The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
HE DREADED ARREST.
Suicide of the Mate Of the
LinlithgoWShire.
ARRIVAL OF THE OCEANIC.
The Steamer to Go to Belfast for
OVerhauling.
BAY PIRATES ARE All WORK AGAIN.
Reports About the Ferry Foundations
Being Insecure Denied-The Ship
I. +. Cakes in Port.

The steamer Oceanic of the Occidental
and Oriental line arrived from Hongkong
via Yokohama yesterday morning. Among
her cabin passengers were Commander
Ashe of the royal navy, commander of
the British warship Victor Emanuel, which
is now used as a receiving vessel in the
China Sea, and Senior Castillo Trigueres,
recently appointed Spanish Minister to
Peru. He has been Minister to Japan for
six years. The Oceanic also had heavy
cargo of freight.
The trip was pleasant one throughout.
No late war news of especial Importance
was brought. After the Oceanic leaves
here it will be long time before she re-
turns, and then she will be hardly recog
nizable. AS stated in THE CALL yesterday
the steamer Coptic is on her way from Bel
fast to Hongkong, from which place she
will come here.
When the Oceanic goes back she will
proceed from Hongkong to Belfast. Then
her owners, the White Star Steamship
Company, will have her thoroughly over
hauled and remodeled throughout. She
will be given new boilers and triple expan-
sion engines in addition to enlarged pas
senger accommodation. The vessel has
y
even now her shortcomings, which are to
be looked after, do not reflect in any way
upon her Stanch seaworthiness.
There is promotion in store for First
Mate Anderson of the British ship Butte
shire, which is now lying in the harbor.
He will leave for San Diego to-day, there
to take command of the British ship Lin
lithgowshire, which arrived there several
days ago from Valparaiso, after rather
aHupnfnrnnc far her nPinarc
are concerned.
1t was one of tragedy and danger The
ship loaded a cargo at Valparaiso several
months ago. She was at that time in COM
mand of Captain Black. While the vessel
was loading at that port Captain Black
died of heart disease, and the command
devolved upon First Mate Lawson. He
superintendent the taking on of ballast, and
undertook the responsibility of taking the
ship to Portland, Or, her destination.
1t appeared though from later develop
ments that Lawson made free with the
ballast money, and as a result the vessel
was obliged to sail on December 6, about
200 tons short of ballast When the vessel
was seven days out Captain Lawson COM
mitted suicide by jumping overheard. 1t
is supposed that while under the influence
of drink he brooded over his misdoings,
and anticipating arrest for embezzlement,
decided to end all.
First Mate Harris then took command
of the ship, and although there were no
charts to be found on board he, by good
seamanship and the favoring elements,
reached San Diegoin excellent time. Upon
Captain Anderson's arrival there the YES
sci will proceed to Portland.
On Thursday night a party of bay
pirates made an effort to steal some of the
cargo of the British ship Stronza, which is
lying at Lombard-street wharf The YES
sci arrived here from Liverpool quite re-
Gently with a valuable cargo of merchan-
disc. The pirates got aboard the vessel
from the dock side and were in the act of
lowering, a crate of crockery over the
ships side to the dock when they were de-
tected. The Waterman on the ship promptly
fired shot at them and they lost no time
in leaping to the dock and losing them
selves in the darkness.
Captain Brooks, who was aroused by the
shot, hastily ran upon deck, revolver in
hand, and fired several shots at the retreat
ing robbers. In all there were six of them,
but they succeeded in escaping. There is
no cleWT. to their identity, although the har-
Dor police are working on the case
1t was expected by the Harbor Commits
sioners that Governor Budd, who came
down from Sacramento yesterday, would
make an inspection of the foundation of
the new ferry depot at the foot of Market
street in order to verify certain reports
that have been spread to the effect that the
foundations were not what they should be.
and that Contractor John McMullin was
palming Off inferior work upon the Com
missioners and the State.
Engineer Holmes as well as the Harbor
Commissioners is somewhat indignant
over the reports regarding the foundation.
They are DESTROYS that the Governor should
make an inspection. They also maintain
that strict watch has been kept upon the
work, and that it could not have been
done better. The reports probably arose
from the fact that once or twice some of
the wooden arches upon which the CON
crete is laid have broken down before the
cement had set. 1t is a fact that the
bituminous rock used as a pavement has
been condemned as not being up to the
standard, but that has nothing to do with
the foundation.
The American iron ship T. F. Cakes ar
rived from New York early yesterday
morning; she made the passage in 131
days, and CaptainReed reports having had
an unusually pleasant voyage. The Cakes,
which is one of the five American iron
ships, anchored off Powell-street wharf
where she will remain until to-day, when
she will dock.
The twenty EIGHT boxes of specimens
which Professor Jordan of the Stanford
University brought up from Mazatlan
were, by courtesy of the customs officials,
landed yesterday. They will be taken to
Palo Alto and an inspector will examine
them there.
The United States cruiser Bennington
sailed for the south on Thursday night.
She has been loaded with stores and will
remain away quite while evidently Her
orders are to proceed to Panama as fast as
possible. She will in all probability hover
around the upper coast, though in case OF
war between Guatemala and Mexico.
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