The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-16
MARINE NOTES.
A Phenomenally Low Tide on the
City Front.

City Front.
The scow schooner Gaslight had a narrow
escape from eapsizing yesterday. She was
! on her way TO Vallejo with a Cargo of lum-
Der and was greatly overloaded. so that
when she had reached a point between
! Blossom Rock and Goat Island the water
| began to pour into her rapidly.
BY the time the tug Etna came up the
| three men on board were standing knee
deep in water, and only the lightness of the
| lumber kept the craft afiOat Captain Shaw
gave the schooner hawser and towed her
10 Mission flats.
The Pacific Mail steamer City of New
York, Captain T. II. Johnston, had a hard
time getting out Of the Mail dock yesterday,
and did not make a start for Panama till
the rising tide foated her off several hours
late. The steamer occupied the middle
berth. the Acapulco being ahead Of her and
the City of Peking astern. The tide was
an exceptionally low one. and as soon as
the City OF New YORK was clear of the dock,
and while she was being hauled out she
stuck fast 10 a mud bank. The propeller
revOlved furiously in the attempt to dig
her OUT" but the only result was to back
the steamer into the City of Picking. The
latter sustained no damage, but the New
The water around the Mail dock ia badly
shoaled by the deposit from tie Brannan-
street sewer, and the dredger is needed
along the entire length of the dock.
The whalers Reindeer, Hunter Alice
Knowles and Abraham Barker arrived yes
terday afternoon. The Reindeer has $50
barrels OF oil and 5000 pounds of bone, the
Barker 200 barrels OF oil and 10000 pounds
| OF bone, the Hunter $50 barrels of oil and
Zo,OOO pounds OF bone and the Knowles 430
barrels of oil and 1000 pounds of bone.
] Inc Knowles was about forty miles west
4 OF Point Reyes when the gale caught her on
| Monday night. The wind blew in squalls.
| with maximum velocity of sixty miles an
| hour. and the Knowles had to heave to un-
! der her topsails from p. NJ. till A. NJ of
the following day. All the incoming whalers
| report hlgn winds and heavy seas up the
coast The wind at Point Reyes had mod
Grated to an ordinary stiff breeze yesterday
| evening.
The tide OF yesterday afternoon ought not
| to be the lowest of the week, since new
moon does not occur till the - h. But
partly from the low level OF the rivers, in
which there Is very little water now, partly
| from the direction OF the wind the majority
| Of the heavy crafts were left hard in the
mud at $3.50 p. NJ. yesterday, and even the
| little tugs enurDed up the unsavOry sewage
| deposits about Clay and Broadwa wharyes
| IL way to show the need of the dredger
The moves yesterday included the ship
| Berlin from the oil works TO the stream
the schooner BIakely to Howard street, the
ship Falls OF Dee to Howard street. the
steamer Thrasher TO the oil works, the
steamer Wellington from Pacific to Lom-
bard, the schooner Bonanza to Oakland
| Creek, the bark Topeallant to the mud
| fats, the schooner Laura May from the sea-
| wall to sea, the brig Douglas to Hathaways.
the schooner j.. NJ. Coleman to sea, the bark
| Alice Neale 10 stream. To-day the bark
| Discovery will tow from the sugar refinery
to the Mission fats, the bark Hunter TO the
| oil works, the bark James Allen from the
| OIL works to Oakland Creek and the ship
Alexander Gibson from Mission Rock to
| Oakland Greek.
Leonard Storey of Old Sausalito, famil-
iarly known as "Lennie," an old time
Dcatswain, has been missing since last
Saturday, when he went to Lime Point
with provisions for the lighthouse. Lien
nie" was missing once before and turned
up after an enforced detention by the mill
tary authorities at Alcatraz Island, on
which he had landed in fog
Inspector McGrovies found AIS ire-tael