Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-01

they be. know lot Of yachting jargon,
and they also know just who IS who
Of the fashionable yachtswomen on the
smart private vessels that throng the
water.
The most fashionable organization in
America to which yachtsmen or yachts
women can belong is the New York
Yacht Club. 1t is said there are about
200 yacht clubs in America. with a
membership of about 1000. The New
York Yacht Club is erecting new
clubhouse which will cost 100000. not
including the site, which is gift from
the president of the club. Mr.. ]. Pier
pont Morgan. 1t is worth s150.000
more. The new quarters are on Forty
fourth street, New York.
To belong to a yacht club entails GER
tain privileges, such as the use OF the
club dock and service when in the
neighborhood. 1t is also protection
when in other waters and entities the
member who flies the clubs colors at
the masthead to courtesies from other
yacht clubs in foreign waters.
Mrs. Lucy Carnegie was the first
American woman to own and sail her
own yacht, and she was the first wo-
man to become member of a yacht
club. She is the widow Of Thomas
Carnegie, brother of Andrew Carne-
gle, the iron millionaire. When he
died, about ten years ago. Mr.. Thomas
Carnegie left his widow about $4,000
600 in trust for their children. all of
whom are not yet of age. The family
lives during part of the year, in
handsome English looking mansion in
the suburbs of Pittsburg, Pa, but the
greater part of the time is spent at
Dungeness, the Car>egie's country place
on Cumberland island, in Fernandina
bay, off the coast of Florida Here the
yacht always lies ready for use while
the family is in the south. Sometimes
for months Mrs. Carnegie cruises about
American or foreign waters, her only
companions being her daughters, the
two younger of whom are unmarried
and quite as fond of yachting as their
mother.
Miss Nancy Carnegie, her youngest
daughter is an excellent sailor. She is
a handsome little girl of about Is and
prefers the deck of the yacht to the
improvised school room which is fitted
up for her when she accompanies her
mother ON trips. Mrs. Carnegie is a
woman of culture in the widest ac-
ception of the word, and with her
books and her children about her lives
an ideal life idling about the coast on
her floating palace, the Dungeness.
Probably the most famous yachts
woman in the world is Mrs. c. Oliver
Iselin, wife of the managing owner Of
the Defender and Columbia. Her
knowledge of yachting is said to be
more extensive and accurate than that
of any other yachtswoman who sails
the SALT sea and sufficient to enable
her to navigate boat alone were she
so inclined. Indeed, she is said to
have given her husband many valuable
suggestions in regard to building the
Defender and Columbia. The fact
that the seamen of the yachts have the
greatest respect for Mrs. Iselin's nau-
tical attachments is a sufficient guar
antee Of their value, for sailormen are
not apt to- regard with much enthus-
iasm the requirements of any mere
aandlubber Mrs. Iselin always ac-
companies her husband on the trial
races and sailed On board the Defend
er in her races with the Valkyrie III,
the crew claiming that they regarded
the handsome young wife OF the COM
mander as the yachts mascot. OF
course, even the most hopelessly grow
cling landsmans intellect will grasp
the fact that sailor looks on a yacht
without mascot as probably early
prey for Davy Jones. Mrs. Iselin was
Miss Hope Goddard, a Rhode Island
heiress, whose ancestors have many OF