The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-09
AROUND THE CITY FRONT.
The Absentee Deep Water
Ships Are Now Coming in
to HarbOr.
A Sad Showing of Vessels Flying
the American Flag-BiggeSt
Sailer Afloat.

The Pacific Mail steamship. Acapulco
sailed yesterday afternoon with a large
cargo and forty-seven cabin passengers
and forty-seven Chinese and seventy
whites in the Storage. Among the lat
ter were twenty-five sailors from the men
of-war on, this and the Asiatic coast en-
route home for discharge. Mate J. S.
Lang, an English sailor i'll with consump-
ton and penniless was sent home by the
Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society. The
sick man was brought down from the Sail
ors' Home by Mrs. McAnney and Mrs.
Cox, officers of the society, ana placed
aboard the Mail steamer.
Mrs. Marshall, wife of Captain George
Marshall of the ship Llewellyn j. Morse,
now in Alaska, died Saturday in this City
of cancer after a long illness. Mrs. Mar
shall had large number of friends here
who attended her funeral yesterday. She
leaves husband and one daughter.
The last excursion trip of the steamer
Pomona from Santa Cruz was under the
auspices of Company E of the Naval Re-
serve stationed at Santa Cruz. A large
crowd availed themselves of the hospitality
of the new sailors.
A fellow giving his name as Chris Fred
ericks was arrested on Drumm street yes
terday afternoon by Policeman Ellis while
trying to sell carpenters tools which had
been stolen from an unfinished building
on Washington street, near Hyde.
The deepwater absentees are coming in
and the bay begins to look once more like
a rendezvous for ships The bark Colusa
came in Yesterday from Hakodate, Japan,
~ IF nf hrir CT nd
the ship Enrol arrived from Junin, Chile,
with $50 bags of soda nitrate. The bark
Corondelet arrived from Newcastle, n. S.
W., with 1910 tons of coal.
The British ship Kelat, which arrived
here May % under 30-shilling charter to
McNear, was recently rechartered to Ep-
pinger 81 Co. at 81 shillings and pence.
She will carry 5000 tons of California wheat
on her return home.
The largest sailing ship afoat was
launched June 8 at Geestemunde, Ger
many. She was named the Potosi and is
owned by Messrs. F. Luiesz of the Ham
burg fleet. The Potosi is a ive-masted
steel ship of over 5000 tons, and is larger
than the French ship France or the Brit
ish ship Somali, which left this port some
time ago with 6125 tons of wheat. The new
big craft will PROBABLY visit San Francisco
in search OF a grain charter before long.
The Boston correspondent of the Marine
Journal in its Issue of June % says: Gap
tain Eugene NJ. Freeman, the welI-known
San Francisco pilot, is spending six
weeks vacation in the Hub. The captain
was raised on the tip end of Cape Cod but
has been in the pilot service at the Golden
Gate for twenty-six years. He has been
entertained by the pilots here. inspected
the Jubilee, which he thinks great boat,
and will soon see how Boston pilots dothe
trick as he goes to sea on the big Scotsman
next Saturday with Captain Bill Abbott. F"
Yesterday the work of clearing away the
site for the new boathouse to be built
for the Naval Battalion, was began near
the Oceanic dock at Folsom street. 1t will
be neat and commodious structure, well
fitted for the object of it's construction.
Captain William. Leavitt of Portland,
Me-, gives a list from authentic records of
the few ships flying the American flag, and
melancholy procession it is, compared
with the fleet of the period, when Bath
alone launched more than fifty ships a
year. Captain Leavitts report is as fol-
lows:
! The Oldest was built in 1855 and is the ship
Eliza Adams, 3SS tons She was built in Fair
haven, Mass, for whaler. Another old ship
is the Niger of New Bedford 391 tons, built in
1874. She also is a whaler. The oil saturates
their tlnbe and they do not rot. The dates
OF the building of the ships straggle along, a
lew III eacn year, until 1874 is reached. -FOUR
teen launched that year are still ahoat. For
rs there are fourteen afoat also |; for '76 also
fourteen, and for II there are twenty-five
Twelve built in 'S3 are afloat. Most
OF the 49, survivors were built in
Maine Some of the best of them are
the a.; G; Ropes Qss4), Aryan C93), Ben
iamin F. Packard c83), Cyrus Wakefield esq.
Dirigo (only one built in 1894, and of steel),
Edward O. Brien esq, George R: skolfeld Cs5),
India c6S), Ivanhoe C65), Hamilton Fish ('56),
Guardian C63), Great Admiral c69), Kate
Davenport c66), Louis Walsh t61), Annie NJ.
Small c6S), Canada t59). Some of the best
American ships are now under other flags.
One OF these is the old ship Monticello, built in
Ihomastown, Me-, in 1859, and now the
Russian bark Ceres.
Yesterday the lighthouse steamer Ma
drono, with Commander H. e. Nichols,
U. 5. n. Inspector of the Twelfth Light
house District, left for the north to meet
Admiral Walker, chairman of the Light
house Board, who is making an inspection
tour of the stations on the Coast. The
admiral will meet the Madrono in the
steamer Columbine at Port Oxford and
will then be transferred to the former
vessel,