The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-31
ALONG SEA And SHORE.
A Northwest Breeze and Calm
Weather Yesterday.
Incidents and Accidents During the Storm
on Tuesdsy-The Latest News From
the Water Front.

The gale which made matters lively along
the water front on Tuesday had subsidized
yesterday. the barometer sank several de-
grees and the tugboat captains coming in
from ''the outside" reported fine weather, a
northwest breeze and the ocean just little
choppy.
One of the disasters which occurred dur
g the storm of Tuesday was an accident
the scow-schooner Louisa West met with on
her trip from Berkeley to Sausalito with a
cargo of lumber. The schooner capsiZed in
fathoms Of water near Sheep Island and
lost all her deckIoad. The crew was picked
up early yesterday morning by small boat
belonging to the steamer Mare Island an
was brought TO this city.
LOST OVERHEARD.
The ship Llewellyn !. Morse, Captain
Clapp, 133 days from Baltimore. arrived
yesterday morning with 1850 tons of coal
She reports that soon after rounding
Cape Horn heavy westerly gales were met
and that George Kosheath, German
sailor, fell from the mlZZen royal yard Into
the sea and, in spite of every effort to save
him, was drowned.
The United States survey steamer Pat
terson docked yesterday at Green-street
wharf to take In stores and provisions pre-
paratoTy to making q trip to Juneau,
Alaska. on April IL. The Hassler, another
Government survey steamer, will take an
exploring party to Alaska in May.
FOR NEW YORK IN BALLAST.
II is remarkable fact that the American
ship a. u. Ropes cleared yesterday in bal
last for New York, she being the first
vessel which preferred TO leave this harbor
without charter to waiting for cargo.
The new steamer Homer, which recently
was supplied with its machinery In this city.
p NO GrrN f.t.x L.,
having been chartered to 60 to Eureka aud
bring cargo Of lumber from there to Ven
tura.
The schooner Garfield, locked ut section
2 of the seawali, lost one of her anchors on
Tuesday night during the storm. the cable
being too weak to stand the strain.
The lightboat Manzanita, now stationed
on the Columbia River bar, will proceed to
Coos Bay and Port Oxford as soon as she is
relieved by the new steamer Columbia
River, which will leave this port tomorrow.
BUoYs FOR COOS BAY.
The Manzanita will rebuoy Coos Bay.
A whistle will be placed outside at Fox
Rocks and a first-class large-siZed buoy On
the bar. while soma seven or eight others
will be distributed among tue various places
In the bay which need them.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has
made some changes In the personnel of its
employees. j. III. johnson, the ex-commo-
appointed superintendent at Seattle, vice
II. Mcclellan, ldeceased. j. L. Byrnes, for q
number OF years purser Of the steamer
State Of California. has been made chief
pay clerk and w. III. Landers has been as
signed to the position made vacant by Mr..
Byrnes' promotion. William Devlin, who
for over four years had charge of the gate
on the Pacific Mall CampanY's dock, at the
foot OF Brannan street, will 60 out as as
sistant freight clerk on the steamer Rio de
Janeiro when she leaves for China on
April and Captain j. A. Thompson will be
the head gate-keeper hereafter.
sToRM-BoUND.
A carrier pigeon was picked ND at the
Sausalito ferry slip on Tuesday by John
Shiplain, a laborer. The bird was in an ex-
hausted condition and carried on its right
leg gold ring marked A. S. 1885,
The steamer Corona returned yesterday
from San Diego, and Deputy United States
Marshal Charles Thorrald, who took a
crew or non-union men for the ship America
to Ban Pedro last week, returned with her.
Z. Ihorrald. as well as Captain Hall Of the
Corona, verify the stories sent by telegraph
concerning the trouble between the Coast
Seamen's Union and Captain Anderson of
the America, and they report tina. the l8