New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 16

3 R IR AR AR I O A AR H0W 8 T i 2 N IO 1 I I 1 0 R, 2 L e With Fabulous New Yachts And Greatest of All Will Be Harrison Williams’s 500-Footer Eclipsing Many Ocean Liners in Size Length of waterline .. . Load displacement Horsepower Speed .. o Cost 5 3 Staterooms ranged commodate owner and 20 guests. APPROXIMATE COST OF MAIN Salaries and food for crew of 130 | Interest on $3,000,000 at 6 per cent Incidentals Total : two hathrooms, two dressing rooms, room and drawing MANSION AFLOAT One of the three $1,000,000 Sister Yachts Being Built for Alfred E. Sloan, Jr., General Motors President; Fred J. Fisher, of the Same Corporation, and & Third Anonymous Official. for long deep-sea cruises, her bow resembles that of a liner. Throughout there is the air of a comfortable country home, th huge open fireplaces and 25x17 , amd soft divans. in proportion. Yachting, the spread- T 1 ing sport of millionaires, point to several remarkable show One of these recently com- leted Coronet, Irv- ng T. Bush's 181- foot yacht, built to seaworthy Twenty i tions only v less pr There will be a ¢ a dining saloon, whe rved at once, a saloon, a smoking room, an a - rld ery com- is provided the guests the Coronet, dingan refrig ng plant and steam heat in every room. A nother known e projection machine. So as to be strictly ions over un- world. A and his all parties istant cities from all the ports at which the boat will dock. The engines of the yacht will be the most modern obta le, and i claimed, more powe than tl propelling any other craft of the kin¢ in the world. A shaft horsepower of 30,000 will afford a speed of 25 kno Mr. W s will be ¢ to | e England alongside the Mauretania and race that gre houn to the United States No potentate of ory ever had a mode of travel at his beck and call so fantastically luxurious. A crew of 130 will minister to the needs of the Williams guests and manage the This will include, of course, butlers and valets for everyone. The same refrigaration facilities that lied to the ] i which measures 162 feet 10 es on the waterline and one of the most expen- ornately decorated at. Mrs. Livermore o cost in furnishing ly cruiser and in- vitations are much coveted whenever a party is being made up for the Athero II. No sooner had these three vachts been announced than Max C. Fleisch- ng yacht, 218 d with a cruising radius of Thus the contest was the rivalry heightened. drawing rooms would to any society matron’s se ashore. But surpassed dt ROYAL YACHTING FAN Princess lleana of Roumania, Who Has Been Graduated in a Course of Seamanship, Is an Officer in the Navy and Owns Her Own Yacht. private ship 15 of all pleas- s being built for Har- iams, Manhattan utilities nate, and will cost upwards of ore costly—than many ving commercial ¢ ships. the firm of Cox and marine architects, who gning the yac is some- <mayed by the dimensions of Mr. William's mam- They have no sketches or plans completed and none com- parable with this huge ship. And v it may be for here are some ares that the sportsman’s fam and g will enjoy: The yacht will be 500 feet long twice as long as any pleasure craft now afloat or in prospect with a load displacement of 10,000 . Its size can only be appre- ciated when it is remembered that e President Roosevelt and Presi dent Harding of the United States owMulti Milionaires are Out spending One Another. High Lights of the Harrison Williams Yacht. 500 ft. 10,000 tons 30,000 25 knots $3,000,000 o ac- TENANCE PER YEAR $ 60,000 195,000 180,000 20,000 $ 455,000 At Left: Commodore and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Snrapped on the Deck of the Above: Williams, Wife of the Utilities Magnate, Who Will Be Mistress of the Greatest Private Ship in the World. cream and other foods throughout voyage. t what the first trtp will be on this amazing boat has not been decided. It is known that Mr. Williams is in- tensely interested in scientific expedi- tions. He backed the Sargasso Sea trip of William Beebe, ana contributed s of the Putnam expedi- WORLD CRUISER Commodore and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's Sumptuous Yacht, ““Ara,” on Which They Have Left on a Globe-Circling Trip. , therefore, quite possible that among the early trips his new ship wil) make there will be one devoted to the erance of scientific ends. Mr. be is a close friend of the financier, of course he will be among the -d guests on one of the cruises. n Williams, whose to buy him a yacht twice as large and twice as costly as any private pleasure craft, is himself a glamorous figure. In spite of ity which his wealth to him, together with rriage to Mrs. James L . the former wife of the l.quitable Trust Company's vice-president, and his role of host to the Prince of Wales dur- ing the royal heir’s.visit to this count Williame i a mysteri- out, almost enigmatic person. Seldom does he drop the veil of reticence with which he screens himself from the world. His rise in the financial realm has been phenomenal, and his inspired mary guesses as to hit probable wealth, esti- mated between $10,000,000 and $200,- 000.000. The management of large utilities companies brought him the major portion of his money. Throughout the world people who are able to do so seem to be taking a much greater interest in the Fred J. Fisher, of General Motors, for Whom a $1,000,000 Yacht Is p p in Process of Construction. . Harrison Williams, Whose New ‘“‘Baby Ocean Liner” Will Cost More Than $3,000,000, Constituting the Last Word in Maritime Toys. some sportsman might as well purchase he Leviathan and invite the members of his country club on a world cruise. Lines, and in fact all of the “President” ships are but 635 feet from prow to stern. The owner’s suite, the main fea- ture of a yacht, has two bedrooms, s e ot Afred E. Sloan, 'r., General Motors President, Whose Seagoing Villa Is Rated, in Prospect, as a World Wonder. Oopyrignt, 1929, tatercational Feature Eervice, Ine. Grest Britain Rights Beverved. BB 300611 W e e sttt o Vincent Astor’s Palatisl $2,000,000 Yacht, “Nourmahal,” Built at Kiel, Germany, for Him a Few Years Age.