The morning call., 1892-05-20
ALONG SEA And SHORE.
Successful Launch of the Lum.
ber-Raft at Fort Bragg.
A Bellicose Mate Arrested-Ths Golden Gate
Libeled Again-lhs New
Lifeboat

The big raft for the Fort Bragg Lumber
Company has been successfully launched at
last. 1t is 365 feet long, 80 feet beam and 27
feet in depth amdship. 1t was constructed
on ways built 600 feet out into the water.
On these ways cradle was formed having
the model of a ships bottom. This was to
give the raft form that it might be the more
easily handled. The entire mass is tied
with chains through and around The raft
Is fitted with a pilOt-house, wheel and
Iudder The object of raft building is to
save the slabs and sawdust and cheaper the
transportation. The Fort Bragg Company
has mill in this city, and the small RATS
hitherto sent down have kept it going. The
slabs and sawdust can be used for fuel.
The raft was constructed under the super
vision of II. r. Robertson, who built the
famous rats on tile north Atlantic coast for
New York harbor. The present Que con-
tains $4,000 feet Of lumber, and will prob
ably be brought down on the next trip Of
the eompany's steamer Noyo.
A DANGEROUS MATE.
On the arrival of the ship Willie Rosen-
field from New York yesterday Sergeant
Drummer and Officer Ferguson OF the North
HarbOr police boarded her and arrested
Fred Austin, the first mate, ON the COM
plant OF Peter Gilman, the boatSwain. Gill
and Austin had an alteration, in the midst
of which Austin drew a pistol and fred two
shots at him. IS the OffenSe was committed
OH the high seas, Austin WAS held for hear
ing before the United States Commissioner.
The crew state that Austin has been carry
ing brasskuuckles and concealed weapons
ever since the attack, and has threatened to
take Gilman's life.
The barkentine w. IT. Dmond sailed for
Honolulu yesterday. Illinois Wise, the col
ored cook who was arrested on the arrival
Of the Dimond at this port on her last trip
for killing Chinese in Honolulu harbor,
will be sent down on the MariVoSa for trial.
The ship Empire, which came in yester-
day in tow of the Reliance, reports running
into the floating body OF a drowned fisher
man off Point Reyes. AS soon as the vessel
struck the corpse it turned feet upward and
sank. The trip up from Sydney was pro-
longed to 90 days by failure of the south
east trades in the latitude Of Tahiti and by
heavy storms from May IL to 10.
NOTES.
The two new self-righttng lifeboats which
were launched on Wednesday and described
in THE CALL of Yesterday, are built accord
ng to the patent of Captain ID. z. Dobbins
of Buffalo. superintendent of the United
States Life-saying Service for the Seventh
District. The Dobbins' boat is probably
the nearest approach to perfection in the
way of a life-saving craft ever built. He
has had large number of boats on his
plan accepted by the Government on the
Atlantic Coast. where they have given great
satisfaction.
The German tramp steamer ROmulus has
been chartered by John Rosenfeld's Sons
for their British Columbia coal trade. The
carrying capacity Of the vessel is 4OO0 tons.
The steamer Golden Gate has been again
libeled, the creditors this time being L. j.
MOynihan and James Aitken.
Edward Ward. better known as yOD2
Ward, lOngshoreman of steady habits,
we'll known at the WashingtOn-street wharf.
has been missing since last Saturday and Is
is feared be has met with foul play.