The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-24
PALACE of THE WAVES.
Trip Around the World in the Ell
eanOr.

William A Slater of the New York and
Eastern Yacht clubs is building a mag
nifcent yacht on which he, his wife and
family and a party of friends will start
next June on a, voyage of two years
around the world, says the Norwich,
Conn, correspondent of the Boston Her
aid.
The plans of the long voyage read like
a story from the Arabian Nights
Mr. Slater is true yachtsman and has
true American spirit, and he will gather
a goodly party on his ship. During his
cruise he will visit the widest and more
out-of-the-way parts of the globe, and in
I order to protect himself, friends and crew
at all times, his vessel will have an ar
mory concealed on board, containing
needed weapons of defense.
That the prestige of American built
yachts shall not suffer when in foreign
waters, Mr.. Slater will swing from his
davits a Yankee sailboat, built for racing
purposes; and, in order to help the United
States to still hold up her head among the
maritime nations he will take on board
four apprentice boys from good American
families for the voyage, after the custom
practiced in the British merchant service.
The yacht will be the steel steamer
Eleanor, New York Yacht club and East
eTn Yacht club. She will be bark rugged.
She will be full steam powered and have
/ a small sail area as well, but she Will
not depend on her canvas to save her
coal bills.
No money will be spared in making the
cruise a delightful che. In the first place,
the Eleanor will be "a ship of 1850 tons.
! She is in such an advanced stage of con-
struction at the Bath Iron works, Bath,
! Me-, that the most liberal plans for the
comfort of her future guests and crew! are
now being perfected. She is three times
/ as large as the steam yacnt Sycamore,
which Mr.. Slater recently sold to Mr.. z.
j. Scott and in which the former made a
| u 800 mile cruise in European waters in
| 1892, and also two voyages to the West
Indies and one to the coast of Labrador.
The Eleanor will steam directly to Nor
way and spend the summer of 1894 in ''the
land of the midnight SUM- and will after
wards go to st. Petersburg. Leaving the
! chilly waters of the north, the itinerary Of
the trip will include a run through the
Mediterranean. There may be stops
meanwhile, but there is not likely to be
any prolonged halt until Egypt has been
reached.
afterwards the yacht will run into the
Indian ocean through the Suez canal.
iting Mozambique and other countries in
the Madagascar quarter Possible dan
ger from the people there will be warded
off by dependence upon the armory, and
while in these waters the Eleanor's pas
sengers will live on her after deck under
awnings.
The ship may reach India during the
winter of 1S94-5, but there will be no
hurry, and when the summer of 1895
rolls around the Eleanor will find herself
about China or Japan. The winter of
the Pacific islands. Thence she will go
to the Sandwich islands, to San Fran
lcisco and return to New York by way of
Cane Horn.
When Mr.. Slater has returned from
his prolonged trip he will have made a
bank account of a million dollars look
somewhat demoralized.
The Eleanor will be one of the largest
steam and sail yachts of her type afioat
She will cost about s25O000 900. She is
231 feet over all, 29S feet on the water
line, 80 feet beam, II feet inches deep
with a mean draught of Is feet inches
The area of her ten principal sails will
be 1900 square feet. The engines will
be of 1,000-hoTse power, while the speed
of the yacht will be thirteen knots cas-
to steam twenty days, or to Europe ano
back and still have fuel on hand.
The Eleanor will be of American work
manship in every respect where possible
fitted with searchlight and will be
electric lighted. She has an ice ma.
chine, cold storage rooms for meats anC
fish, and an apparatus for distilling sail
water for use on board.
A novelty of the ship will be the pres
ence of two Chinese laundrynen. Mr.
Slater in his former trips in foreign
waters, experienced the greatest diff
Guilty in getting his ships washing done
in satisfactory manner. In all, thu
Eleanor will carry. crew of ifty-on'
men.
Mr.. Slater is probably not more thai
95 years old He is worth many millions
which he inherited from his father, tn
, late John F. Slater, the cotton manu-
facturer, who set aside $1,00O,000 for tn
wife is an enthusiastic -yachtswoman
The yacht has been named for the own
er's young daughter.-New York World.