The San Francisco call., 1896-09-11
ALL CLASSES OF
VESSELS ARRIVE
BarkentineS, Barks and
Ships Made a Good
Showing.
IN ON THE FLOOD TIDE.
Off the Heads the Ciampa Led
the Way, but the Others
He'd Their Own.
THE ARCHER SECURED A TUG.
Nevertheless the Ciampa Beat Her
In and the Others Made
Good Time.
THE ARCHER SECURED A TUG.

Among the arrivals yesterday was a
representative of almost every craft afioat.
The big China liner, City of Peking, got
in early in the morning and late in the
afternoon the schooner Emma Utter ar
rived with 100000 feet of lumber from
Port Blakeley.
At one time there was off the heads the
barkentine Archer, twenty-five days from
Honolulu; the Italian bark Emile
Ciampa, 162 days from Antwerp, and the
British ship Wsvertree, sixty-nine days
from Newcastle, N. s. w. in the distance
was the ship Columbia, beating her way
in from the Sound. Tugboats and coasters
filled up the picture.
The Italian bark Emile Ciampe came
in under sail. Captain Maresta reports
that off the Horn he had the usual heavy
weather and in the Pacific the calms, re-
ported by nearly every vessel that has ar
rived during the past month.
Early in the morning the British shin
Androsa, Captain Morgan. got in. She is
from Caleta Buena and is well known in
San Francisco. Captain Morgan was for
merly chief officer of the ship Somali, the
biggest sailing vessel that ever visited this
coast. He is dIsgusted over the long voy.
age made by his ship to San Francisco, but
asserts that ''only the gods control the
winds"
OF all the vessels that came in together,
the Ciampa reports heavy weather off the
Horn and light winds to San Francisco,
while the Wavertree had light winds ali
the way. The Archer was caught in sew
erai squalls, but they were all against her,
and In consequences when Captain Cal
houn came to figure up his time he found
that his vessel was at least week behind
time.
The only disengaeed vessel in port is
the British ship Lauriston. October load
ing has called every craft into reQuisition,
and vessels that last month could not COM
mand anything like decent prices are now
selling at a premium. Captain w. +.
Mills of Herman & Mills has purchased
a gold, silver and copper mine in Nevada.
The firm wants to send the ore to Swansea
for treatment, and Captain Herman is
anxious to secure cheap charter. He has
almost succeeded in making a contract
with the captain of the Lauriston, and in
the event of its completion the ore will go
TO Swansea and another industry Will leave
this coast.
The Harbor Commissioners did not meet
yesterday. Commissioner Cole was on a
visit to his ranch in Sierra County and
Commissioner Chadbourne had not re-
turned from his Stockton trip. President
Colnon was on hand, but as he was alone
in the business nothing could be done.
Private letters from England state that
Captain Wishart of the Sierra Parma
was exonerated from all blame by a
court of inquiry. The ship went on the
Maldive Islands in dense fog, and the
court of inquiry held that Captain Wishart
had exercised due diligence, and that the
set of the current was responsible for the
grounding of the ship, and not the
masters seamanship.
The cabin passengers on the City OF
Peking were: Mrs. O. Merteps Jr., L.
Grimessey, Henry NJ. Hart, p. Wasserfali,
Colonel Preston, Adolf zikel, Alfred R.