The record-union., 1894-05-31
SLATER TO ARM HIS YACHT.


the World in the Eleanor.
| William A. Slater of the New York and
Eastern Yacht Clubs is building mag
niticent yacht on which he, his wife anG
family and party of friends will start
next June on a voyage of two years
around the world, says the Norwich,
Conn.,, correspondent of the Boston
Herald. The plans OF the long voyage
read like 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 places on the globe, and,
in order 10 protect himself, friends and
crew at all times, his vessel will have an
armory concealed on board, containing
needed weapons of deiense.
That the prestige of American-built
yachts shall not suffer when in foreign
waters, MIR. Slater will swing from his
davits Yankee sailboat, built for rae
ing purposes; and, in order to help the
United States to still hold up her head
among the maritime nations of the world,
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
Eastern Yacht Club. She will be bark
rugged. She will be full steam powered
and have 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 delightful one. In the first place,
the Eleanor will be a ship of 1,060 tons.
She is in such an advanced stage ofcon-
struction at the Bath Iron Works. Bath.
Ma ha
comfort of her future guests and crew are
now being perfected. She is three times
as large as the steam yacht Sycamore,
which MIR. Slater recently sold to +. J.
Scott, and in which the former made a
II, SO0-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
,sthe land of the midnight sum-" and will
afterward go 10 ST. Petersburg. Leaving
the chilly waters of the north, the timer
ary of the trip will include run through
the Mediterranean. There may be stops
meanwhile, but theie 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.
Mr.. Slater has long been desirous OF vis-
the Madagascar quarter. Possibly danger
from the people there will be warded of
by dependence upon the armory, and
while in these waters the Eleanor's pas
sengers will five 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 1895 Is
will find her among the palms of the Pa
citic islands. Thence she will go to the
Sandwich Islands, to San Francisco and
return to New York by the way of Cape
Horn.
When Mr.. Slater has returned from his
prolonged trip he will have made bank
account of million dollars look some
what demoralized.
The Eleanor will be one of the largest
steam m-andsail yachts of her type afloat.
She will cost about $3.50, ,000 She is, 23l
feet over all. 20S feet OH the water line, 80
feet beam, IL feet 8 inches deep, with a
mean draught of 13 feet 4 inches. The
area of her ten principal sails will be a.
600 square feet. The elgines will be 1000
horse power, while the speed of the yacht
will be IL knots easily. The yacht will
carry coal enough TO steam twenty days,
or to Europe and back. and still have fuel
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The Eleanor will be of American work
manship i'll every respect where possible
and of the highest class. She will be
fitted with searchlight and will be
electric lighted. She has an ice machine.
cold storage rooms for meats and fish,
and an apparatus for distiliing salt water
for use OH board.
\ novelty Of tho ship will be the pres
ence of two Chinese laundrymen. Mr..
Slater. in his former trips in foreign
waters, experienced the greatest diff
Guilty in getting his ships washing done
in a satisfactory manner, In all, the
Eleanor will carry a crew Of fifty-one
men.
Mr.. Slater is probably not more than 80
years old. He is worth many millions,
which he Inherited from his father, the
late John f. Slater, the cotton manuiact-
urer, who set aside l.VJ0, ,000 for The edu-
cation of the freedmen. MIR. Slater's wife
is an enthusiastic yachtswoman. The
yacht has been named for the owners
young daughter.