The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-07-08

When a captain of industry who in
cludes yachting among his diversions
as most of them, of course, do
runs afoul of a wheat deal or some
other unfortunate obstruction in the
stock market, his first step in the
way of retrenchm is either to get
rid Of his steam yacht or to refrain
from putting it into commission, Tor
one or more seasons.
He may be interested in a racing
stable: he may own string of motor
cars a. mile long, and If the crOpper
in Wall street has been sufficiently
severe, all these things have to be
sacrificed, too, but-the steam yacht
goes first. 1t goes first because it is
the most expensive plaything that
man has ever produced.
More money can be expended upon
big steam yacht in given period
than upon anything not an absolute
utility that has yet been devised. This
applies to the yacht in itself-coal,
crew, maintenance and the like. When
one begins to consider other expenses
uries of various kinds, wines and 9TH
err frills, the facts we'll nigh stagger
the imagination of the investigator.
and render the stored extravagances
OF Caius Caligula the tamest sort of
reading ever after. 1t has been
stated that J. Pierpont Morgan spends
$4,000 each season for the cigars
smoked aboard the Corsair. A we'll
known vac htsman made this remark
last season at Newport, and there is,
no reason to doubt his assertion. 9th
er expenses, gagged accordingly, give
one the impression that the Corsair
each season must cost her owner a
pretty penny. B
Some years ago, when steam yachts
were not of the high type of the pres
ent and when the term multi-million-
aire had hardly come into general
use, a very prominent man of wealth
ventured the remark that he did not
see how it was possible for any man
to spend more than 100000 a year
unless he literally threw his money
away. Later he purchased a large
steam yacht. 1t cost him $4,000 a
year just to run it. The Newport le-
gend has it that this one day,
seated on the porch of the reading
room, qualified his statement very
materially by adding unless he owns
steam yacht
On the last cruise of the New York
Yacht club there were some twenty
large steam yachts, which were esti-
mated by well-knOwn yachtsman as
being valued in the aggregate at over
100000, and in a cup year, when a
vastly greater number Of steam
yachts are in commission than in any
ordinary year Golf year," yachtsmen
call years in which there is no race
for the Americas cup), the various
harbors touched by the New York
Yacht club squadron have framed a
marine picture roughly estimated as
worth $S,0O0,000.
1t is safe to assume that the sea-
sons expenses Of the Corsair run
way past the hundred thousand dollar
mark, and the same may be said of
SuCu Sc ydOnCo Ao1 ~ lS
Aphrodite, Howard Gould's Niagara,
John Jacob Astor's Nourmafal, H. H.
Rogers KanaWha, William K Van
derbilt's new turbine yacht Virginia,
and a score of others. Not on7 CT
these yachts cost cent less than
$500 900 to build, and in most cases
the cost was even greater. That is
the first expense, of course cost
of construction. The cost of main
tenance comes after.
Take the COrsair, since we began
with her. She registers nearly if not
quite 900 tons and burns more than
40 tons of coal day when steaming
along at anything like fair rate OF
speed. Put the present price of coal
at 81 per ton-it fuctuates, but 81 is
a fair average-and that makes, say,
$3.50 daily for propulsive power. She
carries a crew of fifty-eight men, in
GLIDING the captain, first and second
mates, carpenters, stewards-cabin
and bedroom-one pantryman, four
cooks. including the chef; chief en-
gineer and three assistant engineers,
three oilers, from twelve to eighteen
Her Requirement.
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