Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . their yacht clubs, and there are threeor four on the Pacific Coast. The South,too, has its yacht clubs, some of them verythriving organizations. In Philadelphia,Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, , Mobile, and New Orleans,yachting is active. Still, these organiza-tions are all comparatively young, theQuaker City, at Philadelphia, having beenborn in 1876, and the Mobile not until1883. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 45 So, then, the interest of the pubUc at largestill centered around the operations of theNew York cl
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . their yacht clubs, and there are threeor four on the Pacific Coast. The South,too, has its yacht clubs, some of them verythriving organizations. In Philadelphia,Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, , Mobile, and New Orleans,yachting is active. Still, these organiza-tions are all comparatively young, theQuaker City, at Philadelphia, having beenborn in 1876, and the Mobile not until1883. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING. 45 So, then, the interest of the pubUc at largestill centered around the operations of theNew York club, and especially in its defenseof the Americas Cup, We all remember thefurore of excitement that there was here,last season, when the cutter Genesta came,and the Cambria^ when she came for it,aroused quite as much interest, if notmore. The mosquitos at Sandy Hook fedon a small army of reporters for a weekbefore she arrived; and Mr. Ashburysmovements were chronicled in the dailypapers, as those of Sir Richard Suttons werelast summer ; and on the day of the race,. ,s86 YAWL WHITE WING. which was August 8, 1870, nearly all down-town business was suspended, and Broadand New streets were well nigh deserted,for all New York was upon the water ; andif at the Light-ship and the finish therewere not as many excursion steamers asthere were last summer, it was because in1870 there were not as many in this harboras now. The Cambria had to sail for the cup asthe America first sailed for it—against thewhole fleet. Mr. Ashbury protestedagainst this, claiming that the word match in the deed of gift meant a duelbetween two vessels only, and that the NewYork club was bound to put a single rep-resentative vessel against the Cambria;but the club, by a vote of 18 to i (onlyyacht owners can vote), decided that Original owners Wm, and John Jacob Astor, Shcpard inasmuch as the America was obliged to sailagainst the whole fleet in order to win thecup, so all subsequent competitors for
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