Word: steamer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...snag from Yale's course. Captain Thompson admitted that this act of the referee counterbalanced the changing of the buoy. It was then explained that the referee's signals with a red handkerchief were directed, not at the Harvard crew, but at the engineer of his own little steamer, to regulate the speed. The charge that he signalled the Harvard crew was accordingly withdrawn. The last charge was that the referee had ordered Yale out of what Captain Thompson called Yale's own water, - water which Yale had taken in Harvard's course, behind Harvard. Captain Bancroft stated that...
...fellows sat up straight and sturdy after their glorious victory, and seemed as comfortable and unmoved as if just ready to start for a practice pull. Yale rowed to the western bank, and got out of their boat, and then were taken back to their quarters in their little steamer, their shell being towed astern. Harvard turned up stream, and pulled away home at a steady stroke...
...surveyed, and buoyed at start and finish, before the arrival of the crews, and to agree to keep it clear of boats during the race; to build a Grand Stand at the finish, for which the price of admission shall not be more than fifty cents; to furnish a steamer to follow the race, whose speed shall be at least fourteen miles an hour, and which shall be ready for use, and at the service of the Regatta Committee, four days before the 30th of June; to build a boat-house, with float for each crew, at such places...
...LEFT Brindisi one bright day in February for Alexandria, in the steamer Teheran, which plied between Venice and Bombay, touching at this point for the India mail from London. The first day out was rough, so that few passengers appeared, and our company at the dinner-table was small; but towards evening it began to clear off, and people who had kept their state-rooms all day began to show themselves on deck. A trip on an Indian steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew...
...learn that about twenty packages of Peruvian antiquities for our Agassiz Museum of Natural History were received by steamer in New York last Tuesday...