New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-27
A FISHING PARTY STRANDED
THE GEoRG1ANA YOUNG RUNS AGROUND
ON RoMER SHOALS.

IN A WILD SCRAMBLE. TWENTY MEN PUT OFF
IN TWO poRIEs. LEAVING SIX OTHERS ON
BoARp-rHE SCHOONER is PULLED OFF
AND ALL ARE RESCUED.
A Sunday fishing excursion on the schooner
Ceorriana Young which went out from Brooklyn
on Saturday evening came 10 grief In INC oaiN-
ness Of Sunday night. and the drowning OF 'we"'y
six men, according to their own story! was oa.ei'
sverted. The Young when returning nome gun
dav afternoon went ashore on Romer Shoals Win
a rather heavy sea running, and as she began 10
pound somewhat twenty Of the men put OH IN the
boats two dores. while the other six remaiheo OF
board. The men in the two small ooats hao al
exci,inr and perilous time drifting about for a
couple of hours in the darkness, early yesterday
morning. before they were picked up-one ooa',Uao
by a pot-bo and the other by a tug me
schooner with the men board was later puiieo
off the bar on food tide by tug and towed 10
port ,
The Georgiana Young is old schooner having
been built in Bristol. Me-. in 1861. She Is ior'!
nine feet long registers twenty-four tons anu Is
owned by the Fulton Market Fish COMPANY; a
PARTY of twenty-three' men. ten OF them empio!eu
IN ,he H w Johns Asbestos and Paint WORKS. OF
brooklyn saw Captain Edward Holland OF the
Young on Friday last. and arranged 10 nave MN
take them down the Lower Bay on SATURDAY 'oi an
al-day Sunday fishing trip. 1t was o CLOCK OH
Saturday evening when the Young got under way
from Thirty-nnth-st.. South Brooklyn. with t"eh-
,y-six men on board. This number inciudeo inc
CAPTAIN and his two deckhands. she proceeueu
down 10 Seabright that night. and came 70 archo''
On Sunday morning, at sunrise. hooks anu hies
bepan To go overheard and the days sport began.
The men had some luck. but the hsh ran rather
shy and at noon they decided TO start oacA. ~
was almost dead calm at the time' ou' ~.
anchor was got up and under 1uh sd inc
schooner drifted up to point midway between
Sandy Hook Light and the twin lights OF the High
lands Here there was danger OF the Young oin'-
ing out TO sea. and an anchor was oropPe"' nc
CAPTAIN went below 10 sleep, with oroels ~ NC
called if q breeze sprang up AT about O'CLOCK III
,hn evening the sails began to fill with a breeze
from the northeast. The captain was called the
anchor raised and another start Tot broohisii was
made The breeze freshened TO twelve miles al
hour and the Young was skipping merrily along
with rather hilarious party on Doaro "heh su"-
denly about midnight she ran nara Oh noine
Shoals There was a small panic on board al the
shock No knew at first whether rocA nau
been struck and whether the schooner was GUNS
10 the bottom. 1t was soon learned 'hat she
was on the sand and that there was no immediate
danger The wind began to increase. however.
snd the schooner pounded heavily in the rising
, < 80,
The two boats were launched. TO be ready for an
emergency and the members Of the party. becom-
ing more htened, began to CLIMB from the
schooner into the boats. Everything was CONFUSION
and no one seemed TO be able to direct anairs'
Captain Holland. with nine OF the party nhais
found himself in one boat, and eight others VIII"
sailors, got INTO tne OtHeI. ON i"eh WV
left on the schooner when the men IN the poats
started off In the darkness TO look for aid The
captain before starting got anchor out. TO save
his vessel. II possible on the rising tide
Al about I o'clock yesterday morning those still
on the schooner felt her moving and bethought
themselves of some way in which TO signal for help
They gathered all the newspapers on board. rolled
them into balls and having saturated them with
kerosene lit them and threw them into the air
The tug c. f. Evarts. belonging to Dutch Son.
No 81 South-st.. bound to sea on cruise
when she saw the signals She bore down to the
Young and when within hailing distance the cap
tain of the Evarts called to those the schooner
10 get up their anchor, and he would pull them OF
when the tide rose. This they didn't know now 10
do. and part of the crew OF the Evarts had to 70
aboard the schooner to accomplish the task Ihen
line was passed to her and the SIX men w ere
so a' the schooner off and started to port with her
She not leaking and was little the worse 1or
dan morning however they were still in some
what excited condition and began to spread exas
fhey related how twenty men had put off In two
%ehy ns had b lost hns n1
B Flint came to town with the dory containing the
eight fishermen and two sailors. and made 1t Ger
Not long after that word received from Staten
Island that the boat containing the parry OF eiee ed
then known that no one OF the party had
och Charles iG Eiches of No. l24 Thrtiethst South
Brooklyn. and Thomas Cragan: also Of South
members
the captain of the smack on Saturday He de,
ned smack nat nd said that all hands were sober
from the time they left Brooklyn until they ran
ashore ASHORE n,atr ,ef, tho smack in the first boat"
SAID EChs land we put the or se wn er e hd
10 provisions and were without water We saw
smack and we drifted about helplessly until after
o'clock in the morning The water was very edy
10 This there was hole in the bottom Of our
dory and even after we plugged 1t up we mao da 70
and this made our situation extremely dangerous
When picked n up by he Ta for ,he
night This morning we were taken d;,T to d Sandy G
, nd hsn nG Of the up iS ana
Knocked fat with surprise when saw him leave
his boat at, qP Pa n a RRom nO ss snG
The men in the other boat which Was picked a, up
Island. and from there came TO the city. Iheir
experience was about The a az tb tha5 OF nS
he left the vessel and the six excursionsts to their
I a he he Rad Ses psk @ 5S &
boat latter spoke the tug Flint arH ioid a tap
ir the vicinity with ten men on board The Flint
s sa5f Id Gf 10 STs S IT. would ali right
William Hurley, OF No i69 Twenty-nnth-st.,
cared that the captain acted In most cowar ok
manner. and abandoned me boat wheh the iui'
eH JesepH Thompson another passenger said the
captain locked number OF men IN me caDih' anu
that when they were released noth ooa's hdo nee"
Soon after the arrival Of the Evarts with the
the tugboat. sent the Fulton Fish Company owners
of the schooner oli ior III smaek all dsy and
had not reported the mishap TO the smacks owners
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