The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-17
TRAMP STEAMERS
LOAD WHEAT
One Is Here and Two More
Are on the Way From
Japan.
ALL COME IN BALLAST.
They Are New Vessels and Will
Take Away Over Ten
Thousand Tons.
BODIES FROM THE BLAIRMoRE.
Convicts Released a Few Days Ago
Are Now Raiding Ships Along
the Front
BODIES FROM THE BLAIRMoRE

The first OF three large tramp steamers
due here from Japan got in yesterday.
She came here in ballast, and will load
wheat at Port Costa for Eng land. She is
the British steamer Linlithgow, and she
was launched only two years ago. Captain
A. MeRitchie is master, and his vessel is
2041 tons burden, 1876 feet long, ~ feet
inches broad and 20 feet Z inches deep.
She will take away about $500 tons of
wheat.
The Linlithgow was not built for speed,
and in consequence she took over twenty
days to come here from Nsgasaki. Her
officers quarters are small, but then her
coal and freight capacity are first rate.
The other tramps on the way here are the
strathgarry, Captain White, 1854 tons
register, 1896 feet long, 48 feet Z inches
broad and % feet deep. and the I'm
daunted, Captain s. Elcoat, 2971 tons
register, 324 feet long, 4S feet broad and II
feet inches deep. ALI three vessels carry
water ballast.
Captains Burns and Whitelaw expect to
have the wrecked Blairmore alongside the
wharf this afternoon. All the ballast will
have been taken out by that time and the
vessel will probably right herself. The
bodies Of Mate Thomas Ludget, 35 years
old, native OF Ireland, and sailors Henry
Clark and Rowland Z. Siegle have been
recovered and taken to the Morgue. The
British Consul will attend to their burial.
The British ship Craigmore is on the
Merchants Drydock. This is the second
| Britisher that has been overhauled there
| since the dock has been built.
Captain D. B. Holland is to take COM
mand of the schooner Ivy, vice Captain
Banks resigned.
| The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
| Orizaba Will be due from Mexican ports on
! the oath inst. She has a big passenger list
and afull cargo. The same company's
steamer Queen will only make two more
trips TO Alaska this season. She will leave
Tacoma on the 21st inst, and again on
| August s. The outings this year have
been most delightful and the company
has received bushels of letters expressing
| the pleasure of the excursionists. Nearly
all the berths on the Queen have been TAX
en- for the next two trips, and those who
Intend visiting the glaciers Will have to
secure accommodation at once. @.>@
The Harbor Com missioners Cancelled
their contract for the repiling and planking
| of Bryant street between Main and Spear
yesterday. The time in which the work
| was to be done expired on the LIST inst and
the firm has yet made no move. Attorney
| TREY L. Ford was instructed to inform
j. r. Garniss, the local manager of the
American Surety Company, that his cor
poration would be held responsible for
any loss that may ensue. The Surety
| Company was on Galloway. Townley d
! Co. S bond.
The schooner Moonlight, that is going
on search for lost guano island, cleared
and sailed for AItata yesterday. If the
captain succeeds he should be back with
a load in two months.
Over dozen convicts have been released
| frN Go h.
and they have all congregated on the
water front. They have secured a horse
and wagon, with which they patrol, mig ht
and day, from Meiggs wharf to Third
street, and woe betide the unguarded YES
sci that happens to be in their way
Numerous thefts have been reported.
| Yesterday they got away with coil of
rope from the steamer Kahului in broad
| daylight. The police are now on their
| trail, and the chances are that some of
them, at least, will be captured in few
days.
There is sure to be a rush of people next
| Sunday to the wreck of the Pacific Mail
steamer Colon bia. By steamer it is only
a three hours run, and should the day be
! fine it will be most enjoyable outing.
Two steamers will go to the scene-the
Pacific Coast Steamship Com pany Corona
| from Broadway wharf and Kimball &
! Co. IS Newsboy from Mission-street wharf
Both vessels viii charge 81 for the round
trip, and will start at 9 A. N. The excur-
sionists will have three hours at Pigeon
Point, and will be back in San Francisco
! by P. NJ. Tickets by the Newsboy can be
secured from J. 8. Kimball IL Co., % Mar
ket street, and by the Corona from the
Piper-Aden- Goodail Company, "a Clay
] street.
ReY. James Fell and Captain Rae of the
| British ship Springburn are at outs. The
reverend gentleman. who has charge OF
the Mariners Institute on Steuart street,
ventured to tell the skipper how to handle
his sailors. Captain Rae then politely
told the Rev. Mr.. Fell to mind his own bust
ness and get off his ship. Able Seaman
Davis thought he should be in the hospital,
and DIR. Chalmers and the captain think
there is no necessity for sending him
there. DIR. Fell sides with the sailor, hence
the trouble.
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