The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
Last of the Well-KnoWn River
and Ferry Steamer Mare
Island.
WILL GO TO THE BoNEYARD
4 New Four-Masted Steel Schooner to
Be Built for the Lumber
Trade.
Tie old steamer Mare island il to be

withdrawn from the Berkeley route and
the Hope will have it all her own way.
The Standard Soap Company and Piper,
Alden, Goodau & Co. have come TO an I'M
derstanding, so the rate war is over. IN
future all goods shipped to and from Berke-
lev will be charged uniform rate.
The old Mare Island Is 10 be relega ted to
the mud fats in Oakland, and it is doubt
full if she will ever again be in active ser
vice. She was built in San Francisco
TWENTY-FIVE years ago and was first of all
used as river boat. Later she Piled be-
tween San Francisco and Oakland, and for
the last seven years has been engaged be-
tween this City and Berkeley. The local
inspectors have cut down her boiler power
until now she can hardly make Roadway
against moderate southeaster.
The ship Benjamin F Hunt Jr., which
arrived in New York from Calcutta yester-
day, is well known in san Francisco ship
ming circles She had trying time OF 1t
and came near TO being cast away She
was on her beam ends and Iahored so
heavily that IL was thought the masts
would be rolled out Of her. Finally the
captain put her before the wind and ran
| until all danger was past.
The British ship Beecroft, lying at
Z "
ment aboard for the Valley Railroad. Ar
! raneements were made Yesterday 10 get
| the stuff out at once, as the railroad
people want il in hurry f0r piers for the
/ Stockton drawbridge. The steamer Lean
/ der will 90 alongside the BeecrOft to-day,
/ and the chances are the cement VIII De N
| Stockton tomorrow morning.
/ The last OF the salmon fleet arrived yes
/ terday. The John c. Potter, Llewellyn J.
| Morse and Harvester all arrived from the
/ fisheries, but none OF them brought Dig
| catches The Morse and Harvester were
! loaded. but the Potter was light She had
! an earthquake experience on the 24th inst.
/ The ship was tossed around like cork,
and the Chinese passengers rom the can
nerg were almost scared 10 death
( 1T made the ship shake as If she
/ Jumped over coral reef in heavy swell, d"
/ said the captain yesterday
! Captain Thonagel OF the schooner
/ Queen leaves for Scotland to-day 10 super
/ intend the building of a new -masted
/ schooner. She Will be placed under the
! Hawaiian flag and be named the Stranger.
+ She IS to be all OF steel and will
! have no topmasts. She viii carry
/ ! 2OO, OCO feet of lum Der. She Will be built
/ on the CLYDE and be owned by the same
parties that had the John Ena built.
/ j. 2. Lorentzen IS the managing owner
ana Captain Thonagel has share IN the
mand of the Queen.
/ !. T. Cunningham & Co. have chartered
/ the schooner Viking for q voyage TO the
| Southern Seas. For several days they
/ have been attempting TO secure the
/ schooner Vine, but could not come 10
! terms. The Vine IS now loading for Cen
| tral America and the Viking Is on her way
! from Mexican ports. Captain LuttreH, the
I well known South Sea Island trader, Will
go out in command of the Viking.
The Hydrographlc Office sends out the
following notice:
Notice is hereby given that, on account OF
! the scarcity OF water and until the rainy sea-
/ son sets in, Cape Flattery fog signal will blow
{ but once in five minutes, except when hearing
/ q vessels whistle or horn, when the fog signal
/ will blow regularly until the vessel has passed
= correspondent says:
In yesterdays CALL was published cable
gram from Adelaide, South Australia, an
| nouncing the safe arrival in that port OF Ihe
! much-overdue ship Earl OF Hopetown.
This vessel has been q source OF much specu
! lation among the gam blers, and her price jus
J before the arrival OF our wire had reached e
per cent. On the London markets fOrtulgh
ago 40 20 10 per cent was offered and paid, anC
in the meanwhile she had risen 10 40 Offered
The Earl OF Hopetown sailed from Vancouver
I B. c., on the 23d Of May, and passed TatoOSt
May "a, bound 70 Adelaide with cargo o
lumber. and failed to make her port before
October p, thus covering over five months or
| 1 passage which under ordinary condition
| should be made IN from seventy TO ninety days
Many reinsurance men had great faith II
her owing TO her high character, she being
new ship built entirely OF steel in 1892 al Por
Glasgow by Russell & Co., to the highest elias
/ at Lloyds, and their sauguiue ideas have nov
been fully justified More nearly concerning
san Francisco underwriters are the Scotch coal
I laden vessels NOrdlyset from the Clyde Jun
10, and the Casa bona, also from the Clyde 3ls
I OF July for California.
/ Although not overdue, the destruction b.
[ fire at sea OF the German ship Europa bounC
/ TO san Francisco from Leitn, scotland, ia
! caused these two ships 10 Ue offered for re
/ insurance and 20 per cent has been paid Of
each, the cargo OF the Casabona being iron
the same colliery as the EUrops's shipment
The Nordlyset is & steel bark OF 1918 ton
register, built at GreenOck in 1891 by Russell
& Co, and owned II Norway; and tn
CssalOna, late the snip North of London, !
an iron bark OF 1895 tons register, built a
Birkenhead in 1868 by J. r Clorn & Co., an,
now owned by Cssaiona & Co. OF Genoa, Italy
The British ship Earl Burgess, previ
ousIy reported at Montevideo, was sold a
auction on the Sd inst. for 5000. The pur
chaser will make that much money out o.
the old iron.
The steam schooner National City is tc
go on the Marine Railway dock at Eureka
next trip. She viii there receive q thor
ough pverhauling, and the eIectric-ight
plant that was recovered from the wreck
OF the Hum boldt will be put in her.