The morning call., 1892-10-11

the other steamers, but all of them were
kept going. The last sealer we picked up
was the Henrietta. We secured Boring Sea
pretty thoroughly.
I'VE expected 10 get here on Sunday hut
the weather has been all against us. We
began to catch IL almost as soon as we
got out OF Dutch HaTbor A northwesterly
gale came on, with heavy sea running aud
severe snowstorm. We came through the
UHalga Pass.
I've had succession of gales all the way
up to last Thursday, but on Friday the
weather improved. We are in mess now
from the hard time we have had but we
VIII soon get things Strengthened out Cap
tain Evans Is under the weather himself
de caught cold on the day we started to
come down.
Our men have been lucky enough 10
escape sickness or accident of any kind
We frequently eneOU ntered the British
cruisers MelpOmene and Daphne in Bering
sea. 1 he Melpomene Is about tue sire and
hghting power OF our san Francisco. Inc
DAPHNE Is much sm6 or craft.
The revenue cruise Rush ielt Oonaiaska
nj the same time We rid and ought 20 be due
here tomorrow. W. nassfti fer On he
way out Of the hartef - lae lsst 81 4a
OF her he was stregglG ~ SCI fksaa l
heavy seas.
THE Adams and scar n4sst
Sea tiii December. fhf
ing loT THE wealth
Bear was Locking
fore proceeding to
Ihe officers Of {
York cwB ~ hanged cam piiiu. &.
soon after he CUR boat had bsea salei j
anchored
Tho I orksovea is pretty near 10 track or
the Goas l.ysssfisss-s atle. however - y Table
to hevs - move anyhow, II she does n6CEs
up 70 Mare Island to-day. She Is ia pretty
fair trim considering ali Things, and her
= n Al
have been had The gunb0at been cruising teF
a single Month in tropical waters. As u Is
the little craft has Deen away ainlOstexactly
six months, having left here for Boring Sea
On q pril y Of the present year.
Among it6se whe came down on the vessel
were +. i. Weare Of Chicago. who has
been exploring the Yukon River in the
Alice Blanchard; Mrs Healey. vile OF
Captain Healey Of the Bear. and Richard
Harnes of shis city. Who with Charles God
daTd and L. y. Mltcheii - Eureka has beer
prospecting along the Yukon. These a. st
three men were brought down TO OoDalasAa
on the Bear and taken off by the gunb0at.
The crew OF the Yorktown are delighted
TO hear that they are going to The sunny
south instead OF returning TO the frozen
north. Ii is no secret that the men have
been on pretty short ratiOns for several
weeks, there being scarcity Of provisions
at OODalaska and Sltka and on all the war
vessels remaining In Boring Sea.
The Yorktown is quite a small vessel as
compared with the Charleston or the San
Francisco. She is of about 1900 tens, and
her armament consists OF six 6-ineE guns,
two g. ptuDders. two 3-pounders, one 81
centimeter gun and two gailings. She has
crew Of 160 men. eighteen marines and
fourteen officers, namely: X. ID. Evans,
commander; Lieutenant ID. Kennedy, ex-
ecutive officer; Lieutenant w. z. Conway,
navigator; Lieutenants T. 4. ID. Veeder, b.
A. Fish and A. G. Wnterbalter; Ensigns
b. F. Hudson and 4. II. Scales; Chief En-
gineer A. Adamson. Paymaster }. III. Mar
tin. Surgeon G. K. II. Harmon, Assistant
Engineers c. Z. Rommell aud G. A. Hayes,
Pay Clerk G. Ii. Grendle.