Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-05-15
COST OF ROYAL YACHTS.
ENORMOUS SUMS LAID OUT FOR
THEM IN THE OLD WORLD.


Exam pies In Recent Ruasiss Beats-vtvs
Million Dollars Expended fer Two YsehtAs |
One Of which Was Never Ussd-England's
outiays and . Protest Against Them.
Admitting the importance In . country
which has monarchical form Of govern.
ment that the splendor and dignity OF
the sovereign should be maintained. The
London Daily News remarks that "there
are extravagant as well as reasonable
methods of maintaining all the splendor
and dignity that may be desirable, and
few people who give themselves the
trouble Of inquiring into the subject will
be found to deny that an enormous
amount of money has been needlessly
wasted in connection with royal yachts.
Great Britain is far from being the
only country in which such wasteful ex-
penditure has occurred and Is occurring.
Russia b O great transgressor in this re-
pect The late car already possessed
half dozen capital yachts when he gave
orders for the building Of the notorious
uvadia She was to be the largest and
most magnificent Is well as the most
original yacht in the world. Unlike all
other vessels Of the kind, she was % be
constructed with beam equal 10 two
thirds Of her length, 20 that she might
not roll, and the imperial family might
b spared the horrors Of seasickness
She was 10 be supplied with three screws
% that she might Be handy Is well as
fast And upon her spacious deck was
70 be built a veritable palace. The plans
were carried out, and the Livadia was
launched at Govan In 1880.
ExTRAvAaANT GEARS.
Probably no one knows what she
cost, but it is certain that from first to
last considerably more than e500, 600 was
expended on her. Yet her imperial own
er would have nothing to say TO her. As
Q yacht she was q colossal failure, and
today she is only useful as kind OF fioat-
ing barracks in the Black sea. The pres
ent car is, nevertheless, expending q
further $500, 900 over q new vessel,
which is to be called the Polarnaia
Zvezda, and which, should she be q sue
cess, will have all the magnificence, near
" all the size and more than the speed
and hardness of the discredited Noah's
ark in which his majesty once hoped to
take his pleasure.
The cars extravaganza does not in
lure us. Neither does the yachting ex'
travagance of the young German emper'
or, who, although he possesses in the
Hohenzollern one Of the prettiest and
most comfortable craftof the kind afioat
has Just applied to his faithful subjects
for a grant of money equal to f225 ,0O'
in order that he may build himself new
yacht. These examples are interesting
TO the British taxpayer only becaus'
they illustrate what appears to be a yer,
general tendency on the part Of the Eu
ropean royalties. It is not until the tax
payer comes to consider the royal zach
question as 1t affects him personally tina
he experiences any very discomfortinl
SHOCK.
Her majesty at present enjoys the us
Of four yachts and tenders. The yacht
are the Victoria and Albert and the o.
borne and the tenders, which for all prac
tical purposes are yachts also, and tn
All-~s. 81 A. ElR. The ,l1aof of fll
e. = a. ,;,sie raoh, Fisn which wa
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oair a;a.r',hraa tons d;snlacement sb
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craft Of 1000 tons displacement, yet he
:. 80 -, " .a"-ssa-s ,sat a, IN
s . - NE. s"e, .s;vs no,
ou.se'' sne Linh was al eA 20
Ain' one mas now oeen IN s,.,
iay years, ana, ourins us' pe'iou, VIZ
Su' reckoning tne wages o. 'he cIew ~ =,
the Pnce OF ner consuhao'e s'ores' .,
n nas cost an additional sum Oh over ~ 81, ~
wv, or on the average, more tnan 81"
year ner totai cost up 70 ua'o Deln
ABOUT t4',Vo. IL Is as II an oru az ~
S'uzen had poughs q mouse lor .o ~,
LOFTY years ago ana mao since spent -,
Wv NOT In adoihg 70 ~, pu' SIMPLY zee
ing IL In repair. Inc iitt'e Finn ~ a VI
moment mas cost the country over ~
ior every ton Oh her displacemen..
COMPARING ENGLISH VESSELS.
Next OF the four In point Oh age Is :,
Victoria and Albert, the largest Oh u
royal yachts. She Is OF 2,41o tons Oil
placement and was built at PEMBROKE
1000. her original cost, inclusive Oh ~
cidental dockyard charges, was El1o,cs