The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. standing corn ana me leaden-haed surface of the water. The police restrictions were adopted with a view to revenu®, aud it seemed a degree in- | consistent for the college crews to have feclined ® presentation cup while permitting — themselves to be exatbited for $2aday. If there were 5,000 people within the consecrated en- tlosure, at an average price of $1 50 per diem, tae proceeds Of the show were $15,000, a complete re- | mmbursem and probable profit to the Regatta | Committee. Pains were taken to accommodate & number of secondary and pass’ dignitaries with a were jealously balcony, while the reporters watched’ lest they might hold & chatr | foo long in the telegraph 200 farmers and their wives, of the mejghs | vorhood, and other simple people of the Vicinage were clustered at (he brink of the lake, ander some willows, several rods from the stand. Some of them were roated and the ovbers would not go. In piessant contrast to this was the attt- tude of some of the neighboring farmers, who | bad the actual expérience of preparing for @ boat opened their fences at the risk of injury to their | standing crops, and vowed that ‘nobody should suut up theirdelds trom the people.” A tower was erected in a potato feild, on a bigh shoulier of land, where the lake opevued broad. | side before 1t, Here a lookout was erected by the cuterprise Of @ part of the press, with two 10oK- } ours end powerul telescopes mounted. In tne | potato Geld, at its base, cameras were set up for a similar privilege of overlooking the whole range of the lake. VERY NOBLE HIGHLAND COUNTRY rolled up from the agitated water to the bold pro- fites of (he cultivated hills. Rowboatsdarted over the liquid surface, At tem o’clock rowers were seen towing the long, rait-like shelia of Yale, Williams and Awherst across the water to rhe starting point, The bannerets of the thirteen coliezes biew in the breeze above the long, curved stand, nearly a quarter of a mile in length. The favorite positions tosee the contest were pos- sessed by Yale, Hamilton and Harvard, but more than @ fourth of the entire edifice was re- served for the more prodigal reserve ticket holders; this portion only was canopied and the Beats made comfortable. The special policemen | roved at will under the open iattice work of the Stand, where 2,000 ladies were seated, The presa stand, meantime, was in the brouing sun, and ‘he seribos stood up to thelr work, of their rivals for the aquatic university 1875. To what splendid 18 a miniature ofits neighbor Champlain, Acom- | advantage they turued this knowledge to account paratively narrow outlet, Uke @ small river, | the victory of to-day piainly speaks. Ostrom was marks it for nearly @ mile; then it becomes a broad, dark, rippled sheet of water, with quite a mountainous knob on the left hand near its head and quite @ range of mountains on the rigat in the distance, suggesiing the Adirondack and Green Mountain views of Lake Champlain in miniature. Lake Saratoga is about five miles long, With a general widtn of one mile and a half. its shores are generally beachy and accessible, the solitary knob of Snake Hul“or Mount | Schuyler jutting into it lke a natural | signal station. Cultivated fleids slope | | up from beach and marsh toa rim of bigh ridges, often capped with noble woods, Malfa dozen ho- tels with their Rawlets ornament ihe waterside. | Within the past three years villas, belvederes, tele- | graph poles, roads, boat houses and piers have | commenced to decorate the shores of this stately ayland water. Eight little steamers dart and | whistle across its expanse. The srand stand for | the races 1s erected around & convex curve of | beach, just where the tongue of the lake is at- tached to the broad body. of the water. This stand | ls ubont one-seventh of a mile long, and it com- | mands nearly ® broadside view of the ast eight of the rowing course. It is | pierced witn niches fur telegraph stations. In | the water, built on piles, are tiree smaii | stands for the judges, tne signal readers and the teporters, The expenses are defrayed by charg- (ng admisston for reserved seats, An efficient police force 18 sworn tm for the regatta. The Gelds, groves and beaches on both sides of the lake are weil adapted for private carriages to take po- | sition and give their oceupants free anc equaiad- vantages with the spectators at the stand. The whole course, for three miles, has been staked out, so that the crews need not intrude vpon the water of each other, These stakes were driven through the ice 1n winter at an expense of $1,500. The boat houses besides cost $2,000, AS we proceed to the lake in our swift-speeding buggy, winding tm and out amongst the teams, we sec many a sweet or eminent face turned toward the hills which environ the dark water. Wesce the tall Ggure of Henry Wilson, his pepper ana sait Dair thick around eyes alternately miid and ab- stracted, and his long-skirted coat encasing a | figure not excelled tor mingled girth and grace. | He bas taken a worldly start of late, and looks at races of horse and man with @ sort of re- trospective eharity. To-day he drove out benind Henry Kulekervocker’s pair of fast boys. Wilson is now wifeless, clildiess, flagoniess, alone. lke Cook, of Chicago, the :oster father of Stephen A. Douglas, hale at sixty-five, flashes pasi ina barouche, with a lovely young wife, There go the Van Rensselaer party, of New York, !m five carriages, seventeen persons. A sprightly team, procured by good favor iate in the agony of hack letting, takes out young Jesse Grant, ® Corneil boy and his compasions, Tom | Murphy's som and the cneery banker Selig- man’s son. There is Charley Woolley, o warm Onio friend of Pendleton, lazily pro- ceeding to the race, pot very cloar in his mind whether oid Billi Alien will Bil the bili, There go Mrs. Lorimer Graham and the wife of Masgrove, the banker, with Paymaster Cunningham, of the navy. See the tuteresting face of Miss Tiny Ingersoll, the daughterof tue Governor of Connecticut! There is carriage load Of naval peopie, among them Drs. Peck dnd Weils. No belle of the day is prettier than tie daughter of Theodore Cayler, of Philadeipiia, Three generations ago her grandfather was a clergyman in Poughkeepsie. There aiso is the granddaught u-law of the greas Jegal luminary, Horace Disnye. Behoid Gaiusua Grow, ex-Speaker of the House of epre- sentatives. He bows to the sons of Speaker Bieive and Henry M. Dawes, who are both sprouts of Yale. Next we note Wilson G. Huat aud Judge | Waterbury, Frank Dixoy and @otter Paimer, John Edwards, of Cleveland, and Mr. Bryau, the principal real estate holder in Sara- toga, Who studied law with its native townsman, William A, Beach, ‘There aise is Juage Willoughby, tather-im-law of Kuwards Pierrepont, Attorney tral, The panorama rolls on for hours. Elegaut driving, perfect courtesy, real enjoyment mark the ride. Atihe grand stand they sit and watch the antics of a professional who paddies «srouad in armor, like Paut Boyton, He floats toward the private nook where sit together Cyrus Field and Henry Wilson, to repeat his work at Wilson’s requcst. Field graduatea at Wiliams over Ofty years age. Ue has @ son in the Dartmouth crew—Dartmoutn imat is to pull #0 Well to-aay, beating Yale and following Har- vard, The greatest crowd of ail on the grouad ‘wears the Columbia colors. Morrissey, a great friend and favorite of tuose boys, and her husband is down near the report ers, ready to cull time for them. He also beeves Columbia May win, but thinks it lies between Cornell apd Yale. POOR YALE. After ao Mich Notoriety and expectation, the day was to @0 against her. Between Corneil and Yale'a feeling of perfect sczord has existed ail the season. “If'we can’t keep the flags,’ said the Colembia boys, “don’t let taem go out of the State. After Cornell won the race to-day, Timson, who was Colambia’s bow oar last yoar, rusned to Cornell’s boat and ified Ostrom, the victorious stroke, outin his us. The most dis- appolpted crews to-day were Yale and the iriends of Wesleyan, and Princeiom College, which had too wreat expectazions. Harvaed College also bas maintained very Mtimate and iriendly reiations with Cojumbia aad Coruell. THE MORNING AT TUE BOAT HOUSES. Mt was a busy morning in every boat house on the lake, From Yaie’s quarters, close by the bridge at the lower end, op to aad beyoul suako Hill, whore most of tie houses were elus the busy stir of preparation wos evident everywhere, Boats were sub- fected to tho clgsest fnepection, and the elgutest mark or Maw awakened feclinas booths, About | quired into his steering gear. | ana | | THE LAKE OF SARATOGA | honors of | | | anxious, nervous and irritable. | | | | care which bas been more than once remarked sat | Upon Cook’s features, and lis movemeats seemed Tncre ts Mrs. John | out a thougit. No’ so now. The Freshman race of yesterday indicates how close the struggle of to-day would prove, aud the lesson was not un- heeded. “Take uo chances” was the word, A loose thole pi0, a weak outrigger, a loosely put op button, and the chances of the race, for which imontus of bard, earnest toll had been spent 10 preparation were all turown away, The breaking of the slender wire which runs through the boat and by which the bow man steers would certainly prove fatal, it can be readily imagined thea with what anxiety the captain of each crew wént over bis boat, exXumined bis oars and tn- Nothing was left to “chance” or previous examinations. Close scrutiny and severe t reduced the probabilities of ac- cident ana made every man ‘eel more confident that everything would be right, and that the boats amd oars would do their part of the work wheter he did his or not, Few who have not race can tmagine the anxiety with which men await the signal ordering them to begin make their preparations for the work before them, A certain degree of care aud anxiots thought Seems to seize even the most hilarious and tones them down for the few short hours which intervene between getting out ol bed and ihe hour at which the starter sends them od ip the race for the acquatic victory or defeat. THE FIRST GUN. Precisely at the hour of ten o'clock a loud rumbling sound broke “upon the ears of the crowas assembling in une victulty of the grand stand, A glance im the direc. tion of Smake Hill, where the = tuick white smoke was risiug above the foliage shading the boat house of the Cornell boys, told the story that the gun ordering tmmedtate preparations for a@ Start uad been fired. ‘bis was the first signal; and as the people looked in ‘he direction from which the sound travelled they could also detect, away on the very summit of tne hill @ little fag waving. Here, on the highest point of land surrounding Lake Saratoga, the Cornellians had set their standard on a rocky crag beneath. Overhanging the dark waters ofthe lake, stood their little chalet, which served as an eyrie from wiicu to observe the practice work caim and confident last evening, and his men shared that confdence; unlike Yale, whose cap- tain, Cook (and a better oarsman did not dip | water on the lake to-day tan he), appeared YALE BOAT HOUSE. Shortly betore the whistle on board the Brady summontag “all aboard’? who were entitled to a | place on her was sounded, a visit was paid to the | boat house of old Yale. Cook was superintendiag the last rauobing down the boat was to receive be- | fore she was towed to the starting line. The same ful of nervousness. For a man from whom so muh was expected he did not appear seli-pos- | sessed and cali enough to carry Lim through the terrible ordeal to which @ short time later in the day he would be subjected. To the observer he- appeared ratuer thin, and a voating man would consider Lim, in boating parlance, “too flue,’ The pluck was there, the determination was also there, but was taere tne bottom which would carry suc- cessfully through the three wiles over which he was to row? UP TO THE STARTING POINT.- At halt-past ten the Commodore Brady, by the di- rection of Commodore Southgate, of the Saratoga Rowing Association, cast off ber lines and steamed up over the course, Passing the grand stand | it was observed that a large number of people hed already assemdied, and the stream of carriages, of all descrip- | tions, makes and siapes, was continually arriving and depositing their freight of sightseers even to the water’s edge. As seen from the | Water the sicht was traly 6rilliant and exciting. The vast crowd, the colors of the several uni- versities and the assembling groups on the bills elose by rendered the scene Most picturesque, Ou an eminence close | by, looking Uown, asit were, on the immense © throng, stood the HuRALD tower, arouad which was | clustered a number of people who chose this site on account of its fine Jocation to witness the race, | ‘The hill t now christened, and, henceiorth, it will | be Known as Tower Htil. i CONDITION OF THE WATER, AS the Brady passed Gown in the direction of Spake }illl through the lines of buoys the water | appeared jumpy aud rough, with the wind slightly | freshening. Many on board then expressed ihe be- | | ones. | frontat the weet ana Columbia was getting a | lief thas @ postponement would be the result. | Down a@ iittle further over the course, | near tho mule and 8 half buoys, the water appeared smoother, and from tkat | down to ihe starting poiat 1t was suMiciently good to pefmit the race being rowed. The wind was blowing up the lake in the ditection of the grand stand and vuls was an advantage for the oarsmen, OFF SNAKE HILL. By half-past eteven o’cloc] the Brady was at the point from wich the crews were to start on the race. The wind by this time had subsided considerably, and the boais began to assemble, Along te shore, close by the boat houses, stood Iittie groups | of people, with here and there udent stripped for the tight in their midst. At Gidereut points oars were being carried to the water's edge, quickly followed by six semi-nude men, bearing their Jong narrow boat with apparently the greatest care. | TAR FIRST BOAT OUT. Before the steame: lad got to tue starting potnt & boat was seen moving over toward one of the Stakeboats anchored at the start. Immediately glasses were levelied at her, and aiter a brief scratiny It Was ciscovered that it was the Bow- doia crew. Rowing downa short distance they turned and immediately got Into position. COMING INTO LINE, Closely following the example of Bowdoin came Union, pulling a nice, leisurely siroke, and doing 1 clean and well. ‘The third coat out was Brown, the bodies of her crew glistening in the sun. Williams now followed, pulling a quick, dasuing siroxe, and next came Ovrneli from under the shadow of Snake Hijj, and Har- vard from an opposite direction. The Cornelians were slower to get in position thau were tne wearers of the mugenta, Princeton, looking in magnificent condition, next took up tis piace in tne line which Was rapidly forming across the suriace ofthe water; Amberst next, and then came the boys of Hamilton, followed closely by Wesleyan, “Where's Columbia # tere she comes, rowing & Spirited stroke over toward her place. A short time elapsed aud two more were wanting to complete the Nae. While = waiting the Coruell boys draw ap and “practised starts.” The gleam of biue-bladed oars of tue poins of Snake Hil direct attention from the line of waiters, and the men oj Old Yale are seen rowing the stroke on witch they pride them- selves to take their pusition. In form | | and fidish thero was nothing like. tt jon the lake. A few seconds iater and Dartmouth goed past and the list is complete. Alter seeing the crows in position the Brady | steamed up beyond the mile buoy, when a painful deiay of over half an hour took place, during whica the men in the boais Were kept waittog in the hot suo will the Starter should send themom, | | THE RACK, | WILLIAM BLAIRIN’S GRAPHIO DESCRIPTION oF THe CONTEST FROM THE START TO Tu | FINISH. | Eleven o'clock was the hour set for the race, but the referee's boat did not appear at the start- , Ing line uotil nearly a quarter of aa hour laser, | Bowdoin was wt her post. Yale had .¢ome , up in carriage stripped, with nothing bur @ coat tirowa over each man, ready for the race, and tad jauncued trom Cornell's quarters and was on pand. Dartmonth followed quickly tn her gre# capy, domm the same taing. Coraell pulled promptiy out to her station, Boat alter boat came out, and yet toe rele. 06's Voat had mot come into pesition: mor | quarter of an hour had gone, then there was muck talk on the referee’s boat and apparent confusion, It seems that one of the gentiemen had insisted on placing at the last moment a number to mark the boats more ciearly which was which. ‘The others opposed this, and an unpleasast wran- gie ensued, During this delay the boat by which the stern of Yale lay started and drifted down So noticeably that the reieree ordered tts anchor taken up and that it be brought back tnto posi- tion, Instead of eleven o’clock sharp, @s many haa expected, it was seven minutes twelve scc- onds past twelve when the crows got the word. Harvard and (to the surprise of almost every man who saw her) Dartmouth were the first to break from the rauk, holding the leaa during the second quarter, The crews next following weie Columbia and Corneil. All bad beem through a terrible ordeal, and one that should never lave come, in being forced to sit for almost a whole hour under a broiling midday sun, Even at the quarter-mile, which Harvard, lead- ing, had carried in im, 20s., and iong after it, euch—well trained as they were--showed the ter- rife strain; and instead of their usual stroke and the stroke they had agreed it should be along in this part of the race, they were, almost uli of them far above it, Cornell, for instance, instead of her 35, was making nearly or quite 40 evn at the halfmtie. bervard was dolag no less; Willams likewise; Wesleyan hadevea worked up to the old-fashioned score of 45, while Yale seemed the coolest and steadiest and had apparently not raised the 33a minute which all knew would be Ler number, some even counting her once at but 32, When the haif-mile Was reached they had not separated much, but all rowing beautifully together. Harvard plainly had the best of it thus far, leading every thing else by a good portion of alength, She was followed closely by Cornell, far away on the western edge” ofthe lake, Yale had not yet begun to nor did she expect to show weil at the start or tn the first half of the distance. Columbia, in the middie, was holding her own, as ali thougat she woutd do, nor, however, coming up to the expectations of many by being ahead. While Dart- mouth would not be shaken off the rear crews were sticking to their work to a most de- termed Way, and the time in which the frat mile was covered, by even the slowest of them, did them much creult, the mile stake scarcely five minutes had gone, Corneli’s lead of the western half, as had been | predicted, was noticeable from while her pace was steadily but surely in- creasing. Just after passing the bailf-mile Columbia’ was so well up to her that it was difeult to see which was ahead, while one or two éther middie boats were but @ smat!l ais- tance behind. Harvard, taking care of the rignt of the field, was gradually drawing away from every one of her neighvors, and never rowed in better form, the only one that she really most ieared seeming to do at this point SURPRISINGLY SLOW WORK. Princeton had already dropped benind both Amherst and Wesleyan. The felon on Mr. Farm- ley’s little funger was beginning to do its work. ‘Tne half length that Harvard bad made in the first half mile had tucreasea to alength; Yale the first, When Harvard passed | work, with excellent material, that to- day brought in @ winner one of almost the lghvest®erews on the lake, And their companion, Columbia, by coming in 80 good a secopd and making such excellent time, showed herself abundantly equal to taking care of New York’s interests which had been 80 bril- lantly looked after by her predecessors, Sur- prising #8 was her work, and creditable as it cer- tainly was, tt certainly was not nearly $0 as Dart- mouth’s. No man, hardly her most euthusiastic iriends, bellevea she could put herself nearly 80 well up in a race so mantfestly arduous. Rowing nothing like so well as Columbia, witb glaring faults in her work, even in the race itself she must have had , GRAND STAMINA Aud what about Yale? There were tho flue form, the superb steadiness, the unusual experience and the seemingly abundant strength and stay to back the general opin.on and make the race her own, Up to this writing, at least, no claim has been advanced that she did not do her all, and yet, as often happens to the favorite, she was badly beaten, showing that, after all her pragtce, time, as announced, was probably all she could then make, It has been before urged that she lacked power, and this has been proved conclusively to- day, though just allowance should be made for the lite change of one of her men, for the serious dimeulty she had with her boats and the very con- siderabie lovs of sleep by all the men go danger- ously near the race. Rumor says that what put Princeton so far behind—a position not assigned her even by her worst enemy—was the fainting Of Mr. Parneley, but those on the reieree’s boat say that they did not observe Lut whathe was doing his work, and hence they doubtless have some othor and better ground, Certainly what helped to put both her crews at the end and helped more than till very recently, she seemed willing to belicve, was lack of agequate coaching, but she has abundantly proved, too, that she is made of the sort of timber that knows how to learn, THE LESSONS OF DEFEAT, ana will not stay long beaten. Brown, by beating pubiic opinion of her at least until the work of her Fieshmen was seen yesterday, has deserved ‘well of her friends and her university. A year’s faith- inl coaching, such as Ostrow has given bis men, | and she, too, will prove a dangerous foe for any in the middle of next July, Williams nas done fairly, noting more—nothing nearly 80 good as when, "last year, Gunster brought her 80 well to the four Wesleyan tough, powerful and plucky a3 she | was did rot yet manage to keep wiere John | Euis for two years helped so much to put her, in second place. Tobe sure she had more good crews to meet, but the time of last year, better than thal of Unis, shows tuat unless Harvard's ac cident lost her many seconds she did not meet as good aone as that which beat her then, and if her power can only be brought better to bear it will yet bring ner the pleasure of keeping up her reputation as @ leader. Union and Hamilton, considering their drawbacks, have | both done well But many of these draw- | backs need not exist another year, and it | willomly be right to look for realiy-good rowing | | | seemed to be creeping up, but only fora moment, | from them and the crews of every otber Cornell and Columbia were still almost | college next year. Amharst was just abreast, the former having a little advan- | in the middle. While she may go salest tage. Dartmouth, rowing well throughout, here, the place of her men of three her first mile, long before the second | years ago would doubticss be quite as much to was reached began to show thatshehad been | their liking. To be sure, ney went to an extreme, underrated, In fact, the majority of those who | but some extremes are notso unpleasant to go to, had bad opportuniues of watcling her work closely believed her tough and enduriog; butso rough was ber work, especially in the earlier | and this holds good in voat raciag, especially if the extreme is tie extreme front, Let her learn to use her power a8 each man in the Cornell boat days, that, perhaps, no greater surprise has come | used nis, a8 Coos and many other men here to-day in thia aay, so ull of genuine surprises, than that caused by the Way she cime to the front. Still keeping tolerably well together, there yet | began 'o Le « visible separation Letween the front and cet&ral clusters and Cornell was keeping her place surely in good place tn the lead. Harvard, with the length she nad at the mile, long before the two miles was reached had tn creased it tom decided gap between herseif and the leading hoate—leading Yale by ait of three clear lengths, and with her known endurance and abundant power she svemed certain to be the the central and rear | used theirs, and she need not again in a long time be so Jar Gown in (ne class, If at tho hi END OF THE SECOND MILB Bowdoin kicked away a strevcher, she could prob- ably without this mishap have gone up a place or two. But one beauty of this race has beea that | ali crews are not compiaining, but manfully | STANDING DY THEIR ACCIDENTS, aua the avounding strengta which could tn a hard tos race kick away @ stretcher should be | Coaching, more | properly provided for next year. than well set footboards, is what Bowdoin needs, {and with it rigntly given sae must improve fast. “Atlenuon “may propeviy be called to winner. Infact Itseemed questionable whether , two poiuts by which Cornell may have she had not worked too hard throagh- | been aided to her superb viciory of to- out ‘the second mile; at any rate Oor- | day. One 1@ her boat, While every other nell, whose steadiness was even more marked crew in Saratoga, both yesterday aud to-day, than (hat of her Freshman crew yesterday, was buckling down to her work in a way to prove her quality, Wesleyan was dotng beiter than those who Gid not know her wad expectea, Severai times in the race her steering was taulty, £0 much s0.a8 to cause ber to strike tue buoys, four times, says her ex-captain, Mr. Eustis, having been delayed by this cause, But the most striking improvenient of crew @uring the first two miles was that o! Dartmouth. When she reache the two. mile station she haa put herseli in company with the two leading crews, Corneil Narvard. Princelon was in no way impro She was sik showing her orange Cap more a rear, to the surprise of every on be remembered that many, thougn not all of those who Mave seen her Juriog the past ten Gays, delighted with her pluck aud spirit, had beon disposed to take her at her own measure, She certaimly has ss0wn as much confidence prior to the race as any grew here, and this con- and | fidence has doubtless deceived do one more than her own men. UNION AND HAMILTON were fighting their battic bravely. They had se- lecied each other at the Start, as the story went, ' and were attending to their duty as fairuiully as could be expected of men making their maiden effort’in the greatest race in the world. Bowdoin, as has been suggested, was beginning to find that she did not know how to use her great strength, and was staying well back, with no immediate prospect of bettering her condition, Harvard's lead of the field at the two miles 18 settled by the HERALD courier bejond all ques- tion, 80 that she was two lengths then ww front of Columbia and more than three aliead of Yale, This wag equally patent to the observer on the eastern shore, and it was ten to one then thatshe ha@ the raco where she wauted it, But what Is\this? In the next momens COLUMBIA HAS DRAWN UP level, and 80, too, has Durtthouth. The wide gap was covered so swiftly it took @ quick eye to catch the change. Up to this point hor torm was capital, and with #0 great @ lead and so fur on toward the close there must have been some | to Darwmouti’s boat house. He was then borne | strange reason for so singular aod sudden a! upon a mattress to the Princeton quarters, where beakisg agown, ana so there wes, and peafterwardsrevived, He hasbeen much annoyed iu the last place one would look for! by a felon on his little Mager, and bis sieep tt. Not the weakest man in the doring the last three nights much broken thereby, | bout had given out, but the strongest; \ It is slugular that the man with the largest and ghastly pale, tor a jong time after the race he had been attacked with @ sickness of stomach that in A Minote made nim v passenger. fly to his work he magnified his faults until he soon had the boat roiling fearfully, and the mon out of form and seeminviy gone to pieces. Never in training had he developed any sucnweakness, and to himself as well as to his friends, except that he did mot train as carefully as he suouid, his conduct seemed Inexplicabie, Of course, Columbia and Dartmouth were quick to seize tiis advantage, and gallantiy tucy made | the most of it, while CORNELL needed no hint to keep her up to ber work. Never til she drew near the finish did she appear to quicken her stroke, but by strong, suarp rowing | Theodore Davie, who brought his photographic as- pulled well together, aud completeiy throngn she | sistants, the brothers Pact, along with nim, and be- suowed, what ail who have seeo her knew | gan preparations for the day's work. Tue tower ts | the minute they looked, that she duilt after no particular design. It stands on the | had # man at ler head, @ man whose | best and most elevated site around the shores of good judgment and sound sonse have shone out | the lake, It is fifty feet high, constructed of no more ciearly ta 01st selecting ily the best | heavy beams of timber sloping upward In qua- station oo the lake, andin making (he most of at | dranguiar form, and entirely tnclosed in smooth than in qguietiy kevping bis own counsel and Tee | boarding from top to vottom. The first story ac- lying on long, carciul, faithful training to wring | commodates about a dozen and on two bis men op to tue mark when toe day of trial came | sides 1s fitted with trap doors Iilted fit to vattle for a kingdom, Joun Ostrom, while reading and liscvening carefully to what had Veen sald Of other captains, took unasual pains to see to Itthat nothing shomd be leit undone to show the grand young university ne represents that when sue pinned her faith ov htm tor any | Sticking pluck- | rowed in boats made of Spanish codar, Cornell won both races in boats of paper. For years paper boats have been in use, but seidom till now | have the Messrs. Waters, of Troy, their makers, been successiul with tneir sixes, This time they may certainly be well pieased with tue result, and it will be in no way oad if next summer aalf the university boats are of paper. Again it i8 claimed, how justly itis dificult at > this writing to say, that there are friendly cur- rents on the westera side of this lake to boats bound to the bortiward; that most of the pio- neers here in years past have found the truth of this and been aided by tt, anu that botn the Cor- nellcrews took good advantage of it. Whether there 1s anything in this 18 @& matter of easy test, and it would be well for the Saratoga Rowing Association to imvestigate and advise the | public of the facta. Their course seems to be an eminently fair one, and to-day’s result has made itso likely to be the scene of many a future col- | lege contest that they should take every care of Its reputation. Barring the delay at the start to-day’s race may airly be regarde’ as a vory successful ove, No fouls, no postponements, DO serious accidents; a good day and good course, fast time and no im- portant delay to the spectators. The result was much heiped by the whole aifair “being ‘im tho hands ef experienced men, vy | money being weneroutly and judiciously spent aud by the lanes, This was their maiden cifors, | and most of the crews certainly found them of | great assistance in Keeping them tn theirown water and so preventing fouls, Altogether this meeting was so ‘ree from unpleasant incident tbat it will long and deservedly be remembered as | about as near a success in the Way Of a great boat race as will probably be seen in maay yeura, | As stated by oue of the Princeton crew, Mr. | | Parmeley,at about the mile station, was seized with | an epileptic fit. He was able to keep up his stroke, but so feebly that by the time the second mile was reached, Nicoll, the Stroke, turned and asked wiat | was the matter. He repiled but fututiy, and in | the next moment /ell over in the boat, supported by Mr, Vaniemep until the others had rowed him most mascular arms and body among all these | oarsmen should firat succumy to the severe strain of tue race, Ww. B. THE HERALD TOWER REPORT. | 4 GRAND Blaps’-BYE VIEW OF THE LAKE, THE MULTITUDE, THE CONTEST, AS OBSERVED THROUGH POWERFUL TELESCOPES, AND THE HFRALD INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS oF THE POSITIONS OF THE CREWS. SARATOGA, July 14, 1975. In the cool and exrly morning the HunaLp tower was ‘taken possession of by the artist, | out and upward, | by an ordinary jadde | shady, Is devoted, to keeping the necessary tin | pail of drinking water, which 1s called in requisi« | thom frequentiy through the day. On the top and pluck to be equal to what she aid to-day. | The approach to each story is | - The basement, cool and | which a week berore Would be passed over with- | were they ready to start. Minaces passed, until | she made no odlunder., It was downright hard | 18 a little room, two feet by three, partitioned off for the photograpber’s more mysterious operations. As the boats are compelied to race in lanes, and every lane has a designated boat with a buoy, tn- dicating the colors of the crews, it will be at once perceived that the photographic impressions were the safest reliance in case any dispute hap- pened regarding the position of any boat at the thre stages in the course. From these faithful pictures of the struggle to be reproduced in Har- per's Weekly the Hexatp constructed its dia- grams. These, it will be seen, show the outlines of the lake and the position of the course to- gether with that of the contesting crews at the end ofeach mile, On both Moors powerful telescopes sweep the course allover, The plan of operations allows the boats to proceed one mile from the start and at that point of thew progress the camerais un- veiled and an instantageous picture of the situa- tion taken, At the end of the next mile the thing is repeated, and the final impression of three in ‘number 18 reserved for the -fuish, ‘The observer at the top of the tower bas above his head, nailed to a board, the colors of the crews in the order in which they come down the lanes. By reference to this he can tell through bis tele- scope ata glance which voat is prominent in the race, The door of the tower is bolted agatust tn- truders and. not even opened to an offer of $25 for a seat on the second floor, The country people are puzzled by the apparition. “What in thunder 1s it for?” inquires a stalwart rustic of his neighbor, and he receives back a reply from the tower: “We’fe looking for vhe grasshoppers. Get out of the way.” lt 18 @ prominent object for miles around, , and its purpose is variously guessed at. ON THE TOWER. The artists and photographers felt their spirits sink within them when the sun, which throngn all the morning had sbone with uneclipsed bright- noas, became suddenly overcast by heavy masses of clouds, At the same mementa breeze sprang up from the south, rippling the’ erstwhile mirrorliko surface of the lake and roll- Ing io on the western shore a ceaseless marmur of miniature breakers. Tuoughts of a postponement of the contest filied the minds of many, for the wind showed no signa of abating and the waves increased in bulk. At ten o’clook the sun peeped out once more, and, though bia again, he finally triumphed over the tormenting curtains of vapor and established himself for the day in undimmed splendor. from the tower the lake and its surroundings were iu full view. A THIN HAZE hung upon the woods and fields of the eastern shore. The country 18 rolling and highly calti- vated, The eye dwolls with much delight on the snug villas and farm houses nestling in the pretty groves that skirt the beach, Tho bare uplands dividea into squares, some green as the verdure of spring, others brown and parched, make beside the dark patches of wood a lafuscape of plotur- esque variety. Where the lake narrows and the multitude on the crescent-shaped stand are watt- ing with pleasant anticipations the coming of of the day’s great event, the view is very eplivening. Along and ceaseless stream of people 1s fowing along the low-lying beach to the grand stand, Over the soft green carpet of the meadows in the rear glittering whoels are rolling, harness of silver anda gold are shining resplendent in the | sun, which is now unclouded and pouring over the whole wide scene a glorious flood of light ana happiness, Behind the grand stand, te the left, a strip of wood running up the slope as far as the lake road makes @ back ground and a piace o1sheiter tor hundreds of vehicles. ‘The ladies are out in strong toree, They are brightly cos- | tumed, and most of the carriages fly tne colors of one crew or another, the Yale biue being, to all appearances, THE FAVORITE TINT. Carriages continue to roll over the meadows at tue rear of the stand until the whole wide and level area ts Gotted all over with vehicles. Looke | ing up toward Saratoga ana following the trend- ing shores of the lake, the scene is ex- tremely beautiful and animated, A number of boats, including several propeliers are out upon the water. in the far distance several swaas appear to be salling, but we find through our telescopes that they are yachts of some pretensions, No end to the stream of’ people steadily pouring over the low beach to the grand stand, Itis near eleven, Tie reivrer-e wou Madge blows three whisties and bears away gal lautly up the lake toward Soake Hul, where the crews are SLOWLY COMING TOGETHER to begin the struggle. Tnree barges, laden with people and roofed tn with canvass, have been drawn up on the seashore of tke lake, opposite 4 the main stand. The men of Coluimbi | blue and white, are singing with a hearty | good will various familiar college chansons in their neighborhood grows momentariiy larger. to us in the tower with perfect distinctness, IT 13 ELEVEN, | ior starting ia at hand, Tower mit is sought by many Jadies and gen- | Uemen, the latter provided with telescopes | and the former with opera glasses. Tne tower stands in the midst of apotato field, It rained | overnight and the soil is moist and adhesive, | There are no soft green patches wuere people may lounge and watch the race at leisure, but seats the ladies are all accommodated and their hand- some dresses saved from destruction, QUARTER PAST ELEVEN | five of the cre ws are ia position. Looking through | our large telescope we can observe their colors | and thelr movements with clearness and precl- ally black with peopie. The meadows look vory | pretty, with long lines of carriages drawn up | in close array and presenting myriad colors to | the gaze. All eyes are airected TOWARD SNAKR HILL, | for abreast of there the boats are coming together | for the start. Soake Hill is clothed m follage | from base to sumunit, and rises up beside the | peaceful lake like a luge emerald crown. In front | OF the stand a number o! goats have accumulated. ‘The colors of diferent colleges are flying at inter- | vals along by the shore. Williams, the piak and white of Cornell, the purple and white of Amherst, the white of Bowdoin, the brown of Browa, the blue and white of Oolam- bia, the lavender of Wesleyan, the Orange of Yale, the pink of Hamilton, the red of Harvara and the crimson of Union, There is a gay party | in the lower story of the tower making pools on the race. In the upper story THE ARTIST AND 113 ASSISTANTS are anxiousiy awaiting the start. ‘the camera and the telescopes are pomted up the course, and Davis 19 at his post Like @ good soldier, Itis now @ quarter to twelve and all the boats are in ine, Tho lake fg dotted all over with craft of different kinds, The little screw propellers go pufflng and whistling about in ali directions. There looks to be hardly an inch of room to spare on the grana stand, Several hundred people are grouped around the | HERALD tower of observation. {tis now within A FRW MINUTES OF TWELVE. The referee’s boat has sailoa away to observe tf the crews are in line. People without the aid of opera glasses or telescopes cannot discern what ig transpiring at the distauce of three miles, and must trust to their more fortunate weighbors tor the information AT NOON PRECISELY | a Gash of steam like the smoke from agun gave a wrong impression of the race having opened. It was the engineer of the referee's boat, who was | blowing @ signal winstie. He made this signal soverai times and deceived a "multitude, There is & good deat of dojay geiting the boats in position, Thirteen boats are & great number for a regatta, and as each oue desires to obtain the best start there is much dé¢lay and hesitation, Tue water is not as smooth a8 on tlie previous day, Somebody in the first story of the tower exciaims, o@ hie isoks to- | ward Spake Mill: ? “NOW TIRY’RE OFF,” and they were really of this time, the hour being loader | atary rho owtigte? maverials are placed, aud there | 12h. 44cm Thev anyeargd to row aya comparatively They are sitting in the right wing, and the crowd | Sounds of different musical instruments come up , but the crews are not yet in line, though the hour | are very soon improvised out of fence rails, and | sion. Now thegrand stand overflows and is liter- | first is the purple of | Princeton, the green of Dartmouth, the blue of | slow pace. The people down by the snore don’t know that the start has been made, and the signat men on Tower Ilili raise a shout vy way of ssnd- ing over the information, Columbia is repo-ted abead, with We ‘an abreast; Williams is pulling splendidly; Yale is thought to be third; Harvard is now reported as leading; they are all steering well, They have now reached the first mile of the ‘three, Harvard is leading; Yale and Hamilton are pretty well togetner, On the first mile we think we can see Princeton ahead. On the second mile an accident of some sort seems to have befallen her, ana, a8 we subsequently learn, Parmilee, the stroke oar, had an epileptic fit and teil over to the left, where tt took the com- bined strength of three men to hoid him from tumbling Overboard, He was rowed ashore in tho shell, accompanied by the crew of Am- herst. Harvard driving ahead rapidly, Yale is Been to throw water badly. THE RXCITEMENT INCREASES all/about the course. Colunibia anu Wesleyan are Well togetuer. ‘The “Rab, rab, rah’? of the Har- vord men by the beach goes up with immense energy. Harvard nas a great lead, The water ia rough for the shells, and they are nearly all throwing water. Now they appear to be mixed up in the diferent laues, They are coming close ap to the second mile, Dart Mouth and Yale are close vogether, Harvard sult ahead. One of the Wesleyans unships an oar, Dartmouth leads Y, and Harvard (ads all, ‘They have passed the second mile and are on the last. Great cheering fills the air, Tue crews are now coming into close observation, Telescopes @nd opera glasses ave neariy dia pensed with, They form @ diamond shape as they come on, with Columbia at the torwara point aud Hamilton at the rear, This is very soon changed, and Columbia, like Rarvard, falls behind and Cornell shoots ahead, amid wild cheering trom her friends and backers. The ac companying steamboats are on either fauk and in the middle, so that the race is closely watched from near and diferent points of observauou. ‘THE LAST MILE is of course the one in which the interest centres and finds itsclimax. On Tower Hill we hear the popular tuiuu't down by the shore welling ta steady uproar around our eyrie, Tre “rab, rah, rah’ ts ‘ieard over and around the lake and through the hills and woods, The crews hear it and feel stimulated to greater exertions, They are on the homestretch, Cornel leading and working tre- mendously. Ina few minnies all is over and the name Cornell ts on tue lips of thousands of excited people, THR WINNING BOAT has passed the lino, her oara cease flashing through the water. Her inen are not exhausted, bul wear a look of faith and courage and bow to the plaudits that are showered on them ‘rom all sides. The little steamers begin @ chorus of toot ing and great excitement fills the grand stand, From our tower we can see the crowds by the shore in frantic glee at the victory of Coruell. They are waving flags and handkerchiefs ana hats, and shouting with lusty lungs tueir appre- elation of the victor Presently the array of wagons and carriages in the meadows begins to to move for the point to the left of the Grand Stand, The crowd on Tower Hil) and around the lake start for the neighborhood of the Vaedeiean House, where the stages and all kinds of nonde- script Wagons are massed ana awaiting patron, | age. This movement of the people in carriages | and on foot through the woods and meaqowa ring locident of the day. ALL WAS ANIMATED MOVEMENT, especially the revurn to Saratoga with wagon loads of enthusiastic collegians, cuecring and waving flags. By thts time the weatuer had become warm. The cool breeze of the forenoon had given way to delicious tropical zephyrs. The race over | the Jake gradually grew calmer with the dying wind, anti it assumed an even guriace, suck as it wore in the morning. It was A MOTLEY GATHERING that occupied Tower Hill near the close of the race. A number of rustica strolied up about noon, armed with old fasuioned telescopes; some with only one glass, and more in such a deplorable condition of rust aud + verdi- gris as to refuse closing up. These aida to the rustic vision were handied with religious care and leW strange eyes were allowed to peep through them. Yo get a comfortable support for his telescope was my rustic’s first object. He borrowed our waiking stick, planged it several inches tnto the yielding soil, put his old broad-brimmed hat on top and thas he established a convenient resting piace ior the lustrument. . ON THE EAST SHORE wore the HERALD sigaal men, with fuil and careful instruction to notily the tower when the first boat struek thé mile line, The fag by which tuey communicated this information was sim- (ilar to the army signal Gag; it was easy to distinguish 1% on the distant shore, ‘The system worked to periection aud the result Is seen in the diagrams, which are an exact trau- serfpt from the photographs, Gti Wafa wae sitting in the shadow of the tower with a number of his rowing iriends, having secured this point the only one from which be could + tisfactorily. view,the entire race, his desire being to nove with care for his own benefit tue effect of tne different rowed strokes passing directly beneath his eye, As King and Ostrom, the starboard and port of Cornell, passed they fuldlied the prom- ise made last evening to the lirkanp rep- resentative, to sow what they believed would be the stroke which would win the race, Ward jumped witn glee, and cried out, “rhey caut be beater, not a bit dfit. Ivs Cornell's race,” and from Tower Hull first went up the shout of “Cornell, Corneil; the Empire State has won tt again.” As at tho atart the occupants of the grand stand re-echoed the shout without any knowledge of its im port. As the boats near the finish the work of our representative in the top Of the tower excites the admiration of those pres | ent Mr. Pach, with Gil Ward’s soft felt hat cow ering the jense .of his camera, waited the sig- nal of our observer, who stood directly back of the finish line, Cornelis bow touched the line, the flag fell, o filth of @ second’s exposure, and the incontrovertible pic ture gives tne precise location of eaci crew. Tho second impression was madet the same instant by Mr, Rockwood from the HEGALD stand on # knoll near the finish line, As both pictures give a precisely similar result, we may claim credit (or the perfect work of ou signal mon, The large tripod glasses used were Queen’s best make, and were especially prepared for this occasion. Through them we could distinctly see every movemont of the men comprising the different crews, the re‘eree, timekeeper and the persona ationed in the smail boats ai the starting lin Occasionally the glasses swept the shores of the lake and reveale to the curivus eyes of the Peo, pie in the tower scenes of rural love and felicity, and rustic couples enjoying themselves in shady nooke and. arbors, wuseen of any one, except Heaven and Queen's telescopes, Ag on the day before, we bad for pleasant com. pany Gencral J. W. Busted and Mr. Fietcher Harper, besides Mr. F, Harper, Jr.j H.R. Harper, John fiaul, Dr. Marry Sims, #. 0. Beach, W. F, Crosby and 7, Husted, From the top floor tha cheery Voice of Davis announced the situation from time to tyme, and When we were plunged in doubt ag to whother it was blue or lavender that was coming to the frout the Keen eye of the artist solyed the puzzle tn an instant, ; THE COMING Howe. Of late the drive from Saratoga to tho lake bas been greatly improved, and the sidewaik for pe- Gestrians is not the jeast of the advaniages added, Seats are placed for the weary under the shade ot umbrageous trees along the route, Water tankt for horses have aiso veen erected, and watering carts are kept insy laying the dust of those arid summer days. Alonz this road wm very lively panorama Was exhibited in sue return of the people from tle Inke. An wnbroken line of ve- hicies stretobed jrom Moon's to Saratoga, and thta line kept moving for several hours of the afvere noon, it was no waiking ace, ow A fast, Stirs | rine motion. (ugt auickunes Uke vuise and ratacd . along tho beach and away to Saratoga was a stic-