Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31


| quarters of sardnes in a box instantly
| springs to mind. Count the yellow fun
| Eels scattered among the small forest OF
masts and You will discover that five MIL
| lion dollars will buy forty-five yachts, rum
| ming in length from 12o to 300 feet over all,
and every one capable of going to sea.
An inspiring display, you say, as you Won
Ger. perhaps, that so many men can at
| ford to invest so much money for mere
Pleasures sake But If you will extend
your trip to South Brooklyn you will soon
learn that these forty-five yachts in The
Erie basin are merely an lnconsiderable
portion of the great fleet of pleasure craft
that lays up for the long winter months
iii the waters of the metropolis.
Here the water front is practically given
ever to yacht basins. and hundreds of
yachts-both steam and schooner, the for
mer greatly Observation-Disclosures stored in
them. Scores of yachts that sail the
Hudson and Long Island sound in sum-
mer, carrying New York millionaires to
and from their summer palaces, rub sides
with graceful craft whose owners are add
ing to their fortunes in Baltimore, Phila-
delphia. Boston and other American cities.
In fact New York harbor is the winter
ing place of three-fourths of all the big
yachts owned in America. and so there
happens to be stored along the Brooklyn
water front this winter over thirty million
dollars worth of such craft.
Up Go the Millions.
This statement does not take into account
the scores of yachts that are laid up until
next Memorial day in the yacht basins on
the New Jersey shore of the Hudson and
the bay. Among them is J. Perpont Nor
CAMS Corsair, which is locked in Hoboken.
Neither does it include those in the basins
of Staten and City Islands, or in the Har-
lem river in the neighborhood of Morris
Heights. Let them be counted ill., and up
go the millions to somewhere between forty
and forty-fve, according to conservative
estimates of men who are experts in the
yachting world
A stupendous sum, that still staggers the
mind of the man on salary, even when it is
split up into it's component parts. For in
stance, one of the big yachts in the Erie
basin-the Aphrodite, whose white side
overhangs the dock like that of an ocean
liner-could bring in her owner, Col Oliver
II. Payne of New York, $S50,0OO any day.
There is a standing offer for her at that
figure, but her owner has steadily refused
1t these three years past Next to this mil
lion-dollar boat lies one of the three tur-
bine yachts in existence. She is the Lo-
rena, 300 feet over all, owned by A. l.. Bar
Der, the asphalt man, and built at cost of
100000. In one of the South Brooklyn
basins lies w. B. Leeds Norma, $350G90.
Next to her is d. G. Reds Rheclair, valued
at few thousand dollars less; and all
about them and the two big boats in the
Erie basin lie scores of yachts costing $780,
600 and over-Edwin Gould's Aileen, Fred
erick w. Vanderbilt's Conqueror John H.
owned by the King of Portugal, under the
name of Amelia, and bought by H. Clay
Pierce of New York for $500 600; the Anita,
the property of George B. Wilson of Phila-
delphia; the Margaret, Isaac E Emerson
of Baltimore; the Aloha, the Sultana, the
Ariadne, the Tarantula, the Allegheny, the
Emeline, the Atlantic, the Invincible, the
Enterprise, the Wild Duck the Vergemere
all names to conjure with in the yachting
world, and many more-scores more.
Many Are for Sale.
The assembling in the winter of the
yachts of half the world in New York
waters, when yachts that are not owned
in the port could be stored cheaper else
where, is due to the fact that New York
is the best market in which to dispose of
a pleasure yacht. Winter is the great
time for millionaires throughout the
country to come to New York for business
and social purposes; nearly every million
are sooner or later aspires to sail in his
own yacht, even if he has to travel half
way across the continent to do it; there
fore, it We're well to have those yachts
that are for sale close at hand for the in
spection of prospective purchasers.
1t is astonishing how many yachts are
for sale at the end of season. A certain
south Brooklyn basin holds ffty-three
yachts, and the owners of thirty-one are
more than anxious to part with them.
Every basin has its quota of boats for
sale.
This state of affairs is due to a variety
of reasons. Perhaps the millionaire has
outgrown his first steamer-a boat about
125 feet over all-and now that he has
added materially to his wealth aspires to
tread the deck of a stanch ocean-going
craft some 200 or 800 feet in length, and
have in his employ crew of sixty in
stead of twenty-five men. Perhaps he's
sick of the sea; never did like it anyhow
was coaxed into buying the tub by the
women folks. Or perhaps your millionaire
has awakened to the fact that the market
has been going against him, that he will
need all the money he can rake and scraps
together in the next few months and he
can i'll afford the expense of caring for q
yacht during the winter months. OF this
last class there are many such. Ship
brokers say that two-thirds of the yachts
offered for sale at this time of the year
are placed in their hands by captains of
industry, who want ready money, and
want it badly. Viewed in this light. the !
yacht is a splendid barometer of the finan-
cial condition of its owner. Here is tip,
free gratis, for mercantile agencies.
An Expensive Business. n
Even for the owner with plenty of money
a yacht is big expense during the eigh.
months that she is usually out of commits
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