The San Francisco call., 1897-06-07
CROWDS SEE THE
EXCELSIOR SAIL
Laden With Missionaries
and Miners Bound for
Alaska.
Steam Is Got Up Vt Once
Again on the Old Monitor
Camanche.
] ack Keenan'S Invo untary Ducking.
Captain Stenquist Suffers Through
Sneakthi yes.

The big steam schooner Excelsior sailed
from the Harrison-street wharf for ST.
Michaels. Alaska. yesterday afternoon.
Sne had a passenger list of about sixty,
including many miners and a few mis-
slonaries.
The wharf was crowded with a motley
assemblage at the time of the vessels de-
parture and many of the fair sex were
present to add gayety to the scene with
vari-colored dresses and bright headgear
Mrs. George Bounds was one of the female
missionaries who sailed on the schooner.
She came down on the Umatilla yester-
day Just in time to board the Excelsior
with the expectation of joining her hus-
band in Alaska: The lady was accom-
panied by J. L. Coates.
The Excelsior will make three trips to
Alaska during the summer season and
has contract with the Government 10
carry the mails from Sitka to st. Michaels.
She will connect with The river boats al
St. Michaeis for Circle City and Forty
Mile. The boat belongs to the Alaska
Commercial Company.
The old monitor Camanche was steamed
up yesterday and sent around pretty
lively for a while. Her engines were
found to work we'll either when she was
sent forward or reversed. The purpose in
thus trying her out is to place her in con-
ditlon to take some of the Naval Battalion
out for cruise on July g.
The schooner Wing and Wing sailed for
Coos Bay yesterday in tow of the tug CO.
lum bia. She will load there with lum Der.
Jack keenan,, one of the crack boatsmen
of the Dolphin Club, had cold bath yes
terday just off Meiggs wharf He was
rowing in an outrigger skiff and the water
was so rough that his boat swamped near
the place named.
Henry Hendrickson of the revenue-cut-
ter Hartley threw keenan, line and both
he and the boat were hauled safely to the
wharf. Though a bit chilled, he seemed
none the worse for his dUcking.
Captain Stenquist OF the sloop Roy,
alias the Mary Ann, is the angriest man
along the water front He brought a
party OF six down to Meiggs wharf yester.
day with the expectation ot taking them
off on a short fishing expedition. They
were all well prepared with bait and pro-
visions.
What was the CONSERVATION of all to
discover that curing the night somebody
had stolen the maInmast, the main boom
the anchor, anchor line and every ything
portal bic about the sloop. After a caucus
the party adjourned to nigh boring lum
bsr-pile and disposed of a good part oi
the provisions then and there.
The whaleback City of Everett goes on
the dTydock to-day 10 be cleaned and
fresh painted for trip to Calcutta with q
cargo of wheat for the famine sufferers.
a lively fstic fracas occurred on East
and Folsom streets yesterday, the princi-
pals being two stevedores named Daily and
Riley. After ten or fifteen minutes o.
hard battling, witnessed by a crowd o.
curious sightseers who encouraged frs
one and then the other, the men ceased
| fighting for want OF wind. Riley after
ward gave audible expression OF his regre
| that his only Sunday shirt was torn il
! pieces.
| A little chap about three and a hal
! years of age was found wandering around
in the region of the Oakland ferry yester
! day crying bitterly. Warm hearted Cap
tain DunleVy of the Harbor Police Station
sent man OUT 10 locate his parents anC
returned with the information that the
! little fellows name was Rudy KLEIN anC
that his parents reside at 502 Union street
He was taken home by officer Clifford
AMI everybody in the household rendered
happy.