. History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884. their respectiveowners. They crossed the Atlantic in the race. The Henrietta wasthe winner, making Bennett famous in two hemispheres. Prophets ofevil had predicted that these comparatively tiny craft would go to thebottom of the sea instead of sailing to the coast of England. Mr. Bennett was beaten in a similar race in 1870. His vessel wasthe Dav/nUess, and his competitor was Mr. Ashbury, of the RoyalLondon Club. Mr. Bennett, for certain reasons, took t
. History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884. their respectiveowners. They crossed the Atlantic in the race. The Henrietta wasthe winner, making Bennett famous in two hemispheres. Prophets ofevil had predicted that these comparatively tiny craft would go to thebottom of the sea instead of sailing to the coast of England. Mr. Bennett was beaten in a similar race in 1870. His vessel wasthe Dav/nUess, and his competitor was Mr. Ashbury, of the RoyalLondon Club. Mr. Bennett, for certain reasons, took the longer route,and outsailed his competitor by several hundred miles, it is said, butMr. Ashbury first passed the stake-boat and Avon the race. At onetime the racers Avere three hundred miles apart. The association became possessor of a handsome club-house atClifton, Staten Island, in 1868, where it has a restaurant and billiard-room. The New York Yacht Club is the pioneer of yachting in America,and nearly all, if not all, the notable achieArements of American yachtshaAre been performed under its auspices and by the yachts of the SECOND DECADE, 1840 1850. 59? In 1S55 Commodore Stevens resigned because of ill-health, old age, andthe wear of service for more than half a century. So early as 1802 he•\vas the builder, captain, cook, and all hands of the little yachtDiver J he ended as commodore of a fleet whose flagship, the Maria,carried her pennant one hundred and fifty feet above the surface of thesea. The number of members of the New York Yacht Club since itsorganization is about 1S0O, and the list of members in 1888 numbered350. The fleet numbers about 130 vessels, steam and sail.* Quite different has been the history of the other famous club, theAjcebictjs, It was organized in 1849 for a purpose similar to that ofthe New York Yacht Club. It finally became more of a social, con-vivial, and political club, swaying, at one time, vast influence in thepolitics of the cit
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