The San Francisco call., 1897-06-17
DISABLED BARK
SIGHTED At SEA
Her Foretopmast Gone and
a Windmill Was
Going.
The Bark British Princess Made
a Pretty P.c'ure Sailing
1lto Port.
Sc Was Ought in a Very Heavy
Gale Viii on Her Way Here
From N wcaste.

The British ship British Princess ar.
rived from Newcastle, n 6. W., last night,
after a smart passage of 81 days. In lati-
tude "a deg so min. south and longitude
1G4 west very heavy gale from the east
was run into. Only storm sails could be
carried and even some OF those were blown
from the boItropes- Captain Scott says it
was the only blow encountered during the
voyage, but it was very hard one while
it lasted. From that time until port was
reached there were nothing but light
winds and Gains.
The British Princess sailed into port
and passing Alcatraz she made a very
pretty picture in the moonlight
Frank C. Bridges, the popular and
efficient reporter for the Guide, was mar
ried last night to Miss Harriet E. Wilson
in the First Methodist Church. Frank
will receive many a com pllmentary speech
! when he returns from his honeymoon
The captain OF barkentlDe which ar
riv from Tahiti yesterday reports that
on the 14th inst, at P. NJ, he saw bark
! standing west southwest. The bark fore
! topmast was gone and her windmill was
| going. The vessel was too far away to
make her ou', but some people seem 10
think it was the bark UndaunIed.
The barkentine Mary WinkIeman, now
on the ways in Oakland Creek, is to be
! towed 10 Eureka to load lum her for sgd
| ney, n. s. w. She was ready to start
some time ago, but the underwriters or
! dered some repairs made and she was put
! on the ways. Now, in order to save her
| charter, the tug Rescue will have to take
| her to Hum boldt Bay.
Governor Freeth, who came back on the
/ Luisa d from her cruise after a guano
/ island supposed 10 lie between Clipperton
/ Island and Hawaii, says that the island
I was shown on the old charts and that it
Is still in existence or has gone down
! owing to some volcanic action. Captain
! Freeth is positive that the island is no
myth. Nine years ago he saw ii himself,
| but now il is not TO be found. The
| schooner had 10 be back in San Francisco
/ by Cert9in date, so as thorough 4 search
a he would like TO have made was i'm pos
/ siole. he contemplates making another
! search for 1t in the near future.
! CAPTAIN Hug hes. formerly OF the schoon-
| ers Pioneer and J. NJ. Weatherwax, Left
/ to-day for Coos Bay to take command OF
! the new barkentlne Encore, built for J. NJ.
Simpson. Tne Encore Will load lumb
at Coos Bay for Valparaiso. Captain
Hu hes is well known in San Francisco,
and his many friends will be more than
pleased to hear OF his promotion.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
Waila Walla arrived from Puget Sound
ports Yesterday. Captain Wallace reports
speaking the British man-of-war Comus
bound for ClIpperton Island TO pick up
the dozen sailors who landed there from
the wreck of a British ship. Finding that
there was not subsistence on the island
for all hands. two boats started for the
mainland and after great suffering reached
it. They then telegraphed the news to
the authorit es in Victoria, B. c., the re-
suit being the trip of the Comus
Ralph Ramsey, late mate of the Cam
brian Monarch, who was cast into a Peru
Wan prison but released upon the repre-
sentations of the United States, is again
in hard luck. He shipped as an a. B. on
the ship Occidental, and was so beaten and
! kicked by the first ana second officers that
he had 10 be taken TO a hospital when the
vessel reached Port Blakeley. Three other
men were beaten and kicked. and they
| have jointly brought suit in the Distri CT
! Court of Washing on for $4,000 damages.