The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-08
STEAMBOAT RUNS DOWN YACHT
cIBI IN NIGHTIE TOSSED FROM
rFIFSTE TO HOWARD CARROLL.
urcause the Yacht Seemed Badly Smashed
and Her Parents wanted 10 See Her
soHe-She Chummed with strangers
and Policemen and was Mighty Game.

snge-She Chummed with strangers
and Policemen and was Mighty Game.
There was a collision on the Sound last
might between the schooner yacht Celeste
and the Starin Line excursion boat Howard
Carroll While the two boats were locked
tonether Isabella Beaudrias, the two-and-a-
baIs-vear old daughter of I. j. Beaudrias
,itv Attorney Of Yonkers. was tossed in
her nightgown from the yacht to the deck
Of the Carroll and unhurt, she had free
ride to Cortlandt street. this city.
While she was sailing down the East
River this bulletin was posted at Police
Headquarters for the information OF news
paper reporters;
Telephone MESA &c from 1853 Melrose; My
schooner yacht has been run into by the
excursion boat Howard Carroll. When the
boats struck put my observation-disclosures
old girl. Isabelle Beaudrias. on excursion boat
which I think landed at the foot OF Thirty
first street. East River Will you have police
take care Of her until 60 down for herr
The telephone message came from Mr.
Beaudrias, who chartered the yacht Celeste
last spring. With his wife, his mother
in-aw, Mrs. Hart; her daughter, Catherine
bArr, hllN tIo WV DcduAi dS
Helene. / year old, and Isabelle, he left
Yonkers yesterday to go to New London.
OF College Point, about 8 o'clock last
night, the Celeste fell in with the Howard
Carroll which was making her homeward
trip from Glen Island with 800 passengers
aboard. Capt. David Marcus of the How
ard Carroll, says he signalled the Celeste
that he would keep his course, but that
apparently his signals were misunderstood
on the yacht
At any rate the yacht made no attempt,
according to Capt Marcus, to come about
and tried to cut across the bow of the Carroll.
The boats came together head on. The
bow of the Howard Carroll was stove in
ard the forward rail on the upper deck
vas damaged. The Celestes bowsprit was
smashed and her jib and staysail carried
away.
As seen from the Howard Carroll it ap-
peared that the crew and Mr.. Beaudrias
were on deck and the other members OF
the party at dinner in the cabin. When the
boats came together there was great eX-
element.
Mrs. Beaudrias, 50 the people on the
Carroll said, rushed out Of the cabin and
tossed Isabelle into the arms Of Christian
Schwartz. one Of the eIcursionists, who
was standing forward. The distance
wasn't great. as the Celeste was still along
side the Carroll.
Hedley Fenton, the negro cook OF the
Celeste, lost his head and got aboard the
Carroll, just how no one noticed in the
confusion. Gustav Linston. the jib sheet
man OF the Celeste, was hanging over the
bowsprit Of the yacht and he also dropped
on the deck Of the Carroll
There was almost a panic on the Howard
Carroll, and not much attention was paid
To the Celeste when the boats parted
Several women tainted and there was an
uproar among the children.
First Mate Henry Moore quieted the
passengers on the main deck and Capt
Marcus, with the assistance Of Ma jor Charles
H Hudgins of Matthews county, Virginia
who served under "Jeb" Stuart in the
Black Horse Cavalry, assured those on the
upper deck that there was no danger. II
was half an hour before the excitement
subsidized
Then the passengers became interested
in the little girl who had been taken from
rhe Yacht. She was in charge of Jennie
Brown the colored stewardess, and seemed
TO he perfectly contented. She never
whimpered once all the way down and wher
the boat finally landed at the foot OF Cort
landt street she was PLAYING games with
he other children on the boat A police.
man from Headquarters was waiting at the
landing and he took the little girl, the
stewardess and the negro cook and sailor
OF the Celeste to the Church street station.
Isabelle at once made herself at home
in the station She was playing dominos
in the back room with nine policemen
when Mr. and Mrs. Beaudrias, who had
got into communication with Police Head
quarters arrived from Port Morris. where
thew had landed from the Celeste
Mr. and Mrs Beaudrias were very angry
A. the way Capt. Marcus OF the Howard
Carroll had acted.
Il was at the wheel and Capt. Fred II.
Montgomery, the owner Of the boat. from
whom chartered her, was On deck when
The collision occurred" Mr.. Beaudreas
said, "All the other members of my family
were on deck except the two children,
who were asleep in the cabin.
We were bound for New Rochelle, where
We were going to anchor, when we met wit
the Howard Carroll, which was coming
toward us. We were on the starboard
side and the captain of the Howard Carroll
slgnalled that he was going to port. we
didn't change our course, as sailing vessel
Always mas tne rlSnt oI way o'ei q steoii
vessel
'We expected that the Howard Carroll
would steer out Of our way but she didn' t,
and we struck practically head on.
My wife ran into the cabin and got lsa-
belle When she came on deck she handed
the girl to me and / passed her to man
on the deck of the Howard Carroll.
Then we both ran back to Helene and
when we came on deck again the two boats
had parted
The Howard Carroll didn't wait and a
steam launch was unslung from the Celeste
We saw that the Celeste hadn't been badly
damaged and went ashore in the steam
launch at Port Morris. Then We came
night down here and got Isabelle"
Capt. Marcus of the Carroll said he paid
no attention to the yacht after the collision,
hecause he saw that she wasn't In bad
shape and he had 300 excited passengers
on his hands
Nr. Beaudrias and his family have been
cruising in the Celeste, which is 80 feet over
all and is fitted with auxiliary engines,
rractically all summer She has crew
~ six men. Commodore A. J. Prime OF
the Yonkers Corinthian Yacht Club and
Mayor Walsh and his family of Yonkers
we're TO have gone on the Celeste yesterday,
hu' they missed her and went by train to
New London, where they were to have
met her this morning.
Mr.. Beaudrias said that the accident
IN his boat would not stop him from con-
tlnnng the cruise to-day.
After landing her passengers at Cortlandt
fhn aot ri ia m