The San Francisco Call.

VOLUME IAXXVI-KO.128. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 18953. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SECOND CUP RACE RESULTS IN FAILURE, But Wireless Telegraphy Scores a Triumph Question of Supremacy of the By the Aiarcorf system Challenger and The Can ueFt flti Rivals Remains Undetermined, Behind J!"i sivths the Owing to the Scarcity of News and secured the Wind. "Scoop" oF the Century YORK, Oct. 5.-Given a little more time— a day or two—and with addition to the wonderful triumph of wireless telegraphy in reporting the ma; such -weather as was about to-day, the ami yet international yacht races, the world applauds the slap in the face the new a it, may at get the mark, which to-day make race of least around outer discovery ha? administered to yellow journalism. In this city the mask of NEW fake pretense torn jaundiced front of the Ex- breeze, listless, across the and false has been from the Fanned by a a waning zephyr, the yachts stood aminer, the leader on this coast In the ranks of the saffron hued; and, painful line with the starting gun, and then leisurely sauntering into a IN wink of the — as was the task, the grandmotherly visage of the ancient Chronicle was also and the zone of calm, whir for four hours and more until a signal was made exposed, by Call, which first harnessed ;ne new to blstanced the of The race was off—the challenger and defender lay in a trance with naught . do electrical current to progress, the very elderly but very And the car of journalistic but watch their own shadows in the tide rolling dreamily under foot. religious Chronicle contented itself with an unavailing effort to convey intelli- when at least the welcome signal came announcing that the race was off. there gence of the great international yacht race through the agency of Associated still stretched a good three milt-s of further drift between the yachts and the Pr< ss bulletins. It failed ignominiously, but it saved its honor. outer mark. The Examiner, equally up a stump, was true to Its policy of fake. fake, al- Of the two conclusions reached by those who followed this marine saunter- ways fake. True to its history of fake, it also blundered, this time, however, Ing drifting of the rival yachts, one is that when it comes to a plain case of as beyond all recovery. It was caught red-handed, but instead of sneaking off and was the case to-day, the Shamrock can drift as fast if not faster than the lying quiet until its faking was forgotten, it attempted to brazen it out. At Columbia. The other expert opinion is that the weather ought to be ashamed 11:80 o'clock, San Francisco time, it put out its first bulletin on the yacht race. of v- It read: "Columbia leads; wind twelve miles an hour." For more than an hour The pity of It, save for lack of wind, the day was perfect and warm, the The Call had been continuously posting bulletins on the event that was engag- skies high and blue and the sea all that could be asked. Brought by an excur- ing the attention of two worlds. For the next fifty minutes the Examiner did not sion fleet that seemed to have no end. a concourse of excursionists was there to post another bulletin. The Call, thanks to wireless telegraphy, still sending look a: this second fiasco of a yacht race. These looked upon It from magnifi- them forth. The Examiner was getting sore, and, yellow journal that it is, cent distances, the torpedo boats and revenue cutters keeping all craft well turned positively green with envy. In absolute jealousy at the coup of The away from the yachts and well clear of the course over which they were trying Call, it decided to take a petty revenge on Marconi. 3i"Xi miles away. It was so blinded with rage at the fact that he was in the service of a rival that it was Sir Thomas Lipton's steam yacht, the Erin, a guard boat by courtesy, was blinded to the great scientific value of his achievement. Instead of hailing him carried too near the course, and heedless of tooting whistles from the watchful as the greatest discovery of the century, itresolved to scoff, as the world once did revenue cutters; continued to drift athwart the path of the contesting yachts. Two at Galileo and Columbus. Inlieu of any other bulletin, it had the extremely bad of the cutters opened their whistles in a long, loud, lingering warning, one taste to post the following: that seemed to have something of an apology in it. for it was clear to all on- lookers that the Erin was not a willful sinner, but had been carried out of BY WiRELESS-Macaroni. line through inadvertence of some une temporarily, perhaps, in charge. No one realized that the noisy tooting was meant for the Erin until a gun boomed p. On. from the cutter Onondaga. The smoke of 12:20 m.--The Race Is the blank cartridge had hardly Marconi! Great Examiner! Great cleared away before the Erin pick up her heels and scurried back to the line What a magnificent revenge! Poor of gunboats, . seemingly full of apology for the error of which she had been heavens! Fifteen minutes later, having unloaded this gob of bile, the Examiner gave There was promise of a fresh forth another bulletin. It said the Columbia was seven-eighths of a mile in the wind when the yachts stood out for the starting from hasty lunch and was a little lire—a promise held out by Weather Bureau, which lead. The fake staff had evidently returned a the and the weather condi- distances. Marconi's bulletin of time said the Columbia was only an tions did not ser-m likelyto off on even fulfill eighth of a mile ahead. Of course, three-quarters of a mile difference made no .Over the lower bay lay bank of mist, silvery, gauzy vapor, that a a rendered difference, according to Examiner calculations, and so that there might be no indistinct objects half a mile away. The vapor as the hours wore thinned on. but kick coming to the adherents of either racer it immediately" posted another with the lifting of the curtain there was still no hint of the promised breeze, no the lead. suggestion that it bulletin that the "Shamrock is apparently in was traveling on schedule time. Examiner office, appears, "you pays your money and you takes your Singly ar.d by pairs, squadrons At the it and divisions the excursion fleet came up and Which'll you have?" gathered near the starting line. The choice. two racers were there circling abo . the was putting bulletins right along the" Examiner contented jade.i lightship, a vessel memory many "While The Call out ablaze with the of such yachting scenes. Itself with just three more until 2:25 p. m.. New York time, when it posted: Under staysail; club topsail and mainsail, the yachts went gliding over blue p. it said the •water, the "Boats are on home run. Columbia one mile ahead." At 2:45 m. their amber-tinted sails barely swelling to the languid breeze, the canvas had covered miles and .he Columbia had a good lead. The faker looking as squalid as ifit had yachts twenty been cut from out of that morning bank of mist or In chief, not content with this fast sailing, went himself one better. Five min- sliced ironi ilie silver wind. The wind, what little there was of it. came from the later, or, exact, at p. m., time, he posted a bulletin read- northwest, utes to be 2:45 NeW York and the course was laid southeast by east, a fifteen-mile run to lee- ing: '•Shamrock rapidly overhauling the Columbia— a few lengths apart." ward and a beat back to the linish, if,perchance, there be wind enough gain minutes. Whew, how the wind must have been blow- to should Half a mile In five waft the yachts over that route. through whiskers! Or. maybe, he was trying to make his gun ing the faker's onl^- A boomed from the yacht Corsair— the preparatory signal—and the yachts log jibe with the erratic wanderings of the mimic boats on the outer wall. edged toward the starting line, setting balloon as they neared It alleged bulletins equally dopy and contradictory were Jibs With the Half a dozen other • final signal the two yachts crept across the line, and very nearly abreast, the posted,, -probably to keep up appearances. \u25a0 !£***> Shamrock dropping her spinnaker boom to. port before crossing. York The posted a that, with the Shamrock spm^aiser and eettißir.ihe At 3:12. New time. Call bulletin immcCTiTeir after. The Columbia, which had The Wizard of Wireless Telegraphy. the stakeboat was still two miles away. One minute later the for* crossed the line with pointing higher, staysail showing in addition to her .nher canvas, took in that sail soon after posted a bulletin, time New York. 3:15 p. m., which read: "The two crossing, and stood Examiner down the wind, showing the same sail the Shamrock was racers are about six miles from finish. Shamrock seems to have gained a little." wearing, ior a space of live minutes or so the two yachts nothing else than that the boats were on the home- ne;ther kept well together That bulletin could mean losing, neither gaining. Then tne Columbia began to draw slowly he id' ward reach, racing for all they were worth. The management of The Call wired so slowly as to be hardly perceptible, but gradually she drew away by Marconi: "Examiner bulletin to the yachts have turned stakeboat and by little little' MESSAGE FLASHED effect that bit b:t. until at last daylight showed between the two. The tired wind are on the finish." In the briefest possible period the answer came back: and died In flukes droned and patches. But it was more impartial than the wind of bulletin fake. Yachts have not turned the stakeboat. iuesuay. and favored one yacht no more than it did the other Examiner Realizing that the indolent air was a breeze, MARCONI. ea true Columbia the narrow-waist- TO MAYOR PHELAN lierreshoff boat did her best to improve her opportunity and New York timf. the Examir.fr posted a bulletin saying, "Very broad-beamed to leave her At 3:17 P- m.. opponent far behind. But the Shamrock was not to be easily exciting finish probably." At 3:45 p. m.. New York time, the yachts swung around shaken persistent so off. and. as the Columbia's own shadow, the Irish hung for home, before they reached the outside mark, and The Call pub- on the yacht and headed flank of the American boat. The wind hauled a few points and, taking a to that effect, with the statement that the race was declared the spinnaker, the yachts in lished bulletin stood away on the broad reach, the Shamrock luffing off At 3:49 P- ni.. while the Examiner, apparently bewildered, was trying to discern ciose up. evidently trying to blanket the Columbia by running under through the haze. The Call posted the bulletin announcing "No race." lee. To prevent that vessel's tbe boats that the Columbia luffed also and then came a series of jockey- there wasn't. The Examiner was no nearer to the truth in any of its Ing, in which neither boat seemed to any And gain advantage. But the two loitering fake bulletins than were either of the yachts to the finish when the last bulletin along the course, came to a zone where the wind weakling died Into a breathless was posted. The Call had distanced it as it has done many times before. The calm. The rest was drifting, an aimless, steerage, wayless pointing ,',',,. early game, in one direc- j, \u0084;,; Chronicle threw up its withered hands in the and with the tion and then another. The sea pull drew the yachts together, and Press, news-gathering agency on earth, took off its looked for a time It ted once the greatest as though they would rub sides. Call and Marconi. Finally there came idlingby breeze, hat to The a lazy, listless a veritable Weary Willie For the benefit of such as wish to make the comparisons The Call submits of a wn.,i. it out the I bellied sails of the yachts, and the two headed down to number of the bulletins on the races received by this paper, and all of the taring mark, which then below a bore south by east, their Jockeying position by Examiner: having carried them right out for tho*e posted the of the straight course on Which they; had started consl erab 'y 3 °' THE CALL BULLETINS. ;? afttr clnck when that wind ca™c by; and "the mark was stilllu^three miles or more away. They had blowing at rate about six and unless breeze springs up the yachts cannot proceeded but a short distance a 10-40 a m.-Wlnd dis- within signal was made declaring that the race when miles an' hour from west, very flnky. Haze finish the time limit. was off. there not then being time In ssea Binooth. Va hi race will start 1:29 i>. m.—Shamrock set spinnaker. Columbia which it could possibly finished, time limit " \u25a0ii't%»rine straightaway followed suit seconds be the of five and a halflhoursours> haIla*-y ila m Hare willbe over course five later. Wind is right ing expired. windward and return Mtten mile* Betting aft. to In New York, 1:24 j.. m.— unable The two yachts were nearly In even money. even Shamrock to close gap. Ex- on even terms when the race was Fneland race; for cursion giving yachts plenty being then manifestly declared off it rnWy ito-day' s 5 to 3on Columbia craft of rwra. impossible to round, the mark and make the ori :o-boats doing pood service. run back to the i:, the fifteen-mile Se e Course clear finish little time that was left. io M m.—Preparatory gun fired. for two mile* side. S the a. under mainsail, 1:30 p. — scarcely g as wrinfl l the- steadily her 10:54 a in—Yachts jockeying m. Yachts making steerage ,v, . i *lre favorable for a race ing a cable's length It to his Honor that the message, like the bulletins of the race sent The considerably. Shamrock was to windward and near the outer southwest of the two than Tuesday morning. The lightship. signal Call, had been sent out on Hertzian waves, produced by the Marconi apparatus. These trav- 11:35 a. m.—Columbia now good. lengths mark. Both boats are now heading toward those of The course was imme- In better position. Long Island on starboard tack. \u25a0 diately hoisted. eled at speed until thty met the apparatus on the Xavesink Highlands to the same key. ar.d '..g-ht from Itreat It was southeast by attuned 11-4° a m.—Both yachts now about two and 2:40 p. m.—Columbia worked through Sham- east. the wind being very light As the word waves vibrated against this apparatus it was set vibrating key, starting in mo- knots Columbia's advantage thus far, rock's lee. taking the lead and going port . . unbia from the in a haff getting wind Into on by the tugs j opposite quarter, northwest by north. Un- tion a registering telegraph, the record rolling off on paper tape, from which it was sent San due largely to better luck tack. Shamrock also on port tack a moment der mainsail, club topsail h< Si b later. and Jam. k Lawrence i and jiband with Franciscoward by Telegraph Company. Columbia four lengths in tead. p. tack balloon jibtopsails instanter the Western Union U-50 a "m.— 3:05 m.—Shamrock on starboard was lr moorings In Sandy and staysails in tops "It's marvelous," said the Mayor; "nothing short of marvelous. Ican hardly believe it Wind freshenir.g somewhat. Both crews are about to cross Columbia's how. when Colum- I on the respective stays, the two yachts mussed on quarters. bia came about on the starboard tack Sham- ' yet, although here is in my Only two and one half knots sali- rock drew up a'tngside and passed. played for places for a good during the evidence hands." 11:14 a. m.— Columbia latins start And the Mayor message again. to acknowledge In one hour. being a short distance to windward. lIIs on the the interval between the read the He wanted know how he should ed jib drawing well, bo Is ! preparatory and Mnyor Pheian Ncon-Columbla's 2.1U p. ni.—Shamrock retains windward \u25a0 Bigcalg. compliment. has staysail Btarting The was given the a Columbia balloon tion, although very close together. former hamrock'" hers in Mop*. Columbia has Both fly- "Will The Call send a message for He was would, sat at once to set has ing special 2 jib topsail. me?" he asked. assured it and he down Shamrock slightly In consequence OI shKt No. Ct from her tU| Skippera Barr and Hogarth write a reply, was stopped by suggestion message Saturday increased l<*ad 3:12 p. ni.—Shamrock seems pointing higher. made the when he the that it would be better to send the dur- wind. Yachts heading easterly. Sta.keb.iat two miles away. of what wind of yachts taking in spinnakers. about Boats can- minutes . best Little they had | ing the progress of the yacht race, there was a certainty Sigrnor at sea on jo.j0 p m —Both n"t possibly finish in time limit. their boats 1 turning when that Marconi would be the Ponce. taking in staysails. Both now imbia changed t lub i capacity in the light Mayor in this promised message Saturday Columbia balloon p. m.—Shamrock ccmes about on port Five The fell with idea at once and to prepare a morning for transmission to mainsail top, club topsails, balloon jib 3:15 :-iar