The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
Fl GATED OVER
HERE ON CASKS
The Elvenia Came From
Oakland Creek for Re-
construction.
Poolmsn Are Trying to Secure
Beat for Special Service
10 Sausalito.
II Not Successful, They Will at Once
Establish Hea, quarters at
7 buroa.

board. When towed off she was water
logged and in that condition was towed
to San Francisco. Part of her cargo was
discharged off Meiggs wharf and the re-
mainder in Oakland Greek. The hull was
put up at auction and ship carpenter
William Campbell purchased it for 500.
The question of getting the wreck off the
beach then came up and Cam pbell finally
hit upon a plan. All the matches were
battened down after fifty empty casks
had been placed in the hold. When the
Tide came in the schooner rose off the mud
and half an hour later the hulk was In
tow OF tug and on her way to the Mer-
chants drydock.
All went we'll until the schooner was
within few hundred feet of Steuart-
street wharf. Then some of the casks
began TO leak ana sine gradually sank
she did rot go any lower, however, snd
the chances are that to-day she will 80 in
the drydock for IN overnauling.
Ship Carpenter Campbell thinks that
after spending $1,000 on his $100 schooner
he can turn her into $4,000 craft.
The poolrooms are In full swing in
Sausaiito and the booksellers are more
than anxious to get an early boat across
the bay. The betting on the Eastern
races arrives here about 10 80 A. NJ. and the
bookies want to have it on their boards by
IL A. NJ. in order TO give the public
chance to place their money.
The San Rafael leaves here at IL 80 A. NJ,
so that makes all he spectators an hour
late. conference was held with Presi-
dent Stetson of the North Pacific Coast
Railroad in regard to q 1920 A. NJ boat,
but the latter could not see his way clear
TO put one on. Then the bookies secured
the Eliza ID as an experiment, and went
across the bay IN her yesterday Leaving
the Clay-street steps at 1890 A. NJ they
were at Sausaiito shortly after IL A NJ, and
the odds were posted before Ii 80 A. NJ
The new arran cement is not satisfactory,
however, and e first of next month will
see all the bookmakers and the plunCers
on their way 10 Tiburon on the steamer
Tiburon on the IL a. NJ. trip. Sausa ito
will thus go back to its old-time methods
and Tlburon will have the fight on its
hands.
Some ex.convicts got even with San
Quentin Wednesday night. The steamer
Caroline brought a load of lutte sacks in
bales from the prison. and when the ship
ment came TO be examined yesterday
m orning $50 sacks were missns. Some
one had gained access to the wharf, and,
ripping open one OF the bales had got
away with all he could PACK before day.
light.
trouble in getting away with the sacks,
several buns were having a good time
with the barrels of wine that came from
Napa on the steamer Znlandel. They
bored hole through one of the hogsheads
witha gimet and drank until they were
drunk. They failed to plug up the gimet-
hole when through, however, and this
morning the hogshead was empty. The
Harbor police think that the men who
stole the sacks and the men who tapped
the wine cask are one and the same
The Zlnfandel had last night the mort
valuable load aboard that she had taken
| to Napa in many a day. On board were
twenty-five hors 5, the pick of AdoIph
Spreckels' stable. Some of them will be
turned out on the home farm, while others
will be campaigned. The circuit opens at
Napa and after their engagements there
the horses in training will be sent 10
Sacramento. Mr.. SpEeckels will not go to
Napa with his horses, bit the chances are
that he will see some of them run at
Sacramento during fair week.
The biggest clamshell bucket in the
United States came down from Antioch
on the steamer I. Q. Walker yesterday.
II is from the big levee dredger Golden
Gate and will be repaired here. A dupIi-
cate of it will be made, as the Gredger will
be cor stantly at work and the owners do
not want another bitch TO occur. All the
ranchers along the San Joaquin are pre-.
pairing for the high water oil next spring
and levee building is the order of the day.
Pryor's silver mine on the water front
has PANIED out. The divers were ca led
off yesterday and the schooner came back
TO tue wharf. There is still $4,000 worth OF
lead bars at the bottom OF the bay near
Blossom Rock, and for every one OF them
the Piper-Aden Goodall Company will pay
81 so. The Vallejo steamer Sunol was
in collision with the ship Olympia last
March and went down. No lives were lost,
with the vessel. The task of recovering it
seemed hopeless one, but A. E. Pryor,
the superintendent OF the concern, struck
upon the plan of dragging with a fleet of
small boats. In this way the treasure was
located and yielded rich returns up
to yesterday. The safe with all the
gold in it was first discovered, and
digging into the sand for the silver
bars. Out of 1900 that went down
with the steamer he has recovered 1l50,
and experts like Al White say it is one OF
the best pieces OF work on record. The
work of recovering the bars could only be
done at high water, which gave the diver
only one and half hours to work in.
When 1T a known that every time the
diver went down he had to lie on the sand
and dig away into the place he supposed
the bars to be 1t can a,iiy be seen that
the achievement was a great one. The
Pryor silver mine has been abandoned.
and the old workings are now open for
pTe-em ptlon.
There was a big crowd down to see the
Oceanic Steamship Company's steamer
Alameda off yesterday. The passengers
on her were:
For Honolulu-S. T. Alexander, Miss M. NJ.
Alexander, Fred Baldwin, Henry Beckley
Miss Bowler, Mr.. and Mrs. Burnett and TWO
George p. Cooke, Mrs. w w. GoodaIe and
DAUGHTER, A. C. Harrison Jr, DR.. H. NJ Heller.
A. NJ. Kistler and wife, Leroy McChesney s.
B. McNear and wife, A. Z. Murphy and wife,
A. 0uellette, n. J. Polmere, Arthur Rice;
Hon. ii. NJ. Sewall, United States Minister 10
Hawaii, Mrs. Sewall. child aud nurse; Miss
Mary Shipman, Miss Ollie Shipman and W. H.
Soper.
For Apia-Dr j. Raffel and Miss A. Raffel.
For Auckland-Rev. James Goggan, Mrs f.
Pearss.
For sydney-Miss A. Allen, Mrs. Bushpy,
Hon. A. |. Clark and WIFE, Alexander l. Clark.
Andrew Clark. Mrs. e. D. EdiHburg, Miss Ed
inburg, rs. Fletcher, l.. S. Cash aud wife,
Mrs L. Janin Jr., T. C. Jenkins and two chill
dren, James Osborne, Mel II. Reid, D. w.
Thayer.
Join at Honolulu for Sydney-Mrs. Emma
Shaw Cole ugh, Charles Storey. T. storey.
Mamie Fogel has purchased a fine
sloop yacht and named her The Mile J.
He is now fitting her ont, ana will start
on cruise for Stockton next week.