The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-22
CUPID AT FAULT.
A Towboat Marriage That
MisCarried.
CENTRAL ArIERICAN COFFEE.
A New Competing Line to Salvador
and Guatemaia-The Bark
Merom Returns.

There Is a towboat marriage coming off
this afternoon" said a waterfront oracle
to CALL reporter yesterday. Then he
mysteriously whispered the name of the
tug and vanished, with the Injunction to
''get move on"
The reporter got move on" and found
the little tug Mile firing up at Washington
street wharf.
Engineer Brown owns a controlling IN
terest 10 the Mile and is one of the Oldest
towboat employees in port. lie promptly
admitted that he had been approached by
young man of very dark complex ion,
apparently a Mexican, and that an offer of
$50 had been made to convey the y Outh and
young girl who had not yet materialized
outside the heads to get married, 1t trans
pired that the girl had been sent for and
that the proposal was under considera-
ton"
The towboats have had very dull times
during the past summer, and tile offer was
no doubt tempting one, though Ii Is about
$50 less than the red-Stack and black
stack tug captains would consider fair
equivalent for the service. Engineer Brown
was distracted by doubts, and. as lie had
a say" in the matter, he was anxious to
satisfy himself as 10 the legal RESPONSE
bllity incurred.
There is hard-and-fast law prohibiting
towboats without mast from taking pas
sengers outside the heads. They may take
lows outside if they please, but no passen-
gers. violation of the law involves for
feture of the license.
This is the first application of the kind
which has been made since Judge Coffey
decided that marriages on q towbOat not
licensed 10 carry passengers are Illegal, even
when the ceremony is performed outside the
nine-mile limit e.. Oh the deep seas. The
Restless. the Fearless and the Vigilant are
the only towboats which have masts within
the meaning Of the law.
Engineer Brown finally announced his
decision not 10 take the party out Mean
while some hitch had occurred at the other
end. and it was stated that arrangements
would be made to have the marriage take
place at sea on Friday
Captain Gray Of the red-stack line of tow
boats stated TO CALL reporter some time
ago that he had instructed his captains not
to take out young couples for sea-marTiages
under any circumstances.
1t is thought that the young people will
find it pretty hard job to get any captain
TO take them out, particularly as the pros
pective bride Is said TO be under age.
What promises 10 be a formidable and
steady rival 10 the Pacific Mail in the Cen
trail American cuffee-carrying trade has
been fairly inaugurated by Otis McAliister
y Co. OF California street His firm has
chartered the Nicaraguau steamer Mont
serrat OF Gilbert Island fame, and the
British steamer GTandhOlm, TO perform a
monthly service between this port and the
principal coffee ports of Central America.
beginning with the MontseTrat on Deem
Der /.
Last year the Sirius, Lakme and West
Indian were run in the trade without any
established principle other than sailing
whenever cargo offered. The West Indian
was wrecked; the Sirius, an old-fashiOned
craft was repeatedly libeled for salvage,
but the Lakme made several profitable trips.
AT the end OF the last coffee season the Pa
cifc Mail seemed likely TO re-establish its
old monopoly in the carrying trade from the
Central American ports. They had made
several cuts, and now the chances are
favorable for lower rates, since the new
Spanish American line, represented by the
Montserrat and the Grandholm. has an
nOunced that II has gone into the business
to stay.
The coffee season begins in November,
and freights are Obtainabe ill May. The
steamers will call at 0cns, Champerico aud
San Jose de Guatemala; at Acsjutla for
the Salyadorean trade; at COrint0 for Costa
R:ca, and at Amapala for H0 nduras. Both
the Montserrat and the Graudholm are
modern vessels, and can be operated at such
rates as will enable the agents to meet
almost any cut that can be made.
The steamer Noyo came in from Fort
Bragg yesterday having in tow the fourth
big lum Der raft launched at the Fort. The
first OF these RATS broke up after launching
and was brought down here by instailments;
the three others have arrived safely. The
one which was tOwed In yesterday contained
about SOC, goo cubic feet Of lumber
The ship Eclipse sailed yesterday with
non-union crew under police protection.
The ship John c. Potter which sailed
from here to Nanaimo recently with a nom
union crew will have to return with union
crew. the non-unicn men having been per-
suaded to leave at NaSamo.
The bark Nerom, which had such an
eventtul trip up 10 the Arctic. arrived from
kaTiuk yesterday with l40 Chinese and
seventy white fishermen, and the whole
cannery outfit Her cargo consisted of
| 29,5SS cases of salmon, consigned to the
| Alaska Packing Company.
The steamer Emily, which arrived yes
| teTday from Coos Bay Gnd way ports,
| brought down the first consignment of new
| shingles from the new mills just started up
/ there.
The lighthouse tender Madrouo left on
| her usual quarterly trip along the southern
| coast to carry supplies TO lighthouse sta
tons, and replace buoys.
| The whaling brig w. II. Never arrived
| from the Okhotsk sea yesterday with ninety
eight barrels Of oil for j. Mckenna.
Samuel Smith was booked at the North
| Harbor station yesterday by Officer Lake
| on charge OF larceny. Smith went into a
| warehouse at 800 Green street and filed a
| specially constructed pocket in the back of
MS coat win ABOUT twenty pounds of coffee
! beans. When detected he started to run
and despite his load led Officer Lake a
| lively dance all the way to Oregon street.
| About hundred persons Joined In the chase,
| The steamer Corona, which sailed for
1 San Diego and way ports yesterday. took
| down three boys and five girls for the Whit
| tier Reform School number of Young
| toughs who had gone to the wharf to kiss
| the girls good-by had their trouble for moth
Ing, as the girls were put on board early
| and kept locked up in a stateroom till the
| steamer left.
| Chief Mate W. r, Robertson of the Brit
| lsh ship Waterloo has been appointed to
| the command or the Gosford, vice Captain
| NcWiiliam, who died on board the Gosford
| last week
The funeral Of Alfred McDeyitt Mayo.
one OF the Oldest employees of the Pacific
| Coast Steamship Company, who died last
| Saturday, was conducted yesterday after
noon from the mortuary chapel of Trinity
| Chnrcl. The Rev. II. ID. Lathrop OF East
Oakland offieiated. The pall-bearers were :
| Mombray r. Dnndas, F. II. Willis, Fred
Barry, Fred Head, John Wilson and
| Thomas Turner. representing the steamship
company, and James Pickering and Peter
| trohlich,. friends of the deceased
George Gould. president of the Pacific
| Mail Company and a son of jay Gould. the
| millionaire. is expected to arrive on TIE
| steamer China, which Is due to-day. Tie
| CHINA has A cabin passengers, so Chinese
Tor this city, 20 in transit to Havana and
for Panama.