The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-13
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Count and Countess Festetics Be-
Gained In Their Little Yacht Frolic.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE Count
and Countess Festetics, who sailed some
time ago from this port to Monterey in their
yacht, the Frolic, have been found again,
after many days of anxiety. The distance
by water is NOT over ITO miles, even taking
into consideration having to go off shore to
look for wind, aud, slow as the Frolic is, she
should have reached Monterey inside Of
twenty hours.
Consequently, when four days elapsed
and nothing had been heard from the little
craft, there was good ground for the ap-
prehension that filed the friends and rela-
tives of the countess.
Countess Festetics was a California girl,
Miss Ella Haggin, the granddaughter of J.
B. Haggin, the copper king, and acquired
her title by marrying Count Rudolphe Fes-
tetics de Tolns in New York last February.
The count is a lieutenant in the Seventh
Austrian Hussars and son of the chamber
lain at the court of Austria. He has &C
quired much OF the popularity Of his bride
during his residence In San Francisco, and
from this, the countess standing in San
Francisco society, and the large circle Of
relatives, something of the sensation created
by the report of their having been drowned
on their little pleasure trip can be imagined
Many tried to assure the Countess friends
by imagining Gains or contrary breezes, bat
discussion Of the circumstances did not lead
to any great faith being put in their spscu-
lations. The Frolic was manned by two
men, the captain" 80 called, and an assist
ant, and the party consisted Of the count
and Countess and Mrs. Perry. the countess
maid.
She is a small, yawl-rigged craft, stanch
for her size. bus not considered stable
enough for an outside cruiser. She was the
picnic boat Of the impecunious Roseleaf ad-
juHct Of the Bohemian Club for two or three
seasons, and Commodore Harrison ia now
suing the members of that crew for her
rental. The Roseeaf's reoitals of many
hair breadth escapes and two actual wrecks
while Wondering about the bay did not add
| to the hopes OF the friends of the excursion
lists, and their fears were increased largely
by the declarations Of yachtsmen that they
would not care to go to sea In her.
Louis Haggtn, father of the countess, was
much worried over his inability to hear any,
thing of the boat, although he was in al
most constant communication with Monte-
| rey, Santa Cruz and the lighthouse at Pig
con Point. Mrs. HaRgin was completely
Frustrated by anxiety, and fear for her be-
came added TO the burden OF suspense
Pilots and tugboat captains and the crews
Of vessels coming from the south were con-
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Frolic's track, and could give but little COM
fort beyond the statement that the wind
was light well off shore, where most of
| them bruised. They accompanied this by
| the alarming statement that more or less
| fog had prevailed along the coast, and this,
| in view OF some doubt as to the ability of
the Frolic's limited Grew, excited the fresh
fear that the yacht had gone ashore through
miscalculstion Of her position. In this
| event there would have been a very poor
chance tor the escape Of her party, owing
to the high surf and dangerous undertow
| that are encountered all down the coast.
ALL FEARS ALLAYED.
But the suspense had something Of a re-
lief when Capt. Mccoy Of the tug Vigilant
was found the other night. He left here
recently for Port Hartford, and going down
he says he saw the Frollc a little below Point
Pillar, or about thirty miles from here.
When he came back she was seen by the
mate OF the bark Vigilans between
Pigeon Point and Monterey bay, at a distance
| of ten or fifteen miles from Pigeon
Point. The Frolic was then about twelve
miles off shore and becalmed. There was
no wind or sea to threaten her. She had TO
beat all the way down, and Capt. Mccoy
| thought that the way she was going she
would not get in for three or four days
more. He was certain that there was no
| danger of her being lost. Soon after tele-
| gram was received from Santa Cruz saying
that the yacht had just dropped anchor
The count and countess were reported safe.
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