New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-13
THE NEW CORSAIR LAUNCHED
A BEAUTIFUL FLAGSHIP FOR THE NEW
YORK YACHT CLUB

| ! pIERPoNr MORGAN AND LARGE PARTY OF
GUESTS SEE HER GLIDE INTO THE
WATER AT NEwBrRG.
Newburg y. Y. Dec IL (SpeciaD.-The finest yacht
that was ever launched IN NewYork waters slid
on the ways here to-day. 1t the Corsar that has
lust been built nj the yards OF Marvel & Co.. to be
the flagship OF the New-York Yacht club. and the
owner J. Pierpont Morgan expressed himself as
highly satisfied with her appearance. The large
party which Commodore Morgan took TO Newburg
on a special train enthusiastic over the eager
way the boat sought the waters OF the Hudson
without n moments hesitation and within three
minutes Of schedule time. Many Of that represen-
tatve gathering declared II was the finest launch
they had ever seen.
Miss Louisa Morgan. the daughter OF the Com
modorc named the boat. The long. lean bows Of
the yacht reached NJ to the high platform
which all the guests were gathered and the first Of
many sparkling and enervcsrent waves broke over
the new bows Miss Morgan said her name would
be Corsair Indeed. the guests were not prepared
TO see the yacht start when the huge struct
moved Gway from them and took rush for the
water that carried her well across the hudson
before the tugs e. G. Baker and James J. Logan
could take her in charge.
This Yacht was ordered by Mr. Morgan soon
after his former Corsair taken by the Gov
eminent and fitted out ar.vesscl last sum
mer. The prowess o. the old Corsa!r. under her
new name OF Gloucester need not be referred 10
here, except to say that when IN" Government re-
quires a faster. stronger and more dangerous gun
boat than the Glouceste- she viii Toe found under
the same ownership IN the first case.
The special train engaged by NJ. Morgan for his
guests LEFT Weehaw at go a. m. and the hfty-
seven-mie run to Newburg was made in sixty-hve
minutes. The train consisted OF three palace cars
n baggage-car and 4 dining coacn. There were
sixty-slx in the party At Newburg Station J.
Beaver Webb the designer. ana Andrew Fletcher.
Andrew Fletcher. IF. Stevenson Taylor and WILL
lam Fletcher the builders, advanced TO greet Com
modole Morgan. who. with Miss Morgan. was the
last to leave the train.
Among the guests were Bishop Henry c. Potter.
Bishop Doane. OF Albany: William X. Vanderbilt.
Joseph H. Choate. II. Mex. Twombly, Charles La
nier. Chester GriswolG. :. g. French. David Eggles
ton. Morris K Jesup. j. v. 5. Oddie, Judge Henry
Pew. Miss roWnSend MY j. iseavor Webb.
and Mrs Hamilton Commander Kane, /. 5. ~;
William Rockefeller. George Macculloch Miller ana
DR. and Mrs. KinnIcutt.
10 the party arrive. and passaseway through
the crowd mad TO be kSp, open by -"Ar'ia' ferrott
The Coisar is designed to be one OF the heetest
Of her class. ever! line having been prepared with
viii be twinscrew steamer 9oi feet long over all
and about 260 feet or the watet-line Her beam IS
will draw bout Y feet Of water The engines and
boilers will occupy 20 feet OF the central part of
As launched yesterday she was simply a steel
hull, without masts or bowsprit, but in this I'M
plainly discernble. When viewed from distance
She looks exactly like the former corsair, now the
Gloucester The proportions and general shape
seem to be identical. except that the new craft Is
Rather the Two shafts nor the two propeers are
In place yet. The deckhouses. Of which there are
three are now unro0fei structures OF galvanized
steel and will be all paneed with mahogany. In
the forward deckhouse. under the pot-house, Will
be smokng-room and a stateroom., In the second
LIGHTHOUSE will be dining room. galley ard chart
room Then the spaces devoted 10 the en-
gires and in the after dcckhouse into which the
companionway leads from below, there will BE- a
sitting room for general use. Overhead here VIII
he room for deck chairs the roof Aft OF the
last structure there Is d magnificent length OF clear
deck for promenade and easy chairs all OF which
will be covered b. awning
The Corsair will carry at least SIX boats IN
Guiding wv, launches. y Nfeboat. longhoat gig
and a dingv The decks are not Of steel. but are
plar ked with the best two-nch white pine, Inc
rarhr viii carry two masis and no schooner rugged
II was said by the in the yards that the de-
signer expected to get twenty miles an hour out Of
her during her best steaming -,
This boat is almost exactly the same size as the
Aphrodite just launched for Colonel Oliver II