New-York tribune., 1896-09-27

to find his boat a speck on the great emerald
waste He once said: Il am never unhappy ex-
cept when | have to go ashore" Small wonder
that such man abjures express trains.
Yet the rear-commodore of the Atlantic has not
the smoke of the deep-sea fog in his voice that
one hears from the capaclous throat OF tnat oId
sea dog Commodore f.. c. Benedict. whose steam
yacht. the Oneida. Is one Of the most familiar
marine figures to be found anywhere on the Con-
necticut coast. Neptune was enthroned whcn
Mr.. Benedict was born. and the sea nymphs must
have hoated about in the christening-bowl. FOR ne
has often been heard to say that good sailor
was spoiled to make a poor curbstone broker IN
his own case. or the latter part of the statement
the world may be safely left to judge. although
the commodore Is no longer active In business
Yet when he does come to the city to look after
any particular interest it is on board the Oneida,
which draws out from her anchorage OF Green
wich and lands her owner at the Battery or al
the East Twenty-slxth-st. staging The major
portion of his time in the summer he passed In the
Oneida cruising about the waters OF the SOUND,
and il was rare case If her white nose was not
seen poking about among the racers at the more
important contests up the Sound
UNIQUE SPECIMEN
unique specimen Of marine architecture Is
the Cermont which A. Van santvoord, the owner
OF the Albany Day Line OF steamers, uses for
business and pleasure. She Is a marked craft In
from the propeller type to be found in the purely
pleasure class. She is side wheel craft, built
upon the lines followed in the New-York, of the
Day Line. and her name Is suggestive as COM
memoratng that first steamboat to plough the
waters of the Hudson, the Clermont of Robert
Fulton. In her Mr.. Van Santvoord cruises in the
summer. and If business calls him. voyages back
and forth between Albany and New-York. A
favorite ANCHORAGE is just off the pier at West
Point: but her absent flag Is rarely broken out,
for the owner lives aboard.
Another yacht easily recognized in the waters
Of the Hudson is the black. raksh hull of the Cor
sair. j. PerpOnt Morgan's yacht From MS sum-
mer home a. Highlands. on the Hudson. he comes
to the city in the Corsar. which lands him at
West Forty second st. and there remains at
anchorage waiting his return in the evening.
one of the boats not so frequently seen in the
last summer Is the Halcyon. owned by r. G. Pot
ter who used her for his voyagng back and
forth between the city and the Westchester Coun-
try Club. of which he is a prominent member Her
landing place was the New-YOrk Yacht Club sta
tion, at East Twenty y-sixth-st Perhaps none or
the yachtsmen make so much Of convenience OF
their boats Adrian Iselin. the owner OF the 1T
tie lanceke craft. the Helvetia. Every morning.
from early spring till late. very late. in the fall
the owner. Adrian Iselin jr. Columbus .. d. ana
w. f. Tselin board the Hevetia at Davenport
Neck. New Rochelle. while the mist Is stu rising
from the sluggish waters Of Echo Bay and gather
about the breakfast table in the dainty cabin
While they discuss the possible business or the
day the boat carries them down to the Battery
ing to the landing at 4 o'clock to receive her
quartet of workers who take supper on boarf
and reach home before the sun has set
II. A. VAN LIEws DAILY TRIPS.
Harry A. Van LEV, the Of the steam
Yacht the Aquilo, makes daily trips to the city
from his country home at Larchmont Manor.
landing at East Twenty-sixth-st., and making
his way to business in the more prosaic elevated
train When Charles r. Flint owned the NADIA
one OF his summer day pleasures was the tsip
on board from his Westchester cottage in the
secluded bay back Of City Island. No sooner
had the NADIA left her owner at the New YORK
Yacht Club station than she returned to her
anchorage off Hunters Point Now Mr.. Flint
misses his daily airing. and it is understood is
talking seriously Of building a new boat for
next season.
Charles A. Gould, the owner of the Neara. is
another owner OF a country home at Port
Chester who prefers the comfortable interior OF
tn. handsome yacht to the dust of railroad
travel for his daily run to New-York City and
he IL not less blessed than f. r. and j. Harvey
Iadew whose home at Glen Cove, within
Hampstead Harbor, adds to the picturesque
ne ss of that favored part of Long Island. To-
gether they journey to business aboard the ORR
enta. The latter is the owner of the shiplike
Yacht the Columbia which has been lying at
her anchorage In Glen Cove all summer out OF
commission. Charles w. Harkness. on the Peer
less and f. G.. Bourne. the owner OF the
Reverie, make their morning and evening trips
aboard and when Amzi l.. Barber had the
Saprhire in commission the great brgantine-
rugged Yacht was daily object of admiration
as she steamed up and down the Hudson be-
tween Irvington and the city. In the last sea-
son the Sapphire has been under charter to
James Stillman. the president of the National
City Bank. who has made palatial floating
home of the craft. The latest addition to the
fleet of pleasure craft Is NJ. c. d. Borden
Yacht the Sovereign. She has grown to be an
old acquaintance at the Battery landing this
summer but before that Mr.. Borden crused
from home to business in the Vedette, which he
had under charter. John 7. Duncan approaches
the Battery in the Kanawha while the
Spindrift is the cruising and business-going
craft of E. H. Hartman. F. II. Benedict is al
most as enthusiastic in marine sport as MS
father and his yacht. the Vision is as well
known in New-York waters as she is at her
anchorage off Mr.. Benedicts home on the
heights above oyster Bay.
But the season is drawing on to its close the
sound of the boatswain's pipe is heard less
frequently off the Battery and at the New fork
Yacht Club anchorage over in the Soutn
Brooklyn basins the white racers are lying
tamely at the long wharves their decks stripped
of ornament and lounging chairs, hatches can
vas-covered and upper works painted heavily 10
protect spars and rigging from the salt an;
Yachtsmen are seeking their city home ana
taking on workaday airs. For them the poetry
of life has merged into solid prose.