The evening world., 1911-12-12
Edris, With Capt. Mills and
Crew Of Five, Will Be
Five Months On Way.
OWNED BY
Says He Will Be
Safer Than New Workers
Who Dodge Taxicabs.

"Its sure death by either drowning
or starvation" said an old seadog as
he stood at the foot Of Beekman street
and the East River this afternoon and
watched the little Schooner Yacht Edris
which was about to poke her nose out
into the bay on the first stage OF q trip
to San Francisco. II will take her Ave
months to make the voyage.
When II 10 said that the Edris Is only
eiEhty-nve feet in length and nineteen
Feet elk inches beam there will he more
than the old seadog who viii! agree %
II 10 At least q hazardous journey.
But Capt. c. l.. Mills. who will COM
mand the crew Of i've on the journey
around Cape Horn. laughed when any
one mentioned death to him.
We'll b SAFER 90 that craft" he
satd. than . lot Of you New Yorkers
VIII BE- in lodging taxa and trolleys
during the months that we arc on the
ocean. Danger? 1t shouldn't be men
toned In connection with the trap. Why
the average New Yorker takes more
chances In a minute than we Will IN q
month. h New Yorker starts out TO
work In the morning not showing
whether his friends will be sending
" Ills IuIlcTdA Wtuby-iOuA iiouiS
later or moi. We will live In comfort
on the little yacht. enjoying the trop-
ical winds and even II a typhoon does
swat US the odds are still IN our favor
~ against the New Yorker.
MILLIONAIRE WANTS YACHT AS
SOON As POSSIBLE.
Capt. Mills IL making this trip with
b Edris because Capt. John Barneson.
. millionaire director OF the Panama
Pacific Exposition. who completed nego-
tiations for the craft last night. wants
ths boat In San Francisco Just as quickly
a. possible.
marine broker through whom capt
Barneson bought the yacht from Hus.
ton Wyeth Of st. Joseph. No.. will
carry the nag OF the exposition and Will
do some advertising tor the big air on
the stops she will make IN south Ameri-
CO. The little craft has a saloon and
four stateroons, accommodating eight
passengers. not including the crew. she
il equipped with a Craig ngine built
BY the firm that built the engine Tor
the Aiisa Craig. which won the ber-
muda race some years ago. 1t mas
twenty horsepower, capable Of driving
the yacht seven miles an hour. but un-
der sail the craft has been known TO
make thirteen anu fourteen hhiies AL
hour.
.The longest journey credited to the
Yacht thus far was made in 1905. That
was a trip of 5000 miles. and she
touched at every port in the West In
dies. Capt. Barneson is prominent In
inanclal circles in the West. being par
ticularly interested in whaling and
steamboats. For sixteen years he was
a captain of ocean liners sailing prin-
cipaliy on the Pacific Gear"
Capt. Mills has had some experience
in risky trips. In the spring OF this year
he look the auxiliary schooner George
B. Cluett to Labrador. where she was
presented TO DIR. G-enfeil. a missionary.
George b. Cluett was the donor of the
boat. Capt. Mills stuck considerable
rough weather on that trip. but got mis-
boat TO Labrador all right.
TOOK A HoUsEeoAT DOWN TO
MEXICO.
Only q few weekS & he landed a
houseboat in Vera Cruz, Mexico. after a
twsnty-seven day Journey from Miami.
Fla. The houseboat was a two-story
affair and was operated under their own
steam In the open sea. Insurance COM
panies were asked to take this risk. but
said that II would be impossible TO take
q two-story houseboat to sea under
such conditions, SO the boat went with
out insurance.
Those interested In the sale Of tbs
Edris did not make public the price
paid for the yacht. which was built at
Elisabeth. NJ j.. in 1901 for Chester w.
Chapdn, a millionaire. who later sold It