Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-13
FLOATING PALACES.
Eillionaires Creating 3 Monopoly in Yachts
The Latest Ordered.


Some people say that Jay Goulds
failure TO secure an election to one or
more of the leading yacht clubs-not-
withstanding the fact that he will own
perhaps the finest and fastest steam
Yacht yet built--will result in his eleYa-
ton to the proud position OF Commo-
dore. or possibly Admiral of q club com
posed exclusively of millionaires who
are able TO buy or build steam yachts
regardless of expense, writes q New
York correspondent 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
''as good rs Gould's if not better and
every CrGsus is in lively competition
with the rest of the Crnsus family
For, after all, it is mere matter of mon
et. The model has been found in the
Atalanta, which will do, il is claimed,
twenty knots an hour, though the Alta
lanta is vet TO do il. But somewhere
from fifteen to twenty knots viii be at
tanned by these new vessels, and there
is no limit TO the amount that can be
invested in the way of gorgeous interior
fl tings and decorations. The Atalanta
is marvel in the way of wood work
and upholstery, and it will have electric
lirits. patent machinery for making
ice. and every conceivable convenience
and comfort. The simple sailing yachts
have heretofore been considered, by
those most interested, rich owners,
costly enough 1t is 9t the mere build
ing or fitting up tina tells the story. 1t
is not, according to the too readily nc
copied proYerb, the firststep that costs.
After investing anywhere from $50. 900
Ia $4,000 in 3 sailing yacht, the game
has not begun. The literally running"
EXPENSES are what pull on the most
pictnoric pocket-book. A while ago
Gu,et bank cashier in Wall street, who
for ny years had owned and in Sum-
mer ran on the sound and round to
Newport o comparatively modest yacht
was asked what the amusement and
pleasure cost him. "Oh, he replied. IL
don t pretend to 90 into the thing like
those fellows Jim Bennett and the rest,
and give swell parties aboard and 60
TO the Mediterranean, and all that. OF
course have to keep my Captain and
crew the year round, but. while keep
I'M them. | keep my own expenses
down, and | manage to run my yacht
very well for $4,000 wear. And
this sum IS small in comparison with
what Bennett and his competing crowd
spend in Yachting every year, simply
brcause they must compete, and are
able to do 1t. These young fellers, y
as the old yachtmen call them, think
they are doing bic things in the pleas
IRE steam yacht line; but thirty-liyc
years ago, rs tar back as 1858 old Com
moaore Vanderbilt beat the best OK
them, Goulu with his Atalanta and all.
when he built the magnificent North
Star and took his family, friends, cook
and chaplain across the Atlantic and
on Il general tour to all the seaports of
Europe The Atalanta is M oyster boat
90 the North Star, and the old Commo-
dore knew something about the sea and
ships and sailors. Another thing: This
modern display of mere moneyin yachts
and yachting knocks all the poetry out
of the pastime. A paragraph in the
Sun says:
Our millionaire vachtmen do not
understand the romance OF yachting.
Their practical business training fol-
lows them into aquatics. They build
steam yachts for speed and commodi-
business. 1neN will never know the de-
H. hi of bringing trim sailing craft up
into stiff breeze. watching her white
sails fill, and feeling her bound over
the waves while the spray sparkles
around her bow. That IS the poetry Of
yaeitin@
Inat is it, exactly. There is no ro-
nance or poetry in 4 steam yacht
any more than there is in a locomotive.
You cannot pat y steam Yacht into a
picture or a poem-for either it is too
practical too mattcr-of-fact. But
'achlino is an excellent medium for
the display Of millionaire's money
1t will give greater security and safety
TO the landSmen who own them; enable
them to run sooner for shelter when
storms on the sound threaten, and will
be 4 convenience TO brokers who wish
speedily TO get back to business every
dav, or two or three times a week, from
the nearby resorts But these costly
mxuries will be the monopoly of the mil
lionaires. There is no danger that the
sailing yacht will go out of existence
Boston Herald.