The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-07
SEA AND SHORE.
A Valuable TeredO-PrO0f Coating
for Piles.
Aspiring Sailors Negligent Harbor Commits
sioners- Opposition Line to Alaska.
Ships Movements.

The twenty bows ordered to be recruited
for the limited States steamer Marion have
been secured, and scarce day passes blu
fifteen to twenty boys. accompanied by their
parents, apply at the naval shipping ONCE
to be examined for the navy. rms Will III
sure the establishment OF schoa-Smp on
this Coast, and no doubt steps Will be taken
at once by the naval authorities toward
that end.
A new lightship for the Columbia River
bar is soon to be built She will be 112 feet
long, 1894 feet beam, and have depth OF
hold of II feet inches. a horizontal non
condensing engine will work the bell,
windlas and sails In order to provide
steam for the fOg-horn, the vessel VIII be
fitted with two cylindrical boilers. She
must be finished in six months. San Fran
cisco builders will be asked 10 bid on her.
STONE PILES.
About four weeks ago there were driven
at the Lombard-street Wharf two piles
which have since attracted much attention.
They are covered with composition which
gives them the appearance of being solid
stone, and for this reason the patentee,
James Rowe, calls his invention the
''stone pile" The composition which
surrounds the pile and which so closely
adheres to the wood that 1t becomes
have been combined by Mr.. Rowe after
twenty-th three years of study and experiment.
ing, and now he states he has pile cover
ing which cannot be penetrated by water,
the tered0 or any other insect Another
feature of the invention is that the longer
the compound coating remains III the water
the harder it becomes The Board of Har-
Dor Commissioners are making tests OF the
stone pile.
LARGE CARGoEs.
The Bolivian bark Don Adolfo, Captain
Collins, came into port yesterday with
cargo of 1866 tons of coal
The steamer San Pedro, Captain Hewitt,
also coal-laden, was sixty hours from Ia
coma. She brought down 1000 tons.
The steamer West Coast, Captain Gerne,
arrived yesterday from Fort Bragg.
The brig W. G. Irwin, Captain McCul-
lock, seventeen days from Honolulu. has
aboard cargo of 1892 bags Of sugar.
The barkentine s. G. Wilders, Captain
Griffith, has cargo of 1894 bags of sugar.
She came from Honolulu in seventeen days
The steamer Arago, Captain Donaldson,
thirty-nine hours from Coos Bay, brought
down coal for J. d. Spreckels.
The steamer Umatllla, Captain Holmes,
came down from Victoria in sixty hours.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of powder
was what the schooner J. n. ingalls, had
aboard when she sailed for Mexico yestcr-
dav. The powder will be used in mining.
The SauSalito ferry steamers now come to
slip has been built.
The Canadian Pacific Steamship Com
pany is fitting up the steamer Danube to
ply between Victoria, B. C., and Alaskan
ports next summer, i'll opposition to the Pa
clhc Coast Steamship Company.
CARELESS COMMISSIONERS.
Traffic is considerably impeded by the
laying of the new sewer at the corner of
Market and East streets. A strong force of
policemen is needed at night to keep pedes-
TRANS from falling into the trench. The
Commissioners are being roundly censured
for their neglect to build bridge there be-
lore work on the excavation was begun.
The occupants Of sea-wall lots 10, II and
u must Yacate them by April 1st to make
room for the belt railroad, by order of the
Harbor Commissioners
The steamer Newbery will go on the dock
to be cleaned, and in few days will be
ready to take her place on the Mexican route.
The steamer Silver Spray and the schoun-
ers Nan bToe and Western Home sailed for
Humboldt yesterday.
The steamer G. W. Elder, Captain Lewis,
sailed for Portland
The ships Colombia, Captain Nelson, and
Commodore Captain Davidson, sailed yes
yesterday for Port Angeles.
The steamer Newsboy sailed for Fort
Bragg.
The schooner C. Fl. White sailed yesterday
on hunting and fishing cruise.
The British schooner Silvia Hardy has
sailed for Victoria.
The steamer Celia went to Coos Bay.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The steamer Michigan sailed for Portland.
The ship Rappahannock sailed for Liver
pool yesterday with cargo OF wheat valued
at S149,2449
The Ship Toxteth went to Fremont street
Wharf.
The Othello was lowed to Beale street.
The ship G. f. Sargent was taken to Ere
mont street and the Oriental was towed TO
the same place.
The steamer Corona went to Broadway
The barkentine John Woster lowed to
Folsom-street Wharf.
The British ship Duchess of Albany
anchored in the stream.
The bark Albert went to Oakland, the
steamer Walla Waila to Broadway and the
bark j. ID. Peters to Harrison-street Wharf
Tie weather at Point Lobos at o'clock
yesterday morning was hazy, with wind
northwest, miles per hour at o'clock in
morning, fOGgy, wind northwest, 10 miles;
noon, hazy, wind northwest, 10 miles; at
o'clock in the afternoon, fogey, wind north
west, II miles; at O'clock in the evening,
foggy, wind northwest, IL miles. The ba-
rometer at s o'clock in the morning stood
30.31; at noon, 1888; at o'clock in the
afternoon, 1925