The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31

she arose in the air she was too frall for her
load and broke in two. The wreck was
hurriedly cut from the falls and the racer
that had won her weight in silver passed
away. Jack O'Brien, the coxswain, who
had so often steered her to victory, and
Island, cried like child when he saw his
beloved boat disappear forever.
During her great race with the Daring,
Admiral Harmony, then captain of the
Plymouth, BET against his own ships boat.
He sent a quartermaster named Albert
Weisbogle into the mizzen-rigging to re-
port the progress of the contest. When
the Nonpariel swung in ahead of her
rival Weisbogle sang out gleefully, 'Hur-
rah, Captain Harmony, we will see our boat
win
"Well, you won't see her win, you ras-
CAL" said the irate commander, who con-
fined the too-iubilant sailor in the "brig"
until the race was finished. However. as
Weisbogle won fine payday" in the
race, and his captain lost $500, he was Jolly
over his five minutes imprisonment. She
won the twenty-five races she took part in.
The grand old Hartford had a fast barge
which the crew called the 'tHelen B, in
honor of Captain Bradford's daughter.
This charming Josephine of the feet was
owing to her that the crew reached such
matchless skill with the oar. Patrick T.
Ryan, whose picture accompanies this
article, now living at II Washington street
in this city, was the racing coxswain and
steered her in the seventeen races she won.
Paddy" Ryan, as he is known in every
station on the globe, is a New York naval
apprentice, a thorough sailor, and an eX-
cellent specimen of the new navy.
After a notable race in Callao, Peru,
where the victorious crew made gener-
Gus donation to the Sisters of Charity in
Lima, the grateful women presented the
boat with silk flag which they had made.
The barge won $500 from the Brooklyn in
Montevideo, and $1,000 from the famous
Peruvian (now Chilean) warship Huascar.
She beat the Apprentice Boy, foreign
built boat belonging to the Adams, and in
the race she carried printed on her bow,
"Uncle Sam built this boat" slur which
was the cause of several free-to-all fist
fights ashore between the men of the two
ships. She was afterward renamed the
Undine by Coxswain Ryan. Her last
which she beat King Kalakaua's barge, the
Kapiolani, which she led by two seconds
over course of five miles around the old
red buoy inside of the harbor. Cramp, the
Philadelphia shipbuilder, was the referee.
Over $4,000 changed hands, and the race
was only decided after suit at law. She
was finally beaten by the Adams black
boat.
The world-known Daring was built at
New York in 1869 by Charles. Hupenstaul,
whose splendid boats are famous in all
waters. She went to the China station on
the Colorado as Admiral John Rodgers
fleet barge. She raced during all her naval
life and was defeated only twice.by the
Nonpariel and by the Powhattan S
barge called in derision the "Sandboat,' y
from her clumsy shape. She is now laid
up at Mare Island. A new boat was built
on her lines by Boat-builder Gibson at the
hayward, which gave promise of rivaling
the original, but the new craft was lost in
the Vandalia at Apia.
The Apprentice Boy was built by the
contributions of the naval apprentices OF
the steamer Adams at Rio She was a
large sixteen-oared barge, but was a veri-
table paper-weight and as light as a com
mon whitehall. She won in several con-
tests, but she overmatched everything in
the southern waters and could get no more
races. Her coxswain was s'Old Charley
Brown" a well-known character in the
naval service. She was sold by the BOYS to
some person in Vallejo who had some diff
Guilty in persuading the yard officers that
she was not the property of Uncle Sam.
The Olga, a 14-oared barge, named in