The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-10
STATESMEN OF
THE CAPITAL
Peculiarities and Preferences OF
Various OignitaTies.
PRESIDENT HAS A YACHT
DOLPHIN is SET APART FOR
CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
lsnecial Correspondencel


visit of Prince Henry and the
honors bestowed upon Miss Alice
Roosevelt. as the sponsor for the en-
perOr's yacht, have precluded all other
interests except the very national one
in the continued Improvement IN health 4
of THEODORE Roosevelt, Jr, who was the
only one Of the family circle not abie
10 greet the prince in the blue room at /
the close of Thursdays dinner. ms /
oldest son of the house is now able 10 /
sit I'D for a short time daily, and is on 1
the high road to complete recovery.
Not only the kaiser, the president |
our president-has a new yacht. II Is |
the same that President Mckinley had /
at his disposal. The Dolphin a snip |
of respectable size, equipment ana tur-
nishings-thOugh nothing TO compare
with the HohenzoIlern or the splendid
yachts of any other great nations
head-has been taken from the service
of the executive and been sent south,
and the Sylph about the most lnsig-
nificant affair in our navy has been
left for President Roosevelt. The little
craft was built in 1898 for service as a
dispatch boat in the Spanish war, buI
like a great many of our troops, never
saw service She was never commits
stoned. not being needed, because of
the abrupt termination of the war. An
| officer on the Illinois once said that the
/ hardest work officers had was the ind
/ ing of work for the men. At the close
/ of the war the navy department most
difficult task was the finding OF places
/ for its small ships-the mosquito meet
/ dispatch boats and the like, Some were
| loaned indefinitely TO the naval re-
! serves Of the different states. some
] 81 Of on
I'D in the navy yards, and one was
| placed at the disposal of the president.
The SyIph is 152 feet long and twenty
| four feet wide There are in II but
| three state rooms worthy to be called
bv that name. and they are only Wor-
| thv by comparison with the holes IN
| which the crew sleep. The room al
/ Iotted the president is twelve feet long
/ by eight feet wide, and is equipped WIN
/ a single brass bedstead, a wash stahd
painted white. a cupboard for CLONES
and two chairs, one of which Iolds 50
that a stout person can walk across
the room. Besides this, on the other
side of the boat, there is another room
of about the same size TO be occupied
nv any one who may accompany the
president. but the bed in it is lttle
smaller that the presidents, so that
any guest for over night must be OF
smaller stature than the chief execu-
tive. The dining room is aft of these,
about midship, extending full across
the boat. and accordingly little larger
than the combined size Of both Sleep
ing rooms. 1t viii accommodate pos"
siblv eight people. The third state room
is above deck and is for the occupancy
of lieutenant w H. Buck, the officer
il. command of the Sylph-
Did Not Use It Often.
President Mckinley used the yacht
but four times during the three years
il was at his service, and then for shorl
runs in the spring and summer doWI
, the Potomac in the afternoon or even
: ing But he and Mrs. Mckinley nae
! NOT tho same taste for outings as the
l Rocsevelt family. and while none of tins
T latter have vet called the Sylph int
service, there is no doubt that It's ions
= rest will be cOunteracted when Iheo
q dore. it., has thoroughly recovered M
/ health.
e The Sylph carries four small boats
= ono Of which is gasoline launch
- r1,ara is one thing in which no othe
n Yacht of a nations chief eNcels LII
2 swim. From Mr.. COrtelyou down. eN
:. eryy member that serves the presiden
o has to be a man of brains, judgment
s1ravitv. tact. diplomacy and gentle
man The crew Of the Sylph are, o
course. very proud of their assignment
hutaverv tired of having so little 10 DC
They are under the same regulation
= &C 20 hours etc. as other men in IN
na,-v and have even less work. Ihef
ie a terrier of remarkable breed, a pc
II aboard the boat. and Maltese ca
Is and these furnish considerable anluse
Il ment. The cat is very jealous Oh vi
u dogs affection. If any other canln
III the size matters not, approaches -
e shin. she. drives him on She suedh
4 arong the deck like the resi- % -
Il family sneak after birds, and suddeh'
Is limos al the unfortunate animal
IN 80 With the ferocity of tiger.
be But the cat has a match in store Il
IN her Here is a tale Of the yOun
Rcosevelts aboard the Dolphin Whe
~ tba+ shin took them down 10 u
u launching of the Missouri, as told Q
as one of the tars aboard the boat
nd What a time we had, The ship ha
n inst been vanished and painted Whe
We left. but it needed another coat /
cd tho time we got back. Most of u
D.. crew. had been suffering with too mu(
no of nothing to do when we started, bI
"a at the end we felt as though We Wou
iiN he in our element in a madnOuSe- b
u sides Young Theodore, who is spendiI
~ the holidays at home, there were Eth'
~ Archie and Quentin along Archie sd
he had been aboard the Sylph, but
didn't like the boat because they Won
= not let him carve his name IN the de
= house. He also told one OF the sane
- that he wished his father was 4
-.'I president. because he did not Ia
~
Prs more. L.,s-
over saw. Ethel is as bad as
bovs She climbed the rigging and b
FAN Sitting on the deck. rubbi
her bruised spots, she dared the DO,
= ybo were teasing her, TO try the sal
IN climb. and this they were game enou
IN do They had a race that beat 2
wv II was an obstacle race. They agre
an 70 Start at the bow of the boat a
-, rae araidships. going over all Obstac
and barring nothing but the two ma
az and the tunnels. They started.
the three of them climbed the pilot h0u
the breaking one window and scratch
sed the varnish numerically How u
bu- ever got up the front OF il so quic
don't know. OF they went, Z
,~ foot Jump. Then over the galley 81
light and took q tumble thr"Igh
are roof YOU might call it, of the Captai
l l'as cabin. From the cabin they Jumped
.ieG the deck and then up the dee < hoJ
~ l-i nos BY the ladder. but right up the S
'''~ Of the house. The race finished al
+b. the trio had climbed over the reliev
- steering wheel, and the girl Won
OH children are a rough and ready
a and while the Sylph is not me-
sted presidents yacht. ii is sturdy Ii
I'm craft. and of the kind that is nee
for youngsters like the RO0sevelts
II takes eleven BARRIERS .busily
the ployed. during a session of congl
md 10 keep the senators and represeT
ited fives in attendance shaver ana shl