The San Francisco call., 1896-12-13
new STEAMER FOR
THE VALLEJO ROUTE
Purchased by the Piper
Aden- Goodall Company
Yesterday.
She Will Alternate With the
Sunol in the Opposition
Line.
Two Vessels That Are Long Overdue
Have Been Heavily Reinsured
by the Underwriters.

The members of the Piper Aden- Good
all Company are jubilant. They nave out
witted the Southern Pacific, and IN conse-
quence General Manager Pryor OF the op-
position is more than pleased. The rail-
road has the call on almost every stern
wheel steamer in the bay and not one OF
them can be chartered without the con-
sent of Agent White of the Southern
Pacific In consequence, competition
where this class of vessel is concerned has
been greatly handicapped.
Latterlv the Monticello, Herald and
Sunol have been running to Vallejo and
Mare Island. The Sunol has been carry
ing nearly all the passengers and the Her
aid (the N. P. boat) has been losing
money at the rate of $50 day. On sew
eral occasions the Monticello has been
hauled off for temporary repairs and a
tug had to be put /on the run, as no suit
able poat could be secured. A few days
ago it was found necessary to overhaul
the Sunol, and the company at once be-
gan looking for vessel 10 take her place.
It was then that Manager Pryor discov-
ered that almost every stern-wheeler in
the bay had been pre-empted. The Grace
Barton, tied up in Oakland Creek, was for
sale. however, and the firm at once paid q
deposit on her
Yesterday the bargain was consum-
mated, and in future the stern wheeler
will fly the house flag of the Piper Aden-
Goodall Com pany. The new boat came
over from Oakland Creek yesterday, and
next Tuesday the Sunol will go on the
ways for an overhauling. When she is
repaired the com panys steamer Hope
will be repaired, and the Sunol Will make
the daily run to Berkeley. When both
steamers are again in good running order
the Grace Barton will be tied up to await
an emergency. The opposition now has
the laugh on the railroad.
Captain r. Robertson, the well-known
ship-owner, has purchased the sloop
Witch OF the Bay. He will turn her into
a Yacht, and when com pleted she will be
the handsomest craft in her class on the
bay. She draws feet inches forward
and feet aft, and is therefore is a good
coat to cruise in through the sloughs.
Captain Robertson says he can run up in
the.mud at night and have no difficulty
in getting her off next morning. The
Witch of the Bay will be entered in all
this years regattas, and her owner ex-
poets 10 carry off several champion flags
Captain Swan of the bark Theobald is
once again in town. He brought down a
load OF the North Pacific Mining and
Transportation Company's coal from Coal
Harbor, and asserts that the place in the
near future will be great coal center.
Next season g steamer is to be put on the
route, and Juneau, SItka, Wrangel and
other Alaskan ports will all be supplied
from this point. The Theobal cargo
has already been sold, but another load
will not come to this port before next
summer.
The British ship Clan Galbraith and the
n Weti ad tar
esting race from Swansea to San Fran
cisco. Both vessels left on the same day,
but the Galbraith managed to beat her
rival into port bv twelve hours. They
spoke each other off tie Horn and were in
company near the Farallones. A favorable
wind carried the English ship up near the
tug Active and she was towed in. Twelve
hours later the German ship was picked
up by the tug Reliance and after being
towed in came to an anchor near her rival.
Both are very handsome ships, but neither
of them made record on the run that can
be dragged about"
Shipping and insurance men are won-
dering what has become of the British
ship Anglesey and the American four
masted schooner E. K. Wood. The for
mer is now out nlnety-nine DAYS from
Newcastle, n. s. W., and 10 per cent re-
insurance has been paid on her. Captain
Lewis is known all over the world as q
careful and skillful navigator, but then the
underwriters are not losing sight of the
fact that the vessel is loaded with the
same class of coal that Thought two yes
sells into this port on fire. The Anglesey
left here two years ego for Delagoa Bay,
ard from there went in ballast to Austria
liza to load coal for San Francisco. She
was chartered 10 load wheat for England,
but the charter party expired last week.
The E. K. Wood was from Puget Sound
for Tie tsin, China, with q load of lum-
Der and is now 137 days out Captain
Hansen was in command, and he had a
crew of ten men, all of whom hailed from
San Francisco.
A few days ago sailing vessel arrived
from China ana the captain reported pass
ing through lot of lumber. He described
it to Captain James Taft, managing owner
of the W ood, and he at once came to the
conclusion that the marks and numb bers
tailed with the deckload OF schooner.
The chances are that if she is gone the
vessel was caught in typhoon and went
down with all hands. Fifty per cent re-
takers.
The captain of the G. Il. Watjen, al
though beaten by the Clan Galbraith in
the race from Swansea. made record for
his ship. The vessel was logging nine
knots an hour when the cry came, "a
man overboard" Julius Drumming had
fallen from the royal yard into the ocean
and in the distance he could be seen
swimming after the ship. The big ship
was put abont, boat lowered ana in fif.
teen minutes Drumming was aboard again,
wet through but ready for the horn of old
Schnapps that the captain offered him.