The morning call., 1891-07-25
SEA AND SHORE.
First Rivet Driven in the Big
Cruiser, No. 6.
Sonnoan Warriors Take Passage on the Mono
wal for Their Native Land-Water-
Front Baseball.

Work has at last begun on the big war
ship. known as cruiser No. 6, at the Union
Iron Works. The first rivet was driven in
her keel yesterday morning, and there will
be very little let up on the work until the
vessel is ready for launching. She will be
the largest vessel ever built on the Pacific
Coast, having length of $40 feet, So feet
beam and will draw about 21R feet when
ready for seas@on a displacement OF 1000
tons. The contract calls for a speed of 20
knots or labout "a miles an hour for four
consecutive hours with engines of 10, 500
horsepower. Her coal-carrying capacity
will be 1900 tons and at speed Of 10 knots
will be able to steam ID, 600 miles.
The new cruiser will be fitted with steel
protective deck, twin screws and will be
schooner rugged. In her main battery she
will mount four S-inch breach-loading rifles
in two barbettes, one forward and one aft,
and ten 5-inch rapid-fre guns. The second
airy battery will consist of fourteen 7-pound
ans six 1-pound rapid-fre guns and four
Gatling guns. She will also be fitted with
six t0rpedo-tubes.
THE MoNowAI SAILS.
The mail steamer Monowai sailed yester-
day afternoon at half-past o'clock Tor
Honolulu and Sydney. She carried away
seventy-two passengers, one OF them being
HOTlu fdlr COMMISSIONED ALEXANDER
Campbell, who will visit Australia, New
Zealand and the principal groups of the
Pacific Ocean in the interest of the Worlds
Fair. The three natives of Samoa, the last
OF band of nine, who were brought to this
country some time ago, were also among
the passengers. They are going back TO
Samoa at the expense OF Uncle Sam. The
men seemed well pleased when they found
themselves on board the steamer, and one
of them told CALL reporter that once
they set foot on Samoan soil again it would
20 hard with any one who should try to get
them or any of their countrymen away.
The party are.in charge of Van Cullen Jones.
With the party Is a young lady. the daugh-
ter of Som0an Chief, who has spent some
time in the United States and Europe, and
is now returning to her home.
a horse attached to a Third street bakery
wagon got both fore legs down h0e in the
roadway on Spear street, near the Oregon
dock. The poor animal struggled hard to
free itself but it took the combined efforts
of half dozen men to get her cut of the
hole. The animals legs were badly skinned
and the harness broken before the rig was
got on solid footing. This part of the city
front is a disgrace to San Francisco, and
the only wonder is that more accidents do
not take place there.
BASEBALL.
The public weighers along the water front
will play baseball at Emeryyllle next Sum
day afternoon at . o'clock, The teams will
be as follows:
Seawail Positions. washinyton-st.
Charles Mehlwitz.. Pitcher. George Stokes
James Rooney First base........Hugh Kron
John Leahy.. Second base. --......H Conway
K. Ryaa. Third base .......J. Comfort
George Gade -. fright field. ........Jo hn Cosy
James McCracken. Left field. 1900. Frank Kelly
J. Gleason. ......... Center field. X walker
j. Ryan. ..ShortStop..... I'D. Crowley
The game will be umpired by Assistant
Chief Wharinger Charles Putnam.
William Martin, who for number of
years has been manager OF the California
Improvement Company, has resigned his
position and will be succeeded by J. w.
Glenn for the present
1t has been learned from the officers of
the steamer ZealanGia that there is no truth
in the report that Ward, chief steward of
the Mariposa. had been discharged at Homo
lulu for supplying champion bOozer Su!li-
van with whisky. If the bruiser got full on
the trip down 1t was on his own LIQUOR a
large stock OF which he took with him from
this city.
NEW STEAMBOAT.
The new steamboat Napa City came down
from Benicia yesterday and tied up al Har-
rison-street Wharf. The new boat will run
between this city and Napa and was built
for Captain Pinkbam. the well-known
steamboat man. She is los feet long, beam
90 feet. and is 6h feet deep. Her boiler is
"a inches In diameter and 81 feet long; the
cylinders are u inches in diameter, with
5-toOt stroke. When finished she will cost
her owner SIG, 900. She was built by w. d.
Delany at Benica
The steam schooner Noyo will take fish
ing party to the Cordell banks, and will
leave Clay-street Wharf at IL o'clock to-
night She is chartered by Al White.
The vessels that sailed yesterday were:
The steamers Monowai for Sydney, Pomona
for San Diego, Umatilla tor Victoria and
the Gipsey for Santa Cruz; the ships Two
Brothers for Tacoma and r. L. Ham for
Port Blakely. The schooners Beulah and
Maxim. for Coast ports, also sailed.
IN FROM SEA.
Two deep-water ships arrived In port
yesterday-the American ship Joseph b.
Thomas from Philadelphia with a general
cargo consigned to Sutton & Beebe, and the
British ship Eudora from Cardiff with
cargo OF coal, coke and steel blooms for
Balfour. Guthrie IL Co. Both ships made
very good passages, the Thomas III days
and the Eudora 12i days. The steamer
Coos Bay and the schooners Archie and
Fontie and Parkersburg, from Coast ports,
also arrived.
The moves yesterday were: The bark
A lbert TO the refinery lden Besse to the
stream and the Dolbarden Castle b Port
Costa to load. To-day the Bidston Hill.
Swanhilda, Louis Walsh, Sycamore. G,
c. Flnck and w. IL. Dimond go to sea-
THE WEATHER.
Outside the heads yesterday the weather
was foggy, with a west wind blowing
twenty miles an hour. The barometer