The morning call., 1890-11-09
ITEMS FROM
SEA AND SHORE.
Return of the Undine With Ma.
chinery Disabled.
Two More Whalers Arrive From the North.
Tonnage of Vessels on the Way to the Port.
Three Vessels in Arctic Quarters.

The propeller Undine. captain Ellis,
which sailed on Friday for Santa Barbara,
returned to port yesterday on account of her
machinery having broken down. IL is hard
10 know what to call the Undine On the
Merchants Exchange book she is classed as
schooner. She was recently built here,
and is certainly scbooner-rigged, but she
also has shaft and a propeller She. how
ever. is not a steamer, as she uses no steam.
Her moive-power is electricity, which is
generated by means of naphtha, so she may
probably be termed an electric boat
The schooner Argonaut, which went
ashore below Point Montara, down the
coast, on Tuesday last, was sold at auction
yesterday as she stands, with her cargo,
furniture and apparel. The hull brought
S270 and the cargo of O.000 feet of lumber
S315. II. Rogers, who lives in the vicinity
of the wreck. was the purchaser.
The weather was hay at Point Lobos
yesterday A light breeze prevailed from
the northeast until o'clock in the after
noon, when it hauled to the northwest. The
barometer read: o'clock in the morning
29.gS, noon 29.9S, O'clock in the evening
1902.
TONNAGE ON THE WAY.
The total tonnage of vessels now on the
way to this port is 257,7S0. At the same
time last wear ii amounted to 22i,S96 tons.
Of the tonnage on the way 31.271 tons come
from New York, 6S65 from Philadelphia, 49,
645 from Baltimore, 10 562 from Antwerp,
5S21 from Cardiff, 12.172 from Glasgow, o94S
from Hamburg, 14,056 from Java, 35,34S
from Liverpool, Is, 8SS from London, ., 4O0
from Newcastle. n. S. W., 1851 from New
castle-on-Tyn 3449 from Sydney and 1884
from Swansea
Three coal-laden vessels arrived yesterday
with cargoes aggregatlng 6OO6 tons. The
ship Wachusett made the passage from
Nanaimo in the quick time Of five days with
1925 tons, the bark Bnndaleer brought 1881
tons from Departure Bay and the bark De-
trot 2250 tons from Seattle.
The steamer YaQuina will leave here on
Wednesday fer the Sound, where she VIII
Ia Ike the place of the Mexico. The Mexico
Will come down here and run between here
and northern coast ports.
The Oregon Coal and Navigation Com
pany's steamers AragU and Arcata LETT yes
terday morning for Coos Bay. where they
are expected to arrive tomorrow
IN WINTER QUARTERS.
Three vessels from this port the steamers
Grampus and Mary D. Hume and the
schooner Nicotine, are now in winter quar-
tiers near the mouth OF the Mackenzie
River, within 1900 miles of the North Pole.
Captain Lewis n. Herendeen of the Nico-
line left here on July ., 1899, and letter
was received from him IN November last
from Cape Smyth. in the Arctic Ocean.
BE has supply of stores, firearms. ammq-
milton, etc, with which he intends to trade
with the natives for ivory, furs, bone, etc.
There are two trading-posts, Fort Hope. and
Fort Macpherson, about 100 miles from
where tue Mackenzie enters the ocean, and
the natives now do all their trading there.
Two more vessels were added to the
whaling fleet in port yesterday. The steamer
Narwhal. Captain McGreggor, fifteen days
from the Fox Islands, brought 100 barrels
oil and 1900 pounds OF bone for j. n.
Knowles, and the bark Charles w. Morgan,
twenty-nine days from the Okhotsk Sea,
brought 240 barrels oil and 300 pounds Of
bone for j. and W. R. Wing, The catch of
the feet so far reported, has been in excess
OF that of last year.
The City of Benares towed over TO Oak
land aud the bark James Cheston to Vallejo
junction.
The brig Consuelo went on the Merchants
Dry-dOck yesterday.
The bark Detroit will dock at Mission No.
to-day.