The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-09
SEA AND SHORE.
The Splendid Clipper Ship I'm.
daunted in Port.
Dangers to Navigation Floating Off tn,
Coast-Vessels in Collision at Sea.
Large Arrivals CT Sugar.

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| is well worthy O visit.
She carries three sky-sail yards, her
masts are very lofty and she has three
| fdded royal masts. Her masts and yards
| have all been scraped and vanished, her
! patchwork has been all cleaned, and allow
and aioft she LOOKS as trim as yacht just
| out of the builders and riggers' hands,
| The Undaunted was built at Bath, Maine,
in 1869, and her length is 207 feet beam Al
| feet and depth of hold 10 feet. The accom-
modations for the crew and petty officers
! forward are spacious and well lighted.
The captains ana officers quarters are
located under the poop aft, and are finely
! furnished. Captain w. J. Lewis has his
wife and son with him and the after cabin
| bears evidence that wOman's hand has
| been at work adjoining it with little ele-
| gaDcies. The cabin is finished in ash and
mahogany and with its marble-top table and
mirrors, plush upholstery, curtains, por-
tierres, sewing-machne canary bird and va
rous feminine knck-knacks, seems verit-
able home. The vessel is attracting consid-
cradle attention from city-fElnt prone
naders.
A COLLISION AT SEA.
A dispatch received at the Merchants
Exchange yesterday from Calcutta says:
A collision is reported to have taken place
between the British ship County of Rox-
burgh, from Liverpool for Calcutta, and
British ship Indian Empire, from Ham
burg for San Francisco, in latitude g south,
| longitude 29' west. The latteriwaS struck on
the port quarter and proceeded on voyage.
The weather was foggy at Point Lobos
yesterday. A calm prevailed up to noon,
when a good breeze sprang up from the
northwest, blowing at 8 O'Clock in the after
noon tWenty-four miles an hour. The ba-
rometer read: o'clock in the morning,
1897; noon, 2999; 8 o'clock in the evening,
1902.
a dispatch received Yesterday states that
the British ship Derbyshire, heEce January
2lst for Queenstown, was spoken Oh June
sd and supplied with provisions.
THE SYLVIA HANDY.
On Friday United States Marshal Long
will sell the schooner Sylvia Handy at auc-
ton to satisfy q Judgment entered against
her. The Sylvia Handy was formerly
owned by l.. n. Handy Il Co.. and was en-
gagged in the sealing industry. She was
seized by the United States revenue cutter
for Illegal fishing in the Behring Sea- and
for the past two years has been laid up IN
Oakland Creek.
Donald Ross, of Ross & Hewlett, who
are agents at this port for all the British
Victoria to find out all he can regarding the
sealing industry and as to what the Vic
tOria boats are going to do III view of the
threats that have been made regarding
them, if they enter the Behring.
Tie schooner Lettitia has been chartered
to take a cargo of coal to Santa Barbara,
which will be used by the new United
States cruiser San francisco. when she
makes her trial trip i'll Santa Barbara Chan
mel.
Tho e4aouar 0rapon Con+ojn Polanann
arrived yesterday, 90 hours from Portland,
40l2 from Astoria, bringing 81 cabin and
IS steerage passengers.
DANGERS TO NAVIGATION.
There has been considerable discussion
among ship captains and owners in this
city in regard to dangers to navigation that
are now known TO be floating around off
the coast. Last week the schooner Napa
City capsized off Point Reyes and is now
drifting around bottom up somewhere to
the southwark of the Farallones, right in
the track of steamers and sailing vessels
bound up the coast or to this port.
On Friday last the steamer South Coast
lost off Mendocino part of raft OF logs
she was towing down from Fort Bragg.
These logs, like those OF the famous jog
gins raft, which broke adrift on the Allan
tic Coast, are now floating around menace
TO passing vessels. SAID one old ship
captain:
sci OF log in the water at night, and If
vessel going at good rate of speed should
strike log end on it would probably go
right through her. There are hundreds of
lives and millions of dollars worth Of
property at stake and 1t certainly is the
duty of the Government, which exacts
heavy taxes from shipping, TO send out
vessel TO remove these distractions to navi-
CATION, to tow the logs into some port and
to tow in or blow up the derelict. II they
do not we shall certainly hear of some acct
dents occurring by their agency"
LARGE ARRIVALS OF SUGAR.
Late on Monday evening two sugar-laden
vessels arrived from the Hawaiian Islands,
Golden Shore. The former, Captain How
ard, made the trip from Kahului in eighteen
days, bringing 1915 bags, and the latter,
Captain Henderson, in twenty-five days
from Honolulu, bringing 81 ,4S5 bags Yes
terday the Dora Bluhm arrived with S499
bags, and the following vessels also arrived
with sugar cargOes: Bark Andrew Welrh,
bark CUlusa, barkentine 5. G. Wilder, brig
George II. Douglass and the schooner j. G.
North
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro. Cap
tain Austin, sailed yesterday afternoon for
Yokohama and Hong Kong. She carried
small number Of cabin passengers and III
Chinese in the steerage. The latter ill.,
cluded 90 from this port, AZ from Panama,
l remanded and who arrived on the
The ship Titania was spoken on Nav
9th in latitude 10' south, longitude 80
west, the bark Bessfield on June 10Th in lat
itude 14' south. longitude 33' west, and ship
Favonius on June 9th in latitude $40 north,
longitude 800 30 west
Captain Davis has resigned from the COM
mand of the bark California and been sue
ceeded by Captain Morine. TIE bark will
go to Gig Harbor ana will there load lumber
for Port Pirie, Australia.
DECKS FULL OF WATER.
The British ship Ulrica, Captain Sairr,
arrived yesterday afternoon, seventy-three
days from Sydney, Australia with cargo
of 2416 tons coal and 502 tons shale for
Balfour, Guthrie & Co. The captain re-
ports that on May Sd, 4th and 9TH he expert
which the ship labored heavily and the
decks were filled with water Had light
winds and foggy weather off the coast.
The new steamer Ukiah, now in course of
fitting up at Mair-street Wharf. is ready for
her engines. This steamer will be ready
for service about September 1st The lib
uron is undergoing repairs and will soon
be out.
The City of Peking arrived at Yokohama
on Saturday last, and the steamers China
and Batavia sailed thence for this coast on
Sunday.
There is a general average of per ceut
on the cargo Of the British ship Eng elhorn
from Liverpool.
Inc snip Earl OF Dalhousle lett London
for this port on Saturday.
A NEW FOG-HORN.
fog-horn, operated by steam and COM
pressed air, has been established by the
Government of Canada at the light station
at Sea Bird Point, which is the eastern
extremity of Discovery Island, in the Strait
of Haro, southeast Of Vancouver Island
The horn will sound blasts of eight seconds
duration, with intervals Of one minute be-
tween blasts. The fog-alarm building is
situated about 300 feet enthusiastically from
the lighthouse, and is of wood painted
white, with a brown roof. The horn is
elevated about forty-fve feet above high
water mark.
The bark Alex McNeill, owned by Spreck-
els, has been sold, and will change hands
today. The name OF the new owners aud
the price paid could not be ascertained yes
terday.
1t was ascertaned yesterday that the
rumors Of a coalition between the rival tug
boat companies are totally without founda-
ton.