The San Francisco call., 1896-11-09
The Amarapoora Has a Heavy
Cargo on Her First Com.
peting Voyage.
CAPTAIN CAMER0N's VAR N
The Sealing Ship Glencona Drops
Anchor in Harbor 2I Days From
Yokohama

1t was misty and thick outside the
heads, and also inside, yesterday after
noon. A number of vessels which pre-
ferred TO square away for the Golden Gate
under sail instead of tying up to tug
stood off shore waiting for clear weather
and favora bic wind. Among these is the
bark Canada, which for the last twenty
four hours has found safety in plenty of
sea room.
An arrival of widespread interest to the
Pacific Coast, as we'll as to the water front,
yesterday, was that of the steamship
Amarapoora, Captain Cameron, which tied
up at pier 81 at the foot of Lombard street t
at o'clock in the afternoon. The Amara-
poora represents the line to Central Amer
| lean ports in opposition to the Hunting
| ton steamers. She came in from Puget
| Sound ports to finish her cargo, and from
the mounta ins of freight, comprising
everything from railroad freight cars to
| boxes of crackers, piled up in the pier
! shed she will be able to finish her cargo
| all right and make the first trip, so lar as
| cargo is concerned, a successful one. The
Amarapoora was put on this run to divide
the business and make the cold perspira-
tion stand out on the strong box of the
| Huntington liners.
The Amarapoora is British tramp iron
| steamer OF leviathan proportions. She
looks built and equipped to ride any sea
stiffiy and gracefully, broadside or, and
| she looks big enough to ride the turbu-
| lent ocean with head to the sea, as stately
and unshaken as Telegraph Hill. This
| ship has never been into San Francisco
| harbor before, it is said. She put into
Puget Sound, hailing from Japan.
Captain Cameron's mental condition as
to Pacific Coast newspapers is in about
| the same state as cows milk after astorm.
A sheet at Tacoma, with more respect for
enterprise than facts, published, soon
after Captain Cameron dropped anchor off
the foot of Pacific avenue, a story to the
effect that there had been q semi muiiny
aboard the Amarapoora on the cruise from
the Flowery Kingdom, and that a part OF
the crew was in irons. About this Cap
tain Cameron said:
THE story was totally false. / did not
read the newspaper, but l could not avoid
hearing about il. If / could have got hold
of the man who published that yarn I'd
have keel-hauled him or knocked him
into a cocked-hat. A day or two later
when one Of them asked me how big this
ship is, told him she WAS four miles
long, her speed 150 miles an hour and that
she carries nothing but gold and silver"
Then the captain chuckled softly to him.
self, and added that the Amarapoora has
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1Oi AOiby SaOin PdSSSA-
gers.
The British ship Glencona, Captain
Lynn, seventy one days from Singapore,
| was towed in yesterday afternoon. She is
! in ballast and consigned to E. G. Evans.
| While coming in Captain Lynn read in a
newspaper about the ship Ardelana max
| ing the passage from Yokohama in
| twenty-four days. which is considered
very fast time for saiIer.
He claimed TO have beaten the Andelana
out of sight, stating that twenty -one days
ago he was off Y Yokohama. Captain Lynn
neglected to get bill of health at Singa-
pore, and there will on that account be
some delay at least in his entering the
| Custom m-house here. Health Officer DR..
Blue said yesterday that he found the
| ship all right and that he could give the
captain a pratique. Subsequently the
| captain must settle with the Collector of
| Customs.
The ship L. G. Burgess will go to Oak
| land to-day. She will be the first snip to
| tie up at the new coal bunkers up Oakland
| creek
Thomas P. Ryan, politician and ex-
corporal of the police iorce of this City
who was stationed on the water front for
a nun Der of years, died of heart failure
| Move m Der l. and was buried from his late
residence, 1903 Mission street, last Tues
day in Holy Cross Cemetery. He was so
years old, and resided in this City since he
was small boy. A widow and six chill
dren, one son and five daughters, sur
yiye him.