The San Francisco call., 1897-06-28
MORE LIVES
THAN A CAT
A Chinese on the Gaelic
Strikes Scientists Dumb
With Wonder.
Grinned After Sixty-POund
Bucket Fell Thirty Feet
on His Head.
Large Quantities of Opium Arrive
Pioneers Ohristen New Boats
and Race.

"If it had been any body else but a
Chinaman it would have killed him as
dead as a door nail"
That is the verdict of Quartermaster
Hunt of the Gaelic in the case of an acci-
dent which happened on the voyage over
And truly, when the details of the casualty
are made known, IL seems little short OF
a miracle that the Celestial did not at
once give up the ghost and light out for
the most refined province of the Flowery
Kingdom.
An ash-bucket weighing sixty pounds
fell on that head so sacred to the queue.
And it fell hard, too. 1t had a drop OF
thirty feet, and in the case of a sixty pound
bucket the force of gravity should be able
10 get in some pretty effective work.
But the heather fooled the old
familiar force OF gravity, the ash
bucket, the onlookers ana the ships
physician and surgeon. And ne
fooled them badly. All the Chinese suf-
fered was severe cut about three inches
in length on the side of his head and a
rather serious fracture of the skull. He
grinned to think he was yet living.
DR.. Sprague performed the operation of
trephining the mans skull, and found it
necessary to remove piece of it the size
OF a silver dollar. The Chinese is now ly-
ing in the ships hospital and doing well.
The Gaelic arrived here from Honolulu
in days l hour and As minutes. This is
the speeGIest time she has ever made, and
beats her own former record by about an
hour. She brought over five hundred
cases of opium, the duty on which Will
augment Uncle Sans Golfers by about
G1QS 000 ba ,irro nF on,
The outgoing voyage was the death Of
William Mooney, deck engineer. His
death occurred on the fifth day out, and
was due to pneumonia.
The cabin passenger-list of the Gaelic
was as follows:
J. H. Baker, W. G. Carter, R. P. Duncan, R.
II. Hunt, II. KOpsch, J. OHara, E. B. Skot-
Near, James Hog, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS r
r. IngeIsOu, Meascunori Okla, Thomas B. War
Ten, J. Z. Thomas, J. SanbOlIe, J. q. Purvis
Paul Langen, J. Henningsen, Mrs. J. II. Baker
Mrs. A. \. Carter, Mrs. NJ. Z. Flayelie, Mrs
James Hogg, Mrs. S. B. McNear, Miss Baker
Mrs. Gros, 5. f. Guyer, h W. Hall, J. Menuel,
sen, D. W. Riggs, J. z. Twomby Mrs. J. c
Thomas, Mrs. A. W. Winton, VIII Hogg, Mis-
J. Winslow, Mrs. T. B. Skottowe, B. L. Bris
tOwe, Miss Clifford, r. 3. Greer, Mrs. Ives, 7
C. Murray, Mr.. Ross, Mrs J. T. 1WOmbly, Mis- =
Thomas Wong Wal, Mss Hogg, Miss N. Wins
low. w. Baird, John H. Catherwood, Surgeon
Major P. J. Dempsey, s MltsuhashI, II. Kirk
eIal Schmidt-Leds, Count Wydenb bruck, A. II.
Cole Watson, DR.. T. A. Hawke, U. S. n.
The pennon of the Pioneer Boat Club
few proudly to the odorous breeze OF
Mission Slough from the quarters of the
club at the foot of Fourth street yestC =
day, and the scene was one of gayety and
Conviviality. Good fellows" were pres
ent in all their glory, and OF q few of the
gentler sex graced the occasion with their
presence, for two new outrigger skiffs were
christened down there, and when the Pio-
neers christen new boat .hey manage to
makethe occasion one to be Dragged about
for some time to come.
The boats were named the John T. Sui
livan and the J. Z. Brennan in honor of
two old-time mem be rs OF theclub. Presi-
dent NJ. J. Calnan otficiaied and made q
glowing speech euIogistic OF the mem be S
IN question and their unre mitting effort s
in behalf OF the club. He said that il the
skiffs brought as much prom inence to the
club as the men after whom they were
named nobody could have any complaint
to make on any score. After the speeches
Miss Ella Brennan broke the bottles of
champagne over the bows of the skiffs and
gave them their names amid rounds Of
w. E. Espy and John Klunder then
rOwed a race in the sklffs, the wager be-
ing that the loser should pay for a French
chose to invite. The course was one mile
in length, from the boathouse to the first
buoy and return. Klunder won by two
lengths, rowing in the John I. Sullivan.
Time, u minutes. The winner has prom
ised to ''come down easy' on the loser in
the number of guests invited to the
dinner.
barge race also took place between
the crews of the Mcdonald and the Pan
cake The crew of the Mcdonald was as
follows: Stroke, Jack Clifford; afterwaist
George Calopy; for ward waist, Tom Faux
ner; bow, George Darragh; cockswain, j.
Brennan. The positions OF the other crew
were: stroke, r. Espy; afterwaist, Cooney
Ochs; forwardwaist. William St. Johns
bow, Harry Wilder; cockswain. George
Fitzsimmons. The Pancake won by three
quarters OF length in IL minutes.
After the races the crowd asse m bled al
the clubrooms, ate, drank and "were
merry" The nymph of song and dance
was well represented, and the festivities
were kept up till late in the evening.
News has been received here that th e
British ship Superb, bound from Tacom a
10 Freemantle, put into Honolulu on
June 3 for water. She sailed from there
on the same dav.
The barkentine Archer and the bark
Albert, both of which left here for Homo
lulu on June 4. reached their destina;io n
on June IL. They both had a good trip
and tair weather, but the fact OF their
keeping in close together was rather note
worthy.
E. d. Healley, associated with Dickson,
DE Wolf d Co., one of the Oldest shipping
firms in the City, died yesterday of heart
trouble. The deceased was a man well
known in shipping circles. and his genial
disposition and honest bu uslness methods
b haRg, IL