The morning call., 1891-03-03
SEA AND SHORE.
The Pacific Mail Will Net Go to
North Beach.
sixty-three Voyages Around Cape Horn-Big
Price Paid for sheep-More Sugar
for San Francisco.

1t is understood that the Pacific Mail
Company has, not purchased the w. W..
Stow or any other block at North Beach
and is not likely to do so. The company did
consider first The renting and subsequent
purchase of Mr.. Slows block, bounded by
Powell, Mason, Beachand jefferson streets,
which he bought. for $4,000 from the
Meiggs Wharf Company on May. "a, 1890.
Mr.. Slows price to the mail company was
said to be S170,0O0 Most of the block is
still lying under water and not yet filled in
STILL A LADY's MAN.
Captain J. W. Holmes of the ship
Charmer is once more in San Francisco
pleasantly greeting old friends. Captain:
Holmes sailed into San Francisco harbor at
an earlier date than any other man now IN
command of a vessel. lie has made sixty
three passages around Cape Horn. and first
came to San Francisco in 1857. At the age
of u he was master of a vessel, the whaler
Eeanuer. Captain Holmes made two voy
ages to this port in the ship Elizabeth, two
in the ship Hayes and two more on the
Twilight. When master of the ship Semi
mole he-took that vessel through the Golden
Gate twenty-five times. and this is his
fourth voyage in the Charmer. "Ihere is
not muchmOnay in going to sea now" said
the veteran commander Il made more
money while cabin-bOy aboard the old brig
AppalachicOla, carrying passengers between
New Orleans and Havana, than | do now.
Captain Holmes was born, so he says, on
April FOOLS day, siXty-Sevtn years ago,
aud by far the larger portion of his life has
been spent at sea. The captain is a great
admirer of the fair sex, and Is never so
happy as when smiling Mt the pretty girls
he meets along kearny street.
FOND OF SHEEP.
During the stay of the British steamer
Meumuir al Delhi, port in Tlm0r, negotla-
tious were opened between the ships stew
ard and the natives for trade. The
natives. wanted n sheep, and there We're
several on board the steamer. The natives
wanted to buy, but this the steward would
notAgree to-. as he wished to trade Tor eat
ables. After q vast amount OF arguing,
| during which both sides swOre, Threatened
ana cnaXed, bargain was at last struck
| Tie natives got the coveted sheep and the
| ship received in return enough provisions
| to last all hands a month. Three large
! proas or native boats went alongside the
| steamer, and their contents were piled on
the vessels deck. Dozens Of poultry, vast
heaps of fruit Of all kinds, several goats
and half a dozen pigs were given IN pay
ment for poor, lean, insignificant sheep.
| 1t is evident from this that TimOr would be
| Il BOnNl place lQI SOlDt GAIcl !llSluS AllCll-
can foeE-owner to go to. He would own
the entire country in short time. natives
and all.
"HARU EGG"
I. On the bulletin board of the Seattle Coal
:! Company, at Howard street Wharf, is the
| legend Ship Gatherer-hard egg. Many
| who read it do not know whether the hard
egg" refers to the vessel lying at the dock
| or the coal she. is discharging All along
the water front, and in fact wherever the
| ship is known she bears the name OF being
q perfect hell on earth, and has harder
time getting a crew than any other ship that
comes into San Francisco. This will not be
wondered at When il is recollected that time
| and again her officers have been arrested
for cruelty treating the men who were un-
fortunate enough to ship in her. Several
| OF her officers have been sent to San Quentin
for their iuhuman treatment OF the seamen
| under them. The crimes were so fendish
| that even the hardened convicts N the State
| Prison refused to associate with the perpe-
| traitors. The hard name won for her by her
former officers will stick TO the ship for
many long years.
NEW FERRY LANDING.
In about two weeks the new sheds at the
| ferry Will be re .dy for occupancy, and the
Southern Pacific Company viii move
| into them. The building is large one, be-
ing. 200 feet long and 80 feet wide, with an
lS-foot projection On either side. The rooms
| for the POStutffce are at the south end, and
are % by So feet. a 24-foot passageway ex-
tends clear through the building. The
i ticket Offices viii be on each side. and no
matter how big the crowd there VIII be little
or no delay in obtaining tickets. y new
! turntabie will be built for the Market-street
! cars as soon as the approach has been hlled
! in.
| WHALERs From THE COUNTRY.
A party Of seven green hands picked up
| by some clearinghouse runner out in the
| country looking up men for the whaling
| fleet reached the city yesterday morning
from Santa Rosa. Each had card bearing
| the name of the house he was consigned TO,
| but not one of the party reached the house
| they were sent to. They are now keepln g
| dark in other boarding houses, the owners
OF which made them even more eXtravagant
promises than the individual that paid their
fares to the city.
CITY OF NEW YORK.
The steamer City of New York got into
port yesterday, one day ahead of schedule
time. She had fifty cabin and forty-four
! Storage passengers. The ship brought to
San Francisco S4J.394 in treasure and n
cargo of 1880 packages Of goods, including
coffee, lines, cocoa, lard OIL, nails and a
large lot Of other hardware.
The barkentine Planter came mp from
Honolulu in 141a days with 1926 bags Of
sugar on board.
The bark Ceylon. also from Honolulu,
has IL, $50 bags of sugar on board.
The British ship British Empire has ar
rived in port with 1900 tons of nitrate from
Pisagua.
The ship Glencairn. with general cargo,
came out FROM Newcastle, England, in 126
days.
The ship Guardian and the bark H. C.
Wright lowed TO sea yesterday.
THE MATE BARCLAY FUND.
The fund for Mate Barclay at the Mer-
! chants Exchange amounts to nearly $500.
The ships E. g. Sutton and w. G. Davis
have been spoken at sea, both bound for San
| Francisco.
| RELEASE OF THE JESsoMENE.
The. British ship JessOmene was released
| yesterday on an admiralty stipulation filed
in the United States District Court in the
sum of $4,000, with, Stewart Menzies and
Robert Bare as sureties. The Jessomene
is the ship driven before the gale into
brakes Bay, where she was rescued by the
| Speckels' tug Relief for $4,000; to recover
which the vessel and cargo were libeled.
| WIND AND WEATHER.
The weather at Point Lobos at o'clock
yesterday morning was thick, wind south. s
miles; at 9 o'clock thick, wind south, s
miles; at noon thick, wind south, miles
at o'clock thick, wind south, miles.
/ the barometer at 8 o'clock yesterday
stood 80. 10 at neon 3Q.14, at o'clock 80 u.
The total rainfall for the season up to 5
O'Clock yesterday morning was II. 60 inches.
COMMODORE ALIENS WILL.