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TWO 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. WANTED: SEVERAL BOVS TO CAR ry The Herald Apply Sub Station No. L Ko lock street. ts Defiance Strong Contender For Honor of Defending America Cup vnsarmmr '■* poi l !^^«■■' 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, STILL IN SEARCH OF OLD SILVER CUP ■ ■ W jtigi r* I? Jmam i M I ' / M . ... "***" **-•"•- < 'M^—aL^L^ssai— * - ,a' tr . \ ■*vcs 4gi|L<|wi , tW|ft3f»a!flsll^wßßßMßMrf!|BS!Wiy^Psgß^^ ZZk+lSF' JXllQ'laXl 1 wJrTTr 1 x-i j!^^cytog^ffie „ . .. . 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. WANTED: SEVERAL BOYS TO CAR ry The Herald. Apply Sub Station No. X, Kollock street. el