. Book of the Royal blue . reatflourish of enterprise, that it was not quitethree days journey by coach from Phila-delphia to Alexandria. To-day the time istwo hours and a half between these samepoints; while the ear is intent as it catchesthe whirr of the dynamo and the roar ofthe electric car, listening for the clock ofprogress to strike the approaching hourwhen the schedule of travel shall no longermark distances by hours and minutes, butthe time between stations shall be told intrices, and that from metropolis to metrop-olis in seconds. THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES. 1899. THE Anglo-Saxon
. Book of the Royal blue . reatflourish of enterprise, that it was not quitethree days journey by coach from Phila-delphia to Alexandria. To-day the time istwo hours and a half between these samepoints; while the ear is intent as it catchesthe whirr of the dynamo and the roar ofthe electric car, listening for the clock ofprogress to strike the approaching hourwhen the schedule of travel shall no longermark distances by hours and minutes, butthe time between stations shall be told intrices, and that from metropolis to metrop-olis in seconds. THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES. 1899. THE Anglo-Saxon people throughout theworld look forward with great inter-est to October .!, on which date willbe sailed the lirst of the five races betweenthe Columbia and the Shamrock for theAmericas cup. of Wight. The cup was to go to thefastest vessel, regardless of any specifica-tions whatever. The Yankee craft wonout against a whole fleet of eighteen ofthe English yachts, ranging from the littlecutter Aurora, of 47 tons, to the three. Photo by Ilvirtcdi, Nt-w York. Ii> IjeiiiilK ■COHMBIA. Notwithstanding these races will onlybe viewed by a limited few and that few-confined principally to the neighborhood ofNew York City, yet they are the common talkof the English speaking race, no matterin what part of the world they are located. In 1851, the .Vmerica, owned by JohnC. Stevens, sailed for Cowes, England, tocompete for a cup ofi^ered by the KoyalYacht Squadron for a race around the Isle mast schooner Brilliant of .•i!»2 .America was a two masted schoonerof 170 tons, 94 feet long on deck and 88feet on water line. The .Americas cup, as it is known,was won on August 22, 1851, and waspresented by the owners of the yacht in1857 to the New York Yacht Club, withthe proviso that it should be ofiered as atrophy for a race between any challenging 14 THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES, 1899. yacht of any foreign country with anAmerican yacht under certain specifica-tions, for yachts of not
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