The San Francisco call., 1896-11-20
He and His Crew Were Picked
Up by the British Steamer
Fifeshire.
Loss Of the Mission ary Steam Bark.
entine Dayspring on the New
HebrideS.

cisco. The trip between Sydney and
Auckland was made in days and IA
hours, or four hours better than the fastest
on record. From Auckland to Apia the
run was made in days 16 hours, or again
four hours better than the record. Be-
tween Apia and Honolulu the speed was
not kept up, as Captain Van Oterendorp
did not want to reach the latter port be-
fore noon. Even as it was she was day
ahead of time. On the run TO San Fran.
cisco the chief did not attempt to push
the vessel, but nevertheless she was off the
Farallones long before daybreak yester-
day. The Alameda came in as soon as the
fog lifted little, and at A. NJ. she was
tied up alongside the company's dock.
Captain E. r. Sterling was master of
the American ship Patrician, and he is on
his way to New York to report the loss of
his ship. The Patrician was on her way
from Newcastle, Australia, to Lyttleton,
n. T., when a hurricane was run into.
Sail after sail was blown away and the
decks were flooded and everything mov-
able was washed overheard. The mizzen-
mast snapped off short and carried away
half the mainmast. For short time the
foremast stood and the lower topsail on
the mainmast held. Then the storm re-
newed its strength and blew the lower
away part of the foremast.
The Patrician began to leak and Captain
Sterling set the American flag, union
down, at the foremast. All the boats
were gone, and just when the crew had
given up hope the British steamer Fife
shire hove in sight. The latter lowered a
boat and took the crew off in boatIoads.
Captain Sterling stood by his ship to the
last, and when the boat was ready to take
him off the men were afraid to go along
side, as the vessel was rapidly sinking.
Finally the gallant master jumped into
the ocean and a few minutes later was
picked up and placed aboard the steamer
The Patrician was abandoned on August
% in latitude 80. 38 south, longitude 1853. IL
west, and went down half an hour after
the crew was safely aboard the Fifeshire.
In speaking about the loss of his ship yes-
'Ierday Captain Sterling said it was the
heaviest storm he had ever been through
md had it not been for the arrival of the
steamer every soul on board would have
gone down with the ship.
The accompanying sketch Is from q
photograph of all oil painting made by
: Captain Sterling when he arrived in Syd-
.ney, n. S. W.
The remains of Kate Field did not ar
rive on the Alameda, contrary to expecta-
tons Halsted & Co. had their under
taking wagon down at the steamer, but it
haa again TO depart empty.
The Alameda brought up 450, 600 sover-
eigns, or about 81, $4,000 for the Anglo
Californian and London, Paris and Amer
ican banks. The sovereigns will be coined
into American double eagles.
The little thirteen-ton yawl Spray and
her master and owner, Captain Slocum,
seem 10 be gaining great deal of noto-
riety IN Australia. The boat left New
oTk over year ago, and after coaStlng
along the eastern shore went through the
Straits OF Magellan. and finally reached
SOntheTn wi in q
harbor at Apia photograph OF the yawl
was taken and a reproduction OF it was
given IN IHE CALL two months ago. Cap
tain Slocum navigates the yawl alone, and
has not even cat to keep him company.
The Alameda brings the news that the
yawl is in Australian waters.
The Sydney Daily Telegraph says:
Henry E. Slater, a messenger at the Works
Department, has during the past week been
addressing public meetings with reference to
cum OF the yawl Spray. In these addresses he
has made a number of charges against the
captain. alleging that he practiced excessive
cruelty upon him in 1888. Slater's story
summarized Is that in that year. while an
officer under Captain Slocum's Command he
was put in irons for absolu tely no offense He
says that he was weighted with over eightv-
three pounds OF chain and confined in a mar
row space, in which he could neither lie nor
manner for fifty-three days and nights. and
during the whole period OF his Incarceration
received but two ship biscuits and about half
pint OF water per diem. He goes on to saw
that Captain Slocum was fined $500 at New
York for his cruelty, and the other officers
were also fined smaller amounts.
Slocum admits being fined but asserts
that 1t was simply question of discipline
that made him put Slater in irons on
BOARD the Northern Light in 1883. He
of1ered proc. to show that Slater and not
ne was 70 blame for the whole affair.
Ihe Spray was escorted into Sydney
naroor by feet of yachts, and Captain
SIocum was given royal welcome.
The British ship Pendeen, from Table
BAY Tor Newcastle, N. S. W., to load coal
for San Francisco, has arrived at Port
LOUIS (Maurltius) dismasted. The chances
are that she was eau hit in typhoon.
The following notice to mariners in re-
gard to the Willamette River channel to
Portland, Or, has been issued by the
Board of United States Lighthouse In
spectors:
Notice is hereby given that the Swan Island
bar Qower), three-pile post-light beacon, also
the Swan Island bar upper, single-pile post
light beacon, were carried away by the pres
ent freshet, and will be replaced as early as
practicable
=. This notice affects the List OF Lights and Fog
Signals, Pacific Coast, 1896. page "a, Nos. 1887
and 1889, also the List OF Beacons and Buoys,
Pacific Coast, 1895, page So.
The return trip of the Sophia Suther-
land from Alaska must have been pleas
ant one Judging from the following testi-
monial given to the officers and crew and
signed by all the passengers:
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Nov. 18, 1896.
We, the undersigned, passengers on the
schooner Sophia Sutherland, just arrived from
Kadiak, Alaska, would give this slight
testimonial of our appreciation of courtesies
received al the hands of Captain P. C. Wedvig
and Mate James Hansen and OF the seaman
like manner and care with which the vessel
handled on her twelve days trip from
Kadiak. We hope their voyage through life
may be as pleasant as this one has been to us.
Captain Schmalz of the schooner Czarina
writes to the Lynde 81 Hough Company
that their agent, J. II. Buckbee, died sud-
denly at Sand Point on October 5. Buck
bee had been to dinner on the Czarina
and was talking with Captain Schmalz
when he was taken with a pain around
his heart and uttering the words. "Oh, my
heart, dropped dead. The body will be
/ brought to San Francisco on the Czarina.
The Alameda brings the news lof the
loss loss OF the Presbyterian missionary: steam
origantine Dayspring. She went ashore
on one OF the coral reefs OF the New Hebri-