The morning call., 1891-09-04
SEA AND SHORE.
A Most Valuable Cargo of Silk
From the Orient. ..:..-
Pulled Off the Rocks by Tugs -Remsnded Chi
Blocking Wharf With Freight.
Diacharging Nitrate.

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The mail steamer Gaelic arrived yesterday
from Hong Kong and Yokohama one day
ahead of schedule time. She brought %
cabin passengers. among them O. s.. Simons,
United States Consul at Hong Kong; also:
1872 Chinese passengers and % japanese,
most of whom are fer this city. The largest
consignment of silk but one thateVer arrived
in San Francisco came in also on tire Gaelic,
being 1852 bales. valued at 81, 25o, Ooo AS
cargo were brought ,022 mats Of rice, $1,000
chests of tea and 1882 bags Of sugar.
In q talk with CALL reporter, Consul
SImons said he could CLEAN more China
news out of the San francisco papers than
he could out of those published III China.
Mr. Simons says things are very quietin
China at present and he thinks that the
reported trouble with the missionaries
was started by a party which desires
to have China at war with some foreign
power that it may be rid of the present
Emperor and place native of China on the
thro;e, the reigning family being Of foreign
descent ::.... H.: :.
Mr.. Simons says his visit to San Fran
cisco is purely one Of" business. and ne
expects to leave for Hong-Kong again in
shprt time. He also stated that the cruiser
Charleston was sent to China in:response to
repeated requests made by Admiral Belknap
for a suitable yesselto be used asa flagship
in place of the old Monocacyj which is
entirely unseaworthy. 49,. 80
The attempt to raise the British gun-boat
Tweed. which waSsunk during the terrible
typho0n early in july, proved a failure and
the vessel, after being lifted by the pontoons
: off the rocks where she was lying, sunk in
still deeper water. Another attempt will
soon be made to raise her, and it is thought
Will be more successful. ~.
ASHORE ON THE. ROCKS.
News was brought to this city about 80
O'clock Yesterday morning that tue llttls
schooner Mary Eta was ashore on the rocks
al Point Lobos and had been there all
night The news was no sooner reported
than six tugs lett for the scene OF the dIsaS--
ter. The Sea Queen arrived there FIRST and
soon had a line on board and the Rescue fol-
lowed suit: 1t was almost high water at the
time, but II was all that the tugs could do
to yank the schooner off into deep water
after two hours OF hard work. The vessel
was waterlOgged, and nothing but her cargo
of wood kept her atiolt. -.
The schooner was to%ed in and dOcked at
Berry street shortly after noon. Size has a
big hole in her b0t tom, and as soon as she Is
discharged will be placed on the dry-dock
for repairs. Great indignation was expressed
both along the front and at the Merchants
Exchange when 1t was known that the
schooner had been on the rocks almost under
the noses of the people at the Cliff House,
and no-wOrd Of the disaster sent to the city. |
Had there been any sea on the vessel and |
her crew would surely have been pounded |
to pieces on the rocks almost within |
sound of the voices Of 200 people. BY a |
streak of good luck it was a calm night, and |
this, added TO the fact that the vessel is new |
and strongly built, proved her salvation.
A heavyiOg prevailed all night, and even
had il been clear she was so close in under |
the cliffs that it is doubtful whether she
could have been seen by the marine OBJ
server at the Point LOOos Station. Captain
Hansen says that he did not hear the fog
signal from Lime Point, and that was all he
had to go bv. in the heavy fog. The Mary
Eta Is a new vessel and is valued at $1,000,
fully insured.
BACK TO CHINA.
The Pacific Mail steamer City of Rio de
Janero left for Okohama and Hong Kong
about 3 80 O'clock yesterday afternoon. She |
carried away IA cabin passengers AMI 143 |
Chinese in the staerage. or these 3S were
in transit from Panama, were caught try |
ing to steal their way across the northern |
frontier, s were refused a landing and as
many more were sent back by the United
States courts.
Tie mail steamer Acapulco left for
Panama and ~ay porte at noon yesterday
in charge of Captain Pitts. She took a
medium cargo and a small list OF passengers.
The weather yesterday was thick, with
the wind from the west, blowing twenty
miles an hour. The barometer stood 29S5.
AHEAD OF TINE.
The agents OF the steamship Haytian
Republic were stopped from receiving any
more freight Oh the wharf at Mission No.
yesterday by Wharfnger Short. They have
been in the habit of advertising for freight
some time before the vessel arrived in port
thus filling the wharf up with freight con-
trary to law.
The war-ship Ranger came off the dry
dock at Mare Island yesterday afternoon
and hauled alongside the dock. 1t Is not
known whether she will 90 out of cOmmis-
sion or not.
The missionary brig Morning Star will go
under the sheers at Folsom street to-day
and the boilers will be lifted out OF her.
DREDGING THE BERTH.
The big dry-dock belonging to the Mer-
chants Dry-1ock Company was moved out
from its mOOrings yesterday morning and
the State dredger set to work deepening the
BERTH The dock is being overhauled, and
will be ready for work again in four or five
days.
No less than three vessels are dscharging
nitrate in this port at present, and Piper,
Alden 81 Co., who have the work of dis
charging them, have their hands full. They
report bay and river freights brisk, and that
the steamer Sunol has all the freight she
can handle to Vallejo.
The new four-masted barkentine Arago
sailed from Coos Bay for this port on
Wednesday. She is owned by the Simpson
Lumber Company and is said TO be very
fine vessel.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The Bertin and Dunstafnage came from
Port Costa and anchored in the stream, the
Harvester and Besnard went to the refinery,
the Kennebec and KilbrannOn to Fremont
street, Clan Mackenzie to Lombard street,
Joseph 5. SpinDey into the stream, General
FaiIchid to Alameda, Ivy to Long Bridge
aud the Morning Star TO Folsom street. To-
day the steamer Santa Cruz will go to the
Union Iron Works, the w. b. Flint will
dock at Howard No. 8 and the Gwalla will
90 the sea-wall.
IN FROM SEA.
The arrivals were the steamers Haytian
Republic from Port Townsend, Point Arena
from MendOcino, Emily from Coos Bay,
Humboldt and North Fork from Eureka,
Alexander Durcan from Moss Landing,
Gipsy from Santa Cruz and the bark CeylOn
from Honolulu with IL. S53 bags of sugar for
Welch 81 Co.
DEPARTURES OF THE DAY.
The departures were the steamer National
City for humboldt, the ship City of Florence
for Plymouth with cargo of -four, the
barks Aureola and Retriever for the
Sound, the ship Blue jacket for Seattle
and the schooner Archie and Fontie sailed
for Stewards Point,