The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-21
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
AND ALL DAY ON THE
FOURTH OF JULY.
COsTLIEsT OF ALL CUPS.
Fully s2,OOO,OOO spent on $50 Worth
of silver.
From the New York Press.

! anu eoA4 AOE OH SILVER to-day II would
probably not be worth more than IS at
the market price Of silver.
! It's original cost as an alleged work Of
art on the part Of the silversmith who
made 1t was 100 guineas. or. In American
money, about S525. Nevertheless. this su-
! premely ugly piece Of silverware has
cost at least 10000 to the two great
! Engiish-speaking nations. which have for
half century striven with each other
on the high seas for its possession. It
/ is easy to count up how the United States
has spent directly 10000 to keep the cup
! on this side. The British have spent
much more TO get possession Of it. The
| expense Of the British has been greater,
because they have been under the ne
! cessity Of building their boats on the
/ other side, trying them on the other side,
! sending them over here and taking them
/ back again.
To build q yacht and put her in racing
trim, send her across the Atlantic in
| cruising trim, to put her back again when
she has safely completed her voyage into
racing trim again, and then, finally, after
| she has sailed her races, to transform her
a second time into a cruising yacht and
! send her back across the Atlantic, costs
a great deal Of money.
Every Englishman who has come over
! here seeking the cup, with the possible
| exception Of Lieut.. Hem, has brought
/ with him a sort of advisory committee,
consisting either of his personal friends
| or the designer Of his boat and the maker
! Of her sails. When Lord Dunraven came
over here two years ago. for instance, he
| brought with him Watson. the designer
of Valkyrie H., and Lapthorn. the sail
maker and in all probability paid their
| expenses.
When Sir Richard Sutton came over in
! the Genesta he brought with him the de-
| signeT OF the yacht j. Beaver Webb.
II IS safe 70 say that the English, in try
! ing to regain the cup. have spent consid-
/ erably over a million dollars
The futile attempts of Canada with the
! Countess Of Dufferin and the Atalanta
! were small things from a monetary point
! Of view, as they We're from a yachting
| viewpoint. The expense to Canada was
! probably less in trying TO get the cup than
| u was to the New York Yacht CluD in re-
tanning it, and both expense were compar>
/ atively trifling.
When the Vigilant had finished her races
and achieved her final victory over Val
| kyrie IL, II is estimated that, as she lay
| at anchor that night off the Atlantic
Club, she had cost the syndicate which
! built and sailed her no less than $4,000
The Colonia. all told, cost about $500
that Is, including all the expenses of her
| building and the manning and sailing Of
her up to the end of the trial races. Up
on the Jubilee, including all the expenses.
| Gen. Paine is. supposed TO have spent
about $4,000. The Pilgrim. in her construc-
ton, running, etc, cost all told about $40
| 900. This makes a total of $4,000 which
| II directly cost TO keep the cup on this
side the last time that the English strove
| TO get It from us.
The Volunteer, when she had finished
her victories over the Thistle had been
| the cause Of the outlay of 100000 to say
| nothing of the expenses of running the
! MayilOwer and Puritan against her In the
trial races, and 1t costs a good deal TO put
big sloops like the Mayfiower and Puritan
in trim and to man and race them proper
! ~. The Mayfiower had cost about $50 900
| when she was through with her races
against the Galatea. About $4,000 may
also be put down TO the Puritan, which
raced against the Genesta In the trial
races to select an opponent for the Genes
| ia 1t will be remembered that the sloops
| Priscilla and Atlantic were entered. These
| sloops were built for cup defenders, and the
Priscilla is supposed TO have represented
an outlay Of $4,000 and the Atlantic of a
like amount after the trial races.
When the ATLANTA came down here from
| Canada to sail her absurd races for the
cup, the flag officers of the New York
Yacht Club spent about $4,000 in building
manning and sailing in the trial races the
Sloop PocahontaS.
The expense in sailing the Oracle and
the Mischief in these trial races. and the
! expense of sailing the Mischief against the
! ATLANTA, with all the incidental outlay,
| could not have been far from $4,000, in
GLIDING the expenses of the New York
| Yacht Club as a club. which makes a total
of $4,000 which 1t cost to defend a cup from
a challenge which never should have been
| issued.
/ To defend the cup against he Countess of
| Duferin II cost about $4,000. This brings
US back TO 1871. the year of Mr.. Asbury
and the Livonia. That was a great and
I lively time in the history of the Ameri-
both sides of the water hope will never
be repeated. Such conduct OF Mr. Asburv
| in regard to the racing for the cup that the
/ New York Yacht Club, after the national
races, returned to him the challenge cups
which he had presented to the club, and
ended the unfortunate incident of his
| yachting exploits on this side of the water.
Mr.. Asburys schooner Livonia raced
against the schooner Sappho twice and the
| Columbia three times; vet the total ex-
! pense of defending the cup was not large.
and it is probable that, including Mr. AS
| bury's race of the preceding year with the
Cambria against the Magic the total ex-
pense of defending the cup in the years OF
1870 and 1871 was not much over 5000
From these figures ii will be seen how,
rapidly the cost of international yacht rae
ing is increasing. Every boat that is
built now, either to defend the cup or TO
capture II, takes a long leap forward and
upward in monetary expense, as II does in
naval architecture and the art Of construe-
| tion.
As to the cup itself, il is familiar TO most
| people from photographs and pictures hut
few there be who have looked upon il.
compared with the millions who take a
vital interest in it.
1t is generally sleeping quietly in the fire.
proof vaults at Tiffany's.
When the international yacht race is on.
it is sometimes exhibited for day or two
in Tiffany's window. Occasionally on some
high and solemn feast of the New York
Yacht Club the ancient and misshapen
piece of silverware is brought forth from
its concealment TO grace the center Of the
table. spread under the banners which
droop from the walls of the model-roou.
and it is around such board that the
yachtsnen sing ex-Commodor Kane
chorus OF
4 The cup. the cup, may we never give it up
in recent examination in English at a
neighboring college, one Of the young hope