The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-10
SEA AND SHORE.
An Attempt to Burn the John
Currier i'm China Seas.
Vessels on the Stocks at Benicia-six Months
and Half on Salt Horse-Arrival of
the Gaelic-A Profitable Wreck.

The Hiog0 News OF June 18th has the
| following interesting account of the attempt
of incendiaries to destroy the American ship
John Currier:
There are now in the Municipal Jail two men
and boy charged with the commission OF the
crime. and they will be brought up for premi.
nary examination before MIR. f. j. SmiIhers, in the
American Consular Court, this morning, at 10
o'clock. Their names are James Riley, Henry
Green and Henry Harris. Green has cOnfesse d,
and has implicated Riley, who admits that lie as.
sisted at the business. Against the boy Harris
there is at present no direct evidence, we believe
The fire was discovered IN the fore hatch at
about midnight on Tuesday. The ships bell at
once rang the alarm, and assistance came from
all parts of the harbor, the deck soon being
crowded with helpers. 1t was found that
bundle OF pitchy low used for calklng aud
which had been previously soaked In petroleum,
had been dropped down the hatch, the Custom
house seal having first been broken. The burn
ing stun fell upon mass OF dunnage under
which were 100 barrels OF resin, and but a short
distance away 10000 cases OF Kerosene.
The dunnage Immediately blaZed up and be-
fore The flames had been got under the top bar
rels OF the resin underneath had caught and their
contents began TO run out. Ten minutes more,
we are told would have seen the John Currier a
burning mass, and had The flames not been got
under just when they were, orders were upon the
point OF being issued 10 scuttle the vessel. In
either case IL Is doubtful whether all on board
could have escaped in safely had the resin once
fairly caught.
To make matters worse. the captain had his
wife and child on board. What the motive of the
men was il is impossible 10 say. They one aud
all speak highly of the captain, and declare lie is
one Of the right sort. while there has been aDsO-
utely no trouble on board so far as we Can hear,
either ON the voyage or in port The John Cur
rler Is a 81 10000 ship, and was named after her
builder who. although lie had built many YES
sells. deemed her 10 be better than any which had
gone before.
AT THE BENICIA sHIP-YARDs.
CAPTAIN Turner of the Benicia Ship yards
denies that he has any contract TO build a
magnificent pleasure yacht for Nicholas
Inning and nthnrS az stated in a uiSnatph
from Santa Cruz. He states, however, that
he has four vessels on the stocks at his ship
yard in BeDlcia. One is a schooner for the
island trades ordered by Wilkins IL Co.,
agents for German firm in the Marshall
Islands. The frame OF this vessel Is now COM
plete and she will be ready by August Both,
and will go direct to Jaluit She will be 50
tons register. 81 Ieet long, a feet beam and
9 feet hold.
Captain Turner is also building yacht
for j. Ii. Mccarthy. Her dimensions are.
80 feet inches over all, 81 feet inches
water line, 10 feet inches beam, feet
inches depth. The two remaining vessels
IN course of construction are designed for
missionary purposes. One is schooner Tor
the Seventt-day AdventiStS and Is intended
for use in those quarters where there is Il fa-
v0ra bic field for religious work. The hackers
oil the enterprise are residents of Oakland,
and the vessel will be cOmpletedby July 3lSt
She is 100 tons burden, and almost entirely
ton of converts. One peculiar clause in
the contract is that no work shall be done
in the vessel on Saturdays, in accordance
with the views Of the Seventh-day Adj
yentists. The second missionary vessel on
the stocks is designed and contracted for
by the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions of Boston. She is a
schooner, aud her length will be 90 feet,
beam 10 feet II inches, depth feet.
SIX MONTHS ON SALT BEEF.
The ship Guthrie, which recently arrived
in Hong-kong, made the following report;
"When seventy miles this side Of the north
end of Celebes Island. in latitude % so
north, longitude PAY east, saw the Ameri-
can ship Anahuac, of Boston, Captain
Weldon, bound from New York to Yoko-
hama, with kerosene, sent boat alongside
They reported that they were six and a half
months out, and with only salt beef and bis
cults to eat; we supplied her with what
provisions they required and also sent a
number OF late papers on board. Mr..
Bellies also kindly made them present of
a case of fresh apples"
The steamer Gaelic, Captain Pearce, ar
rived from China and Japan yesterday
morning. She encountered nothing but IA
vorable weather during her trip and moth
ing eventful occurred during the voyage.
She left Hong Kong on June 18th and 1o-
kohama on june 18th. She brought cargo
of 400S tons, among which were 2S packages
of opium, 1850 packages of rice, 1851
chests Of tea and 19l packages OF silk.
The wrecked Idaho. on the beach near
Port Hadlock, recently sold to Captain
Thompson for $500, has proved profitable
investment to that individual. He fitted
out divers at cost of 5000 and has already
recovered cargo valued at 5000, with more
in the lead. The cargo consists OF salmon,
oil and other merchandise.
George Thompson, steward of the steamer
Cleone lying at Mssion-street Wharf 2,
was stricken with paralysis yesterday morn
ing while standing in the galley attending
to his duty.
THE CARMELTTA DIsMANTLED.
A dispatch was received at the Mer-
chants Exchange from Victoria yesterday,
stating that the British ship Carmelita
had arrived in dismantled condition, POI
days from Liverpool. The Carmelita was
last spoken on the 22d of January off Cape
Horn, and considerable anxiety was mani
tested as to her safety. According to the
dispatch received yesterday she arrived
with bows NIT sprung, fOretOp-mast gone
and sails split and lost. According TO her
log she encountered terrific weather off
Cape Horn, where she hove to fifty days.
All hands were reported well.
"Tbe depletion of the forests of the
East" says the Philadelphia Commercial,
'has compelled Eastern ship-buiderS to
look to the Pacific for spars to rig vessels
and for yards and toDmasts for steam craft
The bark w. w. Grape has landed at Bos-
ton from Puget Sound $50 masts, which are
valued at $4,000, and which paid SIS 900
freight. The greater part of the cargo was
sent to Philadelphia. Other vessels have
been chartered to follow the Grape for
Philadelphia direct"
The steam-schOon Farallon left at noon
yesterday for San Diego She is the first
of new line of steamers which will be put
on the line from San Diego to Honolulu,
and carried a large party Of excursonists
for the Sandwich Islands. Returning the
steamer will leave Honolulu on July 2Sth
arriving here on August 9TH.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The bark Anna shifted from stream to
Union-street Wharf yesterday.
The ship Palestine was towed from Oak
land to the Union Iron Works to be cleaned
and repaired.
The steamer Santa Rosa came off the
Union Iron Works Dock yesterday, where
she had been cleaned and painted.
The ship BidstOn Hill was lowed from
Pacific-street Wharf to Port Costa yester-
day.
The barge Seattle went from the Union
Iron Works to Beale-stIeet Wharf, thor
oughly overhauled.
The schooner Lillebonne shifted from
stream to sea-wall No. 8.
The schooner Webfoot changed her berth
from the sea-wall to Oakland Creek.
The ship Oriental was towed from stream
to Oakland Pier.
The Columbia locked at Mission No. to
discharge coal
The ship Palmyra arrived in port from
Caleta Buena with Is, 12S bags Of nitrate of
soda.
The British ship Dynomene arrived from
Newcastle with 1890 tons of coal; tina
steamer San Pedro, from Tacoma, with
1000 tons, and the ship Oriental, from the
same port, with $3.50 tons.
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