The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
FALLS OF Dee
WAS Quilted
Lombard Street Wharf Was
Turned Into a Bonded
Warehouse.
All Her Chinese Cargo Will Be
Discharged There and the
Ship Repaired.
Another Runaway Couple Married on
the High Seas Aboard the
Arcata.

The British ship Falls OF Dee. that was
afre last night and had to be flooded in
| order to save the hull, will go alongside
| the Lom bard-street wharf to-day. The
| tugs employed by the underwriters were
at work on her all day pumping out the
water that was poured into the hull by
the State fireboat and about noontime she
rose out of her bed of mud. LON bard
street wharf has teen bonded and gate
keeper has been appointed to keep off the
curious. AS soon as the damaged cargo
has been discharged the vessel will go on
the drydock, as several of her plates and
stancbions have become warped.
The Pacific Mail Company's China ar
rived from Hongkong via Yokohama and
Honolulu yesterday. There was wild
rush to get her entered before the new tar
iff bill went into effect, but as the Custom
house closed at l P. M, aid it was that
hour before the vessel got alongside, con-
signees of dutiab,e goods will be out and
injured.
The following is list of the cabin pass
engers: Mr.. and Mrs. An Ping and SER
want, Mr.. and Mrs. An Sing, G. w. Barg-
mann, J: n. Boyd; H: ". Conrad, W.
Eckenstein, Baron Henri Foy, Lieutenant
V. Garde, Miss Gorden, General Del KEN
per, Del kemper Jr MISS Kemper, II.
Kemper, F. Hammerzill, Mr.. and Mrs. A
Lecler, Paul May and valet, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Newman, Captain c. M. Nichols, Mrs.
V. Porter, W. B. Seabury Jr., Miss Sey-
mour, Mrs. Seymour and maid, w. s.
one. Mrs a. Won Vietenghoff, Miss
Aldrich, Baron F. Won der Brug-
gen, ]. w. Blahm. B. NJ. Doroshevit:ch,
A II. Emanuel, Baron Won der Galetz, C.
F. Gardner, Lieutenant S. Hanson. Lai
Yuk Fong, Lee Fob, H. D. Levinson, Lieu
tenant Lielson, Mrs. L. Oliver, Captain w
W. Rich, T. Schwartz. 7. Luck.
From Honolulu - Miss Laura Ames.
Lieutenant ON mander 7. K. Cogwell, U.
:. N, Mr.. and Mrs. Marcel Foret, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. NJ Griffin, Nj and Mr.. F. W.
Glade John Hoffacker, Miss A. H. John
son, C. c. Kennedy, Miss Eva Morris, R.
P. Purvis. George Patterson, DR.. II. Pohl-
man, S. Sachs, Mrs. Suydown, Ii. Suy-
down, Master L. Suydown. Mr.. Tafford,
Mr. and Mrs. ]. Watts, Miss Watts and
Master Watts.
When the China arrived there was no
sign of the quarantine officer and the
anchor was dropped. When it came to
getting under way again the mudhCok
would not come up, so the anchor chain
was slipped. Later In the day the tug
sea King was sent out and late in the
evening vas still searching for the anchor
and chain.
President Colnon of the Harbor Com
mission, ex-Commissioner D. T. Cole and
TREY L. Ford. attorney of the board be-
sides number of ladies and gentlemen,
friends of the State officials. ma ade an ex-
cursion around the bay yesterday on the
tug Governor Markham. They went as
far as the Union Iron Works and from
there to the Presidio, and finally anchored
in Richardson's Bay, where a luncheon
was provided.
The water front will lose one of its
"bright and shining stars after to-day.
w. J. Foley, son of ex-Supervlsor Foley,
has thrown up $3.50 job on one of the
State dredgers i'll order to cast in his lot
with the crowds now bound for Kon-
dyke. He has secured a passage on the
Excelsior, and expects to get away for the
field of gold the latter part OF this week.
The schooner-yacht White Wings has
changed hands, and Yesterday Captain
Chittenden had party of friends out for
a sail on the bay before he parted from
his old love. The yacht will be over
hauled, and her new owner intends to
use her :or cruising and pleasure and not
for racing. She is one of the hands soonest
yachts in the bay has splendid accom-.
modaiion and should prove to be a regu-
lar home boat.
The following notice to mariners has
been issued by the United States Treasury
Department:
Columbia River Light Vessel, No. so:
Notice is hereby given tnat on or about Au-
gust Is, 1897 this light vessel, moored off the
entrance 10 the Columbia River, about so
miles south by west seven-eighths west from
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, Will be
temporarily withdrawn from her station for
repairs and replaced hy Light Vessel No 81.
Light Vessel No. 81 will show TWO fixed
white electric lights, one from each masthead,
ana each from group OF four lens lanterns
encircllng the masthead, 55 feet above sea
level and visible 122 miles i'll clear weather,
The Observers eye Is feet above the sea. Dur
ing thick or toggy weather a twelve-inch
steam whistle will sound blasts of 3 seconds
Cinslead of seconds) duration, separated bv
silent intervals of 81 SECONDS Qnstead of 55
second J, thus:
Blast 3 sec; silent interval, 27 sec. blast
3 sec. silent in terval, 27 sec.
Light Vessel No. 81 has two masts, sch ooner-
11gged, no bowsprit, red hull with "Colum-
bia river in large black letters on each side
between the main and spar deck lines, but
differs from light vessel No so in having a
flush deck, two yellow smokestacks between
the masts, and in having gallery just below
each set of lanterns, instead of cagework day
marks at the mastheads.
This notice affects the "List of Lights and
Fog Signals, Pacific Coast. 1897" page 20, No.
1045, and the List of Beacons and Buoys,
Pacific Coast, 1896" pages 80 and Al
Arthur Sundlin and Mary Wheeler of
pire City were married at sea on the
steamer Arcata during the run to San
Francisco last week. The young lady is
only II years of age, and her father was
opposed to the marriage. Love laughs at
locks and bars, and the young couple Sc
cured boat and boarded the vessel before
she crossed the bar. When we'll out TO
sea they were made man and wife, and
when Father Wheeler relents the regular
shore marriage will axe place.