Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-14
LOST VAYU
SOUGHT BY
WIRELESS
Fear SlOOp'S Party Of
Five PeriShed in
Storm.
NEWARK ARTIST AND
FRIENDS GONE FOUR DAYS
Missing Ship Left Bergen Point
Saturday Shortly Before
DownpOur.

AS a last resort in the attempt 1,
| find trace of the party of FIVE that
has been missing since Saturday in
the sloop Vayu owned by Mr.. Lemuel
r. Smith. the Newark artist. the fol-
lowing wireless message has been sent
out to sea from the Battery, New York:
"To all ships and shore stationss
Keep n sharp lookout for the sloop
yacht Vayu, with party of five ON
board, missing since Saturday after
noon"
This message was sent at the re-
quest of Commodore w. e. Wadman.
of the Bayonne Yacht Club. of which
Mr Smith is a member. The yacht
sailed from Bergen Point Commodore
Wadman believes that all in the party
met death near shore or have been
blown far out to sea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hadheld and
George Burns. of this city, who formed
a yachting party Sunday announced
today that they had observed a boats
cushion and some wreckage off Staple-
ton, Staten Island. but not knowing at
the time of the disappearance of the
party of five had made no attempt to
pick up the fioatage.
storm Broke After Yacht Left.
! AS the sloop did not leave until late
Saturday afternoon, it is believed that
the yacht hardly could have reached
the Atlantic Highlands before the storm
broke.
! The others in the party besides Mr..
Smith were his father and mother, Mr..
and Mrs. Lemuel Smith of Irvington;
4 Mrs. n 80 90 II,
met street, this city, and George C.
] Schultz. of West Orange.
Schultz, who is only "a years old, the
same age as Mr.. Smith. has a young
wife. who is distracted over the pos
sible fate of her husband.
Prevented by business from being
one of the party. NJ Elmer Rache, also
an artist and partner of Mr. Smith in
much of his work today declared in his
Office belief that his friend and the
others in the party have been lost.
as MIR. Smith was a good sailor and
had more than once been in dangerous
places no special fear was felt when he
failed to return to Newark Monday.
Only a week before he had been caught
in "a heavy fog and had not returned
until Monday evening. When nothing
was heard from him yesterday how
ever, and II was found that t others
in the party had also failed to return
steps We're taken to learn something
of them If possible The only hope
| expressed is the possibility of the
yachting party having been picked up
by some passing vessel of large type
during the storm or of having been
blown out to sea and not yet having
been able to return or to reach some
point where communication could be
had with Newark or New York, owing
to the crippled telegraph and telephone
service.
Brother Fears WOrstA
Mr.. Schultz has a brother, Gustave,
who is employed as a newspaper pho
tographer in this city
Il believe" said Gustave Schultz to-
day, that the sloop had gotten well
out toward Sandy Hook before she was
hit by the storm. The statements at
the yacht club about the time that the
sloop left are conflicting however, and
| it is hard to form an opinion of just
how far out she went. Some say that
she sailed at o'clock Saturday night
and others say 9. If the start was
made at and the party got out well
toward Sandy Hook, there is reason to
hope that it has been picked UP by
some steamship.
IF the start was made at the later
hour the Vayu could hardly have
reached the Kills before she was in the
midst of the storm If that is the case
all on board have probably been lost,
or we would have had word from at
least one member of the party.
Il entertained no fear of my brothers.
safety when the return was not made
Sunday as he told me that he did not
expect to be back before Monday morn
ing But when Tuesday came and he
failed to put in an appearance be-
came anxious.
To Look for Possible Wreckage.
"Omcers of the Bayonne Yacht Club
have communicated with the New
York harbor police in an endeavor to
see if any wreckage from the yacht
has been washed ashore l also under
stand that a revenue cutter is on the
lookout today and will notify the look
out men at the forts in the harbor to
be on the watch.
Everything possible has been done
to get even the faintest clue, but we
know no more now about the fate OF
the party than we did when we first
became alarmed.
My brothers. wife is on the verge
of nervous breakdown from worrying.
She is inconsolable. Besides myself,
friends and neighbors are trying to
cheer her up"
At the Smith home there is noone to
mourn the absence of husband, wife
and son. When an Evening STAR re-
porter called there today he found the
house locked and little pet dog be-
longing to the Smiths whining about
the yard. The animal is being fed by
neighbors, but seemed TO know some-
thing was wrong. The Smiths have
lived in Irvington for eighteen years