‘v‘K ‘ Underskirts, ,“Equal and Exact Justice to all More of Whatever State or Persziasion, Religious or Politica .”-—Je#srsca Vol. V. Whole No I190 I Nor-walk, Gena, Monday Evening. September 9, 1895. Price one Cent. BRIDGEPORT, THE D. M. Read COMPANY. NEW FIELDS TO - HARVEST, New dress goods, trim- mings, linings—a multitude of spots, dashes, curves, wrinkles, crinkles, welts; everything, eccentric and plain. ‘ New wearables for men— business shirts, dress shirts, collars, cufis, nightshirts, hose, suspenders, neckwear; every- thing turned topsy-turvy- to find the best for the least money. And we’ve found it. New‘ wraps, jackets and suits. Pretty little reefers and jackets for children; spick and span, just right for school wear. _ It has been like a continu- ous .holiday since the ‘new month came in—viewing and buying. Now there’s an “R ”in the month Rugs are in ' season; not cheaper than ever but prettier than ever, and more of them. First pick is best, always. Feather Boas—every one new; all the lengths, superior fulness and arrangement. French and domestic. A stock that would jeopordize‘ our judgment if the prices were not the lowest. figured taffeta in changeable effects; trimmed with three narrow ruffles of same mate- rial, finely finished—$7 .50. Fancy striped silk under- skirts, umbrella shape,‘trim- med with a deep corded shirred flounce, five rows of cord at bottom, finished with dust ruffles—$6.50 to $9.00. Crockery would be a pretty fragile subject for vigorous advertising if we didn’t have the best. We’ve outfits for hotels, restaurants and board- Fancy ' 'T'ing houses as well as the more delicate and highly orna-' mented ware for clubs and private residences. As you prefer. ‘ THE CUP IN NODANGER Defender’s Great Victory Points the Way to Final Triumph. VALKYRIE Is OVERMATGHEB Her First Race Demonstrates That the Yankee Yacht Captain and Crew Will Very Likely Make It Three Straight Victories. NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Defender’s bril- liant victory over the crack English Val- kyrie in the first of the three best in five races for the America’s cup, and that, too, in weather for Which the challenge: was especially designed and constructed, proves almost beyond the shadow of a doubt that the cup is safe and will not leave us this year at any rate. Defender won her name in truly Ameri- can fashion. finishing far ahead of the English challenger, Valkyrie, and giving every evidence of outclassing the Dun- ’ raven boat in almost any kind of weather. There were strange features connected with the race for the America’s cup, not the least being the general doubt express- ed during the first 14 miles of the course as to which boat‘was in the lead. It was nip and tuck from the first gun signal un‘ til within a short distance of the mark, and then Defender caught the breeze, and to the delight of thousands simply sailed away from her rival. From that moment she went out, in- creasing her lead to the end and winning by the surprising margin of 8 minutes and 49 seconds. Such work as this in what was denominated Valkyrie weather ' is calculated to satisfy the yacht sharps of this side of the water to their heart’s con‘ tent and to lend fear to the minds of those who have hoped for a reversal of Ameri‘ can form and the winning of the cup by the Englishman. _ N 0 event in the history of the sport over excited the interest shown in the race to‘ day. Since Vigilant defeated Valkyrie in 1893 the international contest ,has been kept well in ’mind, and the enthusiasm displayed today was merely the outcome of the pent up feeling of the past year or two. One of the very peculiar features of the day in this city was the uncertainty up to a late hour as to which boat had really won the race, the rain and mist and fog preventing accurate observations from land points, and thus giving currency to confliutlng reports. Numerous bulletin boards in various parts of the city at the same time recorded difi'erent results, and one newspaper actually came out in its last edition with a. double column “spread,” giving the race to Valkyrie, while another did not display a correct bulletin through. out the course of the race and continued to placard Valkyrie in the lead after De- fender crossed the line a winner. ' The technical story of the most notable race yet in the history of the America cup, which follows, tells how the Yankee yacht, captain and crew did the trick: Story 'of the Race. The race was over a course of 15 miles to Windward and return, and while it was won fairly and squarely by the Defender it did look for a considerable period in the early part of the race as though the Eng- lish boat was the better and would cross the finishing line first. Never in the his‘ tory of the' races for this cup has the for- eign boat shown to such great advantage as did Valkyrie. She got over the line first, and for a long time pointed higher and outfooted the American boat. The first surprise of the day was in the , position that the Defender secured on .5 crossing the line. She was a little bit to windward of the English boat, behind, it is true, by four seconds, but still to wind- ward. There had been so much said about the superior skippership of Captain 3 Sycamore that it ‘was feared by the thou- sands of American patriots who witnessed the scene that he would so maneuver that poor old Hank Haff, on the Defender, would not only be behind at the start, but that he would be so thoroughly blanketed that he would never have a show in the whole race. But while the Englishman did get over the line first by about half a length the Yankee was on t0p of him, in. stead of being below or underneath his . Wind. It was 12:10 when the preparatory gun was fired. Immediately the yachts, with club topsails, forestaysails and jibs set, 32 began to jockey for the most favorable position. They made no short tacks in this business, and when it came near the . expiration of the ten minutes that they Were allowed both yachts were to thc Westward and northward of the line, both heading for it. Valkyrie was ahead, and it seemed as though she was trying ' to force Defender, which was to wind. ward, so close up against the committee boat that the latter would have to make a tack before crossing. The Valkyrie was certainly pinched high up in the wind, but the Defender was almost if not quite as close. Yet the Defender refused to be driven out of her course, and with an extra pull on her mainsail she was en- abled to follow Valkyrie until the course was begun, and also to maintain her weather position. . The Start. The skippers had done their timing Very Well, and it was only 46 seconds - after the starting gun was fired—at 12:20 . -—that the Valkyrie crossed the line. As said before, the. Defender, on her oppo- nent’s weather quarter, was only four seconds later. As "they Went over, the Valkyrie shook out of steps a baby jibtop- sail. The Defender people were not sat~ isfied with so small, a sail on their outer stay and shook out a No. 2. The wind . was then blowing about five miles ' an hour. There was something of a swoll on the sea, but the water could not be called rough lay any means. . ' The ,weather, conditions at the time Were”pretty nearly those that have been ' described as most "fitting for lekyrle. The challenger slipped through the Water I beautifully, ' throw n‘g some sprayifrom ~ her. hows, it is trim-but surely sliding . , gone. '. racing yachts. minutes was both outi’ootéd and out- poin‘ted. The Valkyrie, it was plainly seen, was doing the faster work, and as she slipped past the Defender the chaps ‘ who had been betting on Defender to win the match came pretty nearly to a unanimous opinion that their money was Even the most enthusiastic admir- ors of Defender and Captain Haff, Such, as for instance, Captain Harry DeNyse of the tug Fred B. Dalzell, who has been to sea in pilotboats and steamers for nearly 40 years, remarked: “We will be done up sure. That Valkyrie is a marvel in this - kind of going.” Both yachts were handled in the most admirable manner, and it cannot be said that the sails on the Briton, much as has I been boasted about them, set a whit bet. . ter than those of the American boat. In ' fact, it may be said critically that no flaw could be seen in any bit of cloth on either boat. The impression which some people have that Ratsey was the only perfect canvas cutter in the world was dispelled when Defonder’s spread was seen in her really first race. The yachts stood on this starboard tack until 12:39, when Defender was first to go about. As soon as she saw this move on the part of her opponent Valkyrie did the Same thing. Valkyrie continued to gain advantage, and Defender was held up very close to the wind, and by so doing became blanketed. . When Captain Haff saw the trouble he was getting into, he, at 12:47, eased his ship off and gave her the good full that her friends had been hoping to see for many minutes. As soon as Do- fender was eased off she began to increase her speed. She caught up on the Valkyrie not a little, but of course she was going fart-her to leeward than the Valkyrie, and her apparent gain was less in reality- than it looked to be. Under Defender’s Stern. When the Valkyrie saw the Defender ease off, she did the same thing, though not to so great an extent, and she main- tained her lead. Now the breeze fresh- ened to about seven miles an hour. Val- kyrie, ctr feeling the breeze, again stood up high against it, while the full rap on De- fender was continued. Here Defender, With her sails chock full of wind, went ahead very fast, but she was not better than an eighth of a mile to leeward. It was a great and beautiful race up to this juncture, but it was not a pleasant one for more patriots to gaze upon, for Val- kyrie was surely in the load. On this tack the vessels encountered head seas from the southeast, and neither one took them better than the other. They both pounded a good deal. Valkyrie was the first to come about. She came around to starboard at 1:12, and Defender fbllowed her example at once. The Defender was still an eighth of a mile away on Valkyrie’s weather quarter. On this tack there was an effort to get in some windward advantage by Defender, and she was pinched very much. But Valkyrie held her ground, and Defender could get no nearer to her. At 1:48 Val- kyrie, evidently believing that she could cross Defender’s bow if the latter would split tacks with her, came about. The challenger was, however, unable to weather the Defender, and when she passed under the American’s stern there was a shrieking by the steam yachts and excursion boats in attendance that will never be forgotten by those who heard it. Valkyrie, on finding that she had not yet gained enough to weather Defender, came back again to the starboard tack after one minute on the port. As she did so Defend~ der came about to port. It was now Val- kyrie’s turn to refuse a splitting of tacks, and she followed Defonder’s lead in going about to port. At 2 o’clock the contestants began a long board to starboard. During this tack the wind hauled gradually to east south- east, then to southeast by‘cast, and finally to southeast. The breeze stiffened, too, up to about eight miles an hour, and with that increase the Defender began to over- haul the enemy. .Shc picked her rival up with a burst of speed that was as remark- able as delightful to the inhabitants of the floating city that was looking on. So easily did she overhaul the challenger that more than one observer remarked to his neighbor something to the effect that old Haff had only been jollying his competitor all the time. It was 2:55 when the Do- fender was on even tor-ms with the other. Thence she gradually but positively forged ahead, and at 3:29 it was estimated that the Yankee boat was about three lengths ahead and well to windward at that. Defender Showed the lVay. Tho Defender was first to come around to starboard and head for the outer mark. This was at 3:25. It looked just then as though Defender was a quarter of a mile to the good. When Valkyrie came about, 15 seconds later, she was well away on Defender’s lee quarter. tinued to: blow at about eight miles an hour from southeast, and they came along at a pretty lively gait to round the buoy and square away for home. As will be seen by the table below, Defender passed first by 3 minutes and 23 seconds, a g'iliin of 3 minutes and 27 seconds from the time of start. On going around they cased off sheet on the starboard side, set balloon jibtop- sails and sped for the finish. The Val- kyrie took in her jib and staysail, while Defender hauled down only her jib. Be- fore long, however, Valkyrie, seeing that Defender’s'staysail Was drawing Well, re- set hers. The few champions of Valkyrie who Were left said that their boat would over- haul Defender on this broad reach home, but she didn’t. The same sails were held on both ships all the way to the finish line, while the wind gradually dropped to its original strength of about five mile. an hour. In all the reach Defender con- tinually increased her , lead over Valkyrie and finished 8 minutes and 49 seconds ahead of her. ., . .. , It was, taken ziltogether,’ especially the concluding part of it; after so much had been said abouthalk’yrie’s great- powers in light weather, ope of the most interest- ing races that'ev‘hr‘ took place. The only thing to mar the day’s pleasure was the action of certain excaméion boats, notably the Richard Peck and the City of Lowell, in going too close“2to windward of the Pel'haps the blanketing that these steamers did had little or no effect upon the result, but“; ,they showod ahead faster than the Defender. The 1317- 2 very bad taste in hanging t0 the contest- .4,.. ‘. . . . ' ~ n. l- ,g ‘ I n _ o C I C ter weeheld ver’y highflavhtn fol.‘ Léverai l ants in such an‘important‘ Avery, and The breeze con-, \ their passengers could hive seen the face just as well if the steamershad remained a quarter of a mile or more farther away. When the Defender crossed the finish line,» she was greeted by cannon, whistles, tin horns and the waving of handkerchiefs to an extent that entirely fitted the victory of a yacht which all experts agree was the fastest machine for her purposes that the world ever saw. ‘ The official-time table is as follows: Start. Outer mark. Finish. Defender...... 12:20:50 3:36:29 5:21 :14 Valkyrie....... 12:20:46 3:39:52 5:29:30 Elapsed Corrected time. > time. Defender..................... 5:00:24 *4:59:55 Valkyrie. . . . ................. 5 :08 :44 5 208141 *Valkyrie allows 29 seconds. It is estimated by the syndicate owners of Defender—C. Oliver Iselin, E.’D. Mor- gan and W. K. Vanderbilt—that their ex~ penscs in connection with the present series for the America’s cup will amount to not less than $240,000. Hardly. less than this amount. will be expended by Lord Dunraven in the same good cause, and it is impossible to estimate What it cost the 30,000 people who utilized the steamers in viewing this first race and what similar crowds will spend‘on the re- maining races of the series. ‘ ' The second race of the series will take place to morrow . * um‘rss' IN A TOMB or FIRE. - Probably Forty Men and Boys Burned to Death or Sufi‘ocated. CALUMET, Mich, Sept. 9.—-At. about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon fire broke out in the shaft of the Osceola mine, and' it is more than probable that 40 men and boys have been burned to death or suffocated. The names of men known to be in the mine are as follows: ‘ . Trombath, mine boss; Richard Bicket, Michael Johnson, Richard Grenfel, Rich~ ard Sufellt, John Matzen, Jacob iBryant, Francis Lander, Alex'. Danfell, John Cud— lip, Thomas Curtis, Robert Johns, Peter Martin, Joseph Saghte, James Harring- ton, William Donald, Barncy 3 Elgore, Antone Zceswck, all miners, and Peter Stangard and Walter Dohle, drill'vboys. The fire started in Shaft No. 2, which is used to carry the minors to the’furnace from the mine, and when the fire broke out all of the men and boys employed in the mine, about 200 in number, Imade a rush for the shaft in the hope of being taken to the surface. The fire -tvas too rapid for them, however, and thd chance of escaping by the shaft was cnti ely cut off by the flames and smoke. Th major~ ity of the miners made a break for cross- cut,.and in that way managed reach another shaft, from which th» ~—Wel‘-8- taken to the top. Forty were missing when the roll was called. - Within a short time after they had reached the surface smoke began pouring from all the shafts, and the escape of the men below was entirely out off. The men in charge saw that there was not the slightest chance for any of the men now in the mine to escape with their lives. If they are not burned, they must have been choked by the dense smoke within a short time after the fire started. Fortunately the mine 'is not as heavily timbered as some of the mines in this locality, and it will not take it agreat while to burn out. As the thing now stands there is not the slightest thing that can be done for the men, and no effort is being made to extinguish the flames. There is nothing known ,of how the fire started. The scene at the Operche shaft, where. many of the men came up, was deeply heartrending, thousands having gathered around the mouth of this shaft, many women and children standing around looking for their husbands and fathers. Besides the men mentioned above many more are known to be entombcd, but it is impossible to obtain their names. They are mostly Austrian trimmers. Searching parties were sent down- in Nos. 1 and 2 shafts to try and reach them from the drifts leading to No. ,3 shaft,. above the twenty-seventh level, but were unsuccessful. The mouths of the shafts have now been battened down to stop all drafts/and all hope is now given up of ever rescuing the men alive. This is the greatest loss of life that has ever occurred in the copper country. . The Bolivian Trouble. LIMA, via Galevston, Sept. 9.-——It is an- nounced that Brazil will be asked to act as~ primary arbitrator in the Bolivian trouble. If Brazil declines, then Colom- bia will be asked to act as arbitrator. More Troops For Cuba. HAVANA, Sept. 9.——Advices received" here are to the effect that the Spanish government will send 25,000 additibnal soldiers to Cuba during the month of October. —.. —Advertise in the GAZETTE. 'GSlLREIllll lllEUSJ‘AllIlfilllLE.lllllSElllilllllh‘llui. M 1 L o a. 1' a A F I u r: . AC m Lkfi - usucnssua ‘ m l ma AMERIEAH JEEIASCSRMT“. 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