The morning call., 1892-05-27

rison street ana the William Rent0n 10
Green street to-day The bark Oregon
viii tow 10 sea. the ship Anaurus will go up
to Martinez and the bark q. Z. Manson will
tow from Oakland to Howard No. 2 Among
the removals yesterday were the schooner
Annie Larsen from the stream 20 Oakland,
the schooner Corona from the stream 10
Channel street, and the bark Shirley from
the stream to Port Costa.
George Perkins, a sea cook, was arrested
by Officer Crosby yesterday and booked at
the north harb0r station for stealing a suit
OF clothes out Of room in Thompson
sailor boarding-h house on Union street
Piper, Alden 81 Co. have placed their
steamer Sunol at the disposal Of the st.
Vineents School of Vallejo for the purpose
OF enabling the children TO spend day in
Golden Gate Park. The youngsters will
come over on Tuesday morning. The firm
have offered the same facilities to other
schools in Vallejo from week TO week dur
ing the summer.
The new steam schooner Daisy Kim ball
was launched at Oakland yesterday morn
ing and t0wed over to Folsom street to re-
ceive her machinery.
The San Francisco and North Pacific
Railroad has all its picnic accommo datlons,
boats and trains besp0ken for the present
week.
The steamer San Rafael narrowly es-
capped collision with the steamer Humboldt
at Clay-street wharf yesterday morning.
Jack Carter and Jack Riley sailed Jack
EDge and Al Wade Whitehall-b0 race
on Wednesday evening for a stake OF $40
The course was around Blossom Rock and
back to the starting point at Clay-street
landing. Carter and Riley got the stakes.
The steamer Emily. damaged bY
collision with the wharf at Crescent City,
during a recent gale, had new foremost
put in and sailed yesterday morning.
The new Mexican schooner MOnona,
built at Coos Bay, started on her maiden
trip to La Paz yesterday.
The schooner j. c. Ford is having a new
malnmast put in and the barkentine New
port has been newly rugged.
The bark Fresno has been chartered for
coal from NanaimO to this port and the
barken:ine Quickstep with lumber from the
Columbia River to Guaymas.
The fOur-masted barkentine Chehalis,
lying off Union-street wharf, had her flag
half-masted yesterday afternoon, as the re-
suit OF the drowning of John Leary, one of
the crew. Leary had gone ashore with a
shipmate in the yawl and spent the noon
hours In filling up with the worst kind Of
waterfront whisky When he arrived at
the Nallejo-street steps, where the yawl
was tied up, Leary insisted on going off
alone and nearly upset the boat in jumping
in. He had got but a little way
oct when he was nearly run into by the
steam schooner Greenwood. lie padded on
q
ebb tide. By this time his companion had
made bargain with Charlie Read, boat
man, to put him off to the ship. They saw
that Leary was in difficulties and overlook
him within a hundred feet of the Chehalis.
They tried TO get hold of the painter of the
yawl. but at this moment Leary cast off his
oars and rose in the boat, which immedi-
ately capsized. After a hard pull Leary's
companion eontriyed 10 get alongside him
just as he was sinking for the third time.
An oar was passed under Leary's body, but
it slid off and disappeared. Leary " as about
80 years Of age.
The tramp steamer Grandholm has been
Withdrawn from the British Columbia coal
trade and will hencefoTth carry cargo for
Central America from this port
All the wheat ships cleared from this port
in January have arrived out except the last
six Two of these started on January 28
and are therefore out only ia days. Two
of the others did not sail until February .
and the other two on February and 4.
The Charles E. Moody has been loaded
in New York as the first of the new line of
sailing vessels between New York and this
port The New York agents are w. r.
Grace 81 Co. and the local agents j. w.
Grace 81 Co.