Morris tribune., 1883-07-28
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MifIiOnaires Creating a Monopoly bs
Yaclns-The Latest Ordered.

MifIionaires Creating a Monopoly ian
YacIrts-The Latest Ordered.
From the Boston Herald. $3.50
Some people say that Jay Goulfs fail
ure to secure an election to one or more
of the leading yacht clubs-nOtwithstan nd
ing the fact that he will own perhaps
the finest and fastest elevation to the
proud position of Commodore, Or possibly
Admiral, of a club composed exclusively
of millionaires who are able to bHy or
build steam yachts regardless OF expense
writes New York corresponds mt OF the
Hartford Times. Since Gould's Atlanta
was launched, James Gordon Bennett
and two or three more have ordered
new vessels, STIMULATING that they shall
be "ss good as Gould's," if not better,
and every CrGsus ls IN
GI,a1, romnetition With
the rest of the Croestts family. For after
Rll. II ia a mere matter Of money. Ihe
model has been found in the Atlanta,
which will do, it is claimed, twenty
knots an hour, though the Atlanta ID VeS
to do it, But somewhere from fifteen TO
twenty knots will be attained by these
new vessels, and there is no limit to tRe
amount that can be invested IN. the way
of gorgeous interior Gttings and decora-
tIons. The Atlanta Is marVel III tne
way of wood works and upholstery, and
it will have electric lights, patent ma
chinery for making ice, and every con
ceiyable convenience and comic Inc
s;,nple sailing yachts have heretofore
heen considered, by those most interest,"
ed. rich owners, costly enough. IL ls
not the mere building or fitting up that
tells the story. 1t is not, according to
tf,e too readily accepted proverb, the
first stey that costs. After investing any
where from $5O. 900 10 $4,000 in sail
ing Yacht, the game has not begun. The
literally Hrunning" expenses are what
pull on the most plethoriC pocket-book..
4 while ago quiet bank cashier IN wall
street, who for many years had owned
and in Summer ran On the sound and
round to Newport a comparatively MOO
est Yacht, was asked what the amu<e-
ment and pleasure cost him. oh" ne
replied, 81 don't pretend to 60 INTO the
thing like those fellows Jim Bennett and
the rest. and give swell parties aboard
and 20 to the Mediterranean,a and ALI
that. OF course ! have to keep my zap
tain and crew the year round, but while
keeping them, keep my own expenses
down. anif manage to run my yacht
yery well for $4,000 a year" And
this sum is small III comparison with
what Bennett and bis competing
crowd spend in yachting every
wear. simply because they must COM
i,ets' and are able to do it, These
1youne fellers," as the old yachtmen
call them, think they are doing big
things in the pleasure steam yacht line;
but thirty years ago, as far back as 1893
old Commodore Vanderbilt beat the
best of them, Gould with his Atlanta
and all, when he built the magnificent
North Star and took his family, frlends,
cook and chaplain across the Atlantic
and on general tour to all the seaports
of Europe. The Atlanta ls an oyster
boat to the North Star, and the old COM
modore knew something about the sea
and ships and sailors. Another thing:
This modern display OF mere money IN
Yachting knocks ali the poetry out OF
fhe pastime. A paragraph in to-day's.
Sun says:
"Our millionaire yachtmen do not
understand the romance OF yacbtlng-
Their practical business training fol-
lows them into aquatcs. They build
steam yachts for speed and commodl-
ousness. They will never know the de-
light of bringing trim sailing craft up
into stiff breeze, watching her white
sails I'LL. and feeling her bound over the
waves while the spray sparkles around
her bow. That is the poetry OF yacht
ing"
That is it, exactly. There is no ro-
nance or poetry in steam yacht-any-
more than there is in locomotive
You cannot put steam yacht into pic
ture or poem-for either it is too prac
teal, too matter-of. fact. But yachting is
an excellent medirm for the display of
a millionaire's money. 1t will give
greater security and safety to the lands
men who own them; enable them to run
sooner for shelter when storms On the
sound threaten and will be a coDven-
ience to brokers who wish speedily to go
back to business everyday, or So or three
times week, from the near by resorts.
But these costly luxlries will be the
monopoly of the millionaires, There is
no danger that the sailing yacht will
60 out of existence.