The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-10
A WEEKS DELAY.
The Laps to Go North
Next Saturday.
Tramp Tourist Randall Did Not Get
Off to HonOluIu-The DrumeItan
Safe at Nagasaki.

The brig w. II. Meyer, which was to
have sailed for the Arctic Ocean yester-
day morning, will not leave for the north
ern seas until next Saturday, as the
owner, Captain McKenna, will not be able
to get his freight aboard and everything
ready for his long cruise before that time.
The Meyer will have as passengers MIR.
kJellman, Norwegian minister, and hi s
wife, SchOOlteacher and his wife and the
sixteen Laplanders who recently arrived
here from Norway under contra ct with
the United States Government to go north
and teach the ESQuimaux of our Alaskan
territory how to subdue and handle the
untamed reindeer of the snowy wastes and
utilize them as beasts of burden after the
fashion of the Lapps. Mr.. hiellman is the
superintendent of the Lapps, and he will
see that they teach the Esquimaux all the
latest and most improved methods in rein
deer driving
There are fifteen Lapps in the party, five
of them being women and four children.
They have been al the Sailors Home since
tGeir arrival and, although their odorifer-
Gus presence is not much cared for there,
they Will have to remain until the Meyer
sails for their destination.
Captain Mckenna will sail on the Never.
as he expects to meet MS new steamer. the
Fearless. at Port Clarence and take COM
mand of her. She is now IN Japanese
waters, whence she will steer for the Arc
tic, stopping a. Point Barrow on her way.
The schOolteacher who will sail on the
Meyer Will remain at ST. Lawrence Island
and take charge of the native school
there.
The steamer Australia, which sailed for
Honolulu yesterday, carried large num-
Der OF passengers bound for the islands
and an unusually heavy cargo. There was
one person who expected to be q passenger
VINO at the last moment found that be
would nave TO remain ashore. This was
Charles Randall, the young man who is
travelling around the world as a tramp IN
order TO win the $1,000 offered by the Liy-
erpool Athletic Club If he accOmplishes his
feat He is supposed 10 carry only 10
cents in coin, and he must not ask assist
ance from friends. He has reached this
city, but so far has failed in his efforts to
get to Honolulu. He missed the Alameda.
and yesterday was around the Australia
expecting to De Invited to make a trip to
Honolulu, where he says he will be all
right, as he has friends there who will
keep him without his asking them. Blu.
he walled IN vain, and with a sigh saw
the vessel steam away on her voyage TO
the sunlit isles where he so longed TO be.
Randall says that he will give up trying
to reach Honolulu by steamer, and this
morning be says he will start northward
on foot and try TO reach Alaska with the
vague idea Of endeavOring to cross over to
the other hemisphere from that point. He
says be may stop at Victoria and see if he
will have any luck in trying 10 cross the
Pacific in one of the Canadian Pacific
steamers.
A dispatch was received in this CITY
yesterday announcing that the British
bark Drumeltan, which had previously
been reported ashore near NakOshima, on
the Japanese coast, had been pulled off
and towed TO Nagasaki, where she will be
repaired. The Drumeltan was bound
from Shanghai TO Tacoma when she went
ashore.
1t was also reported at the Merchants
Exchange yesterday that the British ship
Kenmore, bound from Liverpool TO Vic
tOria, went aground at Macaulays Point.
just outside the entrance to Victoria har-
Dor, but was towed off with but little
damage.
The pilOt-boat America went over to
Oakland Creek yesterday, where she will
lay while being overhauled and repaired
During the time she is laid up the pilot
boat Lady Mine will take the Americas
place outside the heads.
Among the passengers who sailed on the
steamer Umatilla for Puget Sound yester-
day were Deputy Surveyor OF the Port
Samuel j. Ruddell aud Carlton Richards
Both are bound for Seattle to attend the
trial OF Lee Fouk Hew, who is charged
with perjury in connection with the land
ing Of Chinese woman at this port and
at Seattle.