Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-14
THE D. c. MURRAY
Lying on the Shore at Re-
dOndO Beach.
OBSERVATIONS BY A REPORTER.
Local Events of an Interesting Char
acter-The Teachers Recep-
tiOn-Other Notes.

Among the favorite barks which in
times gone bye piled between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu was the d. G. Muir
ray, and sister craft Comet, commanded
by the famed Commodore Patty. The
first named bark, known to every son OF
Neptune's Pacific realm and to a very
large number of land-lubbers on the
Coast, has, for twenty-eight years
ploughed the briny deep in commences
service, as before stated, from the Haw-
allan Islands 10 the Golden Gate and up
and down the Coast.
Sometime since the old bark was sold
at auction for $4,000. On June 10 she
left Port Discovery with cargo of lum-
ber, bound for Redondo Beach. She
arrived July 18th and anchored at the
mooring buoy. On Monday last, in
attempting to lay alongside the wharf
now beingIconstructed, her kedge slipped
and she stranded in few feet Of water
with her bow inshore. Forty-three
thousand feet of lumber on deck was un-
shipped and she listed heavily to the
port and so lays.
She had cargo of 100000 feet of lum-
Der, including 800, 900 lath and $4,000
pickets.
A HERALD man visited the wreck yes
terday and found her as described. The
sea was calm and her cargo below decks
intact. Her rudder was gone and hole
was stove in her bottom. The Captain
and crew of eight men were camped on
the beach with their effects and two pet
kittens which the Captain had brought
ashore before he had his Clothes" AS
the HERALD approached the camp a
weazened old sea-dog was chanting:
| had ships that sailed the sea,
More than twenty years ago;
| They will never come back to me,
But go sailing to and fro,
| With torn sails and battered hulls,
While around shrek the gulls,
Flying low, flying low.
Captain Montanden, of the Inflated
bark briefly recited the facts given before,
adding that the Redondo Beach Com
pany refused to receive the lumber un-
less at the wharf, and as his "charter
party" read "to be delivered according
to the rules of the port" he had at
tempted to make the wharf and lost his
vessel. He had followed the sea for
thirty-two years, he said, and had never
been wrecked before. eff l can get my
cargo out before she breaks up" con-
tinued the captain, 'I can bank thous-
and dollars after paying expenses. in
cluding the loss of the bark" How this
could be done was not made clear, as the
total freight, at $S per M, the rate to be
paid, would only amount to $4,000, and
the bark was not insured.
The cargo OF lumber is insured in the
New Zealand Insurance Compay, ol
which Geo. Bradbeer is the agent at Los
Angeles who was on the ground. The
San Francisco agent, Captain Reed, and
one of the owners of the bark,
Charles M. Bradshaw will probable ar
rive at the scene to-day. Until their
arrival, nothing will be done, unless by
nature in breaking up the bark and
floating the lumber out to sea. The
amount of the insurance on the lumbe,
is not yet known.
No effort will be made to save the
bark, and her specter will add to the
picturesqueness of the beach for many a
day. She was wooden vessel of $50
tons gross and 452 tons net. She was
built at Green Point, N. Y, in 1860.
Her dimensions were: Length 131 feet,
beam 81 feet, depth Of hold II feet.