The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-16
YALE STUDENTS SAFE
Freshmen Blown ACrosSt the Sound in a Catboat Land
 Near RiVerhead, 1. l.
MADE SHORE MONDAY NIGHT
STOPPED AT FARMHOUSE UNTIL
 TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

Took Evening Train on Long Island
 Road for New York-Barton Arrived
 in This City Last Night-Duucnn Re-
 Brother and is Expected Here To-day.
 Riverhead, L. l., April 15.-Lester Clemena Barton and William Mason Duncan, two Yale students, came ashore at "a late hour Monday night from cat boat at Roanoke Landing. four miles from this village. The boat, which had been blown across the sound, was beached and badly broken up, but it came ashore on a good sandy bottom. The men at first refused to give their names, but one of them spoke of com- ing from Chicago. The young men left the Thimble Islands, New Haven, Mon- day morning for pleasure sail. Before they had been out very long a stiff gale came out of the north and the rudder
 
 then at the mercy of the wind, and was driven diagonaIly across the sound.
 The men on landing made their way to the farm house of Columbus Terry, who took them in and made them com- fortable. They remained at MT. Terry's house until yesterday afternoon when they came here to take the evening train on the Long Island road for New York. They should have reached New Haven to-day unless they attempted to go to one of the north shore towns to try and cross the sound. In that case they would find the cross island service at a standstill owing to the storm.
 Chicago, April 15.-E. M. Barton, un- cle of Lester C.. Barton, the Yale stu dent who was supposed to have been lost on Long Island Sound during a gale, announced tonight that mes sage had been received from young Barton, dated New York, and quoting himself to be all right. Barton's fa- ther, who was on his way east, was caught at Erie. Pa, and informed over the telephone of his sons safety.
 New York, April 15.-H. B. Thayer, vice president of the Western Electric company, received telephone message form Chicago tonight from E. B. Barton. president of the company and uncle of Lester c. Barton, to the ef- feet that young Barton is safe. A tele- gram had been received at the home of young Barton, announcing that he was alive. The uncle telephoned MT. Thayer to meet the young mans fa- ther, George P. Barton, who is hurry ing from Chicago on the Twentieth Century limited. MT. Barton is due in New York in the morning.
 The telephone message did not men, tion the place young Barton telegraph ed from.
 Lester Clement Barton arrived in this city last evening at 9:55. As soon as he could get away from his friends whom he had notified of his safety, and who met him at the depot, he went to the Postal Telegraph office and sent out some dispatches to various friends When interviewed in his room, 59S Pier son hall, early this morning, he told the following account of his perilous trip:
 He and William Mason Duncan left this city about t2 o'clock Monday after noon, intending to take trip about the 1arbor. When they started a good wind was blowing from the southeast. They reefed their sail after little while and sailed to the eastward down the coast After sailing in this direction for about an hour (about D. m.), Barton said, as it was going to be fine moonlight night they thought that they would sail to- ward Long Islanl. At 5:30 o'clock it commenced to blow up hard, the wind changing toward the northWard. The boat was blown along at great rate of speed. Barton then said that neither he nor his companion knew anything about the coast. About o'clock it was very dark and shortly afterward they heard the water breaking on the coast They headed the boat for the beach and just before she struck they jumped in the water and waded ashore. The boat was badly broken, and as they were soaking wet they walked along toward the interior until they came to house, where they were taken in and cared for. This was at about 7:3O p. m. Barton said that while they were sailing they were completely soaked by the water that flew over the bow, but that other than the water that came in over the cockpit there was no water in the boat. They had four cakes of chocolate on hoard, which they ate, and at their ar- rival at the farmhouse they had good meal.
 He said that he did not know that anyone knew they had gone sailing, and that until he was handed a. newspaper clipping by a reporter in the Grand Central depot in New York yesterday afternoon, when he was on his way to this city, he did not know that anyone was worrying about them. He said that while they were on Long Island they had been besieged by reporters, but that they refused to give their names as they did not wish the notorie- ty Barton said had he known there was any worry about them they would have sent word to this city Monday night after their arrival. They stayed on the island all day Tuesday, and left there on the S.29 train yesterday after