The morning call., 1891-12-09
SEA AND SHORE.
Arrival of the British Ship Star
of Austria.
Death and Drowning at sea-A Wonderful
War-Ship-The Belt Road N Operation.
Cold Waiting-Rooms at the Ferry.


port yesterday after passage Of 160 days
from Hamburg, with a general cargo for
Meyer, Wilson & Co. Captain Willis ar
rived eight days too late to save his charter.
which ran out on November 30th. The
owners had telegraphed orders to send tug
| out to look for the ship, in hopes of bring
ing her in on time. and Captain Ned Mccoy
| went out with the Vigilant on Thanksgiving
| morning, but had 10 give up the search.
The consignees were beginning to feel
| rather uneasy about the vessel, as she is
counted one of the fastest that comes to
| this port, but the long passage was eX-
| planned when 1t was learned that she came
around the east cape in hopes of escaping
| the bad weather sure to be met with ut this
time of year off Cape Horn. But Captain
Willis experienced fully as much bad
weather around the Cape Of Good Hope as
| any of the late arrivals report having met
| OFF the horn. For weeks at time the ship
was under her lower topsailS, and little or
| no progress could be made, so taking eve Ty-
thing into consideration. the passage of 100
days cannot be considered long one. Soon
| after the ship left Hamburg she was forced
| put into Falmouth to land the engineer,
| who had gone crazy and tried to take charge
| OF the ship. 1t required the combined
| strength of not few to secure him and
| place him in irons, in order to prevent him
| from inluring either himself or some of the
crew. When the ship left Hamburg she
| had as q passenger a young German named
| Emil Volcerts, who was making the voyage
| to California for his health. He did not
| reach this port. lie had severe attack of
hemorrhage of the lungs, and died on Sep
| TENDER Sd. The body was buried on the
following day.
SHE Is woRLD-BEATER.
| According to some of the daily papers of
| this city the United States steamer Monoc-
acy is by far the fastest vessel afloat Last
nai- g tIa had Iaar nf
Mare Island awaiting orders to go to sea.
| while another published an item that she
| had just reached New York from Europe,
where she had been on a cruise with de-
tachment of naval apprentices. and that she
| would leave again in few days Tor cruise
| TO the West Indies. The old tub has in
| fact, been ON the Asiatic station for years,
| and is so unSeawOrthy that no sane COM
| mander in the service would risk his life in
| an attempt 10 bring her back to the United
| States
The steamship Umbria, bringing the Aus
| tralan mails, arrived in New York at = :05
| o'clock Sunday morning, but as it will be
| impossible for The mails to reach here to-moT-
row afternoon. the MarlpOsa will not there
fore leave until O'clock on Friday after
| noon.
NO STOVE AT THE FERRY.
The travelling public which leaves this city
via the Oakland ferry is complaining Of the
| cold, draughty and cherries waitlng-roOm
rooms of the other companies have large
| stoves IN them and a passenger Is in no dam
| ger OF dying from cod as he awaits the
boat. No sign Of stove has yet appeared
IN the walting-room of the Southern Pacific
| Company in spite of the cold weather that
has prevailed during the last few days
A big iron tank TO be used at the Alameda
BOraX Works was loaded on the scow-
schooner Emily Lunt yesterday for trans
portaton to the works at Alameda. The
tan u 10Th md IL ri
large as the schooner. Sailors along the front
were Offering bets of 10 to that she would
capsZe before across the bay.
Dispatches received at the Merchants EX-
change state that the British bark Hannah
Landles, bound from Liverpool to Astoria,
is ashore on Burbo Bank in the River MeT-
Sey and full OF water. The crew was res
| cued.
DROWNED AT SEA.
During the voyage of the British bark
CollesSie from Capetown to this port, q sea-
man named Peter Thomas, aged % years of
age and native Of St.Thomas, West Indies,
fell from the lower main topsail yard and
was drowned. The accident occurred on
October 18th, during such heavy gale that
| no boat could lie lowered to save the poor
fellow.
| AS suited some time ago. two steamers
| will be built for the Stockton trade, and it
| now appears that they will likely have the
patronage of the Farmers Union and Mill
| case, it will take large amount of freight
| from the California Steam Navig alton Com
| pany.
The weather outside the heads yesterday
was foggy, with southeast wind that in
creased from II miles at noon to As miles at
| o'clock in the evening. The barometer
| dropped from 80. 80 10 5000.
The big ferry steamer Ukiah will be
| ready for service again by Saturday. the
| belt-road is in full blast, and many narrow
a hair nj iai
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
The moves were the Lockee and Un-
| dauntrd 10 Port Costa, Thistlebank to the
| gas works, St Paul and King Edward from
| Port Costa to the stream, Commodore,
| Francis. Honresfeld and Sintram into the
| stream; tile Battini Accame locked at Har-
rison street, Irby at Green, Angus at Main,
| Oakworth at Long Bridge, Talus at the re-
| hnery and King Cenric at the rolling-mllls.
| To-day the Mercury will 90 TO the sea-wall,
| Waterloo TO the stream, the AlcInous and
| EEphrates Will come down from Port Costa
| and the Moewe, Don aud ltata tow to sea-
Departures were the steamers Empire
for Nanaimo, willamette Valley for va
| auina Bay, Gypsy for Santa Cruz, Coos Bay
| for Wilmington, Lakme for Port Townsend
vessels William Bayiss and Blakeley on
| cruises and the ship Robert Duncan towed
to sea, bound to Queenstown.
The following named vessels arrived
Steamer omoud from oan DieB0, Celia from
| Eureka. Alcazar from Whites boro, Santa
| Cruz from Redodo and the British bark Col
| lesse from Capetown with cargo of old
rails for Balfour, Guthrie & Co.
CHARTERS REPORTED.
Among the latest reported charters are
| the following:
Bark G. 5. Hubert, 1886 tons. now on the
| Columbia, wheat thence to Cork, United
Kingdom, Havre or Antwerp; e. IS; char
tered prior to arrival
British iron ship Drumburton, 1910 tons,
recharered for wheat to United Kingdom.
Havre or Antwerp; private
Schooner Lizzie Vance. 413 tons. lumber
from Eureka to Sydney; chartered by Par
rott & Co.