The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1899, Page 1

~ g ~ - B i < N The to be ——t UL taken from the Lfbrary, ++e+ 4 VOLUME LXXXVI—N o 140, SAN PRICE FIVE CENTS. FROM BRITISH SOURCES COME'SHAMROCK CRIPPLED AND COLUMBIA HAS A “WALKOVER” REPORTS OF REPULSES OF BOERS AT MAFEKING. /s not the rallway bridge, as before re-| G 4444444444444 4444494444+0 3 losses. The Morning + ay over which the old cflflchlns} LONDON, Oct. 17.—The skirmish near i sses. Spytsfontein, says a special dispatch e Basutos have 4 ial disptch from Pretoria says the | from Cape Town, was quite lively. The Free State. >4 the aland rail- | armored train with a detachment of + night from Lobatsl to | Lancashires approached unmolested until 24 ! within range and then the Boers opened T 36 Dundee correspondent, | fire, The Maxims were strongly set to i + ‘The | work and did good -execution among the pe Been + it artillery 1\ New- | burghers. The latter also used artillery, | A g passes. + and are des sheelIwayaat | but ineffectively. The armored train re- | 3 2 in order t the ap-: turned to Kimberley unharmed. @+ 4444444440444 444444444Q baily Maft at | g L1€ CFW of the armored train say the says that 300 ave been killec t a bridge twelve miles west of | hs that General Sir Wil- hat there a 1 the Boer colu ys L o1 Ladysmith, :buto{thAtiithe e i, & DA hitsHers e ol ot rge numbers of men on f00t. | heayy rifies. again shooting wildly. Only owever, is of the n.wr:\nro \‘H‘f]f( {r“ | three or four bullets struck the train, builetin issued by the and the look worn sequertly the crew learned that five all natives | spondent of the | ireiner, W. P. S | and wounding seven. The British had no Boers fired thirteen shells, but their aim was wretched and not a single shot struck the train, which then made bold | to approach nearer and opened fire with s and two Boer horses were killed, while several Boers and horses were | wounded. Not a member of the British force was so much as touched. duced to sign the decree pr. —— tial law in the northern parts of Cape | PRELIMI after Sir Alfred Milner gave him | A:INN_Ar’:‘Y BATTLES R : E BOER ADVANCE; tion so spec S §Hat the alony had Deen tavaded by ool| (ERETORIAL Ot it Malenen 1o trans- | enemy. | misston).—Heavy { e HEAVY FIGHTING fighting took place this morning north of Mafeking. train sent to repair An armored i the railroad line ened fire on the Boer commando. One NORTH OF MAFEKING | burgher was killea and twe wers wroran: v dI ),\ s.n-ml.d engagement followed, fn | E S s oy which nine British were wound | , LONDON, Oct. 17.—A special dispatch | "yesterday while Genogal Cronje's troops | from Pretoria, dated October 14, by way | were near the broken rallway bridge aine | of Delagoa Bay, says: A cyclist dispatch | mi north of M v | afeking an approaching | 88, was received from heep, near Mal- | train loaded with dynamite was fired upon Hat 6 Stlo e At ] up. There were no casualties | i elved ing had been in progress all day long ‘;,‘;:h o ,lhs"]"' % | g 272 h of Mafeking. The British troops ent oy fhoan caved hydhe Gov) : ‘- Matekine,, Ih tish_troop: at the fighting continues ; 3 S an armore acted as a e e : ng. The British, after the a K 5 second engagement, ed | a i N et o gea | second o 1t, retired in the direc- offi- avy BOERS NEAR LADYSMITH train kept up a cc spicuous brave les, but it it the rifles of the bu tive against an armore however, was once fore a particularl fire. s displayed on ame ] on be: A corps of experlenced continental en- 3 — eers, former officers, has left Pretoria | pp. pooio ey PR e T for the southwestern borders, escoried by ey °sting, preparjtory to | REE THOUSAND MOUNTED e Biscomsadpiogh s it D ‘I‘:",‘ mpleting their encirclinz movement for | probably Intended for large dynamite op. | ‘! 474K Upon Dundee. They cannot ad- | | erations. A big engagement is expected shortly in the vicinity of Ladysmith. The forces of Commandant Piet Vys are encamped on a town, but they resumed the at- 7 afterward, two burghers be- nd three wounded. The com- ged was impeded owing to the tillery, which was sub- *d from General Cronje. Cave Colony, Oct. 17.— burg or- ke a detour through | jolning the train | This is understood to be hat the Boers have under- t short ing killed e the train north of to m unde e veldt, e Natal, Oct. 17.—The n e eard i . s i | paxy fsink can o Ibern : threatened assault upon Glencoe {s be- 'i:(\) ‘T - v e Genera ronj lieved to be a feint in the hope of weaken- s operating. ing the garrison here and exposing the | towns to the westward. vance much farther without coming into act with British cavalry, who screen | position. N s, the situation such that little fighting is expected in n overlooking Dundee, from | (e near future in this section apart from e ich point they will be able to observe | 16sultory outpost skirmishes. All the g iy > movements of the British troops. women and children have left Dundee. u h political per- | —— CAPE TOWN, Oct. 17,—A special dis- 3 patch from Mafeking says that all was y from Durban announce that the AN ARMED TRAIN intact there up to Saturday night. At | C = he Nether neutral. r the Orange s to-day the British, | main which Cape Town ad been blown up by SCALE Ty b s =y RoADS MAIN = ROADS Tonw — LI S o S A o o o S SR S S S S SR DA S U5 N ) waTeEr PITS. ARIGOBO VLV 4004800000392 0240000000604+ 08302 32952040+ 4093 3424240454035 54240 STANDS OFF THE BOERS KIMBERLEY, Oct. I An armored tr while reconnoitering near Spyts fontein, =ngaged with Boers, killing five ~N OF ARERING. that time the Boer artillery was being brought up, but it had not been placed in According to these advices, the h have blown up the Hope Town Continued on Second Page. This TOPMAST OF THE CUP CHALLENGER CARRIED AWAY. After the Shamrock had crossed the starting line yesterday catastrophe caused the Shamrock’s captain to at once abandon this ac{‘ident caused her enormous club topsail, with its 3000 feet of canvas, to fall to the deck. the race. B S e e e S S S = +® B e e = = SV SDE AP S .—Another vie- tory for Columbi The disabled cutter was promptly head- | terest will hardly survive another | made to secure the splintered mast and | triumph of the sort. It with the fall of the topmast, and though a part of the excur- sion fleet followed the Columbia in her | solitary ramble around the triangular | course there were few to grow enthus- lastic over a victory which accident had | rendered certain. | plause for the Columbia when after that | mishap to the Shamrock the defender con- tinued upon her course. ‘‘Magnificent, but it s not war,” was a soldier's comment | on Balaklava. Mr. Iselin was plainly ' EW YORK, Oct. } lapsed | | Thomas Lipton is signatory to an agree- | ment wherein it is stipulated that in case | of accident to either yacht the other | shall continue on her course and be cred- ited with a race should she finish. There | is a deep-seated instinct which protests | against the acceptance of victory through | the unsuspected weakness of a piece of | rlgging worn by a rival craft. The hope was freely expressed that the Columbia would not claim and would not take her | rights. But when it was seen that there | was no intent of relinquishing the ad- vantage gained there was a fervent hope, Nor was there any ap- | challenger’s | jury to the mainsail. bagging topsail before it had done any in- | The Erin, with Sir | Thomas Lipton on board, promptly stood | toward her crippled consort, at the same | time making signals to the Shamrock’s | tender, the tugboat Lawrence. That ves- | sel headed for the crippled yacht. and as soon as the wreckage had been secured a tow line was made fast and the two were headed back to port. The Erin followed | and as the procession moved silently by | the excursion fleet opened up its whistles and all the passengers cheered the unfor- ’ | | | to Captain Hogarth, who seemed to feel the accident very keenly. To newspaper men Captain Hogarth | would not attempt any explanation. All | | that he cared to say was that he was glad | the broken mast had not come down on | deck and that he was pleased no one was | injured. Apparently afrald that she would meet with a similar mishap, the skipper of the | Columbia immediately after the breaking | of the Shamrock’'s topmast ordered her baby jib taken in. The Columbia, however, made a fine filled away to starboard at a point mid Bal public in- | ed into the wind, and efforts were quickly | way between Scotland and Sandy Hook lightships. The Columbia continued In tow until well up to the Sandy Hook lightship, and at 9:25 o’clock her crew set the mainsail in eight minutes. As soon as the sail was up she cast off her towline and set what appeared to be her No. 2 club topsail, not the largest one she has. The club topsail which the Shamrock begam to set at 9:40 o'clock was appar- ently her largest one, the same one which was bent on Monday to aluminum spars. To-day wooden ones were used. With a freshening breeze from the eastward and an ugly swell rolling in from the same = : tunate vessel and her plucky owner. The | quarter, it seemed a rather risky pro- &‘;hix‘:“h;d”g:;?f: hex Tomded Qi | Erin ranged near to the Shamrock. and | ceeding to swing such a large topsail ed the victory, for Sir | gi rhomas Lipton spoke encouragingly | aloft. Subsequent events proved that with a smaller club topsail the Shamrock might have finished the race. The same persons were on board the Columbia and Shamrock as on previous race days and when the committee boat arrived and an- chored northeast of the lightship at 10:20 o'clock the yachts were ready for the start. The signals for a triangular course were set at 10:30 o’clock and one of the com- mittee boats was at once sent to log off the first ten-mile leg and place the first mark. The cou or the first leg was east by south, for the second southwest half south and for the third leg north and one freely and frequently expressed, | race of it, pluckily holding on to her club | Northwest. The first ten miles was to 3 ROROIE%EgQ‘/g\R 1 that the wind would die out and thus | topsail throughout and setting her bal- | WindWard, the second ten miles a reach DAM | prevent the winning of a race through |loon jib in the final reach for home. Her | reach with boom to port, thirty miles in - the mishap to a rival. time was little short of marvelous. She | all \ Pictorial Map of the Western Frontier of the Transvaal in the Vicinity of Mafeking. To every one who went out the disap- pointmen: was keen. A fairer yachting day could hardly be imagined. Moreover, it was the sort of day that the Shamrock people have been wishing for, a fresh wind blowing true and a lively sea run- ning before it. The race itself over the triangular course was another feature which attracted many. All previous ef- forts in this series have been fifteen miles to the windward or leeward route, but the course of to-day was to be over the tri- angular run, and in the fresh winds and tumbling seas the contest promised to be as thrilling as any ever witnessed in these handkerchiefs and hats when the two racers, with boom and spar buckling to the strain of swollen canvas, went storm- | tng across the starting line. A more ani- ‘| mated yachting picture was never wit- nessed than that presented by these splen- did vachts dashing along the course, the foam dancing in brilllant rainbows about thelr weather bows, while to leeward the water swept in glassy curves from the clear knife-like stems. Under mainsall, club topsails, jib, baby jib and staysails the two clipped it along, both pointing high and footing so fast that some of the excursion boats had difficulty in keeping pace. But all set out in pursuit of the winged racers, and all were rejoicing in the prospect of a glorious struggle, when hopes were dashed by the accident to the Shamrock. She was then the focus for all eyes, for to the many it seemed that she was outfooting the cup defender, and it appeared also that she had reached out far enough to cross the Columbia’s bow. A number were expecting that she would attempt that maneuver and were watch- ing the challenger with intense interest, covered the course in 3 hours 37 minutes, the beat ten miles to windward in 1 hour 39 minutes 11 seconds, the reach to the second mark in 53 minutes 59 seconds, and the last leg in 1 hour 3 minutes 50 seconds. As she crossed the finish line she let go her head sails and one of the Deer Isle sailors treated the spectators to an exhibition of daring as he climbed out over the peak | halliards eighty feet In the air to loose the club topsail. Mr. Iselin, when seen after the Colum- bla had run her race and reached her moorings, sald that he much regretted the accident. Sir Thomas Lipton de- two defeats have not discouraged him, however. He has another chance and he hopes to make that one count. The Sha#mrock was towed to Erie Bacin, ‘where necessary repairs will be made. After the new topmast has been put in | place the vessel will be remeasured and will be ready for the contest Thursday. Thai is to be the old fifteen miles to windward or leeward and back, and if the Columbia wins the series will have been | completed withcut giving the Shamrock | an opportunity to test her merits in her favorite point of sailing over a triangular course. D TECHNICAL STORY OF THE ONE-SIDED RACE Owing to the Injury to the Shamrock the Next Contest Is Postponed One Day. NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Clear weather and a fine whole sall breeze greeted the all. At10:45, when the preparatory signal was given, the yachts were maneuvering for position, while the torpedo-boats and the revenue cutters were driving out a_few excursion boats and yachts away from At the warning sig- the breeze had i creased perceptibly and there was prom- ise of a good start in a few minutes. The skipper of each yacht saw to it that the main sheets were kept well aft, so that he could quickly gybe or tack his boat. At one minute before the starting gun the Shamrock, which had been maneu- vering southeast of the lightship, stood to the northwest, closing in toward it. Her boom was to port and well in board. Coming up from the northward, also with waters. clared emphatically that the Columbia |boom to port and wind abeam, the Co- In pure gayety of spirit the excursion- | was entitled to the race, and that Mr. ;‘;?lt‘;}flwgeéeme‘gshargru‘ckl»l\;fsll o Sy : ng ready to 1uff his yacl psts cheered and shouted and waved | Iselin had a perfect right to claim it. Tne Sharp around the Lightonip's Stern. The situation at the gunfire was almost exactly the same as thut between the De- fender and Valkyrie 1II as they ap- eroached the line on the day when the valkyrie fouled the Defender. When the Shamrock, a moment after gunfire round- ed the lightship's stern and luffed sharp up on the wind, the Columbia having been unable to gain the weather berth, had now an overlap of half her length on the lee side of the Shamrock and so close ‘were they that the Shamrock’s main boom as she luffed to her course came danger- ously near the Columbia’s weather shrouds and masthead runner. Both yachts were close hauled on the starboard tack, cross- in'% the line on a diagonal course. 'he Shamrock had certainly the better of the start and Columbia was placed in a position that few yachts would be able to extricate themselves from without either keeping broad off or fouling. It was with intense interest, then, that those on the accompanying vachts and excursion boats watched the outcome of this battle royal between the single-stickers. One minute had not passe? before the Columbia’s bowsprit began fo show out ahead of the Shamrock’s. At 11:02, when the handicap gun was fired the Columbia was half a length out from under the lee of her rival, and thirty seconds later when v when a cry of dismay arose. Bending to | skippers and crews of the r: d t et X Th‘!tl.hy?sw;l;:; ’:;"el;:l”lnngeu of the Boers at Ottoshoops, Khutwana and other places east of the frontier, from which they ralded Marigobo, Kraai Pan and the weight of the club topsail the Sham- whle)g they ‘turned to this r:s:'rllfnzact‘\t: tn';etls\gug;fixc;b‘lgs‘g‘pbac;g&% ?h‘:e[l:llgi: 8 y svaal flags, w ritis] marks the § retoria, ' if in a commandin; sitis N athar Boluth are iven In firsres: wite Dot aean Duss whle | ag only place held by the British. Distances to Cape Town [ | precipitating the gail's spar into a mass | were towing out past the point of the | Placed herself in Sastan, of wreckage, which, suspended by its wire rigging, swung to and fro with the Hook at 9 o'clock. The Shamrock’s main- sail was hoisted soon after and at 9:20 she on the Shamrock’s weatner quarter. "The official time of the start was: Sham- rock, 11:00:15; Columbia, 11:00:1' movement of the yacht. ¥ i S cast off her towline, broke out her iib and | The wind was east by south and fresh- B e = S S A P e e e B e e e e e S S = WO ¥