The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-03


The Varuna, the steam yacht owned fy
Eugene Higgins, cost $500,000. 1t carries
50 men, and Is the most deliberately fitted
UP yacht ever put on the seas. She is
finer that victorias new yacht, and is The
speediest boat next to the Ellide.
The elegant steam yacht owned by w.
Childs Drexel, the Alcedo, has been
looked upon with envious eyes by the
government The Alcedo cost S1,GoO,9O0.
She measures 1s4 feet and has five boats,
including the 34-foot steam launch. She
was recently finished by the Harlan Il
IIollingsworth firm. of Wilmington Del.
In her sea trial she made twenty miles
an hour She has gone abroad ana is
thoroughly seaworthy.
Her millionaire owner lives upon her q
great deal of the time, and were she to be
put into commission she would prove as
comfortable a sea berth as any sailor
could want in war.
E. c. Benedicts yacht, the Oneida,
which has often taken Grover Cleveland
on a cruise, is half warship now. The
ensign of the Connecticut Naval Reserves
has been in Greenwich harbor inspecting
her and getting her capacity.
Tho Oneida used to be the Utowana and
was at one time under consideration by
the government as gunboat. A gunboat
was needed for service on the Magdelina
river and Utowana was selected as the
best boat ahoat. She afterward came into
the possession OF Jay Gould and passed
from his hands into those of e. c. Bene-
dict, who changed her to the Oneida.
She is a yacht of comfortable size being
1873 feet over all, 100 feet on the water
line. 20e feet beam, 10 feet depth of hull
and 50 feet draft. She Is Just the size for
| cruising around the Cuban coast.
Robert Goelets magnificent new steam
| Clyde-bu yacht Nahma is now off New
port 1t is said that her owner Will Keep
her there through the present crisis. Inc
! dimensions Of the vessel are 275 feet on the
| water line 3O6 feet over all, So feet incnes
beam, IS feet inches deep and II feet
| inches draught. She has two triple eX-
pansion engines, with eight cylinders, two
of 221h inches, two Of 3s inches and four of
| 40 inches in diameter, and a stroke of n
inches. Her boilers are of the Scotch type,
and she has twin screws. The Nahma was
designed by Mr. G. l.. Watson and built
bv Messrs. j. & G. Thompson, of Clyde
Bank. Scotland. 1t is estimated that the
Nabma's cost Is in the neighborhood of a
! million dollars.
Ii is almost impossible to believe that
one country could support so many mag,
nihcent yachts, yet the list Is not half
told. The steam yacht Oceola, owned
by Thomas A. Waite of the American
| Yachting Club and recently launched, is
as fine as any of these.
The Oceloa is 1913 feet over all; 116 feet
on the water line; IS feet beam; 10 fee'
deep and 7 feet inches draught. She is
schooner-rigged one Scotch boiler sup
plies the steam. The engines are Of the
combined inverted condensing type, with
cylinders Is inches and 20 inches in Diane
ter and 20 inches stroke of piston.
Another magnificent yacht is the famous
Valiant, owned by w. X. Vanderbilt
which cost 81 100000. Col. Payne of Ohio Is
the owner of famous yacht, which Is
not yet named. II cost $4,000 and has
eighty in its crew.
A. J. DrexePs Marguerite, which cosl
81 100000. with its crew of seventy-five
men, could also be turned into powerful
warship, and the Josephine, owned by w
p. Wiedener, could be easily armored The
Josephine has crew of fifty men and i
is rumored to have cost $4,000 without
it's furnishings.
The beautiful yacht May. owned by Mrs
James j. Van Rensselaer,, would be Offered
by its patriotic mistress as one of th'
white dove fleet. and the Elenor, belonging
TO william Slater, Is another yacht who's
owner would freely send 1t forth. Thu
May cost $500, 900 and the Eienor 100000
The former ships with forty sailors ant
the latter with sixty.
The gossip recently set afioat abou
w. d. c. Borden's Sovereign was partly
quoted by the denial Of its owner tina
he had turned II into war vessel. 1t Il
well known that the Sovereign is ready
and can be impressed into the service a
a moments notice
Among the other yachts is the Sapphire
belonging to A. l.. Barber, and the Cor
sair, owned by j. Pierpont Morgan. Tn
Corsair cost 100000 and ships with a creV
Of ffty-hve The Sapphire cost over $500,
COO and has a crew OF fifty
With this beautiful feet of white-winge'
doves, Uncle Sam could land upon the enc
my, scattering shot and shell, powder am
destruction before him. Not one Of tn
owners but would gladly sacrifice the half
! million paid for his yacht in the momen
Of leisure, and not one but would com
mand his own boat, to fire shot for hi
country.