The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21
A GIRL TO BRAVE IT WITH HIM.
Capt. Andrews Companion On His
Perilous Ocean Voyage.
(New York Journal.)

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Miss Belle Shane of Norristowp, Pa,
is going to make a 3,000-nile ocean
voyage in a twenty-foot dory. She will
start from Atlantic City with Captain
Andrews on this perilous trip on June
II. The famous captain Will start on
| that day on his seventh trip to Europe
! in a small boat. The two will make the
| journey in the merest shell of alum
| mum and canvas, not over half an inch
| thick, with but single mast and with
| just enough room for the two venture
some navigatorS and their stock of pro-
visions. The provisions will, with the
incest calculation for eighty days con-
sumption, be slowed between decks. 4"
The craft in which the venturesome
voyage will be made is but twenty feet
in length, and only four and one-haf
| feet from keel to deck. The cabin will
be less than six feet high and ten feet
long and four feet wide, the boat S
beam being few inches over six feet
Over the thinnest of steel ribs an alum
mum shell will be riveted, and the
whole hull and deck and cabin Will be
covered with thick canvas. A twenty
foot mast will carry a single sail and
jib to a short bowsprit forward. Cap
tain Andrews has named the craft Su-
perba.
His companion tells here all the de-
tails of her preparation for the trip.
She viii carry along a combination
canvas bathing suit, some smoked
glasses, cold cream and witch hazel,
hair brush, a tooth brush and comb.
Il like to do odd things" says Miss
Shane. Il will be the first girl to cross
the ocean in such a little bit of boat.
l have been a visitor to Atlantic City
for several seasons. / was one of the
most enthusiastic of the crowd of spec
tators who waved Captain Andrews a
farewell from the ocean pier last
August, when he started on his trip to
Spain in a canvas yacht. Then / de-
cided to make the effort to go with him
if he ever crossed again. When, few
days ago, Captain Andrews announced
his intention of a seventh voyage, 1
called on him and said bluntly: Il want
to go along with YOU
"A woman could never make the
trip" was the captains answer.
81 persisted until he agreed to let me
go with him. He only stipulated that
1 must pay for my own provisions and
outfit, and that must not get seasick.
Il have begun to get ready for the
trip. 1t is only about eight weeks be-
fore l go, and there is a whole lot to be
done before that time. l will have to
get my outfit ready and say goodbye
to all my friends, and the time will go
Dy QUICKLY. l. am counting lHt udyS
until we start.
Captain Andrews SAYS he will have
to alter the plans of his boat, enlarg
ing the cabin and also the hold. He
will make the boat three feet longer
than he intended to have it at first,
and the cabin will have to be big
enough for two.
Here is list of the things I will
or, rather, we will-take along, in the
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canned beef 1--WE will be careful it is
not the 'embalmed' kind, twenty-five
pounds of canned fish. probably sal
mon; fifteen pounds of prunes, sixty
pounds of sea-biscuit, fifty cans of
baked beans and twenty cans of con-
densed milk. Regular army rations
isn't in it Then we shall take several
lanterns and five gallons of oil for light
at night and to use on the waves if the
weather becomes very rough; also
twenty gallons of water in demijohns,
and about four gallons of whisky. I
won't use much of that though. We
don't expect to be on the water much
over sixty days, but we have arranged
to take provisions for three weeks
longer, in case we are driven out of our
course. We expect to make Havre
France, about Aug. Is. and perhaps we
will then go by rail to Paris. If we
can we will sail up the Seine to Paris
but we are not certain about this as
yet. The trip will cost me about $3.50;
not more than that / think. My ward
robe for the voyage won't be very ex-
tensive. 1 will have to live just like
Captain Andrews. you know. 1 shall
take two canvas suits, three sets of I'M
derwear, besides a big rubber blanket
and a fur robe to sleep in. Captain
Andrews says he found some of the
nights quite cool and damp, even in a
snug little boat in midsummer. My
canvas suits l designed myself. They
are to be just alike, except that one
will be a little larger than the other,
so that one can fit on over the other.
They will be something like a bathing
suit, of white canvas, but will have big.
baggy trousers, which will be concealed
almost to the knees with a single skirt
There will be but one skirt with the
two suits, and it Gill be made to but
ton about the waist to either suit, so
that when l get one suit wet I can put
on the other suit while the skirt is dry
ing.
Il shall take two pairs of high leath-
er shoes. with thick rubber so:es, and
will wear a regulation army hat, which
a friend has given me. and which 1 am
TO send back to him as a souvenir when
l get to the other side. Captain An
drews has limited my personal belong
ings to twelve pounds weight, so
can't take very much along. l will take
two quarts of witch hazel, four boxes
of cold cream, in case the weather is
hard on my face and hands; two big
bottles of arnica, in case of bruises, and
a case of first relief to the injured
remedies. 1 will take two pairs of
eyeglasses of smoked glass and several
wells. because Captain Andrews tells
me the glare on the ocean when it is
very smooth is extremely trying to the
eyes"