The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-17
A CALM PASSAGE.
Voyage of the British Ship
Weytiop.
THE WRECKED VOLANT FOUND
SeaIers Are Excited Over the Pros
poets of a Good Catch This
Season.

The British ship Wythop, Captain Ed
wards, arrived yesterday, 144 days from
| Liverpool. She made extraordinary time
considering the fact that she had success
sion of Gains from the day she sailed until
q day or so ago, when she got into fog and
lain.
A seaman named John White died on No.
vember 49, 1892 and was buried at sea.
Twice on the voyage the Wythop spoke
the British bark Milton Stuart.
The first time was several months since at
Staten Island, and again few days ago.
The two vessels must have been very near
together the whole voyage, for the Wy
thop was no sooner inside the heads than
the Milton Stuart came in sight.
The Milton Stuart sailed from Newcastle,
England. on August p, 1892, and came
through the north passage around the Shet-
land Isles The voyage was of 14S days an d
the weather average. Some time during De-
tober Finn seaman named John Norman
fell from the foretOpgallant yard to the
staTboard rail and was instantly killed. He
was buried at sea.
The Milton Stuart was on her maiden
voyage. She is fine steel four-masted
bark of $40 tons net register. Her length
over all is 81 feet. with As feet beam and 26
feet depth of hold. She was built by Swan
& Hunter of Newcastle and registered in
Liverpool.
The new Poweli-street wharf does not
seem to be very popular with vessels. but
the ladies in that end of town are delighted
with it. On pleasant days it is crowded
with women and children.
1t Is beautiful place and affords a spIen-
did vio IF tho hav I'm Hirpoti0n Rut
the reason the ladies like il is becaus they
can fish there without attracting the atten-
ton Of a crowd of wharfrats 1t Is now no
uncommon sight TO see well-dressed lady
hauling up big crab net This is their
favOrite sport and they indulge in it without
taking off their kid gloves They have no
use for 3 man as long as the net does not
catch anything, but If large vicious crab
should have been enticed into the meshes
there is series of wild shrieks and several
OF the SteTner sex at once come forward to
take the monster ont.
There is great excitement among sealers at
present and all are in great rush to get TO
sea. 1t has been reported that the season
was an exceptionally good one. but yester-
day word was received that the schooner
Emma Louise, which was the first of the
fleet TO get away, had killed over 200 seals.
The news threw all hunters and fishers
into a state Of wild excitement, aud many
will go to sea with all possible speed.
The Helen Blum sailed about noon yes
terday and expected to make big catch on
the seal grounds and then proceed north for
offers. She was high hook on offers last
season.
Another storm-bound vessel got in port
yesterday. 1t was the schooner j. b. Leeds,
twenty-one days from Seattle. Her story is
almost exactly the same as the other vessels
that went through the gale.
All but two Of the vessels that were
struck by the gale have now been heard
from. The ElOch Talbot is eighteen DAYS
out and the Majestic is out thiriy-two. but
nODOdy expects TO see her again. III she
arrives safely many old seadogS will be sur
prised.
A telegram from Eureka, sent to the mer-
chants yesterday, stated that the brig
Fearless had found the floating hull OF the
schooner Volant about five miles above
Point GOrda. She had made line fast and
was towing the wreck south at good speed.
The tug and its charge should get in here
some time to-day.
The United States steamship Iroquois has
been turned into quarantine steamer. and
will proceed in short time TO do duty at
Port Townsend. A vessel was necessary
for this work, and the Secretary of tile
Treasury thought the lroqnois answered
the purpose better than any OF the steamers
now at Mare Island.
The missionary brig Pitcairn, Captain
Christensen, cleared for Pitcairn Island
yesterday, and viii sail as soon as possible.
She viii take up her old work at the Islands,
and very likely be gone several years.
Divine services will be held on board on the
dav of departure.
Ira B. Smith is the name of the new
superintendent Of the California Naviga-
ton and Improvement Company. He fills
the place made vacant by COrc0raD, and has
now been in office several days.
Three vessels took noll-uuiOn crews
yesterday and sailed without the slightest
Interference. They were the schooner
Nora Pike, the bark Forest Queen. and the
steam schooner Norfolk.
The steamer San Bias sailed yesterday
for Panama and way ports. The passenger
list was small. and she carried less than the
average amount OF freight.