The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-14

How P. E Peterson Was Knocked
Iuto the Sea From the
LuiSa D.
Ship Brs block Beats the Beechbanl
to the United Kingdom-Quick
Time From Kobe.

The busiest vessel in the bay yesterday
was the United States battle-ship Oregon
Boats were coming and going and along
side were scows delivering coal, and the
Waterfront, Sea Nymph, was pumping
into the reservoir thousands of gallons of
Spring Valley water. the battle-ship was
loaded down to her fullest capacity, and
every man on board felt corresponoIngly
happy as the huge fighting mass of steel
sank inch after inch into the waters of the
bay.
The crew of the big warship are tired of
lying inactive in Mission Bay. They have
had all 1.-THE time ashore they want" and
sigh for ''a life on the ocean wave"
War with all its horrors has no terrors
for them, and The news that Uncle Sam
was at war with neighboring country
would be received as an item of supreme
interest.
the crew of the Oregon embraces almost
every nationality, but more loyal set of
men never sailed under the stars and
stripes.
From Mission Bay the Oregon went TO
| Sausalito, and from there she vii! go to
San Diego. At the latter point final in
structions will be received, and then the
pride of the American battle-ships' will
make her way slowly to Acapulco.
She is foul from having been long in
Mission Bay and cannot make quick time.
Neverth eless she will be a great help 10
Americans and civilization generally
should war break out among the Cen
trail American republics. TIE present con-
solidation of three of these States is
bound to lead to trouble, and at any time
the Ezeta element may crop up in San
Salvador.
In any event the Central American
republics are not living together In peace
and harmony, and Uncle Sam evidently
thinks he should take neigh borly inter-
visit of the pattle-ship Oregon to Central
American waters.
For the first time in the history OF the
Merchants drydock two iron vessels, full
rugged were on the ways. One was the
Diamond Head and the other the Port
Logan. The former vas named after the
point on the Island of Oahu, on which she
went ashore, and will take her first cargo
of lumber to Honolulu, thus passing her
namesake probably without shakin g
| hands) before again reaching Honolulu.
| The Diamond Head was bought as a
! wreck for $500, and, alter she was got off
and safely anchored inside the coral reef,
! her cargo of coal as sold for SO ton.
! The Port Logan came in ballast from
I Cape Town, and will go from here to the
! Sound in ballast, and from thence to Cape
Town again. Just what will be done with
h.r when she reaches that point remains
! to be seen.
| The schooner Equator, which was lying
up the river at Antioch, has been brought
down and will be changed into a steam
schooner by her owners, r. d. Hume q
hn unlN
| gines and boilers at the Fulton Iron
| Works. The Equator will go to the
Alaska coast, commonly but enormously
! believed TO be below-Zero country, and
! will be used there as tender at the can
neries.
The steam schooner Whitesboro is about
TO make Der longest voyage. She will go
| from here to Greenwood and there take
on cargo OF railroad ties for San Pedro.
| If there is any significance in ties it may
mean that the opposition harbor" is
going to win over Santa Monica.
The baTkentlne Katie Flickinger has ar
rived at Port Townsend, twenty-five lays
from Kobe. This is close to steamship
time and is one of the quickest trips ON
record.
The British ship Brablock has arrived at
Queenstown, Us days from San Francisco.
The ship Beechbank and the BrabIock
sailed from this port for the United King
dom on the same day and made race OF
the voyage. The Brablock went ash ore
near Liverpool, but got off uniniured, and,
continuing her voyage, beat ont the Beech
bank, which made London in 126 days.
The anne of the man who was knocked
over board from the sealing schooner
Luisa D, Captain Sam Burtis, last Friday
morning while sailing down the coast is
P. E. Peterson. The schooner is still.oui-
side. She ran into heavy weather, the