New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-11-24
ASTOR YACHT SAFE
SEEN 1T SIN JUAN ON
NOPEMBER II.
Liner Luckenbach Brings the
Tidings from Porto
Rico.

Colonel John Jacob Astor and his
yacht NOurmahaI were definitely To-
Gated as safe al San Juan. Porto Rico.
as recently as Wednesday of last week
by reports brought by the steamship
Harry Luckenbach. Of the Insular Line.
yesterday, thus ending a search of nine
teen days
The Luckenbach brought mail from
Colonel Astor to friends in this city and
elsewhere. She left the NourmahaI with
all well on board in san Juan harbor
when she sailed at Is O'Clock Wednesday
evening. November Il. The Nourmahal
had arrived at San Juan, Sunday, No
vember II, from Mayaguez. and was fit
ting out to sail on November 10 or 20. it
was reported, for Ponce. Porto Rico. to
meet there friends of Colonel AstOr who
went south on the Carolina. Of the Porto
Rico Line
All fears for the NourmahaI and her
company have now been dissipated.
William 4. Dobbyn. secretary OF the AS
tor estate. telephoned at once To friends
OF Colonel AstOr TO assure them of his
safety. A. l. Emery, chief engineer Of
the Luckenmach. told of seeing Colonel
Asor safe and sound ashore.
Il was coming out Of a tobacco shop
he said, when an automobile with five
gentlemen in IL went past. Colonel AS
tor was in the rear seat. / recognized
him perfectly, for 1 was a member of the
Nourmahals crew A. G time several
years ago. He looked the picture Of
health. so far as could see, and he had
broad smile on when he went by. His
son was not with him. One of our
men saw both father and son near the
Plaza later in the day.
NOURMAHAL NOT DAMAGED.
We passed within thirty feet of the
Nourmahal as We came out OF the har-
Dor that night at about $50 o'clock
Her men were at work painting. and she
showed no signs of rough usage what
ever. Our purser talked with one of her
engineers while we We're shore. who
told him that they had no heavy weather
TO report"
This is just what We expected" said
Mr.. Dobbyn. 1T confirms the report
from the steamer Caracas. received last
Sunday. that the Nourmahal was safe in
san Juan"
For nearly three weeks grave fears
for the safety Of the Nourmahal and
her people have been felt. II was feared
that she was lost I'm the hurricane which
swept the West Indies and the Caribbean
Sea on Friday and Saturda~ November
II and 13. Government ships were sent
scouting for her. and every ship in those
out for her.
II was learned that she had put out
from Santo Domingo for San Juan on the
18th in the teeth of the rising hurri-
cane. 1t was also reported that she
had been seen anchored off II Salvador
hundreds Of mills to the nOrthward of
her course The captain OF a ship ar
irving in Santo Domingo told of seeing
a wreck which he thought was that of
a yacht lying between two small islands
near by. Another wreck was seen on the
north coast Of Cuba, and this, it was
also feared, might be the missing yacht
RED ID" CAPTAIN NOT MISTAKEN.
on Sunday news was received that the
captain Of the Red ID" liner Caracas.
J
seeing the y .rmahaI safe in san Juan
harbor on the 14th and 18th. The cap
tain stuck 10 mis- story, in spite of the
fact that wireless messages from San
Juan cast doubt upon ii. The wireless
operator did not know whether the Nour-
mahal was in port or not. and after a
brief message communication was lost.
The Luckenbach's tidings give the
itinerary of the Nourmahal complete.
She left SantO Domingo on the 18th,
fought her way through the hurricane
on the 18th, touching al Mayaguez prob
ably that night or the next morning. and
arriving at San Juan on the 18th. She
was seen there on the 14th and 18th by
the Caracas and on the 18th by the
Iuckenbach.
washington. Nov. 23.-The chase of
Colonel John Jacob Astors " 1T Nour-