The morning call., 1890-08-14
SEA AND SHORE.
FOg.bOund Vessels = Arrival of
the st. Paul.

The Alaska Commercial Company's
steamer st. Paul, Captain Erskine, arrived
from Oonalaska yesterday afternoon, after
a good passage of nine days, and locked at
Mission No. 2 pier. She brought down 16S
bales and 12S boxes Of assorted furs, thirty
two bales of whalebone and sundry other
merchandise, besides nineteen passengers
from various points in Alaska. Captain
Erskine reports thst the whaler Bounding
Billow left Oonalaska for the Arctic on July
3lst with two whales; all hands well. The
whaler Baluga left for the north July oath,
having already taken eight whales without
having entered the Arctic. On August 81
the Government fish steamer Albatross lett
for cruise to the westward. Captain Frs
kline saw no sealerS on his trip, nor dld ne
hear of any news concerning them. Inc
St. Paul was at New Shagak on July 9TH,
and the salmon cannerles there have make
good catches anu were doing we'll.
The heavy fog hanging over the entrance
TO the haTbor has kept vessels from enter
ing, and up to 6 o'clock last evening, only
one arrival, the steamer st. Paul from
Alaska, was bulietlned on the board OF the
Merchants Exchange. The few tugs that
were outside yesterday reported sighting
no inv ard-bound vessels, though over a
dozen deep-water ships from foreign ports
are we'll due. Possibly the fog keeps them
standing well out to sea, and just as soon
as it clears up they may be expected to
come into port in rapid succession. The
ba TX Sumatra with coal from Seattle has
been fog-bound outside the Heads since
Sunday last. Her captain refuses to en-
ploy tug 10 bring him in, and the delay
has already cost several times more than
the towing-bill would have amounted to.
One Of the dredgers is at work cleaning
up the silt along the sea-wall between
I ,1Narh ha n har
is dredging out the mud fiat about sixty
feet west from Fisherman's Dock, prepar
ing for the new railroad freightsllp that
will be built there to accommodate the
freight traffic of the North Pacific Coast
Railroad, the Tiburon route, and the South
Pacific Coast Railroad, tho Alameda route.
The new slip will be ready for use in about
four months. The Lombard-street shed Will
be moved to connect with the sugar shed at
Section of the sea-wall. Section oB OF
the new sea-wall south of the ferries Will
be com uleted in two weeks.
The City oil Puebla left for Victoria
(B. c. and Sound ports, yesterday with an
unusually large freight cargo and passen-
ger list. A minstrel troupe that is going
to devastate the great Northwest was also
on the list. Some very fearful scenes
took place when the members of the troupe
parted from their local friends, greatly ac-
centuated by the rendering by quartet OF
the company OF Farewell, My Own True
Love-" Even the most hardened water
front frequenters wept in sorrow over the
dismal strains.
The Harbor Commissioners have erected
substantial fences around the Jackson,
Washington, Broadway No. l and piers
and along the intervening bulkheads to
stop the incessant thieyiug Of freight from
these wharves.
The ship Orient will go to sea to-day; the
ship Dyomene goes to Port Costa to load;
the ship lroquois will come down from
Port Costa and the ship DumbartOn will 60
to Oakland to discharge her coal cargo.
Rolh1fs 81 Gerdan are building ware
house of corrugated iron on lot 9, Section
of the sea-wall, to store their salmon con-
signments from Alaska in.