The herald., 1895-08-15
FROM PARKWAY CLIMES
A Trio Of Foreign Vessels Now at Port
Los Angeles
A Large Force Of Men at Work Unloading
Them Praise for the Big
Wharf

SANTA MONICA, August IA. The
mammoth wharf at Port Los Angeles pre-
sents a scene OF activity such as it never
has before. No less than seven big ves-
sells are tied up there. and over 200 steve
dores are hard at work unloading cargoes $
from the boats and loading them onto
trains. The third and long due sailing
vessel of the fine foreign vessels arrived
last night twenty-four hours after the
Fingal. This is the British sailing ship
Lady Isabel. from Hamburg. She arrived
at San Pedro bay last Sunday and the
tug Coils, Captain Domfeld went to
that port yesterday and towed her to Port
Los Angeles last night. She IL in charge
of Capt. John Wynne Jones, AMI left
Cuxshaven, Germany. March 4th. She
had slow passage down the North sea,
and off Cape Horn encountered two very
heavy hurricanes. While on the Pacific
equator, 122 days out, she spoke the
British ship Elmhurst, from San Fran :
CISCO. and in the channel spoke the boat
Sunol. The Lady Isabel carries q crew
of twenty.four men all told. and has a
cargo of 2400 tons of Alsen Portland
cement. She has not come alongside the
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500 yards out.
Captain Jones came ashore this m orn-
ing and to Herald reporter expresss
himself as very much pleased with Port
Los Angeles. I'VE left Cuxshaven 1853
days ago and had rather long passage,
so that we are pretty glad to touch terra
firma. Port Los Angeles is a splendid
place and notwithstanding the fact that
I have travelled all over the world, am
perfectly astonished at 1t.
Tomorrow the vessel will come up to
the wharf and the work of unloading will
commence. She has 200 tons to be un.
loaded here and 400 tons for Seattle.
The Southern Pacific company has fully
prepared for the unusual amount of bust
ness end has q force of 200 steved ores
already at work.
They will run two regular freight trains
per day to Los Angeles and as many
extra trains as necessary to handle the
freight
The Fingal, also British ship, is rid
ing at anchor to the north of the wharf,
and Will come alongside tomorrow, when
she Will commence to discharge her car
go. 1t will be q heavy task. as she has
1900 tons of coal which will be loaded into
the bunkers and then INTO freight cars.
The Eclipse, which arrived over week
ago with several thousand cases of oil
and naphtha. has discharged her cargo
and is taxing in ballast. She will sail
for San Francisco Friday.
In addition to the three foreign vessels
the boats Sunol, Captain Walwick,
Alcatraz, Captain DetteneI, and Alcazar,
Captain Gunderson. have arrived from
the north with Cargoes of ties for the
Southern Pacific.
The Eclipse was built at the big shin
yards in Bath, Maine. in 1873. and has
been in tie Pacific service for the last
four years. She has registered tonnage
OF 1885 tons ana wheat carrying capacity
of $3.50 tons. Captain j. H. Peterson has
had command OF her for q great while
and Is an old sea dog who shipped before
the mast when young boy. He was the
son OF a Danish farmer who had large
family of boys and they all struck out for
themselves when young. Captain Peter
son has Deen sailor for over thirty years
and the trip he finished week ago was
one of the longest he ever made.
The Lady Isabel was built on the CLYDE
in 1888. for the present owners. Gordon
d Go. of Edinburgh. She has been in the
grain. flour and wheat trade on the Pa
cific ocean ever since and has a registered
tonnage of 1900 tons. She is 275 feet long
and perfect ship in every way.
Tne Fingal was built by the snipbuild-
ers Harlan d Wolf. at Belfast, Ireland,
in 1883, and is 1888 feet long. Her regis
tered tonnage Is 2570 tons and has
wheat carrying capacity of 1900 tons.
The arrival OF these vessels has been
awaited With much eagerness by the resi-,
dents OF the town and Port Los Angeles
has become quite an attraction.