The morning call., 1893-11-04
LUCKY WHALERS.
The Big Catch by the
Steam Fleet.
Sailing Vessels Were Not so For
tunate-Steamer Changes and
llarine Notes.

If you want TO go a. a-whalipg don't go on
n "windjammer" This is the tenor of
the advice impaired by old whalers to all
who contemplate striking oil through the
hide of leviathan. Even Simple Simon
trying to make catch in his mothers
pail stands just as much of a show as does
windjammer.
Windjammer is the polaristic name for
sailing vessels, which class of craft was
peculiarly unlucky compared With those
OF the steans ~iialer variety.
Yesterday morning the whaling bark
Alaska came crawling in from the Arctic
with only one whale to account for. She
brought the news of the feet up north up
To October s. and the record shows that
the steamers have made unprecedented
catches, Ybile the sailing vessels have
very few whales TO report.
The twelve vessels belonging to the Pa
cific Steam Whaling Company made a
total haul of 2SS whales, while twenty
four vessels owned by other concerns cap
fured only seyepty-three whales.
The Alaska had rOugh passage
down, and lost several sails during blow
up north. CAPTAIN Green says that the
whales were very scattered, and for that
reason it was hard for the sailing vessels
to come up with them.
the bark James Allen. First Mate Nj.
| Mayo had his leg badly crushed, and had
! tn be sent to Port Clarence for treatment.
! The limb was amputated, and Mayo died
after the operation.
! The catch was as follows up to the date
| mentioned above:
| Alaska /, Belvedere II, California /,
! F. 4. Barsiow .; Bounding Bllow. Hora-
| ito, Josephine and Reindeer l each Ma
varch II, Jeannette Z. James Arnold l,
! Balaena %. Beluga IS, Blakely 9, Grampus
] AZ. Hunter ], James Allen l, Jesse ii.
! Freeman 6, karluk 10, Mars l, Mary d..
/ Hume Il. Narwhal 62, Newport 81. Orca
! The Percy Edwards, Abram Barker,
! Alice Knowles, Andrew Hicks. Bounding
| Billow, Cape Horn Pigeon. Charles W.
| Morgan. John ID. Winthrop. Mermaid,
Nicotine and Wanderer were all light.
| Another effort will be made tn float the
| City of New York to-day. Very little
| work was done yesterday except the plac-
| ing of a new pump.
Boatman Ernest Wilson tried to manipu-
late an ESquimO kyack in the bay at the
! foot of Folsom street yesterday afternoon.
! He found that he could not keep his bal
aDce so well as lie does in whitehall. He
! upset several times and caused much mer-
riment for crowd of onlOokers.
! The Oregon Improvement Company's
| steamer Willamette Valley came down
| from Benicia yesterday looking as if few
/ days on the dryd0ck would improve her
! appearance. She will again be run to
Seattle.
The vaporite launch Belvidere, loaded
with passengers bent on viewing the wreck
! of the City of New York, put into the
! Preside for repairs yesterday morning.
| One of her wateIplugs burst, neceSsitating ng
a stopover
The brig Galilee, Captain Paulson in
| command, Is at section 3 OF the seawall.
diseharging. The Gailee arrived from
the south seas yesterday forenoon. Cap
tain PaulsOn is the individual who secreted
! the facts OF the death of George Persons, a
passenger on his vessel, some months ago.
| When waited upon at the time the story
was made public by members of the press
! Captain Paulson became violently abusive
| 1t was hnted along the front yesterday
that another death had occurred on the
Galllee during her recent trip, bur. as
usual, nothing definite could be learned.
1t would be well for the proper authorities
| to look into the case and see what there
| is in il.
Officer Callahan of the North Harbor
police placed Mike Fanchelli, IA notorious
city-front character, under arrest for
threatening TO kill his wife. Mike is a hard
case and will be given few days in jail,
during which to repent.
Captain Ii. Manson has again taken
command of the steamer National City.
Captain l.. G. Haven has returned from
Destruction Island, where he went to su-
perintend some needed repairs 10 the
! lighthouse. He says the island is 1000 feet
| long and about seventy feet above the sea
| level. On the 5th and 9th of October fear
| fully rough weather was encountered, aud
spray from the enormous seas dashed
clean across the island in a continuous
shower, soaking everything and prevent
ing anv work being done on the lighthouse
or outbuildings.
SAY, GIRLS. if you want to fool that best fellow
inst ask him to give YOU his package OF Whites