The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-16
SEA AND SHORE.
New Quarters for the Pacific Mail
Company.
Sailing Of the 0ceanic-A Collapsed Cofferdam
Tugs in Trouble in Channel Creek.
Movements Of Vessels.

The large property occupied by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company for nearly quarter
OF century as coal-yards, machine shops, ETC.,
back OF the Mail Dock at First and Brannan
streets, has been given up, the lease having ex-
PRED This property belongs to j. L. Flood.
The company has secured a hundred-vara lot
on the north side of Brannan street, west OF
First. The pro- erty has been graded and
planked and for over month from twenty to
thirty teams have been engaged carting the coal
from the old yard to the new.
The elevated railroad that has been used to
transport coal from the ships to the bunkers has
been extended TO the new yard by means of
bridge spanning Braunan street. The new quar-
tiers were occupied yesterday.
The weather was hazy at Point Lobos. A calm
prevailed until noon, when a breeze sprang up
from the northwest. which Increased at 3 O'clock
IN the afternoon TO "a miles an hour. The barom-
eter read: o'clock in the morning 3o.15, noon
30.17, O'Clock III the afternoon 30.12.
COLLAPSED CoFFERDAM
For two weeks b. Mcmahon, the contractor,
has been engaged in sinking cOherdam at the
foot of Clay street, to be used in the construction
of the foundation OF a new pier for the Sausalito
ferry landing. The cofferdam is u feet square
and was to have been sunk % feet below the
grade of the wharf.
IL was deemed by many next to impossible to
sink the coierdam to a depth sufficient to pro-
teet the wooden foundation OF the concrete pier
from the ravages of the teredo. On Saturday
timber 16 inches square was broken in an at
TEMPT TO SINK tile dam. Yesterday the required
depth was reached Or nearly and the Golfer
dam was being pumped out, when suddenly il
collapsed. The cOiferdam was the largest ever
sunk on the water front and its collapse will
cause quite delay in the work.
Commodore I. IL. Alien, who has been con-
nned TO MS room Tor the past twelve days, owing
10 an accident met with on the ship Willie ROsen-
field when his right foot was badly crushed, is
able TO be out again and was seen Yesterday on
Commodore
has fallen of somewhat In flesh.
The Occidental aud Oriental COmpany's steamer
oceanic sailed yesterday afternoon for YOko-
hama and Hong Kong She took large list of
freight and about 100 Chinese passengers.
The sehooners Puritan and W, f. Jewett are on
the marine ways at San Diego being cleaned and
painted.
TUGS IN TROUBLE.
Yesterday afternoon, while the tugs Anasha
and Atna were coming out Of Channel Creek at
low water, they fouled The old telegraph cable
that crosses the creek at the FOurtn-street draw
bridge Ihe Anasha cleared after half hours
HaId work. but the Etna, which had the schooner
j. b. Leeds In tow, was detained Tor some hours
before Tie cable was cleared from her propeller.
The telegraph company, 1t is stated. have been
cable.
The ship Largo Law was spoken on April 9TH
In latitude 44o north, longitude 27o west; the
! Firth OF DOrnOch on ADrll 7th IN latil ude 43o
| north, longitude 80 west. and tile Swanmore on
March 10Th III latitude 80 north, longitude 800
| west.
The United States revenue cutter Corwin, Cap
| tain Hooper, arrived yesterday after passage
| of sixty hours from the Columbia River.
The Drumpair arrived al Hull on Monday and
! the kohane sailed from Antwerp for this port on
| Saturday last
The steamer san Jose arrived at Acapulco on
| inc 81 lust, and the San Bias left Panama for
| this port Oh Sunday.
The Gaelic left Yokohama for this port yester-
| day
MOVEMENTS CT VESSELS.
| The bark Templar towed up TO Port Costa
| yesterday.
:, The ship Herat came down from Nevada Dock,
Fort Costa, and anchored in the stream
The snip Ed 0'Brlen hauled into the stream
from Long Bridge
The Joseph Spinney locked at Long Bridge.
Inc schooner Emma Utter came of the Mer-
chants DTy-dOck aud went direct TO sea
Inc schooner j. B. Leeds went on the Mer-
chants Dry-dOck.
Wharf Port Costa, to-day, aud tie bark Oakland
Will go TO South Vallejo.
The schooner James 4. Garfield came over
from Oakland Creek aud deeked at the sea-wall.
Inc Compeer- VEN 10 The rolling-mills
1ue- -MaIlDosa returned from the sugar re-
AHefy al noOu and locked at Folsom street.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The United STATES Coast and Geodetic Survev
oh1cers give notice that fixed white light is now
exhibited from lens-lane rn placed on a most in
front OF the fog signal at Auo Nuevo Island Cali.
| forniA.
The fog signal at Oakland harbor light sta
| ton has been changed from a single stroke OF
| the bell every twenty seconds TO 4 single stroke
| every five seconds.