The morning call., 1894-12-09
A NEW SHIP GONE.
The BeIford Lost on the
Scottish Coast.
The Panama Railroad Company Re.
news Its Lease for Steamer
Service to Next May.

According to advices received in this
city the fine new British ship Belford went
ashore on the Scottish coast on November
q, and there is little doubt but that she
is total loss. The vessel is twin to the
slip Clifford. which has been lying in the
harbor ever since last July.
The Bedford was launched at Greenwich
during the same month that the Clifford
arrived here, and started for Swansea to
load coal for this port under consignment 10
John D. Spreckels & Bros. 1t was early In
November when she left. The tug Flying
Serpent was towing the vessel at the time
when a heavy southwest gale sprang up.
It was so fierce that the hawser connect
ing the ship and tug was sundered, and
the vessel began to drift at the mercy of
the elements.
As the letter which was received here re-
counting the loss of the ship states, Capital n
McKinnon was in charge of the vessel,
but finding that nothing could be done to
save her he ordered the crew to take TO
the boats. They did so and reached shore
in safety, while the fine new vessel drifted
until she struck Ganoch Head, which is
just off the Butte Islands, Scotland. The
writer states that at last accounts there
was little hope Of saving the vessel.
Cdpld1u WHO was III COM
mand at the time, is we'll known in this
city. He came here some years ago in
command OF the ship River Falock, and
returned home in her. The Belford was
insured in several British companies
Her owners are Briggs. Harris 81 Co. of
Glasgow, who also own the Clifford of
which vessel Captain Muir is in command.
The Panama Railroad Company has
made move which will have a considera-
bic bearing upon steamer traffic between
this port and the isthmus during the next
eight or ten months. This move is the re-
Dewal OF the charters for the steamsh ps
which the company is now running in con-
nectiOn with the traDSisthmus railroad,
and also those on the Atlantic side run
| ming to New York. The vessels are five
| in number and the charter is good until
May l. 1895. The new move has caused
some speculation in local shipping circles
| as to what the Panama company really
means and as TO how it will affect traffic.
! 1t is stated that the Panama Railroad
| Company has preferred to act in an inde-
! pendent manner during the past few
months when it could have coEsummated a
deal with the tran soon tinental lines upon
| several occasions.
Z. q. Hinton, the local agent of the
| company. says that the route could
! have been abandoned on yerv favorable
terms In the interests of the Pacific Mail
| Company. He says tnat the company has
| decided that the best move for il to make
would be to develop the business BY sea to
| the fullest extent The months interven-
ing between now and next May will be
sufficient to give the company's ideas a
good test. The steamers of the company
running upon this side of the iSthmus are
the Saturn and the PTogreso.
| Among the passengers who arrived here
on the steamer City of Puebla from Puget
Sound ports on Friday was pretty
81
! by name, aud a little baby daughter, who
was born at sea on the trip down. The
mother has pltifui tale of deserlion on
the part Of her husband to tell. He left
her 10 the Russian town of Samaiesvk,
nearly four months ago. 10 go as he said
TO the United States. They have only
| been eleven months we'd The vounp
wife waited and waited for tidings frou
her absent spouse, but as she heard moth
| ing she gathered money enough to carry
her to Montreal, Canada, where she had
learned that her husband was. Upon ar
rival there she found that her husband
had left for Seattle, she was told. So by
the aid of friends she reached the north
west. and was there told that man
named Eyenski had left for San Fran.
| cisco.
On Thursday last during the VOYAGE
| down the baby was born. The passengers
| and stewardess of the vessel did every
! LuiuB III tDelT pOW6T 10 TenQer the QPStl.
tute;woman comfortable. The passengers
also raised a purse of money for her
| Upon arrival here the Pacific Coast Steam.
| ship Company asked the police authorities
to assist in finding the woman's husband
| Mrs. Evenski, who is still sick on the
vessel, is firm in her belief that her hus.
band will come to her when he learns oil
! her arrival.
That the sea in all it's varied moods.
| from extreme calm to severest storm, has
an attraction which is irresistible for the
mariner who has spent The greater part of
| bis life upon its bosom, was we'll evidenced
! on Friday night, when three captains of
English vessels now lying in port paid
their fare out to the Cliff House in order
to watch the angry breakers dash upon
the black rocks or sandy beach under the
influence of the storm. which was just be-
| ginning. These dyed in-the oil m ariners
were Captain Taylor of the Britt sh shin
Cardlganshire, Captain Barr of the Falls
OF Foyers and Captain Gardiner of the
Marian Lightbodv They passed several
hours on the Cliff balcony and hugely en-
| loyed the spectacle of old Neptune lash
Ing himself into an elemental fury.
On, give me teeth sound. white aud neat
| On, give me breath that's pure aud sweet,
| On give me rosy, healthful gums,
| And will meet whatever comes;
| Whatever trouble may befali,
1 SOZnnONyT