The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-06
RESCUED IN TIME.
A Boat Load of People
CapsiZed.
WERE STRUCK BY A SQUALL.
Embezzler Melville Goes Across
the Bay.
A JUVENILE CRAP GAME RAlDED.
Officers Surprise a Score of Players
Who Scattered Like the Winds.
Waterfront Notes.
A JUVENILE CRAP GAME RAlDED.

But for the prompt action of the officers
of the ship Kenmore. anchored at Sausa-
Tito, party of three ladies and three gen.
tlemen who went boating in Richardson's
Bay might have all been drowned.
The boat containing the plsaSure-seek-
ers was hired at Ssusalito, and its occu-
pants started off for a row to Kershaw
Island. When almost abreast OF the Ben
more an attempt was made 10 hoist sail,
but gust of wind upset the craft. throw
ing the picniekers into the water.
Luckily the captain and first officer Of
the ship witnessed the accident, low cred a
boat quickly and succeeded in resculng
the struggling women and men, but not
until two of the former had almost been
drowned.
The rescuers rowed to Sausallto, where
medical aldewas summoned and the suffer
ers given every attention.
At o'clock Yesterday morning Deputy
Sheriff Riley peared at the Tiburon
ferry with William Melville, the default
ing collection clerk of the Bank OF Cali
fornia, en- route to San Quentin prison.
Melville was attired faultessly. In his
buttonhole was pink and leaf of green.
His face was carefully shaven and his
from the tailoriDg-shop.
The young convicrs friends to the
number of half a dozen accompanied him
and seemed to be offering words of consO-
latlon, which, however, were not needed
so far as could be judged by appearances,
for Melville laughed. chatted and seemed
to be in the very best of humor
He told the officer in whose charge he
had been given that he could not be un-
happy even though the gates of the
peniteBtiary were opening TO him. So
great had been his mental sufferings
during the years that the knowledge of his
crime had confronted him daily that he
felt that his sentence was long wished
for respite for soul and body.
The Sheriff and his prisoner together
with those who had remained true to the
latter throughout his trial, took the $50
o'clock boat, and San Francisco saw the
last of William Melville for eight long
years
Sergeant Mahoney and Officers Dalton
and DOwd made descent upon a score of
nswsboys, fruit-sellers and bootblacks
who were conducting private crap game
on WashiDgten-street wharf.
The raid was not made before several
juvenile gamblers had parted with all
their spare coin aud there were some
signs of free fight.
AS soon as Mahoney got wind of what
was going on be secured the aid of Dalton
and Dowd and blocked up what he thought
was the only avenue of escape, the en-
trance to the wharf.
No sooner had the officers stars shone
on the gloom beneath the wharf shed
then there was a general scampering for
cover Some of the boys ran on board The
steamer Captain Weber, lying at the pier,
and disappeared in her ireroom. Others
dropped into a skiff and rowed away.
a Ia oil fol i,,r,>
into the bay and swan beneath the piling,
where of course be could not be pursued
Three players, who gave fictitious
names, so the police say, were captured
given a good talking to and allowed to
then depart on promise that they would
never gamble in the future.
If there is anything in the line of CON-
modities that San Francisco has a suffi-
cheney of it is coal. Coal has been coming
into the harbOr by the schooner load, ship
load and steamer full. Yesterday three
deep water vessels added a few thousand
tons more to the supply. The ship Two
Brothers from Tacoma and ship Galatea
from Newcastle, n. S. W., were among
the latter.
eight days from Yokohama. brought in a
cargo of tea in transit for Eastern points.
The Queen Victoria made a very quick
passage, being favored with fair winds.
At Port Blakeley Saturday night the
steamer Eyas. SO christened. was launched
from Halls shipyard. The Eyas has been
heretofore described in this paper. She
Is a vessel about the size and build of the
c. R. Bishop, recently wrecked at Hawaii,
and was constructed to take that crafts
place on the island route of the Island
Steamship Company of Honolulu.
The second vessel of the canning fleet
has arrived, the bark Nicholas Thayer,
with %, 764 cases of salmon from Alaska
for the Alaska Packing Association. When
the Thayer left the north the Harvester
was ready to sail with 10000 cases. The
seasons pack is said to have been delayed
by bad weather.
On July &C. while the Thayer was home
ward bound, Harry West, a cook for the
Ognak cannery. died at sea from dropsy.
Deceased was native of England, So
years of age.