The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-21
SEA AND SHORE.
Rough Bars Reported at Ports
on the Northern Coast.
The Steamer Los Angeles Passed Out at Last
Costly Delay of the British Ship FingaL
Ships Spoken at Sea.

A dispatch received yesterday from Coos
Bay states that the schooner Emily arrived
there and that the folowing-named vessels
were ready for sea: Emma Utter, jennie
Thelin. Arcata, Arago, Wilmington ana Al
catraz The Arcata, Arago and winning
ton are laden with coal for the Oregon Coai
and Navigation Company. and TINS Is the
second time that they have all been Dar-
bound during the current month.
the last time they got slant to get out
! the steamer Maggie Ross passed out with
them. struck on the bar and was badly dam
aged The bar there is very rough one
| and there is not much water in it. The bars
| at all the ports along the northern coast
have been very rough for some days past.
No heavy blows have been reported from
the various points, so that the heavy swell
and breaking bars must have been occa-
stoned by some off-Shore gales.
The bar at Eureka has been breaking
badly for nearly week, and the steamer
Los Angeles has been detained there since
Saturday. A dispatch received by Goodall,
Perkins & Co. yesterday morning stating that
the bar was still breaking heavily, but the
Merchants Exchange received one later in
the afternoon that the Los Angeles had sue
ceeded in passing out She may be expected
here about noon To-day.
WILL DE RECONSTRUCTED.
The Pacific Mail Company's steamer City
of Rio de Janeiro is scheduled to arrive here
from Hong-Kong Oh Sunday next. 1t is re-
ported that she has but few cabin passengers
and only forty-eight Chinese in the steerage.
When she arrives she will be reconstructed.
| Her old boilers will be removed and she will
| be supplied with triple expansion engine
| having three cylinders, one of 81 one of IS,
and another of Y inches.
Her steam pressure will be increased to 100
| pounds and she will be refurnished with six
boilers. The shafts are being made at the
| rolling-mills. The hull will also be repiated
| and overhaaled generally, ana the improve
| ments and additions, which will practically
| convert her into a new vessel, will increase
| her speed nearly two knots and will cost
| over $3.50, coo.
The United States Steamer Charleston
came down from Mare Island yesterday and
! anchored in the stream off Broadway wharf.
! As soon as she anchored, coaliug was COM
menced, and the tug Mile took out five
| Scows laden with coal from Il. ID. Chand-
| ler'S yard to her, and to-day the contents of
| three more will be transferred to her capa-
ciouS bunkeTS.
A COSTLY DELAY.
The British ship Fingal arrived here on
| Monday from Hull under charter to load
| wheat. The terms made were, says the Com
lnerclal News, if she reached port before
January 1st she was to obtain 90 Il 81, usual
! options, but after that date and before Febru-
| airy LIST e., same voyage. She registers 2510
! TONS and the difference between her Decem-
Der and January rates is therefore consider
| able.
The weather was thick and hazy Mt
| Point LOhOs yesterday, and light breeze
prevailed from the northeast until o'clock
! in the afternoon, when it fell calm. The
! barometer read: o'clock in the morning,
$026; noon, 1926; o'clock in the evening"
| 1920.
Nicholas Bchard sent some of his men
yesterday t. strip the copper off the hull of
| his hulk Ajax, which is lying near the oil
works. They found that the wharf rats
| had completely stripped the metal off one
| side down 10 the water line
The steamer Gaelic sailed from Yoke
! hama for this port yesterday.
ANOTHER sEALER COMING.
Ross & Hewlett, agents at this port for all
! the British seaers, have received orders to
have built here six hunting-boats for sealer
now being constructed at Victoria and
which will come down here to fit out The
boats must be ready within thirty days.
The steam-sealer Rosie Olsen, which left
here two years ago and has since been en-
gagged in trading on Puget Sound, has been
sold by her owner, William Olsen, to parties
in Victoria, B. c., and viii be again fitted
out for sealing purposes.
;, 1t was learned Yesterday that, Williams,
| Brown u Co, the shipping merchants, viii
| operate Il cannery in Alaska the coming
| season.
Tne new ship Shenandoah, the largest
| American ship ahoat, left New York yester-
day for this port.
SHIPS SPOKEN AT SEA.
Captain Williams, Of the ship Frederick
| Billings, reports that when off the River
| Plata he spoke the German ship Occident,
| from Antwerp for this port, and when in the
| single tourallant British shin also bound for
| this port.
Captain Leland of the steamer Bonita,
which arrived yesterday from San Diego
and way ports, reports that he left the
| schooners Vine and c. Ii. Hansen at Port
| Hartford.
Only three vessels. two coasting steamers
! and Schooner, arrived in port yesterday up
to dark. Tie schooner Marion was sighted
| passing in.
The ship Jabez Howe. for this port, was
spoken on December 18th, in latitude 2go
north, longitude 40o west.
| The steamer Oceanic will sail tomorrow
| for the ORIENT.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The ship Fred Billings locked at Union
street yesteTd y.
| The W. Ii. Dmond and the George w.
| Douglas went to the sugar refinery.
The steamer Zealandia shifted to Folsom
| street.
The ship Crown of Scotland came down
from Port Costa and anchored in the
| stream.
Ths bark Mary Glover went to Mission
| Flats.
Tue ship jeremiah Thompson shifted
from the mail dock to Fremont street.
The Toxteth went over to Oakland.
| Tie schooner Falcon went on the Mer-
chants Dry-dock.
The ship Clara went up to Balfonr's
| Wharf, Port Costa.
| The ship Phasis will 90 to Nevada Dock
| to-day, and the bark GiTyan will dock Mt
Section of the sea-wall.
The ships Kennebec, w. F. Paddock and
| u. Il. Packard, and the barks Southern
| Chief and Hone will tow to sea to-day