The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-02
SEA AND SHORE.
Stripping the Hull of the Sub
merged Palestine.
The Kew Line to New York Breaking Up the
Trenton's Ram-Surveying the Bars.
Movements aud Charters

The talk of the front Just now is the new
steamship line between this port and New
York via Magellan Straits. The vessels
comprising the new line are the keweenaw,
now loading at New York. and the steamers
Minneola and Montauk. The KeWeenaw
was built on Lake Superior and has carry
ing capacity of $500 tons, with speed of
about 10 knots. She is booked to leave New
York on July 18th and will make the run to
this port in 45 days. The others will follow
at intervals of 40 days.
A dispatch received at the Merchants EX-
change states that the British snip Flint
shire, bound from Liverpool to San Fran
cisco, has put into Falmouth on account of
Captain Pierce's sickness.
'BREAKING UP THE PALESTINE.
The work of tearing the wreck o. the Pal
estne to pieces has fairly commenced. The
wrecker Whitelaw stripped the yards off the
sunken ship yesterday and then began the
recovery of the anchors and chains. If the
weather holds fine it will not take long to
have the masts out Of her. The wrecker
Samson was lowed out to the wreck yester-
day afternoon and VIII be anchored close by
until the hull Is destroyed
The work of breaking up the ram of the
wrecked war-ship Trenton is being carried
on in a lot back of Section 2 of the sea-wall.
Owing to the size of the mass of metal the
work is being done with pile-driver weigh
| ing 1000 pounds.
TO SURVEY THE BARS.
The Government steamer General Wright,
now at Coos Bay, has been ordered to be
| put into commission. She will be employed
in making survey of all the bar harbOrs
along the coast Work will begin on the
| bar at Yaquna Bay, and the steamer will
! then proceed to Coos Bay, Tillamook, Neha-
| lem, Siuslaw and CoouiHe,
1t is expected that the Shenandoah will
| carry away the largest cargo of grain that
| ever left San Francisco. she was taken up
| to Port Costa yesterday morning. aud the
| Port Costa people are wondering whether
| she Will empty the warehouse.
| The weather yesterday was haZy and
calm up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when
a light west wind sprang up. The barom-
| eter was down to % 70.
| CHARTERS REPORTED.
| Among the charters reported yesterday
are the following:
Ship America, 1852 tons, now at San
| Pedro, coal from NanalmO to San Fran
cisco; option of san Pedro; chartered by
John R0senfeld's Sons.
Ship Sea King, 1926 tons, coal from
| Nanaimo to San Francisco; option of San
Pedro; chartered by John Rosenfeld's Sons.
| British ship Strathearn, 1905 tons, wheat
TO Cork. U. K; Havre, Antwerp or Dun
kirk, e. IS; chartered by Balfour, Guthrie
u Co.
British ship Bakamah, 1918 tons, wheat
to Cork, U. h; Hayre, Antwerp or Dun
| kirk, e. IS; chartered by Eppinger 81 Co.
British steamer HounsIow. 1893 tons, mer-
chandise to the West Coast; chartered by
| j. w. Grace & Co.
Steamer Willamette, 1896 tons, merchan-
disc 10 the West Coast; chartered by w.
| Frese & Co.
Bark Aureoa, 7S5 tons, coal from Depar-
ture Bay TO this port; chartered by r. d.
Chandler.
DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS.
The steamer Los Angeles for Eureka and
the Laguna and Alcazar passed out for
coast ports; the schooner Lizzie Colby
sailed on cod-ishing trip; the j. NJ.
Weatherwax went out bound to Kodiak
Islands; the schooner Nesta sailed for Nico-
laefski; barks Sea King for Nanaimo aud
Harvester for Hilo towed TO sea; the
schOoners American Girl, Golden Gate,
Jennie Wand, james Townsend, Jennie
Griffin, j. Eppnger. Western Home and
| Mary Gilbert sailed for coast ports.
The arrivals yesterday were the steamers
Walla Wala from Victoria, Point Arena
from MendOcino, Rival from Point Arena,
Truckee from Tillam6ok, and the Plotec-
ton from Fort Bragg; the schooners j. NJ.
Colman, Maid OF Orleans and 5. Daneson
brought lumber from Up tie coast.