The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-14

mission only about four months The
American yacht will cost about $4,000
to build. For that sum she will be put
in the water and made ready for sailing
She will be manned by a crew Of fifty pro-
fessional sailors. The captains salary
viii be about $780, the two mates viii
get probably 81 600 EACH the bOatsWain
$40 a month and the quartermaster the
same, while each Of the seamen will re-
ceive $50 monthly. The crew will be en-
gagged for at least five months, so that
the total cost for wages viii be about
$l2 600. These men have to be fed, and
fed well too, to get good work out Of
them in the races. 1t is estimated that
Is cents a day for each man viii furnish
the food. This for five months win
amount to nearly $1,000. It will require
two cooks and two stewards to prepare
the food.
A mainsau costs about $1,000 and a
whole suit five times as much. Extra
jibs, staysails, club topsails, and work
ing topsails are necessary and there are
always spare balloon jib tOpsails in case
Of accident. OF course, there must be
an extra set Of spars. The Columbia
lost her mast in a race off Newport; the
Shamrock broke a steel gaff while sail
ing off Sandy Hook and broke q top
mast in one Of the cup races Of 1899.
There is another heavy expense at
tached to a frst-class racing yacht-the
cost of hauling out to clean. These Dlg
boats nave to be put into drydock. and
the fee is $500 a day. While In the dock,
men are put to work securing the under
body, and when it has been made per
fectly clean, electric burnishers are run
over It to make it as smooth as glass.
Two years ago the Shamrock was I'm
the drydock for five days, and the cost
ran into thousands Of dollars.
All this expense has been for the yacht
and keeping 1t in proper racing trim.
The owners personal expenses must be
added, and the chief of these Is the en-
tertaining, the cost Of which cannot be
estimated with amy precision. In 1899 Sir
Thomas Upton probably spent not much
less than 81 100000.
A class OF yachts that has furnished
most interesting sport in the water
around New York and Boston for some
years IS known among yachtsmen as the
twenty raceabOut class These
boats cost from S1,7O0 to $3.50 each. some
builders charging more tnan others for
their work. They spread 600 square feet
Of canvas, and a suit costs 500. To keep
them in the finest possible trim for rae
ing, three suits are used In a season.
Light sails cost about $3.50 more. One
professional is allowed on each boat
and, as he does aul sorts of work he re-
ceives perhaps s35 a month, with IS
cents day for his food. To keep one Of
these small racers IN condition Il IS
necessary to haul the boat out at least
once In two weeks; some yacltsmeu
haul out every week. The cost OF taking
the boat out OF the water and cleaning
it IS SIS; and while out, the hull is
usually painted or vanished, making
the bill s. or SO more The expense Of
maintaining one Of these racing ma
chimes for a season, in addition to the
ftrgN rN
$3.50 to $1,000
A sloop Of the thirty-foot class costs
about $3.50 and suit Of sails for one
of these boats is worth $3.50 A forty
three-foot boat, another popular size.
costs about $4,000, While one OF the
hfty-two-foot class, which is only forty
six feet long on the water line, is worth
$1,000 Several yachtsmen have recent
ly imported English-bullt yachts belong
Ing to what is known as the slxty-foot
class. They cost, to build from $4,000
to $4,000 oacn. AS their racing days are
over for British contests they have
been sold to American yachtsmen for
about half the original cost
So much for the cost OF racing; and II
IS no less expensive to watch the sport
from the deck Of some big steam yacht.
There are several Of these craft that
have cost their owners nearly 81, 100000
to build, and the yearly cost OF main
tenance runs close 20 100000.
At Lexington Today.
The game between Lennon & Gibbons
ana the south st Paul Packers at Lexing-
ton park this afternoon promises to be
an exciting event. Both teams have a
victory to their credit, and each have
strengthened throughout. Clayton, Con-
Lennon & Gibbons while Williamson
and Hart Will officiate for the Packers