The morning call., 1891-11-03
SEA AND SHORE.
A Pretty Little Vessel Gracing the
Waters of the Bay.
The Santa Maria in More Trouble-A Dead
Calm at the Heads -Freighting to Berke-
ley-seamen's Tales Of Cruelty.


graced the waters of San Francisco Bay came
down from Mathew Turner's yard at Be-
ncia yesterday and tied up at Mission No. 1.
The new craft was built for Tanhauser &
Co. of this city, and judging by her lines
will show her heels to any vessel that sails
out of the harbor The new craft is 70 feet
long, % feet beam, and has a depth of 6
feet. She is schooner-rigged. with lower
and top masts one, and looks more likes a
yacht than freighting vessel. The hull Is
coppered well up and is painted white. She
will be used in the Central American trade.
Notice has been given that the five spar
buoys inside the "training-walls' In San
Antonio Creek, entrance to Oakland harbor,
California, have been removed and will not
be replaced.
The mail steamer Oceanic will leave to-
day for Hong Kong and the Acapulco for
Panama.
AGAIN IN TROUBLE.
The steamer Santa Maria is again in
trouble. She left here in July with cargo
of provisions for CallaO and has been liheled
at that port for $1,000 damages to the cargo.
Five of her crew have returned to this city
and will enter suit against ID. j. Meherin,
owner of the vessel, to recover the cost oil
their passage from CallaO to this city Inc
day that the steamer left for Callao Captain
Meherin made several bets that the vessel
would make the round trip in sixty days,
but il now loJkS as II she VIII not return In
six months
Tie outside bar bell-buoy, entering San
Diego Harbor, Cal. is out of order, so that
sometimes the bell does not sound. 1t Will
be repaired at an early date, when due no
tice will be given.
The weather outside the heads yesterday
was very thick. and dead calm. The bar
ometer stood 30.O5.
PATCHED UP THEIR TROUBLE.
The little trouble between Pilot J ones
and Captain Garland OF the missionary brig
Morning Star has been patched up. The
mate of the brig, in the absence of Captain
Garland, told a CALL reporter that prob
ably the officers of the vessel were mistaken
and he had decided to give Pilot Jones the
benefit of the doubt, and note to that
effect, the pilot agreeing to pay all dam
ages.
Captains c. S. Bennett, Superintendent
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
and Edward Hansen have chartered the
steamer Hope and will run her to Berkeley
as freight boat, making one trip day.
LAsHED BY THE TAIL OF A WHALE.
During the cruise of the whaler Charles
W. Morgan one of her crew. native of the
Ladrone Islands, had his collar bone broken
by whale they were trying to kill. The
big fish was mad and smashed the boat of
which the injured man was one of the crew,
into the water. They were rescued by the
second mates boat that happened to be
close by at the time The accident took
place about September.
The crew of the steam whaler Grampus
tell a SOrrOwful story of treatment by Cap
tain Norwood while in the Arctic. The
men claim that they were harnessed to a
sleigh with dogs aud beaten with whips to
make them work Captain Tilton of the
Mary ID. Hume so they claim, assisted Nor
" n hFnt NJ thAp
Wright & Bovine are having a fine four
masted schooner built at the yard OF Hay &
Wright at Alameda. The vessel is ISL feet
long. 3Gb feet beam, 14h feet deep, and
will carry 725, 600 feet OF lumber. Sue will
not be ready Tor SIX weeks yet.
--LATEST REPORTED CHARTERS.
Among the latest reported charters are
the following:
German bark Werner, s92 tons. now on the
Sound, wheat from Tacoma to Cork. United
arrival.
British ship Star Of Russia. 1892 tons. wheat
TO Cork, United Kingdom, Havre or Antwerp;
x 5s-chartered prior 10 arrival by &. w
Brush shin soudan. 1917 tons, now on the
Sound, wheat from Tacoma TO Cork, United
Kingdom, Hayre or Antwerp-chartered prior
10 arrival
Bntlsh ship Simla, 1900 tons. now on the
Sound, wheat from Tacoma 10 Cork, United
Kingdom, HayIe or Antwerp-chartered prior
to arrival
wheat 10 Cork, United Kingdom, Havre or Ant
werpi 81 les Sd.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The moves yesterday were the W. II.
Meyers to Oakland Creek, Tnessalus TO Port
Costa, Charles w. Morgan and Cape Horn
Pigeon TO Folsom street, King Edward to
Beale street and the Lydia to the oil works.
To-day the Earl OF Dalhousie will go to
Port Costa, the Alderley to the gas works,
Abercarne to the refinery and the steamer
City of New York to the Hunters Point
Dry. dock.
Arrivals were limited to three coasting
steamers the Maggie Ross from Coos Bay,
Cosmopolis from Hueneme and Queen from
San D 90.
Departures we're lighter STILL as up to sun
down only one vessel, the steamer George
w. Elder, left for Astoria.
Suing for Their "Lays."
L. W. Thomas and w. f. McConish, seal
hunters, recently with the American
schooner Sylvia Handy. have sued the
master. L. d. Jones. for their LAYS"
amounting to S10S7 50. The papers were
filed yesterday in the United States District
Court.