The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-18
Woman NiInrod
Nine. Cardeza Has Killed
Big Game Everywhere.

amusement, education and happiness out
side of the artificial life of the drawing
room. She lives on her yacht, in her
shooting boxes and camps in whatever cor
ner of the world her fancy and the pros
poets of big game attract her.
The Eleanor, the largest yacht in the
world owned by woman. is resting, af-
ter many voyages, at the foot Of East
Twenty-fourth street and preparing for
yet longer trip. The master of the
yacht is the millionaire sportswoman,
Mrs. Charlotte D. NJ. Cardeza.
Mrs. Cardeza is a huntress of renown.
In tour around the world she witnessed
some elephant and tiger hunts. The sight
so steadied her nerves that she has be-
come hunter of Americas biggest game
the moose and caribou.
In the dining room of her beautiful
home, Montebeilo, Germantown, Pa, are
the heads Of six caribou she killed with
her own hands.
She owns a hunting box at Mount XII
neo, in Maine. There she goes deer hunt
ing every fall except when she is pene-
trating the virgin forests of Newfound-
land, where the caribou grows to his
largest size. At Bricky Cove, Newfound-
land. last November, she was one of
party that killed and brought back to the
Eleanor the heads or forty-four caribou.
Mrs Cardeza is one of the wealthiest
women in America She cares not at all
for society and has a passion for travel
that she gratif1es to the full.
She is musician of exceptional ability.
She plays and sings well. but there is
no music so sweet to her ears as the pop
of the rife.
She owns a home at Germantown,
cottage at Newport, has an estate in the
West Indies, and keeps suite at the
Waldorf-Astoria the year round, but
loves best of all the rough pine lodge
built by the men of the Eleanor's crew in
the forest at the foot of Mount Kineo, in
Maine.
Mrs Cardeza may be near the forties.
That fact the existence of her big, hand
some son, Tom Cardeza, would attest,
but she looks scarcely thirty. Life
aboard a yacht and in the hunting dis
tricts of the North has brought to her
cheeks rose bloom of robust health.
She is the highest and best type of the
American girl refined by a many-sided
education and broadened by travel. She
was born in Philadelphia, of English pa
rents. Her father was Thomas Drake, a
lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake
She is the widow of ]. Martinez Cardeza,
a wealthy spaniard.
Soon the Eleanor will sail for the Med
iterranean and will linger in its hospi-
table waters until the opening of the
Paris Exposition After that perhaps an
i ~
does not know. She does not make long
defined plans of travel. She awakes one
morning thinking, or is 1t the memory
of her Dreams of the blue-green waters of
the Bermudas, and the next day she is
on her way thither, borne by the lux
urious Eleanor, under the command of
its big, iovial Yankee captain David H
Weed
The Eleanor, like the Eleanor's mis-
tress, is a strictly American product. She
was built six years ago at the Bath Iron
Works, Bath Me-, for w. E. Slater, Of
Norwich, Conn She is perhaps the most
travelled yacht of her age in the world.
Her first trip was a circumnavigation of
the globe. Since that she has cruised in
the fjords of Norway, in the Caribbean
Sea, and along the length of the Atlantic
coast, having steamed $1,000 miles.
The Eleanor's original cost was $3O0.00O
The cost Of her maintenance for year is
$4,000 She carries a crew of forty-four
men. Under q natural draught of steam
she maintains a speed Of fourteen knots
an hour With canvas alone in good
breeze she averages eight knots. She is
built of steel, is bark rugged, and has
single screw, driven by triple expansion
engines, with cylinders IS inches, q inches
and 46 inches in diameter, and so inches
stroke, indicating LOO horse power.
Steam is supplied by two Scotch marine
boilers liz feet long and u feet inches
in diameter, with six furnaces in all.
All this pretty Mrs Cardeza tells with
nautical fuency. A finer home than this
floating one of Mrs. Cardeza's can hardly
be imagined. The salon is finished in ma
hogany. 1t has pier mirrors and a Stein
way piano. My lady's boudoir is exqui-
site in all the dainty appointments loved
of dainty women. The practical woman
is bespoken in the fact that the boudoir
has a speaking tube which can summon
the captain from any part OF the boat.
The artistic woman IS indicated by the
fact that instead Of the bells to sound
the hours of the watches there is a de-
vice by which a small silver bugle is
blown.
Mrs. Cardeza, in her white and gold
suite at the Waldorf-Astoria, talked free
ly of her love of sport.
Society is hollow" she said. 81 am
fond of my friends. but who are there of
us who does not count her friends on the
fingers of one hand? Frankly. I do, for I
have learned through my suffering to dis
tinguish between the true and false. ]
take those 1 love with me, and, the Flea
nor steaming away TO the north OF the
south or east. we are our own world and
the other is forgotten.
II learned TO hunt in curious way. /
had never practiced target shooting, al
though 1 had never been afraid Of fire.
arms. But my son. Tom, became an en-
thusiastic sportsman. He talked TO ne
about his ambition that 1 should become
huntress. I laughed at first, but I
came to see that he was in earnest He
is my all I have not another living rela-
tive. The bond between Us Is very, very
close. But I will not indulge In any moth
er foolish ess. I saw that Tom wanted
nae 10 learn 20 shoot, and I determined
that I would.
.'One morning we were rowing on the
Ki1eo River. Tom stopped rowing and
whispered. Mother. q caribou shoot!'
| He placed the rife in my hands and
aimed the gun. I pulled the trigger. The
big beast screamed. jumped into the air
and fell, dying. Tom heipeo NE out o.
the boat. You must cut his throat to
/ put him cut OF his agony. he sate.
- Not that. Tom said and ne did