The San Francisco call., 1896-04-09

mizzen matches. Then even that dis
appeared and the work of pumping ceased.
A few hours later the pumps were set at
work again, and the two boats took out of
her nearly 400 gallons an hour. The vessel
was fast in the mud, however, and did not
rise with the tide, so another attempt to
pump her out will be made this morning
In the meantime the Vigilant keeps the
water from rising, anu at low water when
the Fearless gets to work it W i'll not take
long to clear her.
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Compahy's Coptic sailed for the Orient
with very light cargo. In order to
make up she had to take nearly 1000 tons
of mud ballast.
The following was the cabin passenger
list:
For Yokohama-R. A. Wylie, S. Strauss, Mrs.
H. <. Morrison and child, o. H. P. Noyes, A A.
Thomas, E. D. oppenheimer, A. Adelsdorfer,
Bramhall, Atherton Macondry.
For Nagasaki-Erich Baron Wolff William
Mietzschk, Hans E. Stierlin.
For shanghai-Thomas Fairhurst H. W. Mar
Shall, Rev. James Jackson, Mrs. Jackson and
two children, Miss Z. Reifsnyder, Miss X. C.
VAN bold, H. A. Croker, Mel Sinclair
For Hongkong-Herbert Dent Mrs Dent
maid and child, E. j. Moss Mrs. Moss.
The Coptic officers are known among the
White Star liners as "the kindergarten.
Captain Inman Sealby has just passed his
thirty second year, Chief Officer F. Hart
celebrated his twenty birthday last
Tuesday, Chief Engineer Reginald Cross is
26, Purser c. L. Goodrich is %, and
Second Officer Frank Beadnel is 25.
On the day that Chief Officer Hart cele-
brated his birthday Captain Sealby re-
ceived his commission as lieutenant in
the British Royal Naval Reserve He is
very proud of his appointment, as in case
of war the Coptic would be. turned into a
cruiser and he would, of course, be naval
officer and her commander.
Among the passengers on the Coptic
were the Rev. James Jackson and wife. He
is going to Kun Kiang on the River Yang
tse Kiang, where the recent riots took
place. He was there three years ago, and
feels called upon to return to his labors,
now that so many atrocities have been
perpetrated in that place. Mrs. Wallery
Is another passenger. She will be matron
of the NJ. T.. Church technical or prepara-
tory school, and is also returning to her
OLD sphere OF labor. Miss K. g. Wambold
is also bound for Shanghai and she will
JOIN the missionary forces.
Ed Open heimer, the well-known silk
merchant Of Yokohama, was also a pas
senger. He made host of friends while
In San francisco. and they were all down
to see him off. Mrs. General Bramhall had
quite crowd of ladies down to see her
away C"C 10 tuO vile Oh an fnGrlcan who
joined the japanese army during the jana
nese war and who has since become q per-
manent resident OF Yokohama.
Captain l. Smith of the tug Sea Queen
has taken months vacation and will
visit Portland and all the Puget Sound
ports. he started on the steamer Queen
yesterday morning and expects to have an
enjoyable trip.
The barkentine Marion expects to get
away for Alaska this morning. She has
12l passengers, and, as they are consider
ably crowded and many of them have
demijohns of whisky and firearms. the
Custom-house authorities interfered he
cause they were not in the manifest. In
consequence clearance papers were re-
fused, but everything has been straight
ened out and the vessel will get away to-
day.
The Pacific Mail Company's City of
Para arrived from New York via the
Straits of Magellan and Panama yester-