Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-25
A MILLION FOR GLORY
DEFENSE OF THE AMERICA CUP SAID
 TO HAVE COST THAT.

Coasting Vessels Might Re Built With
 the Money-The Keel Boat Idea.
 Only millionaires may indulge in the expensive sport of defending the homely, ewer shaped silver trophy won by the schooner yacht America in a race around the isle of Wight, on Aug. 22, 1851. The cup, intrinsieally, is proba bly worth less than $250. When it was won by the America, it was called $500 cup Since the memorable day that Queen Victoria, according to tradition, found out that there was "no second" ill the original race for the precious emblem, Yankee sportsmen have ex- pended, the experts conjecture, some- what more than $1 1000, GOO to retain it.
 The syndicate that owned the America wasn't then known as a syndicate, but an association of gentlemen, but they were just as much of syndicate as the trio of millionaires, W. K Vanderbilt, ex-Commodore D. D. Morgan and c. Oliver Iselin, who are investing their thousands for glory alone in the De- fender. It will be impossible to deter mine accurately the cost of the latest Herreshoff model until after the inter national races, but it is probable that $250, 900 will have been expended on the Defender before the Valkyrie III, victorious or vanquished, returns to Scotland. It is safe to say that twin screw steamship of the second class, or fleet of six or eight four masted coast ing schooners, might be built with the money that will be spent on the De- fender.
 In some respects the gallant ship that won the treasured cup resembled the sleek sloop that is now getting in trim to protect it. The America was keel yacht. In building sloop without 8 eenterboard Herreshoff merely reverted to original Yankee principles. The cen- teIboard is, in fact, British invention and was first used successfully in a British boat When our esteemed con- temporaries across the sea charge us with imitation, they fly in the face of the history of yachting architecture. It will be greater glory for Yankeeland to beat John Bull with his own kind of boat-originally the American style than to beat him with centerboard
 What will be the limit of expense in building future cup defenders or ehal- lengers? Will the time come when $1,- 900, 1000 boats will compete off the Hook or i'll the English channel for the yacht supremacy of the world? A comparison of the costs of cup defenders in the last decade may suggest answers to these questions. The Boston syndicate that built the Puritan expended, it is esti- mated, about $25, GOO on her. The iron sloop Priscilla, especially constructed to battle with the Puritan for the honor of meeting the challenging cutter Genesta. cost probably $20,000. The sail areas of Puritan and Priscilla were less by nearly 5000 square feet than the sail area of the Defender.
 The building of the Mayfiower in 1886 involved an expenditure of not less than $35, 900 by the Boston syndicate headed by General Paine. She met the Puritan and Priscilla and the new "rule- O thumb model, Phil Ellsworth $ At lantic, in the trial races The Atlantic cost little less than the Mayfower, and much money was used up in getting the Priscilla and Puritan into shape for the trials. It is likely that nearly $100, 1000 was spent ill 1886 by Yankee yacht owners before the Mayfower was select ed to try conclusions with Lieutenant Henn's Galatea
 The syndicate of which General Paine was the chief member paid about $45,- 900 to build and put in racing shape the steel sloop Volunteer, the last of De- signer Edward Burgess creations. Only the Mayfower competed with the Vol unteer for the distinction of defending the "mug" against MT. Bells cutter, the Thistle. The cost of maintaining less than $10,000. So the expense of protecting the cup in 1887 was $55, 900.
 The quartet of aspirants for cup de- lending glory in 1893. it is estimated, cost close upon $225, 900. There was ex- pended on the Vigilant about $125,- 900. The cost of building and maintain ing the Colonia, Jubilee and Pilgrim ranged, for each yacht, from $25, 900 to $50, ,000.
 Nobody except members of the De- fender syndicate ever may know def initely what an expensive plaything the big sloop has been, and will be, until the cup is saved or lost. Taking into consideration the money spent in equip ping the Vigilant to make pace for the Defender, the total cost of this years international races to American yachts men will be nearly $250,000
 This is the way an expert figures out the expense of constructing the Defend CT and preparing her for the fray:
 Chartering and fitting out the Colonia
 as training ship for the Defenders
 crew .......................... $10,00a Building the Defender. 5000 Four suits of sails, including balloons 25.U0O Extra expense in ending fittings by