Connecticut western news., 1880-01-28
A Monte Cristo in Baltimore.


 A Monte Cristo in Baltimore.
 wHY M. HENRI SAY IS TO SELL HIS YACHT 1HENRIETTE AND TO BUILD ANOTHER FOR HIS VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
 A Baltimore dispatch says:-M. Henri Say, the wealthy young Frenchman whose intended trip around the world came to an abrupt termination some weeks ago hy the breaking of the propeller shaft of his yacht, the Henriette, in 8 gale of wind off Cape Hatteras, has been since the accident delightful resident of this city. whither came the vessel in which himself and family were taken off of the disabled yacht. Upon her arrival some few days afterwards at Hampton Roads, M. Say ordered the Henriette here for repairs, intending at first to replace the broken shaft with a new one and resume his interrupted voyage. This idea he Eas 1t is said, now abandoned and is ready to sell the Henriette. He hal. not, however, abandoned the plan of 8 pleas ure cruise around the world, but has just contracted with Malster X Reany, of this place, to build him an iron yacht larger than the Henriette and of model better suited to the service for which she is required than his present vessel is. The proposed vessel is to be, 250 feet long, 32 feet beam and 20 feet depth of hold.' She is to be propelled by two direct-acting engines of the compound type, with cylinders 45 and 39 inches of diameter respectivelys and; is estimated to cost when complete about $200, ,000. It is said that MT. Boucicault, for whom the Henriette under the name of Shaugh- raun was constructed, insisted on 8 cabin of immense size as compared with the internal capacity of the vessel. and thst it should be placed forward of all the machinery, and that in order to meet this requirement. of the celebrated actor the builders were obliged to give to the model an extraordinary fullness in its after section, where the great weight of the machinery and boilers was to be sustained, and that in consequence of this malformation, as 1t were, the vessel was not as perfect a sea-boat as she might otherwise have been and as her builders could have made her. Those who are in position to know, however, say that M. Says confidence in the Hen- riette has not diminished, but that Mme. Say has taken violent prejudice against the vessel and had positively refused to go again to sea in her.
 One reason for this, it is said, that she believes that the christening of the boat with Irish whisky, instead of good French wine, as is customary, was an ill omen,a and that trouble had attended her husband and herself ever since he purchased her. Previous to this Mme. Say has always accompanied her hus- band on his yachting excursions, being extremely fond of the sport, and from long practice had become an excellent sailor, never exhibiting the least alarm on any occasion. Just after the pur- chase of the Henriette, however, and while M. Say and his wife were on 8 passage from New York to Newburg in M. Says French yacht, the Toilette, that vessel ran into sloop loaded with bricks and sank it. The yacht was also so much damaged that she had to be run ashore to prevent her from sinking. AL though it was said that the blame of the collision was wholly with the sloop, which had not lights set as it should have had, M. Say settled the question of damage on the spot in his usually princely fashion by asking the captain of the sloop how much it was worth and giving him g check for the amount. Mme. Say was much alarmed by the collision, and from that time took a prejudice against the Henriette aud i'm bibed presentiment that from the ao- cident to the old yacht something un- toward must happen to the new one. Il is said that the new yacht behaved ad' mirably up to the time that her shaft broke, and M. Say was well pleased with his purchase. As soon as it oc- cured. however, Mime. Say insisted on leaving the yacht at the first opportuni ty, and could not be persuaded that the vessel herself was in no immediate danger but still had her sailing powers unhsrmed. The yacht just contracted for is to be completed in August next and in the meantime M. Say intends tc remain in this country with his family which at present consists of Mime. Say and one child. Not few of the Bal timoreans already call him Prince O. : Monte Oristo.