The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-26

ers, blue or white flannel coat and
leather belt. A plain cap on his head
is the thing. If he should wear
cutaway and a derby he would be
viewed with silent pity.
The Umbrella "a Nautical Crime.
Nowadays it is permissible to come
aboard with a bag of golf implements.
But canes are out of place; and an
umbrella is not only against all mod
ern yachting etiquette, but it offends
against all ancient marine laws, for
an umbrella on a vessel means sure
bad luck, as every sailor knows.
The favored guest, or one whose
yachting reputation gives him leeway,
may converse under favoring circum-
stances with the crew in the same
well-bred, kindly, yet majestic manner
in which he might converse with his
hosts butler ashore; but the ordinary
vintage of guest might as well go
into the kitchen on shore and con-
verse with the hosts cook and walters
as to go forward and mingle with the
tarry boys.
He mustn't even talk much with the
captain, although sailing with him for
days, unless that gentleman should
give him distinct encouragement.
If the guest is thus bound by awful
ceremonies, the owner and his crew
are bound by still more strenuous laws.
The man who can compel a few little
institutions like continental rail-
roads and clearing houses and internal
tional steamship lines to sit up and
take notice whenever he wags his fin
ger, doesn't dare to fire his own brass
cannon on his own yacht, or show his
own pennant, or dip his flags In salute.
except in the circumstances solemnly
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of the yacht clubs. When he enters
harbor. he must come in just so,
anchor just so. salute just So or he is
lost socially.
He may have a steam whistle OF
power, and, like every other healthy
human being, he may pine with desire
to hear her screech. But he daren't.
Even if he did 1t out at sea, with no
other yachts to despise him for it, his
yachtsman guests would sneer at 1t.
He would lose the respect of his crew,
every mothers son of whom has the
smallest and most intricate rules of
yachting etiquette by heart-each of
them a remorseless Ward McAllister
Of the water.
He may be the biggest financial
boss of them all, but if he lies In
harbor and the commodore should
come sailing or steaming in, he must
salute him on the spot, although he
may be able to buy and sell that COM
modore any day on Exchange, and
even If that commodore be his pet
enemy.
When the Financial Boss Obeys
Orders.
1t really is very wrong for envious
folk to view a millionaire's steam
yacht with bitterness and envy. That
sodes in his life when he has to obey
orders from others, and obey them at
unquestionably as jack tar obeys his
captain.
When he is sailing with other yachts
in a club fleet he cannot even leave
harbor at his own sweet will, but must
ask for permission from the senior Off
GER.
When he is going around a llarbor
in his launch or cutter, he must salute
the seniors in rank of the club as he
passes under the stern of their vessels.
His yacht may be an ocean-going ship
and the senior in rank may own only
a little thing that he could swing
aboard of his monster. It doesn't make
any difference.
And he must learn the language of
the yacht. If he is going among the
other yachts in his cutter the etiquette
OF the fleet demands that his boat be
hailed by each yacht that it APP
proaches. Now, no matter how great
his name is, he cannot thunder, as he
might on land: This is - -
-, the banker!"
No, indeed. If he happens to be COM
modore or vice comodore he says
"Flag!" If he is intending to board
a yacht on a visit there is only one
permissible answer to hail, which is
"Visitor!" And IL he is merely pass
ing, he may not shroud himself in
gloomy silence, even If It is only a sim
Pile unlettered graduate of a Scandi-
navian fishing village who halls him.
He must answer by saying "Passing!"
These are only few of the simple
rules that surround that life of dignity
and pomp. There are exactly fifty-one
cardinal rules governing the r-tre
routine of daily behavior. No one mas
ever made a census of the more elab-
crate rules that have been established
to meet all available contingencies, in
GLIDING death.
Copyright. 1904. by T. c. Mcclure.)