The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-14
ITEMS FROM
SEA AND SHORE.
Two Men Killed at Point Reyes
Life-Saving Station.
Tonnage on the Way to This Port-An Inter-
esting Relic Tho South Coast Had
Her Back Broken.

charge Of the Signal Service Station here,
yesterday received the following dispatch
over the Government wire from Captain
Locke, keeper of the staiionat Point Reyes:
At 10 O'Clock In the al ferno0n yesterday, after
coming hom practice and landing the boat on
The beach, and while the men were in the act of
getting out Of The boat to haul 1t up the beach,
heavy breaker came Ia suddenly and turned
her ever, with all hands, seriously ibjurlng Two
men = Andrew Anderson and Fred Carstens.
They died one hour and ten minutes after the
accident.
Captain Granger Of the British bark Inch
keith, which will sail to-day, met with a
nasty accident on Friday. He stepped off a
Market-street cable-car the wrong way and
was rolled in the dirt, damaging his figure
head somewhat. His brother is master of
the. Port Crawford. now here. and two finer
young shippers never came to the port.
The weather was hazy at Point Lobos
yesterday and the wind light from the north
east until o'clock in the afternoon, when
it fell calm. The barometer read: o'clock
in the morning, 1923; noon, 1923; o'clock
in the evening, 3018.
TONNAGE ON THE WAY.
The total tonnage of vessels now ON the
way to this port is 294, 1853 At the same
time last year it amounted to 1875, $50 tons,
OF that now on the way 36,4l3 tons come
from New York, 6S65 from Philadelphia,
15,645 from Baltimore, IL. 497 from Antwerp,
6so5 from Calcutta, 1854 from Glasgow,
S94S from Hamburg, 1861 from Java,
43.711 from Liverpool, ,731 from London.
2913 from Newcastle, N. S. W., 1854 from
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1851 from Nanaimo,
7150 from Sydney and 1881 from Swansea.
Passengers who have Communication tick
cts and travel regularly on the ferry boats
befyv no md Sapsalifo nj nj n
ing loudly of the lack of lights provided on
board on the early morning and evening
trips across the bay. They say that when
they come across i'll the first boat there is
not enough light by which to read their
morning papers, and in the evening the
lights are not lit until long after it is too
dark to read, and even then the lights are
poor.
A dispatch received at the Merchants
Exc haDge yesterday from Queenstown says
that the British ship HOLLYWOOD. previously
was assisted off.
HER BACK Is BROKEN.
Captain johnson of the steamer Venture,
which arrived from Fort Bragg, reports that
While there he hauled off the Iocks the
steamer South Coast, which went ashore
during the recent heavy gale. After being
hauled OIL, the steamer fioated, but her back
is broken, and 1t would cost more to repair
her than 10 build new vessel.
The steamer City OF Sydney, Captain
Friele, sailed yesterday for Panama ana
way ports. carrying "A cabin and 81 white
and Chinese steerage passengers. Among
the Storage passengers are sixty-eight al
ted States seamen, who are going to the
Brooklyn NaYy-yard.
The ship IroqKois, from this port for Liv-
erlool, was SPOKEN on October 9th in lati-
Jude So south, longitude 100 west, and the
ship A. u. Ropes Tor this port on November
I'd in latitude 10 ~ south, longitude 80 %
west.
The steamer West Coast, Sam Stanton's
old vessel, came in yesterday from Fort
Bragg with only half cargo. She had TO
leave before completing cargo on account of
the nasty sea that was rolling III.
Overlooking SHIPS.
1t was mentioned in this column on Fri
day that the ship Yorktown being over
loaded the insurance people had insisted on
her discharging part of her Cargo before
proceeding TO sea. a contemporary III try
Ing to rehash the article yesterday says:
The insurance companies recently made rule
by which no RISKS are to be taken on vessels that
attempt to carry more than the registered tom
mage. Matters were bi ought TO climax yester-
day when the American ship Yorktown was over
hauled and fOund TO be overloaded.
The fact is that every vessel that loads
here carries more than its registered ton
mage, often as high as two-thirds more, and
that there are many vessels that would not
stand up and that it would be unsafe to 60
to sea in If they only had on board cargo
representing their registered tonnage.
The sealing schooner Matte Dyer has
been cleaned, caiked and recOppered at
SauSalito and will sail in about five weeks on
cruise. Captain William Bendt, who has
not been 10 Sea Tor years, will 60 in COM
mant and Andrew Peterson will 60 as chief
mate.
The steamer City of Puebla, which has
been in charge of the Sheriff, was released
yesterday, and will sail in place of the
Umatilla on the next trip to the north.
AN INTERESTING RELIC.
An interesting relic of the Samoan dis
aster. in the shape Of the propeller of the
Nipsic, will soon be placed on exhibition in
Washington. 1t is now at the Mare Island
Maynard, having been brought there from
Honolulu, where IL was taken from the
Nipsic. When the American ships were
driven on the coral reef at Samoa, the
Nipslc'S engines were going at full speed,
and she was making frantic efforts to get to
sea. The propeller was pounded on the
rocks, and its blades struck the hard coral
at every revolution.
They were twisted and cured up out of
all semblance to their former shape, but re-
manned uDbr0ken, showing wonderful de-
gree Of tensile strength and elongation in
the material The propeller was made of
Old-fashioned navy brouze, containing SO
parts copper, 10 parts tin and 2 parts zine,
anu IL 10 uUuDbiuI WH6tutE any Ol bu6 fancy
patent propeller bronzes lately introduced
could stand such rough usage and still be
capable of running the ship to Honolulu, as
was done with the Nipsic.
The tug RObarts, Captain Smith, went
down to Halfm0on Bay yesterdayto tow up
the schooner San Pedro, which was sent
down by Rogers to wreck the schooner Ar
gonaut, which was lost there few weeks
ago. The schooner filled up with wreckage,
but could not sail out on account Of calm.
and the tug was telegraphed for. The R0-
barts and her tow arrived last evening.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The steamer City Of Seattle went on the
Hunters Point Dry dock yesterday.
The ship ClavertOn towed over to Oak
land.
The brig Sea Wait, schooner Tampa and
the bark Bounding Billow went to sea.
The ship Merom came over from Oakland
and locked at Beale street.
The Italian ship +. s. Ciampa shifted
from the sea-wall to Union street.
The Champion towed to the mud flats.
The ship Oriental will come down from
Polt Costa to-day and dock at Union street.
The ship Blue Jacket and bark Mekeith
will 60 to sea to-day.
The Glory of the Seas arrived at Whining
ton yesterday from Nanaimo with coal.
The Sea Waif carries assorted cargo to
the Navigator Islands valued at $4,000.
The Champion was the only disengaged
iron ship In port at the ope"ing of business
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