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Show The Sport Million aim his tulii.iuy ability, and while to be 130 a month, the a tragt is ih rc an- many nautical gastronomic artists wl.ii command considerably moie than that. The chef's assistants rtiiiie $2" or $ 4 u a month, according to thtir ability, and the chief steward, who virtually runs tin social end of ih,, - rl-W&lf the jacht, purthaes suj'jilU'8, attends to I he H Million of gutfis, and in Diogenes Again. man with a lantern was jinking a beul the Mrts of Baltimore. What! cried a citizen, in amaze- mfit, mi; Inifit.ng that l,on.-- t muU.' "Nait!" t jdh d Diogenes (for it was J found him long ago he) in other waji maios himself generally um ful. and that everything In a of the way fundion goes off like clockwork. D chiap m at $123 or even $13.' a month. Aside from the Reding of fnwurs and guests, the feeding of the fifty rtght comprising the 30 cints a day ship's company mMs m-.- The s di.-fiifi- m-- -- j j , i When a captain of imlu.-drwho in divert-ioneludes yachting among his as most of them, of course, do rues afoul of a wluat deal or some y other unfortunate obstruction in the ftock market, ills first step In the way of retrenchment is either to get rid of his steam yaeht or to refrain from putting it into commission, for one or more seasons. He may be interested in a racing stable; he may own a string of motor cars a mile long, and If the cropper Jn Wall street has been sufficiently severe, all these things have to be sacrificed, too, but the steam yacht goes first. It goes first because it Is the most expensive plaything that man has ever produced. More money can be expended upon a big steam yacht in a 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 involved, such as entertaining, lux uries of various kinds, wines and other frills, the facts well nigh stagger the imagination of the investigator, and render the storied extravagances of Caius Caligula the tamest sort of reading ever after. It has been stated that J. Pierpont Morgan spends $10,000 each season for the cigars smoked aboard the Corsair. A yachtsman made this remark last season at Newport, and there is no reason to doubt his assertion. Other expenses, gauged accordingly, give one the impression that the Corsair each season must cost her owner a well-know- n pretty penny. Some years ago, when steam yachts were not of the high type of the present and when the term had hardly come into general a use, very prominent man of wealth ventured the remark that he did not see how it was possible for any man to spend more than $100,000 a year unless he literally threw his money away. Later he purchased a large steam yacht. It cost him $70,000 a year just to run it. The Newport legend has it that this man one day, seated on the porch of the reading room, qualified his statement very materially by adding unless he owns a steam yacht. On the last cruise of the New York Yacht club there were some twenty large steam yachts, which were estimated by a yachtsman as being valued in- the aggregate at over multi-millionair- e well-know- n $4,000,000, and in a cup year, when a vastly greater number of steam yachts are in commission than in any ordinary year (off year, yachtsmen call years In which there is no race for the America's cup), the various harbors touched by the New York Yacht club squadron have framed a marine .picture roughly estimated as worth $8,000,000. It is safe to assume that the Mason's expenses of h Corsair run way past the hundred thousand dollar mark, ami the same may b said of such large yachts' as Col. Payr.e's Aphrodite, Howard Could's Niagara. John Jacob Astor's Nourmahal. H. H. Rogers Kanawha. William K. Vanderbilts new turbine yacht Virginia, and a score of others. Not one of these yachts cost a ernt less than $CUO,OOQ to build, and in most cases the cost was even greater. That L the first expense, of course the cost of construction. The cost of maintenance comes after. Take the Corsair, since we began with her. She registers nearly if not quite COO tuns and burns more than 40 tons of coal a day when steaming along at anything like a fair rate of speed. Put the present price of' coal at $4 per ton it fluctuates, but $4 is a fair average and that makes, say, $1 CO daily for propulsive power. She t carries a crew of men, inthe first and captain, second cluding mates, carpenters, stewards cabin' and bedroom one pantryman, four cooks, including the chef; chief engineer and three assistant engineers, three oilers, from twelve to eighteen firemen, and a score of men before the mast, able seamen, and the like. Sadi a personnel suggests a war vessel in its completeness, and as a matter of fact the Corsair and other yachts of the kind are conducted as are war vessels, so far as discipline and machine-lik- e precision are concerned. But it costs something. The skipper of the Corsair receives no less than $200 a month, if, indeed, he does not receive more; the mates are paid from $70 to $100 a' month, while the pay of the seamen, the oilers and the firemen averages at least $30 a month. The pay of the chef depends fifty-eigh- J I 1 j j i ! I I j j j I i greater. When it comes to sailing the are comparatively of the sport. To build the eighty-five-foo- t cr Oolonla cost $tat00. The seventy foot class of schoone rs now racing, otj about to race, under the colors cf the New York AtholeD club at cominj regattas cost.nu less than $40,000 each to build, and it has been estimated that it cost more than $1,000 each month to keep a racing schooner yacht in commission. The Captain, if he is a good skipper, receives no less than $2H of that monthly outlay, and the sailors are paid $30 a month. Canvas sails for these yachts cost $1 a yard, and a sail spread of from 4,000 to feet, exclusive of the kites (smaller sails), involves no infinitesimal sum of money. An owner of a fleet schooner yacht recently estimated that his sails cost him $0,500 each season. charges about $16,000 for a fast sloop ($60,000 to build a racing seventy-footer)- , and so 5,-0- Her-resho- the- - fellow t hat iaxs whn Big Charlie's Joke. Charlemagne was in need of amuse- llght-- j schoon- - you heard of Yellow Art. Tommy Kigjam law. whose picthat feller there where youre ture r alin? Iavv rigjam Why, thats a halftone of a second cousin of the stepbrother of an aunt by sec ond marriage of the foster sister of the chap who is suspected of being in possession of information as to v.ho was an accomplice of the mysterious unknown who assisted in hidnajdng Sloppy Sadie the Sad Eyed Shop Girl. yachts For cr, but only comjiaratively so. instance, it cost $25, boo to $40,000 to fit out the schooners entered in the recent race for the Kaisers cup. The fart that all this expense was for a $3.(t'0 mug speaks well for the purity -t. he Hadn't been What I'm hunting now is the to giving Maryland r who is crui.-i-r a land silver service, the Mar) and Im about to give it up as a hopeless tah. Baltimoie American. try J hadnt paid his for each man. In addition to this, think what it must cost to entertain the guests with w hie It large steam yacht is crowded day aft r day throughout the sason. Think of the cost of re-- ! pkr.Miing larders and wine closets, land iigars, and of the thousand and one c xjh itdiusrc s involved in wining and dining and cnt staining in other wav,-- , and thn think, aln, of the cost j of tgineers and mutes' stores, dry docking and general repairs! in short, it costs not less than fbo.ono a year to run the greatest of our steam ' yachts, iind while-- , of course, the ac-- . tual c x pc mlitute may he more or less, inquiry would seem to Impress one that more often than not the sum Is i. Id ment. Why. they asked him, do you have such a large number of court jesters in constant attendance on your royal person? Because," he replied with a right regal chuckle, I could not earn the surname of The Croat were-- 1 net r? reful to keep my whs about me. It is said that the courtiers died laughing. Flying Start. 'Did you ask papa? I certainly did. You cant bluff me; Well, how did he take it? His manner or taking It gave me quite a start. What did he say that gave you a start? ? It was not so much wrhat he said what he did. Not His Fault. ff fifty-one-fo- ot it goes. In short, if you do not know what to do with your money, go in for yachting: buy a steam yacht, or a racing sloop from fifty to seventy feet long, or a seventy-foo- t schooner. If you do this there will be no more difficulty or care in getting rid of all that patrimony that bothers you and more, too. New York Times. Long Did you give him the high sign? Short Well, I did the best I could. Chicago Journal. Heaven on This Side the Styx. The single aunt You should be most assiduous to keep yourself unspotted from the world, Cornelia. You are solicitous, are you not, to enter heaven after you cross the river? The bud Yes. But, auntie. Im not averse to a little heaven on this side.'1 Puck, |