The San Francisco call., 1896-11-02
IMAGE OF THE
FLYING DUTCHMAN
The Ship Puritan Sailed
From Hiogo to Folsom
Street.
A Very Beautiful Spectacle as
She Moved Proudly Down
the Bay.
ALL YANKEE BUT HER FLAG.
Three More WhaIers Drop Anchor
After Only a Moderately Suc-
cesstul Season.
ALL YANKEE BUT HER FLAG

The people who live on the lofty eleva-
tions of San Francisco must have thrown
aside their Sunday reading yesterday
afternoon and rushed to the windows to
see sailing in from the Golden Gate
spectacle which involuntarily caused the
memory to recall visions of the Flying
Dutchman.
The four-masted British ship Pur-
itan, Captain Blanchard, in ballast.
thirty four days from Hiogo, Japan.
stood in from the ocean and came
up the bay under sail. She was white as
ever fancy or brush painted ship. AS
she was in ballast she foated high and
her white sides cleaned in the sun as she
glded up past the docks and dropped
anchor beyond the Folsom-street wharf.
The Puritan has some remarkable points
about her. She is American in everything
but her fiar. She has Yankee captain,
is manned by Yankee crew, and several
distinguisbable features of her rig are
Yankee notions, but she was built in
Scotland. It is said she is built after the
model of the sloop Puritan-one of the
successful defenders of the America
cup-after which she is named. Captain
ton of the ship Henry b. Hyde, which
dropped anchor in port several days ago.
The Puritan reports fair winds and an un-
eventful voyage.
The British ship Travencore, Captain
Jones, passed in yesterday forenoon, sixty
eight days from Newcastle. with 3117 tons
of coal consigned to Balfour, Guthrie &
Co. The Travencore is thoroughly mod
ern craft In all respects. She has one OF
| the handsomest cabins of any ship in port.
The whaling feet still continues to drop
| In from the north at the rate of two or
| three ships day. The bark Horatio,
Captain Slocum, came in yesterday, four
teen days from Fox Islands, with 237C
| pounds of bone, 8 barrels OF oil, s Dear
| skins and % foxskins. The bark Charles
| w. Morgan, Captain Earl, twenty-eight
| days from Okhotsk Sea, had a very fail
| season. She came in with $50 barrels o.
sperm oil. 80 barrels of whale oil and 100(
pounds of bone. August II she spoke the
whaling bark California, with 15 sperm:
and 4 right whales, and August 20 spoke
the bark Cape Horn Pigeon, with 30 sperm
| and right whales.
Three sailors of the whaling barl
| Knowles, Captain Ogden, which arrived
| Saturday night, had a rough experience
in the Arctic. Their toes and the
fingers OF one hand were so badly frozen
| that they lost them. The Knowles i:
| twelve days from Fox Islands, with 344S
| gallons of sperm oil and 1879 gallons o.
| whale oil.
| The schooner Alexander, nineteen day:
from Kodiak, Avery master, arrived il
about O'Clock in the afternoon with
fine catch of furs, consigned to the NORTH
American Comm ercial Company. She ex
perienced very heavy weather, and haC
her headgear carried away.
| The steamer Walla Walla tied up at he
wharf about 4:30 in the afternoon, from
| Victoria and Puget Sound points. Octo
Der 30, al $3.50 P. M, in latitude 46 deg. 2
| min. north and lcngitude 124 deg. 80 min
west, she passed an English ship standin.
off shore and showing signals n + B N
and asking TO be re ported as well.
| Some of the sailors of .he whaling barl
Orca, which recently arrived from tn,
north, report only being half-fed on thei
cruise, and claim that the Japaness stew
| ard and cook are to blame.