The morning call., 1893-03-05
EVERYTHING GOES.
Even Tanlale Men Will Sail
With the HeCIa.
Another Opium Seizure Made on the
Peking-An Opera Company's
Mishap and Delay.

Captain Cotton of the American ship
Hecla has shipped one of the most remark
able aggregations of mariners that ever trod
the deck of a vessel in this port. There are
a dozen or so of these prospective seamen,
and if the Hecla has the good fortune TO
reach Cork with her load of redwood lum-
Der it will not be from the superior chRrac-
ter of her handling.
Captain Cotton has had all this trouble
over securing a crew simply because he
would not aceede to the demand of the
Deep-water Seamen's Association and pay
S25 month for his men.
Accordingly the captain set to work to
hunt up crew that would attend 10 the
trfing needs of a sailing vessel running
between this port and Cork and do it for $50
month, too. He sent out into the high
WAYS and hedges and argued and half COM
PEELED until his proud ship wTiggled at her
berth with the oldest set of men aboard her
she had probably ever sailed under.
The Queerest one OF all was a tamae
man from Barbary Coast whom a runner
found plying his trade along the 'front.' and
persuaded into being sailor again; for
the tamale man had once stood before The
mast long ago-so long, indeed. that every
one but himself had forgotten it. He was
from Manila, and cannot speak English
at ALL
He has often tried to get employment as a
sailor, but no one would have the old man
from Manila until some weeks since, when
he was hired as q walchman on the ship
Samaria at Sausalito, but the job was too
involved for his easy-g0ing intellect and he
was urged TO resign. Him has Captain Cot
ton signed and when the stanch Hecla
weighs anchor for Ireland among her good
sailors VIII be the little tamale man from
North Beach.
Early yesterday morning Inspectors
Holmes and Childs saw an express wagon
leave the City of PekiDg at the Pacific
Mall docks and drive rapidly awav toward
Market street. The wagon contained
trunk. and the suspicious of the inspectors
being aroused. they followed it to its desti-
nation at 10O6 Washington street. Holmes
procured a search warrant, opened the
! trunk and found IL contained 1919 tins of the
| best Lai Huen opium, valued at S1700.
| They were 5-tael boxes, and each was care
| fully wrapped in straw and sacks TO keep
them from tossing about.
The landady at 1905 Washington stree t
! said she knew nothing of her lodger other
! than he had ordered the room for a single
night, and had said be would send his trunk
| after him.
The steamer Humboldt was delayed two
| hours waiting for the Turkish Bath Com
! pany. which appeared last night in Napa,
and for which passage had been engaged.
! The organization was to play In this city,
| but its manager, E. H. Macoy, could get no
opening and would not perform at small
| prices. There are twelve people in this
| company, and among them number Of
fne-looking girls. There is a red-headed
| serpentine dancer. who is said to be great"
Captain Oliver of the steamer Monticello
| reports to the Branch photographic Office
| at Port Townsend, Wash, that on Febru-
airy %, 1898. while on bis regular trip from
| Port Angeles to Port Townsend, he struck
a rock when three-Quarters of a mile west
| Of Point Wilson and one-half mile off shore.
| No bearings were taken. The vessel had a
portion of her keel knocked off and the
! propeller damaged.
The schooner Gussie Klose shipped a
non-union crew.
The revenue cutter Corwin comes down
from Mare Island tomorrow to fit out for a
cruise to the north.
The American steamer Peru left for Yo-
kohama and Hon. Kong at o'clock yester-
day afternoon. She carried limited num-
Der OF passengers and fair cargo.
The British steamer Oceanic arrived from
China last night. She was fourteen days
from Yokohama. There were on board
twenty-three cabin passengers.