Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 1 was a master builder, constructing and The boats were all sailed by their sailing many vessels, commanding respective owners, and the prizes were Published Articles several at different times. Capt. Henry awarded by Henry L Butler and John Harris was also a prominent merchant Haff, the appointed judges, as follows: of and sloop captain as well, and for nearly Early Sailing fifty years lived in Sing Sing, Latterly a Hester Ann, first prize …………..$22.50 popular Justice of the Peace. The sloops Nameless, second prize……….. …16.00 at Bolivar, Favorite, Paris, Providence, Eliza, third prize………………….. .9.00 Return, and others, would each have Swallow, fourth prize…………….. .8.50 Quaker, fifth prize …………………8.00 Ossining, NY. their place at the dock, and on Tuesdays Imp, sixth prize……………….……7.50 ~ and Saturdays, the scene was a busy ------o------one. Throngs of farmers with their teams would crowd all about, and the 09.16.1858 1836 funny old lumbering market wagons, Postponement. The Regatta of the Sing with their long white canvas tops Sing Yacht Club, which was to have The Republican puckered round over the front, would taken place today, has been postponed 08.10.1886 rattle through Main street down the until Saturday next, in consequence of by Roscoe Edgett steep hill to the wharf to deposit their the severe storm. The names of the Sing Sing Fifty Years Ago. Means of load of butter, cheese and the like. One boats to be entered for the race are the transportation were simple, few and of these marketmen, Mr. Bangs, is well Hester Ann, Louisa, Hattie, Swallow, slow, a half century since. Private remembered for his obliging ways, Imp, Eliza, Quaker and Eagle. They conveyances were commonly used, the doing little errands at the village for the leave the Dock from this place, proceed traveling public taking sloops or women along this route, purchasing tea, to Tarrytown Point, cross to Nyack, and steamboats in summer and stages in spices, indigo, drygoods of various then back to their starting place. A rich winter. Of the steamboats the Gen. sorts, in small quantities or large, and time is anticipated and as usual, the Jackson seems to have been the earliest, executing an amazing number of these different boats have their friends, and beginning to run in 1828 or 1829, and commissions at each trip. The produce bets are made as to the winning boat. having carriages arranged to take of the region was brought very regularly ------o------passengers from their landing to inland to the sloops… towns. The “Danbury Stage” also ------o------connected with her. This was but little 1859 more than twenty years after Fitch made 1858 his first trial trip with his steamboat on Ossining Chronicle the waters of the Hudson. Soon, other Sept. 1859 Democratic Register lines were established, and we had By George Jackson Fisher, MD. 07.30.1895 successively, or sometimes in Sing Sing Yachting in ’58 It may not competition with each other, the John Shipping Village Felt Ugly Scar of be uninteresting to our readers to give a Jay, Union, Water Witch, Columbus, River Tragedy in Faulty Boat. glance back occasionally to time long Telegraph, etc. These stopped at all the (Fortieth in a series on the origin and ago. On the first day of September, river villages, making gradual changes early history of Ossining). 1858, thirty–seven years ago, the first in the business and habits of the people. annual regatta of the Sing Sing Yacht A ferry was also in operation for some River Transportation- The first vessel Club1 took place. The route was from years between Sing Sing and (Slauter’s) which was sailed from Sing Sing was a the lower dock around the flat boat, 3 or Van Palin’s Land, opposite. Its fare small two masted periauger , owned by stationed between Teller’s Point and looks a little exorbitant now, viz: Captain Hagstaff. Sneeden’s and thence opposite the

residence of Col. Webb, and thence to Foot Passage………………….. 18 cents He was a resident of this place and the starting point. The boats entered for Wagon – 2 horses……………… 75 “ 2 landed his boat in the Kill Brook, as we Wagon – 1 horse………………. 50 “ the prizes were the Hester Ann , owned are told, about as far up as the present Cart or Sled – 2 horses………… 75 “ by Nicholas Nearhof of the Point; location of the gas works. He is said to Cart and horse…………………. 37 “ Nameless, by Stephen T Kipp; Eliza by have carried on his business as far back DeWitt C Beardsley; Swallow, by Wm. as the Revolutionary period and The sloops, however, formed an Sniffin; Quaker by Joseph J Leggett; probably even earlier. important factor in the business of the Imp, Willie Brandreth; Louisa by Wm. village, among whose residents quite a Lyon; and Hattie, by James L Wheeler. little fleet of them was owned and managed. Capt. Isaac Smith, a man still 1An ante-bellum boat club that preceded 3 A term applied on the North River to remembered not less for his sterling the Sing Sing Yacht Club, which was vessels with two masts but without integrity and business ability than for founded thirty years later. bowsprit or headsail. They were his stalwart frame and genial bearing, 2Raced Comet 1861. generally small. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 2

It may seem strange to most persons at From 1812 to 1832 a considerable Bedford and even portions of Putnam this time that Captain Hagstaff could number of steamboats ran from New County, a distance of thirty miles, was have landed his vessel so far up the York to Sing Sing and places above. shipped to New York City from this brook, but it does not to the writer and Among these were the “Mountain port, and the supplies of groceries and many older residents, who have Mouse”, the “Ariel”, the “General merchandise received through the same observed the gradual filling up of our Jackson”, the “Cinderella”, the “Water channels. river boarders within quite recent times. Witch” and the “Westchester”. The lower dock was known in the early Captain Haff, of Scarborough, built and The numerous railroads which days of Sing Sing as the Farmers’ Dock. ran a horse ferry-boat from Sing Sing to traversed our county, and the increase of Then the river border came up to the Rockland and Haverstraw over sixty population and growth of villages which present line of Water Street, and in years ago. have furnished a home market for farm some places still farther inland. products, has resulted in an almost Between these lines and the present Market Sloops. A succession of entire destruction of river transportation. river margin the ground had been made market sloops have done the traffic of by filling in, and by the accumulation of this vicinity since 1839, at which time Seven Killed in Explosion. The fluvial deposits. the “General Washington” was run by saddest of all the incidents connected Captain Isaac Woolsey, and the with our river navigation was the Ran “Passenger Packet”. Captain “Amelia” by Captain Solomon Acker. explosion of the passenger steamboat Hagstaff has had many successors. One About the same time Captain William “Magenta”, which occurred March 23, of the earliest was Captain Stephen Buckhout ran the “Volunteer” four 1878. This ill-fated vessel had just left Lyon, who ran a “passenger packet” years. the dock at Sing Sing, and had scarcely between Sing Sing and New York as far reached the prison when an explosion back as 1812. He landed at his own Captain Isaac C Smith sailed the took place that resulted in the death of “Lyons Dock”, now the “Middle Dock”. “Volunteer” for twenty-three years. seven persons. James Delaney, in 1817, was sailing the Captain J W Jenks began his packet “Victory”. In 1819 he was transportation business in 1837 or 1838, The coroner’s inquest brought out the succeeded in command by Captain with the market sloop “Fannie”. He disgraceful fact that the steam boilers Richard T. Mattocks. In 1836 or ’37 afterwards ran the sloop “Sea Gull” and were so far worn out that their thickness Captain Peter B Lynch ran a sloop, the the propeller “Ora”. He died in 1862, at the point of bursting was only one- “Charles Lynch” named after his son. and was succeeded by his three sons, sixteenth of an inch (!), and yet she About the year 1845 he bought the who have kept up a propeller line to the carried a recent certificate of a steamboat “Croton”, which he ran in present time, having owned the government boiler examiner, to assure place of his sloop. This was a sluggish “Eureka” and the “Leader”, until her passengers that she was safe and craft and soon ended its career. succeeded by the “Sara Jenks”. sound. From all such officials as this examiner may the good Lord deliver us. The transportation business was about equally divided between Sparta and Among those largely interested in the Sing Sing near the year 1820, at which dock and river front business of Sing time Captain Stephen Order and Captain Sing is Mr. S Ferris Washburn, who was John Leggett sailed sloops from Sparta. born in the town of Newcastle, Westchester County, to which place his Changed Sailing Place. Through some grandfather, John Washburn, is said to difference in the rental of docks, have removed from Jamaica, Long Captain Leggett changed his sailing Island, just before the Revolution. place to Sing Sing, and this little circumstance turned the tide of business Opened Grocery Store. His father, to the latter place. This is not the only Solomon Washburn, was a farmer and example which history furnishes a the early life of Mr. Washburn was narrow and short-sighted policy, spent with his parents on the farm, and resulting in the ruin of one town and the his education was obtained at the village building up of another. school. In 1849 he left home to enter into business on his own account, and The river-transportation of a half- came to Sing Sing, where he opened a century ago was vastly more important grocery store, and carried on the than it is at present. That was before the business till 1853, when he purchased days of railroads. Then the produce of the lumber yard and dock property the entire agricultural district extending formerly owned and occupied by to the Connecticut State line including Thomas Bailey, and taking Mr. Secor as the towns of North and South Salem, a partner, began an extensive business.

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In 1856 they purchased the whole of Captain Smith was a famous steamboat much pleasure and Canada travel took the river front property known as the builder. But the most distinguished that route. Farmers’ Dock, which they greatly ship-builder who ever resided in Sing enlarged and improved, and established Sing was the late Thomas Collyer, In the year 1844 he removed to New the coal business which has since been whose remains repose in a fine stone York, and in company with his brother, carried on with great success in vault in Dale Cemetery. William, commence business, which connection with the lumber yard. was considered at that time rather a bold Sketch is Published. Mr. Collyer was and hazardous undertaking for men so In 1878 the north part of the dock so celebrated in his profession that I young to enter in competition with such property was sold to Jinks Brothers, as have inserted the following sketch of his old established builders as Jabez the firm did not require so extensive a labors, prepared by his kinsman James T Williams, Brown & Bell and other well river front, their remaining wharf having Collyer, and recently published in the known firms; but untiring industry been enlarged sufficiently to Chronicle. It can but prove interested to combined with skill soon brought them accommodate their business. our citizen, by many of whom he was orders for work. well know. Mr. Washburn married, in 1858, Maria, Built Several Vessels. They built daughter of Reuben Kip of Somers, Thomas Collyer was born in the village several vessels; among the number were Their Children are Florence C, (wife of of Sing Sing in the year 1818, and in the steamers “Santa Claus” and Edwin L Todd), Helen and Louis F. early boyhood showed great fondness “Niagara”, which at that time attracted for boats and employed his leisure in much notice. The brothers continued Active Presbyterian. Mr. Washburn carving them out, which even then gave together on the year 1847, when they has ever declined taking any active part evidence of genius in that line. dissolved partnership and Thomas once in politics devoting his time and more commenced on this own account. attention almost exclusively to his At the early age of fourteen years he His reputation had become so well business. For many years he has been commenced working for his brother, established that orders began to come in one of the trustees of the Presbyterian William, who died some time ago. His rapidly which kept him fully employed Church of Sing Sing, with which his brother at that time had a ship yard in in building vessels of all descriptions. family is connected. this village and built several sloops and also showed much skill in that line, About this time he built the steamer The firm of Secor & Washburn are now having modeled and built a sloop when “Armenia”, which was admitted by doing a business which is very extensive only nineteen years old, which was steamboat men to be a great success and and supply the large local demand of the named “First Effort”. In early times this at great advance in point of speed; even surrounding country. place was made quite famous as a place now she has few superiors and still ------o------for boat building. continues a favorite with the traveling public. Ossining Chronicle Extensive Ship-Building Business. 9.28.1859 Moses Stanton was quite celebrated in About 1852 he built a steamer named By George Jackson Fisher, MD his day in that line and carried on an “Confucius”, modeled after our river extensive business in building sloops, steamers, to run on the China rivers. Collyer Built the First Steamer Every schooners and larger vessel for the This was the first steamboat ever built in Used in China River Trade. (Forty- coasting and West India trade. Thomas, this country for that trade, which First and Final Chapter in after working a few years with his provided a perfect success, being much This series on the origin and early story brother, commenced modeling and faster and better adopted for that of Ossining). building vessels on his own account at business than those in use which had this place; among the first was the sloop been built in England. Thomas Collyer and Ship-Building in “Katrina Van Tassel”, which was Sing Sing. Fifty years ago, and since launched in the year 1838; this was More Orders Received. Soon more that time, Sing Sing numbered among followed by one or two others, when he orders were received for other boats to its most important industries ship- removed to West Troy, where he built be used in the same trade. His business building, or more correctly speaking, quite a number of vessels of different having now become very extensive, he sloop and schooner building. kinds and his first steamboat, which was was kept fully employed in modeling named the “Trojan”, and he soon after and constructing steamships, barks, and Captain Moses Stanton had a “ship- built steamers to run on Lake clipper ships and among the latter was yard” here, and in 1855-56 Captain Champlain, two of which were named the celebrated clipper “Panama” which Isaac Smith also had one at the upper the “Francis Saltus” and “America”, is said to have made the quickest trip dock. The latter built a very beautiful which added much to his reputation as a from Shanghai to New York ever made brig, which was launched in 1856, if I builder, as they were considered fine by any sailing vessel to that time. remember correctly. models, combined with great speed, and in that day were well patronized, as Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 4

Among the last steamboats built by him of the normal boat of the day was nearly many puzzled faces and many questions was the “Daniel Drew”, which he built as much forward as aft, and a deep skeg were asked. “Well, that ‘ere stern looks and ran on his own account, and is was put on to make the steering kind’o humbly, but you know what you admitted to be one of the handsomest possible, and frequently a false stern want. I s’pose!”. The construction was models and fastest boats now running, post was added to assist the effect of the decidedly heavy, and many questions and is great favorite on the Hudson. skeg. were asked about this departure from the known successful practice. One The “Drew” was specially chartered to The builder of Comet in his earlier days man who had built real yachts put forth convey the Prince of Wales and suite had made many sailing models and the verdict that she would not steer, and from West Point to Albany, and while sailed them in races and found out when asked why not, “why, she ain’t got on the passage she called forth the something about steering and what was no skeg”. “But the keel is all cut away warmest praise from the Duke of New required to obtain the best results. forward, is it not?” ”That don’t make Castle and others of their suite, as being Comet was put in frame by the eye; but no difference,” said the hard-handed nearer perfection in point of speed and many sketches had been made to get at man of practice, as he spat with elegance of design than any boat they the shape of the midsection and stern. contempt, wiped his mouth on the back ever saw, which is an admission seldom The keel was bent to a curve of about 7 of his hand and went away. made by Englishmen in any department inches, and the tuck of the stern was of mechanism; and after their return to intended to be about 3 inches below the Time went on, and the boat was tried. England they spoke in such high terms water, while the bow was not to draw She had a small sail and went like a of our river steamers that a celebrated more than 6 inches. skate over the waters, and came about builder made a special request of Mr. like a rabbit. She appeared to go very Collyer to furnish him with her draft, The method of setting up a boat at that fast; new boats generally do when they which he very politely declined doing. time was to set up a keel on the stocks, are alone; but what puzzled the builder with the centerboard trunk partially was that she made no fuss going through Prince Napoleon a Guest. Prince built, with mortises to take the heels of the water, and steered so easy that there Napoleon and suite several times took frames and the spacing of frames “was no feel to her’” as an expert passage on the “Daniel Drew”, marked on the keel. The stem was remarked. After she had been in the expressing their admiration very warmly straight, or nearly so, and the stern was water a week, and had swelled up, and of her and sent Mr. Collyer a very moulded by the eye. The next step was was as rough as boats built of cedar are complimentary and flattering letter as to set up a pair of frames made to suit in that period, it was the intention to the builder of such a boat. the eye, and then run ribbands and have a trial with a well-known racer that The flowing brief summary shows in frame the boat up. The whole form was had just sailed a race, and was part the number and classes of vessel purely eye work, and the element of resplendent with blacklead4 and sailed built by him while he was in business: chance entered largely into the result. by a man noted for his skill and manned Three sloops, twenty-six barges, four In this way Comet was built. by a crew that knew every trick she had. propellers, twelve schooners, three When Comet came to the dock of the barks, two ships, five steamships, thirty- The winning boats of that date had the club where the other boat belonged, seven steamboats and two yachts. stern well cut away, so that when the under the charge of the owner alone, the ------o------boat was afloat the tuck was well out of next thing was to get a crew. Some the water in order to leave the water fellows were picked up and got on 1861 cleanly. The reason for this form of board, and both boats filled away. The stern was that the boat steered better steersman of Comet said, “Pile up the The Rudder 5 Vol. 17 (1906) when well down by the stern. It had bags ”, and the crew said “Which side?” by A. Cary Smith never occurred to the builders to cut “High side”, was the reply. Comet at away the bow, and for this reason the once began to show to the front and Small Yacht Racing in 1861. The form of the Comet’s keel was ridiculed, tacked on the weather of the other boat. sailboat Comet was built in 1860 and for it was believed at that time a good After a few tacks Comet was well to the was very different in type from the boats forefoot held a boat to windward. This windward, and the other boat kept off of that time. The boats at that date were belief has only been lately proven to be for home. Off fell the comet, and up plumb at bow and stern, the a false one; even now there are went the board, and before the dock was measurement was length only, and the supporters of this fallacy among purely reached she had nearly caught the other intention was to get as large a boat for practical men, but this type of men boat. The man who sailed the other boat the length as possible. The popular boat rarely think much. confessed, years afterwards, that he was a light clinch-work craft, planked never was so surprised in his life; as he on moulds and the frames bent in after When Comet was in frame and the left the boat he said to the crew, “Did wales on, so that the shape could be the boat was planked. This, of course, seen, the “perfesh” came in great made a very light hull; in fact, lightness 4 Pot lead, a mixture of graphite and numbers; and while no clearly expressed of construction was then considered as linseed oil applied to the hull for speed. criticisms were made, there were a great vital to speed as it is now. The draught 5 Sand bags for moveable ballast Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 5 you cut that piece of wood adrift?” in off Hoboken just below the ferry. The for the rain to cease, and incidentally to order to make the bystanders think that wily “Clacker” went up to spy out the swap a few stories about the prowess of he had played a trick on Comet. land and came back full of chuckles, the respective boats. When the rain was and advised the owner of Comet to shift over, the trial was made. The sails were The fame of Comet went up like a her mast aft, and put a sloop rig on her, drawn up with great rejoicing, which rocket, and the general remark was, and make a match with the guileless was voiced as follows: “We have been “Well, I don’t see why that boat sails; resident of what is now called Ossining. waiting to give him a lesson, and now there hain’t nothing to make her sail; The owner of Comet at once made a he’s got it: that boat can’t go none”. The she’s too heavy; she hain’t got no shape. new mast hole marked with a piece of home-coming of Comet was a sad one; Look at that stern, more like a barrel chalk. He had been taught to make but the man at the stick was at work head than a stern, and she hain’t go no plans on a sheet of sandpaper with a with his thinking tank, and decided to sail, neither; an’, besides, what does that carpenter’s pencil; but beside this, he carry out an axiom of the late Bob Fish, young boy know about sailing a boat?” had a quarter’s lesson in draughting “The more sail a boat has, the more Similar remarks had been made about from a noted man, Mr. W W Bates, board she wants”. Amorita and Elmina, by well-known whom the author takes this opportunity designers, “dock log critics,” now the to thank for starting him on the thorny The next day the board was taken out “rocking chair fleet”. She was fast, but path of design. Also, a kind friend who and some pieces bolted on, the iron no one could tell why. made sails in Coenties Slip, by the name taken off and planed to a sharp edge, the Hathaway, who taught him the art of board shellaced and rehung. In the Some time after this there was a rumor making sails. meantime, the mainsail was taken to the that there was a very fast boat up at Sing sailmaker, “the nigger heel” cut off, two Sing, built by a “Genius”, who had Well, he went to work and cut the step, cloths put on the leech and a new boom never learned the trade. This boat and made a new bowsprit and fitted it, and gaff made and shipped, and Comet rejoiced in the euphonious nomenclature and had a new jib made, and went out was smoothed up and another meeting of Hester Ann, and there were men up and tried the boat. One peculiarity was was arranged. There was also an there who would back their opinion. that she steered so easily that, when outrigger put on aft to trim the main There was a man from Hoboken who there was a sea on, it was hard to keep sheet. When the meeting with the was playfully called the “Clacker”. her straight; but she appeared to go fast, catboat came off, strangely enough, Now, the “Clacker” had been brought and one day, by appointment, Comet Comet sailed through her lee with great up on the Hudson River, and was a good was taken to meet a noted catboat. Just ease, and it was decided to go to Sing jib sheet tender, and had been an officer after the boats met a bad shower came Sing and defy the “Hester Ann”. on the old Maria, which at that time laid up and both crews went ashore to wait

As Comet neared the dock at Sing Sing, reviled the “Yorkers” as follows: the natives was “for the New York boat she luffed up and sail was taken in, and “Come here with a boat lookin’ like to start five minutes ahead, then there she drifted the rest of the way, so that no that? Hey, Zeke!” spit, wipe mouth, would be a fair show and no gougin’.” one could see how she moved. The with back of hand, while a smile that The Yorkers proposed York ways: toss board was not hauled up all the way for spoke volumes lit up the bucolic for choice, and the winner start from the the same reason. She had been painted countenance. Comet’s crew took this in windward position. This was a once lead color with a green bottom, and then good part, while the young owner was rated down as unfair. Then followed a deep red all over. These coats of paint learning all the time and kept his own some drinks and talk, the steersman of showed through in places and gave the counsel. In fact, the whole crowed Comet taking none of them, a man of general effect of a very rough boat. The looked as much like lambs as possible. displacement representing him in the guileless natives6 looked at her, and wrangle. Finally, the boats were taken After a long wrangle, the race was to a sloop, and just as the time was

arranged. The scheme put forward by called, a jealous retainer of “Hester 6 i.e. The local Sing Sing sailors Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 6 Ann” grabbed the jib sheet of Comet to limed the sails, and the lime had drawn The steersman took a death grip with his pull her in closer to the sloop. Comet them up through the center, and she did left hand on the coaming and hung filled of at once, and the retainer let go not move well. On the way down outside the boat, while he steered with the sheet to avoid going overboard, and Comet spun out a lead of nearly three the right. The mainsheet man, tough old away went Comet; both boats were miles, when the wind left her. Away in Bus Morrill, lay out overboard, and held called back, and Comet at once the distance could be seen Hester Ann the sheet in his hands, no cleats this returned. Hester Ann refused to come coming down before it with a “bone in time. The Clacker forward lay out to back, and sailed the course over and her teeth”, and she carried the wind windward with one leg overboard, and claimed the stakes. This financial stroke nearly to Comet so that the latter turned held the end of the lee sheet in his of genius was a once vetoed by their the lower mark only a short distance hands. Now was the crucial moment. own judge, and it was decided to resail ahead, but as soon as the boats were on To get the sheets in enough and not the race. the wind Comet took command again, upset the boat. Bang! Came the first After the fiasco, as a day had been lost, and obtained a good lead and kept blast, blowing the mainsail out against and everyone wanted to go home, the between Hester Ann and the mark at the shroud, while the jib fluttered like a son of the Superintendent of the Prison every tack. At last the wind failed bird in a cage. She started ahead like came to the owner of Comet and offered entirely. Comet came to a dead stop; something alive; in came the sheets inch him and Comet the hospitality of the Hester Ann seemed to hold the light air, by inch, while the boat was kept just yard. This liberal offer was at once though the fly would be seen hanging going; the luff of the sails shook and accepted, and Comet was taken to the limp and motionless. fluttered; then we had it up and down. gray prison and at once hauled out by a Hear the Clacker talk to himself as he crowd of men, too glad of a break in the As one of the rules was worded so that flowed and trimmed the jib. “Ah! You routine. A grim-looking guard with a men or ballast could be taken out, we thought you had me that time, didn’t rifle on his shoulder assured the Comet hailed a boat near and let two men out, you, eh? Well, I only took as much as I people that she would be safe there, and leaving three in the boat, and emptied want that time”. Meanwhile Gus looked the son of the Superintendent said that the sand out of the bags. Hester Ann astern and yelled in the steersman’s ear the crew could come up the day before slowly came up until she was near “Go it, Cap, we got ‘em; but don’t be the race and the boat would be all ready. enough to see what was done on board, too brash’ we ain’t there yit.” The Cap The owner of Comet was given the and then stopped7. Pies are much just kept her shaking along, and both jib freedom to come and go at will, a sought after for food during races, and and mainsail were worked as only men permission that would be appreciated by the tin plates have been known to be can work who are wrapped up in the some of the inmates. used to propel a boat, but if you are near sport, with grim set faces and eyes that they can not be utilized. While we lay glared with the joy of battle, and each The day before the race we went back, idly waiting for the wind to come, we one felt that sublime faith in the other and there was a crowd of “trusties”, old saw the clouds across the river making that only comes to men at such sailor fellows, who swore allegiance to up for a squall. And what would we do moments. the boat with much expectoration and with three men in an 18-foot boat with profanity. One gentleman voiced the racing sails on. But not much thought At last we begin to see the dock as in a feeling of the “partners of his toil” by was given to this side of it, and dream; there is no time to look. Now saying, “I’d rather stay here another arrangements were soon made. The the wind is more steady and we give her year than see you beat, sir”. Nothing “Clacker” knew all about the river, and a better full, down she goes, and out could be added to that remark, and the we overhauled the sheets clear off to the flies the jib, to be trimmed down at young owner thanked the “doers of shroud and coiled up the halyards, and once, while Morrill lets a bit of time”. Some of the people worked and then waited. The mainsheet man was a mainsheet go and then jerks it in again. acted as if they would like to go in the powerful fellow, no less than the captain Now we get a wink of a look and see the boat, but the man with the rifle cast a of Maria, he had been brought up in dock and a mass of people on it. As we damper on such thoughts. When the sloops on the river, and had come range up, not a sound is heard, but the word was given, the boat was picked up because he could not stay at home. He screaming of the wind and the boiling of like a toy and set in the water as if she had a hand like a ham and a grip like a the water under the bow. The sails were made of glass, and she sailed away vise. The steersman of Comet had not flutter in the puffs and the spray flies in followed by longing eyes. Truly, much experience, but he and Comet sheets across the boat. We range by the Shakespeare tells us: “One touch of seemed to be one, and he had many dock, and after we had gone well by Nature makes the whole world kin.” times thought out what he would do in a heard a voice fairly scream, “Gone in”, Even the grim man with the rifle relaxed tight pinch, and now was a chance to followed by a roar of voices, shrill for a moment and wished us luck. show these men, old enough to be his screams of triumph, for there were men father, what he was made of and how he that backed Comet with big wads of This time the race was started, and longed for the fight to begin. money. Up in the wind went the boat Comet at once took the lead, and turned and down went the mainsail; it was no the first mark far in advance. The first small job, either to get it in, round she mark was up the river, and then back to 7 spun, and down went the jib. A perfect Apparently, the crew of Hester Ann the dock. One trouble with Hester Ann Babel greeted us at the dock. Shrill stopped using the pie tins to illegally was that to make her look nice they had cries of “I win fifty dollars”. “I win a paddle her forward. Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 7 hundred dollars”, “I win a dollar”, working at something. The writer has be pronounced odd by the “Three cheers for the Comet”. Willing since that day sailed with tough men Herreshoffised taste of the present day. hands fended off when we touched the from the foot of Jackson Street, East, From twenty to forty of them were to be dock, and what a slap on the shoulder but for a slick job would favor guileless seen in almost every regatta hereabout. the “stick” man got from Morrill; it inhabitants of Sing Sing. Big money prizes, amounting on some nearly knocked him down. Clacker was occasions to $1500 were offered for beside himself. Then up came the other Comet carried nearly twice the ballast of their attraction and extraordinary boat; they had kept the men in and the other boats of her size, and always regattas were held year in and year out hoped to see Comet upset, but their wish beat other boats when laid down as far on the lower bay, on the Sound about was not to be gratified; Comet could lay as the coaming. In a race, when a bad New Rochelle, and at Newberg on the down flatter and go faster than any boat flaw would strike her, she would heel Hudson. The New York was the only of her day. more than the other boats; but during the club that did not openly encourage them Then there was pandemonium. It was puffs she would go much faster than the but many of its members, some notable then the custom to beat the man who rest, and when the wind was moderated ones, too, owned and raced them under sailed the boat with felt hats and the they would all be alike. Fifteen years the burgees of other clubs. For way they were laid on was worse than after Comet was built a close example, William Edgar, the second the squall. But Byron’s line was measurement of her was made, and a commodore of the New York Yacht verified, “Men may lead the worst by 24-foot boat called Meteor was built for Club, owned the Eleanor for years and ever striving to be first” and it must be the late Cornelius Roosevelt. She sailed raced her persistently at New Rochelle. said that those rough men treated the in a race at Oyster Bay and won by a The Iselins also did not hold themselves winner as if he were a king. A man who large margin. Meteor held her ground too high for the sandbagger. Several could build such a boat and then sail her against all comers for nearly ten years. were owned in the family, and C Oliver could ask for anything he wanted. After This shows how much improvement had of cup-defense fame, not only learned a while, when the fun was past, and been made by builders in that length of the alphabet of sailing from them, but there was talk of another match a man time. The remarkable peculiarity of also first came into yachting notice as a came up behind the owner of Comet and Comet was her instability while at rest. sandbag racer. put a big roll of bills in his hand with a The writer has seen a man step on the whisper “Don’t let 'em back you down”; coaming from another boat, when the Although the sandbagger has the man had never seen him before. boat had her sand ballast in, and heel her disappeared from the racing lists it has down until the water was up to the not altogether gone out of existence. I The next morning we sailed away with coaming; and yet, when at speed, she know that one member of the family, about all the loose money in Sing Sing, was a wonderfully stable boat, and all the Walter F Davids, long a well known and the son of the Superintendent of the you had to do was to hold and keep her New Rochelle racer is, under cat rig, Prison, Mr. Beardsley, lent us a long full; she would do the rest. The writer still afloat and doing duty as a fisherman whip, which we carried from the peak. has designed many a boat since, of all on Barnegat Bay. In evidence of their The clacker remarked as he looked up at kinds and descriptions, but is frank staunchness notwithstanding her age, I it “What a long tail our cat has”. As we enough to say that he never built another can testify to having ridden out in her, passed the next town we were greeted Comet. This seems a sad reflection, but about four years ago, one of the worst with loud yells and hails of “Come nevertheless it is true. There are so three days’ gale every known on this ashore”: of course, we had to go. Were many things that make a boat sail fast, coast. Several of the most successful not these men “Comet Rooters”? and so few people who know what they racers were sold South after the Everything eatable and drinkable was are, that the mystery of a boat is still far popularity of the type began to wane force on us, and we left for home loaded away. Even boats built from the same here, and no doubt others with changed down with good wishes. moulds do not perform alike. rig are still in service as pleasure boats ------o------along the coast. Years after, as the owner of Comet was walking about the lawn, a tall fellow The Rudder came to the fence and peered anxiously Vol. 17 No 3 (1906) in and at last said, “Say! Did you ever By William E Simmons own the Comet?” The reply was The Sandbagger The sandbagger is favorable, and the big fist was thrust out now only a memory but it is a memory with “I was the boy who took the men full of excitement and not without off the Comet at that Sing Sing race. I instruction. The day of the sandbagger am glad to see you, sir.” He went away was long and crowded with incident. in great glee and no doubt spun a yarn While not well defined in limits, it when he went home. It is sad to relate, covered a period of at least thirty-five but a policeman who had been on duty years, beginning with 1850 and ending at Sing Sing told the owner of the with 1885. It reached its fullness in the Comet that he stood on the parapet and seventies. Then the waters about New saw the men on Hester Ann paddle with York swarmed with craft that no doubt something, could see their hands seemed beautiful at the time but would Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 8 I have referred to the seaworthiness of the boat went about the sandbags and then called Saltersville, afterwards the Davids after 35 years of hard the crew were shifted, which involved Pamrapo, now a part of Bayonne. service. Nearly all of the sandbaggers some lively hustling. When quick work McGieghan soon became known were strongly built. It was essential to was not done some sandbags went over throughout the country as a builder of build them strong because of the great board, not infrequently a man or two, extraordinarily fast boats and, in a sail-spread they carried, and properly and sometimes also, all hands and the limited way, achieved an international handled they were able to live through skipper. reputation, for his models were copied almost any weather. Yet they were not in Canada. The most uniformly a safe type of boat, since, depending for successful boat he ever turned out was stability on beam and moveable ballast, the Susie S, which he built in 1871 they were easily capsizable. True, they under the name of Bella. The Susie S seldom, if ever, sank after capsizing for, will be spoken of more particularly as the sandbags generally went out as below in connection with other boats of they went over, there was nothing left McGieghan build. Though eminently aboard to carry them down. Capsizing, successful in building small boats, therefore, was rarely attended with loss McGieghan never turned out anything of life. The skill required to keep them large. I am not aware that he ever right side up also developed a class of attempted to build a large yacht, but the able seamen. But after all is said in task was essayed for him by others. their favor it must be acknowledge they Both of the Canadian aspirants for the were not a healthy type. America’s Cup, the schooner Countess of Dufferin, which came in 1876, and But some of my shipmates have With the single exception of Charlie the sloop Atalanta, which came in 1881, perhaps been asking all this while, what Barr, all of the famous yacht skippers were copies of McGieghan's models, is a sandbagger. How many of the learned the trick in the sandbagger. Joe and both were sorry failures. present generation of yachtsmen have Ellsworth, Hank Haff8, Aubrey Crocker, ever seen one? I would not venture to all first attracted attention as sandbag Next in prominence stood Jake answer the question. Of course frosted skippers. But there were others, not Schmidt. Jake, in the Pluck and Luck, monuments, like the skipper and myself, destined to become internationally achieved one success as great in its way do not belong to the present generation. known, even more famous than those, as as the Susie S, but the two boats were The sandbagger was, bear in mind it no skippers of this particular craft. The seldom pitted against each other, as they longer is, like some of the so-called most famous of the company was Capt. belonged to different classes. The Susie flying machines, a thing of small body Ira Smith, a Fulton ferry pilot, who S ranked in the first class and the Pluck and great wings. With plumb stem, probably won more races than any two and Luck in the second class. Each held angular stern, low freeboard, scantling other skippers. Next in rank stood Jake the first place in its own class. While shaped., downward curved bowsprit, a Schmidt, of Staten Island, who Schmidt did not achieve as great a ladder-like outrigger aft, it carried an distinguished himself as a builder as success as McGieghan as a builder, he immense mainsail and jib, and not well as a skipper. Jake has been stowed was even more famous in other ways. infrequently, a sprit topsail and jib away in Davy Jones’ locker for some He was celebrated as a skipper and one topsail. It was, without exception, an years, but Capt Ira though over 70 years of the most picturesque characters and open boat, varying in length from 16 to old, is still sitting upon the lid. Other best known men in yachting circles 29 feet, and from 8 to 13 feet in breadth. notable skippers were Harry Smedley, about New York. He kept a house of There were some up to 30 feet in length likewise a boat builder, Sam entertainment on Bay View Avenue, and some under 16 feet, but they did not Greenwood, Joe Morris, Charlie Tompkinsville, Staten Island, about count. The most successful boats were Thatford and Jim Sweeney. No halfway down to Stapleton, where a about 28 feet long and all of the famous important regatta was complete without flaring sign invited old salts to come to racers were within the limits given. The the presence of some or all of these anchor. And where such as did come to Susie S, for example was 27 feet long noted skippers, each of whom had a host anchor they shivered their timbers over and 9 feet broad. According to size they of admirers ready to back with money many a good yarn spun by the host. On carried from 30 to 90 sandbags, each of their estimate of his skill. New York Yacht Club race days he and 50 pounds weights, and a crew of from his huge dog Sailor were familiar half a dozen to fifteen men. The Dare Of the builders of sandbaggers by long figures for years in the mark boat, first Devil, of New Rochelle, owned by C odds the most famous was Pat off Owls Head and afterward off Buoy Olive Iselin, carried 90 sandbags and McGieghan, an Irishman or American 12 in the lower Bay. was accredited with the largest sail- of Irish descent, who about the spread for her inches of any boat afloat. beginning of the seventies, I have not Other less well known builders were When the boat was on the wind the the exact date, opened a shop on the Henry Smedley of South Brooklyn, who sandbags were piled up to windward Jersey shore of the upper bay, at a place was also prominent as a skipper; David outside the cockpit coaming and the Kirby of Rye, who was better known as crew, except the skipper and the sheet 8 the designer and builder of the famous Owned and sailed the 20 foot cat boat tenders, piled upon the sandbags. When big sloop Arrow; and Driscoll of LuLu at Sing Sing in 1888 Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 9 Greenpoint. Another well known fourth class. I have already mentioned 71, statements as to the date vary, for builder was James Lenox, who will be the Iselins as owners of more than one Nick. Duryea, a gambler called by remembered by all of the old timers. and it may be added that Charles Pryer abuse of courtesy Commodore Duryea. owned Truant for many years. On the A gambler is generally regarded as a lists of the regatta committees and crook, but the opinion is not altogether judges who handled the races I find the warranted. I have known many an names of Oliver E Cromwell, Delancy honest gambler. Duryea, however, was Kane, Theodosius Bartow, Newberry D undoubtedly a crook, and he was finally Thorne, Frederick De Puyster, James H shot and killed in a New York street by Elliott and Edward E Chase. The another gambler who claimed he had recognition of the sandbagger was not swindled him. The claim was probably therefore confined to yachtsmen of well founded if Duryea may be judged moderate means and obscure by some of his well known acts. His associations. They were not very cheap principle business was policy dealing, boats for the time. The average cost which is as barefaced robbery as was about $1,000 and the cost of modern life insurance methods. Duryea,

maintenance, on account of the large by pulling a race, was responsible for The sandbaggers were divided into crews required was considerable. the first disruption of the Brooklyn four classes as follows: First Class, 26 Yacht Club, in 1865. Yet he managed to 30 feet in length; Second Class, 23 to The lists of entries for the fourth to cut a figure in the sport for many 26 feet; Third class, 20 to 23 feet; annual regatta given by the citizens of years afterward. . Fourth class, under 20 feet. The most Newburgh, sailed August 1, 1877, successful of the first-class boats was, as affords at once evidence of the number The Susie S made her appearance as has already been said, the Susie S, and of sandbaggers then in existence and the Bella and at once attracted attention. her most formidable competitors were their popularity among all classes of After she had established a reputation the Meteor, W R Brown, Silence, yachtsmen. [see table below]. for speed Duryea felt warranted in Walter F Davids, Dare Devil, Eleanor offering to match her against anything and Josephine. In the second class the There were thirteen absentees, among of her size for $1,000 to $900, with a leader was Pluck and Luck, with the them the Susie S and Walter F Davids, $50 bonus to the tar who made the Martha Munn, H H Holmes, Let Her Be, so the starters numbered thirty-two. The match. The gauntlet was taken up by Clara S, Thistle, Coquette and C F winners were, in the first class, the the Ellsworths, who declining both the Ammon, constant though generally Brown and the Dare Devil second; in odds and the bonus pitted the Meteor unsuccessful competitors. The third the second class, Pluck and Luck, with against her for $1,000 a side. The class comprised Sophia Emma, Mary Let Her Be second; in the third class, Meteor was owned by Allen C Bush, a Emma, Truant and Frou Frou, while Sophia Emma, with Addie Taylor Wall Street broker, and she was sailed among the best known fourth-class second; in the fourth class Victoria, with by Capt. Joe. Ellsworth. The Bella was boats were the Victoria, Flyaway, Flyaway second. The Brown was also sailed by David Snedeker. The race, Fidget, Thomas Paine, Corni and Carrie. the winner of the special prize of $150 sailed early in August 1872 was ten It must be borne in mind, however, that for the fastest time over the course, but miles to windward and return from these divisions were not invariable, for the little Pluck and Luck gave her a hard Owls Head to Buoy 5 off the point of we find both the Sophia Emma and the tussle and came in only 2 minutes and Sandy Hook. The Meteor had the Bella Marry Emma frequently sailing in the 48 ½ seconds behind. beaten long before the outer mark was second class, while on the other hand reached, but it was a case of heads I the Eleanor, after being outbuilt in the win, tails you lose. There were two first class, was relegated by degrees judges and a referee. Duryea had one of until she finally dropped into the fourth the judges and the referee. The other class. judge was Capt. H Van Buskirk of Bayonne, who afterward became well No better evidence of the popularity of known as a successful skipper of the the sandbagger in its day can be offered sloop Fanita. Duryea was undoubtedly than the fact that some of the smallest of afraid of Joe Ellsworth, for he tried to them were owned and raced by wealthy clam the stakes before the start, on the men who either then or afterwards were pretext that Mr. Bush had not named his prominent members of the New York judge within the stipulated time. The Yacht Club. For example, the fourth- fact was that Bush had been prevented class boats Fidget, Flyaway and Victoria by business from meeting Duryea on the The Susie S was not only the most were owned respectively by Irving day named, but had sent a representative uniformly successful of all the first-class Grinnell, Van Buren Livingston and whom Duryea refused to recognize. sandbaggers, but her reign of supremacy James A Roosevelt. Wm. Edgar also The claim having been disallowed, was also very much the longest. She continued to own and race the Eleanor Duryea tried to bluff by refusing to let was built by Pat. McGieghan in 1870 or after she had been relegated to the the Bella start, but Bush promptly Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 10 announced that the Meteor would sail Shortly after that match the Bella Silence got her anchor fouled on the old over the course and claim the stakes. passed from the hands of Duryea into steamboat pier at Mississippi City and The Duryea concluded to let the Bella those of Capt. Ira Smith who made her could not free it until the Albertina has sail and the question arose which owner reputation. She was usually entered in secured a lead that was not to be should have the choice of referee. It the name of E P Miller, a Wall Street overcome. However, Mr. Brewster was customary in those days to stickle broker. After winning a number of chivalrously divided the stakes with for everything and toss a coin for a races and a notable match against the Capt Smith. He also swapped the choice. Each owner had a tug on hand Tiger, of Bridgeport, Conn., he changed Albertina for the Silence and gave $500 for the conveyance of the guests., her name to the Susie S, under which to boot. So Capt Smith brought the Duryea had the Commodore Duryea, of she became famous. Among her most Albertina back to New York, gave her which he was part or principal owner, remarkable triumphs were a match with back her old name Susie S, and sailed while Bush had the Virginia Seymour, a the Martha and the Mattie: a her to new triumphs. noted yacht tender of the day. Duryea sweepstakes against the Wm. T Lee, insisted that the judges and referee Maud and Jeannette; the diploma and should go on the Duryea and Bush medals for the fastest time over the unwisely consented. Here is what Capt. course, against forty-eight sail in the Van Buskirk said in a published Centennial Regatta of 1876; a match statement signed with his name a day or against the Greenpoint for $1,000 a side; two after the race, about the toss of the a match against the W R Brown, at coin: Newburgh in 1877, for $750 a side. For three years in succession she took first “The cent was tossed by Mr. Duryea, prize in her class at the annual regattas Mr. Bush calling head. The cent landed both of the Brooklyn and New Rochelle upon the deck near my feet, and I Yacht Clubs. distinctly saw it head up. Mr. Duryea picked the cent from the deck, and in After a practically unbeaten career in doing so turned it over and claimed that these waters the Susie S was purchased At one time there was a red-hot he had won the choice, to which I by A Brewster of the Southern Yacht controversy as to the relative speed of demurred, knowing that Mr. Bush had Club, and taken to New Orleans, where the Susie S and the Dare Devil. The won it. Mr. Bush finally consented to her name was changed to Albertina. latter was half an inch shorter but she allow Duryea the choice of referee” However, she did not meet with as carried more sail. She was built by Jake Capt. Van Buskirk did not give the uninterrupted success there as here. Schmidt, at Staten Island, about the names of Duryea’s judge and referee About the same time the W R Brown middle of the seventies for C Oliver and Duryea did not deem it prudent to and the Pluck and Luck were also Iselin, who raced her for several years do so. The Meteor being the larger boat purchased by New Orleans yachtsmen and then sold her to Thomas O’Dell. had to allow two minutes, and she named Israel. The name of the Brown O’Dell afterward sold her to W H therefore gave the Bella one minute was changed to Lady Emma. Under Dilworth. She made her reputation start. Five miles after the start the less skillful hands than those of Capt. under Iselin’s ownership and it was then meteor passed her adversary to Ira Smith the Albertina was frequently the controversy arose. It began with a windward and took the lead. In the beaten by the Lady Emma and proposition from Iselin to race the boats lower bay the Bella was hopelessly sometimes also by the Pluck and Luck. ten miles to windward and return and behind and the Duryea taking position at After selling the Susie S Capt Smith had the discussion of the terms reveals some Buoy 4, half a mile to leeward of Buoy the Silence, a boat of about the same queer yacht racing practices then in 5, the proper mark where the Seymour size, built by James Lenox of South vogue. In a statement published over was lying, signaled her to come Brooklyn, and in the summer of 1881, his signature, after failing to agree, alongside. Duryea then told Snedeker, the Southern Yacht Club having offered Capt. Ira Smith declares that Mr. Iselin the skipper of the Bella, to turn Buoy 4 a prize of $1,500 for yachts of that class, wanted to have the privilege of throwing and make for home. Eight minutes later took her to New Orleans. The Silence overboard half of the Dare Devil’s the Meteor rounded the designated did not win the prize but Capt. Smith ballast after turning the windward mark. mark. Duryea had the effrontery to had a very good excuse as he carried The Dare Devil, it will be remembered claim the race and his pliant judge and away his topmast and yet was beaten by carried 90 sand bags of 50 pounds each. referee turned the stakes over to him only a few seconds. A match race for Capt. Smith then proceeds to make five despite the protest of Capt. Van $1,000 a side was then arranged to be propositions, to allow the Dare Devil to Buskirk, in whose face, it was said at sailed at Mississippi City between the throw overboard ten bags of not more the time, they flourished a revolver. Silence and the Albertina. The Silence than 50 pounds each; to sail without any The Bayonne Yacht Club very properly had the lead going out, but the Albertina dead weight and limit the crews to 15 expelled Duryea at the next meeting. turned the wrong mark and came home men each; to use only working sails and Bush brought suit for his money, but the ahead. Although the latter was clearly allow the Dare Devil one more square action had not been tried when Duryea beaten the committee decided that the foot of canvas; to sail 20 miles to was killed. race should be resailed. Next time the windward, each boat having the liberty Shattemuc Yacht Club History Early Sailing at Ossining 11 to throw overboard half of her ballast; sold to one of the Iselins. The Pluck the seventies for George Davids and total six races ten miles to windward, on and Luck was built by Jake Schmidt, was afterward owned by William the six successive days, for $250 a side, who raced her himself for a while and Layton. The Josephine was built by on each race, play or pay, all the money then sold her to the Iselins, The Martha Webber, of New Rochelle, for R B to be put up before the first race, the Munn was built by Driscoll for Jim Hartshorne. The W R Brown was built Dare Devil to be allowed to throw ten Sweeney. She was afterward owned by by Henry Smedley of South Brooklyn, bags overboard. I find no record that J O’Brien. Just So was but by early in the seventies for Judge Charles the match was ever sailed. McGieghan for the Ellsworths. The F Brown, of Newburgh. Truant and Frou Frou were built at New A few facts about some of the other Rochelle by J W Thorne, the former for well known sandbaggers will fittingly Charles Pryer, the latter for himself. close this sketch already somewhat in The Eleanor was built prior to the excess of the space limits. The Sophia seventies by David Kirby of Rye. She Emma was built early in the seventies was owned first by William Edgar and by Pat. McGieghan for Jacob Varian, afterward by a man named Morris. The The Mary Emma was also built by Walter F Davids was built by Kissam, at McGieghan for Varian and afterward New Rochelle, about the beginning of

Yacht Length Owner Port Yacht Length Owner Port FIRST CLASS Kate E 20.09 Wm H Devoe Rondout Susie S 27.04 E P Miller New York Jane A 16.00 J J Reid New York W R Brwon 27.03 Chalres F Brown Newwburgh Cora D 17.11 W A Wright New York Dare Devil 27.04 Oliver Iselin New York Gracie 20.10 J S Clark Yonkers W F Davids 27.07 William Layton New Rochelle Addie Taylor 21.10 William Taylor Jersey City SECOND CLASS Lawrence 18.00 R L Carpenter Fishkill Pluck and Luck 24.08 E D Spahn New York Petrel 20.10 R R Ellison New Windsor Clara S 24.01 Joseph Stilger New York Sylvia 15.00 E Smedberg New Windsor H H Holms 24.03 J L Kregmeyer Jesey City Restless 18.10 C Weiant Haverstaw Freak 24.04 Joseph H Weddie Newburgh Etta 19.00 S Brinkerhoff Fishkill Bertha 25.00 E Molyneux Tarrytown A Smith Ring 17.06 Geo. W. Shaw Newburgh Let Her Be 24.10 Harry Smedley New York Faith 21.10 Henry Weeks Brooklyn Coquette 22.00 C Olmstead Tarrytown Emily 18.06 R McClauseland Roundout THIRD CLASS Little Fidget 20.00 G Penfield New Rochelle Onward 18.00 S R Van Tassel New York FOURTH CLASS Zig Zag 18.00 Fred E Lewis Tarrytown Figet 28.00 Irving Grinnell New Hamburgh Nettie Hunting 21.00 H F Hunting New York Flyaway 32.06 Van B Livingston Ulster Park Willie 17.03 Mort. Sampson Jesey City Victoria 27.05 J A Roosevelt Hyde Park Alice 17.03 Has. D P Gibson Jesey City Corni 32.06 A S Riley Newburgh Kate Jerolemon 18.06 John Krieg Jesey City Anna 27.09 E W Knapp Roundout Mary Jane 19.00 A Monroe Jesey City Thomas Paine 27.09 George W Lloyd New Rochelle Sophia Emma 21.09 Jacob Varian New York Carrie 25.00 J R Hoffman Nyack Spinaway 21.03 La Montague Bros. New York Eleanor 26.05 W Edgar New Rochelle Peter O'Brien 19.10 Fred Werseke New York Laura 30.00 D N Munger Brooklyn ------o------