The morning call., 1892-04-26


1900 trees, was launched in Nova Scotia
on July 20, 1888, anchored in the bay of
fundy TIL August i and was t0wed into
New York harbor by the 1lth. The cost OF
construction and towing was $4,000, and it
was sold Tor $4,000. leaving profit OF
S2l,O0O CD the enterprise. The Fort Bragg
Will be towed to this port by the steamer
Noy0.
OFF FOR NEW YORK.
The Pacific Mail steamer City of New
York, Captain L. Ii. Johnston, sailed for
Panama ana way ports at noon yesterday.
Among the cabin passengers were: Mrs.
Sampson, wife of the captain-cummander
OF the San francisco, and Mrs. Nelson. wife
OF the captain of the United States steamer
Adams. There were also ON board 81 United
States sailors returning to New York and 33
Storage passengers. In the cargo We're %
cases OF cartridges for the Mexican govern
ment.
Fifty young ladies from the Girls High
School, with Miss Fide!ia Jewett teacher.
visited CAPTAIN McNeyln's school OF navi-
CATION on Beale street yesterday afternoon
and listened for over An hour TO a black
board lecture on geometry as applied TO
navigation. The young ladies proved in
telligent and inQuiStive, and led the
instructor into such delicate questions as the
magnetic variation, the problem of the
longitude and spherical trigonometry. A
large model OF the ship Constitution was
exhibited and described.
y lSHinOuSe-htcprE on a mO0ree Is not
exactly pleasant subject for contempla-
ton on an iron-bouDd coast. Yet this has
been the condition of affairs at the Sand
Head Lighthouse, on the British Columbia
coast. When the Canadian steamer reached
the place the light was out, the keeper help
lessly drunk and everything upside down.
Nine empty whisky bottles furnished the
explanation. Three men were left al the
station TO keep the light going, and the
offending keeper was taken of OH the
steamer.
Notice is given that the whistlipg buoy,
black and white perpendicular stripes,
which drifted from its position on the Goth
inst, has been replaced off Piedras BlancaS,
Cal. The buoy is now in 14A fathOms of
water. gray sandy bottom. one-half mile
southwest by west from the rock"
UNION AND NoN-UNIoS CREWS.
The union men have been having bad
time lately, but are consoling themselves by
| the reflection that only small non-union
crews have been gotten away. As a seton
to the Montserrat and Colum bia affair com es
Seattle with a union crew, the non-union
crew having quilted, and the owners yielded.
The whaleback Charles w. Wetmore, re-
| ported at Port Gardner, on the way to Ia
coma, to load coal for the Southern Pacific
| Company at this port.
The reason given FOR the cruiser Balti-
more not being taken into the harbnr of
| San Diego is that the commander doubts if
there is enough water on the middle bar TO
| allow the vessel TO cross.
| East street, between Folsom and Howard,
| Is 20 be paved aud put Into frst-class order.
| L. w. Mccain Is said 10 have secured the
! contract for repairing the Government wharf
| at Angel Island. His bid of Sl525 was
| nearly $500 below the highest of four COM
petitogs. The final decision will be given
TOMORROW.
The tug Katie ONein has changed her
| docking place from Washington street TO
| Mission.
The schooner j. B. Leeds is on the Main
street drydOck, and tile j. NJ. Coleman will
! follow.
The topmasts of the Austrian corvette
1 Fasana were struck yesterday and the
standing and running rigging overhauled
| for repairs.
The Russian Sealing Company's steamer
| Kotinka is fitting out for Vladivostock, and
| will leave about the 1st of May.
| The bay-transDort steamer Encinal ran
/ into Lombard-street wharf in the early
hours Of yesterday morning knocking out
| IL of the piles.
| Among the removals Yesterday were the
steamer Lakme from Green-street to Mis-
sion No /, the slip Oriental to the Union
Iron Works drydoek, and the schooner Jen-
ME Stella from the stream TO Oakland
Creek.
The steamer Umatilla sailed for Puget
Sound yesterday with 206 bales of wool for
Boston, via Vancouver and the Canadian
| Pacific.
THE CITY OF RICHMOND.
The Inman liner City of Richmond will
| be replaced on the New York and Liver
| pool line by faster and more powerful
| steamer and will be placed In tue Californ ia
| wheat trade as fve-masted ship She is
| ALSO tons gross, was bulls 1T Glasgow in
| 1878. and Is 440 feet inches long, i3 feet s
inches beam and "a feet l inch deep. She is
longer by lis feet and bigger by 1902 tons
than the largest sailing vessel that ever
visited this port The alterations are now
being made and the ship Is expected 10 be
here next January.
The small steamer Tia Juana which till
lately ran between San Diego and the Gaia
lima Islands as an excursion boat, has come
up here and will be- used to take out ex-
| cursion parties TO Point Reyes and other
| nearby coast resorts. She will seat 40 and
sleep IL persons. Captain Downes will
| take command.