The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-21
SEA AND SHORE.
james Neary Falls Into the Bay
and Is Nearly Drowned.
Arrival OF the Colima From Panama With Live
Turtles in Her Cargo-How Small Boys
Stole Many Cocoanuts.

James Neary, a well-dressed man. about
so years of age, was wandering along the
city front yesterday morning and could find
no place to sit down, except on the side of
the big dredger moored inside tn e big fence
at tile foot of Market street James has
been on prolonged spree and was under
the influence of liquor at the time. This
was plain by the manner in which he husged
a coal-oil lamp to his breast. Sitting on the
dredger James went to sleep and fell over
board. He was powerless to help himself
and would certainly have drowned had not
the accident been seen by the men who
worked on tile Tiburou ferry-s!ip. By the
aid of a boat-hook they fished Neary out
after he had sunk twice. He was nearly
dead when his rescuers laid him on the
wharf aud began to roll him on barrel in
ord er to get the salt water out of him. At
this time Officers Egan, O'Neil and Gwinn
appeared and rang for the ambulance and
sent the man to the Receiving Hospital.
After hard work on the part of the sur
geons the man recovered sufficiently to give
his name and address and again elapsed into
insPnsibilty. Up TO late hour last nlEht
he had not recovered consciousness.
Neary died at IL o'clock last night, and his
body was removed from the hospital to the
MOrgue.
STOLE MANY CoCoANUTs.
A crowd If boys had lots of fun on Mis-
sion Wharf yesterday afternoon around n
pile of cOcOanuts mat came here on the brig
TrOpic Bird. Quite pile of the nuts was
on the wharf in charge of a solitary watch
man, and the boys had a picnic. One OF the
young fellows would pick up a nut and
walk off with il, and OF course the guardian
of the coveted nuts wOuld give chase. This
gave the rest of the crowd the chance they
wanted, and before the ast0nished watch
man realized what was up score oil boys
were on their way up the dock as fast as
their legs could carry them, each with nut
IN his arms. During the day the boys stole
fully 100 cOcOanutS in this manner.
The bark Nellie Troop dragged her
anchor about o'clock yesterday morning at
the turn Of the tide, and fouled the ship
SLEEVE Donard, carrying away the latter
spanker- boom and taking some paint oil her
The Tr cop lifted her anchor and drifted to
a safer berth, where the anchor was again
dropped
AN IMPORTANT ARRIVAL.
The most important arrival in San Fran
cisco for a long time, in the opinion OF
&. E. Beach, the genial ticket agent OF the
Southern Pacific office, foot of Market
street, was a fifteen pounder, presented to
him by his wife last Friday. Mother and
son are doing well, and the happy father
wears a smile in consequence.
The round-hOuSe for the Belt road is
nearly finished, and large force OF men
are rushing things on the big frtight-sheds
at the foot of Vallejo street
The schooner W. F. Jewet went to sea
yesterday afternoon with a crew of nom
Union men. The captain feared trouble,
and a couple Of the harbor police were on
the wharf at Union street when she sailed,
but there was no molestatiOn.
The Pacific Mail steamer COlima arrived
yesterday morning from Panama with
twenty cabin and thirty steerage passengers.
and six Chinese Ell route for China. She
brought only 400 tons of cargo, and part Of
her freight consisted of twenty-seyen live
turtles.
IN FROM SEA-
The arrivals Yesterday were the steamers
Oregon from Portland, Los Angeles from
Eureka, Eureka from Newport, Protection
from Hueneme, Celia from Little River,
Glossy from Santa Cruz, Greenwood from
Greenwood, Newport from Eel River, and
Colima from Panama. The bark Oakland
cane in from Port Madison, and the schOOn-
ers Jennie Thelin and Monterey came in
from coast ports.
The sailngs yesterday were the steamers
Columbia for Astoria, and AlcatraZ for Eu-
reka, ana the schooners Ocean Spray, Rel
ance. Archie and Fontie. Lila and Matte
and w. 5. Phelps left for coast ports.
MOVEMENTS.
The moves yesterday were the Invergarry
to Beal street, GlrIesslia to Port Costa, and
Oakland to Mission Flats.
To-day the bark ArctGruS lows to sea.
Large crowds Of people crossed the bay
ana the ferry-bOats were crowded all day.
In spite of the fine weather very few peo-
pie were along the front and things in gen.
eral were very quiet.
Outside the heads the weather yesterday
was hay with northwest wind blowing 20
miles an hour. The barometer stood 1890,