Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-10
WHAT IT COST Upton.
Sir Thomas Bill This Trip u
About $4,000.
OVER sl,aoo,ooo FOB BOTH TRIALS.

the Gallant Challenger Has Spent. q
Snug Little Fortune In an Unsuc-
cessful Attempt to Lift the Amer
ica's Cup, but He Apparently Does
Not Degrudge It-Details of His Ex.
pense Account.
Sir Thomas Upton estimated the ex-
pense of his effort to get the Americas
cup in 1899 at 100000, says the New
York Sun. That, however, included
$4OO, 900 which he paid to Count Elorio
of Italy for the fine yacht which the
count called the AIgusa and which is
now known as the Erin. This would
leave his actual racing expenses in
1899 at 100000. 1t is probable that
the cost of the present races to him
will be a little over that figure, but still
within 100000. In other words in
Guiding the sum of 100000 or there
about for the purchase and refitting of
the Erin, the total cost to the chal-
lenger in the last two series Of races
will be somewhere IN the neighborhood
OF S1,oUO,UuO.
The cost, however, Is something that
the gallant challenger has least con-
sidered in his efforts to get the cup.
He frankly said that be did not know
what 1t was costing him in money,
and he probably will not know for
some time after he returns to England.
One who is intimately acquainted with
his affairs, however, gave some figures
which justify the above estimates.
To begin with, the cost Of Shamrock
II. in the water and ready for bust
ness was close to 1925, 900. Her sails,
of which she has five complete sets of
ten sails to suit, cost 100000. Her
mast, which is one piece Of hollow steel
159 feet long, cost about $4,000. But
the bulk Of the expense was In her
very costly hull Of immadium, an alloy
of tin and copper, which combines to
the highest degree at present known
the qualities of strength and lightness
in vessels body. In this enormous
cost of Shamrock III. there is very
strikingly illustrated the difference In
the cost of racing yachts today as COM
pared with those Of even eight years
ago. For instance, the Vigilant, which
defeated Valkyrie IL. in 1893, cost $780,
600. The cost of the Defender, which
beat Valkyrie III. two years later. was
$4,000. The cost Of the Columbia was
somewhere In the neighborhood Of
$4,000, while the Constitutions was
1>ch tn i~h hor nP C1k0 =.
600.
But the cost of the racing machine
itself is only detail in the list Of the
racing expenses the challenger this
year has to meet. Including the sixty
men on the Erin, Sir Thomas has with
him here a crew Of 900. Eliminating
the Erin's men. there remain 100 men
who were engaged for six months at
an average Of $35 month and their
board. For their board Sir Thomas
makes an allowance Of 50 cents day
to each man, the men buying their own
provisions and arranging their own
messes. In addition to their regular
pay of $S5 month to each Of the for
ty-seven men who compose the crew
Of the Shamrock there Is an allowance
of $40 prize money. The usual rate OF
prize money to racing yachts crew is
s. a man In case of victory and $3.50
| q man in case of defeat. This Is the
rule that holds on the Columbia. In
the case of the Shamrock's men. how
ever, an extra allowance, win or lose,
was made because the men had to
leave in the height of the racing in
England, thereby losing the chance to
pick up more or less money In The
many races in which presumably they
| would have taken part.
Captain Wringe, who sailed the for
mer Shamrock and is present RS advls-
z" in the present contest, and Captain
| Sycamore. the captain of Shamrock H.,
| each get $1,000, while the mate gets
| $1,000 for the season. In addition to
| these there Is the designer Of the boat,
Mr.. Watson, and the expert sailmaker,
Mr.. Ratsey, who are both here on sal
aries that can hardly be less than &c.
| 600 each for the season.
Leaving the yacht proper and COM
ing to the collateral expenses, there Is
as the largest item the cost Of run.
ming the steam yacht Erin for, say, the
two months she actually is In serv-
Ice in connection with the races. This
was estimated by a man familiar with
the subject at $50, 600 month, 100000
in all. Sir Thomas has three other
vessels in attendance here. the Porto
Rico, the Victor and the tug Lawrence.
The Porto Rico serves as tender, and
on board her live the crew and other
employees save those regularly attach
ed to the Erin. The cost of the Porto
Rico will be about $4,000 from the
time she was engaged until released
after the races. The Victor is employ
ed in carrying Sir Thomass guests to
and from the Erin. Her cost during
the racing season Is 1926 day, or 3d.
$50 for fourteen days. The tug Law
renee is the Shamrock's attendant, tow
ing her to and from the race course to
the dock and wherever else necessary.
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