, 1883-10-04
GsEPPESEE NEWS.

ARRIVED. Oct. Ist.-Bktn. Geo. c.
Perkins passed uP-Souud today.
Sch. Compser, lumber laden at Port
Gamble for Santa Barbara. went to sea
this afternoon.
Steamer Empire arrived from mp
Sound and sailed for Departure Bay, b.
c. to load with coal.
ARRIVED, Sept. 30 Steamship Walla
WalIa. Capt. W. II. De Wolf, from Port
land, Or, entered at Port Townsend,
and left for Seattle to load coal for S. f.
Steamship San Pedro arrived at Port
Townsend at noon and anchored on ac-
count of the fog, bat left on Sunday
night for New Tacoma, where she will
load coal for $. L.
Capt WhitcIaw has commenced work
with his steam wrecker to raise the
steamer Mississippi that was partially
burned, scutJled and sunk at Seattle a
few mOntns ago.
Among the passengers by the Elder
we're Mr. William Walker and wife, and
Mrs. ID. B. jackson. Mr.. Walker Is
brother of one OF the owners of tie Port
Gamble Mills. He viii remain here two
or three days and then VIII go 10y steam
er to their home at that place.
GoHE WRECKING.- Captain John Ross,
formerly in command of the steamship
Wilmington, left that vessel in July last
and bought two wrecked vessels at Is
quimalt the Southern Chief and the
Tiger. The former he succeeded in
raising. and is now repairing her. The
Tiger. he broke to pieces for the metal
that was in her. He has gone into the
general wrecking business at that place,
and IS now engaged in recovering an
chors that have been lost in the harbOr
in times past. 1t is more than likely
that Captain Ross will fit up the South
ern Chief and sail in her himself
WENT ASHORE IN THE FOG. Last eve
ming the tug Tacoma, Capt. Cameron,
tOwed the large English ship Mabel
Taylor up the Sound. and anchored her,
as was supposed, at Port Blakely. The
tug then started up the Sound. but got
off here course and ran on to Alki Point,
where she will remain until high tide
| today. Capt. deLion, who was on board,
started for Seattle in a small boat, where
he arrived in safety The first indication
| he had that he was here was when his
| boat brought up against StetsOn & Posts
boom of logs. The Captain now thinks
that the Mabel Taylor was anchored in
supposed t-IHteHigencer
WORK OF THE WREcKRR WHITELAw.-
| The wrecking steamer Whitelaw has
been for several weeks trying to raise
the sunken Warhawk at Port Discovery.
That heavy vessel of 1900 to 1000 tons
burden has been stranded in so feet of
| water in such a position that the miz-
zen royal mast Vas just above the wa
"a Z, VIII
law works proveI TO be too light. so they
left her for a tine and sent on to San
Francisco for heavier apparatus. They
raised the Warhawk easily enough with
the "camels" half full of wa,er, but they
could not haul her ahead. These ''cam-
els" are huge air-tight tank which are
filed with water and sunk at low tide
and then lashed to the object. As the
tide rises they pump the water out of
the tanks and thus create a temorary
vacuum, and this rises with enormous
force. The Whitelaw tOWed the cam
els" into harbor three days ago. They
viii be used in raising the Mississippi.
1t will be about three or four weeks be-
fore the ancient blockade runrar will
be elevated into daylight. Iaey are
building the bulkhead of the forward
compartment up even 10 the rail. This
compartment is to be pumped dry and
will prove great help on the lift. Then
the 'camels" viii be sunk at the stern
and with good purchases on the shore
they will raise and then haul her for
ward on to the beach. The position Of
the sunken craft is such that the I'M
dertaking is one of greater magnitude
than was generally supposed The work
on the Warhawk was left so that opera
tons can be resumed as soon as the Mis-
sissippi is raised.-POst-InteH