People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — Vanderbilt’s Yacht Alva Blown Up. [ARTICLE]

Vanderbilt’s Yacht Alva Blown Up.

•Chatham, Mass., May 11.—The sunken ,»-acht Alva, belonging to Commodore Vanderbilt, has been blown up with dynamite. An, Atlantic City firm had thef contract and the work was done t>y the ciew of the tng Fisher's Island, Capt. Van Zant. Three thousand pounds of dynamite, worth $7,500, wereuued in the several explosions and IX* yacht wm completely demolished.