The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 128, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS SECOND CUP RACE RESUEEES [N FAILURE, o I Ve 2 = o ® ~ « o (8 = w o) - uw n a O i ® | ¥ (1] - < 3 g8) B g iestion of Supremacy of the =t BY the Marconi System Challenger and Defender : = The Call Left ANl Rivals Remains Undetermined, : RBeRind in Giving the Owing to the Scarcity of News and Secured the Wind. : 1 the race was off, t en the vachts and this mar it comes to a ft as fast if n at the weather ough <$SCoop’” of ’:I-_ae Qentury N addition to the wonderful triumph of wireless telegraphy in reporting the international yacht races, the world applauds the slap in the face the new discovery has administered to yellow journalism. In this city the mask of fake and false pretense has been torn from the jaundiced front of the aminer, the leader on this coast in the ranks of the saffron hued; and, pai as was the task, the grandmotherly visage of the ancient Chronicle was also exposed. Distanced by the enterprise of The Call, which first harnessed iae new electrical current to the car of journalistic progress, the very elderly but very religious Chronicle contented itself with an unavailing effort to convey intelli- e great international yacht race through the agency of Associated It failed ignominiously, but it saved its honor. , equally up a stump, was true to its policy of fake, fake, al- to i tory of fake, it also blundered, this time, however, It was caught red-hand but instead of sneaking off and faking was forgotten, i empted to brazen it out. At n Francisco time, it put out i “olumbia. 1 : wind twelve miles nful ond all recover. d, first bulletin on the yacht race. n hour.” For more than an hour k | seen continuously posting bulletins on the event that was engae- y | ) two worlds, For the next fifty mi the Examiner did not i The Call, thanks to W s egraphy, still sending * them forth. » Examiner was getting sore, and, yellow journal that it is, Sda o turned posit green with envy. In absolute jealousy at the coup of The 1 over which ( Call, it dect ake a petty revenge on Marconi, 3000 miles y. It was so b blinded with rage at the fact that he was in the service of a rival that it was o > oh | @ blinded to the great scientific value of his achieveme Instead of halling him z | * as the greatest dis of the century, it resolved to scoff, as the world once did at Galileo and Columbus. In lieu of any other bulletin, it had the extremely bad taste to p the following: BY WIRELESS—Macaroni. . /6 12:20 p. m.--The Race is On. he B What a magnificent revenge! Poor Marconi! Great Examiner! Great =7 { heavens! . 1 Fifteen minutes later, having unloaded this gob of bile, the Examiner gavé & - fr ? forth another bulletin. It said the Co el a mile in the se + ‘he fake staff had eviden returned from a hasty lunch and was a little K distances. Marconi's bulletin of even time said the Columbia was only an | eighth of a mile d. Of course, thre of a mile differ: e made no 8 ? difference, according to Examiner calculati so that there might be no : { kick coming to the adherents of either racer it immediately posted another ‘ 4 bulletin that the “‘Shamrock is apparently in the lead s & At the Examiner office ars, ‘‘you pays your money and you takes your r 3 il LR s choice. Which'll you have j o ! > While all was putting out bulletins right along the Examiner contented B ( ftself with just three more until 2:% p. m., New York time, when it posted: B ¢ | “Boats are on home Columbia one mile ahead.” At 2:45 p. m. it said the 6 @ | yachts had covered twenty miles and he Colu had a good lead. The faker * in chief, not content th this fast salili went himself one better & | utes later, or, to be exact, at . m., New York time, he posted a b ! il . +| ing: “Shamrock rapidly overhauling the Columb:a—only a few lengths apart t ¢ ¢ | Half a mile gain in ew, how the wind must have been blow- : : ‘ @ | ing through faker's w ! Or, maybe, he was only trying to make his i Y B¢ | 5 ¢ | log jibe with the erratic wanderings of the mimic boats on the outer wall. w o, .12 @ Half a dozen other alleged bulletins equally dopy and -contradictory were ; early abreast, the | # ' 4| posted, probably to Keep.up appearances. ; b i g y POk g P costarre . Th i i . 6 At 3:12, New York time, The Call pusted a bulletin that wi‘h the Shamroe A h had crossed the 'u“ h !t e Wizard of Wireless Te]egrath' i pointing higher, the stakeboat was still two miles away. One minute later the ; : &t %38l sgon atters | Examiner posted a bulletin, time New York, 3:15 p. m., which read: “The two £ the Shamrock was |@ SO eOe0eP e 000 eI ei et e e0ede0ededetsdesdededesiedeodsdeoese® | racersareaboutsix miles from finish. Shamrock seems to have gained a little.” Then kept well fogether, | | That bulletin could mean nothing else than that the boats were on the home- S oWy | M ESSAGE F l AS H E ward reach, racing for all they were worth. The management of The Call wired | Marconi: “Examiner bulletin to the effect that yachts have turned stakeboat and t possible period the answer came back: are on the finish.”” In the brief Examiner bulletin fake. Yachts have not turned the stakeboat. TO MA¥MOI PHEL AN MARCONIL red off, it : fifteen-mile at was 1 la steadily d her rival, but was all jibe and beat k worked close up to the Colum- the heading aw end sent the Columbi, of crossing S what either boat can do with the same old fifteen-mile run to lee- ick, according to the direction of the Lippett, the last e New York Yacht crew were carryl Thomas lors on their w and white working suits. com- W tab- & line at 10:40 by anchor- length southwest of the e course signal was imme- It was southeast by wind being very light from the uarter, northwest by north. Un- ub to 1d jib and with staysails in tops the two yachts T a good start during ween the preparatory and e former was given TECHNICAL STORY o OF SECOND FAILURE The iter Luckenbach, N YORK, Oct e weather con- mo | Skippers Barr ar best of what little Hogarth made d th the v had to test 4 eir boats' tu apacity in the ligh b in the ght nal the Columbia, with boom to star. board, passed north of the lightship, head. ing to the eastward, and the Shamrock, approaching from the southward, met the Bristol boat about on the | She luffed out across the Columbia’s wake after hav- ; attempted to pass her to leeward ag their booms to starboard, two minutes after the gun fire the ship, leaving it on her port hand, at about one minute before the signal. When thirty seconds were rol sails and headed for the line. The Sham- rock’s balloon topsail blossomed out at the same moment as the Columbla’s. She a length astern when the starting was glven. Her spinnaker was n cut while she w: crossing the line. The Columbia's men rigged out her spinnaker boom while they were ap- proaching the line, hoisted the sail and broke it out in just forty-five seconds. The. Columbia had the better of the start. The official time for the start was: Co- Hogarth . and S ilton, | was on the latter’s starboard hand and | i slowly | | naker smartly, the Columbia’'s men follo Form THE WESTERN 17 | 21,000 OFFICES iN AMERICA - INCORPORATED — paris £ of the seulor . CABLE SERVICE have baen assented to by the sender of the fr inuny case where ¢ NICN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. TO ALL THE WORLD. npany will 5ot hold itssif liable f - claiim 1S DOt presented W writi under the conditions bamed above. | RECEIVED st San Francisco, Cala | AR TP M 4:15 p. { 5, via Marconi wireless telegraph. To James D. Phelan, Mayor, care Call, San Francisco: | Herald and Mr. Marconi send greetings and congratulations to | Chief Magistrate of greatest city of Pacific slope. :race abandoned after hopeless drifting match. HISHONO Mayor “What?"” defender. Franc Mayor Phelan . .ompiiment. The Mayor fell in with th the Italian scientist to te: he asked. He was assured that the m ‘““Well, that beats me,” he exclaimed. It was explained to his Honor that the message, like the bulletins of the race sent The Call, had been sent out on Hertzian waves, produced by the Marconi apparatus. These trav- eled at speed until they met the apparatus on the Navesink Highlands attuned to the same key. As the word waves vibrated against this apparatus it was set vibrating in key, starting in mo- tion a registering telegraph, the record rolling off on paper tape, from which it was sent San coward instanter by the Western Union Telegraph Company. “It's marvelous,” said the Mayor; “nothing short of marvelous. yet, although here is the evidence in my And the Mayor read the message again. He wanted to know how he should acknowledge “Will The Call send a message for me?” he asked. write a reply, when he was stopped by the suggestion that it would be better to send the message Saturday dur- ing the progress of the yacht race, when there was a certainty that Signor Marconi would be at sea on the Ponce. idea at once and promised to prepare a message Saturday morning for transmission to ify his wonder at the perfection of wireless telegraphy. The Call will send the Mayor's message, and out on the bosom of the Atlantic Ocean, in the heat of the next struggle for the America’s cup, it will be carried to those on board the steamer Ponce. hands.” He was assured it Such a message T. ECKERT, President and General Manager. 1074--CH--XQ--F m., on board the Ponce, off Navesink Highlands, N. Y., Oct. To-day's yacht R’S REPLY WILL BE SENT. TO MARCONI The complime nts of Signor Marconi and the New York Herald, vibrated wirelessly from the ocean off the Jersey coast, were presented vesterday afternoon to Mayor Phelan a few min- utes after 1:30 o'clock, San Francisco time. was totally unexpected by the “You don’t mean to say that this came by wireless telegraphy?” ge had been started by no less a hand than that of Signor Marconi himself, who was even then on the steamer Ponce returning with the challenger, and “How was it done?” I can hardly believe it would, and he sat down at once to :00:53; Shamrock, 11:01:05. The first ten minutes after the start were anxious ones for those directly in- terested in the Shamrock and the Colum- Shamrock set her staysail and dropped |Pia. In two minutes the Columbia’s bo her spinnaker boom to port. She was | SPrit began to creep past the Shamrock’s then about 300 vards committee boat and heading to the south. | ™ The Columbia, coming from the south- | Both took in their staysails and jib, so as east, had passed the Sandy Hook lignt- | to give the immense balloon sails plenty | of draught. | 8o light was the wind at this time thnt‘ left Captain Barr | only the balloon sails seemed to be doing | for her course again, the Shamrock im- d his wheel over to port, jibed the | service for either yacht. The main sheets | mediately following suit. The wind hela | Columbia, broke out- her balloon jib top- i ::ung slack in between the bows and the | in the same quarter until 12:40-o’clock, the ooms nd the great mainsails hung flat s boards from over the starboard side of each yacht. Mile after mile the yachts traveled slow- to the southeast, the Columbla gaining but steadily all the. time. At 5 minutes to 12 the wind freshened a bit, canting at the same time a couple of points to the eastward. Captain Hogarth saw it first and his crew took in the spin- ing suit a minute later and setting their forestay sail at the same time. Fearing that the Shamrock would try to | | luff out and pass him to windward, Cap- | tain Barr began to luff the Columbia. | Both kept it up for fully ten minutes, | until they were both heading east. Cap- | tain Hogarth kept the Shamrock’s spin- | | to be shot out at a moment’s notice, until |12:02 o'clock, when he let it run down. | Finally, at 5 o’clock, the Columbia, | still being 500 yards ahead, kept broad off | Columbia meanwhile gaining on her rival. | At that time the wind backed around to | the northwest and the Columbla jibed, | the Shamrock following her two minutes | later. At 1:13 the Columbia's crew sent her | spinnaker out to starboard, and two min- | | utes later the Shamrock's was set. Far | away in the blue haze the outer mark was | | sighted at 1:15. | With the weather prevailing at that time there was little chance of finishing the | | race within the prescribed limit of five | and a half hours. During the next half hour the wind dropped out almost en- tirely. At 1:50 the spinnakers came in on both yachts, and they were jibed to starboard. At 2:10 the Columbia set her spinnaker to northwest of the | bow, and in ten minutes the Columbia |naker mast headed, with a couple of men | port, taking it in again five minutes later. s’ clear out ahead of the Shamrock. | holding it half way down the mast, ready | Both jibed to port at 2:20, and a few min- utes later a light breeze came in from the southward. Sheets were trimmed down and both yachts were soon close hauled on the starboard tack. The Shamrock set her baby jib topsail at once, but the Co- lumbia was held some five minutes before being set. At 2:33:30 the Shamrock went about to port, the Columbia following suit twenty seconds later. The Shamrock then ap- peared to have a slight advantage. The wind was very light, and the Shamrock in this smooth water seemed to be doing very well, her larger sail plan-proving a little too much for the Columbia. When the later went about to starboard at 3 Continued on Second Page. At 3:17 p. m., New York time, the E: at to The Call and Marconi. For the benefit of h below a number of the bulleti those posted by the Examiner: THE CALL 0:40 a —Wind blowing at rate about six Ieaan hour fror fluky. Haze dis- a smooth t race will start course aightaway Betting cen miles n New Y 5 to 3 on Colu ) a. m.—Preparatory gun fired ying under mainsail, Columbia to windward \ck swings to get windward m.—Sham bla swings around in time but Colum| event. g %7 a in.—Shamrock crosses line first, Co- Jumbia overlapping. Spinnakers set on both boats. 11 a. m.—They are off. 11:03 a. m.—Both yachts standing about near il, jib staysail but have. very ail, club tops close together, hey 1 iway | l“lll‘ Mh;a —Both yachts have smnnz\_km's oft to port, mainbooms to starboard; wind north- east, very light E 11:12 a. m.—Yachts went over line about on ev terms, Columbla in bett 11:22 a. m. ‘achts only 100 3 W 1d must be much riffing with breeze. sher or there will be no race 0 a. m.—Columbia now about a length, her red off to starboard, spinnaker boom_Squ |m':x:.'r'edxux o port, its salls catching little wind. Prospects for finishing very slight. 11:31 a. m.—Clear water between yachts. Col- umbia leading, her balloon, Jib and club top- ails doing light work. Wiad strengthening pow, filling sails. Spinnakers also flopping considerably. 11:25 a. m—Columbia now good two lengths nd in better position. n]l‘(Z a. m.—Both yachts now about two and a halt knots. Columbia’s advantage thus far, due largely to better luck getting wind into d sails. 3 e % m.—Columbia_four lengths in lead. Wind treshenirg somewhat. Both crews are sted on quarte i e O Onty two and one half knots sali- d in one hour. *Neon—Columbia’s Sib drawing well, so s Shamrock's. Columbia has balloon staysail get; Shamrock has he s in stops. Columbia has Increased lead slightly In consequence of shift of wind. Yac heading easterly. 12410 p. m.—Both yachts taking in spinnakers. Columbia taking in balloon staysails. Both now Under mainsail top, club topsails, balloon jib topsails. . m.—Wind about northeast; both moving between five and six knots. Co- about an eighth of a mile in the lead. well. Course remarkably Yachts doing very e Stakeboats going southeast. Yachts 9 ee miles east by north of here. Co- about URtill leading. Shamrock on inside near Yourse held by the stakeboat. 1244 p. m.—Both yachts held to the north- ward of the course, BIVing advantage of wind. They are now heading for the mark, with spin- Dalkers taken in and mainsails to port. l5:81 p. m.—Immense fleet is following races. 1233 p. m.—Columbia continues her lea wind so light that shivers run up and down s oth yachts. "‘1‘2‘ S fp.bm.A'umu-flex- Servia, bound in, passed ar yachts B ¥ m.—Wind freshening. _ Columbia p. Yachts still several miles from tor mark. OO B m.—Both yachts are sailing under malinsails, club topsails and balloon jibs. Co- Tambia’s staysails are in stops TA1 p. m.—Wind died out, so that Columbia’s salls hang like bags. Shamrock doing a little better. 1:15 p. m.—The race is now a drifting match 11:30 a. m.—Columbia leads. Wind twelve knots an hour. Associated Press boat says that at 12:20 Columbia leads seven-eighths of a mile. exciting finish probably and headed for home, before they reac lished a bulletin to that effect, with the statement that th off. At3:49 p. m., while e Examiner, apparently bew s wish to make the comparisons The Call on the races recei n saying, “Very hts swung around and The Call pub- race was declared s trying to discern aminer posted a bulle York time, the ya ed the outside mark, dered, w the boats ugh the haze, The Call posted the bulletin announcing “No race.” And there wa The Examiner was no nearer to the truth in any of its fake bulletins than were either of the yachts to the finish when the last bulletin was posted. The Call had distanced it as it has done many times before. The poor old Chronicle threw up its withered hands early , and with the socia Press, once the greatest news-gathering agency on earth, took off its submits ed by this paper, and all of BULLETINS. and unless breeze springs up the ¥ finish within the time Iimit hamrock set spinnaki econds lau w chts cannot Columbia d 1s right unable to cl n’ craft do-t for two : 1:30 p. making steerages way. Col but does not in- ase it 1:36 p. m.—Sea like a millpond. are in the doldrums. achts slowly d with Both yachts k dropped boom to port. mrock mbia. cruiser y-Bennett, S p. m.—Yachts set spinnakers to port. amrock closing up the ga 3 p. m.—Columbia’s lead, which was fully haif a mile, has been cut d yards. Shamrock’s seem to be drawing better. 2 p. m.-— mrock has cet eased off. Continues gaini less than a boat's length of open water separates the boats. 2:28 p. m.—Wind veered around to the south, heading Columbia off. Spinnakers were taken in and Columbia crossed Shumrock's bow tack . m.—When the wind shifted about, the s to windward and near the outer nark. Both ts are now heading toward Long Island on starboard tack. 2:40 p. m.—Columbia worked through Sham- rock’s lee, taking the lead and going on port on tack. Shamrock also on port tack & moment later. 3:05 p. m.—Shamrock on starboard tack was mbia’s , when Colum- bia came about on the starboard ta rock drew up alongside and passed, belng a short distance to windwarc 3:10 p. m.—Shamroc tion, although very ing special No. 2 jib topsail. $:12 p. m.—Shamrock Stakeboat about two mile: not possitly finish in ti about to cross Sham.: Columbia 3:15 p. m.—Shamrock about on port tack. Colurabia at or mrock’s sails fill quicker than the Col Sham- rock apparently ng her bout two lengths. Yachts close together, making pretty Dicture. 3:20 p. m.—Columbia making great effort on Shamrock and is ently nearly lapping challenger 3:30 p. m.—Shamrock eats her bit. Colul effort does Atlantic squadron follow: 3:34 p. m.—Columb board tack holding sou port. 3:37 p. m.—Stakeboat vachts on starboard tack position and leading. p. m.—Columbia comes about r- about mes on star- hamrock holds in plain view. Both Shamrock to wi port p. 'm.—Swinging around and heading for Columbla drops jib topsail. Shamrock staysails and Jib topsail. Race appar- ently declared off 3:49 p. m.—Another failure through the lack of “wind. mrock has again showed won- derful ability in°light airs. She is fully e to Columbia in this respect. She showed sur- prisingly well in pointing. Conditions so un< even that day's racing does not settle which is better boat in lighter weather. home. drops THE EXAMINER BULLETINS. Long Branch, 12:20 p. m.—Sham- rock apparently in lead. 12:35 p. m.—Columbia leads half a mile. New York, 1:06 p. m.—Wind fresh~