The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-28
NEWS OF THE SEA.
A Ruse to Get Needed Men
for Whalers.
NON-UNION SAILORS PLENTY.
A Mate Washed Overheard and Lost.
Consideration for Ferry Com
muters Who Smoke.
SAILORS PLENTY.

Many Of the shipping masters and sailor
clearinghouse keepers are now adyertis-
ing for green hands for steamers going
morrill," This is only "blind" to get men
for the half dozen whalers still in port, and
which require Efrom twenty to twenty-five
men each in the forecastle. After all that
has been said of the hardships of men in the
whaling feet the men are afraid to ship on
any avowed whaler, and this method of
advertising is adopted so as to reach the
men and persuade them to ship on the
whalers.
The people at the Don-union seamen's
headquarters are jubilant over the pros
poets. They say they are getting plenty of
men and plenty of ships. The following
announcements were posted yesterday
Steamer Scotia to sail March 2S for Mendo-
cino ports, ship America for Puget Sound
and Alaska March 80. schooner Mary
Buhne for Eureka March IS, scho oner
Lottie Carson for Eureka March 30,
steamer NOyo flor Fort Bragg March So.
barkentine Cleaner for Redondo March 49,
and schooner Norma for Seattle. Word was
received from the non-union shipping
master at Humboldt Bay yesterday that he
had just completed nOn-union crews for
two vessels, the majority of the men being
former union men, who had decided TO
cast their destinies in the non-union ranks.
The freight and passenger steamer
Truckee, owned by the George DERRICK
Company, dOcked at section 2 of the sea-
wall yesterday morning after an eyentful
voyage. Compliments were showered upon
Captain Fl. G. Thomas yesterday for bring
ing his vessel safe into port.
She sailed from Astoria March IA, bound
for Tillamook, and when crossing the bar
in rough sea broke four blades Of her pro-
peller and the port wheel chain. The ship
Snif nd
struck, pounding hard and damaging her
shoe and keel. Captain Thomas managed
to sail hel over the bar and anchor until
morning, when he started under sail for San
Francisco, but was blown back eighty miles
to the northwest of Tillamook, off Shoal-
water Bay, and was obliged to make haste
TO the mouth of the Columbia River and on
to Astoria. where he put in for repairs. lie
made the run down here in THEE and a half
days, and the owners are thankful that a
cool-headed man carried the steamer through
the accident.
In letter received yesterday by C. S.
Doe 81 Co., lumber merchants, of Howard
and Spear streets, news came that B. John
son. first mate of the lumber schooner
Palkersburg, was washed overheard in a
severe northwest gale March 6, when the
vessel was only three days out from San
Francisco, beating her way nOrthward.
Captain Hansen mailed the letter at Ban
don, at the mouth of the Coqutlle River,
March 10, and the vessel proceeded on
her way.
Johnson's widow ard family live in Oak
land. Messrs. Doe IL Co., owners of the
ship. speak well OF the man and are trying
to ascertain the address of his widow.
The ferry steamer Piedmont has been
taken out of service for a while and will
undergo thorough overhauling. Upward
of 100 seats will be added in the cabin and
300 more life-preservers will be placed on
board. A new and welcome feature will be
two comfortable smokng-ca bins.
The steamer City of Puebla was lowed
over from Sausalito yesterday, and dry
docked at the Union Iron Works to be put
in readiness to sail for Seattle April 3,
steamer sailing for the north every five
DAYS.
The Signal Service officer reported yester-
day that al 10 o'clock in the morning war
ship flying tue New Zealand flag had been
sighted steaming up the coast, but the name
of the vessel could not be ascertained.
Changes in the beaeons at Humboldt Bay
were announced by the Lighthouse Service
yesterday as follows:
The red and black horIZontal-striped
buoy marking the outer junction of the old
Tor west and Bucksport channels has been
replaced by black buoy marked 3.
The Mad River channel has been marked
by six beacons-three painted red and
S. IS" ' ~ "N D ''i'U = anu
When proceeding up the channel the red
beacons with even numbers are to be left
on the starboard hand, and the black bea-
cons with odd numbers on the port hand.
giving them all berth of from 80 to 60
feet.