The San Francisco call., 1897-10-02
MORE VESSELS
TO CARRY GRAIN
Arrival Of a Deep Water
Fleet From England and
Australia.
Steamers From the East to Run
Between Here and st.
Michael.
Two of Them Will Bring Over 1000
Miners Who Will Try Their
Luck on the Yukon.

The tugboat companies were kept ousy
yesterday towing vessels in from sea. Be-
sides the coasters quite feet of deep
water ships arrived and al OF them were
towed in. The bark Forest Queen flom
Tacoma came in with the police flag in
the rigging. but when Officer Fergu son OF
the Harbor Police boarded her the sailors
had adjusted their differences.
The deep-water feet was composed of
the American bark Empire, Captain
Krebs, Ga days from Newcastle, Australia,
with l49O ions OF coal; British ship Do
minion, Captain Merideih. III days from
Swansea with $3.50 tons coal; British ship
Ditton, Captain Stap, l55 days from South
Shields with cargo of merchandise;
British ship Ellisland. Captain Broken
shir, 164 days from Swansea with 1896 tons
CT coal; bark Himalaya, Cap ain Mann,
156 days from London with 1875 casks of
cement; ship Andrada, Captain Adams,
116 days from Antwerp with general
merchandise, ana The Italian ship Sal
vatore Ciampa, Captain Catiero, 142 days
from Cardiff.
The Ditton is the largest and handsom-
est three masted vessel that comes TO this
port. She is 2699 tons burden and is easily
the biggest carrier OF the feet tn at arrived
yesterday. When leaving South Shields
for San Francisco the Ditton coilided with
the pie head and had to put back for re-
pairs. For four days the Ditton, Domin-
ION and Z lisiand were in company out
side and all reached port within a couple
of hours OF each other. The Dominion
and Andrada ade the fastest trips OF the
season from Europe so lar. The British
ship Latimer is bow out iorty days longer
from Antwerp than the AEdrada, and the
Canrobert, Bertha, William Tell, Emilia
Ciampa, Jules Verne, Cawdor. Kilmeny,
Invermay and Ellisland all lett Swan
sea from ten to fifty days before the Do
minion- The reports of the captains show
that the feet encountered light and yari-
able winds nearly the entire passage
1t was reported yesterday that J. j.
Moore & Co. have purchased the bark
HimaIaya, which arrived from London.
In that event she will be placed in the
Australi an trade.
The quaraniined Chinese which arrived
on The Doric were brought over from
Angel Island yesterday and put back in
their old quarters on the steamer. There
are 134 OF them, and of these 127 are for
San Francisco. The forty-six Chinese
who came up on the San Bias for Panama
have been transferred to the CITY of
Peking and will leave for China TODAY.
Among the Peking's cargo will BE- twenty
five carloads OF steel rails and railroad
ties for the completion of the Japanese
Government railway between Kobe and
Nagasaki. Among the caoin passengers
will be II. z. Sch werin, general purchas-
ing agent of the Pacific Mail Company.
The new clubhouse for the San Fran
cisco Yacht Clnb will be COMPLETED In a
lie of weeks, aud the closing links
will be held in it about The end oil the
month,
The sealing schooner Eppinger arrived
from Alaska yesterday with 443 skins.
This Is the second catch made by the yes-
sci this season, she having taken over 1900
skins on the coast before sailing for Bering
Sea. Captain Nj. White reports that the
whaling bark Gayhsad went ashore lit.
tie 10 the north OF Unamak Pass, but was
got on without any damage by the steam
launches OF one OF the revenue cutters
Preparations for the rush TO the KIon.
dixie in the spring are going on apace.
The steamer City of Columbia is being got
ready in New York, and the Delaware in
Philadelphia for a trip TO ST. Michaels.
via Cape Horn and San Francisco The
Columbia River Navigation and Trans.
porta tion Company of Oregon have pur-
chased the City of Columbi She has
been in the coal trade, but is to be remod-
eled and accommodations for 500 passen-
gers provided on her. Boston capitalists
have purchased the Delaware, and she
will be taken off the Boston, Charleston
and Jacksonville route 10 face the perils
OF Cape Horn. Botn steamers were built
in 1850, and are about the same size. The
Column bia is 266 feet long, 38 ieet inches
broad and q feet inches deep, while the
Delaware is 25I feet inches long, 81 fee.
broad aud IL ieet inches deep.