Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-11-05
COST OF RUNNING A YACHT
Mr.. Astor's Monthly Bill In summer
Probably FoOts Up S25,Ooo.


Probably FOots Up e25,ooo.
The cost of running a steam yacnr
necessarily varies with It's size. says
Rene Bache in the Philadelphia Satur-
day Evening Post A sixty footer may
be kept In commission for S3oo
month. not counting food supplies.
For $50 footer the monthly expense
would be $4,000 perhaps. But when
II comes to a pleasure craft like Pier
mont Morgan's Corsair, 304 feet on the
water line or John Jacob Astors
Nourmahal. which is even bigger, the
outlay is enormously greater. IL costS
about $4,000 a month to run the COR
sair and it is probable that Mr.. AS
tors bills for the Nourmahal In the
summer time amount to not less than
$4,000 every thirty days. The pay
roll of the officers and crew of such a
vessel. which is a good sized steam
ship, will touch $4,000 or possibly So''
900 q month.
first class steam yacht carries a
creyy Of fifty or more men. The Aphro-
d,te owned by Colonel Oliver ID.
Payne. requires sixty-two. There must
be three cooks, steward, TWO assist-
mt stewards and six or seven men
who serve as "chambermaids" ana
walters. The Nourmahal also mas
connie of stewardesses, for the con-
venience of lady guests on Doard.
Thirty sailors draw pay at the rate
Of $50 a month, the captain gets Szoo
o month-Howard Gould pays his cap
tain 1000 q year-and two mates are
employed at SIS and $50 respectively
The chief engineer draws SIPS, the as.
s,stant engineer 500 and an oiler Soo
a month. To these must be added
four firemen at $40 month ana Iour
stolers at the same wages. or course
the chief cook is likely to be a frencn
chef at S4OO or $500 month.
Such a boat consumes twenty lohe
Of coal a day, and at that rate, II Kept
ooino five months In the year, sue
will burn I'D something like 3,OOo TONS
the item of fuel alone comine TO slo'-
600 for the season. For the rest oi 'no
!. veor she IS laid up in a basin at an eA-
nanse of 5000 a month, and the cleah'
ing and painting she has to undergo
cost pretty penny. 1t taxes two
> weeks and an expenditure Of Sl,Ooo 10
Law her up and a couple OF months anu
$1,000 to put her into commission
! again.
! From these figures it is easy 10 un'
derstand where the money goes ior
steam Yacht, though it should be real.
lied that bills for food supplies 'no'
reckoned in the above account arc
simply huge, especially when much en-
. tertaininQ is done. Anybody would DC
, interested to know what 1t cost Corne'
II ,ius Vanderbilt on his recent TRIP
abroad to entertain Emperor william
ON board his yacht and to meet on Al
. appropriately sumptu0us scale certain
. other social obligations which weF'
= Z ippoaaa upon HIM 8 81 q
= witb tbS great ons5 of &c earth. yefJ
. possibly he did not get Oh for less thar
q 800 900 for few weeks amusement
r Not few rich men nowadays prefe'
N sailing yachts, because Of the superior
In accommodations which they arord
ie There is more comfort to be had, the!
to assert. in a 100 foot schooner than II
k' a 200 foot steam yacht. Such schoon
to er costs only about $4,000 and has
in crew of twenty-five, with eighteen be
at fore the mast. Whereas a steam yacn
Of is largely occupied by machinery ant
'e coal. which take up nearly the Who'll
Ill of the middle portion Of the vessel !
be a schooner the entire body OF the crar
st Is available for living purposes. Eve
Ill a sloop sixty or seventy feet long an
n costing $4,000 perhaps will carry 81
BY or eight cabin passengers very coziiy'