The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-13
TIE YACHT CONQUsRoR.
Brief DescriDt ton OF the Vanderbilt
Pleasure Craft.
v.om the Netg York Advertfs


Brief Description Of the Vanderbilt
Pleasure Graft.
From the Neto York advertiser.
To begin with, the Conqueror is really a
miniature City of Paris, save that she is
painted white and has only one smoke
stack, rakish. slender funnel painted buff,
| and also that she has only one screw. She
| is rugged as 2-masted schooner and is 215
feet in length by rs feet beam. Her aver
age speed is twelve knots an hour. She
once made the run from Plymouth, Eng
land, to Halifax, Nova Scotia. in nine days.
She carries a crew Of thirty all told.
While the Conqueror is a picture to de-
| light any eye 1t is below her decks that her
greatest attractions lie. She is one of the
| most comfortably arranged steam yachts
| in the world, according to the opinion of
yachtsmeD, and she is so we'll proportional
that she appears much larger below decks
| than she really is. A peep below decks is
not unlike sudden transportation to fairy
land. Entering the main saloon amldships
| is a small deck saloon which will be used
during the cruise as a smoking room for the
| gentlemen Of the party and as a reading
room for the ladies. To keep an even
temperature a steam radiator has been
recently put in this apartment. 1t
may be needed on the coast. 1t
is lighted with electric lights, with curiously
cut glass bulbs that give a sparkling
| light. Leading from this room down a
heavily carpeted stairway is the main
saloon, which is the most spacious room in
the yacht, and which will be the living
room of the party. 1t occupies the full
| width of the yacht aud Is sixteen feet long.
| All sides OF the saloon are covered with
heavy mahogany, highly polished. while at
| one end is a fireplace with q small wooden
cabinet mantel. with ornaments The
| chief ornaments of the saloon are curious
| pieces of old-fashioned chiuaware screwed
on to the woodwork and giving a very
artistic effect to the apartment
AS the location OF the main saloon indi-
Gates. the Conqueror is arranged on the new
| plan of having the crews quarters aft and
| the cabins and state rooms all forward.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Vanoerbilts apartments are
directly aft of the saloon and are reached
from the saloon by means of q small pas
saReway.
When Mr., Vanderbilt awakes in the
morning in his state room, which is located
on The port side just forward OF amidships,
| he can look out through a good sized port
| hole upon the sea. Within reach of bis hand
are electric call bslls, electric lights aud a
telephone with which he can communicate
with the officer on deck or the steward. In
front of him is a heavy mahogany bureau
with a mirror, while the floor OF the room is
| covered with Persian rugs. This is his pri-
vate room, and it Is twice the size of g
state room in an ocean steamship. 1t has a
large bed, Of mahogany, a bureau of the
same wood and handsome wash basin
with running fresh water. The walls of
this room were originally bird's>eye maple,
but Mrs. Vanderbilt did not fancy that
wood for sleeping apartment and so Mr..
Vanderbilt had them covered with heavy
embossed silk in Persian patterns.
Mrs. Vanderbilt's boudoir is the most
magnificent apartment In the yacht. Every
thing for comfort and magnifcence has
been lavished on this room to make her as
comfortable at sea as at home. It is an OBJ
long apartment the full width Of the vessel
and almost as large as the main saloon. 1t
has an entrance through the same passage
way to the saloon as Mr.. Vanderbilt's room
and is also connected with his room. The
walls are hung with heavy silk, which COW
ers the bird's-eye maple. This silk Is a
very pale blue with delicate tracings Of yell
low through 1t in a marvellous pattern. AS
a sort of cornice to the silk the ceiling
and the walls for foot below it are hung
with festooned velvet of rich red, fringed
with a lighter colored silk. There is a good
sized bed Of mahogany on the starboard
side, while on the front side abe has a couch
for quiet nap. In the center Of the apart
ment is little door which leads to her
bath room. The carpet OF the floor of Mrs.
| Vanderbilt's room ia a heavy velvety VIII
ton, and, in addition to large bureau with
| a mirror she has another large mirror set
in the side of the apartment. Mrs. Wander
bilt's room is almost directly amidship, and
consequently she will not be annoyed by
the motion OF the yacht or the noise from
the whrring shaft.
| Directly forward Of the saloon are three
state rooms, a stewards pantry, with the
glassware, etc. and three state rooms, one
Of which is occupied by the steward. OF
the other two state rooms, both good sized,
one will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs How
ard. The other forward room will be occu-
pied by Ogden Mills, while the bachelors of
Mr.. Vanderbilt's party, Mr.. Jacobs, Mr.
| Parsons and MIR. Wales, will occupy the
three after state rooms, located abaft Of the
machinery.
All OF these state rooms are upholstered
in light colored silk in panels surrounded by
| heavy, plain mahogany, and each is fitted
up with wash basins. electric call bells,
electric lights, the sofest carpets imaginable
under foot and plenty of room for the stor-
age Of clothing in drawers and closets.
One of the most attractive cubby holes in
the yacht is the silver pantry, little glass
inlaid affair, in which sparkles the yachts
silver, while the saloon is surrounded with
invisible lockers in which the table linen
and china is kept.
just off the saloon is a small armory, in
which are kept dozen rifles and revolvers,
all Of the latest pattern, which may come
In handy when game is sighted.
The final arrangements for the reception
OF Mr.. Vanderbilt and bis guests on board
Of the Conqueror will not be made before
the yacht gets clear of Sandy Hook, when
Chief Officer Charles Unsworth will see to
it that the decks are holystoned and the
bulwarks polished, aud that everything
allow and aloft shines before she reaches
Georgia.
All yesterday was spent by the crew OF
the Conqueror in getting on board provis-
ions for the cruise. Boxes of all kinds and
shapes filled with every necessity and luxury
known, were slowed away or put in the ice
box, which was left TO be filled with ice this
morning, when six tons were put in.
The Conqueror is equipped with two
launches, one propelled by steam aud one
by naphtha; large lifeboat, gig and two
cutters.
she has both steam and hand-steering
gear.
As she has been painted and reftted
throughout for the cruise she ought to
create q sensation when she reaches some of
the warm winter resorts she is to visit
GEoRGE-I wonder why Ethel calls me her