Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-18
AST0R IS STILL LOST
Wireless TeIegraphy and
Many Ships Join in Search.
REVENUE CUTTER ON TRAIL
Algonquin Dispatched on Quest by
Treasury Department.
DIVORCED WIFE GOES ABROAD
Sails Quietly on the Lusitania With
out Awaiting Word of
Sons Safety.
DIVORCED WIFE GOES ABROAD

NEW YORK, November 1S.-The fear
| that Col. John Jacob Astor's yacht Nour-
mahal. with the owner and his son Vim
cent aboard may have been disabled in
the West Indian hurricane of last week
was further increased today by the fail
ure of any report from various vessels
known to be seeking the whereabouts OF
the missing yacht.
Neither at the New York maritime eX-
change nor at the headquarters here of
the United Wireless Company, which sent
out a general inquiry for the Astor yacht
yesterday, had any word calculated to al
lay the anxiety of the friends Of Col.
Aston been received.
The Nourmahal is believed to have left
Kingston. Jamaica, in the interval be-
tween November ) and November III. pre-
sumably for Porto Rico. which. with other
ports in the West Indies. is still cut on
from cable communications.
May Have Put in at Small Port.
While it is believed that the NOurma hal
has put into some small port in safety.
there is still a growing anxiety because
OF the uncertainty regarding her.
Friends of Col. Aston and his guests
have requested the United Wireless Com
pany to send out a general order to all
ships and land stations to the south To
try to get some word of the missing
yacht. This was done last night. the In
quiry for news of the vessel Deiils sent
out by every land station from Manhat-
tan Beach to Key West. Fla. ..-.,-- -,.-
These stations are working with the
naval stations at. San Juan, and are
sweeping the seas by wireless trying TO
pick up information OF the yacht from
vessels in West Indian waters. There are
eight steamships now in southern waters
equipped with wireless, and each has been
requested TO seek news and forward II to
New York by relay as soon as possible;
All stations and all ships have been In
structed to drop other business OF the
moment and transmit news of the yacht
as soon as 1t IL received.
There was rumor that a firm here had
received a message from Col. Aston, but
the report could not be verified.
Revenue Cutter on Lookout.
The Treasury Department also has taken
up the search for the missing yacht, and
it vas reported here that one Of the reve-
nue. cutters had been instructed TO pre-
pare to sail on Geographic orders to
search for her. Later IL was decided,
however, that the cutter dispatched to
look for the yacht will be the Algonquin.
now on the Porto Rico station.
While the search for the Nourmahal
was getting under way Mrs. Ava Willing
Astor, recently divorced from Col. Aston,
sailed quietly for England on the Cunard
liner Lusitania. Her name did not APP.
pear on the ships list and she remained
i'm her cabin until the vessel left her pier.
Mrs. Astor had contemplated sailing
ever since she instituted divorce proceed
ings. She wanted to escape the attention
attracted 10 herself by the separation
! from her husband, and it is said that this
was her reason for leaving this country
secretly.
Algonquin to Take Up Search.
The Treasury Department, on request
of anxious inquirers, has cabled to the
commander of the revenue cutter Algon-
uuin at San Juan, p. r., to search for
the Yacht NourrnahaI She is reported TO
have left Port Antonio, Jamaica, for San
Juan, P. r., a week ago, and has not