The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-31

| Woodbury. kane Went Where BIg
| Coasters Dared Not Goa Colra-
| geous Rescue Against Great Obstacles.
After twelve-hour fight, in 20-foot
| yawl, with tremendous seas and a terrific
| gale, two shipwrecked women and ten men
were rescued at noon yesterday by the
Sandy Hook lifesaving crew, who had been
towed out to sea off Long Branch by the
| New York Yacht Club cup race committee
boat Navigator. The thrilling rescue was
witnessed by c. Oliver Iselin, Herbert G.
Leeds and Woodbury. Kane, who were on
the Navigator.
The twelve persons rescued were the
crew and three passengers on the schooner
Henry p. Mason, which was sunk of
Long Branch early yesterday morning.
after the yawl had left her
All along the beach at Long Branch
and nearby resorts at the time Of the rescue
were hundreds of summer residents who
had anxiously watched the storm-tossed
yawl for hours. From shore 1t was plain
TO those with glasses that on the yawl
We're two women.
The life savers on the Long Branch
shore were appealed to, but even those
fearless and hardy men knew that it would
be impossible to launch boat in the violent
seas that were laundering in Then word
of the trouble was sent to the life savers
station at Sandy Hook, and Capt. 7. Fl.
Patterson appealed to C. Oliver Isen,
who was on the Navigator with Mr.. Leeds
and Mr.. Kane, for assistance. Lives
were in danger, Capt. Patterson said,
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saving crews couldn't launch their surf
boats He asked Mr.. Iselin to have the
Navigator tow the Sandy Hook crew TO
point where the shipwrecked could be :
saved.
AYE, AYE. SIR" SAYS THE NAVIGATOR.
Mr.. Iselin assented at once, and in a
twinkling the Navigator started out,
towing Capt. Patterson and his crew in
an unsuitable and self-baiing lifeboat.
Mr.. Isein's consent and the attempt Of
the Sandy Hook men meant something.
Ooeangoing tugs and coasting vessels
had ventured to the bar and had turned
back rather than risk the high seas outside
Tn, powerful Navigator, howe YER, fought
her way valiantiy through the mountains
of water that every second climbed over
her pilot house and swept over the lifeboat
in her wake.
All this time the shipwrecked men and
women on the yawl we're praying for help.
Not a vessel had been seen, and although
they could see the land through the fog
and rain, they knew that Ii was useless
to try to get to shore through the rollers
that tossed along the coast,
Then the Navigator gradually doomed
up in the distance and when about half a
mile away the people on the yawl saw
the lifeboat cut adrift, the life savers bend
to the oars and, aided by gallon after gal
lon of oil, which vas thrown overheard
from TIE Navigator, make for them.
TWO HOURS AT THE TRANSFERRING.
The rescue was effected under great diff
guilty but after nearly two hours hard work
the life savers got the yawl's occupants
into their boat. AS the cockleshell and
the tug pitched in the trough Of the sea
the two women and ten men were lifted
aboard the Navigator. The women were
almost exhausted by their experience.
but Mr. Iselin and his companions made
them as comfortable as possible.
The Navigator, with the rescued we'll
aboard, threshed away at top speed to Sandy
Hook, where Messrs. Iselin, Kane and
Leeds left the tug. Then the Navigator
continued on up to this city to the foot Of
East Twenty-fourth street, where the
twelve from the Henry p. Mason were
landed.
The women are Mrs. Nicholas Mara
lious and Mrs. Preston Grover Mrs. Mar
alious is a sister of Capt. A. W. Frost Of
on the schooner, too. Mrs. Grover is the
wife OF the steward They both said that
their experience had been terrible one
and that they were lucky to have come
out of it without injury,
THE WOMEN ONLY A LITTLE WEAK.
When they got TO the Fast Twenty
fourth street pier Mrs. WAREHOUSES eyes
were boodshed from the salt spray, but
Mrs Grover, aside from saying that she
felt tired and weak, didn't show any In
dications of having spent twelve hours
on twenty-foot boat in a perfect tumble
of combers and swirlers.
The wrecked boat, the Henry p Mason,
a three-masted schooner, loaded with ECO
tons of red clay, sailed from Perth Amboy
on Friday for Portland, Me. Mrs Mar
alious and her husband went along for
the trip. The schooner carried crew
of nine men.
About o'clock Saturday afternoon
she was sighted off Galilee, N. J. She had
anchored to ride out the storm. At about
II o'clock on Saturday night, Capt. Frost
says, he struck what must have
been submerged wreck. The sailors
said that the vessel had been dragging her
anchor when suddenly she shook all over.
THE SCHOONER BADLY STOVE.
A big hole was stove in her bottom, the
water poured in and the masts started.
The pumps were clogged by the cargo OF
clay and couldn't be worked, and in about
an hour the vessel began to settle.
Capt. Frost had realized that il was only
a question of few hours before the schooner
would 20 down, and he had aiken the pre-
caution to lower the yawl astern. This
was a hazardous undertaking in tile high
rollers that pounded the sides of the
schooner, but after almost half an hours
work the yawl was safely in the water.
When the boat struck Mrs Marallous
and Mrs Grover rushed on deck Ropes
were tied around their waists and slowly
and carefully they were lowered into the
yawl
I'VE were dropped like bundle of old
clothes,' was the way one of the women
explained il later
Mrs Maraious wore a sailors pea
iacket buttOued tightly Mrs Crover