The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-27

More Than Forty Three Mill
lion Dollars Invested
in Yachts.

More ssan $4,000 600 invested IN
yachts ss.o00.90o in club houses and
cub property End sS.O00.0o0 spent ev.
er year Tor pleasure In yachting
Such are figures quoted by Arthur
r Aldridge. In Pearsou's Magazine TO-
Jhne. TO support the declaration that
gochting IS the costliest sport in he
vorld The expenditures given are Tor
the Cnited States. There are now
sso yacht clubs in this country. with
more than 10000 members and a total
q s.lis carefully recorded yachts
Mr.. Aldfldge deals oaly with tbs
beats o. record There are perhaps
zen thousand very small launches and
motor boats and an unknown number
CT tiny sailboats which do not enter
Into his Geld OF consideration.
Among the recorded yachts 512 are
steamers. lss are auxiliaries. having
small power engines TO use when
winds fall light or when working into
harbor. 205 are schooners. l46 sloops
and cutters, 226 yawls. i46 catboats.
Sos launches with gas, electric or naph-
tha motors.
o. the steamers 3s7 are built OF
wood. 25 ard composite structures OF
wOod and metal and 129 are built en-
tlreiy II steol. These steel vessels are
worth Si7.294.oOO. All modern boats
are built OF steel, and the seven thar
are over 800 feet in length are among
IN handsomest in the world. These
are w. K vanderbets valiant James
Gordon Benefits Lysostrata, A. J.
DrcxeIs Margarita, Mira. Robert Goe-
let's Nahma. ]. Pierpont Morgans
Corsair. Eugene higgins varuna and
col. Oliver H. Payne's Aphrodite. The
average price for these seven has been
placed at half million dollars each
in the next class are F. W. Wander.
Nlt's Warrior ard Howard Gould's Nj
sgara. each worth ss60,OOO.
The twenty-five vessels Of composite
build are wbrth 100000 and the wood.
en- boats are worth s7.0s9 600 This
nalses total for the steam yachts
owned by American yachtsmen Of $685.
$4,000
II the 3.11S American yncAts Of rec
ord we're arranhed in a line Up the
Hudson from the battery, at ordinary
anchoring distance. Mr. Allridge finds
they would reach t. iaa Poughkeepsis
lrdge The steamers over 2q0 feet
lcag headed 81 ~ X vanlsr5lrs
vallaat. aS2 fee. .ril make the .lne
10 West, Sixteenth street about three
miles. Boats between $50 and 200 feet
would extend two miles; those between
125 and $50 feet, four miles.
Finally. there would be a "line sew.
enty-seven miles long made up of yes.
sells used only for pleasure. Then there
ais thousands Of small crafts unregis-
tered. ana II shese could be accounted
fr the line would reach as far as AL
beny."
Some vessels are commissioned only
fsr month or six weeks IN a season;
Others are in use the whole year, their
owners cruising In the warm waters in
winter Mr. Aldridge thinks It fair
70 put the average time for boats
service at ave months each season. IN
ordinary years 60 per cent OF the yachts
are in commission and on such basis
the Peagsons writer goes into figures
OF cost
Big vessels like the Valiant, Varuna.
Corsair and others require crews OF
sixty men. Il would take $3.50 men
70 handle the steamers and auxiliaries.
1917 for the schooners, 420 for the
yawls. 1915 for the sloops and 500 for
the power boats, making a total OF
1902 men
The pay Of an ordinary sailor is $50
q month. Many owners add to this IS
q month for good conduct Quarter.
masters get little more than sailors.
mates $50 to 500 a month. assistant
engineers the same as mates and cap
tains and engineers from SIS a month
10 $500 a wear The average pay roll
for these 5000 men might be put at
SIC q month each. This would mean
t5oovoO a month. or 81 100000 for the
6Ye months.
These men have to be fed. Fifty
cents a day Is allowed for each man.
This means sl2500o a month for food.
Or S665.ooo for the FIVE months.
Each sailor must be provided with
one blue uniform, two suits Of duck.
caps. rubber boots etc, and these cost
SO for each man, another outlay Of
fl35O00
The overhauling and httiag ont Of
he vessels win p,ean an expenditure
Df tl5OOO,OO0,
A wealthy yachtsman VIII spend