The morning call., 1894-05-12
MORE JAPS HAVE ARR

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seven days out from San Diego for Ia
coma, aud an effort has been made to
increase the reinsurance on her from % to
So or 40 per cent. The marine under
writers are said to be little shaky OF
accepting a risk on her at any rate.
Everything tends to prove that the Sen
egal has joined the ships that have myste-
riously disappeared, leaving no trace OF
wreckage to tell of their fate.
Under the most adverse circumstances
the Senegal should have made the run
from San Diego to the sound In thirty-fve
days. Even head winds could not have
prevented her from going much over this
record.
The opinion of local ship-owners and
seafaring men is that the Senegal is either
a total loss or has been damaged TO such
an exte mt about her hull and rigging that
she has been driven many miles out of her
course by one of the severe northwesterly
gales that have impeded the progress of
vessels travelling along the coast.
The Senegal was in command of Cap
tain Stevens; the list of her petty officars
and seamen is not on file in this city.
There were about twenty-eight men all
told in her crew. All hands have prob
ably been lost, or else some one of them
would have been picked up by passing
craft or come ashore in boats.
Hope for the safe arrival Of the ship has
not been abandoned altogether, for it may
be possible that so much of her sailing
gear has been carried away by high winds
tnat she Is forced to make port with only a
small spread of canvas. Then again some
accident may have happened to her steer
ing gear.
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rigged masts and a jigger, and carries
dou Bile topgallan sail yards. Her net ton
mage is 1861 tons. and her length over all
256 feet.
According to the statements of those
who profess TO know, the Senegal was a
very cranky vessel in heavy weather. She
was never considered an easy craft to
handle and was not noted for her speed.
If the Senegal had reached Tacoma in
safety she was to land lum Der for Queens
town. She was in ballast when she left
San Diego.
If Seattle succeeds in running line of
steam schooners TO Central America, thus
attempting to divert the trade of the Pa
cfc Mail Steamship Company, the latter
will meet the opposition with cut rate it
is rumored.
Seattle evidently means business, and il
has already come TO light that parties sup
posed to be promoters of the Puget Sound
route have been going the rounds in Oak
land Creek trying to secure an unchartered
steam schooner or two with which TO CON-
mence operations.
Nearly sixty japanese from Victoria
were landed yesterday morning from the
Steamer Queen with an alacrity that was
astonishing. The Japs, as usual, were
Immediately sent into the country to
work.
Immigration Commissioner Stradley
might improve his idle moments by at
tending to business strictly enough to
make an investigation of the contract
aborers that are being poured in upon this
port from Victoria aud other SQUAD ports.
The question is a serious one. Asshown
la the columns OF THE CALL repeatedly,
there are from 300 to 500 Japanese landed
hers each month from the north. Some
thing Is wrong some where, for there is not
know that number OF The Japs are COM
ing here under arrangements TO 60 to work
in the county.
Captain a. j. STAIRS, formerly comman-
der Of the steamship Willamette Valley,
goes out on the Progreso as first officer
The Progreso is alongsids of the Lom-
bard-street wharf, but very little freight
has been rendered her for transportation
as yet.
The Liverpool Journal of Commercs in
q lengthy editorial article speaks highly of
our local Seamsn's Institute, presided
over by Rev. Dr. Fell. The journal does
not mention so favorably, though, the
English shippers who allowed their ap-
prentice boys to wait Tor hours on certain
nights in the rain at FoIsom-street float.
and says "such incidents are happily not
of frequent occurrence with British sea
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