The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
THE PORTLAND
IS ALL RIGHT
Seventy five Persons Were
Aboard on Her Trial
Trip.
Now the La Madeline Quits
Breaking Wharves for
Other Things.
Captain Turlcff of the Barken tine
Monitor Trou bled-Morris Krauss
Arrested,

The Portland took her trial trip around
the bay yesterday with a com pany of
seventy-hve on board. The start was mad e
at 10 A. N. from the Union iron Works dock
| aad the vessel moored at $3.50 P. NJ. at Mis-
sion wharf2.
The vessel behaved excellently, and the
| captain was we'll satisfied with the results
of the trip. At an expense of $780, new
boilers have been put in, her engines re-
paired, and the lower cabin enlarged for
sixty more passengers She can now ac-
com m ooate 200 passengers.
On Juns ! the Portland will make her
| first trip 10 st. Michaels at the mouth of
the Yukon River where she will ply for
the North American Trading and Trans
portation Company. She made three or
| four trips there last year.
| The French steamer La Madeline will
soon run between this port and the Peru
I yian oil fields. On her first trip she has
! been chartered by the Pacific Mail Steam
! ship Company to transport cargo of gem
eraI merchandise to San Jose Ge Guate-
maia. This Is the steamer that so re-
Gently created havoc by running into her
wharf. On her, also, the mate was killed
| by the engineer in duel at Acapulco, ow-
ing to trouble arising out of an explosion
of her boilers, by which hve men were
| killed.
Morris Krauss, who claims to be music
| teacher, was arrested by Sergeant Maho-
| ney Yesterday and locked in a cell in the
Harbor Police Station for peddling with
out license. He is charged with having
| tricked two small boys into buying tickets
for picnic held at SehuetZen Park by the
| San Francisco Cadets by making them be-
lieve they were for Ell Campo. He refused
to refund their money when the young
| sters pleaded with him TO do so. and used
insulting language to the arresting officer.
! On paying $40 bail he was released.
The second division of the Naval Bat
| talon went, to Vallejo in the schooner
Rosie II the evening before last. Their
quest was to familiarize themselves with
the naval yards and 10 follow pleasure g
| beck.
Captain Turloff of the barkentiue Moni-
tor is very angry man. He expects to go
to Puget Sound to-day, and will in all
| lik lihood have to snip "scab" crew.
On her last attempt to go to sea, about
three weeks ago, The Monitor shipped
| three feet of water and was brought back
| to Oakland Creek for repairs. Since that
| time practical iokers have instig ated small
| boys to approach the captain in procession
and ask if he were not going to take a
larger stock of life -preservers than usual
| along On the next trip. The result is
| always a verbal explosion.
The opposition steamer Homer arrived
in port from her first round trip to Eu-
reka, Coos Bay and Portland yesterday.
Captain Simpson and the veteran ship
owner, Homer Fritch, came down on her.
She brought a general cargo.
The steamer Pomona sailed for Eureka
on her regular trip yesterday afternoon
and the Humboldt and Coos Bay both
came in. The Hum boldt beat the Pomona
| fourteen minutes on their last run to Port
| land.
Frank Couetis, lighthouse inspector OF
the Twelfth District has issued a circular
calling attention to an order of the Light
house Board that the collection of birds
and eggs on the Faralion Islands has been
prohibited, ana asking the Shipowners'
and Merchants Tugboat Company to
transport nobody there who has not per-
| nit OF recent date