The morning call., 1892-06-12
ALONG SEA And SHORE.
The Steamer Gaelic Arrives From
China and Japan.
a Lively Chase After Runaway Team-The
MOdoe Collides With a Schooner.
Mike, the Bad Elephant,

The Occidental and Oriental COmpany's
steamer Belgic, Captain Pearne, arrived on
time last evening after an uneventful voy
age OF q days from Hong Kong via YOko-
hama. The Gaelic left Hong Kong on May
q and Yokohama on May 90. She brings
33 cabin, Il European and 2S1 Chinese
steerage passengers. Light westerly winds
were experienced to June 8, then to June s
strong to moderate sOutherly winds, with
rains and fog; thence to port light south
erly winds aud fine weather. Among the
list of cabin passengers are a number Of
British military and naval attaches, among
them Major Barker, K. E.; Major Mott,
Colonel G. II. de Lorme, Hon. L. Z. Free
mantle and I. w. Highton, r. n.
Yesterday morning, while the lumber
team Of Johnston d Richardson. heavily
loaded. was standing near Clay-street
wharf, the steam whistle of the Sunol gave
a sudden blast, which frightened the horses.
which started off at a furious pace. A doZ-
EN- persons started off across East street in
a vain effort to eaten up with the animals,
but these careered over the street with the
wagon Gathering behind them, till they ran
full tilt against the telegraph post at the
foot of Clay street The shock was tre-
mendous. The horses were thrown high In
the air, the axle snapped, the pole ditto, and
the harness was reduced to dozen discOn-
Dected strips of leather. The suddenness
Of the halt seemed to daZe the horses, which
weTo promptly secured and taken away.
Had it not been for the telegraph post a
number of persons might have been killed
or injured
The removes yesterday included the Sailor
Boy from Oakland Creek TO Folsom, the
bark George f. Manson from Howard to
stream, the ship COnquer0r from Vallejo to
stream, the ship Big Bonanza from Fremont
to sea, the ship Thallata from stream 10
Oakland and the steamer AL Ki from the
Union Iron Works to Broadway. To-day
the ship EuphrOsyne will tow from Green
to Port Costa and the Galgate from Mar
tinez to McNears.
BOAT RACE.
The sports on the steamer Tiburon have
arranged for another boat race at Tiburon
att p. NJ. Wednesday. The last race be-
tween Chief Cook Joe Harris and Chief
Engineer Bill Virgins was a great success.
Virgins won by a boats length A stake
of $500 is attached to Wednesdays race,
namely. $50 a boat and side bet of 500.
The money is in the hands Of James Hay
den, the Tiburon capitalist.
Chief Instructor Wilson Of the Navy De-
partment visited the Union Iron Works yes
teTday and inspected the work being done
on the battleship Oregon, the Monterey and
Cruiser No. 6. He will inspect the site of
returning East
The work of getting out the elephants on
the steamer MonOwai for Sells circus was
completed yesterday morning. All were
boxed and hoisted over without trouble ex-
cept the eccentric Nike which sustained
the reputation he had acquired on the voy-
age. 1t is not known whether Mike was
upset by the shouts of the Harrison BOOM
ers on the 'front.' but he kicked considerably
while being boxed up and gave more trouble
than all the other elephants put together
The Sacramento steamer Modoc, while
backing into the stream yesterday, cOllided
with the schooner John n. Ingalls, lying at
Mission No 1, damaging the schooner's for
ward rigging and knocking a hole In her
side.
Captain Cavarly, the oldest commander
in the Pacific Mail Company's service, will
take out the Rio de Janeiro on her next
trip, Captain Ward of the Rio being desig-
mated to command the new steamer Peru.
NEW GIG.
The Dolphin Boat Club expects to have a
new gig from the East in about three weeks.
The following club officers have been
elected Frank Stab, president; j. Sulli-
van, yice-president; c. Farrell, captain; |;