The San Francisco call., 1897-04-06
A new LINE Of
GASOLINE BOATS
One of Them Will Ply
Between Here and
Fort Ross.
The Treasure Lost From the
Steamer Sunol Located
al Last.
News of the Drowning of R. Vanc.
the Mail Companv's Agent, Comes
Up by the Newport.


and owner of Fort Ross and Ross &
Hewlett, the shipping and produce mer-
chants, are about to put in operation a
new line of steam schooners between here
and coast ports. The first one TO be
launched will run between here and Fort
Ross, and in her spare moments will run
excursions on the uay. She will probably
be named the Call-not the San Fran
cisco CALL but the G. T. Call, after the
popular and courteous owner of Fort
Ross. The new boat will be lis feet long
on the keel, IA feet beam and ieet deep.
| Her gasoline engines will develop forty
horsepower and Will at any stage of the
tide drive her nine knos an hour. She
has twice the power of The Mary G and
Eta B, both of which vessels are about
the same size.
| Fort Ross is considered the paradise of
fishermen and hunters. The new gasoline
boat will be ready to convey them there
about the first week in June. The new
boat will have accommodation for from
twelve 10 fifteen cabin passengers and
everything possible Will be done for their
comfort. Donald Ross of Ross & Hewlett
said yesterday that the vessel would be
ready in about thirty-tiv days Tor her
| trial trip.
The same company has nother gasoline
| schooner under way whose dimensions
| will be "A feet overall. Just where she
will run Mr.. Ross refused to state. That
it will be to some of the nearby ports
goes without saying.
A. e. Pryor, general manager of the
Piper Aden- Goodall Company, has at last
located the treasure that went overheard
| when the steamer Sunol turned turtle.
For ten days the wrecker WhItelaw worked
on the job and secured on lar OF lead ana
the steamers boilers. Nothing else could
| be located, and the expense being heavy
the wiecker was withdrawn. Then Pryor
and genial Joe" Aden buckled on their
armor and entered the fray. Thev secured
five boats from Il cir feet of schooners and
two small tugboats. All of them were
fixed up with drags, and inside of two
hours the treasure was located. The
schooner broke away from her moor
ings. however, and the work had to be
done all over again. All day Sunday t e
work was prosecuted without result, but
yesterday morning the treasure was
located again and buoyed. A diver was
sent down, and after thorough exami-
nation he reported that the iron safe, the
lead bars and lot of miscellaneous stuff
| was all piled up in a heap just as they
were dropped from the deck of the
| steamer.
An attempt will be made to raise the lot
D
Pryor are confident that nearly every
thing OF value Will be recovered. Should
their predictions prove correct it will be
hailed with Joy by every body on the water
front, as the rAden-Goodall Com
papy is deservedly the most popular in
San Francisco.
E. II. Doiph, the diver who went down
10 locate the treasure, proved himself to
be the right man In the right place. He
proved himself to be faithful and sincere
in all his endeavors,' said Mr.. Pryor.
land worked hard in our interests from
quire the services of diver again, but
should We Doiph will assuredly have the
call"
The Mail Company's steamer Newport
arrived from Panama and way ports yes
te1day. She was delayed at some of the
Central American ports and in conse-
Quence will not be able to get away until
the 10th inst The cabin passengers were
Captain E. R. sewell, W. McDougall, R.
Ibach. J. E. Green, A. 7. Lowell, H. n. Kirkland,
Mrs. I. Quinones, E. Bartholemea, H. q. Smith,
G. F. Thompson. Thomas Reed. c. Y. CAIRO,
j. w. Winston, Miss Isabelle O'Connor, 7. T.
Anthony, Mrs. Nj. Newman, John Bradbury
and wife.
Captain Lee r. Sewell, the nephew OF
Arthur Sewell, owner of the Kenilworth,
intended to go to Honolulu On that vessel.
As it happened the clipper made a very
=
quick dispatch got away from here in
ballast on the 81 inst. Had the Newport
been on time Captain Sewell might still
have caught the vessel, but all the cir
cumstanccs were against him. The gal
liant skipper will sail on the Rio de Janeiro
and join. the Kenilwortn at Honolulu,
where the latter will load sugar for New
York. 1t viii be rene bered that the
Kenilworth is an English-built ship and
several years ago was burnt to the waters s
edge at Por. Costa during the big fire.
She was then sold to the highest bidder
and after being repaired was placed under
the American flag.
| Since that time she has made many fast
trips, and the present one may be gauged
by the fact that the Dirigo. the only Amer
ican-built steel ship afioat, which left New
York five days before the Kenilworth,
has not yet reac ed port.
On the arrival of the Newport at Aca-
Julia r. Vance, the agent of the Mail
Company, went out to her. This was on
February 25 last, and he remained aboard
all night. In the morning he sought Il
get ashore again, but as it was very rough
! in the roadstead he was persuaded to wait
for an hour. AT that time the condition:
were no better, and he insisted upon go
, ing ashore in small native boat. A
roller capsized the boat and Vance wa!
thrown heavily against rock. He wal
badly injured, but the natives got him
SSuoIc. feI1tuiuR OOSSiUle was oOue 10
! the unfortunate agent, but he died. Vanc,
was very popular with the Pacific Mai
Company's officers, and his sudden deati
was shock 10 the crew of the Newport.
The British bark Palmyra got in from
! Newcastle, N. S. W.. in the fair time o
j slxty-nine days yesterday. On March Is
in latitude 2250 north, longitude 1853. 4!
, west, heavy easerly sguail was rur
into and the foretopgallant mast was car
,, ri away and several sails were split
Otherwise the vessel had fair weathe
passage.
Ell Campo will open its hospitable gate
10 the general public again next Sunday
Ex-Judge Hayden and his popular snr
Emmett will have charge of all the ar
rangements, and that means that all viii
have good time. The San Francisco
and North Pacific Railroad Company.
steamer Ukiah will, as in the time past
run at regular intervals during the day
and in consequences the travelling pubic
may be sure OF ample accommodation. In
a couple of DAYS one of Piper, Alden
Goodall 81 Co.'s schooners will take owe,
all the paraphernalia for the opening, SO
that everything will be in readiness for
| NEXT Sunday