodle, every- dron on August|them politely ignored. TFinally, in|body checred, and the crews retired a race around the Isiz | disgust, he posted in the club hous2 [t0 a very gay banquet where a 02-Wight, the sport was in its in-| of the Royal Yacht Squadron an of- | Spokesman for the Britich vachts- fancy here. Few men tere rich|fer to sail ‘“against any British | men “In 90 days we can build enough to make it a pastime. Seven | Yacht, schooner or cutter for any | that will beat the America vears before, a little group of men | amount from one to ten thousand|for 500 pounds.” TL ot abbard the schooner;Gim-|guineas.” | “That wouldn't pav us for waiting crack, belonging to John (. Stevens, | 1 his willingness to ntect any and organized the New York Yacht|class of vessel brought no responsc club, Among them were John C.|Ic remained for the London Tim Jay, Georg: huyler and James| to probe its sportsmen into action | M Waterbury, names which still|with a biting editorial which spol @ prominent. Stevens himself w “the disgrace of permitting the| At this banquet was presented the chosen first commodore of the|illustrious stranger to return to the|trophy which ever since has N club, and ever since has been knowi i new world with the proud boast|known as the Americw's Cup. 1t as the 'father of Ar | vatehing. | that she had flung down the gaunt-|scmetimes is confused with the The Vs first challe let to England. Ireland and Scot-|Queen's Cup, which was sailed for came from abroa ¢ rian | land, but that no one had dared to|three days later by none but British whoopee was being planned for the | take it up.” vachts. Althouzh not cligible for en- crid's f n London, and boat| , poyert Stephenson then came | tranc America was on th wer PrOEYANL | ¢oiqard with an offer {o race his|COurse that day, got under way an 1 to ser hooner Titania against the Ameri-| hour and a half after the others 1o lend an The | had started, and trailed them over contest the course. nished only a ning boat. 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