Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Racing on a Grand Scale. [ARTICLE]

Racing on a Grand Scale.

An ocean steam-yacht race is to take place in September next from New York to Southampton, England. A prize of $60,000 is offered, and four new steam yachts now building expressly for the occasion are entered in the competition. They are the Corsair, which belongs to Mr. Charles J. Osborne. She is building at a Philadelphia yard, and in appearance is said to excel in model and style anything that has been attempted in this country before. She is 179 feet feet 6 inches long, pu the main deck, 23 feet beam, 13 feet depth of hold, 9 feet mean draught and 11 feet draught aft, schooner rigged, built of iron, laid flush’ and has a displacement, of 380 fojrs’

Tlie yacht Stranger, owned by George A. Osgood, a "Wall street Broker, is built on the same model as the Corsair, and there is scarcely any difference between than, except in their interior arrangements. The third vessel is the Yosemite, building at Chester, JPa., for William F. Belden.- The dimensions are : Length over, all, 200 feet; length of deck, 175 feet; breadth of beam, 24 feet; deptteof hold, 16 feet, and draught of water, feet. The engine will be similar to those of the Stranger and Corsair. The fourth vessel is building at NewfeujK for Mr. James G. Bennett, bu&fenbt sqfar advance! as the other