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SIR THOMAS UPTON’S 16
TEAR STRUGGLE FOR CUP
Besides This Number of Years He Has Sepnt Several Million
Dollars and a Stupendous Amount of Keen Thinking in His
Endeavour to Gain An Old Battered, Dingey Silver Cup.
Oo»wn in the vault of a famous jew
elry houea on Fifth Avenue, New York
City, there Ik a dinky, battered piece of
ellyer, neither a modern work of beau
ty nor a valuable antique, a thing
likely ♦<! tempt at flrat glance only tha
thief looking: for something to feed hi*
melt Inc pot.
Yet a (treat merchant hue spent nix
teen years, several mlllon dollars, and
a stupendous amount of keen thinking
In his endeavor to wain title to this
carefully guarded object. The Holy
Grail was not more persutently
•oUsjtft
The piepe of .sliver t* the Aomrlca's
dup. the World's . g&mest Aportaman,
Sir. Thomas Lipton.
,It Is Impossible to discourage Sir
Thomas. In all those sixteen years, In
the three previous times tliat his craft
firva ctmlended against he product of
ArrgrPan brains, he lias never stained
a single point' In all the nine races
that’counted his successive Shamrocks
either came In second or failed to fin
ish.
Still Jovial.
•Hut that has not lessened the Jovial
Irishman's 'ardor. He has had oil*
Impediments, too. Bickerings over thn
terms, disputes concerning the con
ditions of the race* such that his
friends sometimes were moved tn ln
<sl,nation over what they considered
the unicaVonaldeness of the Ameri
cans) But he Ida tes merchant with
the twinkling eyes never lost his
equanimity. *T want A rave, not a
quarrel!" he commented simply.
It W«s In the V u- of the .Spanish
tvnr. ‘llk, that the Now York Yacht
Club received the first challenge from
the Royal Ulster Yacht Uluh. The let
ter received August t:, 1898, save Hlr
Thomas J. Llptnti as the owner of tho
s%rht to he culled Shamrock with a
len.'th on the load water line of 98.5
feet.
The challenge was brought over tty
a committee consisting of \’lcn Co»n
modnre R. f!. Mheru.iui t’rawford of the
Challenging Club; II M. McOlldow
ney and Hugh <’ Kelly, Accompanied
by thel new yacht'* designer. William
Fife. Jr, and flurries Hussell.
After the Bustle.
Immediately all was bustle In New
York Yacht Club circles. It is under
stood J Plerpont Morgan, the eldet,
furnished the money to build the de
fending yacht, the Columbia, the cur>
committee consisted of Mr. Morgan,
Edwin li. Morgan, E. M. Brown, Her
man B. Duryea, whose horse won the
English Derby a few days ago, and
Henry F. Lippton. the keel of tho Co
lumbia was laid at the Hereahoff’s
place at Brie. Rhode Island. In the
early winter of '9B and she was launch
ed June 10 1*99.'
Charley Burr was her .sa II Infl mas
ter. and her crew were Doer Islanders.
The Defender, which hail defeated tho
Valkyrie II In 189&, was put In com
mission to ruie against her. On Au
gift £ the Columbia whs esught In a
iilt of a blow off Point Judith and her
great steel must weni by the board.
.Meanwhile the Tlioroeyrrofis had
Completed the Shamrock I at Mlllwall
on the Thames anil In charge of Cnp
taln Archie Hokerth snd Robert
Wrings, she crossed the Atlantic that
Aukust towed by the steam yacht
Erin, tuklng 14 days. £0 hours for tliu
trip. —'
First Rscs.
In the flrwt rhetf, suited In Oetober.
the Shamrock was beaten by 10 min
utes eight seconds; In the second she
did not finish, in the third she was de
feated by' 6 minutes 84 seconds.
Fir Thome s' appetite for that but
tered silver cup was only whetted the
more He sent his second challenge In
October pf the next year, 1900. Thla
time the American committee consist
ed of Commodore Lewis Cans I.cdyard,
Vice Commodore August Belmont, Rear
Man Having Income from $5,000,000
in England Must Pay One Third of
it in Taxes, Under the New Plan
In Spite of Great Increases Burden of Taxes Less Than it
Has Been at Any Time in Modern History, Says Editor
of Statist.
London.—Voder the new scheme of 1
taxation Introduced by David l.loyd j
George, chancellor o( the exchequer, j
In Ms budget for 1914-15, » man liav ’
lug ah‘income from a capital of five
toll ion dollafs will have to 1 ay one
third‘of liia Income lti taxes
In the first place he has to pay 2S
cents on every five dollars In incotno
tax; then he has to pay a similar 1
amount at aure tax, and when he dies
one' dollar on every five of what la I
left has to be |lhtd Tor death and es |
tato -duties. The total is figured as
Juat under one-third of the Income.
This raiuculation has been made by i
Nlr William Lever, one of the mil I
llonalres who will have to pay, hut
who does not objeot.
“I like It," he said. "In my view 1
the itlSal system of taxation, both lo- ]
cal and Imperial, Is through the In- j
come rax, the supertax, death duties,
land tax, site value tax, and taxation
upon luxuries, such as alcohol, tobac- {
co, etc Hvery thing else free "
While Mr. Lloyd George has fol
lowed his piedecessors In his system
of taxation, except that he has In
creased the rate of Income and super
lax and death duties, so that the
wealthy rave to pay the llon'a share
he has gone to other couutrlea for
some Of hts Ideas His taxation of
•Tie values Is based on the law nbw
In vogue in Rrltieh t'olutubia, while
he boa gone to the American Income
tax law for the Idea of making money
accruing to British subjects front
investments abroad pay Its share of
taxation ■
In recent years British capitalists
bare mute iinineuse investments I
foreign countries When the Income
from these investments was brought
borne to be sient, the government,
under the old law, levied income tax
on It: that la, when the government
could discover It. Hut when the in
come was re invested abroad, the old
law did not touch 1L Now Lloyd
Geonge says all Income of Rritlsli sub
ject* resident in the United Kingdom
must contribute to the imperial rev
enue, ‘ These foreign Investments are
estimated at over a hlllioc and a halt
dollars, and fiom this the chancellor
hopes to secure 11.260,000 this year,
and double that amount next year.
Commodore C. L. E. Robinson, Secre
tary J V. «. Oddle, 8. Nicholson Kane,
r. O. K. Iselln, and E. M. Brown.
(Messrs Robinson, Oddle, Kane and
Brown are now dead.
Th< Herreehoffs again got the Job
of building the Defender. They con
structed the sloop Constitution, the
money being supplied by August Bel
mont, .lames Stillman, Oliver H.
J'ayne, F. O. Bourne, and Henry Wal
ters. ('upturn Urtas Rhodes sailed
her.
The Independence.
Poor Thomas W, l.nwson. of Boston,
built the Independence and wanted a
chance to pH her against the Consti
tution and Columbia in the official
trials, but the lordly New York Yacht
club barred him because he was not
one of their members.
Th' ' (institution was the victim of
r n ai i blent like that which happened
to the Columbia off Point Judith, the
year before. Hhe lost her mast at
Newport and was badly damaged. The
Columbia, wen finally selected to defend
the cup a second time.
The Shamrock 11.
The Shamrock 11. which was design
ed bv (oorge L. Watson, came to grief
in tTie Solent, May 22. 1901, while King
bid ward was on board. J.ike the Con
stitution and Columbia, her tall mast
wan too much for her In a strong
blow, and went overboard. But she
Was fixed up and was towed across the
Atlantic, making the trip in sixteen
days. ,
The Challenger was beaten by the,
Columbia three successive times by 1
minute 20 seconds, three minutes, 35
se< onds. and 41 seconds, respectively.
But the next year back was Sir
Thomas with a new challenger. He
had Watson A Fife Jointly design the
Shamrock 11, which was launched nt
Dumbarton, March 17, 1903, and christ
ened by the same lardy Shaftesbury
who broke the bottle over the bow of
tills year's challenger Captain Wrings
and Bel is sailed her. The Reliance
and the Shamrock 111 made nine starts
in 1003, but only completed three
races, nil of which were won hy the
American yacht, the first by 7 minutes,
2 seconds, and the second by 1 min
ute. 19 seconds. The Shamrock missed
the llnlah line In the fog In the third
race and her time was not taken.
Another Challenger.
Sir Thomas sent another challenger
In 1907, blit nothing came of it save
futile Jockeying. The Americans would
not compete against Sir Thomas' fix
foot raping sloop. The New York
Yacht Club declared that —"The Amer
ica's cup, held by this cluib as trustee,
under the deed of gift, la a trophy
and for the utmost skill In designing,
which stands pre-eminently for speed
construction, managing and handling
the competing vessels, and should
therefore be sailed for by the fastest
and most powerful vessels that can be
produced.”
Still Rlr Thomas did not give up.
He sent over more offers and after
much parleying, a race was Anally
agreed upon for this year. Should Sir
Thomas come a cropper with is freak
boat this autumn, there Is no reason
for thinking he will not be right back
again, way In 1916 or 1917. He believes
1n sticking ((ml he does want that cup.
Cup 60 Years Old.
The cup Is now more than sixty
years old. It cost less than SSOO when
new and would not be worth one-thlnl
of that today. The trophy was offered
by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a
nnc between boat* of all nations. The
America won It In August 22. 1851. In a
race around the Isle of Wight, off the
south coast of England,
It came Into the possession of the
New York Yacht Club In IRR7. when It
was presented ti' the club hy George 1,.
Schuyler, the then sole surviving own
er of the cup.
The total increase of revenue from In
como tax and death duties this year
will amount to something like $44,-
000,000.
In spite of these increases, Sir
George l'slsh, editor of The Statist,
save the burden of taxation la much
smaller than It has been in modern
history, lu 1880. when the expendi
ture came to $415,000,000, It was rais
ed out oT u national income of five
billion dollars. Now the national In
come reaches the enormous total of
$12,000,000,000 so It can easily stand
the increased expenditure. Sir George
argues that England can hear still
greater Increases In her budget.
"There are good grounds," ho anys,
"for believing that the Income aud
wealth of this country will again
double In another thirty years. When
it reaches twenty-five billion dollars,
and I have no doubt that it will with
in a generation, a budget of two and
a half billion dollars will be home
more easily than the burden of a bil
lion dollars, in 1014."
Georgia Underwriters’
Ass'n Elects Officers
Macon, G«. The Georgia Underwriters
Association this afternoon after a day
and a half of bualneaa la winding up Its
seventeenth annual convention thla aft
ernoon by an outing and batbaoua at
the Log Cabin Club.
1-Yank V. Cole, of Atlanta, thla morn
ing wm ceded president of the organi
sation the coming yaar. other officers
sleet ed were:
K It. Itarrold Macon, first vice-presi
dent-
. W. I. W Ison, Savannah, second vice
'president
C A. iUusthenhcrg, Jr,, Atlanta, eec
retary and treaaur.Y
Columbus was chosen unanimously for
site P*ls convenUou, there being no op
position
1-resident tp-o Itstriinggon of tho
Georgia Fire Prevention Society, of At
lanta, made a tnlk th a morning.
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Defiance Strong Contender For Honor of Defending America Cup
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Never in History of Europe Has Secret
Service of Espionage Been Or
ganized As It Is Today
London.—Never Jn the history of Eu
rope has the secret service of espionage
been organized, ns it is today. Week by
week fresh evidence of such a circum-
Htantlal character that, it cannot be
lightly ignored as the work of the scare
monger. Recent thefts of secret code
hooks, the conviction of a London “com
mission agent'’ who, with his wife, was
arrested at n London station, as he wafl
about to depart for the Continent carry
ing important documents with him, and
other Incidents of a similar character,
have created genuine alarm.
Evidence.
Practically all the evidence implicates
Germany and the latest disclosures re
veal an ingenious effort to take advant
age of the known difficulties under
which many British officers labor on
their pay, by procuring, under the guise
of commercial inquiries, such informa
tion of the financial status of individual
naval offeers as will guide Germany
agents to the means of placng tempta
tions in their way.
Most recently tlie naval authorities re
ceived information that a firm of Lon
don private detectives in King street,i
Chaapside. who have, conducted English
government Inquiries at times, were
charged by an apparent German com
mercial inquirer with the mission men
tioned, and but for the fact that suspic
ions were aroused the Information re
quired might have been innocently sup
plied.
Reciting the circumstances to an in
tervlewur few days ago, the chief
partner said:
Commercial Vein.
“It Is true that we recently received
a letter from Hamburg written in* a
purely commercial vein, asking us
whether !t whs possible to ascertain the
financial position of naval officers in
Portsmouth, Davenpbrt, Chatham and
the other naval ports or naval stations.
"The writer—whose name does not
matter, because we afterwards discov
ered it was assumed asked us our terms
for supplying the information, and meh
tioned that lie had been recommended
hy a notable detective firm in Berlin,
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„ . .. . PLUCKY SIR THOMAS UPTON AND HIS CHALLENGERS.
Here ia the strong hearted Irishman. Sir Thomas Upton who comes again o'er the Atlantic this sum
mer in search of an old sliver cup. He’* tried three times before to capture that much prized emblem Above
Is a scene on the deck of the Shamrock 111, which fought hard in 1903 against the Reliance, but was defeat
ed two time* and was lost in the fog tho third time. e *
Below to the left is the Shamrock J. the Mrst challenger of Sir Llpton, with which he cam© over in 1899
hoping great hopes. She was defeated two times and disabled in the tbiru race.
To the right Is the Shamrock It, the 1901 boat. The Columbia treated her even as *he had treated the
Shamrock l, w.au'u* three straight racea to the great satisfaction oX Uncle Sam.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
whom we knew well. In the ordinary
business course our office replied to the
latter. It should be understood that
Inquiries concerning people are received
from all over the world.
"The addvess given for the reply was
to a box In the post office at Hamburg,
the town from which the inquiry was
dated. But immediately afterwards the
wholesale nature of the Inquiry and the
box-office address roused our suspicion,
and we followed the letter quickly by
another, askln gthe prospective client s
objects.
“At the same time we communicated
with the Berlin detective office, the
nam which was g.ven as an Introduc
tion. We are unable to convey details
of the results of these Inquiries, for the
whole matter is extremely delicate, but
we may indicate the purport that was
clear between the line th object was the
discovery of Individual naval officers
whose pressing financial needs might
render them open to temptation with a
view to Germany’s espionage.
Concealed.
$ “Investigations w-e caused to be made
at Hamburg fully confirmed our con
clusions —the only really possible ones.
The actual receivers of leters at Ham
burg address were so cunningly con
cealed that it was impossible to trace
them. We thereupon forwarded th#
letters and the results of our Inquiries
to the proper authorities In London."
There can be no doubt that the esp on
uge campaign fostered hy Germany is of
the most comprehensive character and
the police here make no secret of the
fact that they have evldneee that
through every possible channel, no mat
ter how devious, Germany is endeavor
ing to accumulate intimate Information
not only concerning matters which
need the tempting of Impecunious of
ficers. but coni erpirjg cemirterclal docks,
engineering, water, nn<J average works.
The items last name# are knowledge
necessary to an Invader whose cutting
of water supplies and blocking of sew
erage outlets become necessaiY In selge.
As typical instances the following are
[5 v Jsr y&>w
related by an authority in a position to
be accurate:
Not long ago an advertisement to con-
tractors appeared in English newspapers
requiring estimates In regard to plans
for gas, electric, and other supplies to a
provincial town. The announcement
apparently escaped foreign attention un
til the date fixed for the contracts had
passed. But a German firm at that
hour raid $250 for the procuring of a
copy of the accepted plans, with the bulk
and nature of the supplies, in a second
case a German clerk entered the service
of a Large firm of English contractors
and suddenly disappeared after the con
clusion of a sea coast contract. It
afterwards became certain that evea-y
detail in regard to the works had been
copied.
Audacious Act.
But the latest and most audacious act
of an alleged foreign spy—an act which
is not without its ..umorous slde»-!s pub
lished this week. It is ‘a story vouch
ed for in authoritative quarters and it
tells of how a distinguished looking
stranger walked into an English naval
dockyard, and availing himself of the
truthfulness and cupidity of officials,
succeeded in getting many highly confi
dential designs minutely explained to
him. It is narrated that a few days
ago a smartly-dressed and well groomed
man made his appearance at the office
of the superintendent of the dockyard
and, finding, the chief naval dignitary of
tile place absent, inquired his way to
the drawing office. Arriving among the
draughtsmen, who had several desgns of
a very secret nature spread out on the
drawing boards before them, the unex
pected visitor obtained the confldnce of
th head draughtsman by representing
himself as an official who had been
specially sent down from the admiralty
to Investigate certain designs which were
about to be put into execution. Overaw
ed by the presence of such an important
personage as a representative • direct
from Whlthali, the head draughtsman
told the stranger everything that he
wanted to know, and at a close inter
view, politely ushered him out of the of
fice.
TIE POLITICAL
FEAMNCE
Manifests Itself in Most Ex
traordinary Ways—Has Now
Been Bitterly Realized.
Paris.—Political fervor in Franca
manifests Itself In extraordinary ways
as the mayor of the small commune
of Harlgnae, near Brest, has bitterly
realized. On the wedding day of the
worthy man's eon the three local can
didates at the general election were
invited as honored guests to the wed
ding dinner They came, and every
thing went well until some one cas
ually made a remark upon the in
creased expenses which people are
called upon to meet nowadays
One of the parliamentary candi
dates —an enthusiastic politician—
could not let this opportunity slip.
Springing to his feet he declared. “If
I am elected to the Chamber. I shall
Insist that the taxes for the army
and navy should be borne entirely by
the rich."
Not Unchallenged.
■ The other two candidates could not
SUNDAY. JUNE 14.
THE DEFIANCE.
Two views of the would-be cup de*
fender Defiance, which was designed
and built under the direction of George
Evans, at Bath, Me., by virtue of funds
furnished by a syndicate of New York,
Philadelphia and Boston yachtsmen.
The Defiance Is now being rigged for
the long series of elimination races In
which it will compete with the Reso
lute and Vanitie during June and July
for the honor of defending the Amerr
lca Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton’#
British challenger, Shamrock IV.
let this go unchallenged, so they too,
sprang to their feet. In a moment
the wedding dinner was transformed
into an election meeting. The guest#,
now divided into three hostile camps,
all began to speak at once, each one
eulogizing the candidate which he fa
vored and abusing those who dared
to disagree. The mayoress, mean
while, was much distressed to see
that her carefully prepared dishes
were growing cold and that the choic
est delicacies were remaining un
touched. Her anguish was unnoticed
even by the mayor, who as befitted a
conscientious politician, took a prom
inent part in the discussion.
Passionate Debaters.
The bridegroom and the bride, also
proved themselves to be passionate
debaters. Alas they each champion
ed a different candidate, and the
young wife was very angry that her
husband could be so nasty as to argue
against 'her candidate, who had such
a beautiiul beard, a monocle and pat
ent leather boots, while the bride
groom had none" of these embellish-*
ments.
This led to a fierce quarrel between
the newly married couple, slid in this
the parents of the young people join
ed. Somehow scatching words lied to
blows and the bride fainted. A free
fight followed, the adherents of the
different candidates doing battle lust
ily. The intervention of the police
broke up the bear-garden, and the
bridegroom's promise to vote for the
man with the beard and the monocle
and the patent leather boots even
tually reconciled the newly married
coupie before the honeymoon started.
WIRELESS FO6
GUNS INSTALLED
For Making Entry and Depart
ure Safer From Port—Clyde
Light-House Trust Is Re
sponsible.
London. —Wireless telegraphy here
has advanced another stage and we
are now having practical experiments
with wireless fog guns which have
been installed on the Clyde. For this
remarkable system of making safer
the entry into and departure from port
the Clyde Lighthouse Trust Is respon
sible. They have established a wire
less control station on the shore at
Gourock, from which signals are oper
ated at Fort Matilda and on a btjoy
in that part of the fairway known as
Roseneath Patch, and It is said to he
working well.
For some time past the Marconi ex
perts have been testing an apparatus
for distant control, and their appara
tus has been combined with an auto
matic fog-gun, known as the Steven
son-Moyes acetylene gun. This has
been erected on an isolated beacon in
mid-sea and has not only been left
unatteded for weeks on end, but has.
during this time, been exposed to all
weathers and to the "Jamming" from
strong wireless signals received from
ships passing close at hand. These
tests have been In every way satisfac
tory, the gun, when wireless control
Is switched on by someone In the coast
guard station where the transmitting
apparatus Is set up, firing at inter
vals of about twenty seconds and glv-*
ing both a loud report and a brilliant
flash There Is a sufficient supply of
acetylene gas In the "gun" to allow
for continuous firing, at the rate of
three flashes and reports per minute
for f.'om two to three weeks.
The Problem.
The problem which has been solved
In respect to this apparatus waa a
difficult one for the wireless engineer,
for it was esesntial that the arrange
ment of the apparatus should be of
such a character aa not to require
overhauling for months at a time, yet
must be ready to work at any mo
ment, and that It should be quite un
affected by signals, however strong,
from passing ships or big shore sta
tions.
The transmitting apparatus Installed
on shore, to be operated by the coaet
guarda, Is very simple All that the
man has to do is to put the switch
to "on" or "off.” It is expected that
the same apparatus or slight adapta
tions will be utilized rbr mine and
railway work and that for blnstlng
purposes this or some similar devtcs
will take the placeo f the dangerous
and uncertain time-fuse.
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