The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03
BROWNS QUEER LIFE.
New York millionaire Living a Sort
of Hermit Life on a Yacht.
From the New York Advertiser.

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From the New York Advertiser
For five years there has been lying at
anchor in the harbor of Brightlirgsea, at
the mouth of the River Colne, England,
one of the finest steam yachts in Europe.
1t has been the home all these years Ct
McEvers Bayard Brown of New York
he is very wealthy and eccentric 1t is
said that his life on board the Valfreyia
Is not dull, though her anchors are never
raised and the fires are never lighted
under her boilers. Changes among the
crew are very frequent Liberal wages
are paid. No one who ever visited Amer
lea is eligible for employment, ana appli-
cants for work must furnish satisfactory
evidence that they are not women in dis
guise
Until recently the crew included a mas
ter, two deck officers, three engineers, a
carpenter, four stewards, three cooks and
physician, BESIDES full complement of
seamen and fremen-S4, 900 a month for
the maintenance of a 5000 600 yacht al
ways at anchor, on which no woman was
under any conditions allowed to set foot
The American owners eccentricities
are SAID TO be source of constant won
derment to the village folk. He keeps
squirt guns loaded with cold water and
amuses himself IL is alleged, by lying in
Az times he beats them, after attacking
Them when they are asleep. He gathers
Them about him to drink ale in the fore
castle and suddenly picks up cudgel and
lays about him right and left
William Bayard Cutting said yester-
gay; Mr.. Brown is my first cousin.
indeed, l may say we have been like
brothers. l know that he has heen living
On MS yacht at Brightlingsea for the past
Iour or five years. and that the fact that
not wheel Of the yacht has been turned
curing that time would cause people to
regard him as eccentric. Upon the death
OF his father, MIR. Speers Brown, about
eight years ago, he went TO Europe and
Vhere chartered a yacht, in which he
made an extended cruise in the far East.
lie subsequently purchased the yacht
called the Lady Torfrida, which he sold
10 member of the royal family of Rus
STA.
After that he returned to New York,
out dld not remain here long, returning
10 England, where he purchased the Val
reyla, and has remained on board of her
ever since. l have frequently received
ietters from him, and they demonstrate
tuat he has keen sense Of business. He
Is d man who never spends the income of
ms fortune, the greater part Of which
was derived from the late Robert
biayard, who was his as well as my grand
father.
u know that he took strong fancy to
the locality OF Brightlingsea, where he
bought several acres of land and con-
.erted it into park, which he gave TO
the people He also contributed literally
voWard the maintenance of the church
mere, and in other ways has benefited the
place.
u never knew that he had any senti-
ment but love for his native country If
He mas been guilty Of the acts mentioned
"a the newspapers he certainly must be
o. unsound mind but have never had
occasion 10 suspect him of mental I'M
SS01undness. He is a member Of the Union
CCituo, the Riding Club, the knickerbocker
Sluo and the Southside Club. Neither
Ky brother nor myself nor any other of
us relatives has ever taken any steps
tooHlng toward Mr.. Brown S incarceration
~ an Insane asylum, nor had we any rea-
''u Tor attempting such a thing"