The morning call., 1890-09-15
SEA AND SHORE.
Interesting Notes Picked Up
Along the Water Front.
Tonnage on the Way to This Port-Record Of
Quick Passages - Ships Movements.
Thick Weather at the Heads

The total tonnage of vessels now on the
way to tlfs port is 2S3.054. AT the same time
last year it amounted to 234,7lS tons. Of
that now on the way 81, 776 tons comes from
New York, 6540 from Philadelphia, 1926
from Baltimore. 1897 from Antwerp, 1891
from Cardiff, 2072 from Calcutta, 5637 from
Hamburg, 1870 from Java, 27,S06 from
Liverpool, 1874 from London, 81, 591 from
Newcastle, N. S. W., 16,S67 from Newcastle
on-Tyne, 5l47 from NaDaimo, 66S1 from
Sydney and 1899 from Swansea.
The weather was thick at Point Lobos
Yesterday and the wind from the north I'm til
5 o'clock in the afternoon, when it hauled
to the southwest. blowing then sixteen miles
an hour. The barometer read; O'Clock in
the morpirg, 29e7; noon, 29.95; o'clock In
the evening, 20 So.
The tug Vigilant, Captain Mccoy. went
outside on fishing excursion to the Cor
dell Banks, yesterday, leaving at o'clock
in the morning. The weather was very
thick outside and interfered with the sport
of the fishermen.
VESSELS MAKING QUICK TRIPS.
The British ship Dawpool, which arrived
at Liverpool on Thursday last, after pas
sage of 80 days, is the only vessel that has
SO far this year made the trip 9nder lvo
DAVIS The reconstructed iron ship kenil-
worth arrived at Liverpool at the end OF
July in a trip of 101 days. In 1889 the four
masted British iron ship Reliance made the
run in 81 days, and the American wooden
ship X. ID. Rice went out in 9S days.
The barkentine Malay, Captain Penno,
arrived yesterday after passage OF ten
days from Port Moody. She arrived in the
Sound about five weeks ago from the South
Sea Islands. having a female stowaway. on
board. The story was published IN full
in this column at the time and was re-
produced in a morning contemporary yester-
day with startling headlines.
The schooner Sylvia Handy arrived from
Spanish Flat yesterday with cargo OF
ninety tons of wrecka5e consigned to Hey
man Il Meyer.
two hours from Humboldt, with forty-stven
cabin and sixteen steerage passengers; and
the Umatilla, siXty-nine hours from We
toria and Sound ports, with sixty three cabin
and sixty-seven steerage passengers.
The Mexican steamer Altata has come OIL
the dry-dock and is now lying at Fremont
street. AT her foremast-iead she flies ling
with white blue. rcd and green squares, with
the letters NJ. NJ. >. A., showing that the
captain belongs to the Master Mariners Ser
vice Association of England.
The steamer Wilmington will be sold at
auction at the Merchants Exchange at 1
o'clock this afternoon.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The steamer Alameda will come down to
Foisom-Street Wharf to-day.
The ship Commodore Will dock at Beale
street to-day.
The Robert Seares went TO sea.
The Annie Johnson went up to RalfOur's
Wharf, Port Costa, to load for Liverpool.
Captain Miller, late of the firm of Sennett u
Miller, will go in command OF her.
The f. X. Wood docked at Nam street.
The bark Concaird shifted from the sea-
wall 10 Howard No. l.
The ship Combermere came from Oakland
and docked at the rVlling-mIlS.
The Emma Claudina went to sea yeSter-
day.
The slip c. F. Sargent will tow to sea to-
day