The San Francisco call., 1897-02-14
Brig Percy Edwards Is
Almost Ready for
the Cruise.
Premium Now Being Paid for a
Chance to Ship on the
Vessel.
David C. Craig, the Mail Company's
Watchman, Has Been Missing
nee Thursday.

The men who are anxious to secure an
Eveless Eden in the Sous hern Seas are
deeply in earnest. The leaders expect to
land the men who are putting up their
money to pay the expenses in "land
flowing with milk aud honey"
As yet no one knows just where the new
'tland of promise is located, but then
everybody connected with the enterprise
has faith, and they assert that in few
months they will be wealthy men. The
brig Percy Edwards is now almost ready
for sea, and before the first of next month
the entire party, comprising hundred
souls, will be under way for the Southern
Seas. E. A. Coe will be the secretary of
the colony, and G.. w. Sickels, an ex-ser-
geant in the United States army. will be
commander-in-chief of the colonist army.
Coe is we'll known here from his connac-
tion with the heir presumptive OF the Bis
marck Group, while Sickels is an old SOL
dier and a fighter from the word go.
Other officers of the company are: Cap
tain ]. Petersen, who is rated as master
marine; ], r. Drake, who is classed as
first mate" and A. Il. Snyder, treasurer.
L. J. Reinhard is the president of the con-
Germ and P. A. Myers vice-president.
They expect to make a home in the
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find an Ell Dorado none of the memb bers OF
the company will lose a great amount.
The steamer Doric of the Occidental
and Oriental line arrived yesterday with
the following cabin passengers:
f. Ayscough, General ]. H. S. Agar, R. A.
Rev. w. H Coss um, ]. s. Fearon, F. t. Cause,
Surgeon 6. P. Lumsden, Y. S. N; Mrs. A. E.
Monroe, L. A. Trapman, Hon. Paul Isenberg,
Mrs. Isenberg and maid, Miss G. Isenberg,
Paul 1senberg Jr., Colonel R. II: Mclean, Mis-
rem thai, Chief Engineer G. J. Burnap, U. S. N;
Rev. E. II. Van Dyke, Thomas Citizens, j.
Horne, John Liddell. Mrs. NJ: R. Norris; JAG
ney and maid, Miss 1senberg, Mrs. c. VOTERS,
Mrs. z. Isen berg Jr General A. S. Hartwen,
George R. Carter, A. Z. mpson, K. T. Lill1s.
The Doric made a very smart trip in
some of the runs beating the record made
by the Pscific Mail Company's China.
The official port of the voyage as fur
nished by the master is as follows:
From China and Japan: Sailed from
Hongkong January 16 at IL P. NJ, and had
strong head winds and sea to Shanghai
(Woosung). Thence on goth fine to Ma
gasaki on 21st; thence on I'D TO Kobe ad
verse tide; thence TO Yokohama on 24th
moderate; thence or 2sth, at 1905 P. NJ.
moderate to strong northerly winds and
following sea. Crossed 180th meridian in
latitude 80. Sc north, arriving at Honolulu
February 6 at 2:l0 A. NJ. in 8 days and 55
minutes. Thence on 7th to port at 10:13
A. NJ. in days % hours and 81 minutes.
Had moderate head wind and sea to 10th,
thence fine TO port
Record passages of the Occidental and
Oriental steamer Doric, voyage fifth, COM
pleting her first year in the company's
service. outward and homeward: From
Honolulu to Yokohama, 1918 knots, 10
days hours 6 minutes (record west con-
sidering distance); Kobe to Nagasaki, 387
knots, day l hour 26 minutes (ship's rec
ord); Shanghai to hongkong. S18 knots,
2 days 2 hours % minutes (record time);
Shanghai 10 Nagasaki, ASP knots, day
hours ~ minutes Occidental and Oriental
Company's record; Kobe to Yokohama,
SAG knots, % hours 5 minutes Occidental
and Oriental record); Yokohama to Homo
lulu, 3400 knots, 9 days hours 30 minutes
(trans-Pacific record), except China, and
only 2H hours behind that; Honolulu to
San Francisco, 2085 knots, days % hours
81 minutes (ship's record)
From the above it will be seen that the
Doric has more than held her own on her
maiden trip TO the Orient in the Occl-
dental and Oriental line.
When the British ship Centesima was
making port last month she struck on a
rock in the north channel and came near
to making breaking away from the tug
Captain Freeman, who, as pilot, was in
charge of the vessel demanded an investi-
CATION and the result is as follows:
Lieutenant James H. Sears, United
States navy, commanding coast survey
steamer Macarthur. reports having found
and determined the position of another
unken rock in the Bonita channel. This
new danger has 271I feet OF water over it
at low tide and lies west by north "a north