The morning call., 1893-10-21
Another Man of War
Back From a Cruise.
NO CASE OF GRIP ABOARD.
Forty of the Men Had Attacks of
s.: Bronchitis.
NONE DEAD AND NONE DYING.
-.
The .Warship Only Remained Five
:, Hours in the Bay, Then Proceeded
Direct to riare Island.
NONE DEAD AND NONE DYING.

=. Tba limited States steamship Mohican.
NicolI Judlow commander. anchored in
the nav Yesterday morning at g. 80 o'clock
and fys hoprs later left for Mare Island.
.wbere she arrived during the afternoon.
The Mohican did not have an adventur-
ous:tiine during her summer cruise in the
..Berinc sea, the reports of the northwest
CORRESPONDENTS to the contrary notwith-
standing il may be Temem bered that at
one tine the telegraph had the Mohican
:. .dfss bled by a shot from a sealer, at an
: other time she was aground, ana again she
was laid up in the northwest straits,
officers and crew being unable to work her
on account of an epidemic of the grip.
81 don't see why we should have been
the subject for this mass of fairy tales"
said Commander Ludlow yesterday. "We
have had remarkably quiet trip. We
never even sighted a sealer within the
:eIosed sea and We haven't grazed the bot
tom. AS to the epidemic of grip ask the
Sturgeon. about it."
s. There has not been a case of grip on
beard" said Surgeon Manly R. Simons.
W hen asked about the stories. The night
before we left Sitka there was heavy fall
of snow and a raw wind came down the
mountains that seemed to penetrate every
part of the ship. The next day several
men were affected with bronchial trouble
and anumber of cases developed.
>: During the trip from Unalaska to San
francisco forty-four men out OF the crew
of $50 we're en- the sicklist and sixteen
more were treated, but the latter did not
=; go off duty. The cases were all diagnosed
as bronchitis, nobody died from the effects
and all have now recovered save q few
who still have inf1amed eyes and constant
.:Use for ket-handkerchiefs. Noaid was
asked Of any passing steamer. and the only
reason the MOhican was at anchor in the
straits was that Commander Ludlow was
waiting for high tide"
-. 1t was in January last, just after the
news of the overthrow of the Hawaiian
monarchy was received, that the Mexican
was ordered to Honolulu. She remained
there as Admiral Skerrtt's flagship until
May, when she sailed north, ordered to the
,BeTing Sea. She arrived at Port Town.
send on May 10, and ber log shows her sum-
mer's cruise to have been as follows:
:: Left Port Townsend Nav 80, arrived at
Sitka June % arrived at Kodiak June %.
arrived at POpoff Island June 80. Arrived
Eat 4UDalasEa July l and sailed July r.
From July u until July 80 she steamed in
and put among the islands, and on the
*latter date put to sea in the face of gale.
-0n August 4 she returned TO Unalaska,
Remained until the 18th, then cruised until
: August % On that date she sailed for
Sttka, arriving Septemb Der %. The de-
@paFtuTe from Sitka was on October 4, and
:: on iQetiber 13 she arrived at Port Town
send, departing for San Francisco three
days later.
:: Since the Mohican left San Francisco
:there have been several changes in the
wardroom. Samuel w. Very, who was
executive officer, was transferred 10 the
=. Boston at Honolulu. and Edwin K Moore
- l. - A
Port Townsend Ensign Houston Eldredge
was detached on sick leave, and William
C. Strong, navigating officer. WAS trans,
ferred 20 another ship, john b. Collins
taking his place. At Sitka Ensign Ben1a-
= min +. Hutchinson was transferred 10 tne
/: Petrel, Frank Marble taking his place.
= Tie officers to-day are: Commander,
3. Niccl Ludlow; lieutenants-E. L. Moore.
j. j. B. Collins, B. o. Scott, j. H. Aether-
:fngton; ensigns-Frank Marble, s. 5. Rob
iIson, n. L. Harrison; surgeon, NJ. ID.
Sim0ns; assistant surgeon. {. 7. Bagg;
-paymaster. J. r. Stanton; chief engineer,
a. c. Engard; assistant engineer, >. Ar
mold; lieutenant of marines, 5. G. Lucas :;
naval cadets. r. Pringle, J. s. Meyers.
In addition to the officers the Mohican
has I67 men on board. Her complement is
about 200, but number of her loDgterm
sailors were transferred at Sitka to the
:: Petrol for Chinese cruise. The man-of-
- W Al is III lc1ASSt COAd4ttObS nuO oA'ICU iubO
the navy-yard as seaworthy as when she
. left ten months ago.
Paymaster Stanton left the Mohican at
Port Townsend On October 16. having
; leave of absence until his ship should
:reach San Francisco. to which place he pro-
ceeded by rail, informing his messmates
that be would be in San Francisco couple
Of days ahead of them and have good time
:befoI the old ship arrived. But there IS
no Monday train service out Of Port Town
send and he was compelled to leave on
Tuesday. In the meantime the Mohican
made an unexpectedly fast trip down, and
Mr.. Stanton was much disguised when his
train from the north pulled into Oakland
at 8:15 yesterday morning and be saw
from the deck of the ferry-boat his ship
lying at anchor. Expecting her to remain
at least, however, day or TWO he decided
to have good square meal. and little
before u he was negotiating with boat
man at the foot of Clay street.
t'Where do you want to go?"
can," said Stanton.
"The Mohican 70 the boatman exclaimed.
"She has Just left for the navy-yard," and
:. he pointed to her yellow smokestack which
was disappearing away up the bay.
Stanton said something under his breath
and started to catch train. There is still
another Joke on him. He had pass when
hs left Port Townsend, one issued year
ago. He had not heard way up in Bering
Sea that these passes had been called in.
AS IL turned cut he had 20 pay his fare.
=: But he also has little laugh on his
: brother officers. They were dead 5roke''
.. all She while they were in San Francisco
. haEhor Yesterday, and couldn't get any