The Republican journal., 1904-12-01
COST OF RUNNING A YACHT.
MIR. Astor's Monthly Bill in Summer Prob
ably Foots Up 925. 900.

ably Foots Up 925,OO0.
The cost of running a steam yacht
necessarily varies with its size, says
Rene Bache in the Philadelphia Satur-
DAY Evening Post. A sixty footer may
not counting food supplies. For $50
footer the monthly expense would be
5000, perhaps. But when it comes to a
pleasure craft like Pierpont Morgan's
COrsair, 3O4 feet on the water line, or
John Jacob Astor's Nourmahal, which
Is even bigger, the outlay is enormously
greater. 1t costs about $4,000 a month
to run the Corsair, and it is probable
that Mr.. Astor's bill for the Nourmahal
| IN the summer time amounts to not
less than $4,000 every thirty days.
| The payroll of the officers and crew of
! such a vessel, which is good sized
steamship, will touch 81, 500 or possibly
$4,000 a month.
A first class steam yacht carries \
crew OF fifty or more men. The Aphro-
dlte, owned by Colonel Oliver H.
Payne, requires 81. There must be
three cooks, steward, two assistant
stewards and six or seven men who
serve as ''chambermaids" and walters.
The NOurmahal also has a couple OF
stewardesses, for the convenience of
| lady guests on board. Thirty sailors
draw pay at the rate of $50 month,
the captain gets $500 month-Howard
| Gould pays his captain $1,000 year
and two mates are employed at SIS and
$50, respectively. The chief engineer
draws S125, the assistant engineer 500
and an oiler $50 month. To these
must be added four firemen at $40 a
month and four stokers at the same
wages. OF course the chief cook is
likely to be a French chief at $4OO or
$500 month.
| Such boat consumes 20 tons OF coal
a day, and at that rate, she will burn
up something like 5000 tons, the item
OF fuel alone coming to $4,000 for the
season. For the rest of the year she is
lad up in a basin at an expense of $500
a month, and the cleaning and painting
she has to undergo cost pretty penny.
1t takes two weeks and an expenditure
OF 81, 900 to lay her up for couple of
months and $1,000 to put her into com.
mission again.
From these figures it is easy to under.
stand where the money goes for steam
yacht, though it should be realized that
bills for food supplies mot reckoned in
| SAAO es0OSS ASSOulCJ nAO CAAply nuSC,
especially when much entertaining is
done. Anybody would be interested to
know what it cost Cornelius Wander.
bllt on his recent trip abroad to enter
tain Emperor William on board his
yacht and to meet on an appropriately
sumptuous scale certain other social
obligations by his intimacy with the
great ones of the earth. Very possibly
he did not get out off less than 800, OOC
Tor few weeks amusement.
Not a few rich men nowadays, pre-
fer sailing yachts, because of the SUI
perior accommodations which they af-
ford. There is more comfort to be had,
they assert, in 100 foot schooner than
in 200 foot steam yacht. Such a
schooner costs only 100000, and has a
crew Of 25, with IS before the mast.
Whereas steam yacht is largely occu-
pied by machinery and coal, which take
up nearly the whole of the middle por-
ton of the vessel, in a schooner the en-
tire body of the craft is available fol-
living purposes. Even sloop 60 or 7(
feet long and costing $4,000 perhaps,
will carry six or eight cabin passengers
very cozily.