New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-14
FEAR JEWELL, AVIATOR,
WAS SWEPT OUT To SEA
Friends Believe Man Who Tried
to Fly Across New York
Bay Lost in Fog.
FLIGHT IN STRONG WIND
Wireless Stations Comb Vessels
Along the Coast, but Get No
NeWs-Headed Toward
Staten Island.

Albert J. Jewell. plotting an aero
plane. is believed TO have been swept
out to sea and lost. Since he started
from Hempstead, Long Island. at 40
Yesterday morning 20 fly across New
York Bay to the aviation grounds at
Oakwood, Staten Island. the wireless
stations have combed all the vessels
along the coast. without obtaining
trace Of the missing aviator.
Fear has taken possession Of all the
ayiators who took part in yesterdays
race aroupd Manhattan Island that
Jewell found the wind too strong to
stem at that early hour The presence
Of haze over the bay is suggested as
having contributed to his bewilder-
menL
The fate Of Cecil Grace, the Ameri-
can aviator who was lost in fog over
the English Channel three years ago
Is recalled. Lieutenant Bague, or the
French army, was lost over the Medi-
teranean under similar circumstances
Assistants at the Moisant Tying
grounds I'm Hampstead, who saw Je"eil
start. say that the wind was very
strong at the time. Some of the oider
man tried TO dissuade the flyer from
the risk Of crossing the
bav because Of his unfamiIarity "i'h
cross country flight ,r,onas
"I'ye promised many OF my Iii'''u'
that I would try for the prize was
ron,ou,s answer, "and ! don't want 10
.d,sannoint them. You know, was
horn on staten Island and hundreds oi
NV friends will be on hand to root ioE
no TIL no ALL right. boys Don't you
worry about me-
rben he started. after promising 10
telenhone to the Moisant field "hen lie
reached Staten Island. lie seemed "
have the machine under good controi
when he disappeared
rha, was twenty-four hours ago.
Though every saving stailoh ali
,long the coast hereabouts has oeeh
communicated with, the aviator has
,.o,isbed as utterly as if he melted IN
the air. Some hope is still held ou,
that a passing vessel may have picked
him up.
This is regarded by other aviators as
improbable, as Jewell would nave
dashed word to New York. There Is
vet the possibility that smail craiI
no, carving wireless, may have res
c,,ed him. But the gale that lasted all
dav Yesterday was only stemmed' IN
tho air race. by FIVE of the more eX-
rerienced avjators, and Jewell was d
young flyer. -.
level is twenty seven years old, and
hasa wife and children. living at Mari
ner's Harbor. Staten Island. He began
nving six months ago, and Obtained
license from the Aero Club of America
rrder the name Of Sidney Gordon. for
the reason that he did not wish his
wife and other relatives TO know that
he had taken up flying.
Though he was an apt pupil, he
lacked experience in long distance fly
ing. AT the time Oh ms uiShpPtdi hhNt
he was an instructor in the Moisant
school. where he was very popular
II Jewell went to his death In the At
lantic he is the third aviator to lose
his life while flying over water. the
other two being Cecil Grace and Lieu
,nant Bague. The loss of Grace was
regarded at the time as one Of the sad
dest tragedies of early aviation.
After the young American started
from Calais. France, one gray morning
when a haze lay over the Channel, he
was never seen again, except for
6shermans report that he saw what he
believed TO be an aeroplane going
through the morning mist straight to-
ward the North Sea. a month later
pieces of an aeroplane were picked up
on the coast OF Holland