The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-15
SAFE IN HARBOR.
The Bark Detroit Reaches
Port Townsend.
Three NOn-UniOn Crews Shipped by
the ShipowrerS Along
the Water Front.

Intelligence was received at the Mer
| chants Exchange yesterday morning OF the
! safe arrival at Port Town send of the barks
Detroit and Snow & Burgess. They reached
| that place ON the I4th inst. The vessel:
had been some days overdue and consider.
able anxiety was felt for their safety. This
was in a measure increased by the reports
brought in by the barkentne Retriever,
which arrived at the sound on the Sth.
She had sighted a derelict floating eight
miles off Cape Flattery. The null was
either copper or painted copper color, the
Retriever was uncertain which. From this
meager account coDjectureS were at once
rife as to the identity of the wreck. Many
thought it was the Detroit, but her owners.
Preston * Mckinnon, were not alarmed,
as their vessel did not have a copper bot
tom.
The derelict is now believed to be the
George Thompson bound for Europe from
Puget Sound.
Another overdue vessel, the Merom, ar
rived at Seattle on the 14th inst. She re-
ported having seen wreck twenty-five
miles off Cape Flattery on the S,h.
The schooner j. NJ. Weatnerwax reached
Port Townsend on the 14th. When off Port
Wilson February r. a man named Louis
Olsen was lost overheard.
The Pacific Mail steamer China left for
Yokohama at , 80 O'Clock yesterday after
noon. A large crowd gathered on the
wharf to see her off. She carried sixty
cabin passengers, one European steerage
and 100 Chinese. Seventy sacks of mail
arrived at the last moment and we're slowed
away in the vessels hold The tug Millen
Griffiths tOwed her into the stream. when
the steamers engines were started and she
moved slowly out toward the Golden Gate
amid cheering.
ha
W. Fl. Forbes and wife, of Hong Kong;
Paymaster Stanton. Joseph l.. uerod, Sec
rotary of the American Legation at Japan.
The greater number of cabin passengers
were tourists.
The shipowners seem to be holding their
own just at present Three non-unioD crews
were shipped a their headquarters. Z Spear
street, yesterday morning. The Oceiden tai.
bound for Nanaimo, took ten men. The
steamers Celia and Noyo. bound for Puget
Sound, shipped six or eight men each and
the barkentne Amelia received as many
more. The Amelia goes to Port Blakeley
to load lumber for Honolulu.
Deputy Shipping Commissioner John p.
Redngton has asserted himself and the
chances are there will be fewer sailors to
jump their shipping articles in the future.
This practice has assumed alarming proper
tons of late. Men would sign their articles
with nOn-union crews, and when all prepa-
rations had been made and the day for sail
ing came they would absolutely refuse to GO.
The penalty for such an 0ffenSe is q heavy
fine or a months Imprisonment
A tug lowed the Sailor Boy out to sea
yesterday morning, and she. with her nom
union crew. is now on her way to Seattle.
Monday night she lay at the Fremont-street
pier and was twice assaulted by numbers Of
determined men who were resolved upon
taking the crew out. The Waterman was
vigiant and fearless, however, and having
slack red the schooner away from the wharf
and secured the crew below deck, he held
his own against all corners until morning.
The Louis Olsen is being prepared for a
sealing cruise. She was recently released
from the custody OF United States Marshal
Long.
j. Eppinger. a coasting schooner, Is
being fitted out at Howard pier for a
sealing cruise.
The steamer Umatllla arrived from Puget
Sound early yesterday morning. She car
ried forty seven cabin passengers and forty
eight Storage.
The runaway of the mail team, scattering
the letters and papers broadcast along the
open square at the foot of Market street,
and the little tempest that made few ferry
passengers seasick and stirred things up
generally along the wharves. were incidents
along the water front yesterday.
A dispatch from Astoria. under date of
| February IA, was received at the Merchants
Exchange last night, stating that the British
| ship Natuna had arrived at that place anC
| reported seeing two stumps Of masts of {
/ submerged schooner ten miles off Tilla
nook Rock. The wreck appeared to b,
| that OF two-maser, about 100 feet II
| length.