The morning call., 1892-07-26
ALONG SEA And SHORE.
The Steamer Perm C0aIing at
the Mail Dock.
The San Juan Leaves for Panama and the
City Of New York Arrives Competi.
tion in Coffee Freights.

is said that the Peru's trial trip will take
place next Saturday. Yesterday no one was
allowed OF board of her on any preteDse,
but 1t was learned that il was very doubt
full if the Peru will make more than one
trip on the China line. and that after her
first voyage out and home she will be added
to the Panama feet and run on the coast.
In such a case it is hardly possible that an
attempt would be made to run her with
Chinese crew, and if so the unions may con-
gratulate themselves on the success OF the
agitation opened in the columns of THE
CALL and carried to a proper conclusion by
their own leaders.
The Pacific Mail steamer San Juan sailed
at noon yesterday for Panama and prinei-
pal way ports, calling at San Diego. She
had large but unimpOrtant passenger list
and good cargo
The Mail steamer City of New York, Cap
tain L. IL Johnston. arrived from Panama
before the San Juan left and had to wait
till the latter was well out in the bay before
coming up to the dock. From some uneX-
planned cause the work of bringing the
steamer alongside the dock was done very
slowly. and the patience Of relatives both
on board aud ashore was sorely taxed. The
steamer finally dOcked about haf-past /
o'clock. The only notable passengers were
Il. a. Rivas and X. MelendeZ, cotfee-plant-
ers OF Salvador, and Ramon Asturias,
Guatemalan coffee planter. The steamer
brought 67 blue Jackets ia charge of Lieu
tenant HoOgswerff, Ensign Fans and Gun
ner Tressett for the United States cruiser
Baltimore. This party was at once taken
to Mare Island on the tug Ivy. They will
be sent on to Puget Sound by the next
steamer.
An officer of the City of New York stated
that business all along the coast from Pana-
ma upward is very dull. and that Panama is
practically dead. An effort has been made,
with some degree of success, to grow coffee
in the vicinity of Panama, but all the crop
has been sent to South America, which is
likely to consume all that can be produced
In Colombia. scheme is also on foot TO
people Costa kica with rejected immigrants
from the United States, and develop tie
immense acreage OF lOw-prced land by
cheap labor. The general impression IN
Central America is that the NicaI aqua canal
would revive all the old-time splendOr. wealth
and pros perity of Salvador, Nicaragua. Costa
Riea and Guatemala. Work is being pushed
on the canal, despite the political cOuten-
ti0ns which have checked progress In Mica
ragua ever since the days Of Walker. "the
gray-eyed man OF destiny"
JAPS FROM HONOLULU.
The schooner Louis, which arrived from
the Hawaiian Islands yesterday morning.
brought Il Jaranese to re-enforce the vel
low colony in California. The Japs on the
islands are being rapidly cleaned out, but
the trouble is that a Japanese steamer ply
ing between Yokohama and Honolulu
dumps down three for every one that de-
parts All these men will eventually find
their way 10 this State, as they merely stop
on the islands long enough to earn sufficient
money to evade the pauper clause Of the
immigration act.
Captain Frederick VehlIng of the little
schooner Kussiloff, which he nayigated alone
from Alaska, IS beginning TO experience
some Of the pains Of publicity and fame.
! When lie left the schooner on Saturday
! night everything in the cabin was all right,
! but when be went on board on Sunday he
| found that the doors had been broken open
| and the place ransacked. Among the arti-
| cles stolen were z chTonOmeier and some
| firearms. The police are working on the
! case.
| 1t turns out that the damage to the Ger
man steamer ROmulus, which put back with
! thrust-shafI broken on Sunday morning, is
much greater than was al first supposed.
/ After the shaft gave way the engines went
| on tear on their own account a1d an eX-
! pert from the Rlsdou Iron Works who was
sent on board yesterday says things are in
| "an awful ness" As the K0mulus has the
| bulk Of former salvage claim unpaid, and
| it las not yet been settled whether the
| Vigilant will claim salvage or tOwage only
for Sundays aid, the chances OF the steamer
| getting away soon are none Of the brightest.
| The revenue cutter Hartley has been re-
! paired and put on IN the customs service,
replacing the Tia Juana.
| The whale back Charles w. Wetmore was
| moved from the coalbuukeTs at Beale street
yesterday TO allow the steamer City of
| Puebla to discharge her cargo of coal
The larger Merchants drydock was
hauled into position again Yesterday and
the small one viii now be removed to allow
the space TO be dTedged out. 1t will be a
! week yet before the dock is available.
The City Of Pekng was towed to the
| Union Iron Works drydock yesterday TO
undergo extensive repairs. Her trip Will be
| made by the Peru.
BY the arrival of the British ship Earns
| cliffe yesterday IL is learned that on March
| 20 Robert Goodman, seaman of the vessel,
| was washed overheard and drowned off the
| Falkland Islands. Goodman was native
| of Germany.
a. E. Pryor, of Piper, Alden & Co, and
| Captain Oakley OF the steamer SunOl re-
turned yesterday on the Pomona from
| Eureka, where they had been taking yaca-
/ tion.
The survivors of the Rodgers, at a meeting
| held in this city ON Sunday, decided TO ask
| Senator FELTON, and Congressman Cutting
| to introduce bill in Congress granting them
three years pay for the haTdshIps they en-
| dured in the Jeanette rescue expedition.
| The schooner Francis Alice, Captain Errat
arrived from Karuk yesterday with 1000
cases OF salmon, and reports that in June
! the fish were so plentiful that the hands
| conld not can all that were taken.
Over l50 feet of the minor portion OF the
|
| tractors expect 10 nave the remainder fin
| shed on time.
| THE SEIZURE OF OPIUM
In the matter Of a recent seizure by the
! customs officials Of a small quantity of
| opium concealed under the Mail dock, il is
| pretty freely asserted that this sort of
| thing has been going on for years and that
there are passages beneath the roadway
| which communicate freely with the cellars
of saloons on First and Braunan streets.
| gentleman who has been interested in
the tramp steamer Sirius, lately running In
| the Central American coffee trade, said TO a
CALL reporter yesterday that tile vessel
would probably be sold by the United
| States Marshal to satisfy claims, and that
as the Lakme is to have her engines taken
out and be converted into sailing-ship
| there IS nothing left in the way of competi-
ton with the Pacific Mail monopoly now
but the British tramp steamer GTandholm
The West Indian. wrecked at Aeaiutla
also competed for the coffee trade, but she
can never be raised. "It is pity" said the
gentleman sadly, that this state OF things
should be. The coffee trade of Central
America IS good for six months OF the
year. that Is from December to June. Ii
service of good fast boats I4-knot vessels
OF 1000 to 1900 tons were put on, with proper
passenger accomn odatiOns, and making the
run from OcOs in nine or ten days, the bene-
fit 10 growers there and wholesale mer-
chants here would be incalculable Nothing
thaI t1e Mall company couid attempt down
there would prevent the enterprise from
succeeding, and all that is required here is
fast vessels, free from debt and backed by
local power here which the monopoly
would be compelled TO respect There is big
money in ii, too, for the Sirius would never
have been crushed out If her owners hadn't
been making money or appearing likely to
make it. No one interferes with a losing
speculation"
Several OF the Japan sealers now on tn @
way home will call at Victoria on the way
here so as to get a choice of markets for the
skins. All the vessels are hOmoward bound.
and as their arrival will mean at least S5O.-
! 600 TO be circnlatad the city frnnt tLa..