The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-20
SEA AND SHORE.
4 Streak Of Bad Luck for the Cap
tain Of the Sailor Boy.
An Increase CT Speed in the Hariposa-M
terey Harbor's smoothbors-Move
mehts and Charters,

II any man has cause to complain OF bad
luck it is Captain Johnson Of the schooner
Sailor Boy. The vessel left In the fail for
Callao with a cargo Of lumber, but owing
TO head winds and bad weather did not
reach her destination for eigLty-siX days
But that in itself would not give CAPTAIN
johnson cause 10 complain. He has been
sick ana unable TO attend 10 his duties dur
ing the entire voyage with the exception Of
eighteen days after leaving port. When the
vessel was Just TWO weeks at sea DE was
taken down with fever and confined II his
berth for twenty-Oue days. lie was care
fully nursed by the crew. who did all in their
power f.r him. but there IS very little COM
Bort for q sick man at sea, especially on
board a small vessel Captain johnson
pulled through the fever all right. thauss To-
a good constitution, bat his troubles had
only begun.
STRICKEN down AGAIN.
He was hardly on lis Ieet once more when
he was again stricken down, this time with
IHdammac0Ty rheumatism. HIS tIue consti-
tu.i0n d.d not prevail. against this allmeut,
aud ae bore untold suffering and misery.
The crew were pOWeTleSs TO nelp him, aud the
Door fellow was confined to his berth until
the vessel arrived at CalaO He was then
carried ashore iu q stretcheT and placed IN
-
little good. and when the schooner was again
ready for sea he was carried back 10 her,
pTelerTing to return home 10 California 10
remaining In tie hospital at Calla0. The
Sailor Boy saIei from Ca.laO for GTays
HaTbOr on February 10 10 charge Of the first
mate, who navEated the schooner 70 CallaO
and had charge Of her there.
INCREASED HEB SPEED.
When tie mail steamer MarpOsa was az
Sydney on her recent trip she was placed on
tie dry-d0Ck aud q new propeller put on.
The new wheel has one foot greater pitch
than the former and has made great I'M
pTOYement in the speed Of the ship. On
tie trip 10 this port she made from To
2h knots an hour more than win the old
one.
The weather outside the heads yesterday
was very thick, with a twenty-eght Knot
breeze from the southeast The barometer
stood 29eT,
PREPARING FOR WAR.
Among the cargo Of the steamer Gypsy
that left yesterday for Santa Cruz was a
sX-inCh sm00thbJre Dahlgren GU, with
iTon-caTriage aud gear complete. The gun
is intended for the defense Of Monterey
and Will no doubt make the people Of that
seaport feel secure from invasion OF bonn
bardment after it is placed IN position.
The principal topic Of conversation along
the city front yesterday was the wreck Of
the whaling bark Tamerane and the loss Of
so many lives Many Of the drowned men
had friends in this city, and their untimely
fate is deeply deplOred.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS,
Departures we're the steamers Walla Walla
for Victoria, Columbia for Astoria and Los
Angeles for Wilmington. The German shiD
Fanny toWed out bound TO Port Townsend.
ana the schooners Rio Key, Z. Il. Merchant
and Amethyst sailed for coast ports.
The only moves made we're the Ellisland
20 the sugar refinery and the McCallum
More from Port Costa to the stream. To-
day the Orealia will 20 to Port Costa and
the James Nesmith to Mission Rock to
lay up.
Arrivals were the steamers State Of Cali
fOTniR from Portland, the Newsboy from
Navarro and the coastIng senooners Lizzie
PTien and Albion.
LATEST CHARTERS.
Among the latest reported charters are
the following:
British iron ship Gowanburn, 1900 tons,
wheat TO United Kingdom, Havre or Ant
Werp, Dos.
Snip Eclipse, 1886 tons, lumber from
Puget Sound to GGaymas; chartered by
Williams, Dimond & Co.