The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21
Insurance Men Made Happy by
the Arrival of Five Overdue
Vessels.
ALL OF THEN had BEEN RE-INSURED.
An Bx-Baseball Manager, Wanted in
Honolulu, Worked His Way Here
as an A. B.

Five vessels on which reinsurance has
been paid have reached port in safety,
much TO tho joY of the spectators, and
there is now only ore TO be heard from.
On the Heathbank, seventy-eight days
from Hongkong, 10 guineas per cent was
paid on the Cawdor, 194 days from Swan
sea, 12H cuineas; on he Oriente. pol days
from Newcastle, England 1211& guineas; on
the Shenandoah, 1853 days from Baltimore,
guineas, and on the Inveriyon, seventy
three days from Newcastle, Australia. 5
guineas per cent was paid. All of them
report bafflinG winds, and some of them
had rv heavy weather off the Horn.
The British bark Taymount, on her
maiden voyage from Liverpool, was not
spoken by any of the feet that has reached
port during The last fey days. She is now
out 204 davs. and 80 per cent reinsurance
has been paid on her. She may have en-
counfered even worse weather than that
reported by the Cawdor and Orient so all
hope for her has not yet been given up.
Every vessel that reached port yester-
day was for three days off port in the fog.
II was SO thick that the lookouts could
not see ships length, and there were
some narrow escapes from collision.
Early Friday mo rning Captain Crom bic
of the British ship Inverlyon went on
deck and found the vessel right under
the Farallon light. Ali hands were called
and in few minutes the vessel was put
about and disaster avoided. There was
some little trouble during the voyage, but
since the vessel left England Captain
Crom bic has had great d sal to bear and
it is beginning to tell on him. Soon after
leaving Glasgow one OF the apprentices
4
be died. While the Inveryon W as on her
way from Rio de Janeiro to Australia
Mrs. Crombie was taken i'll and died at
sea. Her husband was heart broken and
has never been the same man since.
One OF the apprentices ran away in New
castle and there was considerable trouble
in getting him back, and there has been
friction between the officers and men on
the ~un here. A few days ago the mate
gave an order and the captain, coming on
deck before it was executed and not know
ing that it had been given, issued another.
Somebody on deck remarked, "Oh to =
with him, and Captain Crombie over
heard it. He went below, armed himself.
and returning on deck offered f5 reward
for the name of the man who mad made
the remark. No one would tell, and the
whole affair blew over. The men have
story 10 tell and they will lay it before
the British Consul on Monday.
The British bark Adelaide Mary from
SalaverIy brought $50 tons of sugar for
w. r. Grace & Co. Captain For oes is a
very sick man with the dropsy and heart
disease. On Septem Der % last Joseph
Robert, an apprentice, died OF con ump.
tion and was buried at sea. He was a ma
tive of Vale and only 10 years Old
The brig w. 6. Irwin made the run
from Honolulu in the very fast time of 10
DAYS 20 hours. One of the crew IS VIII
liam Blackley, late manager of the Nor
folk baseball team of Virginia. The Ha-
waiian Bulletin SAYS he was snort in lis
accounts and fed TO escape arrest, but
BackIey denies the story in toto. He
ad mits thai he was in debt in Honolulu,
and as the law would not permit him 10
leave until he had paid up he had to get
away without leave. When he is again
in funds Biackley saws he will return to
Hawaii and pay his iust debts
The Italian bark Orlente and the
British ship Cawdor experienced almost
the same weather from port 10 port. The
officers of the ship lay the blame for the
long voyage on the sailors, W hom they
class as navvIes, and assert that half the
time they could not carry sail because
the men did not know how to handle
them.
Off Rio very heavy weather was ex-
perienced, and rounding the Horn the
Ca awdor was driven back three times. 1t
took her forty-e ght days to get from so in
the Atlantic 10 so in the Pacific. Both
vessels were caught in electric storms