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Cis, og wiABINE REVIEW. _ INDEPENDENCE'S REMARKABLE RUN. More or less disappointment is expressed throughout the country that the Boston boat Independence is not to have a go for the America's cup. Her remarkable performance in sailing Sunday of this week from Vineyard Haven to New London in eight hours, with the wind almost -- head.on, will add somewhat to the disappointment. The distance is eighty miles, as the crow flies, the yacht averaging ten knots_an hour, but making at times on several stretches much better speed. For more than one-half of the stretch the water was suited perfectly to the flat-floored yacht and she went along under working topsails and three lower sails at a great pace. From Gayhead to a point a few miles beyond Point Judith the Independence had to contend with a long southwest swell, the result of a*previous blow; and she bumped into it with considerable commotion, her speed being- materially lessened-during this time: » 7 The best work of the yacht was from half-way between Judith and Black island to. Watch Hill, a.distance of 174 miles, when she traveled at better than a 12-knot clip. One-half of this stretch was made under three lower sails only, the wind having freshened when off Queen Hill, and the triangular piece of cloth aloft. was ordered down. The entire distance from when Charles Foster tacked ship. between, Point Judith and Block island to New London light was made in one long board with boom to starboard. Another long stretch of easy sailing was from off Gay. Head, [July 4, heavy swell was met, but the yacht plunged along, with scarcely diminished speed. The crew manned the pump and worked for a few minutes to get the water which had come through the several imperfectly caulked seams out of the fin. It was just 4 o'clock when Mr. Foster swung her to star- board on what proved to be the last hitch of the day. The wind -- increasing steadily, and several times the yacht's lee rail was awash, er speed was then at its best and the storm king could not hold the sloop. Further along the shore, when off Queen Hill, the breeze was still increas- ing, and at 4.43 the topsail was lowered. Even under this diminished canvas the yacht traveled along.at.a great pace and left the tug Wrestler steadily. Watch Hill was passed at 5.30 and Race Rock forty-eight minutes later. Sheets were eased at 6.45 around New London light for the run-up 'the mouth of the Thames, and anchor was cast off the Pequot at (lap iT 3 iV 79028 3¢ "A GREAT CLIPPER SHIP. On this page will be found a drawing of the clipper ship France, reported as lost in the south Atlantic.. With the single exception of the Petosi, she is the largest sailing ship ever built. She was built in 1890 by Henderson & Co., Partick, Scotland, for Messrs. Bord of Bordeaux and sailed under the tri-color. Her length is 360 ft. between perpendicu-. SAILING SHIP FRANCE, LONG OVEK DUE AND PROBABLY LOST. where she tacked to port at 12.35 anu headed straight for the westward. She was held on this tack for 26% miles, the crew taking matters -easy while Designer Crowinshield and Mr. Foster stood tricks at the wheel to relieve Capt. Haff. This long distance was sailed over in 2 hours and 43 minutes, showing that her average speed was about 10 miles an hour for the greater part of the course. The Chesterton took the Independence in tow at Vineyard Haven at 10.30 o'clock and went slowly out- to East Chop, where the yacht was swung into the wind and her mainsail hoisted. It was swayed into place at 10.40 and five minutes later the jib was broken out and the forestays all hoisted. The yacht went out past West Chep buoy on the port tack, her sails drawing finely and giving her a gentle heel. The wind was then' blowing about 10 knots an hour, but as she opened out across the sound toward Tarpaulin Cove, 6 milés away, it dropped slightly. Just under Tarpaulin Cove light the sloop yacht Hypatia, with Commodore Codman of the Dorchester yacht club anda party of friends on board, was passed and the Independence received a hearty greeting. Haff tacked to star- board at 11.30 and stood across the Vineyard, coming about again fifteen minutes later to clear a tug and her barges. Under the Naushon shore Haff swung her to starboard at 11.50 and a couple of men were sent aloft to lace the gaff topsail to the topmast as it went up. The sail was sheeted home exactly at noon as the Independence tacked to port and headed for Pasque Isle. The increase of canvas made itself felt immediately and gathering away rapidly, the yacht raced along in fine style. Going down the sound the Boston sloop met the long swell from the southwest and although at times she pitched right into it, the waves did not knock her off any. At 12.30 Haff swung her about again and stood out past Gay Head fifteen minutes later. With Gay Head light bearing southeast about two miles, the yacht went off on the long board to port which she was held on for nearly three hours. No attempt was made to get the best speed possible out of the yacht, the crew lolling about in comfortable positions along the weather rail, Getting farther up the coast the breakers came in sight and the Inde- pendence was under the Narragansett shore very quickly after that. At 3.17 when two miles south of the pier, Crowinshield tacked ship and stood out toward Block island for about seven miles, Off Point Judith, the usual lars, with a beam of 50 ft., and her registered tonnage of 3,750 tons, with a. carrying capacity of 6,150 tons. She was built with a double bottom and could carry 2,200 tons of water ballast. Her sail area is enormous. she was designed as a four-master, but to balance her enormous spread of canvas an extra mast was stepped. The France was a beautiful thing to look at. JAPAN'S ADVANCE IN SHIP BUILDING. The determination of Japan to become in every sense a modern nation is amply illustrated in its advance in ship building. The ship yard in Tokio, which covers sixty acres, is reported as employing 3,000 men and to be equipped with the latest machinery, including pneumatic riveters, and several steamers aggregating 180,000 tons are on the stocks, two of them for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The yard is also equipped with electricity. The ship building yard at Nagasaki is also progressing, but special interest attaches to the government yard. The government works are on the eastern shore of Kiushiu, the most southern of the large islands forming the empire, and are therefore contiguous to China. The establishment, which covers over 230 acres, is close by the coal fields connected with the railways. In addition to the blast furnaces there are coke ovens, and in the steel department open-hearth Bessemer furnaces with a full set of rolling mills for roughing, three-bar mills, as well as rail, sheet and plate rolls. _ A very attractive engraving, intended to represent the finish of the City of Erie-Tashmoo race, is a feature of a special time card for July and August service, in connection with the Pan-American exposition, just issued by Passenger Agent Herman of the Cleveland &- Buffalo. line. During these two months a steamer will leave Cleveland at 8 a. m. daily excepting Sunday, arriving in Buffalo at 6 p. m.; another steamer will leave daily (Sunday included in this service), at 8 p. m., arriving in Buffalo at 6 a. m.; on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays an extra steamer will leave at 5 p. m., arriving in Buffalo at 5.30. The service from Buffalo to Cleveland will be a duplication of that just noted. Fare on the day boats will be $1.50 and on the night boats $2.50.