New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-18
RACE FOR THE SILVER HEELS.
NAME OF THE SUPPOSED rILIBUsTER
STARTING FOR CUBA.
NIGHT CRUISE OF THE REVENUE CUTTER CHAN
DIER TO PIER NO 80 EAST RIVER. WHENCE
THE SCHOONER SAILED AWAY
NO TRACE FOUND

pLER TO PIER NO 80 EAST RIVER. WHENCE
THE SCHOONER SAILED AWAY
no TRACE FOUND
The supposed hlibuster that the United states
Marshal end his deputies went a-hunting TOT
late Saturday night turns out to have been the
two-masted schooner Silver Heels. The Marshal
didn't catch the Silver Heels. and at last ac-
counts her whereabouts unknown Ac-
cording to one OF the Marshars agents. VINO
was set to watch for her. she touched at Pier
No 40 East River soon nfter midnight Sunday
morning and was off again like the wind
whittier he knew not. It Is supposed that she
escaped through He'll Gate into Long lsland
Sound, whether bound for Cuba or not being
unknown.
The news that a supposed flibuster was to sail
from Pier No. 30 East River with arms ana
ammunition for the Cubans came to united
States Marshal McCarty Saturday noon from
the State Department at Washington, which
had It's information from Pinkerton detectives
in the employ OF the Spanish Consul IN th's
city Surveyor Croft said that the vessel not
having cleared she was subject to arrest u she
sailed. So the Surveyor the United states DIS
trict- Attorney and Commissioner Shields laid
their plans and AT about II o'clock, as told IN
Yesterdays Tribune the Marshal. with twelve
!
boarded the revenue cutter Chandler at the
Barge Office
TIE AGENT DID NOT TELEPHONE.
The cutter. however. did not sail until some
time later II waited until news should he
heard from an agent who had been stationed AZ
Pier No 30 East River the pier of the Bridge
port Line to telephone a signal when the Silver
Heels should leave the pier The signal was TO
| ST |
the agent arrived breathless at the pier instead
OF telephoning--why nobody knows-and an
nornced that the schooner had sailed from the
pier Just before he left there
II was few minutes after o'clock when the
! Chandler steamed away from the Barge ONCE
| Did the Chandler proceed at once ana at iui!
speed to Pier No. 30 East River? The chandler
did not It steamed toward the East River ana
/ sighted something dark afoat up that stream
1 This It chased up TO point just below the navy
/ Yard and found that Il was pursuing nothing
| more dangerous than a mud-scow. Instead OF
! proceeding then TO Pier No. 80 tho Chandier
! turned about and proceeded down the Brooklyn
| shore the Marshal and his men scanning the
| water carefully. Soon another dark object was
sighted down below and the Chandler put on
full steam and chased It down 10 Butterm'k
! Channel until II was found that the object was
J
way TO Pier No 80 East River was Staten
Island. which point was made at full speed.
! The return trip was also made as rapidly as
possible because IL was desired 70 get 10 f'el
/ No 30 East River soon az might be- But u
was thought necessary TO stop at the Atanuc
| Docks for fifteen minutes To see II there were
any OF the Moran tugs there. one OF which. inc
p H. Wise was said by the Marshals 'nteili-
cent agent 10 have towed the Silver Heels 10
! pier No 20 This was the last stop on the WY
to the pier. which point was MADE soon at'er o
! o'clock.
A LANDING MADE.
landing was made here and the Marshal
examined the pier. but found no schooner
! there He found no muniti1rs of war
either The watchman said that schoon-
or hac lust brushed the pier some time be-
fore and had disappeared Immediately after
ward Some men on brick schooner near by SAID
however that the schooner they saw stopped
longer than that at Pier No. ~. The Inited
States Marshal and hts trusty depu''s' h"i
also the numerous Pinkcrton men aD'ard, ,Joh
another look around the pier bu, found nothhg
Of A suspicious character. after when theF an
returned to the Chandler. and that vessel
/ turned her nose again down stream, naVIng
| successfully made the voyage 10 Pier No. $!
| East River according to instructions, IL "as
unanimously agreed that the silver Hee's har
! not been caught and also tina no munitions o.
| war OF other contraband articles had beeh
| found The United States Marshal was or the
! opinion that the silver Heels had either Dceh
towcd TO some other pier than Pier No. ~ East
| River or that she had escaped through heII
Gate into the Sound. This opinion was geie'-
| ally shared by those on board the chandler
| The cutter returned to the Barge once AZ =
O'Clock IN the morning. an,
Yesterday a Cuban went TO the sarge oliCe
ard inquired what time tho Chandler LETT the
| Ra,tcrv on being told that 1t was about
! o'clock he eiaculated Good we had three
! Honie ,v.nt through Hell Gate the strong west
| erlv gele that was blowing must have sent her
along at a clip that the cutter could harhy
| have beaten even II she had made the trip 10
| pier No 20 East River with more speed
The agent Of the uni'ed states Marshal VINO
ran instead Of teephoning said that the rug =
| n wise owned by Michael j. Moran. towed me
silver Heels to Pier No. 30 East River at ":''o
/ o'clock and then returned to Brooklyn. coming
back again AT midnight 10 tow the scnooher ou.
INTO tho stream What the agent saw done at
the pier could not be learned .
The silver Heels was built In fremont Me-
IN 1870 is owned by a. F. Cobb OF Rockland
Me has a tonnage Of 1877. length OF ~ feet
and n beam Of - feet