AN OCEAN RACE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11117, 8 November 1901, Page 7

AN OCEAN RACE.

Two ships, says "Leslie's Weekly," are to race from New xork to Yokohama. Of course everybody has heard that ships—especially steamships—never race, and many persons will wonder, therefore, what it means. It is more nautical to say thai rival captains will crowd on all sail, and do their best to outstrip each other. This, in fact, may- 'be depended upon, for one of the vessels is the British four-masted barque Brilliant, of 3600 tons, the largest sailing vessel that ever entered !N"ew York harbour, while tho other is the. four-masted barque Acme, Captain Lawxeoit, oi about 3000 tons, flying tho stars and

Stripes. The vessels are both new, and art the first of a great fleet the Standard Oil Companf is having built on the Clyde anC in Maine for ita export trade. The .brilliant carries 1,750,000 gallons of oil, and the Acme 1500000 gallons. The race ass *n international interest, and the respective menta of rival American and British builders will be decided to some extent by the result. The ships will go around the Capo of Good Hope and traverse the South Seas between. New Zealand and Australia to Japan. A shorter route is through the Straits of Snnda and the China Sea. but this is a bad season, to undertake it. A good passage can bo made by the former route in from 120 to 140 days. A new retord may be made when the ships reach Yokohama. The interest in the outcome i$ not confined to New. York, but extends to Maine, where Captain Lawrence is known as an expert and daring skipper, and to the Clyde, where Captain Coliinshaw, oi the .Brilliant, is well known.