The morning call., 1892-10-06
SBhLERS FITTING OUT.
The Japan Sea to Be Visited
Next Year.
BLOOD MONEY ABOLISHED.
The New Combine Of Boarding Masters and
Its Obi cts Many Vessels to Sail With
Non-Union Crews.


sealing fleet has been thoroughly over
stern, new bow. new deck and new rigging,
She has been practically reconstructed and
will leave with the other vessels of the
Japan feet early in January.
The owners OF the vessels will take
special care to have them kept out of Rus
sian waters. although this may shorten the
season several weeks. William Bendt. part
owner of the Bowhead, said to a CALL re-
porter yesterday that the stories about large
profits from this years venture are greatly
exaggerated. In general way the sealers
on this side did better than the Japan fleet.
Two of the schoouers on this coast returned
with 2700 and 2lO0 skins, while the best
catch on the Japan side was 2100 skins, and
one schooner, the White, came back with
nothing. The season is very short on the
Japan side, and a vessel must have the best
kind of hunters and sailors 10 come out
even There is not much sealing in May.
and by June it is gone. If the schooner
happens TO strike fog and loses nine or
ten DAYS the owners lose money when the
balance is struck on the vessefs return.
c. H. MangelS city-frOnt clgar-yender,
is credited with the best filled postage
stamp album on the Pacific Coast, If not in
the entire United States. The value OF
such collections is of course fictitious, but
on the tass adopted by philatelists the
album is worth anything from $4,000 to
$4,000. Mr.. Mangels states that he is
looking for the Hawaiian issue of 1871,
single specimens of these stamps being
worth $1,000.
The new Pacific Sailors Boarding Mas
ters' Association. incorporated on Tuesday,
has story attached TO it. In an interview
with a well-knOwn shipping master the
latter said to reporter yesterday: Inc
fact is that about thirty of the boarding
masters and the Sailors Home have been
| working the shipping business to suit them
| selves Some six or seven boarding-mas-
tiers, who found themselves frozen out,
drew out and Incorporated They offered
men to the ship captains without bonus.
| and already they have got six or seven
ships. The captains are, however, stlll get
ting SO man out OF the sailor advance
money, of course without rendering any
sort of equivalent. Now the sailors union
has begun TO Ii Ike a hand, and to-day the
union shipped the 5. ID. Carleton for New
York at $50 a month, and tomorrow they
will put crew on the Alameda. The Carrie
ton takes eighteen men and the Alameda
fourteen"
The blood-money system is practically
| done away with til next March. The new
incorporation will ship men themselves
without using the services OF shipping
| master. lie Deau uldu ID w LioOu, duu TIC
| does business direct with the captains. The
| ship-owners and the CAPTAINS are the per-
sons deriving the benefits, for the sailor
always has to pay SO out OF his advance
money for getting ship.
The four-masted barkentine Willie X.
| Hume, which had trouble short time ago
with the mates on the trip from Central
America, is now fitting out for Eureka and
Sydney. and is trying TO snip cOl0red crew
through the agency Of colored boarding
master. The men are not Philippians but
half-breeds, MexicanS, grlngoes and ka-
nakas. They will get $50 a month, and
the numerous white sailors on the front who
are starving for want OF job are feeling
very bad about it.
The schooner General Banning will leave
for Guayaqui. Ecuador, with non-uni0n
crew to-day. The bark ). c. Allen will also
leave for Honolulu with non-union crew.
Tie ship c. T. Sargent takes non-union
crew for the first time.
The bark California. which has been lying
at Mission fats for the past nine months
with a cargo Of coal, will dock to-day. The
cargo is cons igned TO the owner, y. Bichard.
Captain ii. II. Cousins, Harbor Commits
sioner for Humboldt Bay. is down here on
a visit
The wreck and cargo of the ship Golden
horn, which went on the rocks at Santa
Rosa Island in the Santa Barbara channel
about three weeks ago, Will be sold by auc-
ton tomorrow.
Captain Titon of the steam whaler Mary
d. Hume with his second mate and Harry
Knowles of the Pacific Steam Whaling
Company. left for New York yesterday, 1t
has leaked ont that the sailors instead OF
getting $1,000 apiece for their two years toll
in the Arctic, Will be lucky il they get S225
a head.
Captain Langdon of the British bark
Caroline Spooner, lately returned from
Chile, reports that business in that country
is in terribly depressed state.
The new Stockton steamer Captain Weber
discharged q large cargo IF wheat into the
British Ship Clan MacfarIane yesterday.
The steamer Queen will be substituted
| for the Santa Rosa on the San Diego route
! of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company on
| the next trip.
The tug Monarch of the red stock line
| has been so improved and altered that the
| Oldest water frontier would not know her.
| The two smokestacks have been replaced by
| one, new engines and boilers have been put
| in and the pilot-house of the Neptune has
been transferred TO the Monarch hurri-
cane deck.
The wrecking steamer Whitelaw has re-
turned from the wreck OF the ship Golden
horn. near Santa Barbara, and reports that
| she could not get within 700 feet OF the ship,
which is fast going to pieces.
Work on the new breakwSter at Port
| Hartford has been completed, and the tug
| Katie ONel returned yesterday with two
barges employed in the construction.
The officers of the United State cruiser
| San Francisco have Issued invitations TO
| prominent citizens to visit the ship this
| afternoon from TO o'clock. Arrange
ments have been made for dancing. The
| guests will be conveyed to the cruiser by