The morning call., 1893-09-06
HER FIRE=PUMP.
How the Ship Cedarbank
Saved Herself.
A New Method of Opium Smuggling
Discovered in the Puget Sound
District.

| Surveys Of the British ship Cedar bank
which arrived here from Australia July
27. with her cargo of coal on fire, were
completed yesterday and Captain Moody.
acting for the owners and the underwriters,
will to-day advertise for proposals fol
1 temporary repairs. These will consist oil
docking the ship, scraping her inside and
out, repaiuting, ealking the decks and put
ting In patch of ceiling 24x35 feet.
! Other damage to the ship consists of five
twisted beams and a few stringer plate:
/ aud tie plates which will be restored when
she arrives home.
Approximate figures on repairs to be
made here and at home are $4,000; dana &c
| 10 cargo about the same. Adding the
cost of tugs for extinguishing the fires. etc..
will bring the expense OF the mishap TO be-
tween 1900 and $4,000.
That the Cedarbank escaped so luckily
is due to her superior construction and to
having means on board to fight fire. She
is provided with newly patented pump
which threws a stream like tire-engin c
with ten men at the brakes, and at the
same time uses the water which has been
/ poured in. When the fire was first discov-
cred eighteen inches of water was thrown
in through No. hatch. which is forward
of the mainmast. Then the suction was
changed to the hold, and the water used
over and over again. In this way all the
| fire was confined forward of No. hatch.
To any one interested in shipping it Is
worth while stepping aboard the Cedar
bank, and seeing model moderu steel
merchantmen.
Ii the underwriters do not reward Cap
tain Moody for his skill and GOODNESS, and
for his Eonchalance in securing tow from
sea for $40 while his vessel was burning
under him they will be ungratefnl.
A female opium m-smuggler with panta-
looms specially built for the traffic has
been arrested by the authorities at Port
| Townsend. The garment is shaped very
much like mems trousers, but has nine
pockets in each leg. Each pocket holds
nve-tael can and the weight Is sustained by
pair OF strong suspenders, worn as mems
are. The woman gave her name as Mrs.
Hastings and offered as an excuse for her
vocation that she preferred IL to life of
shame She has travelled back and forth
from Victoria regularly and on every tri D
went to the factory in the Chinese quarter
and secured the contraband stuff. The
ring, as usual. put up bail for her and she
will be heard of no more.
Father Tousey has bOugh. the steam
schooner Challenger. which was sold at
United States MarshaPs sale at Ounalaska,
| and will send her next spring 10 Point
Barrow, the northernmost place of settle
ment, where he will establish q mission
1t was intended to send her up the Yukon,
but the entrance is too shallow to admit
her. The vessel is now at 81. Michaels.
The schooner American Girl laid up
yesterday in Oakland creek.
From Port Costa TO stream yesterday
Earl of Hopetown and Anaurus: to Port
Costa, the Mooltan.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company
| will inaugurate the service to the Mendo-
cino coast next Wednesday.
The Bertha sails to-day for ST. Michaels
| Island.
Owing to the absence of Harbor Conn.,
missioner Cole action in the matter of a
berth for the Davie ferries was deferred
till next Tuesday.
The Mauna Ala sails 10 dav for Honolulu
with 3071 bales of hay aud 125 Il NJ of grain.