Show YACHII CfRRYUIG PRES DENT iN DANGER > New York Sept iGiiic President and party of friends on the Sylph on their way from Oyster Bay to Kills Island landed at the Brooklyn navy yard this afternoon On leaving Oyster Oys-ter hilly I tho Sylph ran Into n tcrrillo storm The rain cumin dowji 1 I In torrents tor-rents and the wind blow Into a gale Oil Willetp the vessel was In serious danger On passing through Hell Gate the gale Increased In force and about a quarter of I mile from the Sylph a tug towing 1 threemasted schooner went down I rould not be ascertained ascer-tained whether all of the I crew were tc saved owing to time intensity o the t 1 storm which forced 1 the pasHon llers on the Sylph below deck Tn passing UP the East river the Sylph was hailed by I the naval tug Powhattan LieutCommander Pound stone who told Lieut Preston that It would be Impossible and foolish to attempt at-tempt to follow out the Presidents plan to cpntlnue to Ellis Island After a consultation with Admiral Rogers the President decided to go to Kills Island He started for there shortly after I 2 oclock At that hour the t storm had abated considerably Phe Sylph arrived at t Ellifi Island 1 about litfii p in During the t afternoon many interesting Incidents occurred the President acllnj on his desire to go di l rectly among tim > Immigrants themselves them-selves with n view of ascertaining how they were treated Idle u as particularly I Interested by the fact developed that I the majority of the applicants i for mlmlsHlon were supplied with American Ameri-can money lhme statement I wns mado by I the immigration i ofllrIals that Immigrants I j Immi-grants passed nt the station carried an average aggregate of 58000000 a year In American currency Al 7 oclock tonight the President accompanied by Secretary Loch and Ills personal attendants went aboard time Sylph for dinner At JO oclock they left for Jersey City on the lug Chamberlain where they t boarded the train I for Antlctam |