The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03
ALONG THE WATER FRONT,
The German Bark Iron Duke
Added to the List of the
Missing.
A VERY LARGE OVERDUE FLEET.
Clever Capture of a Burglar by Of.
ficer Ellis of the Harbor
Police.

Some of the missing ships on which re-
insurance has been paid are being heard
from, while others have been posted at
Lloyds as missing. Among the ships
which have reached port in safety are the
Sarona, 1S0 days from Sydney, n. S. W.,
and the Primus, III days from Adelaide.
The rate paid on both of them was so per
cent, so the brokers who took the risk
made handsome.profit on the transaction.
Among the overdue feet is the Star of
Austria from Santa Rosalia for Cork Lady
Laurence from Newcastle, n. s. W., to
Tocopella, Soudan from Cardiff to Callao,
Ancona from Astoria TO Queenstown, Earl
of Hopetown from Vancouver, B. c., to
Adelaide, and the Casabona from Glasgow
for San Francisco.
The German bark Iron Duke from Blyth
for Iquique is also classed among the over
due fleet, and 60 per cent reinsurance is
offered on her. She is not so very long
over her time, but the captain of the Sen
ator reported her in distress off the Horn
last August, and the chances are she went
down with all hands.
The account of the Senator's trip was
published in THE CALL on November 10
last. and Judging from 1t the Iron Duke
had very little chance. On August % the
Senator was on her beam ends. some OF
her spars carried away and everything
movable went overheard. About that
time the Iron Duke passed her and Captain
Lewis says she was making heavy weather
of it and appeared to be heavily loaded.
As the Iron Duke was only seven days
sailing time from her destination Captain
Lewis is of the opinion that she foundered.
The Oceanic Steamship Company's
steamer Australia sails for Honolulu this
morning. She has over seventy cabin pas
sengers booked, and quantity of her
freight will have to lie over for the Mono
wal, which sails on Thursday. On her
upper deck the Australia has two large
surfboats, which will be used at Hilo in
lightering goods. The Monowai will not
have as many passengers as the Australia,
but she will take away over 1000 tons of
cargo. Among it will be 1860 barrels of
salmon and an enormous quantity OF
canned goods.
The agents of the Occidental and Orien-
tai Steamship Company laugh at the idea
of anything having happened to the big
tramp steamer Evandale running in their
line. They say it took her twenty-five
| days to get 10 San Francisco with a small
| load, and it would take much longer TO get
to Yokohama with heavy one. They do
not look for news of her arrival until to-
| day.
cello had lively time of it at Vallejo last
| Saturday. He has been in the habit OF
standing at the entrance to the wharf, vel
coming every passenger who was bound
for San Francisco. Then pointing to his
steamer he would say, This way for San
Francisco" The Vallejo boys determined
to have some fun with him, so they made
up dummy and tied it to the spot where
Hatch usually took his stand and labeled
it This way to Seattle" When the man
ager and owner of the Monticello saw it he
was angry and attempted to tear it down.
1t was securely wired, however, and every
effort to move 1t failed. About this ii ne
the passengers began to arrive and Hatch
retired to his steamer in disgust and left
the dummy to face the crowd. Before
retiring, however, he tore down the sign
This way to Seattle"
Officer Tom Ellis of the harbor police
made a very clever capture yesterday.
Some time ago John Williams went into
the Hansa Hotel on Pacific street and
stole from the room of Hans Larsen $75
worth of clothing. In his hurry he left his
own old overcoat behind him and that was
his undoing. In the pocket of the coat