DEVELOPMENT OF THE 90-FOOT RACING YACHT. When Commodore John C. Stevens and his four as sociates all of the New York Yacht Club gave an or der to George Steers for the construction of a schooner for the purpose of crossing the Atlantic Ocean and competing in friendly rivalry with British yachtsmen they little imagined what an important influence their trim little craft was ultimately and indirectly to ex ert upon the international relations of the two great est nations of the world; for insignificant and dis proportionate as the cause may seem to be there is no denying that the international
DEVELOPMENT OF THE 90-FOOT RACING YACHT. When Commodore John C. Stevens and his four as sociates all of the New York Yacht Club gave an or der to George Steers for the construction of a schooner for the purpose of crossing the Atlantic Ocean and competing in friendly rivalry with British yachtsmen they little imagined what an important influence their trim little craft was ultimately and indirectly to ex ert upon the international relations of the two great est nations of the world; for insignificant and dis proportionate as the cause may seem to be there is no denying that the international contests for the 'Am erica' cup have grown to such a point of importance that they are a very real factor in the growing friend+ ship between the two nations. Could the shades of the gallant commodore and his friends have hovered off Sandy Hook lightship somewhere about noon on Aug ust 20 and witnessed the vast flotilla of steamships big and little come streaming out past the Hook they must have felt that verily great things from little causes grow ; for after all is said and done that first appearance half a century ago of an American schooner among the British yachts was a nautical event of merely local and passing interest. Evidently it was so regarded at the time for there was a lapse of nearly twenty years before any effort was made to recover the cup won in so gallant style by the 'America.' If the real cause for the world-wide in terest that has sprung up around these contests is to be sought it will be found in the splendid enthusiasm with which our American yachtsmen responded to the first challenge that was received and the strongly national flavor which the contest at once assumed as evidenced by the crowds which flocked down to the lower bay to witness the races of 1870 between the solitary British schooner 'Cambria' and the great fleet of American yachts that was gathered to protect the cup. Already by this very enthusiasm the yachting trophy was enshrined in the po
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