New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-08
YACHTS AND THEIR OWNERS.

MANY NEW PLEASURE CRAFT UNDER CoNSTRUC
TON TO BE FLOATED IN THE SPRING
The Gas Engine and Power Company and Charles
L. Seabury & Co. Morris Heights. have laid the
keel Of the steel steam yacht Hiawatha. ITO
feet long for Charles Fleischmann. OF the NewYork
and Larchmont Yacht clubs. All the materials re-
quired for the completion of the hull at the
factory and in process of construction. The Joiner
work has been started in the cabinet shops deck
houses companionways. skylights. partitions and
general trimming all being got out and some OF
chinery are being built at the Seabury works. at
onr m % the ae sea srH safety
tube type. and Is being built at the Morris Heights
factory The Hiawatha will be completed about
May l5 1897, and is to attain speed Of eighteen
miles per hour Captain r. Frank smith VIII be In
command.
Work on the s5-foot fush-deck steam yacht Rayn-
ham, for Edward s. Woodward, is we'll advanced.
The hull is all planked decks laid and steel bulk
heads placed in position The deckhouse skylighs.
companionways. etc. are in the joiner shop being
finished. while the engine is completed and the
boiler Is well advanced. The Raynham Is TO be
completed and delivered on May /. 1897.
The Puntaub, +. L. NJ. Masurys new @-foot
steamer and sister ship 10 the Raynham, is advanc
ing rapidly The framing is completed and part Of
the panking is now on The TaHhinery for TINS
boat has also been started and VIII be duplicate
engine and boiler to the Raynham
Among the yachts In the Morris Heights storage
bas Of the Gas Engine and Power Company and
seabury & Co. the Wachussett. Larchmont Yacht
Club F. T. Holder. is to undergo alterations, plans
having been prepared and contract given to the
above firm for the lengthenng Of the yacht thirteen
feet bowsprt and masts Will be added with
rigging sails A bridge will be built on top of
the deckhouse. and the smokestack raked with the
This viii b make Of b ehhnse IN ,vn the
without masts.
The steam yacht Countess. Atlantic Yacht Club.
Fred Gerken is also TO undergo alterations. A
and modern stern is TO be added increasing her
length and there will be a bowsprit and figure
nead ssprv saein wacrbe boiler and speed
propeller wheel are to be supplied
The Gas Engine and Power Company and Sea-
bury & Co.'S shops. in Of erection
at Morris Heights. extension to their present
plant will consist Of a steel building $50 feet long.
As feet wide and IS feet high In the clear. This is
10 be used as boiler and smith shop The steel
building be used machineshop is $50 feet long.
rs feet wide and IS feet high in tho clear. The fac
tory buildings and yards have recently been
equipped with complete electric arc-ght system.
The new marine railways are finished and are be-
ing equipped with a steam power cradle A new
Seabury boiler with 1900 square feet Of heating
face and 30 square feet Of crate surface. has re-
Gently been fitted In the power house. and IS run
ming the entire manufacturing plant. consisting OF
four engines also steam heating appliances. etc.
Walter Jennings. of the Standard Oil Company.
has ordered 30-foot naphha launch with
canopy roof. TO be completed and finished May /.
to be used at his summer home at Long Isiard
Sound, Oyster Bay
Major C. +. Urich. New-York and Larchmont
clubs. has ordered a ls-foot napntha launch
as tender for his schooner yacht clrlotta.
The 65-foot twin-screw naphtha yacht oeing built
for the Government as lighthouse tender Charles
ton. s. C.. district is about completed.
30 foot naphts launch is being built for the
New-York Health Department.