The morning call., 1891-04-03
SEA AND SHORE.
Settlement of the Trouble on the
Pomona.
a Scarcity of seamen-Ashore on Roucador
Reef-Last of the Henry Buck-A Steel
Vessel for the California Trade.

The victory was not altogether on the
side of the engineers in the recent trouble on
board the steamship Pomona. 1t turns out
now that while Captain Hall did not take
the ship out on Thursday the engineer,
Richard Robinson, also staid ashore when
she left The position of chief engineer
was filed by former chief of the Mexico.
The captains do not need to form union.
as that was done several years ago, and
Captain Hall is a member of it. The trouble
was settled by the two unions and not by
any one person, and on the next trip of the
Pomona she will be In command of Captain
Hall. and Robinson will fill the position of
chief engineer
The model of a new propeller is on ex
hibition at the Merchants Exchange from
which great things are expected.
sEAMEN ARE SCARCE.
The clearinghouse masters are on the
lookout for the arrival Of deep water ships,
and it is safe to say that any and all men
that they can lay their hands on will not be
ashore very long. The boarding house
masters say the captains wont pay "blood
money" and for that reason they wont let
their men ship; but the captains declare
that they do pay "blood money" and can't
have men at any price. The Allyn was de-
layed on account of being shOrt-handed and
several other ships have had difficulty IN
filling, so that the clearinghouse men are
doing the tallest kind of rustling in conse-
queuce.
The British ship Celeste Burrill has ar
rived at Liverpool with loss OF her top
gallant mast.
ON RoUCADoR REEF.
The steamship Agnau, from New York
for San Juan del Norte, has been wrecked
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265 miles north of San Juan del Norte. The
dispatch received here states that no lives
were lost and that the gunboat Petrol has
gone to the relief. The number of pasSen-
gers on board is not stated, but among them
are President Warner Miller of the Nlcara-
qua Canal Construction Company and a
party OF civil engineers and newspaper cor
respondents. The steamer, which had called
at Kingston, Jamaica. left that port on
March 18th, but the dispatch did not state
when she went ashore.
Among the arrivals yesterday were the
steamships Walla Walla from Victoria with
IS passengers, the Oregon from Portland
with 9S and the Humboldt from Eureka
with IS
The weather was hazy yesterday with a
northwest wind from to a miles an hour.
The barometer went down from 1922 to 30.10.
HER DAYS ARE NUMBERED.
The bark Henry Buck has been sold to
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viii be used in future as coal hulk at
Seattle. She was built at Searsport, Me. in
1852 and has been on the go ever since. The
Buck will go to Seattle in tow of the steam
ship Willamette.
The following named steamships and
vessels went to sea yesterday: The Oceanic
for Hong Kong, the Costa Rica for Nanaimo
and the Willamette, Spartan and Henry
Buck to Seattle; also the ships Grassendale,
Orchomene and Kennebec.
The Alexander Gibson will take general
cargo to New York, not the least of which
are $4,000 gallons of brandy and 223,000 OF
wine.
The tramp steamer Scandinavia has been
chartered for Callao.
FOR THE CALIFORNIA TRADE.
Two weeks ago there was launched at
Bremen haven, from Teeklenborg' shipyard,
a fine four-masted steel ship called the
Christina. She was built for j. d. BlschOtf
OF VGgesack and will be placed in tie Cali
fornia trade, running between here and
Bremen. Captain Warncke will command
her on the initial trip.
Over 200 Chinese were on board the China
mail steamer Oceanic when she left for
Hong Kong yesterday afternoon, and of the
number twelve were sent back by the
United State courts. The Oceanic also had
fifty cabin passengers.
1t is possible that the Gaelic, which left
Yokohama for SAP Francisco on Wednes-
day, may have some OF lie new seasons
tea from Japan.
The British ship Thermopyle will load
rice at Bangkok for Victoria, B. c.