The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-01

THE international yacht races are
/ becoming social events of the ut
Z most Importance to the women OF
America, although only few of the
very rich own their own yachts. When
the races take place in American wa
ters. there are few families anywhere
within a radius of 100 miles who make
a pretension TO any social Importance
whose women folks do not sling a pair
of fieldglasses across their shoulders.
don a yachting cap and set out for the
scene of the contest. where they are the
guests either of yacht owning friends or
where they pay for places on one of the
steam craft that carry passengers to
watch the races. These fair ladies.
amateur sportswomen though they be,
know a lot of yachting jargon, and they
also know Just who is who of the fash
iona bic yachtswomen on the smart pri-
vate 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 club
house which will cost 100000. not in
GLIDING the site, which is gift from
the president of the club, Mr.. j. Pier
pont Morgan. 1t is worth $4,000 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 a 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 woman
to become a member of yacht club.
She is the widow of Thomas Carnegie,
brother of Andrew Carnegie, the iron
millionaire. When he died, about ten
years ago, Mr.. Thomas Carnegie left
his widow about $40 600. 600 in trust for
their children, all of whom are not yet
of age. The family lives during a part
of the year in a handsome English look
ing mansion in the suburbs of Pitts
burg. Pa., but the greater part of the
time is spent at Dungeness, the Carne-
gle : country place pll tuIhDtl itiu
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 for
eign 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 i'm
provised schoolroOm which is fitted up
for her when she accompanies her
mother on long trips. Mrs. Carnegie is
a woman of culture in the widest ac
ceptation 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 yachtswo-
man in the world is Mrs. c. Oliver Ise
lin, wife of the managing owner of the
Defender and Columbia. Her knOwl-
edge of yachting is said TO be more ex-
tensive and accurate than that Of any
other yachtswoman who sails the salt
sea and sufficient to enable her to
navigate a boat alone were she so in
clined. Indeed she is said to have given
her husband many valuable sugges-