The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-02
NO TIDINGS YET.
Where Is the Steamer
City of Peking?
NOW TEN DAYS OVERDUE.
The Steamer China, Which Arrived
Yesterday, VIII Likely Be Sent
in Search of Her.

That is the anxious inquiry of scores of
people vino for the past three or four days
have been waiting almost night and day at
the Pacific Mail dock for the arrival of the
steamer TO greet relatives and friends who
are on board.
Have you heard anything of her?
Do you think she is wrecked?
To all these questions the officials give
the same answer: We know nothing of the
ship since she left Yokohama.
The City of Picking is now ten days over
due and the greatest anxiety is felt for her
safety.
Yesterday it was partially decided by the
officers of the Pacific Mall Company that II
the Picking did not arrive by tonight the
China would be sent TO look for her.
The cargo of the China is being unl0aded
as rapidly as possible and everything put
in readiness to leave n few minutes
notice should the occasion demand.
The City of Picking left Yokohama on
January 10. aud the China nine days after
ward. The latter vessel experienced very
rough weather during the first week after
leaving port, and a gale struck the vessel
when about third Of the way across that
was described uy the officers as being about
the worst they mad ever experienced.
Said one of the engineers of the China:
81 think YOU Will see the City of Picking
The most likely thing that has happened
TO her is that she has broken crankpin, or
her cTankShaft, and in that case 1t would
take five days at least IN calm weather TO
make repairs, and if the seas are heavlng 1t
may take ten or twelve days. That, think,
is what has befalleE the Picking, and her
engines have been greatly handicapped by
the rough weather in the matter OF making
repairs.
"Of course many other accidents could
have befallen her. 1t is not impossible for
the propeller to be lost, and If such was the
case, the vessel will have to rely on her sails
to make Roadway. and In an accident ike
that, it Will take good many days yet be-
fore she can reach port.
IF the vessel got caught In the same gale
that we did with her machinery disabled
there is no telling what the consequences
might be. Il would be pretty hard matter
to hold her up to Sucn wind as we eDcouR-
tered with either sails or drag anchors, and
if she got broadsIde in the seas, which ran
mountain high for nearly twenty-four hours.
the chances would be about even for getting
her through or swapping.
The Picking, however, IS very stanch
boat, with the most capable officers to be
found anywhere in the world, and some
thing very serious must happen the boat be-
fore she will not make port in safety.
Il was on the steamer Toxic" continued
the engineer, when it took her tweny-six
days TO run from Yokohama TO San Fran
cisco. The machinery was all in perfect
working order during the whole Of the trip,
but the weather WAS very rough and we
were so long overdue that we were given
up for lost. That may be what is the mat
ter with the Picking on the present trip. and
it would not surprise me in the least to see
her Steaming up the bay TO the dock at any
minute in good order. except little bat
teTPd up from a continued storm.
The Chinese merchants, who have a big
consignment of goods on her for their New
Years festival. near az hand, went away
from the Merchants Exchange with blank
CONSERVATION on their faces when they
learned that the China had neither seen
nor heard Of the missing vessel.
The situation was not improved when the
tug Fearless, which had been cruising out
side the Faralones, returned yesterday after
noon with similar report.
The China was hove 10 In gale, which
lasted sixteen hours, in a region which
was most probably traversed by the Peking,
and which If her machinery was defective
might well have caused breakdown. The
China could make little or no Roadway
against the wind and sea.
Reinsurance rates on the Peking advanced
TO 80 and 30 per cent.
The names of the white crew on the Pc
king are as follows: Captain, L. K. Searle /;
chief officer, Thomas Mortensen; chief en-
ginerr William Mcclure; purser, c. H.
Brickwedel Jr.; surgeon. Henry Baker.
Nd; freight clerk, j. w. King; second
officer. Lewis B. Park; third officer, a. n.
Walton; carpenter. A. Black; quarteTmas-
tiers, Peter Parsons, William Stephenson,
A. z. Cabling and William Skogsberg; main
deck watch, II. Barnes; first ass slant engi-
neer, f. Sawd0T; second assistant engineer,
II. II. NenkeT: third assistant engineer A.
H. Cooper; fourth assistant engineer. n. Z.
Harvey; fifth assistant engineer. A. Shields f.;
sixth assistant engineer, \. Foley; water
tenders. \. Jordan, J. W. Mooney aud Z.
Dunn; oilers, Thomas Brady. j. +. Linley
and w. d. Sullivan; chief steward. w. S.
Chandler; steerage steward, {. Christian :;
storekeeper. Philip Bosworth; stewardess /;
Lena Ansen; butcher. Thomas Conley !;
saloon watch, Frank Howe; steerage
watch, Henry johnson.
Besides there are ten cabin passengers
and ninety.three in the oteerage. The names
of the cabin passengers are unknown. as
the list has not been cabled.
The following overdue vessels are on the
way to this port according to last reports: %
Bark Adolph ObTig. 293 days from New York
with merchandise TO Williams, DlmOnd Il CO.
The Obrig put into Port Stanley. August 9.
with fudder- head sprung, loss of sails and
cargo adrift. ~ The British snip Old Kens-
ington is 81 days out from London. She
put into Port Stanley on June 3 of last year
partly dismantIed, With lost sails. yards,
rigging and damaged bulwaTks. She re-
paired and sailed from Port Stanley Decem-
Der % 90 The British ship Aenashie, re-
ported May Is OF last year at Cape Town,
having been on beam ends, and cargo
shifted. She sailed again for this port
November 20. al The British ship Honres-
field is now out 173 days from Liverpool and
so per cent reinsurance has been refused.
The ship Goodrich, recently arrived, re-
ditlons which left little doubt of its being
the John Ena or the Homestead. The Ena
has arrived and this gives little hope for
the Honresfield, which has a cargo of coal
for John ID. Spreckels 81 Co. 20 The Many
down, which left Liverpool 165 days ago
with cargo Of coal, put into Rio Janeiro
on October IS with her cargo heated and
part of it was iettisoned
The steam schooner Caspar went on the
rocks at Noyo. She has been foated off
and hauled up for temporary repairs and
will be towed to this port. The wife of
this city two days ago.
The schooner Bender Brothers, which
went to sea on Tuesday with nOn-union
crew. returned yesterday on account of car
rying away a jlb stay and having several
sails blown away.
The Stockton steamer Captain Weber
went aground at the old familiar bend, five
miles below Stockton. and did not put in an
appearance at her wharf in this city yester-
day. The Mary CARAT of the old line
came down All rlght, tnough delayed by the
stiff head wind of the previous night. The
| identity OF the man who jumped from the
| vessel and was drowned on the outward
| trip off Pinole has not been ascertained as
| the names of passengers do not appear on
the tickets. 1t is believed, however, that
| the man was a composition, who was going
to work at his trade in Stockton. He was
decidedly under the influence of liquor
when he boarded the steamer
The bark G. ID. Bryant sailed yesterday
with non-uDiOn crew.
The departure of the new sealing schooner
Mascot for the Japan Sea has been post
pOned till Saturday.
The steamer Del Norte will make the
| Crescent City's trips hereafter, the latter
having been chartered as seal-island
tender.