The Russellville Democrat., 1892-05-19
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 Each advancing yAax makes nnnFe apparent the university q taste for naunasc sports among the Ansar- cz1 people, szys 2. " pangforA, Of Jersey City in ths May Censury. Yachting has ever been growing past . by the wasars of the North Atlzntie ooaEk. We now End white saiAs in tks least-exre FsEaces yachts and yaehters where knt few years ago the onIy sailors were the sirnid wild ducks and the solemn mzd-hen; boats upon waters that have scarcely ceased to ripple from the agitation of their first in- rasson by a launched vessel but terHT canoes sending over rivers that not A decade since knew no alien thing save the Indians dug ont; lakes upon which Boat shapesy vessels of pattern 50 modern that they almost seem un- couth in their intrusion upon na- tnres prineval landscape slcOps and cutters, sehooners and cat boats, every kind of sailing craft, in short. that can he made to cater ts shs ynchter's insatizte desire for sport Ia ~@SasIng the United Ssates takes first rank her yachts and sachserx out number and out sal those of all other countries. Few among the Hand lubbersr of the country, and not many yaeshters, rssaiixe the magnitude of this nation al pastinae. The Queens Cup raees gave the sport q publicity which is never had before, but even those events did net bring to general publie notice an adequate concep- ton of the extent of this interest.
 IL ia safe to estimate that there is Al least ore yacht to every ten shousand people in the land, and ihAt an average yacht will carry at lsaas ten persons. This means that shers are at Least six thousand yaeht-ownerx in the country. and snaf sixty thousand people may par tseipAae in pleasure sailing; large number, surely, to be devoted to a sport which is necessarily confined to localities near the water, and which is an expensive pastirne. The pablsc hears much of vessels Of the Volunteer and Crayling types, champions of the "big-boatn classes, but the real yachters of the land are the owners of small boats in fact, 'he big boat owner generally keeps small yacht in which to enjoy him.
 f when he feels like being master of hia own craft. A few statistics wsll render this quite plain.
 Figures that are somewhat in- complete show that there are over a0 organized yacht clubs in the United States. which enroll nearly 1000 yachts. or these, less than one thirteenth are steam vessels, lannehes, etc, and not sailing boats al all One eleventh are chased as large yachts, including many steam and sal vessels, big schoon- ers and slogps, all of more than forty feef water. line measurement. That is to say of 4O00 recorded yachts hve-sixths are sailing vessels under % feet. This shows coneIu- sively shat the majority cf Americsr yachts are small boats that are man. aged by their owners. It is safe to assert that there are at least 2C00 more sEnall yachts which are not ea- tered in clubs, ard of which no ex- at record can be given.
 The POO clubs report amember- ship Of over 7000 men, 4000 of whom are yacht owners. Leaving nat of them as owners of large and very costly vessels ranging in value from 5000 to perhaps $500, 900 each, and assuming the average cost of the small yachts to be about 5000, which is low figure, one one hnds that 6ve-sixths or these 80D0 yachts represent an invested capital of s3 300 ,000; & large sum when Il is remembered that a yacht never pays back anything in profit to their buyers. and that, like horses aAd carriages, they eat up great deal of money all the time. The average dues, etc., of a yacht club are about s25 q year, not eouuting extras. This, paid in by 1000 naetnberx Of clubs. shows a revenue of sl75. .000 per annnm, which really represents no part of tbe great cost foe yachting. for every yacht owner has to pay his own expenses, and tho club dues arc spent en shore Al very low estimate the owner of a small yacht vii spend f3o a month during the season of about Eve monthe This means that fhe small yacht sailors of tho country spend d least s~sp0 et0 in season How mnch sheir yacht. Ing cost the owners of the tx boats i would l,e impossible to state the sum is enormous
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