The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-21
THE COST OF THE CUP.
IF SIR THOMAS LIFTS IT HE
 WILL BE OUT
or Pocket at Least Seven IHundred
 Thousand Dollars.

Thousand Dollars.
 Few people have an idea what lifting the cup means in money. Each of Sir Thomas efforts has cost him more than half a million dollars. This time his expenses are more than they have been in former years, becaus he has kept two racing boats in commission.
 The new Shamrock probably cost to build about two hundred thousand dol- lars. She has five suits of sails, and these cost twenty thousand dollars l each, so that with her sails her cost is
 three hundred thousand dollars. Ex- l tra spars have been needed, more rig ging has been used than was first put
 on the yacht and many other minor ex- penses have probably brought the cost
 of the boat up to four hundred and fif- | ty thousand dollars. Shamrock I. had new sails and she used some that were | made for Shamrock II. two years ago. l These had to be recut to fit the older
 boat. With new rigging and cleaning and painting 1t is probable that the tri- \ al boat has cost fifty thousand dollars There are forty-five men on each of
 these racing boats. The captains sala-
 ries are forty-five hundred dollars each, the officers three thousand dollars, and
 forty men on each boat draw about | thirty dollars month apiece. They
 have been engaged for six months, so | their total voyages will amount to $14,-
 400, Tn addition to their wages, Sir
 Thomas pays each man a bonus if sev- enty-dve dollars for giving up the yachting season on the other side and
 coming across the ocean. This is in lieu of prize money. If the Shamrock wins it will be much more. This bonus will amount to six thousand dollars. On the Erin the crew costs about S17,5O and on the Cruiser and the smaller boats about five thousand dollars. This makes the total cost of men for the six
 months s50,4OO. It costs quite. nice
 sum to feed two hundred and five men
 each day. It is fair to estimate this item at fifty cents a day for each man, So that the total food biI will be about eighteen thousand dollars
 | The yachts will occupy the dry dock
 altogether twenty-two days. This costs three hundred dollars a day, making the
 total of sixty-six hundred dollars.
 There are many other charges in con lnection with the dry dock Men have
 been hired to paint the yachts, others
 have been employed to make changes land repairs. Sails and spars have been stored and lighters and derricks have
 been used to step and unstep the niasts.
 It is said that fifteen thousand dollars
 Twill about cover the expenses at the
 dry dock. When a Was decided to
 bring the Shamrock l. across it was
 found necessary to have an extra con-
 voy. The Erin could notsdo the work of
 the two racers. Sir Thomas bought the tug Cruizer for about seventy-five thou
 sand dollars Here he has chartered a
 barge and houseboat, and engaged an l excursion steamer to- take his guests 1 down to see the races. All this will add l twenty thousand dollars to his expen- ses.
 This makes the total cost of trying to lift the cup six hundred and thirty
 eight thousand dollars and not cent
 has been charged up to entertainment.
 During the races the Erin will be crowded every day Ever since the tyachts arrived here there have been Iparties of friends akbard and many
 guests have been brought from the other side to live on the Erin. It is fair
 to say that Sir Thomas bills will total lseven hundred thousand dollars. When lasked about the expense recently Sir lThomas said T really don't know what the cost is. Perhaps if did I knight not keep it up I don't want to | know, All want is to win the cup, land that mean to do If it is possible, :, l It Is a strange fact that this man. who is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to win the America s l cup, never has cent in his pocket. l One day last week he was talking to a man in the Erie Basin. He turned to a friend and asked him for five dollars. | When he got it he slipped it into the hand of the man and then went aboard
 to get a bill to refund the loan. When lin the city he is always accompanied by his secretary or financial man, and these two have to carry the money and Edefray Sir Thomas bills, even to car flare. ta |. |. | Some time ago Sir Thomas was walk ling along Regent street in London with
 his secretary, John Westwood. " I Tt is very hot and am very thirsty,
 MT. Westwood," said he. Wont you
 buy me cup of tea?"
 T was just about to suggest that" lreplied MT. Westwood, and they turned into Blanchards. MT. Westwood had a big roll of Engish bank notes, and when he pulled them out to pay the check Sir Thomas looked at it and asked: "Is Ithat yours or ours, MT. Westwood?"
 ".Ours, Sir Thomas was the reply.
 That's very nice" remarked the bar
 onet. ',Then. we can have more to
 drink. "-New York Sun.,