The morning call., 1891-02-21
SEA AND SHORE.
Sailing of the Mail Steamer
MOnowai for Sydney.
Lively Apprentices on Board the Independence
A Steamer Runs Away "A Large
Cargo of Coal in Port.

The apprentice boys on board the guard
ship Independence at Mare Island are n
lively lot, and the officers have a hard time
preserving order among them. At 10 o'clock
at night instead of being in their hammocks
asleep, they aroused everybody aboard the
ship with an amateur concert, in which
there was more noise than melody. For
this they had to toe seam in the quarter
deck for awhile. Soon after they got
hungry and stole some bread and cheese
from pantry. and what they could not eat
they used to pelt each other with. They
were captured by the master-at-arms. and
were punished by being tied to rope
stretched across the deck and soupdly
lectured by the executive officer, after which
they returned to their hammo cks and went
to sleep.
THE STONE DRY-DoCK.
After eighteen years of work the big stone
dry,dock at Mare Island is at last finished
The last stone was last by Admiral Benham
on Wednesday of this week. The dock has
cost nearly 100000 and was begun August
Is, 1872
The new cruiser San Francisco will be the
vessel on which President Harrison and his
family will make their trip up the coast.
The cruiser Charleston will be at the dis
posal of the rest of the Presidential party
Thirteen recruits were taken to the
Preside yesterday by the steamer General
Mcdowell. They are assigned to the Fifth
Artillery. They came from Davids Island,
New York.
The broken section of shaft taken from
the Monowai was cut in two at the Union
Iron Works and the fractured portion will
be taken to Sydney on board the ship.
RUNAWAY STEAMER.
A dispatch from London states that the
British steamer Scandinavia ran away from
Santa Rosaiia, Central America. on the
night Of the 18th with one-haif her inward
cargo nf coal on board. The particulars are
not given.
complete the voyage to Sydney without fur
thel mishap, as she left her Jonah behind.
The Arabic left Baltimore yesterday for
San Francisco with 5000 tons of coal on
board. There are now on the way TO this
port from Baltimore 5000 tons of coal car
ried in nine ships OF these one ship is out
l24 days. The large schooner Governor
Ames, of 1890 tons, left Baltimore III DAYS
ago.
There are seventeen vessels now on the
way to San Francisco from Puget Sound
ports laden with coal and lumber. The
ships are out from four to fourteen days.
The British ship Clackmannans shire took
1898 centals Of wheat valued at SIC. 30.
She is bound to Antwerp.
A NEW STEAMER.
A new steam schooner, built Benieia a
year ago for the Alaska Commercial Com
pany. came down yesterday and docked at
Folsom street. The vessel is a small one
and has not yet been measured or cbristened.
She will be used around the canneries.
The British ship Alice a. Leigh, Captain
Delzla. got into port yesterday after a pas
sage of 145 days from Liverpool. She has a
cargo of f4Sl tons of coal ON board for
Myers, Wilson & Co.
The steamer State of California, Captain
Ackley. got in yesterday, fifty-One hours
from Portland. She had thIrty-six cabin
aud thirty-fve steerage passengers on board
The schooner Emily Schroeder, Captain
Jensen, got into port yesterday from Pesca-
dero, Mexico, with a cargo of bark and
hides.
The British mail steamer Mon0wai, Cap
tain Carey, sailed at 3 o'clock yesterday for
Honolulu and Sydney. She carried thirty
Sven clOic and thirty-iye SteeTage pas
Srngers.
The schooner Oceania Vance, Captain
Anderson, sailed for Sydney yesterday.
WIND AND WEATHER.
At s o'clock yesterday morning the barom-
eter stood 30.13; at noon, 80 IA; at o'clock,
30.08. The weather at Point Lobos at +
o'clock yesterday morning was foggy
wind northwest, miles; at o'ciuck,
cloudy, noTthweSt,t miles; at II O'Clock
noon, cloudy, northwest, 10 miles; at
o'clock in the afternoon, cloudy. north
west, miles.