The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-08

to the mercantile company, which is
largely interested in the new road. She
experienced rough weather coming through
the straits, but suffered no mishaps. The
report of her wreck was totally unfounded.
The Johnson-Locke Company, as agent
of the Panama Railroad, has chartered the
whaleback steamer City of Everett, which
will sail on her first trip to the south
| June 90.
The steamers from the north bring addi-
tional details of the schooner G. G.. White S
loss. Ten of the crew persisted in the
wreck, some of them freezing to. death.
The remainder, after awful sufferings,
were found by the schooner Lesnow
and taken to Wood Island. Among
these were Captain Harmson of San
Francisco. His feet were badly frozen
and were amputated to save his
life, which operation was in vain,
as Inortifcation had set in. He died May
8. ANDREW Johnson, A. Oleson, Frank
Murray, G. Wickstrom, F. f. Rogers, E.
W. Ball, Matthew Mathieson and F. A.
Sweeney are slowly recovering, though
Rogers and Ball will have their feet ampu-
tated.
Among the craft of the bay merchant
marine are three strangers, which, though
they sail in and out among the vessels OF
deep and shallow water of this harbor, are
strangers still. They are waits from other
| seas, and the isolation and seclusiveness OF
| foreign waters is around them. They are
the iunks Lund Sune, Flung Hi and Mong
Lee, and are owned by the Chinese shrimp
ers that operate near California City.
A reporter yesterday, desiring to learn
something about these floating visitants
| from the Yellow Sea, stepped on board the
Lund Sune at Second-street wharf, whose
name, in Roman characters, painted upon
L i zl1-,z -
! the three.
| The Lund Sune looks as if her builder
! got tired of looking at the results of his
! handiwork and quit the task, leaving her
uncompleted. Her ribs come up few
inches above the deck and stop, and rail,
cap or anything tending to ornament
| the hull is religiously omitted. The
planking of the deck runs athwartships
with the usual contrariness of things Mon
! golian. The anchor hangs over the stern
| like the whaleback's, and in this the most
modern shipbuilder has not gotten far
away from his brother of ages ago. But
the beautiful appliances for hosting the
single batwing-like sail and the mudhook
strike hardest the enthusiastic and esthetic
child of the sea. They are uncouth wind
lasses with four long pegs stuck at right
angles through the central timber or roller,
upon which the halliards are slowly
wound by the crew, dragging the sail
] lDCn Dy 1UCn 10 the masthead. LII
| apparently does not occur to Captain Sam,
her skipper, that few pulls on the hal
| lizards, occidental fashion, would send the
light canvas flying aloft, but he must make
sail as his ancestors did before Magellan
steered the first foreign devils" ship into
the Pacific.
The rudder-post stands above the deck
| like stump iurymast, and the tiller sets
horizontally forward like the arm of glib
bet The rudder itself is a wonder
Through it are large number of diamond
shaped holes, which, when the helm is put
hard over will permit the water to
| flow from side to side-the very
thing, it seems to anybody but
| a Chinaman, that should not happen
| If the vessel is to be turned to starboard or
port Captain Sam is a very intelligent
man, but his explanation of the phe-
nomenon couched in fine pigeon-English
was misleading.
The Lund Sune's side planking runs be-
yond her stern as if the junk carpenter in
tended to saw the ends of the boards off
but forgot to do it. She is larger than her
sisters, the Mong Lee and Fung Hi, which
are built on the same elaborate Chinese
lines. Captain Sam, who is sort of ad-
miral over the junks, says they are fast
sailers, and he is ready any time to race
the fast scows on the bay. He wants to
| know II there Is to be a regatta On the
| Fourth of July, and will enter his flagship,
the crack craft Lund Sune, for cups or
| coin.