The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-02

sea and, as the waves were running high,
he was. swept from view in an instant.
Ropes and planks were thrown overheard,
but he failed to reach them and so per-
ished-in the awful night of storm. =. - s.
F.. In looking through his effects papers
were found carefully sealed which proved,
upon being examined, that the lost officer
was the sixth Earl of Aberdeen, and was
aged 25 years. Being of a romantic and
rowing disposition andpresumably fond of.
the sea-. the young. nobleman; then only
the heir to the earldom, had drifted off on
the. ocean under an. assumed name. HI
began as sailor before the mast in Amer
lean vessels and finally passed an examin-
alton, receiving a masters certificate. His
good blood and breeding, as well as his
educational qualifications, raised the yopn g
sailor above his. associates and he would
have been in the first rank of the merchant
marine had he lived. :. :.....:..:: T..
The Countess of Aberdeen, his mother,
visited Boston and learned that the Attain
tic was rolling over her lost boy. She gave
a large sum of money to the American
Seamen's Aid Society of New York as a
memorabilia the dead mate of the Hera
The recent orders to the coast-defender
Monterey bidding her prepare for a trip to
-Callao, Peru, have created CONSERVATION
her limited fuel capacity will not carry her
from. one coaling port to another on the
proposed voyage she will be:a verita Bile
oven in the tropics. The quarters of the
crew in a man-of-war. of late, pattern are
seldom if ever considered by her designers.
After sheis fitted with her modern fighting
con trivances the men are berthed in the
spare hooks and corners. Jack sings his
hammock over dynamo that buzzes all
night or next to an auxiliary engine that
keeps him warm and wakeful during his
watch below. Even the officers are often
jammed into uncomfortable but nicely
fitted quarters, sometimes sharing their
rooms with a glistening gun or come other
space-occupying arrangement.
This is the situation on board the Mon
terey, and the men are inconsolable.
There is much wondering around the
navv-yard why the Olympia or even the
Bennington or Boston is not preferred by
the department for the work. Either of
them could be ready within a short time if
chosen. The Philadelphia is being re-
paired by the Union Iron Works at Homo
lulu and will require no relief there. The
Yorktown will soon return from China, and
no war vessels are needed in Boring Sea,
as the seal fisheries this season will be
guarded by the revenue cutters. The
Alert and Ranger are ample for the turbu-
lent Central American coast, and so the
three available cruisers at Mare Island are
practically out of a job.
The bark Canada, now lying at Port
Costa, made an effort yesterday to get a
non-union crew and failed. Several men
were brought down to the steamer Weber
by runners, but on the wharf they refused
to go aboard. Sergeant Mahoney who had
charge of the squad of police officers de-
tailed to protect them If necessary, gave
them their choice to go or stay and they
elected to remain ashore and were borne
off in triumph by the union patrolmen.
Lew Wallace, young man of this city
who never read "Ben Hur," or in fact any
book relating to biblical or moral subjects,
was arrested yesterday and locked up in
the police station and charged with. steal
ing lot of carpenters tools near the cor
ner:of Howard and Spear streets Sunday
night.