The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

New York and San Francisco will be in
augurated, and the chances are that it will
be a success. Big 2000-ton barks with
auxiliary screws are TO be built, and with
these fast time can be made. In calm
weather steam could be got up, and at
least six or seven knots could be averaged.
Then instead of going around the Horn
the steam could be used and the route
through the Straits of Magellan taken. a
vessel OF this kind would have all the
carrying capacity necessary, and would
still have sufficient sail area to carry her
along in fair weather as fast as the Shen-
andoa or any OF the other clippers.
Said Captain Herman of HERMAN &
Mills Yesterday:
Such vessel ought to do well on the run be-
tween New York and San Francisco. She
would command attention, and with feather
ing screw ought 10 do well. On the Pacific
Coast she could stop at all the way ports. and
il necessary could load and discharge cargo
With ordinary luck she ought to make the run
between New York and this port in about half
the time usually occupied.
When you come TO think of it the thing
ought - be success. The steam schooner
Jeanie is built something on the lines contem-
plated. She has four masts and an auxiliary
screw and can make from eight TO ten knots
under either steam or canvas. The venture
has been such a success in her case that nearly
ali the whaling feet is fitted out in that man
ner. hen they strike a caln,- steam Is got u o
and they dodge along until breeze springs
up. When they reach the ice the screw is
feathered and the vessel goes along as easily as
when under full steam.
Then, again, If the Nicaragua canal was
built, the vessels with an auxiliary screw
would be at great advantage. They would
be independent of towboais, and could move
at any hour the tide suited. Expenses would
BE- cut TO minimum figure and fre8hts would
be lower in consequence, Just as soon as the
Pacific Mail begins to raise rates. will you see
a n wit 1ior
screws placed on the route between the East
and West.
The following notice to mariners has
been issued by the Lighthouse Board:
Notice is hereby given that third-cIass nun
buoy, red and black horizontal stripes, has
been placed in fifteen feet of water, an addi-
tionaI aid 10 navigation, TO mark Mission Bay
rocks, upon the following bearings: Oakland
harbor light. NE. q N; Potrero Point, SSE.,
5B E.; Point AyiSaoero, Sc. IS S.
The merchants and ship-owners in San
Francisco and on Puget Sound want a tel
eEraph line from Tatoosh Island to Grays
Harbor. This stretch of country is totally
uncovered, and as the dangerous Destruc-
ton Island is included in the coast line
the necessity of a telegraph line is OBVIOUS.
The wires are laid from Seattle and Ia
coma to Tatoosh Island, but there they
stop. Anything, therefore, that happens
between 1atoosh and GraYs Harbor is not
reported until some passing vessel picks
up the news. a petition for the construc-
tion of the line is now being circulated,
and almost every merchant and ship
owner in San Francisco is signing it.
The stern wheel steamer Constance ran
into the sealing schooner Kate and Ann
yesterday and did considerable damage.
The Kate and Ann was almost ready tor
sea- but now she Will be detained for sew
eral days in order to make necessary re-
pairs.
The first of the sealing fleet that has put
to sea during the month to get into trouble
IS the schooner Alton. she has been fol-
lowing the herd along the coast, but for
several days has been looking for a miss
ing boat with three men in it. On De-
eember 81 Captain Wester went aboard
the pilot boat America and reported that
during dense fog he had lost boat.
The three men knew the coast well, and
as the boat was fully provisioned the
chances are that they have made land.
The Alton had taken twenty-three seals
when spoken by the America.