The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-06
EIGHT HOURS IN
AN OPEN BOAT
Two Women and Two Men
at the Mercy of the
Waves.
From Off Sausalito the Tide
Carried Them Down to
Lime Point.
The Women Were Rescued by the
Steamer Scotia, but the Men
Stayed by the Boat

Two men ana TWO women haQ lively
time of 1t In plunger last Monday night.
The wind died out and the tide taking
command carried the boat down to Lime
Point. There the anchor was dropped,
and lu 3kily it held. Night began to fall
and the boatmen were In predicament.
Just how to get their female companions
back to Sausalito they did not know.
Finally one of the men suggested rowing
the women ashore in little dingey that
was towing behind the plunger, and then
they could walk home or stay all night al
the fog station. The attempt was made,
but il only ended in the women getting
thoroughly drenched in the breakers anu
| the boat almost capsiZing. The return TO
the boat was made without any mlshap,
and then all four began watching for an
| incoming vessel. Several were hailed but
! did not heed the signals. About P. NJ
| the Scotia from Albion hove in sight and
| CAPTAIN Johnson at once stopped his YES
| sci in answer to the frantic cries OF the
terror stricken women. The little dingey
was again put into requisition and the
| two women were put aboard the steam
| schooner. The man went back to the
plunger and the women were landed at
| Missions Reet wharf in time to catch the
| last boat for Sausalito. The plunger re-
! manned at anchor off Lime Point until the
| tide turned and then she was sailed back
! to her regular anchorage.
"All l could gather from the two ladies,
said Captain johnson, "was that they
were beguiled into an atten pit at sailing
from Sausalito to San Francisco instead
of taking the regular boat. When l picked
them up they were half dead with the
cold and both were in tears. The men
preferred to remain by their boat and
would not accept tow
| SAUSALITO, CAL, Jan. 5.-Mrs. Mary
Wilbur and Mrs Annie Tarshea were
taken out for SAIL in a small sloop by
couple of men yesterday. The intention
was to finally reach San Francisco, but
| the wind died out and the boat was car
ried by the current down TO Lime Point,
| where the anchor was dropped. After
eight hours OF misery the women were
| finally rescued bY the steamer Scotia and
taken to San Francisco. The young men
brought the sloop back to Sausalito early
this morning. wet, hungry, tired and dis
| gCsted. the sloop was a borrowed one
| and the names of the men cannot be
| learned tonight.
The many friends of Captain George
| Cummings were more than pleased to see
| him around town again yesterday. He IS
| now past the threescore and ten limit,
| and when he went to the French Hospital
| to undergo a critical operation his friends
Il
! He not only underwent the operation
successfully but is now in splendid health
! again. Many trip did Captain Cum
! mings make around the Horn in the old
! Three Bro theirs, and during all his years
at sea he never met with an accident.
The well-known steamer Portland, for
merly the Hay tian Republic, is practically
in the course of reconstruction. Over $20,
900 is to be spent on her. New engines
and boilers will be put in, the cabin will
be reconstructed and new deckhouse
built. When completed she will run be-
tween San Francisco and Alaska in con-
nection with the North American Trans
portation and Trading Company and the
Alaska Commercial Company's steamers
on the Yukon River. These latter are
powerful stern-wheel boats. and make
the run down the river from Ci Gle City,
Forty Mile and Fort Cudahy in from
twenty 10 twenty-five days. This way of
getting from the mines is less expensive
and q third quicker than the overland
route. The Portland will be ready for
business early in the spring.
Tom Sharkey went to Vallejo yesterday,
but there was not soul down TO see him
off, and the newsboys did not even take
the trouble to turn around and look after
him. As a drawing-card Sharkey is a
| back number.
Sunday last Captain Trask, the old-time
piiot, was buried. and yesterday every
| body on Change was shocked 20 hear
that his brother, EXPLOIT Commissioner
A. Y. 1rask, had been stricken with
| paralysis while attending a lawsuit over
| the sale OF the ship James Nesmith and
was not expected 10 live. Captain Chap
man saic late yesterday afternoon that
every hour he expected to hear the news
| of the old masters death. Captain A. Y.
Trask was twice Pilot Commissioner, and
no one stands higher among commercial
and shipping men than he.
PORTLAND, Or, Jan. 5.-Captain A.
Y. TrasK, a wel-known San Francisco
| ship-owner, is dying tonight at Good
Samaritan hospital as the result OF
paralytic stroke sustained yesterday in
| court, where he was listening TO evidence
1 in suit against him By J. r. Kelly for
breach of contract to purchase the ship
James Nesmiih. Hospital surgeons do
not expect the veteran captain to live I'M
| Ill morning. He has been unconscious
most of the time since he was removed to
| the hospital and has scarcely recognized a
lifelong friend, +. NJ. Gilmore. Captain
Trask's brother was stricken in the same
way only last Thursday In San Francisco.
The captain was a native of Maine and
came to California in the SOS.
The following notice has been issued by
the branch Hydrographic Office:
Captain w. Patterson of the barkentine
Tam O. Shanter reports TO this office as
| follows: November l, in latitude north
Is deg. % min., longitude west SO deg, 6
| min., being calm, saw something floating,
with mast in it. Lowered a boat and
brought it alongside. Proved TO be the
hatch of snip. The stick or mast had
had piece OF tin attached to it, but it had
! been broken off within an inch of the
mast. 1t also has some rope yarns cling
ing TO it. as if something had been made
| fast to it-whatever it was had been re-
moved or carried away. Put our position
and date in a bottle and secured it with
wire, and set it adrift again. Since arriv-
! ing here have learned OF the floats that
! Captain Petrie. CT the British steamer
! Linlithgow set adriit before he aban-
| doned his ship"
| The LnIthgow was one of the unfcrtu-
nate British tramps that left here with q
wheat cargo. She broke her shaft off the
| Central American coast and went down.
While waiting for assistance Captain
| Petrie put floats giving the position of the
/ steamer and each days drift overheard in
the hopes of guiding some vessel to the
LinIithgow.
The Zealandia to Sail Friday.
The Australian mails for dispatch by the
steamship Zealandia arrived in New FORK
by the steamship Aurania Monday morn
ing and left New York by the fast mail
train the same day, due 10 arrive in San