The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-16
DIR. Il. A. Worrall, of Northern In
diana, Was Aboard, but Is said
to Have Landed I'm Europe.
TEN STEAMERS LONG OVERDUE
TRANSATLANTIC FREIGHTERS SUP
POSED TO HAVE FOUNDERED.
Carried Over 800 People and Were
Valued at S2,5OO,OOO-ArrivaI OF
the BeIated Bohemia.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-United States
Consul Cunningham, at Alden, Arabia, re-
ports to the State Department that The COM
mander of II. NJ. s. "Brlsko" had picked
up but lost again small American yacht
or schooner, after towing her about 200 to
20 miles in the western part Of the Red sea.
There was afterwards rough weather, and 1t
vas believed TO be possible that the yacht
had gone aground somewhere, as she was
long overdue Her name was unknown, but
the British officer said she had aboard
man from New York named Weaver. TIE
consul, on Feb. p, received cablegram
from one Perciyal, at Colombo, Ceylon, ask
ing for news of the yacht Norma"
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE American
yacht referred TO in the foregoing dispatch
undoubtedly is the old racing schooner Nor
ia designed by Cady Smith in 1885, In
October, 1896. the Norma was fitted out for
a cruise around the world. her passengers
having the intention of writing up foreign
countries and photographing picturesque
scenes. Mr.. n. j. Weaver a New England
er, engineered the scheme. purchased the
schooner and had her put in thorough cond-
ton Tor the trip. K. a. Morris, u Nova SEQ
tan, was given charge of the Norma and
she sailed on her long cruise on Nov. 2 1896.
The party on board the Norma, in addition
10 Mr.. y. j. Weaver consisted of Mrs. &.
{. Collins, of Greensboro, y. c.; Or. L. a.
WOrrall. of northeast Indiana; a. q. Dan
forth, jr, of st. Louis, Mo; Harry p. Ia
Der, of Buffalo, n. Y, and w. z. Newcome.
The Norma reached Fayal, Azores, about
March Is
BUFFALO. N. Y, March 1.-THE News
publishes the following story of the cruise
Of the Norma, written by one of the party
who sailed from New York on the yacht:
The yacht Norma was built in 1879 by A
Carey Smith and was one of the stanchest
craft of her class that ever sailed from New
York here. She carried a crew OF sixteen
men, under the command OF Commodore
y. j. Weaver. On Nov. 2. 1896, she left
New York, bound on cruise around the
world for a newspaper syndicate which
Weaver was supposed TO have organized.
She touched at Baltimore and Norfolk, and
fell into difficulties through the alleged in
discretionS of the supposed owner. From
Norfolk she went to Bermuda, where she
lay month, while Weaver returned TO New
York Gu ostensible business. From Bermuda
she sailed for the Azores and afterward for
Madeira and the coast of Africa. AT
Funchal she was not allowed to land on ac-
count of a lack of a bill of health. In the
English garriSonS in the Mediterranean her
master again got into difficulties, but man
aged TO reach London, where for many
weeks he lived at the Hotel Cecil, posing
a millionaire American who proposed TO
establish a great daily in London on the
lines of Harmsworth's Daily Mail. Again ne
had trouble and the yacht was held for
debt. The yacht was next reported in the
Mediterranean, where the commodore was
living at all the SWEETEST clubs and pursuing
his pet amusement. His wife and little son
had been left in New York. Mrs. Weaver
died suddenly in New York last spring and
the commodore came back to America for
a few days and took his son with him. At
the time tie yacht was somewhere on the
French coast and since then nothing has
been heard from cher in this country until
to-day. She carried the flag of the Atlantic
Yacht Club of New York, of which organ
iZation Weaver was at one time member.
With exception of Weaver all the per-
sons mentioned as having sailed from New
York on the Norma left the vessel before she
entered the Mediterranean. Weaver was
born in Cleveland, where his father a
well-known man. He sailed the lakes for
some years and was an expert yachtsman."