The morning call., 1891-12-19
SEA AND SHORE.
A Big Cut i'm Rates to Puget
Sound Ports.
Credit Given to Engineers Towing the Kin
kora to Portland-Seizurs Of Cargo
Launch of a Three-Master.
Shippers and consignees are iubilant over

Shippers and consignees are jubilant over
the news that big cut in rates to Puget
Sound will be made by the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, beginning on January
1st. Up to the present time the company
has seen its business falling off owing to the
number of tramps that has entered the
trade and il has at last decided to take a
hand, so that lively times may be looked
for. The steamer City OF Puebla will be
laid up and her place taken by the Umatilla.
which will leave on the oath and the
Puebla on the 31st, making one trip before
being laid up. The Umatilla and Walla
Walla will then make alternate trips. The
steamers on the Alaskan route will remain
as now, the Umatila connecting with the
City of Topeka at Port Townsend.
Captain Ellis of the whaling bark Helen
Mar has sold his interest in that vessel to
Wright. Bovine & Co. andsl is going East.
His place ds ships husband will be taken
by Captain Williams of the brig Hidalgo.
CREDIT WHERE DUE.
The members of the Marine Engineers
Association at this port are loud in their
praises OF Captain Saunders of the steamer
Arcata because he gave great credit to en-
gineers Kull and Brumbrook for the good
work done by them during the recent severe
storm in which the steamer was caught
while on her way to this port from Coos
Bay. They say it is the first instance of the
kind, as most captains take to themselves
all the credit.
1t has been decided to take the ship Kin
TALLY diSmasted, to Portland, where she was
bound. The ship will leave for that place
this morning in tow of the tug Relief.
Outside the heads yesterday the weather
was thick, with a northeast wind u miles
an hour The barometer stood 1924
BROUGHT IN BRITISH BOTTOM.
Quite a large shipment of hard
ham, Carrigan IL Co.. Carroll & Co.
and others, that came here on the ship
City of Benares from Antwerp has been
seized by the Collector of the Port. The
seizure was made as the goods are of Ameri-
can manufacture and were shipped from
New York to Antwerp and then brought to
this city on the British ship in violation OF
the law.
The three-masted schooner Czarina was
launched from BendixOn'S shp-yard at
McCOllum Fishing aud Trading Con pany
and will be used in the Alaska trade.
Chief Engineer Mahonsy of the mail
steamer Acapulco had his hand smashed by
a falling derrick while at Panama and two
OF his fingers had to be amputated.
DENSE FOG ON THE BAY.
The dense fog on the bay in the morning
compelled most of the steamers to go very
slow. and the ferry steamers only made
hourly trips. The boats to San Rafael and
Tiburon had literally to feel their way
across, owing to the many ships at anchor
in the stream, some Of them right In the fair
way.
BY the steamer Queen from Victoria it is
learned that work on the sunken steamer
San Pedro is progressing favorably. A
large boom has been built to protect the
steamer, aud four large pontoons are being
built ny which aNnEptRn the steamer
will be raised.
The steamers on Puget Sound are again
running, the striking engineers having re-
turned to work, pending an inve,tigation
by the ship OwnerS and the Marine Engi-
neers' Association.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The moves yesterday were the City of
Benares TO Union street, Talus to the re-
finery, Thistle TO Howard No. 9, Gowan-
bank TO the Union Iron Works, Cloncaid
to the rolling-milS. Merom to Oakland
Creek, Gatherer to Hunters Point Dry
dock, Desdemona TO the gas works. the Port
Sonaehin came down from Port Costa, and
the Thistlebank, Lobo, Hesper and Earl of
Dunraven dropped into the stream. To-day
the Theobald Will go to Fremont street, the
Alexander Black and MidnatssOl to Port
Costa, the Irby and Dumfriesshire to Oak
land, the Katy came down from Port Costa
loaded, the Scottish Knight 10 the sea-wall,
HurResfeld to the rolling mills and the
Werra TO Green street.
DEPARTURES
Were the steamers Columbia for Astoria,
Gypsy for Santa Cruz and Coos Bay for
Wilmington, ship Glengarry for Havre, and
the Falls of Garry, Adderley and knight OF
ST. Mchaels for Queenstown.
Arrivals we're the steamers State of Cali
fornia from Portland, Willamette Valley
from aquiDa Bay and Queen from Victoria
CHARTERS REPORTED.
Among the latest reported charters are
the lowing:
British ship Crompton, 2750 tons, wheat to
Cork, l. h, HavIe. Antwerp or Dunkirk; G2-
chartered prior to arrival by Balfour, Guthrie s
Co.
British ship Angerona, 1927 tons. now at thI $
TO Valparaiso for orders, Plsagua range, 81 IS
Cd.
British ship Ulidla. 1913 tons. now on the Co.
| lumbia; wheat thence to Cork. u. H., Havre or
| Aforementioned prior to arrival.
British ship Celeste Burrill, 1894 tons, now at
| Tacoma; wheat thence TO Cork, U. K, Havre or
| Antwerp-cbartered prior TO arrival
British bark Bessileld. 1892 tons, now on the
Columbia; wheat thence to Cork, U. X, nayre
| or Antwerp-chariele ed prior 10 arrival
| British snip Dechmont, 1912 tons, wheat to
| Cork. I. h. Havre or Antwerp; G2-charteIed
| prior TO aniyal-E. Z. Evans. agent.
German bark Schiller, 1926 tons, wheat TO
| Cork, U. X, Havre or Antwerp; Gl 5s-char-
| tered by GIvin, Baldwin & Eyre.
British ship King Arthur, 1893 tons, railroad
ties from This port 10 Callao or Northumberland
| cred by j. W. Grace & Co.
! Puget Sound TO Santa Rosalla, sS-chartered by
| A. Carpenter.
| Ship Edwin 0Brien will load lumber on the
| sound Tor Valparaiso for ord rs