Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-08
YACHT AND OWNER LOST At SEA
TWO MEN ABOARD THE VESSEL
ALSO MISSING.
Sailed From Lawrence Beach We'd
nesday Last and Have Not
Since Been Seen.

| NEW YORK. November S.-Washington
Hull, an architect. put out to sea last
| Wednesday morning from Lawrence
Beach. Long Island. in his sloop yacht
the Commodore. intending to place the
vessel in winter quarters somewhere In
| New York harbor. and so far as known
he has not been seen or heard of since
The two men he took with him. but one
of whom is known. are also missing,
| Mr.. Hull expected the trip TO take only
| five or six hours and had made an en-
gagement for the evening.
| Two theories are entertained by Mr..
Hulrs wife. One is that the Commodore
sprang a leak, became unamanageable and
| drifted to sea, in which event she Is hope
full that it was picked up by an outward
! bound steamer. The other Is that the
Commodore was run down in the dark
and went to the bottom.
Mr.. Hull lived with his family at No.
15i South Portland avenue. Brooklyn.
He had occupied for sixteen years a sum-
mer cottage at Lawrence Beach, which
and Long Beach. Mr.. Hull left his
Brooklyn home early Wednesday morn
ing and at Lawrence station was met by
II. w. Dawson. proprietor of a livery
stable. who drove him to the beach,
mile away.
Sailed at 8 O'Clock.
Mr.. Dawson says that about o'clock
he saw Mr.. Hull and two men depart In
the Commodore. No further trace of the
vessel has been found.
Before he left home Mr.. Hull told his
wife that he had engaged the services Of
Capt. Brown of the Alcatorda, a yawl,
which was at anchor off Lawrence Beach,
and a sailor on the same vessel. Capt.
Brown was prevented from accompanying
Mr.. Hull, but 1t has been established that
the sailor. Trygve Void, Norwegian,
went with him. The name Of the second
sailor is not known.
Mr.. Hull said he probably would put the
Commoder in winter quarters somewhere
on tine New Jersey coast opposite Staten
Island and spoke of Bayonne. The police
at various points have been making in
quiries. but have found no trace of the
vessel.
equipped with centerbOard, but did not
carry a large sweep of sail. She formerly
carried a dOry, but the latter was stolen
last spring and Mr. Hull had not bought
a new one. Mr.. Hull had with him on the
vessel pumps and bucket, with which an
thrush of water from a small leak could
easily have been overcome. The COmmo-
dore also carried two life preservers.
Vessel Regarded as Stanch.
have pursued would have been to pass
out of Long Beach bay. cross the bar.
and then turn to the west, skirting Coney
Island and at no point getting out of
sight Of land. There was only a light
wind on Wednesday and the water was
calm. But even had IT been rough, Mrs.
Hull said yesterday, the Commodore could
have weathered It,.
1T was a stanch, ocean going craft"
she said, land was sailed by the boys sew
eral times on cruises of two or three
weeks duration. 1t went over the break
ers like duck. Once they encountered
storm out of Great Jones inlet. but the
Commodore came through it with flying
cOlOrs.
Mr.. Hull is an athletic, muscular man
and a strong swimmer.
When Mr.. Hull failed to return home
Mrs. Hull. was alarmed, but took no ae-
ton until Friday. when she teiephoned
the lighthouses at Fire Island and Great
Jones inlet and the life-saving station at
Long Beach to be on the watch for the
Commodore.
Among the life savers 1t is believed that
the sloop sprang leak after passing the
Rockaway bar and sank quickly. The
theory that the boat could have grounded
has no weight with the men along the
ocean shore, for it drew only four feet
of water and IL il had been caught on a
sand bar, they argue. Mr.. Hull and his
companion would have been able to wade
ashore, as the sea was comp aratively
calm at that time.
Mr.. Hull is forty-three years old. He
is five feet. seven inches tall and has
broad shoulders and large chest and
weighs 100 pounds.