The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-01
A YACHTLOAD OF CHINAMEN
SUPPOSED TO ne OFF LONG 49,
AND, TRYING TO LAND.

Uncle Sam Notifies Life savers 20 Keep
Their i;Se Peeled SST the Schooner
Yacht FrOIic. Suspected OG Trying tO
Repeat the Exploit Of The Bonita.
A general alarm has been sent out by
the Treasury Department and the Depart
ment Of Commerce and labor. warning
immigration stations along the Atlantic
coast to watch for the schooner yacht
Frolic. which is said to have thlrty-three
Chinese on board and to be trying to make
a landing somewhere along the coast near
here. According to report, the Frolio set
out with her Chinese from Placentia Bay,
Newfoundland, a week ago Saturday, in
tending to land on the Massachusetts, coast.
as the successful Chinese smusglers did two
weeks ago at Marblehead with the schooner
yacht Bonita. The life saving corps along
the coast north Of this port has been asked
to keep its eyes open.
The yacht. which IL sixty feet long. In
believed to be of the Lond Island coast
to-day. those on board Of her having found
IL impossible TO make q landing further
north.
The suspicious about the Frolic arose
after the story OF the yacht Bonita came
out. The Bonita was hired from heg owner.
c. Il. Stevens Of Boston. 10 a man who
gave his name az Lehneman and who said
he wanted her for a month or more. When
MIR, Stevens got his yacht hack. at the
basin of the Boston Yacht Club. he was
amazed 10 find or every hand evidences
TINT aha had haon tho hah hit Nton 81 China
men. The cabin was a mass Of filth and
had a decided Oriental smell about IL.
Mr.. Stevens communicated with an immi-
grafton officer at once and this led Inspector
Schnell to the discovery that the same
men who had rented the Bonita were in
New York. in the Chinese quarter, looking
for cash from Cinnamon n had friends
across the border who wished to enter the
United States. Application was made To
Mr.. Stevens for another lease OF the Ponita.
but no refused it and Inspector Schnell is
said to have discovered that the Frolic,
formerly vines by Herbert II. White OF
{ %ambridge, but later sold 10 a Capt. Colby.
was then chartered. The Secret Service
ound that the Frolic had cleared from
Placentia for Boston. Later the yacht. or
a vessel supposed To he she. was sighted AZ
the entrance to Long Island Sound and the
orders were iss eel to VII tch the Long
Island coast.
The British revenue cutter Neptune Is
also aid to he in the chase ON the ground
that the Frolio has no right to carry pas
sengers. The United States Department of
Commerce and Iabo; has issued a descrip-
ton Of the yacht, furnished by her former
owner, Mr.. White, and sent II to every immi-
grafton and Chinese inspection officer along
the Atlantic coast. The notice reads:
Watch closely for schooner yacht Frolic.
possibly with her name changed. Sixty
feet long, 20 tons gross, 25 tom net burden,
Is feet wide. 7 feet depth Of hold two masts,
painted white and built in Islip, l.. L., in
1879. Has on board thirty-three Cinnamon
and white crew. Attempt will be made TO
smuggle the Chinese along tho coast Of
Long Island, possibly
Newfoundland, in order to rid herself Of
the Chinese, has imposed n S3O head tax.
and il is this that has made il possible for
the smugglers TO get so man Cinnamon
who are ready to take any sort Of chances
to get into the United States.