The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-24

is a fne-lcokiDg craft, very strongly built,
and attracted very favorable attention. The
length is 90 feet. breadth 20 feet, depth
feet. and she will carry $50 tons Of cargo
below deck and leo above donkey
engine for hosting purposes will be put
aboard to-day. The Shasta Will make
trial trip 10 the Marin County shore next
Sunuay, when q party Of about 100 invited
guests will join in the cruise.
1t looks as II the Illustrated notice OF the
disgracelul condition OF the approach to the
Mail dock and the open Branpan-street
sewer has stirred Up the res p0usible parties
to action. The sewer is being boarded over
and carried out 80 leet or more beyond the
approach 10 the dock.
Great preparations are being made by the
captains Of the British merchant fleet at
Benicia for the combined Memorial day
regatta next Monday. A number OF sailing
and rowing matches have been arranged,
and excursiOniStS will be taken from this
at Martinez at II A. N. Ample provision
has been made for the reception and enter
tainmeHt of large number Of guests.
Pat Moriarity and Thomas Cavanaugh
we've arrested on East street Yesterday
morning by Officer Maher and Special Off
Ger Mucahy Cavanaugh was charged with
drunkenness and MUrlarity with robbery
The specific charge against M0riaTijy was
that after be aud CavaDaueh had partaken
of a number of drinks they adjourned 10
vacant lot on Mission street, between Steu-
art ami East, where Moriarity relieved Cav
anaugh OF SIS and a purse.
A number Of bOatmen were out all day
Sunday and most OF yesterday hunting fer
the body Of May Jenner, the suicide, IN the
tide rips. Not trace Of her could be found,
and the story that the body had been seen
from a passing steamer Is universally dis
credited The bOatmPn are satisfied that the
body has come mp in the night and sunk FOR
good. or that it has been carried out 10 sea,
in which case 1t will never be seen again.
In consequence of the late dispatch of the
English mails. the sailing Of the Oceanic
steamer MaripOsa for Australia and New
Zealand has been put of till Saturday next
at p. VI.
The wrecking steamer Whitelaw arrived
yesterday with the WTeckiUg schooner Gaia
lima from Por, Hartford. The other schooner,
the Sampson, is on the way mp. Mr.. White
law has been filling a contract to dump
1900 feet Of rock for the new bTeakwater
AT the point named. The Pat ONeill, with
the tug Katie 0'Neiil, will remain to conf
pete the work.
The removals yesterday included the LUr-
line from stream TO FolSOmN oil. the schooner
Oceana Vance, from Howard to sea; the
schooner j. G. North, from the stream TO
refinery, and the ship Jere Thompson to
Hunters Point fats.
The steamer st. Paul will sail for Coma
lsska on June 4, aud will take up a large
The steamer Queen will inaugurate the
Alaska excursion season on Monday next.
All The beTths are already engaged.
novel wager was decided on Saturday.
The stake was a first-class dinner, ana for
this Captain Hawthorne of the British shin
Dundonald undertook to row a gig from
Mission No. 2 to section of the seawall
and have the gig hoisted on board Of the
ROderick Dhu inside Of 50 minutes From
this time had to be deducted at least 10 min
utes, 1t being necessary for Captain Haw-
thOrne 10 drive from the Custom house,
where the wager was made, down to Mis-
sion No. and then lower the gig into the
water. The captain performed the entire
job in 50 minutes and won his wager.
The only man-Of- war in commission now
on this station is the Boston. The Pensa-
cola has been hauled out in the stream at
Mare Island ready to be turned over TO the
naval reserve.
The ship Big Bonanza has been chartered
10 carry coal from NanainO to this port,
and the Niearaguan bark Comet to carry
lumber from Puget Sound TO Fiji
The Vallejo steamer Sunol has been com
pletelg renovated. Yesterday she brought
down among her passengers J. Deiniuger
and Miss NJ. III. Boyle, of Vallejo. who
were married Immediately on landing and
went to Monterey to spend their honey
moon.
Captains Sunerud. Jensen and Loydai
schooners Challenger, Mary Bidwell and
Bertha Dolbeer respectively.
The Edward 0'Bren was tOwed to
Hunters Point yesterday to be docked, as
she is leaking badly.
The captain of the schooner William
RentoD, which arrived last night from
Pisagua, reports that on Saturday last John
jacobson. seaman, native OF Sweden, a
years of age. fell over board and was
drowned The sea was so no avy that Doth-
ing could be done to save him.
The plank road across the sand filling of
section s Il of the new seawall has already
proved an unspeakable relief to nervous
passengers between the Oakland aud Tib-
uron ferries. The railing on the water side
is already In position and part of the I'M
slightly fence has already been removed
The cylindrical caisson for the first of
the piers at the new ferry slip has at last
been got down 10 solid bottom, and the
work Of filling it with concrete is making
rapid progress.