The San Francisco call., 1897-10-01
WILL TRADE TO
MEXICAN PORTS
A New Steamer Is Being
Built to Replace the
0rizaba.
Charles Leavett Made DeS-
perate Attempt at Suicide
Yesterday.
Names Of the Men Drowned in the
Wreck of the Norwegian
Bark Alette.

The Union Iron Works is to have new
steamer ready for the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company by next March. She is 10
be splendidly equipped 13-knot vessel,
and will replace the OrizabC on the Mexl-
can route. One OF the most successful
steamers that ever piled in the Pacific
Coast trade was the Senator. After max
ing fortunes for all her owners the engines
We're taken out OF her and she was turned
into a sailing ship and sent to New Zea-
land: where she WAS turned into a coal
hulk, and is still doing duty in Auckland
ia! Dor. The new steamer will be named
The Senator, and Senator Perkins, one of
her owners, hopes that she Will follow
worthily in the wake of her namesake
The Senator will be 25S feet over all, SO
feet inches broad and y feet deep, and
will carry 1900 tons dead weight on l5-
loot draft. Her triple expansion engines
of 1850 HORSEPOWER will develop 125 reYo-
luti0ns minute under a working pres
sure OF 160 pounds. The cylinders will be
% 26 and 60 by 36-foo, stroke. There
will be twenty-sX first.class staterooms
with accommodations for fifty passengers,
and there viii be room for fifty more i'll
the second class quarters. There will be
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great care will be taken in having the ves-
sci properly ventilated so as 10 insure
comfort Tor every body iii the tropics. She
/ will all o carry cold StoraFe facilities with
Il capacity OF forty tons, and all the other
/ appliances that go to make up thor
! oughiy equipped passenger steamer.
/ W nen the Senator relieves the Orizaba the
latter will be placed on the Southern Cali
fOTnia route.
I Among the cargo of the steamer Doric,
which arrived from China last W4dnes-
/ day night, were fifty tea trees consigned
| 10 Slegfriea & Co. When Inspector Craw
/ of Inc Board OF Horticulture came TO ex-
! anime them be found the trees covered
/ with a most dangerous pest. All Inc trees
/ were consigned 10 the furnace.
/ Charles Leavett, a stranger in San Fran
/ cisco. tempted TO commi: suicide on the
/ wafer front early yesterday morning. AS
! Walter Apted, with the Golden Shore
/ McrGet, was returning from one of the
/ ships in the bay he heard splashng and
! struggling short distance away from
/ him. II was Leayett trying TO hold his
| head long enough under water to stranple
| himself. He was stark naked, and Apted
! had quite a struggle TO get the
man in,o the boat. He was finally
/ landed on Washington-street wharf,
/ where be had taken his clothes
off. After he had dressed himself he told
| Apted that he was stranger, out of work.
/ without cent or O friend IN the world
/ After he had promised not 10 attempt sui
/ eide again Apted gave him quarter and
/ let him &c. He was fairly well dressed
and talked like an educated man. He ex-
plained his nakedness in the water bv
| saying that his clothes might prove a
windfali to some other poor devil after he
| was dead and gone.
The wreck of the Norwegian bark Alette
on the coast OF Japan was chron cled in
yesterdays CALL. The names of thos.
who were lost were FIRST Mate n. EIllng-
sen and Seamen Fl. Olsen, S. Olsen, Vic
tor Carlson. A Stromer, J. Swensen and
TWO Puget Sound seamen. McNulty and
/ Bagge.y. Another man named Hague
hailed from Philadelphia.
| The battle-ship Oregon is ready 10 sail
at moments notice, but the chances are
that her first move will be in the direc-
tion of Seattle. Her hilge keeis will have
10 be put on, and 1t is proba Die that she
will shortly go on the drydock TO have the
work done.
ABE" Marks, the popular and efficient
statlstician of The Merchants Exchange
returned 10 his duties yes erday after a
fortnights vacation. spent in Eureka. He
did not get q chance to do any work DUR
ing the day, as 1t TOOK him all his time
shaking hands with his host OF friends
who ga hered to welcome him back.
The Merchants Exchange mas received
word that the steam schooner North
Fork, with the old ferry steamer Mare
Island in tow, arrived at ST. Michael on
Seplen. Der II. There is many a man on
! the wafer front who has proved himse f a
false prophet. They predicted that the
Mare Island would never reach her desti-
nation.
The French bark Louis Pasteur reports
that on July 10 Louis Alexander Furic, a
native OF France, aged 40 years, fell from
the foretopsail yard 10 he deck and was
| instantly killed.