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...days of racing off Newport ended the cruise. Twenty-two year old Elizabeth ("Sis") Hovey, sailing her father's Istalena, beat Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (called "Chick" by fellow yachtsmen) in the Vanitie to win the Astor Cup for sloops; Rowe B. Metcalf's Sachem won the Astor Cup for schooners. Next day, in a fine fresh breeze, Weetamoe won the cup presented by King George V, beating Valiant by one second over the 30-mile triangular course...
...first capacity he has had eight policemen indicted, sent six others to prison, removed two magistrates, sent three scampering off under fire. In his capacity as the Governor's representative to hear malfeasance charges against doddering District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain of New York County, Tammany Sachem, he had not, up to last weekend, reported his conclusions. As the Legislature's agent he was pressing his queries into the political machinery of sprawling Queens Borough, and even into the private financial affairs of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, who started off last week on another of his famed vacations...
Birthday. Col. Edward Mandell House (73), Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians (55), George Bernard Shaw (75), George Foster Peabody, retired banker, philanthropist (79), John R. Voorhis, Tammany Grand Sachem...
...Society of Tammany, patriotic mainspring of New York City's practical Democratic machine, violated its own by-laws for the 19th consecutive time last week when it allowed John R. Voorhis to continue for another year as Grand Sachem. Under its rules a Grand Sachem serves one year, cannot be reelected. Mr. Voorhis was chosen Grand Sachem in 1912 when he was 83. He has served ever since as honorary head of Tammany Hall through the inability of the Sachems to muster a majority vote in favor of someone else. Each passing year they have expected Time to settle...
Legislative Inquiry. With the ambiguous clearing of Mayor Walker and the growing certainty that the Governor will be unable to exonerate ineffectual Sachem Grain, Tammany girded up its loins for a bitter technical battle against the legislative investigation committee whose chiefs conferred in Manhattan late last week...