The morning call., 1893-10-15
ANOTHER CONVERT
A New Move by the Black
Diamond Company.
SELECTING CREWS FOR SHIPS
It, Follows the Example of the
: Steamship People-Arrival of the
Cieone-Notes.

- A very important move was made in
o shipping circles Yesterday The Black
Diamond Coal Company has followed the
: example Of the Pacific Coast Steamship
:: Company in the matter of selecting crews
for its ships. The ship Iyanhoe, COM
.,Iianded by Captain Griffin, will sail for
= Seattle to-day with eight union men, part
of her Did crew. and four non-union sail
ots.
= The Black Diamond Company has here
tofore employed none but union crews.
- and as it runs four ships, the Spartan,
e: 1yanhoe. Columbia and Germania, and
:. employs about 90 seamen monthly, its
action is considered of considerable mo
'ment
:: :: CAPTAIN Griffin of the Ivanhoe said yes-
:.teriay that he had signed four non-nnion
men and that the union had advised the
remaining eight men of his crew, who be-
- long TO that order, to stay with the Ivan
= hoe. Sailors nave preference for coast
: ing vessels and the Black Diamond Coal
" Company has been overrun with appliea-
: tions for berths on its ships.
: Fhe company announces that 1t has no
objection to union men, but that it intends
IN the future to give all seaiaring men an
=. equal chance for employment on its
20 vessels.
-
schooner Cleone arrived from Meudocilo
=: with the water-logged schooner Electra,
which went ashore on the north coast some
DAYS ago. in tow.
-: The crew of the Cleoue had a variety OF
experience to relate. During the recent
storm the schoOners Electra, Albion and
Corinthian met with disaster off the Men,
doclho coast The Corinthian is still
ashore near the town of Albion, the AL
Dion is reported to be slightly damaged.
and the Electra is at Mission No. filled
TO the deck with water. The bOatlOad Of
survivors from the Corin THAN which put
::out to sea is said to have reached Albion in
safety. The Electra's deckoad was re-
moved and loaded on board OF the Cleone.
" The weather was fair on the down trip.
:; and the Cleone had very little difficulty in
handling the derelict
1t was stated that the Albion-COrinthia an
disaster occurred through collision. The
. weather was very thick and heavy swell
was running. Captain Hanson of the
.. Corinthian was drowned by the upsetting
of boat which had been launched and
was occupied by the skipper and FIVE OF
his crew. A heavy sea overturned the
boat and the captain was washed into the
surf, where he went down before the eyes
OF his men, who were powerless to aid
him.
The British ship Harland sailed yester-
3 day Tor Liverpool with a general cargo.
Harland.
The freight steamer Frank Silva of the
Davie Transportation Company broke
down Friday night and had to be towed 10
Oakland by the Rosalie.
: The largest freight steamer in the world
has been launched at Belfast by Harand
& Wolff The vessel is the Cevic. She is
$40 feet long. 60 feet beam and depth 3S
;. feet; her registered tonnage is S3l5 gross
and her capacity of EOld 140S9 tons.
: For the week the local tonnage on the
:. way TO San Francisco from New York is
: "a, 50S tons, Hawaiian Islands 5111 tons
. Newcastle, \. S. w, &c, 153 tons, Liver
-pOOl "a 951 tons, London Is 990 tons and
: Antwerp 1894 tons. Total tonnage from
all parts of rhe world, 225. 935 tons. against
'2T5I11 at the same period of 1892. The
. :sti Reliance sailed yesterday for Queens
=. town.
Harbor Commissioner Brown has re-
:. turned from his trim TO Chicago.