The morning call., 1892-03-29
ALONG SEA and SHORE.
A Dull and Uneventful Day Along
the Water Front.
Wreckage Passed at Sea-Changes in Com.
mspders-Notice to Mariners-Char.
ter Parties

on March at A. NJ, 90 deg. 10 min. north,
l22 deg. 10 min. west, floating wreckage OF a
vessel was passed. 1t happened to be a
lower mast of yellow pine, floating perpen-
dicularly. about ten feet out of the water
1t was clean break above the partners Of
the deck. The mast coat was still attached
BY all appearance the mast must have been
in the water two or three months, by the
grass and shells growing ON it. Half mile
further on some wood floating in the water
was sighted, grown over with shells and
grass.
The two warships Yorktown and Pensa-
cola tripped their anchors and steamed up
to Mare Island Nayy-yard yesterday morn
ing.
The San Pedro tug Katie O'Neill. at Clay
street wharf, was inspected by the Harbor
Commissioners yesterday to see If she would
make suitable successor to the Anasha as
a freboat.
TO ANOTHER SHIP.
Captain Benson of the British ship Kel-
Durn has been appointed to command the
new four master Celtic Burn.
Work on the mail steamer City of Rio de
Janeiro is going along with a rush, and the
steamer will leave for her trial trip at mid
night next Friday. She will be tested over
the course from Pigeon Point to Point Sur,
distance OF 5S y miles.
The new Spreckeis tug Fearless came
over from the Union Iron Works last night
and Will fill up with coal in readiness TO tow
the new lightship to the Columbia River.
The two vessels will leave on April l.
The steamer Santa Rosa sailed for San
Diego yesterday with Captain Carroll in
command. Captain Alexander is confined
to his bed and Is in very precarious condt-
ton.
STREET WORK ON THE FRONT
Early last week work on Steuart street
was carried on with rush, but during the
last few days it has slackened up and the
street 10 impossible, owing TO tile delay in
the work of paving the street by the Electric
Railway Company. Yesterday there were
not more than two or three men at work,
| and the storekeepers in the neighborhood
were not in the best humor over the slow
manner in which the work is being done.
The steamer Dora sailed for Oonalaska at
noon yesterday, aud had on board nearly
200 passengers. who go TO work in the cam
neries. a large crowd was on Mission
| wharf TO see her OF.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
The following vessels arrived in port yes
terday: The steamer Grandholm. from
Nanalmo. with Il cargo of coal for John
Resented u Sons; the British bark Chief
tain, from Caeta Buena, with 1000 tons of
hitgate, for Balfour. Guthrie & Co., and the
brig Sea W ali, from Punta Arenas, with a
cargo OF cedar logs fer Eugene Saba & Co.
The sailinGs were the steamer Santa Rosa
tor San Diego aud the schooner Arthur /
for Eureka.
The moves yesterday were the Wanderer
10 Green street, The Emmanuel Accame to
Long bridge. Eskasonia to Folsom No 2,
Auchenealrn 10 the Mail dock and the Tam
o Shanter TO Oakland. To-day the Reuce
goes 10 SauSalito, the Mauna Ala and Mary
Wlnkieman 10 the refinery, the DeckmOnd
10 the rolIing-mills, Glenlui to Martinez and
the Fanny Fisher 10 Long bridge.
1le weather outside the heads Yesterday
was cloudy, with 12-knot breeze froGi the
southwest The barometer stood 5000.
LATEST CHARTERS.
Snip ]. +. Chapman, 203S tons. merchan-
disc TO New York in the Dispatch line.
British bark Crummock Water, 995 tons
now at Astoria, lumber thence to IquIque-
chartered by j. +. Chapman IL Co.
Norwegian bark Ursus Minor, COS tons,
now at San Diego, lumber from Fraser
River to Sydney. 81 lis 6i-chartered by
Brunette Sawmili Company.
Schooner Glen, 12l tons, merchandise to
Apla-chartered by Wightman Bros
The rate of the Fritzoe is e. IS, Cinema
nus to Melbourne.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Notice is hereby given that on April Ia
1872, or as soon thereafter as possible.
Light Vessel No so will be moored in $50
feet at low water, off the entrance of the
Columbia River, Washington. The vessel
Will show two fixed white reflector lights.
each 30 feet above sea level, visible in clear
weather from the deck Of a vessel 10 feet
above the sea 1012 nautical miles. The
vessel has two masIs, schooner rigged and
no bowsprit. The hull is painted red with
Columbia River" IN large black letters on
each side, ana mo. 90" in black figures in
each quarter. AT each lanteru-masthead
there Is circular eagework day mark.
painted red. A black smokestack and the
fog-signal are between the masts. During
thick or ioggy weather l2-inch steam
whistle will sound blasts OF seconds dura-
ton, separated by silent intervals of s.
seconds. thus: blast, 5 seconds; silent H.
terval. 80 seconds; blast, ) seconds silent
interval, 50 seconds.
Inc proposed geographical position of
the light vessel. as taken from chart No
6o1A OF the United States Coast and Geode-
lie Survey Is: latitude. north. As deg Is
min. % secl; longitude, west, ia deg. 10
mil. as sec.)
Magnetic bearings OF prominent objects
from the vessel Will be approximaiely:
North Head, north northeast east; Cape
Dlsappo intment Lighthouse, northeast;
folht Adams Lighthouse, east by north.